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How Dirt Bikes Can Benefit Your Health

By admin August 6, 2019 0

Experienced dirt bike riders will tell you how much work goes into racing. Even as a beginner, riders will require strength and focus, which can be built through practice. Dirt bikes can be an enjoyable way to stay fit and healthy, while enjoying the fresh air.

You might be surprised how many ways dirt bike riding can benefit your health:

Heart Rate

Similarly, to jogging or simple exercises, an average ride on a dirt bike can increase your heart rate to the mid-130s. In comparison, a higher intensity ride can go up to the mid-150s. An increased heart rate during exercise can contribute to fat loss, weight loss and an improved stamina.

Strength

Dirt bikes take strength to manoeuvre from your leg muscles, quadriceps and hamstrings. In addition, to turn, lift and land dirt bikes it takes a lot of arm strength and precision. Over time you may notice increased strength from operating dirt bikes.

During accelerations up and down uneven hills, your muscles may also begin to tighten to maintain good balance. Over time this will improve, the more you ride.

Calorie Burning

Holding yourself onto fast moving dirt bikes, while enduring sharp turns, bumps and accelerating over hills uses a lot of muscle. You may feel a burn in your major muscle groups, including your legs, arm and core muscles.

Mind

Taking dirt bikes for a ride can help to activate the pre-frontal sections of your brain, as well as improve your cognitive functions. For those who ride more frequently, there is most definitely a difference in levels of brain stimulation, compared to those who don’t.

Riding dirt bikes can also be a big mood enhancer. While enjoying this thrilling experience, it can lead to the release of endorphins and dopamine. This helps to uplift our mood and consequently makes us feel happier.

Posture

Riders are encouraged to maintain their best posture to improve their riding performance. This can help with balance and control while on dirt bikes, but also becomes a healthy habit for you too.

Purchasing Dirt Bikes

Located in Birmingham City Centre, Riders and Rollers offer a full broad cross-section of vehicles to suit different budgets and tastes. As well as abiding by UK standard quality checks, all of our dirt bikes are checked for safety. Click here to view our range of dirt bikes and electric bikes or follow our social media pages for our latest product launches.

What Are The Advantages of Choosing an Electric Dirt Bike?

By admin June 12, 2019 0

Electric Dirt Bikes are one of the most popular products offered by the team at Riders & Rollers, with an increasing number of parents choosing these economic and environmentally friendly vehicles for their children.

Here we look at some of the key advantages of choosing an Electric Dirt Bike for younger riders.

Zero emissions

Electric Dirt Bikes are powered by Lithium Batteries, so they don’t release any of the smoke or emissions that engine operated 2-stroke bikes do. This means they are far more environmentally friendly and offer a cheaper fuelling option than petrol-powered alternatives.

Low maintenance

Because the engine and operating system for Electric Dirt Bikes are cleaner and more efficient than petrol-based systems, they are easier to maintain. This means that time spent cleaning and fixing your bike will be vastly reduced, allowing more opportunity to enjoy the riding experience!

Economic

The vastly reduced costs of fuelling and maintaining an electric dirt bike means that they are far more economic than petrol-powered bikes. This ensures lower running costs over the lifetime of the bike and makes for a cost-effective alternative to 2-stroke bikes without any loss in performance.

Peaceful

A major advantage of choosing an electric dirt bike is that they are pretty much silent, offering none of the engine noise associated with petrol-based bikes. This offers a great advantages in terms of reduced noise pollution and means your bike will not upset neighbours or passers-by.

Child friendly

Quiet and with no emissions, electric dirt bikes offer a real child-friendly option, especially for younger riders. With all the key features offered by its 2-stroke cousin, electric bikes are easy to re-charge, have the classic appearance of an adult model and are available in four different colours.

Get in touch

Riders & Rollers is an independent retailer of quad bikes and dirt bikes offering some of the biggest brands from around the world including Stomp, Thumpstar, iWheel, Skatey and Razor.

To find out more about our extensive range of electric dirt bikes, please call our friendly and knowledgeable team today on 0121 6666434.

Categories: Electric Dirt Bikes, Dirt Bikes

Introducing the 2019 FTN 50cc Dirt Bike

By admin April 16, 2019 0

We are happy to introduce the new 2019 FTN 50cc dirt bike, tuned up and ready to race!

Suitable for children aged 12 and above and with a max load of 150kg, our new 50cc single cylinder 2 stroke bikes are designed for years of off-road fun.

