The philosophy is sound, however he picked the wrong motorcycle brand; he will never know what it's really like!!!

[guzzler]

Heh he, I credit a CR125 motocrosser as being the bike that sorted me out.....

Talk about a light switch, nothing till 7,500 then 20 hp all at once in 3000 rpm! Bloody thing only weighed a wee bit more than me at 80 something kilos too!

Loved the thing!

Cheers 

[gstallons]

I bought my baby brother a 75 model CR125 w/2nd gear broken . Fixed it , added a DG up pipe , different swingarm , etc... 

 After riding European dirt bikes , this thing looked like a toy ! Performance? if you have ever knocked the head off an oxygen bottle , this was the performance + you could ride it and steer it ! The CR125 came a year after the CR350 and the MX world was changed forever . Until Yamaha put a single shock suspension under  a 250 YZ and put Pierre Karsmakers ( I can spell it w/o looking it up) as the first MX astronaut.  Hmmm Roger DeCoster , the list can go on.

 You had to buy a new bike EVERY model year because what you were sitting on had just become obsolete !