Thread: Farm bike advice please

I’m thinking the CRF230 is likely to be the next round of consideration @BRADS… For a paddock learner it’s probably a level up from what we need.

Like I said, going round in circles a bit, but this morning we had a family meeting and agreed that boys are not going to try and run before they can walk, and that some of their ideas of what constitutes a sensible option are a tad unrealistic (you can imagine the kind of thing that catches their eye).

We went through all the intermediate bike options and kind of backed off a bit. I think @ebf is probably closest to where my gut feel is, get a traditional farm bike with crash protection, decent condition secondhand at a sensible price, something that will not see boys shedding tears over when they drop it. There’s a couple of options locally which makes life easy. A decent farm bike like a Stockman would be very useful for me long-term for access into certain hunting areas.

Once they’ve been passed as competent and responsible, then round two can commence and then I think we’ll be looking into proper trail bikes.

i’ll probably change my mind again sometime this afternoon.