Scariest bike (dirt) you've ever ridden?

hammertime wrote:

97 cr250...what a tuning fork pile of shit. just ask MC.

runner up....82 yz80. rad on the bars, major headshake at speeds.

hammertime wrote:

97 cr250...what a tuning fork pile of shit. just ask MC.

runner up....82 yz80. rad on the bars, major headshake at speeds.

EastFlorida wrote:

For me, it was back in the day when my friend offered me a ride on his new (used) Suzuki TM400. That was a bike I...

For me, it was back in the day when my friend offered me a ride on his new (used) Suzuki TM400. That was a bike I had no desire to ever rider again! I rode 2 laps and told him, "sweet bike, I wish I had one"! NOT!!!!

How about your sketchiest ride?

reded wrote:

Stock. Easy to get big power from it as it was choked down in stock form.

reded wrote:

Stock. Easy to get big power from it as it was choked down in stock form.

CR500Rider wrote:

Choked down enough to pull 25+ more HP out of it? I don't think so but it makes a good story right.

EastFlorida wrote:

From the link posted above: 1. And the winner (or loser, actually) is: THE 1971 SUZUKI TM-400R CYCLONE! It weighed 242 pounds, dry, and delivered about...

From the link posted above:

1. And the winner (or loser, actually) is:

THE 1971 SUZUKI TM-400R CYCLONE! It weighed 242 pounds, dry, and delivered about 40 hp at 6850 rpm. Sometimes it delivered it at 4400 rpm. At other times, it would deliver it just when you least expected it. You see, the Cyclone had a weird ignition that would go from a starting mode to full advance whenever it felt like it. Even a change in temperature would change the power hit.

Picture this: you're exiting a hard- packed turn in second gear and you roll the throttle on. All of a sudden, the engine lurches into the fat part of the power curve and the rear end leaps out about three feet. The chassis shudders and sends you sailing into the clear blue sky in a nice arc. Moments later, you thump into the ground, painfully, and then a microsecond after that, the Cyclone lands on top of you.

Adding to the bizarre powerband was a set of forks that went rigid on square bumps and rear shocks that faded from anything hotter than headlight glare. Many companies produced endless handling and frame modification kits. None of these things seemed to help much, but the bike cost only $995 brand new and people kept buying them, trying to make them work. They all failed, to one degree or another, to tame the Cyclone

reded wrote:

Stock. Easy to get big power from it as it was choked down in stock form.

CR500Rider wrote:

Choked down enough to pull 25+ more HP out of it? I don't think so but it makes a good story right.

reded wrote:

You should keep your thoughts to yourself. Those hillclimb bikes are no bullshit, guys find ways to make lotsa power from them. I've also seen CR500...

You should keep your thoughts to yourself. Those hillclimb bikes are no bullshit, guys find ways to make lotsa power from them. I've also seen CR500 motors with close to 100hp. I personally built a 350 Banshee that pulled 98.6 on the dyno. It came stock with 35hp. Care to run your trap anymore?

BAMX wrote:

Service Honda CR500AF....ill handling, poor suspension and way too much motor for a 250F frame. I thinkk the rear end passed me ten times in that...

Service Honda CR500AF....ill handling, poor suspension and way too much motor for a 250F frame. I thinkk the rear end passed me ten times in that race.

EastFlorida wrote:

Ummm.. What year? I suspect AJ might take issue with your assessment...but hey, it is your opinion!

Tiki wrote:

[img]http://oldmx.com/airhammers/images/1982_cr480.jpg[/img] Without a doubt in my mind, this bike. A friend has one which he rides like an XR. Brilliant power. Zero braking ability. Its like...

Without a doubt in my mind, this bike. A friend has one which he rides like an XR. Brilliant power. Zero braking ability. Its like riding the titanic.

reded wrote:

You should keep your thoughts to yourself. Those hillclimb bikes are no bullshit, guys find ways to make lotsa power from them. I've also seen CR500...

