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that bike is slow as shit
they're good solid bikes for a beginner but they're so fucking slow they barely get out of their own way.
if you can ride one of these fast you can fly on a 125 that actually moves! lol
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regardless, my 03 rm125 was WAY faster then his cr125 and all we had on our bikes were exhaust
i had a PC platinum w/ a r304 silencer
he had a fmf fatty w/ a powercore II ...bike was a ROOOACH! the motor has no hit and it revs slow as shit...but the rest of the bike is AWESOME..super reliable, handles good turns good....if this bike was actually fast it would of beat the YZ out every year but it always came in last in mag shootouts bc the motor was lame
if you look closely at the back of the cylinder, you can see the welds that they did to stuff a bigger reed cage in there to get it to make more power.
there arent that big of changes with these motors from year to year. its not like the engine design changes drastically from year to year.
maybe the port timing is changed a little.....but its not like we're talking entirely new engine layout are we?
and how come the variances in port layout are never taken into consideration? when being as picky as we are here, we all know that no two 2stroke engines perform exactly the same. couldnt some simple port/cylinder cleanup save any born-bad 2stroke from being a absolute dog?
and if the motor doesnt rev........why not change the gearing to make it seem like its reving? honestly, how many times are you gonna be 6th gear pinned on a mx track? not often if ever so gear the thing down and it should come to life shouldnt it?
i just dont see how the engines can change that much from year to year in performance. can someone please explain the variables (significant differences between a 01, 02, 03, 04 etc) and why or if my simple solutions would or wouldnt work. thx.
its funny. every year when a new bike comes out, and a magazine does a test or we see someone riding it at the track for the first time......someone inevitably states how much more powerful it feels, looks, or sounds. im inclined to believe that 95% of the time this is due to the fact that its simply a NEW BIKE with a fresh motor and the thing you and i are on has at least a years worth of abuse done to it! so of course anything new is going to seem like a major improvement.
btw, this burb dude sounds like a real douche. i hope i see him at the track this weekend.
put on the 07 airbox to carb boot.
install some 1" vents in the airbox.
134cc overbore with porting, headwork and powervalve mod by Harris Performance was a big improvement also (:
when they went aluminum.....wow SLOW!!!!
the mags said the bike was slow and i rode one myself and it was slow as shit. the rm125 wasnt the fastest bike in the mid 00's but it was alot faster then this bike!
Pit Row
I really wish that every person that bitch and moaned about lack of power posted a vid of them "suffering" on the same bike. It's pretty rare to see really fast people riding a bikes to it's limit, that would actually be benefitted by upgrades. At least that's how I see it.
Honestly, the only bike I have ever felt I mastered completely was a totally beat low compression worn out 15 year old CR125 from 91...
i think im going to use the 250F for mine, just because there are thousands of them blown up laying around.
Somebody feel free to correct me if I"m wrong...
i think the early 00-ish ktm 250's were case reed motors as well but these motors were rocket ships
Something for everyone to think about. Ride a 1990 CR250 and a 2007 CR250. Totally different power. Ride a 2003 CRF450 and a 2010 CRF450. Totally different power. In both cases, they started with much lower end power, and then by the end, it was much more on top.
First I installed a hgs pipe. It gained over rev and very little top end but not low end (probably it lost)
Second, because stock reeds cracked, I installed Boyessen dual stage reeds (not the cage) it had better response in low end but lost overrev (the bike alredy had carbon fiber reeds when I bought it)
After this I put a thicker base cilinder gasket and removed a little more than I added to the botton, to the head. I didnt noticed any change really.
So the bike stayed like this for a time and recently I did a complete rebuild of the bike after being in the garage for years.
After reading some articles about the problems with this bike, I followed the next steps all at the same timo so I dont know how much each different thing affected the bike:
Installed a pin to stop the exhaust valve from closing so much.
Drilled some holes in the air box
Stuffed the cases just under the cilinder because it was hanging over the cases. I added epoxi where I could in the cases to add pre-compression (you say like that in english??)
Reshaped the intake ports making them to point a little bit in the opposite than the exhaust port.
I removed the spacer from the reed cage.
With all this things I did at the end, it definetelly hits harder in the bottom and revs faster. But not even close to a ktm 125.
At least now it can get out the turns without burning the clutch
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