Here's a thing to try? Hare Scrambles.

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Oh, whoa. I do these with a vintage group out of DC with my dad. I built a Suzuki PE175 last year with him as a cool father son project I race in the 0-200 class.

This is me right after finishing the Suzuki in early 2012 at Tomahawk in WV:


Anyway, basically I echo what people say in here. It's a lot of fun! Do it!

I was really surprised how exhausting it is to ride that hard for an hour. You will wear yourself right the f out. I learned quick you want handguards, at least 5 tear offs or the string kind, and a water system of some kind.

Anyway, for bikes.. it's a tough call. Yeah, all of the big guns run 2 stroke or 4 stroke enduro bikes, but for getting started it doesn't matter. One issue is you'll probably also tower over the TTR-225 because those bikes are made for smaller people. If it were me, I'd just get an older full size 4 stroke and know for sure you've gotten something you can grow into.

Also for the dudes calling out CR500 etc, I probably wouldn't want to ride any motocross 2 stroke in hare scrambles because they get dominated in torque. My two bikes don't make any top end power. I imagine that those bikes can be modified for that purpose as I see some of them out there. If you've ever ridden a motocross bike, they don't like going slow at all.