WORSE THAN CRACK???
Pocket Bikes are without a doubt more adicting than Crack Cocaine. I have always been into racing bikes (motocross) and it's always been just a hobbie, something to do at the weekends and on cold winter nights. Just a bit of wrenching to make things work better, you know, but nothing more.
After I moved out of my parents house and got my own place, I had to sell my RM250 due to lack of space. I was sorry, but, well things move on. I had forgotten about racing bikes for quite some time, until I was on an internal flight to visit a family member and I decided to read the in-flight magazine. I was just flicking through the pages, not really paying too much attention, when I came accross a page with a review of some Blata 2.5's. I perked up a bit and read the article through and imagined what it would be like to ride soemthing so small, being that I am 6 foot 4 inches. I smiled and laughed to myself, much to the annoyance and discomfort of the fellow sitting next to me. I pushed the idea out of my mind, and told myself that I was through with racing bikes. The first thing that I did after arriving at my family members house, was ask to check my email (knowing in my mind that I was going to look up Mini Moto's and check out the site from the magazine) It was almost like I was going for a private "fix", and lying about what I was going to be doing.
I managed to put Pocket Bikes out of my mind for a few weeks before I secomed to searching for them on the Net again. After that I was checking them out for 2-3 hours per day. It was beginging to cost me both a lot of time and a lot of money using internet cafe's. It became apparent to me that I needed to get broadband to keep feeding my habit.
I bought my first pocket bike in May of this year, and even though it was cheap to buy, I have spent 2-3 times that modifying and repairing it. I have spent all my savings and am considerabley overdrawn in my bank account. To support my habit, I now sell performance parts on
ebay (don't worry mods, I'm not about to advertise here). I seem to have followed the same path that people go down when they start using drugs like Crack Cocaine, and I don't think that I can stop, and I don't think that I want to!!!
I know that I am a lost case when it comes to rehabilitating myself after getting involved with Mini Moto racing. The only thing that I can do, is try and control my situation - which is not easy. I am not sure what the long term damage with this habit is, but I'm sure I will get to a point where I will want to beat it, and move on with my life. But for now, I'm totally hooked. I don't think that there is anyone that can easily forget how much they were smiling and how good they felt after thier first ride.
In summing up Pocket Bikes, I would have to say that they are the fricken devil on two miniture wheels, but they are sooooo much fun!
James.
Worse Than Crack!!! 
.. oh well, ill get a car some day...
. And with pocket bikes available on every street corner,by thug dealers, its going to get out of control. The California government is waging a war on pocket bikes as we speak,but its a losing battle.
