Two Stroke Motocross
Two Stroke Motocross Forum => Open Forum => Topic started by: knm29 on January 05, 2011, 10:35:54 PM
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A few of my friends and I were talking about how their lack of knowledge of motocross makes it so they are unable to talk about technical, broad or any type of subject besides the fact that their boyfriend rides a 250(which that does not mean much to them). Is this true for you guys too? And if it is, does it bother you that your significant other cannot talk to you about motocross?
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Girlfriends, who needs them! :P Naw but I actually like girls that don't know anything about motocross so it looks like I know everything. ;D
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Actually, the fact of finding a girl who rides by itself is a miracle. I barely have friends I can talk to about motocross.
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My wife has changed fork seals for me after my second back surgery, and she is really good at installing seat covers too... :D . She rides a 2007 GZ250 street bike, but when we get my nephew a bigger bike she already claimed his CR80 Expert and said I am not allowed to sell it :) . Since I taught her how to ride he has had an 1994 XR80, 1989 RM80, 1987 Honda Elite 50, 2001 Buell Blast, and a 2005 Ninja 250. Like me, she likes to try new bikes and only keeps a bike a year or so. She does miss the Ninja250 though.
Here's a funny non-bike related story about how she is not afraid to do mechanical work. I was working at a Kawasaki shop and we had a VW Jetta that needed an alternator and I had to get a ride to work. I get home from work and see a dirty part laying on the porch. I said "What's that?" because I never dreamed she would work on the car. She said: "Hopefully an alternator. I called your brother, he told me where it was and what it looked like, so I went and took it off". LOL
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"Hopefully an alternator" :D.
But seriously, women like that are few and far in between. You are a lucky man :).
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My wife has no interest in riding or working on bikes, I don't care much for pottery barn, We still get along pretty well.
I was talking with a friend of mine who has traveled Europe on a motorcycle, I said I had always dreamed of such a trip. The wife asked if we could make the trip two up, I said hell yeah! I'm getting her a helmet and we are going to start working up to it.
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i had girlfriens that ride dirtbikes,
and asked me a lot of questions and learned some mechanical issues
and after that they started asking difficult questions :))
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Haha mine will be racing with me this year in the VXCS, she is actually the one that convinced me to buy TSM. :)
She has seen many many bikes parted/serviced. She learned from being around it so long. :)
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When I met my future wife I warned her right from the "git go" that I was a motorcyclist.In the years since it has been relatively smooth sailing but I have some friends who have quit the sport due to pressure from their significant others.My advise would be to worry less about the lack of communication and more about simply being able to participate in the sport.Motorcycles are very expensive and they demand a lot of sacrifice to own them. :-X
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My girlfriend competes in English and Cross Country horse events, so she understands my addiction/dedication to motocross. She comes to the races and practices, but I must do the same for her. She unloads everything for me. Hell, she even hands me my gear one piece at a time while I sit in a comfy camping chair. She learned that 4 strokes are the devil and 2 strokes are much easier to work on. :D
She learned that 4 strokes are pain after owning a RMZ 250 that is a money pit. After getting a CR250 she has learned that it runs no matter the conditions and a rebuild can be done within 2 hours. lol
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should switch places. ;D
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I have always wanted a dirtbike since I was a kid, I would buy Dirtbike and Motocross Action with my allowance I think my first isue was in 78', my folks couldn't afford to get me one, much less afford to maintain it. However I did get to ride a few of my friends bikes growing up and the birtbike bug has been eating at me since I can remember. I put it on hold in my 20's so I could be a rockstar, and in 98' got to ride again since I was 15. That was all she wrote, I was determined to get a bike. I talked to my wife about it, and told her that I had been saving money for a few months to get one. She had mixed feeling about it and never gave me a solid NO, until I told her I found a couple in my price range and I was going to look at them. The result was her telling me that i could sleep outside with it if I brought one home.
She came home from work that evening to see the bike on a stand in the living room.
LMAO!!!
She hit the moon.
I explained to her that I drained the gas and needed to do some work on it before I could ride it, fluid change, and what not. And we didn't have a garge, so that evening after dinner she watched tv while i worked on the bike. Complaining everytime she'd get up to got into the kitchen that my piece of sh*t was in the way and stinking up the house.
