Ducman

It has to do with the theory of relativity. As you approach the speed of light time slows down. Don't ask me to esplain, I don't fully understand it myself but we touched on the subjest when I was in school. Satelites are actually affected by their extremely high velocity to the point that they loose enough time that they have to have a correction so they stay in sincronization with the time on the surface of the earth or else they would aventually be in the wrong location in orbit when we wanted them to be at location "X" at a certain time because they haven't got there yet. It's just so minute that it is hard to measure over a short period of time. Technically time is slower on a mountain top than at sealevel because you are moving faster as the earth rotates like being on the outside of a merry go round vs the center, you just cant measure the difference very easily. The rocket scientist and physicists that do understand all this get the big bucks and make the world go around , pun intended.

I know I've done this before but I can't seem to figure out how to do it now. It's starting to piss me off. I can't figure out if e-bay took this capability away or if I'm suffering from a case of CRS. I tried the advance search and it only had date options for items currently being sold. Anybody know about this?

I don't know much about them but a local builder where I live uses them and also sells them (click here). It doesn't show LRD's on his website for banshees but I know he sells them. He runs them on his 4mm stroker motor and I think he uses 34mm pwk's. He has a dyno at his shop too, so he should be able to tell you all you want to know. He said he wont be back untill the first of the year.

My 996 will do close to 90 in first but it is pretty hard to launch a crotch rocket because they are so high geared and it takes about a second to hit high enough rpms for the bike to start to pull hard. I know I could definitly get a good hole shot on my banshee over a bike but as soon as the bike starts to pull its all over for the quad. Any crotch rocket 600cc on up is going to run a sub 4 second 0-60 time. I can totally believe you getting a good holeshot but I would think the bike would come flying past well before 1/8 mi. Are you sure it was a whole 1/8 mile, maybe it was a little shorter than that and then your story would seem pretty accurate.

In the sand, the YFZ 450 stock will eat a stock banshee, I know I've beaten a few on my wifed bike, piped/ modded 450 will be pretty even with a mildly ported banshee, a heavily ported banshee with carbs drag pipes ect will woop up on a 450 unless it has had some major shit done to it and I haven't seen a truly bad ass drag 450 yet. I haven't seen any fast TRX 450r's out there either although I know they exist I doubt in stock form they would beat a stock banshee and definitly not a piped banshee.

just dont ride it in really rocky areas, the bead of the rim is very vulnerable sticking out like that, also will come off the bead a little easier if the pressure is very low, otherwise its fine.

Shorty's Racing near Portland OR. Good portwork, but I wouldn't recommend them due to terrible customer service, long story.

I'd say about a 320 or 330 main with K&N clamp on filters.

cheapest way to increase low end power/throttle response is timing advance +4 degrees using a ricky stator timing plate $35, mill stock head .030" - $50, lighten flywheel - $50 Reeds will help some but not as much as the above and the airfilter with adapter plate and take the airbox lid off and correct jetting will help too but is mainly necessary to prevent dirt gettng by the stock filter.

My wife got layed off for her Christmas bonus along with 150 other workers for SBC (phone company) in Northern CA so they could outsourse the jobs to Texas. I work for the state so we don't even get a company sponsered christmas party cause it would be on your tax dollars.

Just a pet pieve I noticed, the article says "Conservationists are outraged". A little correction is needed. Conservationists by definition approve of nearly all land uses in frorested land in moderation and as long as the land isn't inflicted with any irreversable or long term dammage. Now an environmentalist wouldn't aprove of any intrusive use of the land accross the board. They would rather see it become over grown and burned down before letting a chain saw anyware near it or an ATV on it.

I saw a bunch or really hot 250r quads at Horse Falls OR on Laborday weekend that surprised me how fast they were but there were some hot banshees there as well that would smoke them.

The banshee is way more comfortable. Just something I thought I'd throw in for everybody's general info. I talked with a local builder last weekend to schedule a dyno appontment and he was telling me about the YFZ 450's and TRX 450R's he has built. He claims that once you fully build both bikes motors, full system, hi comp pistons, ported heads, cams, ect, even bore the YFZ to a 465 and the 450R on the stock 450 bore size, both bikes run about the same. He said the only difference was that the YFZ would get out of the hole slightly better but the 450r is geared a bit taller in 4th and 5th so it would start pulling on the YFZ in higher gears and had a faster top speed, mainly just gearing differences. He said in stock form the 450 has better suspension though and makes a better track bike, but their both pretty good. Stock for stock though and also piped and jetted the YFZ will hand the 450r is ass every time. I've seen the piped 450r's suck turds going up the drag hill at sand mountain, they are pathetic. Never seen a fully modded 450r in the sand though.

