I got a new toy

[toddw9]

I was kinda-sorta looking for a new bike and this one came along at the right price

http://www3.telus.net/public/twalcott/images/bike/YZ426F(1).jpg

[iridemymuni]

what use is the front wheel?

[GILD]

It's for picking up chicks.

Looks like a nice piece of kit.
I take it you're still going to be working in the great outdoors for the foreseeable future?

[Brian MacKenzie]

what use is the front wheel?

keeps the forks from scraping the ground

[tomtrevor]

what use is the front wheel?

whats the back wheel for?

[tomtrevor]

thats a nice looking bike. What make and model is it? I recently got one with a Yamaha 250cc engine. Its was built in a garage made up of peices that were pretty much lying on the ground. So its about 7 different colours, but the engine is brand new and really good.

[musketman]

Sweet! What is that? A WR or a YZ? 450? My friend has a Yz 400 and it ripps! You can pulll wheelies in 4th gear all the way down the street! I have a CR85E wich I want to sell. Anybody want to buy a CR85E?

[iridemymuni]

Sweet! What is that? A WR or a YZ? 450? My friend has a Yz 400 and it ripps! You can pulll wheelies in 4th gear all the way down the street! I have a CR85E wich I want to sell. Anybody want to buy a CR85E?


does it come with that nifty white background?

[toddw9]

what use is the front wheel?

it's purely cosmetic. The bike has enough power that it's never on the ground.

[toddw9]

thats a nice looking bike. What make and model is it?

Yamaha YZ426F

too much power for my own good and it makes my throttle hand twitch, which could prove to be bad for my health. I can lift the front wheel in any gear just with the throttle. With my 2-stroke (a modded 250, also with too much power for my own good) I had to pop the clutch to get the front wheel up, now I've got the torque to do it without.

I rode my 2-stroke for years, and a couple months ago I rode my buddy's 4-stroke 450 and couldn't believe the power. I had to get one. The 2-stroke (a '92 RMX250 with a bunch of mods) is now for sale.

[toddw9]

It's for picking up chicks.

not exactly... it's not street legal, so where I ride it, there's not many chicks to pick up.

[musketman]

does it come with that nifty white background?

haha, this is obviously a pic from online, but that is the bike i have.

[toddw9]

hooray for cool white backgrounds

http://www.mc-japan.net/milan2001/yamaha/YZ426F/02.jpg

[tomtrevor]

yours has got too much gray in it to be classed as white!

[forrestunifreak]

it's not street legal, so where I ride it, there's not many chicks to pick up.

Just chipmunks and bears right?

[toddw9]

Just chipmunks and bears right?

yup. and a few others. Of course with the noise i make I rarely see anything other than the dirt kicking up from whoever's riding in front of me.

[maestro8]

Some times I daydream of a motard... a motocross bike with street wheels and tires... all the torque and responsiveness of a moto with the proper tires for asphalt use... wheeeeee!

I'd likely kill myself on the thing, though, so I'll just keep dreaming.

[bugman]

Some times I daydream of a motard... a motocross bike with street wheels and tires... all the torque and responsiveness of a moto with the proper tires for asphalt use... wheeeeee!

I'd likely kill myself on the thing, though, so I'll just keep dreaming.

I killed myself on one once.

[toddw9]

Some times I daydream of a motard... a motocross bike with street wheels and tires... all the torque and responsiveness of a moto with the proper tires for asphalt use... wheeeeee!

I'd likely kill myself on the thing, though, so I'll just keep dreaming.

I may just kill myself on this thing as it is... never mind putting street tires on it. That would for sure be the end of me.

[GILD]

Some times I daydream of a motard...
It's just too easy sometimes.
I'll shut up now.

[kington99]

Bikes are only good for one thing: nicking the engines to power cars or hovercraft.

As for the the motard maestro, ive seen video on the internet (probably YouTube) of guys using motorcross style bikes with smaller slick-shod wheels to perform tricks on BMX ramps, it sounds simmilar to your idea.

[toddw9]

Bikes are only good for one thing: nicking the engines to power cars or hovercraft

I can't think of one thing i'd rather do with a hovercraft or a bike-powered car. I'll stick with the bike.

