Getting a Baja Warrior up to 50?

Arthur Kill

Arthur Kill

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#61
Camjamsdad said:
Really? You're coming close to having to surrender your man card.

After some thought, and a couple Coronas, it dawned on me some of the wonders Man has chosen to slap a big gas engine on and ride it. Some of the most note worthy are bar stools, coolers, recliners, toilets, tool chests.
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Heh! Good stuff! The motorized toilet bowl never get old!

I dunno about the man-card thing though? Is it not more "man-ly" to ride a machine designed for men and not boys?

:shrug:
 
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Camjamsdad

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#62
#62
I dunno about the boys thing either. I taught the 7y/o girl child to ride last weekend and she sure got addicted. My next project was gonna be chrome, but now it appears pink is next up.
 
Arthur Kill

Arthur Kill

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#63
Duly noted - I built a mini-bike for my girl as well. Change the word boys to the word kids.



Point is, it just seems like a lot of people attempt to make minibikes do things they were never intended to do -- couple that with the fact that there does exist machines designed to perform those tasks -- and they do it much better.

When I hear people talk about spending tons of time and money to make their mini-bike more dirt worthy, it just seems crazy to me. A mini-bike is "genetically" the wrong vehicle to perform well in the dirt.

Same with high speed, "genetically" incorrect.

Take a KZ125 or an LT250 for one ride in the woods and those same people will wonder what they were ever thinking.

Just sayin...
 
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Mindhacker

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#67
Arthur Kill said:
I can never quite understand why anyone would want to go that fast, traveling on a machine that is notorious for it's low cost engineering and construction.

Dude, get a real motorcycle/dirt bike/quad that was designed for those speeds -- you won't be disappointed.

:shrug:
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Riding something you built yourself is a different feeling, especially when you know it might try to kill you. I've been, um, well over the speed limit on a motorcycle, and doing 60mph on the minibike is more intense.

Arthur Kill said:
Point is, it just seems like a lot of people attempt to make minibikes do things they were never intended to do -- couple that with the fact that there does exist machines designed to perform those tasks -- and they do it much better....
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If it was about the end result you'd be right, but I built this to build it, not really to have it. It's the challenge of putting it together, sort of an open-ended 3D puzzle, and it gave me something to do while I was healing up from a climbing accident.

And it's definitely more manly to ride a toy that now goes twice as fast as it was ever meant to than to ride a machine as it's designed. Girls are way too smart to ride my minibike.
 
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deejaaa

deejaaa

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Mindhacker said:
Riding something you built yourself is a different feeling, especially when you know it might try to kill you. I've been, um, well over the speed limit on a motorcycle, and doing 60mph on the minibike is more intense.



If it was about the end result you'd be right, but I built this to build it, not really to have it. It's the challenge of putting it together, sort of an open-ended 3D puzzle, and it gave me something to do while I was healing up from a climbing accident.

And it's definitely more manly to ride a toy that now goes twice as fast as it was ever meant to than to ride a machine as it's designed. Girls are way too smart to ride my minibike.
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well put. it's the journey!
 
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Mindhacker

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Plans change (again+again+again)... I'm not riding this much because it hates the clutch, and I just got a free 9hp/270cc motor.... so the current plan is that new motor and a torque-a-verter. Should be much more user-friendly.
 
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