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I went from the minitrail 50 at 5, to the Honda Trail 70 at about 8, to a Yamaha Enduro 125 at about 11 - looked a lot like the one above, loved that bike - and ended my last two years of riding (14 through 16) on a Honda Elsinore 250. That was an incredible bike for its time, it maintains a cult following. You had better been forward and braced when you goosed it. My Dad told me the day I turned 16 that my motorcycle was going to disappear, and he held firm. He let me ride it on the road enough to get to a local farm I worked on. Other than that, it was running logging roads and pipelines/power lines. He always said - motorcycle vs. anything - road, ground, tree, car - you always lose. I had some pretty nice wipeouts but luckily never broke anything while riding.