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General Two Stroke Talk / Re: Mike Horban Qualified for Washougal on a yz250

« on: August 18, 2011, 09:49:55 PM »

I know that a YZ 250 is down on HP vs the 450 but why everyone who tries to race a national on one thinks they have to tune it on the very ragged edge to compete.
You can't win if you don't finish.

This bike was bone stock. Not " tuned on the ragged edge". It was his own play bike and it had hours on it. Might have helped to put a fresh bore on it before the race but in the end it was just bad luck!

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General Two Stroke Talk / Re: Mike Horban Qualified for Washougal on a yz250

« on: August 13, 2011, 06:10:20 AM »

The bike blew up a couple laps into the moto.  He actually had no intention of racing that bike, he brought a brand new 2012 KX450F to tech and the AMA told him to take it home, wasn't legal.  Kawi hadn't submitted the bike for the homoligation rule yet so he was forced to unload the YZ.  Thankfully it wasn't a newer YZ because those aren't submitted or legal either even though it's the same freaking bike. 

Yes and no! He did seize the bike a couple of laps in but he did fully plan on riding the bike. He was scheduled to pick up his new KX fro his sponsor Power Motorsports of Sublimity on Wednesday before the race. Not sure of what bike he was going to have and the time frame he sign up with his own play bike a YZ250. He actually wanted to ride the 2 stroke though and it was already setup suspension-wise for outdoor. Other that that it was BONE STOCK! No pipe or anything. The homogolation deal on the KX is not correct. They are Homogolated.