2008 Rule Book Amendments

Age is a really tricky thing. It really should be based on the kid's maturity level and not so much their age. But that's exceedingly difficult to measure, so you need to default to the lowest common denominator if you know what I mean.

Generally speaking, the 12-year-olds seem to be mature enough to handle it. But that's not 100% guaranteed. That's why I put a rule in my book that requires kids under 14 to have race experience on something else first. So if you're 14, you can race with us having just had a race school. Under that and you must have raced dirt bikes or something like that.

You may want to consider going down to 10-yr-old with proven experience on dirt or mini's. But I really wouldn't go any younger than that even with your slower speeds. It's still enough to freak a kid out.

-cy- wrote:Spoke with Stewart Aitken-Cade, President of the USGPRU, on the concept of age restrictions within the 125 classification and this was his response:

Generally speaking, the 12-year-olds seem to be mature enough to handle it. But that's not 100% guaranteed. That's why I put a rule in my book that requires kids under 14 to have race experience on something else first. So if you're 14, you can race with us having just had a race school. Under that and you must have raced dirt bikes or something like that.

Admin wrote:I will retrieve all the registration information to date and post it on the BMRC website and the Forum over the following week.