Cotton eyed Joe

Get a Clymers manual. They show you how to set it up. Mine jumped out at me a couple months ago, and I had to put it all back in. The first couple of times I couldn't get it to engage properly, then I got out the Clymer and its fine. It does engage a little late, but I don't mind since it starts on the first or second kick.

C&B was thinking about attending RoostFest. Don't know if he made it. From what I remember he had some life-shit type of stuff going on when he bailed. He has popped up here from time to time for a post or 2. I think you can find Dune-A-Tic at PlanetSand if I remember right.

LOL you're nuts. HAHAHAHAHA

I have the Tag 2 1 1/8 fat bars. I love them. There is just enough give that it reduces the vibrations.

If I had $2225.00 I'd go to a titty bar, then go buy that R-6 engine I want.

I remember all those, don't know what happened to any of them. I remember a Canadian user named "Gummy" but I think he changed his name during one of the HQ change overs or something.....I forget......

Good luck on the warranty. I've seen first hand how that shit works. My buddy had a new 99 banshee. The FACTORY forgot to install a few studs in the front part of the cases. On a trip to St. Anthony it started blowing oil, and was seperated by about 1/8". At the dealer he said my buddy was using the wrong type of premix, and thats why it was smoking and all oily. After he pointed out the lower half of the engine not being sealed did they even think about doing anything about it. Guess what they did? They tore the engine down, hosed it out and thats it. They were reluctant to do that even. They said it wasn't their problem, even though it came from the factory that way and had less that 3 hours on it. It was less than a week old. My buddy checked with a lawyer to see if he could sue for damages since we drove about 600 miles round trip and shit. The lawyer said there were no consumer protection laws on ATVs like there is on cars. If a car dealer were to have sold a car with a similar problem, and refused to fix it, we could have taken them to court for costs of repairs or for a whole new bike. If I were you, I wouldn't take any shit at all from the Yamaha dealer. f*ck em. You gave them your money, and now you have problems. Try and get things done in a civil manner, but if you have to get in someones shit, DO IT! Sorry, I just hate some of these local Yami dealers because of whats been done with me and my friends. If I owned a Yamaha dealership things would be very different around here.

I hate hearing about this shit. Where I ride, I have 2 choices: St Anthony and Sand Mountain. Sand Mountain looks like a garbage dump after a big weekend. There are around 6 dumpsters in the camping area. St. Anthony looks like a groomed track, and there are 2 dumpsters at Egin Lakes. I HATE seeing all the garbage left behind at Sand Mountain after a holiday weekend. I know what will happen eventually, and it sux that most of us that take care of ourselves in the sand are punished by a few assholes. BTW Dumont has NO dumpsters, and it was clean as hell. I was very impressed.

I took on quite a bit of sand, and more than once on the way back from Comp through the whoops, I got belted with rocks and pebbles. My brother in law assured me it would hold. I'm definitely not a painter. I was babying the hell out of my stuff when I first got it, and my brother in law told me "You can handle those parts you know. Hell I bet you could pressure wash it and get away with it". My last paint was Rustoleum and Krylon, not ICI. lol.

WOO HOO More proof of how much I can't drag race. Surprisingly my paint held up to all that sand. lol. BRING IT ON!!!

To make it short, I raced about 20 different times or so, lost every single one, except for the 2 where I started on the left hand side where the whoops weren't so tall. I'd grab a good 3rd gear start, and if everything lined up it worked out. Mostly I was lining up against much faster bikes, so mostly I was there for the experience since I hadn't really drag raced like that before. Most of the time here I line up against 1 bike, and I usually know if I can beat him or not. The one funny thing that happened is when I was trying out BenBB's trick he uses. He lets the clutch just barely grab to take the slack out of the chain, then holds his rear brake. I did it, and just as I dumped the clutch, pinned the throttle and released the brake I stalled in almost the same spot where I started. I moved about a foot. LOL Walts bike was fast. Thats about all there is to that story. Every race I saw him take the lead. I didn't see the race he claims he lost.

and lose your teeth You could just go see this guy.

I'll just add it was the best damn dune trip I've ever done. I've never had more fun riding, drag racing etc. Never been in a dune train that long, and not have anyone get lost and break the dune train up. Never been around that many people willing to help out, shoot the shit, etc ever. I can't wait until the next one!!!!

