Cotton eyed Joe

If you were running that on the road with street tires that would kick ass. But say in dirt, where the tire locks up easily, once the tire is locked, it doesn't matter how many calipers you have. Pretty trick though. I've thought of doing it, but on the rear as the front is a bit exposed for me. Wouldn't want to smash into something and bust one of those calipers up. If it leaks, all the front brakes are gone.

Aren't Raptors already 660 or something? I don't think it would take much of a bore or stroke to bring them to 700. I dunno. I already told the wife I want a 450. I guess we all want something.

Take a look at just about any road bike. They have chromed shock springs. I'm sure over time it might, but it isn't brittle. I had to adjust an a-arm with a Porta Power and a 46oz ballast hammer after getting them chromed, and it never cracked. Moved it quite a bit too. They only real issue is hydrogen embrittlement. Do a google search on that since I'm not 100% on how much it would affect you in this situation.

Never heard of Sugar City. If its a suburb of Rexburg, I'm actually surprised they even care if your out on the road. Its not like Rexburg is real busy except on the 2 main roads I know of. Out in the farmland near St.Anthony I might pass 1 car between Rexburg and the dunes except on a major holiday weekend. If figured since there was a college in Rexburg that it would be a little busier than it is. The first time I was there I began to wonder how I was going to get home. lol Sunday morning, I'm out of gas and no gas stations open. Didn't have a debit or credit card then.

Thats a pretty good point. I hadn't thought of that. But yeah, I guess you could just reset the preload on a tapered bearing.

Depends on the terrain. I have mine done, but I've only been out a few times in the sand. Also, if you get behind someone throwing rocks and sand, nothing will stand up to that. Just get real fast, then get chrome.

Nope. After doing some research, talking with the guys at my bearing supplier and such, tapered roller bearings, using double bearings, class 7 bearings etc... are a waste of money and quite unneccesary. The bearings supplied as stock from Yamaha are good for a few reasons I found out. 1, they aren't super tight tolerance. A bearing that is a bit "looser" will roll more free. That translates into a cooler running bearing, and less power needed to turn it. You won't even notice the difference on your banshee for a few reasons. One reason being your tires aren't even balanced. Its an atv, not the space shuttle. 2, Cost. You run a seal anyway, and if you replace your bearings every year due to conditions you run, these bearings cost anywhere from $20-$50 less per bearing, and are easier to install being they aren't any wider than about .438-.500" 3, For me right now its a bit of a pain to make 3-4 different carriers for different bearings. The way I manufacture these, it would mean I would need a different set up for each style. Too much to keep track of at this point. Yep. I had quite a few people contact me the week my lathe took a shit. I told the people that contacted me that I would put a message in the general section being that I was going to be emptying my pm box a time or two and would probably lose the contact info. Hopefully I'll be getting back into some advertising which would make things a little easier in a situation like this.

Bizzump for those gone over the holiday

Which road is main in Rexburg?? Is it the road that Villiage Inn is on?? or is it the other one that the Wal Mart is on? I can't imagine you running down a 4 lane road on a banshee, but then again, 11pm in Rexburg you were probably lucky to even see a cop.

Also...terrain???Type of tires??? I'm with broke too.

I agree. Happy Birthday Meat_Head!!!!!!!

Nevermind what I said earlier. I forgot about the CR500 Banshee. Probably because I don't have one.

Reasoning tells me no. The reason is pure cost. It is very cost prohibitive to build a bike for the soul purpose of "beating" another bike when 90% of "beating" another bike is rider ability. You could stick me on a Krankenstein up against someone on a Big Wheel, and the EMT's would be scrambling to pull my bike off of me at the starting line. I might have had the faster bike, but my drag racing skills are at an all time low.

I have one from a 96, NEVER BEEN RAN! Pulled off the bike the day he got it. It has a spot on it where I wanted to see how easy it would polish. Could be touched up easily with some high temp black paint.

I need to find a way to get people to just send me cash. Whats your secret?

I think what he is referring to by "half circle" is the stock rear adjustment vs. a round house. Heres the difference. You know when you go to adjust your chain with a stock carrier, and you need 4 wrenches? Not only that, but you have to get both sides adjusted the same or you can get a skipping chain and/or a misaligned axle. With the roundhouse, on mine anyways, you need one allen wrench, and one open end wrench. If the bike is up on a jack stand in the rear, you can just grab the axle and pull it back (or use an adjusting tool) to where you need it. Clamp the bolts down and your done. Even if I wasn't making and selling these, its still the best mod I've done to my banshee so far.

Agreed. If you're not going to do mostly drag racing, go with a +4.

There were quite a few people that inquired about carriers, swingarms and conversions over the last month, and as I promised here is the post in the General Forums, since I've emptied my PM box 3 times since then, letting you know things are up and rolling again. I got my lathe problems solved, and I will have a run of these done tomorrow/friday. thx

Hardly a joke to be honest.Here's a little FYI from my perspective.... Chromoly is 5-7x the cost of 1018. Anywhere from $5.00 to $8.00 per foot or more for the stuff I've been using. Bending it is alot harder, plus you have to factor in the cost of the tooling. Its not just bought and paid for by the company and forgotten about, its factored in. It has to be. Also, some of the price is quality. If you want MIG welds, they won't be as expensive. TIG welds will be stronger, better, and better looking. After I pay my welder, my material supplier, the shop get its cut for machine work, the rod ends at $10-$20 or more each (for a quality rod end. You can find them cheaper and much sloppier), the chrome shop or powder coat shop, packaging and then shipping, it just adds up. My shop rate is $80 per hour, and its one of the cheapest around this area. I personally don't see anything anywhere near $80 per hour, but if the shop isn't bringing in AT LEAST $80 per hour per machine, we are losing money. It costs nearly $15K for my little shop to stay open each month. There is no point to owning a business other than to make money. After the arms are made, then the distributor adds typically any where from %30 to %50 (or more) to their cost, because they want to make money for warehousing parts. They have to get X amount of dollars for their floor space, and they aren't going to make a $10K investment to make pennies on the dollar. Personally I plan on selling my a-arms for a little as possible without a distributor, and hope to sell off of quantity, but Im sure not going to work for nothing. It just isn't worth it to work all day and have nothing to show for it. Plus when I get a bill from my material supplier for $3,000.00 that money has to come from somewhere.

Money from Heaven? TTT

I read this a while ago and its like the parents are saying "OH NO MY KID IS A HACKER BECAUSE HE DENIED IT!" they should tie rocks to him, drop him in a bucket of water. If he floats he must be a hacker, if he sinks and drowns, then he will be remembered as a nice boy. And I've never seen a book called "Hacker Manual" at Barnes and Noble. I don't think one exists.

The name of the game is money. If you have nothing to better your self with, pretty soon everyone will have what you make and no one will be buying. If you can come up with something a notch better, most people will ditch what they have and buy new. Its a marketing strategy that nearly everyone that has a product uses.

Smart like tractor strong like ox.

I gave up the juice boxes and pouches a couple years ago after an incident I'm not all that proud of. My wife comes home from college with a Capri Sun pouch. mmmm.... It was a promotional thing or something... Anyway she hands me this blue rasperry pouch and I say "Capri Sun juice pouch? What the fuck do you think I am, a retarded 5 year old?" I then yank the straw from the back of the pouch and make a 45 degree downward stabbing motion and stabbed that god damned straw through the front, and on through the back. Drained the whole thing down the front of my shirt and the carpet before I could even think to get over a sink or the garbage can. I swore right then and there no more juice boxes or pouches.