Did I ever tell you about my road race Virago idea?
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Did I ever tell you about my road race Virago idea?
Didn't someone do that? I seems to remember reading an article about the build of some loophole-exploiting cruiser build.
In LRRS the closest to that I've seen lately was the awesome ULSB legal XR1200R that graced our garage for a season.
While you're at it, maybe you can dig through the kids' discarded toys and whip up something for Extreme Barbie Jeep Racing. Link
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Other famously bad theories:
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Take a Savage, drop the front, raise the rear and swap to clipons. I didn't bother photochopping on proper 17s at each end though...
I see you've been bumped down to Novice for your unique, uh... comportment.
Right, research! Making custom brake lines is pretty straight forward. What I've yet to come across though are teflon tube segments for making front brake lines to attach to dirty bikes. You know, the piece that forces the line to stay straight as it goes from the clamp on the fork guard up through the guide on or just below the front number plate? Anyone got a lead on that part of the puzzle?
I've found these - Brake line shields
But they are slit down one side and meant to be installed on an existing line, I'm looking for the ones that use heat shrink on each end to locate them.
Edit: Found one supplier in the UK - ACCESSORIES
Another item to ponder - I've got the option of custom clamps to match my exisiting 43mm forks. The upside, that saves $350 to $400 on not having to replace the forks outright. The downside, it means I'll need a custom brake adapter instead of buying off the shelf.
what's the wheel situation?!?
Solved and bolt up happy no matter what Yamaha USD full size chassis dirt front end I go with. (Aka YZ 125 / 250, YZF 250 / 400 / 426 / 450, WR 250, WRF 250/450... etc etc). I can also change my mind down the road and it's just a matter of alternate spacers to match whatever new setup I choose from within the Yamaha dirt continuum. That's part of why I'm still considering this, should I blow it up, the wheels / brake portion are still viable on modern kit so I can either unload to minimize my losses or find another suitable chassis to keep the fight alive. If I don't upgrade the forks the clamp set will be tied to my generation forks, so not as resale happy.
okay...I just rode the Long Beach Grand Prix road course and I now am ALL ABOUT IT
2-stroke 250 dirt bikes, on the pipe, slamming through the gears, elbows out, head over the bars, long sweepers, chicanes, they are SO MUCH FUN
this is with knobbies...and you'll have 17's, so it will absolutely fly. I am amped up about this - go get it!!!
Stupidity in progress...
All the mini moto guys put skateboard wheels drilled into the swingarm and clamped to front forks to serve as axle sliders...when dirty bikes slide on the right that axle, handlebar, peg, and maybe fork bottom are the first to go grinding down the pavement
Otherwise, the last time I dunked a dirtbike, it was still running after sliding along the dirt for 20 feet and crashing to a stop :lol:
I'm just going to wrap it in don't care. :D
To provide a BIT more detail... I've been eying a set of Rad MFG wheels they had on prebuilt special for awhile. A set of gold hub, black spoke and rim Sumo jobbers, 4.25" rear, 3.5" front tagged as 'YZ' and no other details. My digging around has shown that Yamaha stuck to the same rotor and hub offsets going all the way back to 1989, they just kept changing axle diameters over the years. So, in theory a set of wheels built for a 2015 YZ450 should be adaptable to my 1992 roach with nothing more than the right spacer kit. Rad MFG confirmed my hunch. So I finally broke down and ordered the wheels. The only real work I'll have to do is track down a custom rear rotor. The bolt pattern matches current, but my machine used larger bolts and a smaller OD. There is a matching rotor out there that'll drop on, but I don't know what it went to... yet. :D
The axle threads grind down and tough to axle nut off...cheap security...but guess it doesn't matter on an ebay special!
Hah, I'll be able to use a normal slider kit up front as I'll be moving to a modern front end. Dunno how I'm going to tackle the rear just yet. I've got a set of cheap, eBay special hand guards to mount up as well.
Have you looked at DRZ rotors? I have a rotor that came on my sumo set. I can't remember the details, but I think it fits the -SM model and not my -S model.
I haven't yet, MetalGear - Home of Quality Braking Components is my go to site for tracing this stuff though.
The DRZ rear rotor is so close, and yet JUST enough off as to make you think you're doing it wrong when it won't go. It matches all of the right details save for one tiny difference. The bolt hole circumference is 1mm off, 133 for Yam, 134 for Suzuki. D-oh!
Oh FFS, chainsaw file to the rescue. It's the rear brake, you could use an Ace of Base CD and be fine.
Or, I just order a rear rotor and bolts for an Australian 1992 YZ250 and all is bolt up picture perfect. Why for one year the export YZ switched to a hub with smaller mounting bolts than the years before and after, while the WRs of that range never used that one off setup I dunno. Yamaha eventually switched back to the small bolts but upped the OD for the 99s and later.
bitchin!
So... this happened.