well if you can find any, the 50 cc hondas are a good bike to start with. the problem is that some greenie do gooder fruit cakes slipped a fast one past the masses earlier this year. Do a search on google about youth motorcycles and include the words "lead ban"
see there were some lead import rules passed recently that were supposed to be designed to keep toys from being imported that contained lead. Makes sense right? we don't want out toddlers chewing on toys that are full of lead.
Well it ened up also capturing the youth oriented atv's & dirt bikes. Even the big names like honda & yamaha.
Of course those little bikes have some lead in them somewhere, be it in the metal content in the engine castings, maybe in the sparkplugs, maybe in a soldered wiring harness... so the government is protecting our kids from these youth atvs & dirt bikes because they know our kids like to chew on dirt bikes....
So, dealers are sitting on inventory that they can not sell because of these laws. I don't know how long it will take to get straightened out but for the time being your only option is to buy used from private party.
check craigs list for honda 50 crf or honda 50 xr
if they seem too small for your boys then check out the 70 crf / 70 xr
the crf/xr is the same bike, they just changes the model name a bit in recent years.
