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Offline JohnN

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Southwick update - Project Two 50
« on: August 29, 2010, 05:51:59 PM »
By now you all must know that we did not make it into the Main event.

We experienced so more "gremlins" in the first practice... it seems that Mike lost 4th gear on the third lap of the first qualifier.

The team performed a heroic engine swap in less than an hour. Switching out the bottom end from the practice bike to the race bike and installing the race bike top end.

Mike went out but shortly after he started to get going the rear brake guard came loose and scraped on the rear disc, filling the rear caliper with plastic. Which slowed the bike considerably....

More news to follow.....
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Re: Southwick update - Project Two 50
« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2010, 06:01:47 PM »
argghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :(
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Re: Southwick update - Project Two 50
« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2010, 06:42:22 PM »
I swear honda has got to be sending someone to screw up your bike while yall arent looking.  Why does this keep happening to you guys.  Man this freakin sucks.

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Re: Southwick update - Project Two 50
« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2010, 06:48:05 PM »
It could be worse.  Way back in the days of yore, Ake Jonsson was in an epic battle with Roger DeCoster for the world Championship.  Whoever won this race was guaranteed to take the overall victory for the planet.  DeCoster was already "The Man" with multiple trophies but Jonsson, riding for a small German factory had the lead and was going to take the championship.

Then the spark plug wire came loose, and he lost it all.  The spark plug wire!  That's like the motocross equivalent of being in a gun duel with Wild Bill, and losing because you slipped on a banana peel.  After this set-back, Jonsson went out again later, competed in two classes simultaneously, and set a record for the sheer number of first-place wins in a season for one man (spread across two classes, remember), which I believe has yet to be broken.

Moral of the story is, don't beat yourselves up over this, it's not your fault.  Apparently the metal simply can't take the amount of raw awesomeness that P250 is putting out.  All you can do is go back to that big dial of P250 awesomeness that goes on a scale of one to ten, and then stencil in a little number eleven and point the dial to that!  Things can fail when your awesomeness is 10/10, but that bottom-end wouldn't dare mess with an 11/10!

You might also try mixing in some nitroglycerin with your fuel, I find 50:1 is a good mix.  Not nitromethane, nitroglycerin's your stuff.
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Is this Maico a 440 or only a 400?  Well in all the confusion, I forgot myself.
But considering this is a 1978 Magnum, the best-handling bike in the world, you have to ask yourself one question.
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Re: Southwick update - Project Two 50
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2010, 06:52:22 PM »
I swear honda has got to be sending someone to screw up your bike while yall arent looking.  Why does this keep happening to you guys.  Man this freakin sucks.


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Re: Southwick update - Project Two 50
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2010, 06:58:46 PM »
I swear honda has got to be sending someone to screw up your bike while yall arent looking.  Why does this keep happening to you guys.  Man this freakin sucks.


 :-X

Nah, it's not Honda.  It's the engine Gremlins!



Hold on... is it the engine Gremlins... or the Gremlin engines... I don't know?


Is this Maico a 440 or only a 400?  Well in all the confusion, I forgot myself.
But considering this is a 1978 Magnum, the best-handling bike in the world, you have to ask yourself one question.
Do you feel lucky, punk?

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Re: Southwick update - Project Two 50
« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2010, 09:37:13 PM »
I know after seeing the recent video of Mike here on TSM that it's definetly NOT his fault! That guy is one heck of a GREAT MX rider & I just know that his "glory day"is coming soon! Project250 deserves a podium finish & if Mike keeps riding as well as he's been he WILL get there....... ;)

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Re: Southwick update - Project Two 50
« Reply #7 on: August 29, 2010, 09:42:29 PM »
MAN,

You guys deserve some luck. I am hoping like crazy that it comes this week. Put in a solid week of testing and go and show the world how good you guys really are  !!!!!!

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Re: Southwick update - Project Two 50
« Reply #8 on: August 29, 2010, 09:44:36 PM »
I know after seeing the recent video of Mike here on TSM that it's definetly NOT his fault! That guy is one heck of a GREAT MX rider & I just know that his "glory day"is coming soon! Project250 deserves a podium finish & if Mike keeps riding as well as he's been he WILL get there....... ;)

I totally support that sentence! ;D
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Re: Southwick update - Project Two 50
« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2010, 09:44:53 PM »
I swear honda has got to be sending someone to screw up your bike while yall arent looking.  Why does this keep happening to you guys.  Man this freakin sucks.


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hahahahaha!!!!
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Re: Southwick update - Project Two 50
« Reply #10 on: August 30, 2010, 03:10:23 AM »
Man I thought I had bad luck...

The 4th gear thing was a fluke, as far as the brake guard it sounds like maybe the vibes from the tranny issue probably caused a few bolts to work loose. With the excitement of the hurried engine swap it would be easy to not the have time/forget to take the normal "one last pass" race mechanics take to make sure all the fasteners are tight.

When I saw the YZ125 turned faster laps than the Project Two50 bike I knew something had to have happened again. You poor guys can't buy a break this year.
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Re: Southwick update - Project Two 50
« Reply #11 on: August 30, 2010, 05:34:34 AM »
Jetz, you must be pretty young, info you have has been second handed quite a few times.
  AKe's bike had the short reach plug fall out near the end of a 45 minute moto. They tried spot welding the plug for the second moto, but it failed again. ( from an interview in 72) The win streak was the 72 Trans-Am. He won 9 overalls out of 11 proving the bikes were not fragile like the magazines were hyping them to be.
      Sorry to hear about the problems from Southwick. I had a bummer year like that back in the 70's. I went to the first 6 events in NESC 250 expert and got taken out in qualifiers in every one after very promising speed in practices, even flat out passing the point leaders. Then the bike blew and that was it for my season.
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Re: Southwick update - Project Two 50
« Reply #12 on: August 30, 2010, 06:10:26 AM »
as far as the brake guard it sounds like maybe the vibes from the tranny issue probably caused a few bolts to work loose.

You know it would be alright if that were the case, but the bolt was still tight in the frame!! The guard broke off the mount and pulled off right around the bolt.

Crazy strange stuff!
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Re: Southwick update - Project Two 50
« Reply #13 on: August 30, 2010, 08:42:25 AM »
You know it would be alright if that were the case, but the bolt was still tight in the frame!! The guard broke off the mount and pulled off right around the bolt.

Crazy strange stuff!

Wow! That is really weird. When you said it came loose in your first post I wrongly assumed the bolts came loose, haha.
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Re: Southwick update - Project Two 50
« Reply #14 on: August 30, 2010, 08:39:00 PM »
Man John, sounds like you guys are having the same luck as me on a typical weekend