Q: Will your training wheels keep any mini dirt bike from tipping over?
A: Absolutely! Notice how a blow to the side of this Honda XR70 dirt bike carries sufficient force to lift the entire frame and driving wheels off the ground, but does nothing to inflict a tip-over.

Q: How effective are your training wheels with three year olds ?
A: VERY EFFECTIVE !

	Shown here is a three year old operating a KDX50 mini dirt bike equipped with our deployable quick kit training wheels (# JR50-Q). Note: Adult supervision and use of throttle and power restrictor is necessary.

 

Q: What's the difference between your XR50 products and your competitor?
A:
Our steel is processed "cold" by feeding the stock longitudinally through successive pairs of rolls, each pair of rolls progressively forming the stock until the finished cross ection is produced. This costly process is dimensionally held within very close tolerances by the foundry and does not alter the eutectic molecular structure. Thus, its metallurgical strength is not stressed. In contrast, our competitor's metal being that of wrought iron is inexpensively formed by injecting molten iron through a particular shaped die; this molten iron is often reconstituted from scrap metal, which carries with it more impurities (sulfur) and surface imperfections and irregular shaped cross sections as a result of its erratic cooling process.

Shown here is an XR50 / CRF50 training wheel made by one of our copycat competitors.

Notice that their axle and plate are bent. (The blue line is straight; the axle is not.) Also notice that the iron plate bent along with the axle.

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Here's another picture

(sent in by a new dealer who decided to drop competitor's line in favor of ours)

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Here's another picture (sent in by irate customer who felt gypped)

Our CRF50 / XR50 Training wheel - the hardened steel in our mounting plate is twice as thick as the softer, cheaper wrought iron plate of our competitor. Weldments are generously applied on all four contact surfaces.

Not obvious when viewed is the hardened tool steel hidden from the powder coated paint. Our tool steel is four times more costly to purchase than hot rolled; and it's metallurgically correct for this application.

After fabrication, we bake the powder coat paint. Aerosol spray paint covers ten axles for the cost of powder coating ONE axle. The benefit: Powder paint is impossible to scratch or flake off, and it's ecologically friendly for our children and environment.

CRF50 / XR50 Training Wheel Specifications Comparison

	EZ Ride	Competitor
Material	Tool Steel througout	Hot roll iron
Weld Construction	Full contour weld	Partial contour weld
Paint	Powder coated & baked	Spray painted & air dry
Wheel color	Chrome plated	White paint
Wheel Fastener	1) Tool Steel hairpin, die formed, can't bend.	1) Soft steel cotter pin, easy to hand bend.
	2) Machinery bushing, hardened cold roll steel	2) Fender washer, soft hot-roll sheetmetal
Remove wheels w/out tools	YES	NO
Wheels bagged in plastic	YES	NO

The adage that you get what you pay for speaks for itself. We can easily select lesser grade quality materials and make the exact copy of those copycat training wheels - and, sell it for less than that of theirs. And does our copycat competitor's marketing ploy with providing a lifetime warranty make for a quality product ? The fact is, when you factor in the cost to ship back a bent axle, and the riding time lost in awaiting for delivery, and the insecurity from knowing that it will bend again, what then have you saved? As a hands-on mechanical engineer, I can assure you that our product has been thoroughly tested, and we continue to test existing products and continually strive for improvement. We post pictures and videos of actual child riders using our products on rough terrain. We post unsolicited testimonials from actual purchasers who commented freely without our intervention. And we post the competitor's copy of our product for your candid review.

 

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