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Never sponsored, never had things tossed my way, worked for my money, and spend it on my moto addiction, my daughter may get an upper hand that I didn’t when the time comes, but it will be me teaching her that it doesn’t come without hard work.
You two be thankful, cuz your hard work will pay off when the boots get hung up, and Sunday’s glory is long gone
Acerbis did a white GYTR handguards, and some guy on a Honda build bought them.
Someone tell him I said I'll buy the OEM Honda XR400R ones that belong on his build if he will trade me the ones that belong on my build.
The Shop
With a really hot 144, it'll hang.
Practice bike. If you can roll on a drum brake 125, you can roll on anything. Plus, at 195lbs you can shoulder press it between motos and get a good pump for the corndog lady in concession. Hook it up, Ruth.
I consider it a parenting win.
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I found out she swapped out the paddock pass sticker from 2019 when she had a new screen fitted in her car .
I'm gathering parts for my 2022 Farleigh bike, it'll depend on class structure. It's not this 125.
I need one more year on super Evo (90-96) to run it as a 97 CR500.
The real ones are done by Mickey Kessler. Dakota's dad. He did the L&M bike. Not that it's a difficult swap, just a talking piece that the chassis is the same batch. The L&M bike had a +1" swinger too.
That frame works way better with a 500 in it, that was the original intention. Then they mothballed the whole thing for the CRF. I'll bet those guys still work at Honda and they're still salty too. Apparently Honda has a little.underground corps of twostroke nuts who just nod and wink at one another until the take over happens in 2025.
Pit Row
He did the pipe on Sharkey McFarlands MXdN YZ360. I think that one aussie guy has that bike. Last name is Hollywood, if anyone knows him. Has to be MacFarlanes MXdN bike from I believe 99, 500 class.
I don't ever want to hear a single person in this service industry say it's too hard to make money. They don't want money. They want to do cookie cutter 5 angle valve jobs on roached 250Fs where the Serdi does all the work.
A true go-getter with a 4th axis Haas CNC could mop this industry up. Add a 3D printer with rapid prototyping capability and you'd really, really rain hard and wash this market clean.
Then again, the idiots would just buy Tusk with their left hand while talking shit about China and globalism with their right.
I see you have heat tape on the airbox, do you have plans for shielding the carb too? This is meant for a 250F but just for idea.
I was thinking, if the Jobe bike had a 490 bottom end, were they able to run a power valve?
Bikes sound best at Budds.
To the young fella that asked about shielding the carb: I have a special coating that reflects heat and repels air fuel mixture, breaks the surface tension of the inside of the carb. So, yeah, just coating the whole carb. It'll be this weird copperish sort of color. Just have to flowbench it first. Might rifle bore it, just whatever flows best. No guess work, no bullshit, just data.
The JPX kits seemed to have a variety of Water Pump set ups. Never saw a Power Valve on them. Only the Works Air Cooled Cylinder, and the Water Cooled Works engine.
The the RH engine picture you can see a Mechanical pump set up - I assume by 'Hostettler' as machined / cast into the clutch cover? ( I do note also that the Water Outlet is in an entirely different position than the head in the ad / for sale picture, and wonder if it were a Sidecar set up engine) :
The 97 CR250 chassis / 500 engine fitment was an easy job. Lift or cut the plate cross brace on the cradle / down tubes and - though I might not remember accurately , as it's now over 23 / 24 years since I did them - the motor mounts , at least one pair of them, were the same . I did 5 of them right after the 250s hit the show rooms, another the next year. Got to the point I could do a conversion in a couple of hours, it was such a simple job compared to later conversions. Of those 6, 5 went back to the steel frame, most of them pretty quickly. That might upset some, but it's what blokes did, that had really, really wanted their 'AF' to be the something special. They weren't. It took until the Gen 3 frames to have the potential for it to be a genuinely better bike than a well set up steel frame.
Lets see how this Covid thing goes, I might be at next years VMXDN, if it's ( and various other races / events etc are back on) on. There's so much mechanical eye candy there to look at, a bike has to be something very, very special to stand out from the horde of trickness you can encounter every few feet you walk in the Pits. .
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