A lot of jet kits may sell you a bunch of bullshit sizes you dont need for more money than you can get them separately anyway. Stock needles are all you need as well.

They are all about equal and similar to a Toomy as well. I think they will pass a 93 db idle test but barely. I know the blaster my wife had with a FMF pipe would barely pass if I turned the idle way down and believe it or not it is just as loud as my Rockets. Banshees sound loud but the sound is high pitch which doesn't register quite as loud on the DB meter as say a low pith 4 stroke open pipe that's why you can hear them from farther away. Don't take my word for it that they will pass, those NAZI's will try and get ya for sure, and they are close if not at the limit. Sparkies didn't quite down my rockets at all either.

The blaster piston has the wrist pin 5mm higher up in the piston which puts the piston in the same position as stock with a 5mm long rod. Wiseco made banshee specific 795 series pistons to do the same thing. The stroker plate, or cutom cut stroker domes are to make up the difference in the height of the stroke with the use of a stroker crank. On my bike with a 4mm stroker crank and no spacer plate at the bottom of the cylinders, the pistons come 2mm above the top of the cylinders and into the custom cut stroker domes.

I'm also looking at a set of I-razers for my next set, they look like they would take a trail and tear it a new asshole.

Does the sound go away when your in gear and accelerating even if your going forward very very slow. Might be the clutch basket. My stroker started making some noise like that no too long after break-in was over and I started romping on it. Sounded almost like a piston rattling around but when I checked the cylinder walls they were as smoothe as glass. Then I noticed the sound was pretty much only at or close to Idle when I wasn't moving. It also reminded me of the noisy clattery sound of the dry clutch with vented clutch cover on my Ducati (minus the jingle of the smoothe metal disks)and it goes away when moving the same so I'm sure in my case it is the clutch. I also read a tread recently with the same discription and clutch basket conclusion that you are describing. I can't remember exactly what causes the clutch basket to make this noise.

You can get ported and run 94, the only tradeoff is that if you get a radical port and have to run low compression domes to go with the 94 octane your low end HP will suck, but top end will still kick ass. When you raise the exhaust ports it lowers your static compression which hurts bottom end but increased dynamic compression (when you get "on the pipe") and helps top end HP. One nice thing about the 4mm stoker crank is that it will add low end torque so you can get away with a little bit more top endy port job and lower compression and not loose as much ridability on the bottom end power as with the stock crank.

I did a search and it said the average elevation in New-Brunswick was 1000 ft so 120 PSI is probably about what the stock compression should be if your at 1000', maybe a hair low. I doubt it needs a rebuild but it couldn't hurt. If you do, probably just freshen up the top end, get the cylinders honed and put on new rings if the pistons look good and it would only cost you about $30 at the most if you did the work yourself.

I almost died of laughter, I love the pic of them picking a frig or whatever out of the car trunk. Led were's your version?

You can leave the airbox totally stock if you want although the snorkel doesn't do all that much more to keep stuff out of the air box than just the lid by itself and the snorkel holds back a lot of power. The stock filter sucks like mentioned already. If your doing this just to avoid re-jetting don't, if you run it really lean like you would be doing it will melt your pistons in a pretty short amount of time.

I'd say a Ford Lightning because they are both heavy in the front end and overall a little overweight, they both spin the tires like a muther fucka in the lower gears, neither handle as good as other hot rods out there, but if your good at point and shoot they aint gonna hang with you anyway, both are the funnest and most exciting machines in there class that I've ever driven, and with a few mods nothing else can hang with them head to head.

The YFZ does jump way better IMO since you said your serious about MX. Although I've never ridden a banshee with extended a-arms/axels and custom suspension in front and back. Your $6500 YFZ is going to cost you $8000 OTD in my neck of the woods.

It may be harder to find in your size but they do make thread cleaners, like a tap but designed to clean threads. They are designed to follow old threads and less likely to grab and cut a new set of threads.