You should keep your thoughts to yourself. Those hillclimb bikes are no bullshit, guys find ways to make lotsa power from them. I've also seen CR500 motors with close to 100hp. I personally built a 350 Banshee that pulled 98.6 on the dyno. It came stock with 35hp. Care to run your trap anymore?

reded wrote:

THIS! [img]http://images2.classifiedads.com/large/10002414_UBy1gw.jpg[/img] [img]http://images2.classifiedads.com/large/10002414_yO4igw.jpg[/img] This one isn't mine but I had one exactly like it minus the orange frame. Extensively ported, 46mm Lectron carbed, fire breathing, bucking...

THIS!





This one isn't mine but I had one exactly like it minus the orange frame. Extensively ported, 46mm Lectron carbed, fire breathing, bucking bull of a motorcycle. Ladies and Gentlemen, the 1995-1996 KTM 550.

The damned thing made more power than the clutch could handle so I had to run super heavy springs in the clutch. This in turn caused the pressure plate to warp when the lever was pulled in. It was impossible to get the clutch to fully disengage if you had a finger between the lever and the bar. This meant that at launch time you had to drop the clutch and regrip the bar while it was dumping 90hp of big bore two strokeness to the back tire. The scary part was when the back tire would go from looking like a Top Fueler in the burnout pit to FULLY hooked up within 1/100th of a second while I was trying to regrip.

The motor far exceeded any sort of suspension components from the era and I was positive that I was going to bust the big bastard in half at most of the races we attended together. I'll never forget the way that damned thing ran although the rest of the bike was a piece of shit. Even as a hillclimber it constantly had some damn thing broken or falling off of it.

After 3 years and countless victories I decided it was time for us to part ways while I was still able to walk and talk.

CR500Rider wrote:

The KTM 550 had a hair over 60 HP.

reded wrote:

THIS! [img]http://images2.classifiedads.com/large/10002414_UBy1gw.jpg[/img] [img]http://images2.classifiedads.com/large/10002414_yO4igw.jpg[/img] This one isn't mine but I had one exactly like it minus the orange frame. Extensively ported, 46mm Lectron carbed, fire breathing, bucking...

THIS!





This one isn't mine but I had one exactly like it minus the orange frame. Extensively ported, 46mm Lectron carbed, fire breathing, bucking bull of a motorcycle. Ladies and Gentlemen, the 1995-1996 KTM 550.

The damned thing made more power than the clutch could handle so I had to run super heavy springs in the clutch. This in turn caused the pressure plate to warp when the lever was pulled in. It was impossible to get the clutch to fully disengage if you had a finger between the lever and the bar. This meant that at launch time you had to drop the clutch and regrip the bar while it was dumping 90hp of big bore two strokeness to the back tire. The scary part was when the back tire would go from looking like a Top Fueler in the burnout pit to FULLY hooked up within 1/100th of a second while I was trying to regrip.

The motor far exceeded any sort of suspension components from the era and I was positive that I was going to bust the big bastard in half at most of the races we attended together. I'll never forget the way that damned thing ran although the rest of the bike was a piece of shit. Even as a hillclimber it constantly had some damn thing broken or falling off of it.

After 3 years and countless victories I decided it was time for us to part ways while I was still able to walk and talk.

CR500Rider wrote:

The KTM 550 had a hair over 60 HP.

JB 19 wrote:

Nitro basically doubles the power output.........and its possible thats what it runs on since its a hillclimb bike.

JB 19 wrote:

Nitro basically doubles the power output.........and its possible thats what it runs on since its a hillclimb bike.

reded wrote:

You should keep your thoughts to yourself. Those hillclimb bikes are no bullshit, guys find ways to make lotsa power from them. I've also seen CR500...

You should keep your thoughts to yourself. Those hillclimb bikes are no bullshit, guys find ways to make lotsa power from them. I've also seen CR500 motors with close to 100hp. I personally built a 350 Banshee that pulled 98.6 on the dyno. It came stock with 35hp. Care to run your trap anymore?

insane one wrote:

I would run any of my CR500's that I owned against your 350 banshee. If your banshee was to pull 98.6 hp it was definatly at...

I would run any of my CR500's that I owned against your 350 banshee. If your banshee was to pull 98.6 hp it was definatly at the crank not the wheels.! Then by no means was it gas or race gas I think maybe nitro or alchohal.. So yah if 500rider really don't want to run his trap I will.. How many banshee's do you see at the hill climbs? Hell how many do you see at a drag strip?