BannedCR500Riders.com

The motor will vibrate so bad he wont be able to hold onto the bars wayyyy before it falls out and causes an accident.

~Trever wrote:thats a bummer was he a member here? the other board?

It all happened before this board was born, he was on cr500riders as supermotospike.

AlisoBob wrote:
I sleep well at night..... others like Clipity cant, or at least they shouldnt.

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Wasnt he running a carb from clipity?

Yup, an ol' Clipity was right there, cheering him on to his date with destiny.

If I remember correctly, the fuel tank was crushing down on the top of the carb, folding the cable over where it exits the nut. It was clearly visable during the build.

The exact details of the crash were never made clear.

If the throttle hung WFO, starting the chain reaction of the crash.. I wouldnt be surprized.

Clip should have sent flowers to the funeral.

I thought all that really went down on Larry's site....no? That was sad...Bob wasn't the only hoon telling him that it wasn't a good idea. Honestly though....while he was a big kid, he was still a kid, and inexperience as a rider probably had as much or more to do with the crash than simple shade-tree mechanics. I think the term is "object fixation" where you inevitably hit the thing you should avoid because you cannot bring yourself to look past it...kind of like a marriage. LOL

RIP Spike.

ShanMan wrote:where you inevitably hit the thing you should avoid because you cannot bring yourself to look past it...kind of like a marriage. LOL

RIP Spike.

That is some funny sheeott right thur......

its sad really. I saw his whole build post a couple years ago... definitly some nigyvering to make that motor fit!
....RIP HOON

I can't believe they let him post that there.... they kicked me out for not having a "rideable" 500 when I joined.
With all the purist Honda CR fanatics over there, no one has stepped up and posted a "It looks like shit" comment, or "That's a waste of a good engine...it's a fucking Suzook frame for God's sake".
It'd at least be worthy of a Yamaha engine.
Aluminum frame, steel cradle....not a good combo. It looks like the strongest engine mount will be the kicker support. I enjoy seeing unique shit that wack-o people can come up with, but at least it needs to be in good taste. I hope, for his sake, it works.


So....Spike put a 500 into a moped????????

with the popularity of that site, i can agree with the rule of having a rideable 500. could you imagine how big of a cluster fuck that place would be if they had 1000 flatbillers asking how to do a kx125 topend

I remember following the Spike tragedy and contributing to the debate on VisorDown many moons ago (and before the inevitable demise of VisorDown when it was sold out). In fairness, Spike got a lot of good advise about how dangerous his build was becoming. Sadly he went right ahead anyway and the thread became his obituary...

A salutary point for anyone who is out of their depth when it comes to building a home grown machine with such a ferocious engine.

Screwd.

So was it a moped or a full size bike????

If at first you don't succeed...then skydiving wasn't for you.

Alot of things obviously led to his untimely death. A cracked frame however did not. So apparently he was traveling too fast for a corner, couldn't cut a line tight enough and wrapped himself around a tree. A stuck throttle? Possibly. A cracked engine cradle causing him to "loose control"? Are you serious?

Motorcycle crashes are the #1 cause of fatatilites in the US military. Statistics show that if I put street rubber on my CR500AF, my chances of being killed spike 60%. Unfortunately there is no substitute for experience or common sense. And because of this, stupid doesn't just hurt...it kills. Spike would have killed himself on anything.

Structural failure can easily cause disaster. But in the case of motorcycles, I see mechanical failures like these often leave a rider stranded beside the road or trail...not cartwheeling 70mph into a tree or telephone pole.

Well said.

Wheelie-Gene wrote:So was it a moped or a full size bike????

I can't remember exactly what what make/model it was, but it was a small framed bike, similar to the YSRs and NSRs, I think it originally came with a 50cc 5spd w/ clutch setup just like the YSR and NSR. The crazy thing is talking to people who have put an at-1 125 or yz80 motor in a ysr and scared the crap out of themselves. Marshall had a ysr w/ a yz80 motor in it and MFDB took that thing on the freeway doing 90mph in 5th gear wheelies on little 12" wheels. now imagine a cr500 motor it was a tragedy waiting to happen.

That's truly insane....That'd be like strapping a Cessna 150 to the space shuttle boosters..

If I was there (in person) during the begenning stages of the build, I would have talked him out of it.

yup

dannygraves wrote:Marshall had a ysr w/ a yz80 motor in it and MFDB took that thing on the freeway doing 90mph in 5th gear wheelies on little 12" wheels. now imagine a cr500 motor it was a tragedy waiting to happen.

hahaha aweeesome...i would have loved to see mfdb rip it up on that thing...

I had a sweet YSR and lined up a local dt-1 250 full running motor. would have been a direct bolt-in w/ matching electronics, but I decided instead to sell the whole thing, I would have been too tempted to do crazy stuff on it and kill myself
if you ever come across a ysr for cheap, '79-'81 yz80 motors drop right in and all old at-1, ct-1 and dt-1 motors bolt right into the cradle and require slight mods like a 520 chain conversion and wiring stuff. those things are fun as hell, even on the stock motor I'd get mine up to 48mph in the neighborhood, which on something that size knee dragging around the corners was pretty crazy

i seen 2 of them little bikes your talking about at the local dump. 1 was mostly complete with engine, the other one was just the frame with wheels

I used to work in a Yamaha shop. There was some sort of 50cc moped that was traded in, the piston was trashed. The boss told me to get it running and clean it up as cheap as possible.
I scrounged around in the used parts shed and found an 80cc 3 wheeler. The jug and piston was a direct bolt on.....which was fun as hell on the first test ride I took.

Needless to say, the first customer that test rode it fell in love w/the little jewel.
Looking back now that ordeal could have been detremental if anything happened and the vehicle was looked at as "modified".

One of my best friends had the worst crash of his life on a YZ80. Seems like the small machines are the ones that kick our large asses the worst.

Wheelie-Gene wrote:One of my best friends had the worst crash of his life on a YZ80. Seems like the small machines are the ones that kick our large asses the worst.

My cr80 is so fast...i've gone over the bars on it numerous times because of how small it is...my worst crash however is still on a 500

my cousin still has an old yz80 and I used to get my ass kicked on that thing one time I was cruising along on a trail when my toe hit a rock and pulled me clean off the bike good times

dannygraves wrote:my cousin still has an old yz80 and I used to get my ass kicked on that thing one time I was cruising along on a trail when my toe hit a rock and pulled me clean off the bike good times

And you never broke your toe!??

not THAT time the funny thing is I was wearing doc martens too

I don't like riding in shoes...