SnailDarter

Thank you all -- it is scary to think I've known Crawdaddy longer than twice my sons age... and he can drive. Now you're making me feel old.

We already have a local star.. What's in the water out here in Ramona... Jake Gagne of Ramona, Calif., has won the Red Bull MotoGP Rookies Cup with a second-place finish in Saturday's race in Misano, Italy. localracer

Honda CT70

good guess.. and MAY be close... but I got too much tribal knowledge to play this game. :sensored:

I think he meant the BMW HP2 duhh!! <<insert dumbass icon here>> that is the one I meant

Comment about the Wee Stroms. "In any event, as previously mentioned , they're not made for the dirt but can be taken there. Craig told me he's done with dirt on his Wee Strom, now DRZ only. Also, while attending the Jimmy Lewis School a guy on his Wee just could NOT get through a section so Jimmy rode it and actually tossed it right in front of our group. As he's picking up the bike he says to his wife Heather, "no more V Stroms allowed at the school". " Russ - from the Bass Lake ride - totally connected, lifetime motorcycle rider, ... etc. When talking to him he told me -- "If he could only have one bike it would be the Suzuki 650 Vstrom." Sure he makes a few mods to it to make it more dirt worthy, but given his history with motorcyling I think that's pretty high praise. I've got big (GS1150) and now very small (250 yamaha) with the 450 inbetween. Big is fun - but it is more work if you take them to stupid places, Now an H2 -- that would be really fun.

Thanks Roger, Wasn't really looking hard - but stumbled onto that CL ad and couldn't say no. Its really clean, has new tires - like brand new, new chain, new battery (from sitting too long), tagged until 08/2011. He just paid off the loan on the bike - so right now he as a few hundred for holding and I'll pay the rest when he gets the title in a week or so. It'll need a few farkles as its box stock -- need bark busters, skid plate, some disc protection, and maybe some handlebar streamers. /Fred

EXC 450 vs. WR250R Back to the title of the thread... Now I don't have to choose - I'll have one of each.. =============================================== 20008 Yamaha 250 Street Legal - $3000 (Ramona) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2010-08-08, 8:59AM PDT Reply to: sale-ucjrk-1887255434@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This bike is in perfect condition Has approx.8,600 miles I purchased this bike new in 2008 for close to $9,000! (OUCH) It ID is YZWR250 RX It is street legal and fuel injected. Recently serviced and registered Price is firm.

Nice Video -- captures the tight tree sections really well, although there were a bunch of sections where the brush was a lot thicker. So this was my first trip to Bass lake -- thanks to Chris, its the S*!%. I was burned out and rundown from work so I only managed to ride Friday/Sunday with some local exploring and lake swimming on Saturday. Friday's 4 hard ways backwards was by far the toughest riding I've done - not counting the granite 'detour' which cost me a clutch lever. I think Doug actually captured that event. Anyway -- I really want to go back when its 10 degrees cooler

This ought to be fun... Nce little bath. See you Friday.

The last section to the School House was some of the nastiest/snottiest stuff I have ever ridden through……Caitlynn took many a spill in that stretch but she never lost her cool and kept smiling the entire time ……I’m VERY proud of her…… The other 4 riders, FORMERLY known as the remaining Lollipopers, showed while we were in that final straight to the school house……turns out they’d turned off Cr-5 to check out some Indian petroglyphs on the way over….. We rested up at the School House for a bit and scrapped off a few mud melanomas…….we were cautiously optimistic that the road couldn’t get any worse………I told Caitlynn she needed to get up into 2nd gear (minimum) and get up some speed to flick off that mud…….slow/first gear spinning would only lead to more falls…….didn’t have to tell her that twice……here she is ready to roll from the school house…… ------ I'm getting flashbacks... the mud --- ahhhh what a trip.

…..started out only intending to remove the smog canister and then my “Tim Allen (More Power) Tendencies” merged with “weight reduction impulses” and I also ripped out the AIS system and permanently affixed the air box flapper valve in the “open” position (it was originally operated by the AIS)….MORE AIR = MORE POWER!!! …….but wait, what’s the point of letting more air into the system if the stock tail pipe is all choked up with its internal catalytic converter and controlled by the EXUP system?? ......that stuff has to go too!! So I also ordered a FMF Fuel Programmer ( http://www.fmfracing.com/Mode/Category/442 ) and a Dubach Racing exhaust along with a quiet core insert ( http://appliedrace.com/store/catalog/produ...roducts_id=1680 ) Thanks Christi!.... Boy - keeping the motor stock, quiet, don't need more power, want reliability and great mileage sure didn't last long did it.... at least you ordered the quiet core insert....

Nice pics -- Glad the squealer made the trip and Jarret got to go. Nothing on a bike that can't be fixed, I'm just sorry that I let the sprockets get into such bad shape that he couldn't do day three. (although Strega needed some company after his scarry get-off)

Wow - flying dinosaurs -- really. Glad you're "OK" although if you dislocated your shoulder you'll be feeling that one for awhile, then it will go away for about 25 yrs, and then you'll feel it again... I can hear the stories now. "I remember way back when you still listened to music on an iPod, ... we were out riding bikes that ran on gasoline and had carburators, and this flying dinosaur hit me in the face and sent me over a cliff......" It made it till the last 7.5 miles and then had to be trucked out ----> that sucks, 7.5 miles from home out of 300 -- just a couple fewer wheelies and it probably would have made the whole trip . Glad it ran well, besides that (and the brake line).

that my rear sprocket -- looks vaugely familiar If so I hope it didn't cause too many problems.