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Just for the record, 01yamahashee currently has only 3 total posts and he's able to use the shout box. So now we know you need at least 3 posts to use the shout box. Thats is all. At ease.

yes, I have some glen burn footage on my YT channel. I've been thinking about picking up at dirt bike. My boss has a pair of RMZ 450's. I haven't had a dirt bike in 20 years, so I think the 250 would be cool. I'd like to try the 4 strokes too.

Iv been looking into getting a 250 bike for a while. Could you please post all the information here on this forum ? Pics, price and a description. Im from the shamokin\trevorton area, which are relatively close to Hazleton.

Where are you located ?

Would it fuck up a foam filter if you rinsed the filter under the nozzle ?

use kerosene, not a some sorta fancy solvent. Dont use gasoline or brake or carb cleaners. And parts washer fluid is nothing more than fancy, expensive kerosene. I don't let the filter soak or anything like that, ya just run it under the parts washer nozzle. Kerosene is a great degreaser. Iv never tried the spray on cleaners but I'd imagine they work fine. AK, I don't 'ring out' the filter to dry it, I said to 'just squeeze it' to get the majority of cleaner out.

Right on. Don't buy parts from guys with shady feedback. If your research tells you the seller was douche bag in the past, don't deal with him. We need to shun the fuckers just like the Amish do . Even if the douche bag in question is offering a great deal... don't buy from him. Don't support em. You gotta do a history search on the guy who is selling parts. Look at the seller's feedback information, their post count and join date. And its been said a million times, but get pictures from every angle. Everyone has a digital camera, there is no good reason why a seller can't take 12 high res pictures for the buyer. Ask the seller a lot of questions before you buy.

Here the bow I bought last season. Its a Matthews Outback

All valid points. I can agree with that logic. Can you imagine having to be the judge every time someone gets a bum deal. Used ATV parts yet. If you get caught up in a bad transaction with someone here, what I'd recommend doing is, is publicly call the dude out by starting a post where you can state your case. There's a forum section just for doing this action. The Feedback forum. Or post your negative feedback in one of the disc forums if you want more people to read it. Obviously make sure you try every effort to sort out the problems before you start making threads. I changed my vote from "WTF do I care" to " Make a 2,133 mile trip to shove them up his ass."

Good post AK. I would have like to see the guy in the video oil up all the filters on camera. And no cuts either. one take. Ya gotta look at these questions in a scientific way. Unbiased. I think both types have their advantages and that depends on the air quality conditions. I dunno, I could be wrong, but how I see it is... foam is going to filter dirt and dust better, but your lose some airflow\hp. The opposite with a K&N. But I want to know the truth about HP numbers before I can say the gain in HP is worth the trade off of better filtration. There's got to be some Banshee dyno runs out there somewhere. And we need an unbiased filtration test too. I'd switch my filters to K&N's if the Hp gains are high enough and an unbiased filtration test was done. I could be wrong, my info could be old and outdated, I could be wrong. We need to put the filters through the...."scientific method"... to find answers to age old questions. The special weave pattern in a K&N filter was interesting to hear. This weave could work exceptionally well. The next time someone asks 'what filter type is better', we can just reply with a 'need to do more testing' . I run K&N pods on my Rz. They're cool. work fine. I didn't notice any HP changes when I installed the K&N's, but I wasn't replacing the airbox, I was replacing a Toomey 2:1 filter and that setup was made of foam. There could have been a hp increase, I don't recall remembering any difference... Here's how you clean a foam filter in 300 seconds. Use a parts washer. so easy. If you don't have a parts washer, then its a bitch sometimes. Use some kerosene and bowl. Squeeze the fucker till it stops dripping. don't twist it. blow a little shop air in there if your in a hurry. Get some of the spray on oil filter oil, don't fuck around trying to dip it in 10w40 oil bullshit. Spray some oil on, rub it in a little. Install. Handlin' the oiled up filter really does suck. Just put a shop rag or a paper towel over the filter to help keep your hands clean when hookin' it up. I think the cleaning\oiling questions about the two filter types is a draw. Each filter type is cleaned up and re-oiled essentially the same way. Clean, dry, re-spray. Does price count for anything ? No. Prices shouldn't be questioned IMO. I think a UNI filter costs about 2/3rd's the price of a K&N. I think the K&N oil and foam filter oil are priced about the same. Coal dust around here get really bad in the summer. Big black clouds of it. Its super dangerous to ride though cause you can hit someone head-on. Its like riding in thick black smoke. It sucks so bad when it gets dry like that. It hard to follow another guy down the trail, you can't see rocks and shit on the trail. It ruins the day. Last year it rained every other day, so we had mud instead of dust. I like the mud better than the dust, and I 'dislike' mud.... a lot. Is there any dust when your sand riding ? I've never rode in sand, I honestly don't know the answer. Videos that I've seen, there doesn't appear to be any dust clouds. If there's no dust, or little to moderate dust in the air, and your riding a modding banshee, and the K&N's show a HP increase on the dyno, the I'd say the K&N's would be the better filter for sand guys. I wonder if anyone read all of this .