Let’s talk through the important specs:

2019 FTN 50cc

Engine, gears and fuel

The new FTN 50cc features an air cooled, single cylinder 2 stroke engine, with a rated power and rotating speed of 9HP and 9000rpm. The 2 stroke engine provides a significant power boost and a lighter weight when compared with 4 stroke engines, allowing the bike to get up to speed faster. For ease of use for new riders, the gears are fully automatic.

The bike is fuelled by petrol and oil and features a fuel tank capacity of 1.3L and a compress ratio of 11+/-0.6:1.

Dimensions and suitability

The 2019 FTN 50cc features a gross weight of 51kg, a length of 1280mm, by a width of 640mm and a height of 820mm, with a seat height of 610mm, a handlebar height of 800, and a maximum distance from the ground of 300mm. The front wheel features dimensions of 60/100-14” and the larger rear wheel has dimensions of 70/100-12”, ensuring excellent stability.

Suitable for riders of age 12 and above, with a maximum load of 150kg, the FTN 50cc is well suited to a wide range of dirt bike enthusiasts.

Speed and brake system

This bike is capable of reaching speeds of up to 43mph and features front and rear breaking systems (a hydraulic brake on the handle bars and a rear foot brake), helping riders to safely slow down and stop.

Suspension and terrain

Suitable for use on tarmac and rougher off-road terrains, the 2019 FTN 50cc features front and rear suspension. For the front wheel, hydraulic upside-down fork suspension is used, whilst the rear wheel features rear shock absorption suspension, well suited to uneven surfaces. Remember, this is not a road legal bike.

See these beasts in action:

At Riders & Rollers we offer free technical support to all our customers, helping you to enjoy your bike as soon as possible. We can also provide in-house servicing and repairs when required, so you can rest assured that your bike will be in good hands.

If you have further questions about the fantastic new FTN 50cc, please feel free to give us a call on 0121 666 6434, or visit us at 110-116 Lombard Street, Highgate, Birmingham, B12 0QR.

Categories: Dirt Bikes, 2019 FTN50, Kids Dirt Bikes

MX Services from Riders & Rollers

By admin February 18, 2019 0

We founded Riders & Rollers with the firm belief of offering peace of mind for our customers. Our team are highly knowledgeable and are happy to talk you through the ideal dirt bike for you, however, our support goes much further than the original sale. We now have an experienced and dedicated team on hand to cater for all your MX needs, from servicing and repairs through to complete engine re-builds and transport/recovery!

From kids’ dirt bikes through to MX bikes for experienced riders, no job is too big or small.

Servicing and repair

To keep your bike in tip-top condition, it’s important to wash and dry your bike after every ride and carry out regular routine maintenance. To make life easier for you, our dedicated team will service your bike for you, carrying out maintenance tasks such as changing bike oil, adjusting bike chains, checking bearings and lubricant when necessary, keeping air filters clean and adjusting valves.

If your bike is not functioning properly, we can also carry out essential repairs to get you back riding as soon as possible. If you are new to maintaining bikes, or your MX bike needs repair, call us today on 0121 666 6434 and arrange for us to carry out a full service or diagnostics and repair.

Engine Rebuilds

When engine failure occurs, in many cases, the piston takes most of the damage. Careful examination of this problem helps us to trace the source of the mechanical or tuning problems that caused the failure. Should you require an engine rebuild as a result of failure, please supply us with the complete engine as it helps us to diagnose the cause of the problem and take the appropriate action to prevent it from reoccurring.

There are several factors that can lead to a 2-stroke crank or the main bearings of an engine to fail. The most common cause is that there is too little oil in the pre-mix, along with bad seals or dirt passing through the air filter and down into the block. The crank bearings are lubricated by the oil in the pre-mix, so when your engine runs on too little, the crank, along with the piston and main bearings will fail.

For a charge of £30 packaging and posting, we provide a send and return service for engines. Please be sure to package your engine carefully as Riders & Rollers is not responsible for incoming damage. We suggest that as well as packaging your engine carefully, you should insure your parts for replacement value as damaged engines could cost hundreds of pounds to replace.

Shipping Address:

110-116 Lombard Street,

Highgate,

Birmingham

B12 0QR

Before you seal it all up please make sure that you put a covering letter in the box giving full details of the following:

Name
Address
Telephone number
Make and model of bike
Work to be carried

Transport/Recovery

If you are unable to transport your bike to us, we can arrange to pick it up on your behalf. Simply give us a call on 0121 666 6434.