hi people i have only rode mod bikes. But i think that gears are good if you have to ride a long way to get to places to ride, also u could change your gearing whenever you wanted to, which can be good. But on the other hand gears can be a bad thing because they most of the time get in the way, also when you are doing sidehhops and you dont quite make it, then most of the time it well hit the rear meck and this can snap it most of the time. From what i have found from going on rides its always the bike that have gears that are having the proplems with the sidehop, its there rear meck. So from my point of view i would not get gear because of all the proplems that you get where them. To be fair you do get proplems with mods but not as much as stocks with gears. So thats what i think of this. cheers