Bump for a real nice 'zilla

I agree. Caveat emptor. The BHQ can't be banning everyone who has a bad deal. Iv only said it a billion times, "buyer beware". Sorry. Everyone needs to use this as an example when buying used ATV parts or anything in used condition. If the seller was a good man, he would just refund you the money. Bringing your bad deal to the attention of the forum and leaving negative feedback is the best you can do in a situation like this. The guy who sold you the rims clearly hid the defects and thats shady as all hell. If he is a good man, then he would refund your cash. If he refuses, then let the world know he's a douchebag who scams people. Banning people over personal transactions is, IMO, none of BHQ's business. I think rule #8 is retarded and should be removed.

Yeah but how do you explain what you seen with your own eyes. Saying that its just an infomercial is a cop-out excuse. Instead explain what happened in the video and why its wrong.

The helmet mounted lights are very popular for XC night racing.

The same could be said for the foam filter in the video. But you seen it with your own eyes. And the results weren't even close. It was a blowout. Do you think that perhaps the guys who made the video used some trickery or editing trick ? I have to totally disagree. They are soooooooo easy to clean. The best way is with a parts washer, just hold the filter under the spray for a bit and it wring it out. Or if you don't have a parts washer, a little bit of kerosene poured over the filter and its clean. And to oil em, all you do is spray em with filter oil and rub the oil in a little bit. How are those two procedures anyway difficult or a pain in the ass ? And I don't under how foam sucks to install. You slip the filter on the flange, and you tighten down the hose clamp. Not sucky at all. And what is the cleaning, oiling and installation procedures of a K&N and how are those procedures easier and better than what I just described for a foam filter ?? Foam filters are better at filtering fine dust and dirt, and not so much mud. All three types of filters can handle mud fine, its the dust in the air that challenges an air filter. Not mud. You have it backwards. Yes. MX and SX and XC dirt bikes all run foam. Foam is by far the dominate filter used on dirt bikes. Guys racing dirt bikes don't use K&N filters. Charmachael and Stewart both use Twin Air for example. Any dirt bike with a K&N filter installed means the guy who owns the machine is a noob. I'd bet 90% of all dirt bikes that are raced in national races use a foam filter. I think that guys look at the two filters and think.... "well the K&N filter has to better because it looks like its engineered better, and because the competition is just a hunk of foam. And the K&N filter costs almost double than foam so it just has to be the better filter. And everyone says that K&N's breathe better, so they make more HP." And guys get suckered into a marketing ploy.

Did you watch that video I posted ?

I'm just tryin to have a conversation.

But dont you oil your K&N filters ? And it DOES make sense to run oiled filters "so that everything that passes thru the air, running or not, gets stuck to them." Thats what a filter does, its filters dirt from the air. You want the filter to catch 'everything that passes thru the air". If your point is that dirt gets on the oiled filter when the bike is NOT running, then thats a poor point. How dusty does it get at the sand dunes ? Big clouds of dust everywhere ?

I'd like to hear why this video is wrong or fake or rigged. Lets debunk this video together.

Whats your logic here ? What im wondering is the "that doesn't make any sense" comment. Using an airbox = Foam or K&N. No airbox - K&N only ? IMO, you guys are nutz for running a K&N, especially without an airbox.

where are you located ?

Iv been sayin' the same thing for a long long time.

Printed media is almost dead,

hey this is good to hear. Ray has been on the bhq for a looooooong time and has parted out a billion banshees.