Dedication

8/30/2014 4:13pm Edited Date/Time 9/3/2014 8:42am
I want riding today and one of my riding buddies (an African American girl who just recently got her bike stolen) shows up today like this. She picked this cr up for 900 bucks on Craigslist. Granted it broke first lap but you have to commend her for her love of the sport.

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MxKing809
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8/30/2014 4:16pm
Wtf do I have to do to find a CR for $900......!?!?!? Clapped out 02's are on craigslist for $2,000+ here in Michigan
Olson
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8/30/2014 4:19pm
Honda should use this as their advertisement but they probably don't like that it's a 2stroke.
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8/30/2014 4:58pm
Serious dedication. Sorry to hear the news about her other bike.

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8/30/2014 5:12pm
MxKing809 wrote:
Wtf do I have to do to find a CR for $900......!?!?!? Clapped out 02's are on craigslist for $2,000+ here in Michigan
Ive got an 07 I will sell you.
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8/30/2014 5:14pm
MxKing809 wrote:
Wtf do I have to do to find a CR for $900......!?!?!? Clapped out 02's are on craigslist for $2,000+ here in Michigan
Overdrive wrote:
Ive got an 07 I will sell you.
For $900?! Lol
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8/30/2014 5:15pm
"A" for effort!!

Is that South Fork?
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8/30/2014 5:21pm
Holy crap that's awesome!!!

So sorry to hear about the other bike, I hope some shop out there helps this youngster out a bit.

A Fit was never used better.
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8/30/2014 5:25pm
I'd have say it pegs the stupid meter, damn lucky she aint in a white truck with red lights laid out like that bike.

To buy a beater and go directly to the track,jesus,did it still have the craiglist fuel in it?

Going over a bike pays dividends when the piston will turn 90 degrees in bore and you are headed for a single to table,not to mention tight bar clamps.
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8/30/2014 5:26pm
Very cool!

That is definitely dedication Smile
8/30/2014 5:38pm
hillbilly wrote:
I'd have say it pegs the stupid meter, damn lucky she aint in a white truck with red lights laid out like that bike. To buy...
I'd have say it pegs the stupid meter, damn lucky she aint in a white truck with red lights laid out like that bike.

To buy a beater and go directly to the track,jesus,did it still have the craiglist fuel in it?

Going over a bike pays dividends when the piston will turn 90 degrees in bore and you are headed for a single to table,not to mention tight bar clamps.
I made it sound as though she bought the bike and came straight to the track. Shes had it for about 3 weeks
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8/30/2014 5:40pm
Yeah man! Are you from around here?
Originally from VA and grew up racing D13 - I first raced that track in 1990 when it was called Greene's. Last raced there in 2007, horrible mud race that day. I'm military so I've sort of gotten to ride all over since I joined. I like to think I'll make it back there again some day!
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8/30/2014 5:41pm
So.... Who's the poor sob that gets that thing in there for her Woohoo
8/30/2014 6:22pm
She did it herself suprisingly. I had to take the bike home to fix it afterwards though.
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8/30/2014 6:32pm
This just shows that half of us could/probably should be on Intervention.
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She did it herself suprisingly. I had to take the bike home to fix it afterwards though.
Damn.... Then you're right that's true dedication!! I know that wasn't a 2 minute deal Cool
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I just remember thinking after the first moto swallowing up the wheels on my 450 that SURELY they would cancel the second motos. No such luck... I was washing sand out of that bike for weeks!!!
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8/30/2014 7:14pm
Kudo's to your friend. The entire purpose of all this dirt bike stuff is to go riding. And she is doing that.
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8/30/2014 7:30pm
MxKing809 wrote:
Wtf do I have to do to find a CR for $900......!?!?!? Clapped out 02's are on craigslist for $2,000+ here in Michigan
Overdrive wrote:
Ive got an 07 I will sell you.
MxKing809 wrote:
For $900?! Lol
I sent you a Pm so I don't high jack the thread....lol
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8/30/2014 9:10pm
Overdrive wrote:
Ive got an 07 I will sell you.
MxKing809 wrote:
For $900?! Lol
Overdrive wrote:
I sent you a Pm so I don't high jack the thread....lol
PM'd ya back Cool
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8/31/2014 11:25am
She sounds like a cool girl. Great deal on the bike even though the Honda gave her a Fit.
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8/31/2014 11:38am
Bultaco wrote:
Kudo's to your friend. The entire purpose of all this dirt bike stuff is to go riding. And she is doing that.
Exactly.


That's awesome!
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9/1/2014 10:54am
I want riding today and one of my riding buddies (an African American girl who just recently got her bike stolen) shows up today like this...
I want riding today and one of my riding buddies (an African American girl who just recently got her bike stolen) shows up today like this. She picked this cr up for 900 bucks on Craigslist. Granted it broke first lap but you have to commend her for her love of the sport.

Kindly provide photos of said girl!!
9/1/2014 11:04am
She's African American? I wonder if she's related to CoolG?
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9/3/2014 8:38am
hillbilly wrote:
I'd have say it pegs the stupid meter, damn lucky she aint in a white truck with red lights laid out like that bike. To buy...
I'd have say it pegs the stupid meter, damn lucky she aint in a white truck with red lights laid out like that bike.

To buy a beater and go directly to the track,jesus,did it still have the craiglist fuel in it?

Going over a bike pays dividends when the piston will turn 90 degrees in bore and you are headed for a single to table,not to mention tight bar clamps.
I made it sound as though she bought the bike and came straight to the track. Shes had it for about 3 weeks
Thats cool,I've seen terrible things happen to riders in my 40 yrs of racing.

Washing them after a race,into the trailer,back on the track without a bit of maintenance.

Front wheel bearing letting go and wedge the rotor in the caliper,riding with missing spokes.

A seller trimming the frayed cable strands off the throttle cable to get a few twists out just to get it sold.

Keeping a helmet for years while the sweat corroded the strap rivet. Crashed hard and his helmet flew off.

One of the most amazing was a crf450 bought off the net,guy raced it for a few months till it got hard to start. I told him it was probably valves but found them to be set right. Tore it down and found it was over bored 2mm with a 1mm over piston with
2 mm over rings. Lol.

A girl raced 25 and 30 plus back in the 80s,there was no class for her local then. Vickie was her first name,drove a chevy elcamino.
Always Yamaha 125 and 250 in a enclosed trailer, she did all her maintenance,watched her do topends at the track. She was a cool chick.

You have to tell people sometimes to save them from their self.
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9/3/2014 8:42am
It's not a Honda FIT anymore...now it's called the Honda F-IT.

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