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colin1 Captain Safety
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Posted: 18:33 - 25 Oct 2005 Post subject: what bikes for big air, evil kneivel style ? |
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Instead of getting a £2000 sports 600, i am thinking of getting a £1000 rs250 and spending the rest on an off road bike
this is ealy stages yet and i might not do it
i'll probably have a go on the offroad bikes at the nec but obviously I wont get to do any jumping
knowing nothing about it, I would guess that a 250 2t motocross wd be fine with landing from 6ft
but how would 125 2t's and 400 4t's be at this sort of thing
will standard suspension be ok for this sort of thing, or is it only some bikes which are comfortable landing after going 6 ft up in the air
wd something like this be ok
https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4581471314&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
i enjoyed jumps on my bmx so a dirtbike might be fun ____________________ colin1 is officially faster than god |
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When COLINWALL finally gets his bikes I'm going to buy everyone a beer to celebrate the end of these threads |
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Posted: 18:47 - 25 Oct 2005 Post subject: Re: what bikes for big air, evil kneivel style ? |
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How much air you can get is limited by the style of bike and suspension, rather than capacity.
Competition motorcross bikes like the CR125, CR250, CRF450 (obviously each make has their own ones) will all have decent suspension and design to soak up big jumps.
Enduro style bikes, in Honda's case, XR250, crm250, XR400 and xr650 will still be able to handle some jumps, but don't expect them to cope once you start to get big.
More road biased stuff will probably be even worse.
At the moment I'm drooling over a KTM300exc, which is an enduro 2 stroke, but is supposed to have good enough suspension to keep up on a mx track.
Probably way too much to me as I've only been off road four times or so though and it seems to be thought of as faster than their 525 4stroke enduro!
Remember, competition bikes are going to need a lot of maintenance and won't be well suited to road use - so limiting you to local places to ride probably. |
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Posted: 20:23 - 25 Oct 2005 Post subject: |
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CR 500/KX 500. Please make sure you video your "jump's".
And for godsake, make your mind up already! |
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Firstly, that XR350 would fall apart first jump
Secondly, bet you a fiver you couldn't safely jump 6ft anyway! Unless you've ridden MX or something before... ____________________ Current Toys: 06 Yamaha WR250F | Nissan 350Z GT | Tech 4 Homes |
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Posted: 22:37 - 25 Oct 2005 Post subject: |
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Reckon I got 6 foot off the ground first time I did half-proper offroading - on a single narrow jump addmitadely.
Didn't crash doing that, though I did land front wheel first a few times .
Have got 'reasonable' experience riding bikes in general though. |
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6ft?? Evil knievel jumped harleys 4 times higher than that, so you might like to tell people who you're going to be like .
Anything enduro will handle 6ft easily and will be road legal. Get 125/200/250 max, anything bigger and you'll be a passenger on it and you'll learn little.
If you want to find out about serious air search under supercross. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 18 years, 157 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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