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Those guy's on the hook are worthless!

Holy smoke, it would have to run into something hard to break all that stuff, as posted, everything usually bends.

And yes, seems like after you price all the plastic you coulda bought one that's never been dropped hard.

Most dirt bike plastic is fairly malleable and comes back to shape pretty well. It burns well though. That dirt bike of mine idled at 122 decibels according to the meter that I borrowed from work. Rather than annoy the neighbors I figured that if I put steel wool in the muffler that it would quiet it right down. It did for a few minutes until I looked behind me and it was like a vapor trail with flame shooting out the muffler. It cooked the rear fender real well too. I missed that day in school science class when they explained that steel wool burns. Not one of my better ideas.

Thanks, my RV sits higher and there is a ladder on the back for accessing the roof.
Gotta get some tight measurements to sure I will not get into the ladder with the handle bars so your response is of much value with my calculations. They have a drop extension that I may have to use, it'd put the bike a little lower and a little future back.

Sorry for flip flop, but can't fix it. I'll have to snap another.

But I couldn't resist showing my 2 wild ones. One now an Account executive & the other a Crime annalist for a larger southern city.

My how time flies, a 70's TM or RM 250 Suzuki.

I thought he meant the pickup?????

Bought this one about 4-5 years ago(blue, bone stock) with very low miles....Started messing with it and this is the end result. The plan was / is to buy a camper and hitch it to the back....we'll see, I haven't used it much to this point.

I like those saddlebags. Looks like a cycleracks rack on the back or something very similar in design.

Put the cycleracks on mine yesterday morning, then had one of those hmmm moments - if it's packed high with gear how am I going to swing my leg over it? There are ways to do that but those bags would eliminate any problem, plus they get the weight down lower which is where you want it. They might catch on brush on narrow paths but they shouldn't stick out much more than the handlebars if any.

That's a really nice setup with the handguards and racks. With a full tank and that 1 gallon aux can you'd have a range of about 225 miles.

Some good looking tricked out trail bikes going on here!

Get that bad boy on the road, it looks great!
It'd look better out in your favorite place beside a campfire...

I get all the use I can outta mine....
This was last Fall in Montana sitting beside Hungry Horse Reservoir..

Thanks Jim, I originally purchased those bags in Sturgis one year for my softail but could never get them to fit the way I wanted...I new they would come in handy one day.

Great photo JeffA!

Bad ass.

Cheapasser tip of the day.

Add some form to your soft bags by inserting cut down appropriately sized plastic trash cans.

Part two. Jim, there's some handy, frugalish, smaller tank saddle bags that'll hold some goodies. And a tank-top bag is a must have IMO.

Back in the all 2 stroke days I knew Ed Scheidler. He was the head of Yamaha USA off road development. I asked him about break in procedure and he said the team just ran the bikes. He mentioned in less words that the engine needed to be run to get proper ring seal. He was a mechanic for Pierre Karmakers when he came to race US motocross. He was at Yamaha through all the greats, Hannah, Glover etc. I believed what he said.
The article you posted is excellent. The author has written about breaking in a rebuilt motor. His philosophy was to take a an engine using NO oil on the rings, when the cylinder is on, kick the bike through dry about 30-40 kicks. He recommends this for 2 and 4 stroke bikes. I did this on a Honda CR250 and a Honda CRF450. When I sold my CR250 the guy that bought it remarked that it was faster than 2 previous bikes he looked at. I will continue to use his techniques whenever I rebuild anything.

Went out this afternoon and got obnoxious all over this section of town. Start up from stoplights full throttle and I mean throttle turned all the way to the stop, second gear same, third gear same - it really is only going about 40 when you wind it out in 3rd, then cruise for a while at 45 in 4th gear, come to another stop light and straight down to 3rd, then 2nd at 20 mph so those rpm's kick right up. This thing has a very growly exhaust note so a few homeowners and passers by were giving me the evil eye for being so loud.

It had 4 miles on it from the dealer - three of which I put on in test driving before buying. I set the tripmeter to 0 and that now has 19 miles on that so it should have a good start.

smarguez ,

Good stuff !
Been watching some vintage MX - Pierre Karmakers - old school .

This info. of fast break in has been around for a long time - as i previously said it's a financial thing with the makers - it's all about the money to them .

A race engine builder in Biloxi [name excapes me] built the engines for the Dole Pineapple sponsored pontiac fiero [1980's] can't remember the series SCCA ? --?.
I bought turbo blue race gas from him , anyway i watched them start warm up a heavy duty race engine . As soon as it started they put it up on 2-3000rpm when the head was hot to the touch they turned it off after a couple of throttle whacks .
Gave it a visual check for leaks etc. - then fired it back up and ripped some wide open throttle blast 7-8000 rpm after coming to life about one minute before .

Broke engines in using this method for years now it's a secret everyone should know .
When i get a TW200 i'll do the same - but the dealership won't likely let a dry engine bike get cranked over 30-40 times .

Lads at the car dealership told me - ''you'll like that truck' F150 lariat 5.4 towing package''- i asked if it would haul ass - yep - so i knew it was broke in right .

Right on Jim , I'd do that for about 50 miles by then that piston has went up & down millions of times .

I gotcha by 10, I set the trip meter on the Suzuki when the guy dropped it off, I've put 29 miles on it toolin' around the hood here......It's a keeper.....another mile and it'll have 300 on it....

My bud Barry was a American jap..... we rode off rode, Honda xrs......
He worked for Honda and said the same thing......
we tricked out our bikes...... cams, jetting, headers, exhaust, sprockets, wheels....
Barry died from cancer......
RIP bud.

RIP Barry - cancer sucks ....

Sold my little classic motorcycle trailer this morning - Holsclaw - best trailer ever made .
A cool guy -77 years old collects them - drove all the way from North Carolina to pick it up , 765 miles . He has 6 of the models like i sold him today .

Had it for 25 years dragged it to Daytona bike week/track days/MX tracks as far as North Georgia .