R. Rollins

Damn....CPI out frames for $100.00? Id get them and keep them both and test them out myself just to see which ones I liked for the type of riding I would be doing. (duning, dragging, trails or both) cant really go wrong can you? I love my T-5 pipes though so I say keep them at all costs.

Hell yea: Keep what ya got and strip her down to the bone. Fix all that is broken. All these suggestiona are good. Listen to them all. I believe that you are hinting that you hate mechanic work on the Banshee. It is a true passion of love. Why are you hating your bike. Patience of the passion for the love of the Banshee work that you do yourself is far more rewarding that buying someone elses crap and trying to fix thier junk. I bet that if you stripped her down to the frame and powdercoated it....thats all you would need to re-motivate you. You would have the engine out and easier to detail it... You would stare at it for a while then you would finally open your clymer manual and buy the needed engine parts to perform the heart surgery. Dont worry, we are all here to motivate you on down the line.. just DO IT! Get your money saved up and buy the gaskets, clutch parts and other odds and ends. A good high speed rotational car polisher will make those old fenders like new again.

If they are chrome and have some pits on them I would never use steel wood as it scratches the surface a bit. The naval jelly is an acid based product that works slowly but only attacks the rust and doesnt scratch as mentioned above. If you take some Naval Jelly and apply with a horsehair brush and leave it sit as directed it will disolve it without any other damage to the chrome surface. If you want it off fast, (muratic acid) works fast but burns the hell out of the nose hairs. "Be careful with that stuff." These are all really good suggestions mentioned by the others. For me I guess it depends on if your pipes are chrome or just painted black.

Slingshots???? What the hell are we talking about here dude?? We are talking about cleaning your Banshee plastics not damned slingshots! I use a professional car buffer with a huge sheepskin wheel. (rotational not orbital action type buffer) It runs at a very high speed and I just put turtle wax on it and polish after cleaning really well. I have all plastics looking new each season that way.

You can tell by looking at that pile that it doesnt give you any increase in travel like aftermarket arms would, so what is the point other than increased width? I dont tip over when I ride any how. Those brackets look very thin as well. Dont buy them. It looks like marketing crap to try and get your cash. No real benifit.

I would think that if you decide on aftermarket exhaust why not consider just keeping the stockers just for hunting season as they are very quiet as compared to aftermarket exausts that I have heard. Put on the aftermarket exhausts for other times. The gearing I also would think would help a lot. I have never seen a Banshee with a full rear rack on it even though one manufacturer sells one for it. The rack would be necessary for hauling the rifle and other warm gear. How were you planning on hauling the deer out of the woods on it? I hunt deer and Duck all the time. I use my old truck and would never consider an ATV as they rattle the game with the low muffler vibrations.(4 stroke) When I go out its dark in the AM, when I return its dark again. The truck has all the equip I need with lights, and all field dressing gear. I average 4 deer per year out of Segovia Texas. They practically run out in front of my rifle and beg to be shot as there are so many deer there. Your case may be different (mountains etc...) In your case I would re-think the whole thing and maybe even rent yourself a utility ATV for the hunt. Its worth checking out if you dont go hunting but a few times per year. Plus after renting a few times your wife may let you get a utility ATV and let you keep your Banshee. Worth a shot anyhow. Even a stock piped Banshee is fast for winter fun during hunting season.

I in in aggreance with "blowit" here on this one. He quoted : "I really think publicly bashing a legitimate business for a parts failure when there is ZERO data of the structural fatigue of the part is rather ignorant." Now think about this: You were riding the Banshee where you shouldnt have been riding in the first place. (We ATV enthusiasts have enough of a hard time just finding a legal place to ride without others trying to mess it up for the legitimate legal riders everywhere with stunts like this) Secondly: You blame the handle bars. With your crash, your being ticketed for your stunts, you would have no legitimate gripe in any courts that would be able to prove the bars were at fault since you admit you were doing stunts. Stunts and stunt riding most likely would void any disclaimer in the warranty that those bars had on them if any.(my guess) Thirdly: Yes that cross bar should have been present, to help. No you should have not been there in the first place, no you were not in any legal grounds to sue, being you were involved with an illegal activity when it happened. You did a wheelie, you crashed, you got hurt, you tore up and totalled your bike, you seem to want to blame something or someone else for the fault, but things happen, machines break, and unless there was a video, or witnesses that could testify, I dont believe that you could possibly win the case. Plus the case would be expensive, well out of a sixteen year olds wallet means, and just a waste of time. I dont mean to be harsh by any means, just a grounded voice of reason. If you were riding in some church group in the hills and someone was videoing the group down the path and the handle bars just happen to break in front of the camera, you may just have a case. Otherwise, Lick the wounds, start getting your good parts off, get a frame, and other parts and re-build it slowly. You can do it. :cool: Its just a hard lesson learned. We have all broken things badly and had to rebuild them and learned the hard way. Dust yourself off a bit and get back on that horse.