Next day, Saturday, I took the bike outside and rode it around the property we lived on at the time. After seeing how happy it made me, she said I could sleep inside but the bike had to stay outside :(. Well it did take up most of the living room.
fast forward 8 years and 50 lbs.
It was time time get a new bike, I couldn't find springs for my weight for the bike and honestly, couldn't justify spending any more money on the 17 year old machine.
I brought it to her attention that I was going to buy a new bike with my share of the Tax return, she must have thought I meant a "new to me bike". But what I meant was a brand new, never started, off the showroom floor 2007 kx250r, and some essential mods for harescramble and enduro racing.
She came home from work that evening to see the bike on a stand in the living room.
With two big boxes of parts.
"How much did you spend on that? It looks brand new." she exclaimed
"today or how much will I HAVE spent on it by the time I pay it off?"
She hit the moon, again.
She watched TV while I took my brand new bike apart and regreased and anti siezed every bolt, bearing, and cable, changed all the fluids, flushed the brakelines, took off a brand new set of Bridgestones and replaced them w/ Dunlops, cut the ends off my bars and throttle tube, installed new grips, handguards, frame guards, radiator braces, oversized tank, flywheel weight, and torque spacer.
She couldn't understand why I would completly dissasemble a brand new bike, and why I needed to put all that other stuff on it. why didn't you just buy a bike that comes with all that stuff.
I explained, that they don't use enough grease when they assemble them, and if I don't do this now I will have to replace all of this stuff before I ever pay it off.
The guards were to protect vital and expensive components from damage, and all this was to protect my investment, which I still hadn't told her. She finally asked how much the bike was, "$6200."
How much was all this other stuff, "$1000"
She hit the moon.
Fast forward 4 years and $15,000 invested in that bike.
She has a 2007 rm85 (armed to the teeth).
My daughter has a 2005 kx100
my oldest boy has a 1999kx125
and the youngest boy a 1999 kx60.
we all ride now.
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Nice :)
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nice story myck
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That's awesome!
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That is an awesome story MyckMcClung, you just had to warm her up to the idea :)
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Believe me, when I came home with the KX, she was quite upset, no nookie for Mycko for over a month
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My girl loves motocross. Shes always bitching at me because we hardly ever go racing anymore lol
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My girl loves motocross. Shes always bitching at me because we hardly ever go racing anymore lol
Yes same here.
I have explained to her why we don't go to the Motocross World Championship anymore.
It's because of Mr. Giuseppe Luongo's selfish short term financial profits.
We don't have a GP at Lierop anymore, cos Loungo wanted more money.
Oh well, that's 2x 50Euro's i will save this year, just to go watch 4strokes...
Nowadays we visit Belgian, Dutch and German regional races!
A lot more two stokes in there! And more good fun people, and less entrance money. mostly free!
And she is aware of the fact that MotoGP road racing is also changing to 4 strokes in all classes,
so she doesn't want to go there anymore either! ;) :D
In return, we now also go to some WEC Enduro races.
W gave up on the road racing thing. Way too expensive...
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MyckMcClung that totally sucks! My boyfriend is very moto crazy and I love it! He actually got me into motocross. I road a little with my friends when I was younger but then stopped and he has gotten me so sucked in, I love it, I want to get my own bike soon and begin riding! :)
By the way that is really cool that you got the whole family involved in the sport!
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I've got an RM85 for sale if you're interested, the wifey wants something a lil' bigger
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becouse my dad was a pro in motocross
my mom its way cool,she always suports me
and my girlfriends also,for me if you are not into motocross you can't be my girlfriend. :))
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I am a very dedicated MXGF....didnt start out that way tho. i was forced into it. when you are sitting at your dinner table and EVERYONE is talking about dirtbikes and two strokes and engines...its pretty much learn or shut up. So now i can confidently say i know a lot about dirtbikes. and i love it. my whole family is involved with TSM and i wouldnt want it any other way...So from this dedicated MXGF to everyone on the TSM site...THANK YOU. :-*
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You and me both, Dirtygirl! :) But I'm so glad that I got involved with the sport! ;D We love debating things about the sport, in the end he always is right :) go figure the one that has known about this sport since he was 5.
