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Recently I was invited to a riding school for mini road racing. Riding a TT-R 110 with street tires in full leathers and learning to drag a knee was too much fun not to get into, and my days of getting any faster or learning anything new on dirt are behind me. So I found a company that makes a supermoto ready pit bike and ordered one!
I know a few members on here have YCF Pitbikes, any advice on things I should do/change right away? 
awesome!!!
I was invited to do the same a couple years ago only on crf150s and it was a blast! In the future, it may be a thing I do on the regular..
What’s that little bike beside you? Doesn’t look like a YSR or an Ohvale. Honda?
I have been considering a street tire dirt bike. Seems like fun.
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The main thing I do on my YCF150 bigy is replace the hardware on things as I do maintenance. The nuts and bolts are not the best quality so I have some motion pro bolt kits and change out the stock bolts a few at a time. Never had any fail but they are easy to strip.
Did going to that factory exhaust add any power? Not that the bikes short on it now. With street tires you don’t really spin much and it turns those little wheels so easy.
Id be lying if I even guessed... Ohio mini road racing league on Facebook is the organization I was at.. can probably find out which bike it is there..
Pipe runs much better than stock and also put on a 28mm Nibby racing carb and it cleaned up the jetting, also installed a oil cooler.
No experience with the YCF specifically but I switched from racing a 250F with District 13 to a CBR600RR with CCS & WERA when I went to college. I immediately felt more at home on the asphalt, but now that I’m in Colorado which is MX heavy and Road Course light I’m enjoying the dirt a lot more than I used to, and feel like I’ve picked it up a little.
I think when you switch disciplines it forces you to focus on certain aspects of riding a motorcycle that you hadn’t considered before (weight distribution, braking initiation and release, throttle delivery, line choice, etc.) Maybe not for everyone, but something I noticed.
That’s awesome stuff… there’s a series here in TX (TMGP) that races minibikes on kart tracks, and it’s a great time.
Flat track on minibikes is great fun, too. Usually called the “Mad Dog” class, and usually XR100/TTR125/KLX140/CRF150F/etc based (rules vary based on region). Also here in TX, we have Mad Dog races at Colin Edwards’ Texas Tornado Boot Camp (www.texastornadobootcamp.com). You can even rent their TTRs for some of the races. They also do 4 day training camps on the TTRs. The one I did had attendees from all over Europe, even. Good times!
Great if you have somewhere to ride one locally, we have a class at British Supermoto for them where we run a Tarmac only layout.
Go to bikes are CRF 150's loads about and cheap with it.
I kind of did the same thing out here. Grew up riding motocross in Georgia, moved to California, and then started street riding to commute to and from work. That evolved into track days and eventually racing with AFM up until a couple years ago. Popping kids out and getting ultimately priced out of racing a 600 got me back into off-road/motocross again. I loved road racing and took to it very quickly, but man was it expensive.
The kart track stuff is great though. I had a modded Grom that we did some endurance racing with. Lots of smiles per mile and relatively cheap compared to the big bikes. Enjoy!
There was a go-kart track out at Miller Motorsports Track (Where they held the Utah National a few years ago)...and they had a company running this out of there. I did it once...it was among the most fun I've had on two wheels, ever. Such a blast.
Is that a production bike?
Looks like a Kayo. This is an MR150R shown below. Originally thought it was Hondas NSF100 but they have slight bodywork differences.
Mini road racing were some of the of the best days of my childhood!
Yeah that's YCF's new GP line. They're trying to compete with Ohvale
This thing is as much fun as I’ve ever had on 2 wheels. Some lower bars, lever protectors and a little work on the suspension and brakes and it’s a ton of fun. Got some new soft compound tires on the way that should really help bring things to the next level!
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