I would think that after just a few miles down the road the rings should be seated in good enough. Just have a good time and dont worry about it. Give her that first oil change after 6 hours of riding and the bike should be just fine. Keep the chain clean, the tank filled, the oil changed and your friends in your dust behind ya. lol

The guy I spoke to at DMC stated one month for production time. The pipes came available on what ....23rd of last month. And its the 17th today. SO I plan on being concerned around the 23rd of this month, but not until then. Tammy and her husband will take good care of us all. They will be notified when they will be shipped. Remember they also have to be sent to a chroming facility to get that done as well as them making them from scratch. I am going nutz as well, but production for small throughput will be slower than high volume products I guess.

Allright another Banshee owner into the fold. Lets see your Banshee You will find alot of great information here on this site. Welcome

I have one on my old Banshee. It seems to be getting more lose as it gets older. The rubber is drying out a bit. I dont race with it and it came with it when I bought it. I had problems last year with my kid bumping it and killing it when I gave him a ride at the dunes last summer, It annoyed me a bit and I thought about taking it off and running the original stop switch again. However yesterday when I was out on the circle track at the raceway, I was just out there by myself screwing around. I was flying around the track and almost lost it around the corner and realized the importance of them. If it would have gotten away from me and kept going the switch would have stopped it cold. I now plan on getting two new ones today. I will put them on both Banshees now. Good lesson I learned.

Id just get some cheap cut fenders from someone else here before I ruined the good fenders for your bike in case you ever sell it. They are expensive though. Resale value is higher with fenders. I believe isnt it? But if you are like me... Ill never sell so then it wouldn't matter if you decided to cut or not. The stock pipes look fine till you get some others for it. Neighbor kid down the street has stock pipes and no fenders at all. It still looks great, Your choice man.

Hell my old 95 Banshee is just as gay colored with the Barney purple and yellow assed wheels. With plastics at 530.00 plus shipping I think Ill keep that damned color for a while. I could give a rats ass what color it is as long as it runs good and isn't pink, or rainbow colored I guess. The purple is not that bad after you have looked at it for over a year..... Yes It took a year to get used to it. HAHa

Those lights have been out for years in Japan. I had a friend of mine who had them on his GSXR. There is another way to do it as well. You can install three different colored bulbs around the outside of the lense casing and rig them up to seperate switches. You can then choose the color of the headlight beam in living color. Kinda fits the island profile of things I guess. Its illegal on US streetbikes here though. Banshees would look cool until a Glamis cop writes the ticket for being too close to emergency colors for emergency vehicles. I havent seen those lights anywhere in the states. Hell man; Make them yourself.

That is funny. Shit .....What I meant was Ive never ridden a $12,000 banshee before....Is that Better...lolol Its hard to keep from writing GAY sounding shit on this hard assed forum. I got blazed. CRRRAAAP !

Just E-mail me at [email protected] and Ill send you a pile of photos of it. Every time I try and download one photo it says that the file is too big.. Ray

Drink yourself a beer; Relax and realize that this is a Banshee forum and that ragging on 4 strokes is just the fun we have because we can. Damn, dont get so serious. This is all just for fun All this was .....Is the answering of the question: What do you call your Banshee.

Shee: when I first wrote it here on teh forums it felt stupid. Hell now I could give a crap what I call her. Banshee: sounds too formal Bike: makes me think of motorcycles, or dirt bikes ATV: makes me think of Hondas 4 wheeler: too generic sounding, like those Chinese pieces of junk they are selling on Craigslist. Quad: makes me think of shitty other brands out there or older generation stuff Hell whats a friggin name any how? Do we really give a shit what others call thier stuff. No we dont. We just give praise to a good lookin bitch of a bike and pet our own babies, bitches, bikes and Shees and give them our own names in the back of our minds when we hear them scream up the hills. "Scream you bitch and get me there faaster" we think in our minds when we ride. Id love to ride one of those CUB Banshees some of you have . Yes Id be thinkin of a screaming bitch when I blast up the dune. Take it baby take it .....Go you bitch GO........... I can only imagine the feel of a 12 mil stroker on methanol. Thats one mean bitch right there.

