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General Two Stroke Talk / Thanks John!!!

« on: August 01, 2012, 02:21:17 PM »

Holy Crap, JETZCorp is back!!!  I thought you may have gone to the dark side and were afraid we would find out!!  lol

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Open Forum / Summer Beverages

« on: July 30, 2012, 09:00:52 PM »

I love 'em hoppy & strong, Redhook Long Hammer IPA is my favorite lately, and it's brewed in Portsmouth, NH, about 1/2 an hour from my house.  Trying to quit though, booze really jacks up my blood pressure...

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General Two Stroke Talk / Check out these custom YZ Graphics!

« on: July 26, 2012, 01:29:44 PM »

I love my blue YZ250, but I am still very partial to the yellow and black '81 YZ125 I had as a teenager.  Both look great!!!

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Open Forum / Member map

« on: July 24, 2012, 01:47:17 PM »

Lost a little weight there Ford??

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Open Forum / The officially official hunting/fishing/outdoor thread

« on: July 24, 2012, 01:46:16 PM »

SachsGS - About 25 years ago there was a kid I went to school with (he was kind of slow...) who called himself the Harbormaster of the river that is the border between Maine and New Hampshire about 15 miles up from the coast.  He caught a 14 foot, 800+ pound sturgeon using gill nets, dragged it out with his truck, and beat it to death with a hammer.  Next thing he did was call the local papers and told them he caught a sea monster!!  They came down, took a lot of pictures, but unfortunately, so did the game wardens....  He got a huge fine, didn't even have a fishing license.  It was estimated to be about 100 years old, and had a few dozen pounds of roe that would have been worth thousands of dollars.  What a moron....

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Open Forum / Here is a question to the guys here who have been riding thier entire life:

« on: July 24, 2012, 01:39:35 PM »

I went to college near home (University of New Hampshire) so I could keep racing.  Unfortunately, I broke my leg badly early in my sophomore year, missed 2 months of school, and being in Engineering, I was never able to catch back up.  If I were to do it over again, I would make sure school was number 1, and put off anything else that would interfere with it.

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General Two Stroke Talk / Breaking Maico News........

« on: July 17, 2012, 03:12:36 PM »

Stu - Go to superhunky.com and poke around a bit, he has a couple articles that go into the soap opera that was Maico in the early '80's, it would take waaaay to long to tell the story here....

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General Two Stroke Talk / Is This the future of dirt bikes?

« on: July 12, 2012, 01:16:36 PM »

I remember reading an article from David Pingree a while back, and he made a couple great points.  Sound is part of the appeal of motocross, if it goes to all electric, attendance for pro events will fall dramatically.  Even worse, even at local events, with no sound from the bikes, what about when a rider goes down and breaks his leg or something like that.  Do the spectators really want to hear him screaming in pain?  The sound of the other bikes drowns that out now....

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General Two Stroke Talk / motocross helmet??

« on: July 11, 2012, 04:13:29 PM »

Shoei VFX, I absolutely love mine!!!!

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General Two Stroke Talk / Thanks John!!!

« on: July 08, 2012, 02:40:20 PM »

When I first found the site it was still called Two Stroke Militia!!!

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General Two Stroke Talk / Anybody from the northeast us?

« on: June 27, 2012, 04:36:42 PM »

At just about any MX track in New England (including Southwick), you can show up at race day without any membership, pay a day fee, pay for your class, and go racing.  There are quite a few organizations, NESC, NEMA, NEMX, Maine Motocross Series, etc.), but none of them require AMA membership.  If you just go with a day pass, you don't accumulate championship points though....  I'm not sure about Enduro's though, I do think you need an AMA membership to join NETRA, but I could be wrong.

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General Two Stroke Talk / History of MX in the USA Article

« on: June 26, 2012, 03:42:07 PM »

Here is a fantastic article about events that have shaped MX in the USA over the years, very two stroke friendly!!!

http://www.pulpmx.com/stories/look-back-old-moto-mags/events-shaped-american-motocross

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General Two Stroke Talk / New YZR 500cc Fuel Injected 2 Stroke - Finally here....

« on: June 22, 2012, 06:56:38 PM »

Citibjockey - I work in electronics, and one of my customers makes accelerometers for applications from kid's toys to missile guidance, so I am absolutely sure it could be done through a programmable digital ignition fairly simply.  I'm just not sure you would want something that would cut off your thrust when you did not expect it.  Maybe on a road racer, but I could see some problems on a dirt bike.

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General Two Stroke Talk / another mxa gem

« on: June 22, 2012, 06:49:15 PM »

As a mid-pack (at best) 40+ C rider, I really appreciate the front wheel steering of the 4 stroke, it just gives me way more confidence coming into corners, I really don't have the teen-age cojones required to come into a corner and blast my YZ250 wide open anymore.  I am definitely faster on a track on a 250 or 450f, but they are just so boring!!!  I race less than 10 times a year, and I do it for the fun and to hang out with the other 40+ guys, who are definitely characters (see ford382 for example!!!!)  The other reasonI stay with the 2 stroke is that I like to ride too much, and with my very limited finds, if a 4 stroke blew up on me, I would be out of riding for a year until I could afford to fix it.  I have ridden several newer 4 strokes, and they are great, but I would not want one for my only bike.  If I had the cash I would have a new 125, a 450f, and a 300 2st woods bike, and I would probably ride the 125 the most.

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General Two Stroke Talk / Renner RedBuuuuddd! on the 125.

« on: June 13, 2012, 02:34:53 PM »

Nope, not in AMA Pro racing, only amateur.  Can't even legally run a 144 in the 250 class.