Your teeth might start chattering...

Look at that start! He got ate up once they started going over jumps though. It's not fun to huck all that weight

The guy wasn't jumping even the smallest doubles.
He was lugging up towards the faces and stuff like he wasn't really trying to go fast.
Watch from like 1:35 on. He's singling over the smallest jumps.
Here is the same dude on a different track. Obviously riding different as well.

And Jarryd McNeil on a 79 Air cooled Yamaha 250......

Your going to lug a 2 stroke like that, might as well get a 450

McNeil whipping that 79' YZ was so nasty.

Juss72 wrote:

Your going to lug a 2 stroke like that, might as well get a 450

You have clearly never ridden a cr500.

Juss72 wrote:

Your going to lug a 2 stroke like that, might as well get a 450

observeroffacts wrote:

You have clearly never ridden a cr500.

You mean you don't ride them on the pipe like 1-2-5?

SEEMEFIRST wrote:

You mean you don't ride them on the pipe like 1-2-5?

Of course you do, but you fan the clutch a little more.

The CR500 makes most power down in the mid-range. If you rev them they just vibrate and make a lot of noise and not much else.

Juss72 wrote:

Your going to lug a 2 stroke like that, might as well get a 450

observeroffacts wrote:

You have clearly never ridden a cr500.

SEEMEFIRST wrote:

You mean you don't ride them on the pipe like 1-2-5?

If you are superman maybe? lol

Moto96 wrote:

The guy wasn't jumping even the smallest doubles.
He was lugging up towards the faces and stuff like he wasn't really trying to go fast.
Watch from like 1:35 on. He's singling over the smallest jumps.
Here is the same dude on a different track. Obviously riding different as well.

And Jarryd McNeil on a 79 Air cooled Yamaha 250......

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This track is a totally different animal, having rode there plus as you know go pro gives no justice on how deep the bumps are and holes after the jumps the depth of the ruts leading up to the jumps. It’s brutal on how rough it gets.

And I too have a Cr 500 1995 as my steed.. riding around the sand in Florida now the suspension not so forgiving and with the weight/ power it’s not easy to keep the thing straight

That’s hawkstone hill

That is Neville Bradshaw, former GP rider, ridden for South Africa at the Des Nations many times inc 2017, he could out ride most people on here and has serious skills, that 500 is borrowed and he does not race it very often, he knows what it is capable of and what he is doing on one of the worlds toughest tracks, Hawkstone Park...

observeroffacts wrote:

You have clearly never ridden a cr500.

SEEMEFIRST wrote:

You mean you don't ride them on the pipe like 1-2-5?

YeddieVanHalen wrote:

If you are superman maybe? lol

Nah, he just knows that 2-strokes are underpowered at low RPM. You really have to rev 'em up. It helps to sit waaaaay back on the rear fender for traction, too.

Falcon wrote:

Nah, he just knows that 2-strokes are underpowered at low RPM. You really have to rev 'em up. It helps to sit waaaaay back on the rear fender for traction, too.

Yeah, that's how my '84 liked it.

kage173 wrote:

Look at that start! He got ate up once they started going over jumps though. It's not fun to huck all that weight

same weight as a 450..

The guy riding that 500 is quite a bit faster than what that video shows. Don't think that was his bike honestly.