Welcome to the Banshee Hq We now want to see your Banshee man. Lets see it.

AKheathen: That was the funniest statement Ive heard in weeks...."Glue half the reeds shut" Man I laughed for like 5 minuites straight.. Just saying it made me giggle. I would think that if it had any problems my wife would leave it there and walk to camp never getting on it again. Women want it to start and run perfectly all the time, My wife doesn't want any excuses of why the altitude is effecting the engine. I dont ever think I could put her on one of the Banshees and have her feel confident. This is some great stuff here.

Damned it all;' I cant beleive that Glamis is where all the hastles are at these days. Crap: Ill be damed if I drive for two days to get there and dont have my papers physically on me when I ride. Ill be Damed if I dont have a phamplet or some print out of all the current rules and regulations on me when I arrive. Ill be also damed if I dont fail to pay when I should and where I should when I get there. If noise requirements are 94db or so , Then Id have my damed hush kit installed and ride all over the place and not have to get hassled. Hell for a 2,000 mile road trip, Id even make sure that I was rigged up for flag lights, a GPS set up and a base camp strobe for all the night ridding I would do there. I may ebven get some cool as hell USGS maps for an even better ridding experience. It sucks to see that some here have experienced the wrath of Kahn cops there while trying to enjoy the Glamis experiences. He (the cop) will get someone. It it too bad that you were caught. My wife gets all the speeding tickets in this family as I got all mine in 1982 driving a 1970 Mach 1 mustang with a 428 super cobra jet "shaker"engine at over 128 miles per hour...."9 times". I learned the hard way. My In-Laws live in Yuma and I want to ride there soon. Man that sucks that it happened....hell just pay the fine and dont worry too much about it..Its all over with, now its someone elses turn to get the ticket. I am now wondering if it is so harsh at Glamis all the time? IS it? When I was stationed at Yuma, I can still remember women flashing there tits at us Jarheads in the hummers and % ton trucks as we went out to the dessert to set up our team positions for "WTI" exercises. Has all that fun gone away. The concrete irrigation canals were great places to camp and get awesome parties started at. Has all that changed with the new commercialism? Damed I havent been there in 10 years now. Is Glamis and the othere nearby areas still worth the trip? I hope I didnt piss anyone off, I just get a more even keeled attitude about tickets and fines as I get older. A good glass of Iced down "Sangria" on a hot dessert night calms my nerves when I get pissed. Peace out :cool:

Thats cool; The one I bought and a few buddys off of E-bay are only good I believe as you mention, the stock carb size. I would have to trim the base area of the rubber adapter to fit the larger carb sizes. Also: I am not sure how much bigger it would allow the trimming to facilitate the use of it without that larger adapter as you point out. I never thought about that point. Good point. I did save your website on my favorites as good Banshee sites are hard to find sometimes digging around on the HQ forever trying to find the one part item you are looking for.

I dont know about that girlfriend of yours but I know that my wife wont budge when it comes to me telling her how and what she will ride. She doesnt really care what she rides. She loves playing in the mud though going really slow. I think that my wife would hate a Banshee. Several opinions here as suggested before are really good. I like the plan to adjust the thumb screw to limit top speed first. The option to just get her a 300ex is also good...Low End Torque and speed that she can control. Maybe even a polaris trailboss 330 for the shifting elimination, light weight and ease of use....also big cushy seat. I didnt like the idea of turning a perfectly good Banshee into a freaky piece of garbage with (NO RESALE VALUE). The gearing thing I believe would only be an option if she wants to try a banshee, geared down like that, otherwise she wont ride it if she doesnt feel comfortable and confident on it. Let her choose what all SHE WANTS, and she WILL ride more.

Not to be saying anything negative but E-bay sells the same sync tool all the time each week for $35.00 as a buy it now option. It is the same sync tool that "fast-toys " sells. I have turned on alot of buyers to this same tool. It works great. Im sorry "Fast-toys"..but that is quite the mark up on that item. The $50.00 for it seems sort of high compared to the $35.00 E-bay buy it now option price.

The next door neighbor of mine has a 2005 Banshee and is selling it for $2,000.00 It is missing all the basics like thumb throttle, air box, plastics, heel guards(metal), heelguards (Plastic). Needs tires bad, and one front rim is warped. Just to let you know. They are worth what ever you think its worth. New they were approximately $6,400.00 Subtract depreciation, wear and tear , missing pieces, cut up plastics, lack of preventive maintenance etc... It all ads up in your figures. Good luck.