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Some do....... When they first start. I've found that the fastest guys aren't slammed down to the ground with insanely stiff shocks. That's what the sway bar is for. I like mine nice and soft then I tune the bar depending how aggressive the turns are. Higher bikes usually hook more out of the turn and at that point drooping the front tires allows the front tires to grip the surface better. Check out some of the pro bikes. The faster guys really aren't much lower then modern Moto bikes.

Well, try it out for a couple seasons. I have slowly been adding more down travel to my bike every season of ice racing and it makes a world of difference. The bike was originally on short 13 works with minimum travel and the bike wouldn't transfer weight and would just push to the out side of the turns. Then I went to a blaster shock and got a bit of an improvement and an even bigger improvement once I swapped to a lighter coil spring on them to let the bike sag down to the same position as the 13" shocks. Then last season I set up perches to run re valves 450 shocks on custom arms and it allows about 5 1/2" down travel and the bike just sticks in the turns like its on rails! Another example is a bike I helped a guy set up a few years ago with long travel arms with some custom PEPS shocks. That is bar none the best turning flat track/ice set up I've ever had seat time on....

Good to know

I bet that dude is on here...... Has to be. What a CUNT!

Wow! Worst big reed conversion FAIL ever.....

Pretty sure this is the same bike from another thread. This thing should have 4.0 something's in it with the current chassis set up. Read the lock up tuning thread. It will get you ahead of the pack for sure.

Simple, much better!

believe it or not. I know you are a suspension guru, but excessive down travel is awesome in flat track. It really plants the front tires out of the turns and allows full acceleration under power. Critical aspect that many don't think of.

Bling Bling! Dude I love that bike!

Absolutely! To boot, Calvin is the supplier of some of the most demanded products in the banshee scene and yet he makes time for everyone from the average Joe to the big wig at Shearer. Haha. Great guy for sure.

^ this

Not worth bothering unless you see extreme altitude or temperature changes. There is a dude on here that goes by savage. Give him a PM. He has them and loves them but he rides in Canadian mountains.

They will go in to the banshee carrier just fine. I'm not positive on what years, but I thought it was all of them. It's an old trick a lot of the fldrag racing guys used to do in the 90's. Still a great budget mod if you are in to drag.

Why dude? At least this was a viable question from someone who has attempted to make sure they were on the right track before posting.

Buzz those nubs off the frame in the last photo

You mentioned you have a timing plate set at +4 degrees as well as a new CDI ignition unit(what you referred to as a programmer) that alone will ruin motors. Either ditch the ignition or the timing plate. One or the other. It can make the motor detonate with way to much timing. It makes great holes in the pistons if that's what you're in to though. I bet your Yamaha dealer wouldn't ever tell you that.

All depends on how much money you got. But don't bother with big bore sleeves in stock cylinders if that is the question you're asking.

Even with the 10 mil? I thought it has been done a few times.

I almost bought a 4mm DMX cylinder that had Ohton carved in the side of it. Just can't really commit to a drag build till the hybrid ever gets done.

Right on man, should be fun once it's done and set up right.

Jeff's manifold actually has a similar concept built right in to them.

^this! Poor guy has been exactley where you are and regrets it to this day! Haha, I had to Jesse!

BTW..... Did you used to have a serval? Orange and black bike?

Put the 35's on the 02 with the VF4's.

Close, but typically guys with 80 HP stockers have been saying the servals make more bottom and less top end. Attribute that to the displacement and lower port timing.