No not those fuckin Ten-Lined June Beetle things. God are those things disgusting. On the back road to Sand Mountain (the one that goes through Tooele and Stockton) we encountered a whole 2 lane highway full of them. There were so many, that we could hit our brakes, and the anti lock would kick in. Some were so big, that they looked kind of like small toads. I've seen them around here, and more than once you hear them WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP flying...then THUD!!! Right into the side of the house. They lay there twitching and then they're off again. I don't know why they fly into shit like my house, or my wifes hair. LMFAO!!!!!!!

I've been beat to shit before from the ruts in moist or wet sand at the dunes. Damn near bucked me off my bike before. When I get done on a semi rainy weekend I'm way way more tired than if it was hot. Honestly I like the windy weekends the most because it smooths the sand out, and everyday its new again.

I think it depends on which way you look at it. I see the air box and throttle cable not as 2 into 1, but 1 into 2.

Naw, they looked like a big dark brown mechanical beetle. Their legs were about an 1.25 long, and they just kind of stomped around in the sand, and their bodies were about 3 inches plus. I can't find a picture. Think of a turd with legs on it.

Aint that the truth. A couple of us were riding at White Sands Campground (3-4 miles from the "mountain") a couple years ago, and I was following my buddy. All of a sudden I'm getting these big brown things flug at my head. I stop, and they are beetles about the 3 inches long and all mechanical looking. It didn't seem to bother them to run over them. They just got flipped and then walked away. So,...............we took a couple more 2nd and 3rd gear passes flinging these beetles at each other lol. Now I feel bad because if some hippy saw that from his electric/wind up/peddle atv we probably could have been in trouble. Even though nothing is endangered out there, and the snakes out there eat hundreds of these things everynight, it would have just been fuel to the fire. :flame:

True, but they kind of have that riot-mentality thing going on. Its almost synergistic. I carry a set of walnut crackers and a pick when I go to my parents house. They have 2 HUGE English Walnut trees in their yard. I try to run over as many as I can in the driveway as I pull up, then run to the front door before the little bastards can formulate a plan of attack. Sometimes to provoke them I show them a pan of brownies, through the front room window of course, with little CRUSHED walnuts sprinkled on the top. HOOBOY!!! Watch out then!!!! Its almost like that Alfred Hitchcock movie "The Birds" except with walnuts.

I'm terrified of walnuts.

JESUS CHRIST! I'm 6'2" (I think) and about 200-205 in the pics from Roostfest. Biceps are about 17.5 and forearms are around 13" Its been a while since I've measured. I've been mostly trying to gain size in my legs, and concentraiting on another business. I plan on refocusing on the bodybuilding side of things in the next few months. The $400.00 in suppliments is worth it to me anyway. I used to spend that much on protein alone. Not anymore though. Now its chicken and steak. The best thing you can do is eat. You don't want to get fat of course, but I notice that when I eat consistantly I get stronger and bigger, but I look my best just before I start to gain fat. Its hard to constantly readjust your feeding too, so I go in cycles of about 6 months of eating whatever, and 6 months of eating clean. I did go over a year this last year of eating because I wanted to heal from my banshee wreck, and also gain some size on my legs. Now I'm trying to cut it back slow, but still lift in the same manner. One thing you might want to try is cycle your work outs. 2 weeks of 4-6reps (3-4 sets) of as much weight as you can do for that amount of reps. then 2 weeks of 10-12, then 2 weeks of 18-20. Honestly the 18-20 about kills me. I'll curl 20lbs for 20 reps and my arms feel like they are going to fall off. I'm no expert by anymeans, but just some advice on what I think works.

seriously..did you just post that so u could use the new flame thrower smiley??!!!... are those really 30 mill nuts??? 17mm from what I can remember at this point in time.

I ran mine a little with out the silencers at my shop before dumont. I'm sure you'd be okay for a little while, but I wouldn't do it permenantly. Its loud as hell too btw.

California IS its own country I think. The exchange rate sux

He actually started to complain that his car "smelled funny" after a while. Once someone stood on the roof of it and took a leak down the windshield and rear window. Later on that evening he was asking people "who poured beer all over my car?" Well, it was beer...............