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Rory's bikes have always been sources of inspiration for my bikes. Especially the WR500.
The Shop
yeah, true stroy. I remeber seeing your WR on bikepics back in 2006 (?), just when I began the restoration of mine, and THAT was how I wanted my WR to look. Right after that, we got to talk, if I'm correct...
Everything is fine down here. Hope you are okay.
I'm good just wide open getting this last 490 finished so that I can ship it to Ireland next week and then on to Farleigh, we will have 7 Air Hammers this year.
Here: http://goo.gl/PwE74p
That bike looks like one that was on Craigslist the other day.
Pit Row
She very much is. I have a '94 YZ250 with an Ohlins kit and she did the Bradshaw/Emig '93 team graphics -- great price, super service and done in like a week. The bike is still being built but I have the proofs she sent me somewhere.. GREAT company
Several aftermarket companies used to fab contraptions like this
Nowadays the transmission internals can be polished and/or cryogenically treated. Even on newer bikes either of these can make a big difference. Cryo allows the grain of the metal to align which not only reduces friction, but also strengthens the gears.
>I wanna also say they can be jetted correctly even if you raise the compression,
Back in the day there was a head mod (to the squish band? I'm getting too old) that supposedly, was the cure for detonation and helped clear up jetting.
VMX magazine did a cover story on an '83 YZ490 a couple of years back which is very informative. One of the boutique aftermarket pipe makers developed a pipe in conjunction with flowing the motor for that cover bike. The determination was that the underlying issue was over-scavenging by the stock pipe (the head mod mitigated this somewhat but did not eliminate).
They put together a pipe that addresses the issue, supposedly completely ending pinging and detonation. I think this approach would be sound for any large displacement 2 stroke air-cooled bike-- develop the pipe around flow data.
On a side note, it's kind (well-- it really actually is) -- a bit of a thread hijack, but this was the basis of the K-Rae graphic kit, again she was wonderful & copied it exactly for my YZ250- Ohlins project
the result according to DB was a mixed bag......better bike but still no motocrosser
i wrote to Race Tech to see if they still have what ever it was they did to the shifter ......is available.....have not heard back yet
other mags in the day report that using a YZ250 shift lever helps out.....as the 250 lever is slightly longer
it a race tech destroyer shifter and actually Newmann had one and didnt like it, Chris says its fine but that garage queen only comes out twice a year
guess its a yz 250 shift lever for me !
will that devol linkage fit a wr500? is it still availible?
Darn fine picture Pete!
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