Wallrat

Dude ur weird.

Don't stress it man. Cali has crazy resale prices on quads so while $6k is high, its not as far out in left field as these east coast guys think. This might help you with your pricing:Clicky Clicky Guy is a member here, bike is PERFECT. Offered it at $6800 here in Cali...not sure what he ended up getting for it but I think he had an offer for $6500 or something from somebody he didn't sell it to.

woops!

Yeah there's water hoses going into the exhaust

Lakers: Fullbores: I like fullbores the best but they're pricey. With Lakers or Fullbores you can't run a larger gas tank either. Dunno if that's an issue for you.

I don't get it...my wife wears the king mask to bed all the time. Your's don't?

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With some long enough lines ya you might be able to do it. Question is why? You use your front brakes 90% more than the rear, and you wanna have better control over those front brakes or you risk some serious carnage. Pretty much the only time I use my rears is if I'm power sliding or yelling "OH SHIT" simultaneously.

I think nipplehead sounds better...

Few more: (17 April 2005, Indiana) Late one night, 26-year-old Joseph was blazing down the road in the Chain O'Lakes district of Syracuse on his Yamaha moped. When he saw flashing lights in his rear-view mirror, well... with the wind whistling through his ears, he must have concluded that he could outrun a mere police cruiser. This hard-boiled candidate for the Heck's Angels revved his engine and roared off. The speedometer needle flashed past 10 mph...20...30...and within less than a minute, it was hitting the red zone at a blinding 40 mph. But no matter how fast Joseph went, he was unable to shake the pursuing police officer from his tail. If only he had a spare JATO strapped to his machine! The two-stroke engine was buzzing like a hummingbird from the strain of the chase. Was he thinking, "You'll never get me alive, copper!" as he sped through the intersection with County Road 800E? The answer will never be known. Joseph lost control of his would-be road rocket, crashed into a tree, and died instantly of massive head injuries. (29 January 2003, Brazil) At work, Manoel Messias Batista Coelho was responsible for cleaning out the storage tanks of gasoline tanker trucks. He had been employed in that capacity for two months when he ran afoul of fuel. The 35-year-old began to fill a tanker with water, a standard safety procedure that forces flammable vapor out of the container. He returned an hour later to check whether the water level was high enough to proceed. But he had trouble deciding, because it was so DARK inside the tanker. A resourceful employee, Manoel forgot the very reason why he was filling the tank with water when he lit a cigarette lighter to shed some light on the situation. His little test successfully determined that the water level was NOT yet high enough for safety. The vapor explosion launched him through the air, and he landed in the company parking lot 100 meters away. Manoel suffered severe burns, blunt force trauma, and an injury to the head that exposed his brain. Our witless car washer had learned his terminal lesson in safety by the time the firemen arrived. (September 7, 2003, Cambodia) Khim, nicknamed "The Big Giant," was an intimidatingly large former military policeman when he went to the Phnom Penh home of a drug dealer to extort money and amphetamines. He was a much smaller man soon afterwards. He pulled the pin from a grenade to threaten the dealer, who immediately decided to give him the items he demanded. Then Khim, who had been drinking, forgot to put the pin back before slipping the grenade into his pocket. He walked to his motorbike, well satisfied with the transaction. As he climbed aboard... the grenade exploded. Whether the drug dealer recovered his cash (and in what condition!) is unknown. (7 March 2002, Colorado) When Gerald was pulled over by police for erratic driving, he decided it was better to flee from the stolen car on foot, rather than face possible jail time for a parole violation. This was the first of two successive mental lapses. Gerald's actual thoughts are unknown, but *may* have been something like this: "The officers are only suspicious and alert now... I'll make them hot, sweaty, tired, and angry by leading them on a wild chase through dark alleys and fields." During the subsequent foot chase, Gerald attempted to dissuade officers from the pursuit by firing a 9mm Ruger semiautomatic handgun blindly over his shoulder. This was the second illustration of a potential mental deficiency. "Officers are running behind me. They have guns. I have a gun! They have eyes in the front of their heads, so they can see to aim at me. I don't have eyes in the back of my head, so I'll fire wildly behind me and see what happens!" Unfortunately, Gerald appears to have been one of those folks who can't chew gum and walk at the same time. Or at least he couldn't flee and fire at the same time. While discharging the weapon over his shoulder, Gerald managed to shoot himself in the head with his own gun, bringing the chase to a sudden conclusion. Four shots were fired, none by the officers, who found Gerald's pistol next to his fallen body. Gerald was transported to a local hospital where he expired the following day, thus removing a set of genes deficient in both judgment and coordination from the gene pool.

True stories. There's 3 books out: Books Website

You mean top or bottom right?

definately some good ones. I've got the first 2 books, are others out yet?

You'd think there'd be more trucks on this forum. Personally I like flashy cars and would love to drive one, but no way in hell would I ever own one. So I guess its a truck for me, unfortunately my dream truck doesn't exist... Mid-size truck body like the frontier Engine from the nissan titan but w/ a turbo a friggin 5 speed...why is it so hard to find a damn manual tranny these days? 4" performance lift on some 35's, beadlocks, etc. etc. Fuck it, add a snorkel

But do you have a ford festiva??? Welcome to the HQ!

Just wondering why you wanna run a shortrod stroker? You're replacing the pistons and crank anyway, so why not go with some extra reliability?

Yeah there's that little ball and then a rod that slip into that hole. That's the ball that you may have heard about getting welded to the rod when somebody pulls in the clutch to ride down a hill.

I'd recommend dyno tuning to anybody that has a place nearby and can afford it. Even the guys that are shit-hot with jetting (which I ain't) will only get it perfect 75% of the time. I've got a place near my house here in SoCal that'll do it for $150 flat - regardless of how long it takes. Plus they've got all the jets and needles so you don't have to buy $50 worth of stuff just to figure out what you need.

I could never taste the difference

I just switched from fattys to t-5's. Unfortunately I also got a mild dune port at the same time. Keeping that in mind, I definately like the t-5's alot better. They come on just a c-hair later than the fatties and they hit a bit harder. My front end kept popping up on me till I got used to the changes. On top they seem to wind out a bit more as well. I'm sure the porting had alot to do with the changes. IMO, I'd go with the T5's without question. Porting is an excellent mod that will tune your machine to the way YOU like to ride it. BTW, toomey/FMF pieces are interchangeable. Technically you could fit the hush kit/silencers onto your fmf's.

Guys that ride really narrow trails tend to stick with either stock width arms or maybe +1, +1's. So I would say it depends more upon the trails that you normally ride. If you barely clear trees now then don't go wider. For the swingarm +2 isn't too bad. You'll lose a little traction and the handling will suffer, but its still gonna be somewhat close to stock. How much engine are you running?

Yup, no spark arrestors. I'm over the noise limit but you say they don't check that. Have to swap out my paddles. Yeah so I won't be going but I hope you guys have a good time.

Well when you get enough power it starts to be a pain in the ass to ride on the stock swingarm. So you get a longer swinger to keep the front end down, but that means your bike doesn't handle as well or have the same traction. Personally I get kinda annoyed with the handling even on a +4 swingarm. Its not terrible but it definately magnifies some of the shee's weaknesses. There's a happy medium there for every riding style, trick is to just find yours. The whole bigger is better at all costs theory just doesn't hold water IMO.

GPS's start at about $80. Here's a few from a local REI store: Clicky