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i say lets see some mxg photos :D (or wifes)
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there is a gorgeous girl that models the TSM shirts on their fb...and she is a mxg....actually she is the mxg of TSMs new rider...and i hear she will be modeling other shirts as well when they come out. :D
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What do you mean TSM's new rider ?
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What do you mean TSM's new rider ?
AC,under the racing section.
I say post pics,not all of us are on facebook.
I'd like to see this same topic done as Moto Wives. My GF was always into it as well.Oddly enough,once she became a wife she immediately lost interest and though it was stupid-go figure ???
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aww poor ford...yeah girls like to suck guys in...then once trapped the truth comes out. i dont have a choice but to be involved...married or not :D im stuck. but now that im in, i dont see myself losing interest...motocross is way cooler than my real job.
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aww poor ford...yeah girls like to suck guys in...then once trapped the truth comes out.
Thanks dirty girl.Poor Ford indeed.I rarely get the sympathy I deserve :D
A couple years before we got married,I was looking at another bike but didn't have quite enough $$ so I figured I'd just wait for a month or so and hopefully it would still be for sale.
The GF(wife now) just said she'd loan me the money otherwise it might be gone when I had saved up enough.It seemed sensible so I went for it.Thereafter,whenever I tried to give it back to her she wouldn't take it.In hindsight,I should have forced it on her.
Fast forward two years when I had one of those years that everything that could go wrong did-financially anyway.Coincidentally,she decided it was time we got married.I told her,as I had for the past few years,that I didn't want to just yet.She then reminded me that she wasn't going to wait until she was an old maid and that I still owed her for the bike.We got married.
My mother always said those stupid motorcycles will be the death of you and it would appear she was right.
Poor Ford :(
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aww..again poor ford. so if i buy my bf a bike he has to marry me?.....he shoulda done married me a few times by now! but its ok...i know if i were to marry him now he would insist the colors for the wedding match tsm's logo :D
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Actually,that's not a bad idea.Hold it at the track,have a few 2t's running around as background music and maybe Motley Crue's "Kickstart my Heart" as the wedding march.Sweet. :D
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i would so totally do that....well...most of that...maybe just marry at the courthouse and throw the reception at a track...everyone can bring their bikes and ride instead of crappy dancing and horrible djs... BEST WEDDING EVER!
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I don't think I like where this is going.. :o :-X
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i would so totally do that....well...most of that...maybe just marry at the courthouse and throw the reception at a track...everyone can bring their bikes and ride instead of crappy dancing and horrible djs... BEST WEDDING EVER!
So when's the date? Are we all invited? Are you registered anywhere? :D
I don't think I like where this is going.. :o :-X
Why not? Sounds like fun :P :P :P
Bachelor party at Fords ;D
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Party here would be fine.We could go for a ride before the party-or after -or during.( Hold my beer and watch this :o ;D )
Betcha didn't know when you took over this site you were going to be thrown under the bus did you Charles? :D
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Who's gonna take the wedding pictures? I could strap on my gopro?
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So....Ive decided i dont need a wedding, or a ring....Charles is the most awesome bf EVER!!!!! today he traded one of his bikes and got me a blaster, cause ive been bugging for MONTHS for a quad.
Who needs a ring when you can have a two-stroke.
thanx again pf.
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a Blaster? sure it has 2 strokes but it has 4 wheels :-[
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a Blaster? sure it has 2 strokes but it has 4 wheels :-[
True,but it's still all good.Everyone has to start somewhere-somewhat like TMKIWI, before he moves up to a YZ :P
Blaster,then Banshee,then YZ.Basic math :)
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Who's gonna take the wedding pictures? I could strap on my gopro?
I was with you until you started talking about strap ons.If it's that kind of party,you would likely want to hold it out west where they're more accepting of that type of thing :o :D
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yes it has 4wheels....but trust me the only place i belong when on two wheels, is on the backseat. woman drivers no survivors...i suck. i will get on a bike one day, maybe. :-*