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Seriously?! How'd you get them? I saw Bob Hannah race in those and didn't realize at the time how bad they probably were. They just looked so cool, I wanted them. Good thing my dad didn't bite.
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I bought a bracket kit for my CZ and installed it my self. . Longer travel made all the difference in the world.
I remember people saying if you have too much travel your bike will ground loop on you.
Mono cross suspension
Liquid cooled
Power valve
Safety seat
But someone said earlier a good set of handle bars was a great mod that was over due when it arrived.
For modern era bikes:
EFI with the ability to tune the ECU. I thought the 09-10 450’s owned were pretty advanced. Now owning an 18 with 3 stock different maps to choose from is a very cool feature. The VortexX10 puts it at a even higher level to tune for track & conditions.
long travel suspension
single shock, rising rate rear suspension
liquid cooling
power valves
disc brakes
cartridge forks
USD forks
The four stroke era that we are in now is a huge revolution in itself. Since the modern four stroke motocross bikes hit the scene around the turn of the century, technology seems to have slowed down. MX bikes go several years now without a major redesign. No one would have believed this during the 1980's! I'd say the biggest advancements in the modern era are:
four stroke mx bikes as a whole
fuel injection
data acquisition
80-81 suspension revolution
80-81 water cooling
Fuel injection
Custom engine mapping
The Safety seat....... Saving mens nuts for decades.
Pit Row
work then or now. And yes, I include Fox Airshox in that group. And while water-cooling did help in slowing the rate of
power fade, you never holed or bent a radiator or heaven forbid had to buy one$$$$$$.
Modern 4-strokes? Stupidly complicated/heavy and expensive. Origional 4-strokes were obsolete because they were
complicated/heavy and expensive and brought back with air forks!
Brakes, ya, disc better. Long travel, ya good, electronic ignition, ya, points suck.
New stuff, top heavy, bad. Weight, bad.
Big thing not mentioned......full face helmets.
Gary Bailey first to use them. Before that, roost for dinner,
We race road racers in ARHMA that are more technologically advanced and harder to work on than modern MX bikes.
Modern bikes are more reliable and cheaper to maintain than 2 strokes ever were. Fact.
now. My kx500 might go through a piston a year. Rode it every Sunday.
How about a modern 2 stroke. Reliable? FACT! See?
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