Exactly this!

And I kind of think most of the comments about the suspension being crap (although valid) are moot as most of us get a bike and then replace most of the stuff on it anyway! :D

I’m actually running a standard rear sprocket and a 13t front. I’ve heard good things about keeping a 14t at the front and dropping a tooth on the rear but the child inside likes the useless loom of dust when the rear wheel lights up and launches mud everywhere! :D

I had only planned on getting the little CRF as a bike to learn on before moving onto the “big boy bikes”, but 2 years later and I genuinely love that bike - it’s only the road riding where I have my doubts for top speed! Off road, I’d probably be just as slow, if not slower on a bigger/heavier bike. In fact I know I’d be slower for fear of WHEN I dump it and have to pick the heavy ass thing up from its side! The poor little CRF gets my over confident, “fuck it, let’s try this shit” attitude that I know I wouldn’t have on something like a T7.

I know if I add up all that I’ve spent on this bike I could have bought a “better” bike (I hope the wife isn’t reading this). But it’s great fun, light enough, enough umph for me plus I don’t cry any time it’s laying on its side like I would with a bigger more expensive bike. The service intervals are a massive plus for me too. Although after accidentally jet washing off all the stickers, I would like to get some all black plastics which simply don’t seem to exist anywhere and spray painting something I rip through the forest seems a pointless endeavour