Cotton eyed Joe

Personally I think the desert is a might fine tool for hiding something. At the dunes, the day after a big holiday, the sand is nearly perfect again, 3 days later as far as I know, I'm the only person to ever have set foot on them. It wouldn't take much to truck anything of question into the vastness, trench out the sand, bury what you can, and cover it. Depending on the season, give it a week or two and you'd never know what happened.

I have a -2 in stock with skid plate mounts, and a carrier + all bearings. Its bare as well so you could choose to powder or paint it yourself if you wanted.

Hp to lb ratio before: 10.416 Hp to lb rato after: 9.583 Theres the extra 10mph I'm missing off my top end.

Being a ten-dollar-aire don't cut it....... Hang out in a WalMart parking lot. You'll find some cash layin around eventually. My sister stepped on a $100 in the parking lot a couple weeks ago. I know....what the hell is someone that has $100 doing at a WalMart....

So far I've replaced as much as I can with aluminum. I ditched the stock front bumper, took off the e-brake, and shaved un needed tabs. I used to have all of it in a bag to weigh as I added shit. Just replacing the steel pegs with my aluminum pegs took about 5lbs or so off. If you know how much steel you are replacing with aluminum, the weight difference is 1/3, but only 1/2 as strong. You double up on the size to get your strength back and you are still 2/3 the weight of steel at comparible strength. Chromoly is the same weight per volume as mild, but its twice as strong so you can use 1/2 as much. Hope that kind of gives you an idea of what, and where you can save on weight.

LOL welcome to the HQ. Yes the search "button is up in the grey area at the top of the page. There are a couple of topic that have been beaten to death, but other than that, the HQ is a great place to get almost immediate help with something. I even found out what was wrong with my water heater from the HQ. Think of it as an organic owners manual/banshee encylopedia.

This shit is fun. Sometimes I wish I would have went forth with the graphic design scholarship I was offered back in highschool.

Yep! I'm sitting here waiting for the local furnace service peep to show up and clean the furnace out so I figured I'd bone up on my PS7 chops. I'd do it myself, but I have a crawl space and I only go down there if I absolutely have to. I hate it down there.

lmfao It would probably line up line my old frame did after I wrecked. Only 3 wheels were touching the ground after that.

You mean this wouldn't work Walt?? Where is your faith in baked goods man?!

4- What the hell are they doing helping these people? Ive been around enough to know a bullshit story when I hear one.

There is a chance for a bumper like that. I sub all that type of work to a sheet metal shop that does quite a bit of work for me, and also sends quite a bit of work to me, so I typically get a much better deal than someone walking in off the street. I'll talk to my sheet metal guy next week when he dumps off a bunch of emergency work and have him quote it roughly. I don't know about polishing it though. When I get parts make out of sheet, the sheet gets beat all to hell with surface scratches and such because when you work with it, you can't just lay it in there gentile. Stuff gets moved around when it gets bent and punched and rolled. Other than making them out of a thin guage steel and then chrome plating them, I don't think a polished aluminum one would be possible for me to do. Plain mill finish aluminum would be doable. Does it just bolt on with that one hole in the middle and some sort of clamp at the bottom??

The zerk is smack dab in the middle.

Since you can get your own bearings, PM me a bearing code, and I'll check on it. If its the SAME dimensions as a 6007 then yes. If not, I will have to wait until my next run, that is, if I can get aluminum Well, maybe you can find out what the dimensions are if you can. If not, just the bearing size code. On the bearing cost...I found the 6007 bearings as high as $34 EACH at my discount...Retail at around $40. I have also found bearings on the very very bottom at around $3-$4 each. I won't sell those...but I do sell a nice middle of the road bearing.

cotton eyed joe sells the wole kit (round tube, brake caliper holder, brake pivot stud, snap ring, pinch tubes, bolts and carrier for $215) thats a fuckin steal if you ask me. im sure hes got some. i am pretty sure his are tapered. 95% Locogato, but I'll still give you an A. The bearings I use are regular old ball bearings. The reason why is, I used to stock the high dollar ball bearings and people would bitch that they could get the same bearing for $2.00, so instead of stocking a $15 bearing (each) I now have a little bit cheaper bearing for the carriers. To be honest I don't see a reason for a tapered roller bearing, or even some of these carriers that have 4 bearings per carrier. Alot of the stress from riding gets absorbed by the tires, and the suspension as well as the axle. I wouldn't think those bearings take a real beating. Hell they aren't even really a high speed bearing. Get a drink..... Here's an example: 20" tire has a circumference of 62.83 inches. 85 miles per hour is 1.41 miles per minute. 1.41 miles per minute is .02 miles per second. .02 miles per second is 124.66 feet per second. 124.66 feet per second is 1495.92 inches per second. 1495.92 inches divided by 62.83 inches (one revolution of a 20" tire) = 23.8 revolutions per second. That is converted to 1428.5 blah blah revolutions per minute. My mill can spin upwards of 4000 RPM and the lathes can about match that, and thats with actual side pressures and a hell of a lot more rotational mass than the rotating masses on your banshee. AND they hold accuracy dead on because its needed. THOSE are high dollar, high pressure, high speed bearings. The bearings for our cutter grinder are $700 each. It takes 2 of them. A banshee axle carrier doesn't need that kind of bearing. As well as the round house coversions I also sell chromoly swingarms if you don't have what you need to do a conversion.

LOL Happy as a pig in shit is right. I've only pulled it off a couple of times, but like you, the one weekend I figured it out I bet people were like "Isn't that guy gonna get tired of doing that?" I just kept doing it over and over.

Get ahold of Lefty. He just made me one, and it kicks ass. Don't know when I'm going to get around to putting it on though. I'll take some pictures of it here soon.

Its hard to say where the frame is "supposed" to be. On my frame when its off on a bench somewhere by itself, its all over the place. My buddy bought one brand new in 99 and his right tires were almost lined up, and on the left side, the front stuck out further than the rear by about 2 inches. The rims were all on right... swapping tires didn't matter... its just the way it was. I think Yamaha might have swapped QC for production.

If I wasn't married I'd probably do a bunch of feet over the handlebar wheelies, some burnouts, some 2 wheel motion... maybe build a jump and do some cool tricks like a heel clicker, maybe a Laz E Boy, you know...shit like that....And I'd scream "HEY LOOK AT ME!" the whole time. Then when I was done I'd probably park it next to my SL, which sometimes works too

Happy birfday!

Dude, try 6 years... of marriage. ppppffftt! 6 years....... thats nuttin been married for 10.... together a total of............ .................................................. ............................................................ ................................................................... 16 yrs!! Just "celebrated" our 5th year anniversary. When someone asks how long we've been married I say "After a while its all kind of a blur." or "I dunno.... (I look at her) 15 years?" LOL

Building fires can get VERY hot. I found this out once when I was driving around town and saw a giant black plume in the air. I drove over (along with 200 other people) and it was an apartment complex being built, that has some how caught fire. I was at least 200 to 250 feet away and I had to roll up my window because it was starting to get really hot on my skin but I could feel the heat on the window still. About that time some do gooder made me turn around and go the other way, but if I would have continued driving I'm thinking the paint on my truck would have blistered. Awesome pictures by the way. Out here the only way a building gets torched legally is when the city condemns it and the fire department uses it for training. My pops said back in the old days you could burn your house down without telling anyone if you wanted. It beats trying to knock it down.

Holy shit. I wasn't sure what I was looking at because the rear looked all normal....and then you see the gusset that is normally next to the gas tank, thats down by the top of the engine now.... I don't think that frame is going to straighten out too well.

MUHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I think you and I are going to get along great.