Harglo Performance has produced a free guide for parents looking to get young children started on their first motorcycle. The company is well qualified to offer advice, as over the past 30 years it has sold thousands of mini motorcycles to customers throughout the UK. The influx of cheap mini motos and pit bikes from China combined with an explosion in the number of Internet-based sellers has left many parents facing a bewildering choice of bikes.
Harglo Performance, the UK’s longest established supplier of European junior motorcycles, has greeted the Home Office crackdown on illegal mini bikes with enthusiasm. An estimated 300,000 mini motorcycles have been imported into the UK from China over the past two years, many selling for as little as £100 and this has devastated sales of children’s motorcycles from established European factories, which are often considerably more expensive. Industry experts calculate that sales of these have declined by 80-90% during the period 2003-2005, a decline so dramatic that few manufacturers will be able to sustain production for much longer.
Harglo Performance has developed an air-cooled cylinder kit that is designed to convert the popular liquid-cooled KTM SX Pro Junior and Pro Senior models so that they comply with ACU & BSMA 50cc racing regulations. The automatic class of junior motocross is aimed at 6-8 year-olds and the rules stipulate that bikes must be air-cooled, but post 2001 models of the KTM Pro Junior and Pro Senior are liquid cooled, hence the demand for a conversion kit. For riders looking to upgrade the entry-level KTM Mini Adventurer, this kit may also be fitted, giving increased performance over the standard air-cooled cylinder.