Well, hopefully that piston isn't shot to sheet. Shawn says he thinks it should be OK. It has the scoring on it, but he said he's seen worse on bikes that still ran fine. The cylinder should be just fine with a good honing, perhaps if anything, Taz can cut him a deal on a piston. Or maybe he has a totally different one on order. I saw the thread, looks interesting.
yeah, definitely a broken stem since the forks and all were still attached to the wheel. Looks like he crammed on the front brakes attempting a stoppie when things went terribly wrong. These things just aren't stunt bikes, sheesh!
I need to find some new haters...the ones I have are starting to like me.
MrJumps wrote:Looks like he pulled the front springs to lower it, every bump you hot then is like a pot hole, wears the forks down pretty fast.
That thing ain't very low for having the springs pulled. I'm guessing he welded new forks together at the headtube, if you pause it just right you can watch the fork fall off- looks like the long str8 part ain't there.
Quick update, Spree is now up and running with new intake, reeds, carb and replacement BBK. Shawn will be out of town till Wednesday, gonna see if I can get some time in with Marquise on the Dyno and we'll get this wrapped up.
Nope, haven't had any time on it since pulling the carb last week. I'm guessing we will see a difference in the dyno run from the start when it has to pull the drum from a stop. It kind of dogged a bit getting up to that 10-15mph range for a reading, but shot up right after. I'm hoping for a better off the line acceleration when we test again on Thursday. The bike is up at the shop right now so I don't have it to find out if it rides better.