Pocket bikes may, at first, look like skillfully crafted toy motorbikes with not much serious usage.
But a little delving onto a biker's world proves this notion to be grossly wrong! This bike sensation reached its peak in the late 1960s and the early 1970s.
At that time only, a new sport named the Pocket bike racing or the Minimoto racing or the Mini GP racing where pocket bikes were raced in kart racing tracks, was born.
These type of bikes are ridden both by children as well as adults.
Children who want to take part in bike racing from a very young age can practice their hands in these bikes.
Also, adults who don't want to be involved with the high costs and heavy risks associated with the normal bike racing, make pocket bike racing their forte.
Minimoto racing or Mini GP racing as it is now called, has come by a long way to become one of the most popular sports of the world.
After its advent in Japan and Europe, it gradually went on to be the darling of the racing circuit in no time.
One of its advantages is that, due to its small size, licenses are not required for driving these.
However, this makes, riding these bikes on street, illegal in most countries.
Therefore, they have to be ridden in private parks or gardens and kart tracks.
The bikes are almost one-fourth the original bikes in matter of size.
However, they too are available in two types of engines i.
e.
39 to 50 cc of two-stroke engines and 110 to 125 cc of four-stroke engines.
The maximum achievable speed in case of the former is 25 to 35 mph and that in case of the latter is 60 to 80 mph.
Not too bad, considering this was for children.