Small motorcycles that roams around is also as called mini motorcycles or Motor pocket bikes, these bikes or motorcycles are common to young people but can be used by bigger people if cannot handle the big types of motorcycles.
These bikes were invented out of spare parts taken from the garage and use chain for their rear wheel and engines with four strokes.
Motor pocket bikes only weigh around sixty-five pounds and four feet in height, has a ten inch wheel in diameter. Each pocket bikes has their own horsepower ranges from 2hp to 8hp but often it speeds from twenty-six up to sixty miles per hour. Mini motor bikes today have evolved into different specialized types and designs with the concept of mini motorcycle.
Here are different types of Motor pocket bikes:
1. Minimoto – inspired by sport bikes and it is ideally made for racing. These bikes have a usual size of less than 50cm in height and 1 meter in length, packs a 39cc to 50cc two-stroke engine and has a maximum speed of 70 kilometers per hour.
2. Pit bikes – were designed and made for moving around the pit areas of motor racing tracks and events, similar to small scooter.
3. Mini Bike – this is a bike were manufacturers combined the design if minimoto and pit bikes, the tires used front and rear measures ten inches and they are supermoto slick fitted. This is the usual bike used for competitions or racings because this is equipped with catch tanks that can avoid spillage of fuel and other fluids in the bike.
4. Mini chopper – mini bikes that look like chopper bikes, but just smaller.
5. Midi motos – this bike is designed similar to mini moto however they made this bike bigger than the mini moto bike. They differ in seat’s height and this bike uses two-stroke engine and 47 cc which can reach 48 to 64 mph.
6. Quad bikes – this bike is the ultimate replica of four wheeled off road bikes or also known as all terrain bike but it could be easily identified because this bike is smaller in size.
Children are the common riders of the motor pocket bikes but they need adult or expert supervision to avoid any damages or injuries and with the use of some protective gears too. No matter how small these bikes they are still capable of some damages. There are number of cities being banned for using these bikes because it had been common that some children use it with no safety precautions.