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I hate facebook,
my missus has a profile, so on her advice I put mine up, so then on the first day a “female friend” put a private moment comment up on mine result= badly cooked goose… wth extra caustic sarcastim sauce on top, and pending divorce suite upon if any reappearance of said “friend” :unsure: .Mr Blue
Hey Steve spent a lot of time on pushbikes as a kid & BMX bikes with my kids as both raced at state level, (daughter still does) so the control on a pivot is second nature and just falls into place for me. I believe you’ve down Downhill? so should be a similar learning curve for you hopefully.
Bluebruce
Out yesterday with the lad in some serious hillclimb area, you know the sort 45-60 degrees with vert step-ups and the like, well I’m here to tell you unconverted heathens, these are the second best mod I can make to my of-roaders, excellent weight transfer is a doddle, jumps are way more controlled, gearchanges are so so smooth and no more feet leaving the peg unless you wish to.
Braking is now much more controlled and my customary leg cramps set in AFTER the ride this time.
Getting off the seat is smoother and in fact If I didn’t know any beter I’d say they could reinvent bread as we know it too…for real tho’ they are now going to be the next thing after suspension sorting on any future off-road Cyles.Buy ’em, fit ’em, love ’em.
Mr Blue
Murray Watt did an article on the italjet 50 crosser for ADB way back in the day, was a brilliant piece of gear saw one at Qld titles one year and as you say way faster than most 80s’ I’ll dredge the riders name up from my memory banks eventually….actually may have been Stu Benett??
Moto, Italjet besides scooters and stuff also made a little minibike with cast alloy wheels that many bought the kids for a first bike, was a Peewee style bit o’ gear, that what you thinking of? as the MXer model most 10 yr old experts were flat out holding it down.
BC
She works in subway, you want to bone her….oh the word play we could go to EG
Will I be having a 6″ or 12″ today sir?
Would you like sauce on your meatballs?
You want to put what between my Buns?
Toasted Buns?
Mmm subway…I’m off to get lunch now
micknmeld wrote:
Quote:What year model would that KX125 have been??1980-81
Fact of life,
dirtbikes are used on loose slippery surface-Fact
They have aggressively treaded tyres for grip-Fact
They have excellent power & torque outputs-Fact
Their rider like lots of power & torque-FactMmmm maybe this subject should be
How the hell do you NOT roost anyone ever?
I gave up trying years ago I find smokers are the worst as they lose traction anywhere, but I won’t try to hurt anyone with it….
Actually TB you got out of that particular model KX125(A7) lightly, if they went for anymore than a few hours and you jumped them or rode hard into the rough the frames snapped spectactularly all over the place.
Was not one of kawasakis better attempts.
BC
It is considered “Standard racing practice” unfortunately I don’t race standards, but usually it is accidental in nature.
BC
Cheapest form of motorsport, and we can buy a machine that is basically capable of winning anything in the right hands for under 15K fully set up.
Moto if you do your own work on a smoker it can be very reasonable….I support 3 smokers in my household was 5 at one stage, on a minimal budget (according to me anyway, my wife thinks otherwise)Sorry Rat My KTM experience was the exact opposite of yours, except for the 50s, but in them I will say one word “COBRA”
BC
Nah just had a lot of bikes, used to get 2 a year for a while when my family thought I could be the next Pelle’ Granquist, Jammin’ Jimmy or Stephen Gall, poor sad deluded people my family were, tok me and my lack of ability to teach them to ditch those rose coloured glasses.
Also special dishonorable mentions should also go to
SRX250 for open road Yeech, excellent in twisties though
XT225 for anything other than getting your ‘Ls” on
XT500 for everything and anything, why people bought these when you could get the TT is beyond me
XT/TT600 I was built like a gorilla then and they were still heavy to ride
Kawasaki KR250 roadkill why Mr kawasaki why, you could’ve done so much better?
Honda MVX250 triple, again Mr Honda you had better before and after WTF were these for?Best is yet to come but the 1990/91 Cr250, 2003/4 YZ250wr and 1984 RM125D deserve honourable mentions from my stables
Bluebloke
IT175F 1980- an absolute pig of a bike, chewed plugs, didn’t like to start hot handled like a wet soggy potato with extra soggy added and kept breaking down
YZ80H 1980-liked eating bottom ends one after the other, in hindsight may have been more of a case issue.
KLX250-1981 model, nose down evil handling all bottom end grunt evil evil bike wanted to flip on hillclimbs all the time, had no brakes even in the day when bikes had no brakes, was tall top heavy and hated me.Mr Blue
was this the place with the “object of your desire” last week?
in which case you demand satisfaction immediately Moto
Mr Blue
On Sunday I was behind 3 late model 450s’ with new tyres on a freshley graded gravel road, now eventually I rounded them all up but I have left & right pectorals with rock grazes and bruising, small lacerations on my stomach, upper legs copped a bit and a medium rock got between my chin/mouthpiece & googles which gave me a fat lip, so I guess those blokes thought it was fair play.
Funny thing was when the little smoker rounded them up mid corner they didn’t seem to hang on its’ tail for long…could it be the new 956 and sudden hit onto the pipe at 80 ks out of corners feet up drifts with 40′ roostertail spraying was a problem………..
Mr Black & Blue
Sorry to hear that Mr Rat, bit of a bugger really my sympathies to the family
You know Bluedogs are still very popular in Qld believe it is their real home state, might be worth having a perve through a few Qld based papers of the like.And yes of course Honda has stolen Yamahas technology…many time over the years, and suzukis was “borrowed” by BMW they all do it, but we do know that KTM has stolen no-one elses rear suspension ideas for 20 years…don’t we?
Mr Blue
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