Grizz125????
Aug 13, 2004 | 12:56 AM
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Grizz125????
We just bought one this week for my eight year old son. He started riding on a Polaris Scrambler 50 when he was 4, and that ATV fell apart on us within six months, so we moved him up to a Honda TRX 90 on his 5th birthday. He did well on the Honda 90, but had improved to the point that it looked like he could handle another step up in horsepower.
The Grizzly 125 is a neat little ATV, and my son rides it better than he rode his Honda 90, so it looks like we made the right move by upgrading ATVs. We have the stock jetting in the carb because we are still on the first tank of gas, and it is jetted way too rich for where we live, at 6000 ft altitude. But even with the jetting being way off I am impressed with this little quad (I have put more miles on it than my son, [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]). The suspension is not already bottomed out just from me sitting on it, yet is still soft enough in the initial travel that it actually works when my kid rides it. And the gearing is nice and low, so hills are no problem, even with a lard butt dad riding it. About the only thing I have noticed about it that isn't a positive, is that the front track width seems to be quite narrow, which makes you have to shift your weight in turns a little more than you would think you would have to. At least that is the case with a full sized adult riding it. I have not noticed that problem with my son riding it. That small difference in handling may also just be because the front tires are smaller than the back tires. I don't know why Yamaha kept the front tires smaller than the rear tires when they re-did the Breeze, but they did.
The Grizzly 125 is a neat little ATV, and my son rides it better than he rode his Honda 90, so it looks like we made the right move by upgrading ATVs. We have the stock jetting in the carb because we are still on the first tank of gas, and it is jetted way too rich for where we live, at 6000 ft altitude. But even with the jetting being way off I am impressed with this little quad (I have put more miles on it than my son, [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]). The suspension is not already bottomed out just from me sitting on it, yet is still soft enough in the initial travel that it actually works when my kid rides it. And the gearing is nice and low, so hills are no problem, even with a lard butt dad riding it. About the only thing I have noticed about it that isn't a positive, is that the front track width seems to be quite narrow, which makes you have to shift your weight in turns a little more than you would think you would have to. At least that is the case with a full sized adult riding it. I have not noticed that problem with my son riding it. That small difference in handling may also just be because the front tires are smaller than the back tires. I don't know why Yamaha kept the front tires smaller than the rear tires when they re-did the Breeze, but they did.
Aug 15, 2004 | 12:53 AM
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Grizz125????
Good job Dobie! If your son is like mine he is going to love it. I am real happy with our Grizzly 125, and the best part is ... , no more pull starting my son's TRX 90 .[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]