[tomtrevor]

what kind of riding are you in to?

freestyle/ trail riding/ just cruising around?

i got about 500+ acreas of land i can ride on which is pretty much flat plains of dirt with creeks in between them to jump over. Theres also a place i go to every so often thats like 13 hectares or outback Australia pretty much.

[toddw9]

I do mostly trail riding. I like the tight technical stuff going through trees and things like that... the kind of stuff where you actually have to turn your bars sideways to get through some of the trees. Gotta have a few good hillclimbs in there too. I live close enough to the mountains to go up there for the weekend or for the day if I want. If I don't feel like going that far, there's some really good riding nearer by as well.

[rabbithunter018]

Is that a WR or an older YZF? Here's a pic of mine, I'm 018. I'm to lazy to go out and take a pic of just the bike!:D The second one is after the clutch burnt up.:rolleyes: :mad: :D

[toddw9]

Is that a WR or an older YZF? Here's a pic of mine, I'm 018. I'm to lazy to go out and take a pic of just the bike!:D The second one is after the clutch burnt up.:rolleyes: :mad: :D

'01 YZ426F with the auto-decomp cam.


I just finished putting a headlight and taillight on it... that's required where I ride. I tried to make it subtle because it's too easy for lights to kill the look of a bike. I'll take pictures. I tapped into my ignition for power (no battery), and am running 11 LEDs off it so the power i'm drawing is negligible. The ignition doesn't have enough power in it to run an actual light bulb but that's ok.

The lights are so I can be seen, not so that I can see. I have a switch so I turn it off whenever i'm out of sight after I get checked for registration and insurance (also required where I ride). if i get checked for registration and insurance. They have to catch me first. If they do, I always have it, I just hate stopping for them, they like to take their time. They can't ticket me for running if I can show them the papers if they catch me, that's just part of how conservation enforcement works around here.

"They" refers to fish-cops (slang for conservation officers), not real cops. If I know the CO (I know a few of them now, I helped airlift a mountain biker with a broken neck one day so they know me from that), I'll stop and say hi. They don't usually check me because they already know I have it. Sometimes they'll go through the formalities just because that's their job. If the real cops show up you can be sure i'm gonna stop the first time. Every time. No sense messing with them.

[rabbithunter018]

our neighbor had one of those. That thing was a monster! pure horsepower. Then they made it into a 450 and tamed it down.

your soupposed to have a spark arrestor where we are.:o We don't ride enough on public off road to justify it though. And I think if you get caught, you just get a 20$ fine or something. Like I said, we ride motocross mostly.

[Job]

Man that is a great looking bike!
Is it fast?

[toddw9]

our neighbor had one of those. That thing was a monster! pure horsepower.


ya it is. The auto-decomp cam not only fixes the hot-start problems, but it also gives it more power across the whole rpm range (like it needs any more power:eek: )

Is it fast?


umm... yes. It will probably be the end of me.

[boo radley]

i rode a yamaha tw for 2 days when i took my MSF course. that thing was a blast and i didn't even get out of the parking lot.

[vuniw]

im not a dirt bike kind of person, im more of the ATV type

[toddw9]

New chain and sprockets are on, time to go ride. If the weather's good next weekend we're gonna try to get one last ride in before the snow. Or maybe we'll just ride in the snow. Who knows.

[kington99]

I can't think of one thing i'd rather do with a hovercraft or a bike-powered car. I'll stick with the bike.


Well if you're trying to cross water you might prefer it in the hovercraft. Lol just kidding, but seriously if you ever get the chance to fly a hovercraft go for it, i used to race them at school and the feeling is so strange compared to racing cars.

[dan de man]

WOW did you make your own hover craft


cause
mine is full of eels

[kington99]

No, we had a couple of glass fibre F3 racing hulls, but racing hovercraft engines are notoriously fickle and need alot of messing with on a regular basis.

[toddw9]

We went out today for a ride... lots and lots of mud. And hunters everywhere. It was fun though. As long as the weather stays relatively warm we're gonna get out as many weekends as we can. The snow's been good about holding off so far.