MonkeyBoy

The banshee is a pain to haul around for two hours. But if you insist... +1 at the most, you need to fit between the trees. Find the best shocks you can afford, and buy nicer ones. The banshee needs all the suspension help it can get.

The 450 shocks were never designed to be on a banshee, and certainly never designed to be on a banshee with aftermerket a arms. You may never get these right, but you need to increase your compression at least. Flat ground landings like that are the worst. You will bottom those out first. Grab another gear and downside it. PS if I read that pic correctly, and those are work boots, you are in for a broken ankle too.

Last I heard, there were 5 deaths this weekend.

Most any professional motor builder is gonna tell you to 50 - 100 hour rebuild depending on what port work is done. Usually a compression test will tell you when she is getting close. When you start checking off the boxes Race Gas Larger Carbs High Rev High Compression You know your service hours are dropping like a rock. Some things get rebuilt after every race.

I do. I only use the finest in butter knives, and plastic spoons to literally carve performance into your cylinders. They won't let me have sharp objects. Not after that incident with the blow up doll.

Stock press in bearings usually just slide something into them and hammer them out. Helps to cuss a lot when you do too.

Kings are BEEEEEEEEEutiful on a rail or a truck, but everyone that I have heard of trying them on a quad say they suck.

Handling will be more stable, because of the wider setup, but the longer swinger will make it turn worse. If you are only duning it a couple times a year, leave it stock length or shorten it. That will make it turn better.

Me likey... Whose are those and how much?

There's a few things that will cause that, causing those bushings to primarily wear. 1. wheel bearings. Remove and replace. 2. ball joints/heim joints on a arms. Replacement depends on your a arms 3. a arm bushings themselves. replace from a arm manufacturer or Yamaha 4. wheel balance. Mine shakes on the left side. Only pinned in 6th. Looked at it, and the wheel bearing is loose. Never been replaced, so I guess it's time.

If you don't wanna keep it, don't ride it. You'll get hooked.

They use regular off the shelf Warrior balljoints for the Banshee arms. Get them from Yamaha. And the pivot bearings they use are actually caged bearings, not the brass spacers, or plastic spacers some others use. Too spendy for most on this board, but there is a reason.

Kinda seems wrong to do just the fronts.

Will they be available in normal longtravel lengths? Are they making a rear? I rode the FOX floats on a friends Z, and I liked them. Plush.

The T-Pin design was used to correct a geometry flaw in the fourtrax design. Came from having the front framerails raked back too much for the balljoints in a longtravel application. Since this is not part of the Banshee, it isn't necessary. Just renders the Laeger T-Pin a very expensive waste. Plus the T-pin rebuild kits are much more expensive than it costs to rebuild the Roll Design Lobo kit. I've also heard the fittment on the Outlaw chassis is horrible. I still want to ride it. The ultimate would be the Laeger Banshee/250R chassis. But you better be lucky on Ebay to get all the pieces.

Top of the line, although not cheap, Elka Elite/Roll Design. You can also get this setup with the Axis shocks if you prefer. I always get railed here because of the cost. Cheapskates, start your keyboards.

The prophecies of the Bible have been related to recent events since the book was written. It's a good way to spread fear amoungst the stupid. I love your rhetoric on birth control and the stpid haveing children. How, Adolph, would you propose we weed out the stupid and prevent their reproduction? Concentration camps? You opinions get more and more Nazi every post. But you entertain the shit out of me. If you really want to rid the world of ignorance, you can only do us one favor... Don't phuck. Please, give us no more of you.

Natalie used Fox EVOL Floats. Not the same ones you can get, but should be out soon. He's been seen testing his Elka's for a while. Elka has been out to his track testing and adjusting until he was happy with the way the bike felt. All has already been dialed in.

John Natalie.

Yup, I'm converting mine back to the stock fronts...

Yes, but the champion is now running Elka's. Not everyone has their valving done by Noleen. All of Duncan's shocks are done by Elka themselves. Mine are done by Elka, setup by Martin himself. I can pass my Banshee through the whoops on my VForce. They are that good. You can say all you want about the pros, but money or not, they wouldn't use them if they didn't work.

You say it's too stiff. First thing I would do is to take some preload out oof the shock. Not so much that the rear drops a lot, just a little. Then take some compression out. If you camp with Bansh I can cruise out to 13.5 on TDay weekend and look at it if you want. I'll be there anyway.

Sad he's selling. Even sadder is the selling price for Banshee's that nice these days.

Looks indestructable. What did you use to design the arms and their arcs?

No, you gotta be a dick, he's dense.