Fun Two Five

Boy was I excited to swing off the all-new Yamaha YZ125. I was fortunate to grow up racing 125s in an era before kids would jump from 85s to 250Fs and I believe that having that 125 time is crucial to grow as a rider.

The biggest thing is that you learn what corner speed is and how to get the most out of yourself and the bike in order to be competitive out on the track. Once I moved on from 125s and started my racing career, I sort of forgot about the feeling of being on a 125. Four-strokes are obviously easier to ride and you have so much useable power on tap it all becomes so easy.

Now my fulltime racing days are behind me, I’ve gone back to my roots and I’m right back on the small-bore two-stroke wagon.

Over the past two years, I’ve spent a lot of time on our YZ125X project bike. A few years before that, I had both KTM and Husky 125s. Something about the power to weight ratio, the all-out