Pop question. Your son or daughter has some obvious skill and wants to move up the ranks to a bigger and faster youth class. What do you do? Go to the dealer and buy an ATV for him or her and start modifying it? Wrong! You lose our little quiz and your kid will lose every race he enters.

If you want to run up front your only option is to call on a specialist in the ATV aftermarket business. JB Racing, Hetrick Racing, Janssen Motorsports and Fischer Cycle Racing have been instrumental in delivering race worthy equipment to youth riders over the years. Combined you could very well say these fine folks have carried youth quad racing on their backs over the years.

Okay back to the mission. You're trying to figure out how to go about hooking up your kid with a competitive machine for the highest level of youth ATV racing possible. First we need to look closer at the the class options. In WPSA Racing their "Supermini" class allows two strokes up to 105cc and four strokes up to 150cc, while the highest level of youth racing in the GNC Series is their "90 Mod" class, which allows up to 90cc on two strokes and only 125cc on fourstrokes. Both include the 12-15 year ages. As you can see the machine we're about to introduce to you (and we're the first to do so by the way) will only be allowed to compete at the WPSA ATV Powersport Tour [as of post time of this article], as it uses Honda's new CRF 150cc liquid cooled fourstroke engine.

Now that you understand how the "Pro version" of the youth ranks works, let's get you educated on who Bud Fischer is and what he's recently created in his Third Generation of high-performance mini quad frames.

Bud Fischer 101

Before we go into this incredible new machine we need to offer some education on the man that built it. If there's such a thing as the most underrated legend of our sport it's Ashtabula's Bud Fischer. In the 70's, shortly after opening the doors of Fischer Cycle Sales, (a Honda dealership in Ashtabula, Ohio), Bud and his father William Fischer broke ground on their now world-famous Pine Lake ATV racing facility to six-wheeled vehicles. Shortly after three-wheelers were added. While ATV race events started popping up on the west coast, the Fischers were offering the same out east. So, one could argue that Bud and the Fischer family actually invented ATV racing on the eastern half of the country!

Not content with race promotion and selling more Honda ATVs than most dealers that triple their dealer size in much higher populated areas, Bud formed Fischer Cycle Racing and began sponsoring many ATV racers in the Ohio / PA area and beyond. Bud's engine work and highly innovative fabrications proved very successful especially at the National level. As time progressed Bud added frames to his race-winning swingarms, A-arms and steering stem components.

His new chromoly steel frames allowed for long travel suspension and featured bump-steer-free narrow frame rails, -- something not yet seen from any OEM at the time. As a matter of fact, over the years more than one manufacturer has worked with (or dare we say copied) Bud's innovations to better their own designs. As time went on Bud continued to produce made-for-racing frames for the 250R, 250X, 400EX and many more adult sized ATVs, but his specialty was yet to come. Seeing the need to improve the youth racing scene, Bud spent many nights in the back of his Fischer Cycle Honda dealership fine-tuning the first-ever high performance made-for-racing youth chassis, now known as the Fischer First Generation Mini.

Over the years Bud perfected his design and built jigs to try to mass produce the frames. Meanwhile he continued to spend countless hours sculpting the Pine Lake race track, promoting his GNC National and managing the Fischer Cycle Sales Honda (and later Kymco) Dealership. With so many irons in the kettle Bud was too understaffed and overworked to succeed at mass producing his frames to the extent he originally planned. Fortunately, for the good of the sport, JB Racing and soon after Hetrick Racing used Buds' design to continue making machines for the important 90 Mod class. For without this class, many up and coming youth riders may have left or never bothered with the sport as there was not (and still isn't) a machine available that is able to fulfill the 12-15 age advanced level.

Now days, regardless as to what name is on the mini quad, just about the entire field at any typical GNC or WPSA National uses Bud's first and second generation chassis design. These frames and components have and still are being used to sculpt careers out of today and tomorrow's quad racing stars!

With the facts in hand you now have a better idea of just how important Bud Fischer has been to the growth of ATV racing as a whole. You now also have a better understanding of what he is capable of fabricating. With this said, let's take a closer look at Fischer Cycle Racing's latest release, the new-from-the-ground-up Fischer CRF150. Trust us this machine is about to gather a lot of attention.