Works Ohlins Yamaha YZ360 doesn't meet minimum friend requirement for Farleigh

TheTwostrokeTaliban wrote:

Can we start talking to event organizers now to push the Super Evo class up to 96 for 2021.

cdoggy81 wrote:

That EK MX3D is a bad ass top quality chain & I am running the same one on my build. Nothing looks as good, nothing. Stupid...

That EK MX3D is a bad ass top quality chain & I am running the same one on my build. Nothing looks as good, nothing. Stupid expensive but once you cross a certain point what the hell right 😎

Do let us know how those Brisk plugs work out compared to the NGK red box BR8EG. Not sure how much they cost but if equal in quality & then cheaper than the NGK I would try them. However as much as we all know about plugs I think we get this rabbit hole of a subject & know they won’t light the world on fire (pun intended LoL) 👍🏻

timobijnen84 wrote:

I did not think before saying that. :( I would like to have a way to explain how it works because then i get a bike.;)...

I did not think before saying that.

I would like to have a way to explain how it works because then i get a bike.

What youre saying about copy pasting i think is true but it says it on the product page from the manufacturer which is from the Netherlands.

I would love to have an oldtimer bike and built it. But i only have the funds for 1 bike and will ride my yz125 untill it is broken.

I would like to come out to vmxdn and see this amazing bike.

TheTwostrokeTaliban wrote:

If you show in Farleigh I'll let you wheelie it across the parking lot

cdoggy81 wrote:

Enlighten us a little more about that HPI unit. Looks like it is customizable & programmable. How are the preloaded curves? Equal to the Vortex units...

Enlighten us a little more about that HPI unit.
Looks like it is customizable & programmable. How are the preloaded curves? Equal to the Vortex units? Price wise they seem to be a better buy. I would be interested in one as well for my modern yz if it was plug & play with an added boost of power right out of the box but then could fine tune it a bit with loading & adjusting custom maps/curves/etc.

TheTwostrokeTaliban wrote:

You're going to want to stick with stock. Or maybe a Vortex. Vortex and this thing are wildly different target audiences. The Vortex is great for...

You're going to want to stick with stock. Or maybe a Vortex. Vortex and this thing are wildly different target audiences. The Vortex is great for a weekend guy, preloaded maps. The Vortex can store 10 maps. You can change between them with a screw driver, or if you buy a bar switch, you can pick two and flip flop. The basemaps are alright. Lots of people write better maps for them. Ron Wood, people like that. Bolt on horsepower.

The HPI is more or less a race team piece of equipment. Doesn't come with basemaps unless you know where you can get one, or 6.

Rather than selecting your map switch hard/soft like taco shells, this thing dynamically rotates through 5 maps with imperceivable millisecond latency, based on TPS value. Do you understand how your TPS works? Voltage based percentage. If, for easy math example, your TPS is a 4V signal, 0V is 0% throttle. 2V would be 50% throttle, 4V would be 100% throttle. Most TPS are 3.5-5V signal, car or bike, doesn't matter. It's just a wheel with a lever that rotates on a gear when your throttle slide moves up and down, it's spinning that TPS rotor. On a EFI bike they just put it right on the throttle body plate. Carbs aren't roller barrel though.

So, those 5 maps can be set, for easy math example 0-20% is map 1, 21-40% is map 2, so on so forth. So you have good partial throttle maps, and WOT maps, and your bike knows which is which, while you're racing.

Try that shit with a map switch.

But what I can do, is set those percentage windows wherever I want. So, if for Map 1, I just want 0-5% for a real EFI-like crisp tip-in, I can. Then map 2 can be 6-40% or, whatever.

I can then datalog my TPS positions to see where I'm at most of the time. These are always funny to show people because most are surprised to find out how infrequently they see 100% TPS value.

The Powerjet function is a whole nother novel post. Maybe tomorrow.

Here are the basemaps I got, to start with. You can probably summize that I'll be sitting with a laptop between motos tinkering. Way out, in the back of a parking lot, inside a Sprinter, where I cant the bothered by people feigning interest in my bike just as an avenue to tell me about their piece of shit 450 with the rainbow titanium $300 motor mounts with zero R&D that are the dirtbike version of "The Emperors New Clothes" (It's easier to fool a man than to convince a man he's been fooled)

GVNR_moto wrote:

Just spent the last few hours trying to soak up as much knowledge as my young brain can take in. I appreciate these detailed threads so...

Just spent the last few hours trying to soak up as much knowledge as my young brain can take in. I appreciate these detailed threads so much, I love learning as much as I can. Going to be building a matching 91’ yz125 and 250 this winter, so I like finding things I can do to my builds to keep away from the normal “paint and graphics” builds. The 125 already has a full Noleen motor, so I’ll have to figure out some other ways of getting some more power out of it

TheTwostrokeTaliban wrote:

Doing anything to the motor other than freshening it will throw off port timing and squish. Focus on electronics and carburetion. That's where most of the...

