Pocket Bikes | The Pit Bike Guide – Your Guide To Pit Bikes

Pit Bikes are a great hobby for all enthusiast of motorcycles, speed and adrenaline. The great versatility and fun you can have with a pit bike has been shown in their quick rise in popularity over the years.

A pit bike is basically a miniature dirt bike or motorcross. It can come with knobby tires for off-road use or with street tires and wheels for city use. An average pit bike will have a displacement anywhere between 49cc to 200cc and be powered by an 4-stroke single cylinder engine. Although the specifications will vary wildly, a smaller pit bike suitable for a child or a beginner to the pit bike world will deliver 2.5hp, while a powerful racing model could deliver 12hp.

The design of these bikes give them excellent handling and acceleration, which makes them great fun on tight race courses with lots of curves, but at the same time they have a limited top speed. This makes them generally unsuited to normal street use. Don’t let this fool you though, riding at 60 kilometers per hour on something that puts you this close to the ground will give you a huge adrenaline rush.

Another great thing about pit bikes is their relative cheapness compared to their full size cousins. They can often be repaired and modified with standard parts that you have around the garage and once you need to buy parts the are much cheaper than parts for a large motorcycle.

They are also a great hobby for collectors and mechanics. You can buy a pit bike in parts and assemble it yourself if you like want. There are a lot of customization options ranging from simple decorations to high performance parts replacements. If you are a heavier rider or simply want to perform large jumps, you can easily upgrade the suspension to fit your needs. Another popular upgrade is a engine bore out to increase engine displacement and power output. You can replace and customize most of the parts to get the pit bike exactly as powerful as you want.

Pit bikes are frequently heavily customized with decorative add-ons, functional, non-performance accessories, and upgraded with performance-enhancing parts. Many riders and mechanics bore-out or replace engines in order to increase displacement and therefore power output, or remove air-boxes to allow better airflow. Heavy duty suspensions to carry larger riders and facilitate large jumps is another upgrade often done. Wheel, brake, and tire upgrades are sometimes performed to improve handling.