How old where you or your children when you started riding?

I started riding on a 2.5 HP tote gote at age 10, and got my first real motorcycle, a 185cc Suzuki at age 14. I started riding ATVs at age 38, on a Yamaha Kodiak 400. I now ride a Renegade 800, and a KTM 505 XC-F.

My oldest son started riding a Honda XR 70 at age 7. At age 8 he won an award at the Rocky Mountain ATV Jamboree for being the youngest rider to be out riding the Jamboree trails on his own ATV, which was a Honda TRX90. He rode his TRX90 on a trail that was 120 miles long, and rode it through a pouring down rain storm that day. He now rides a KTM 300 XC dirt bike, and has won the open class at regional desert races.

My youngest son started riding a Polaris Scrambler 50 at age 4. He is now age 13 and rides a Raptor 250, and also competes in regional desert races on a KTM 85 SX.

My wife started riding at age 33, on a Yamaha Wolverine 350. She now rides a Yamaha Grizzly 700.

3TV

I got my first bike when I was 2.5 years old. It was a 50cc Indian that I wish I still had due to their current value. It was a rare color, orange with white stripes down the tank. It had training wheels when I got it but my dad raced YZ250s back then and was in his early 20's so wanted something for me.

From that I progressed to a YZ80 when I was 6 and had a new one every couple of years until I was 10. Then I got an ATC 250R 3-wheeler and got a new one of those every year until they were banned in '86. I still have my '86 which is mind-boggling fast and strong with all the work I did to it back in the day.

My daughter is now 4 and got her first 4 wheeler on her 3rd x-mas and it is a pink Polaris 50cc Outlaw. I don't think there is an age too young with the right coaching and guideance.

My dad just bought my nephew a 50cc Polaris and he is almost 2. He gets it on his b-day in a few weeks. Since the ban has temporarily been lifted on the sale of youth ATVs, he bought it while he could.

Buster