Doing anything to the motor other than freshening it will throw off port timing and squish. Focus on electronics and carburetion. That's where most of the power is anyway.

When MotoGP was 500 twostrokes, on a team like HRC, Rossi and Criville would have identical motor packages, similar ignition packages, and different jetting. On the same bike, on the same day, at the same track.

Get really good at understanding fuel circuitry, where they overlap, when you're "robbing Peter to pay Paul" (that'll make sense later on in your jetting life)

Then, here's the important part. When you get real good at this skill, hold it close. Because there is zero, zero reward
In making ungrateful idiots bikes runs better when the adjustment, like jetting is dynamically dependent on so many variables.

You're younger, so I'll bet you have peers your age who have this bad habit I'm starting to notice among people in this hobby. When they see something that is obviously modified, they are so disconnected from doing ANYTHING themselves, that they don't even ask how YOU did it...they ask WHO did it, as if to automatically insinuate you can't do it. Then, after about 5 or 6 "actually, I did" they think you're joking. I've never seen anything like this, socially, where a demographic swims in its own puddle of uselessness for so long, it just 100% depends on a demographic 25 years older to generate everything for them, except anime and amateur porn.

If you're young and you're getting ready to build those, go find 5 peers your age who don't have bikes, and recruit those fuckers as your crew, get em over in your garage and helping you. Take em to the track with you. Avoid the ones who have single moms, pale skin, who smell like vape juice. they're just going to buy Subarus, become forum moderators, and get poop on condoms eventually, anyway. They're lost.

Rickyisms wrote:

As a 19 year old I definitely see this in most kids I went to school with and know now. I was the only one in...

As a 19 year old I definitely see this in most kids I went to school with and know now. I was the only one in my friend group who had to have a job to pay for his vehicle, gas, and other hobbies while my friends just waited for mom and dad to pay the bills.

It’s sad, I used to work my ass off after class just to be able to spend my money to go ride on the weekend. Those weekends meant so much to me because I was out being active, hanging out with my friends, and learning to appreciate dirt bikes that much more. I feel like even though I was never super fast or anything I still accomplished a lot for my age. I learned that when you do it yourself and make sacrifices to do what you enjoy it makes you cherish what you have done much more.

I like these quotes from an MXA article

“For most of the men racing in the Vet class there is always a moment when they think back to 30 years ago when they were 18-years-old and had scraped up enough money to buy a used RM125 two-stroke. They fondly remember the joy of working on it, jetting it, changing the fork oil and racing it with the reckless abandon that is normally only reserved for a night on the town with Charlie Sheen”

“Motocross racing is lost on the young. There is nothing sadder than some 12-year-old minicycle racer showing up at the races with a bevy of bikes, a 54-foot motor coach and a middle-aged dad sweating in the sun. For this picture to come into proper focus, Junior needs to be sitting in the motor home playing “Fortnite” for the tenth straight hour, while dad gets dressed for his moto. If Junior wants to race, he can get a paper route and pay for it himself.”

Rickyisms wrote:

As a 19 year old I definitely see this in most kids I went to school with and know now. I was the only one in...

As a 19 year old I definitely see this in most kids I went to school with and know now. I was the only one in my friend group who had to have a job to pay for his vehicle, gas, and other hobbies while my friends just waited for mom and dad to pay the bills.

It’s sad, I used to work my ass off after class just to be able to spend my money to go ride on the weekend. Those weekends meant so much to me because I was out being active, hanging out with my friends, and learning to appreciate dirt bikes that much more. I feel like even though I was never super fast or anything I still accomplished a lot for my age. I learned that when you do it yourself and make sacrifices to do what you enjoy it makes you cherish what you have done much more.

I like these quotes from an MXA article

“For most of the men racing in the Vet class there is always a moment when they think back to 30 years ago when they were 18-years-old and had scraped up enough money to buy a used RM125 two-stroke. They fondly remember the joy of working on it, jetting it, changing the fork oil and racing it with the reckless abandon that is normally only reserved for a night on the town with Charlie Sheen”

“Motocross racing is lost on the young. There is nothing sadder than some 12-year-old minicycle racer showing up at the races with a bevy of bikes, a 54-foot motor coach and a middle-aged dad sweating in the sun. For this picture to come into proper focus, Junior needs to be sitting in the motor home playing “Fortnite” for the tenth straight hour, while dad gets dressed for his moto. If Junior wants to race, he can get a paper route and pay for it himself.”

GVNR_moto wrote:

I’m 20, and have been working full time over the summer since I was 14, and working part time after school so I could pay my...

I’m 20, and have been working full time over the summer since I was 14, and working part time after school so I could pay my way through racing. I feel I’m one of the only kids at the track that doesn’t have mom and dad paying for everything. In some cases that would be so nice, but I feel I’ve learned to appreciate everything so much more working for my own stuff