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3rd Track Ride -- Now Trouble
Posted: June 13th, 2011, 5:19 pm
by plynn41
I guess the 21 year old subframe wasn't up for full speed laps. Maybe I need to lose a few pounds?
![Image](https://bannedcr500riders.com/images/auto/85c720b34f56f6e87116e4e6ba030542.jpg)
Posted: June 13th, 2011, 7:12 pm
by Tharrell
That's an easy fix.
You have a reason to take it down to the metal now and inspect, repaint or powder.
Posted: June 13th, 2011, 9:26 pm
by CR525Bruce
time for an A/F conversion!
Posted: June 14th, 2011, 4:18 am
by Tharrell
Yeah, that's a good option too!
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
Posted: June 14th, 2011, 6:22 am
by plynn41
I'm working on an A/F as we speak, but not with this engine. This is supposed to be my play bike.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
I guess I play too hard.
Posted: June 14th, 2011, 7:24 am
by AlisoBob
Tharrell wrote:That's an easy fix.
Ride standing up more.....
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 8:38 am
by plynn41
![Embarassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif)
Then I need to spend more time on the bicycle, 'cause my legs are sore today.
Posted: June 14th, 2011, 12:44 pm
by AlisoBob
plynn41 wrote:![Embarassed :oops:](./images/smilies/icon_redface.gif)
Then I need to spend more time on the bicycle
We all do....
Posted: June 14th, 2011, 1:38 pm
by MojoScojo
Get sore doing something? Spend more time doing it...
Posted: June 14th, 2011, 2:12 pm
by Rhino89523
Stand up.....are you kidding I would have to revamp my whole style, this dog is getting too old to learn new tricks. I will say this though, I am a total fat ass, I sit down waaaay too much and I have yet to do that! Nice work I am impressed.
Just a thought, had your top bolt backed out or something and got that thing to twist in the past, had a crack for a while and then it finally did this. On my old xr600 I used to crack the main down tube on the front where the AF guys modify the Y and I would crack just below your crack on the main frame but I never cracked a sub frame straight like that.
Posted: June 14th, 2011, 2:16 pm
by AlisoBob
Rhino89523 wrote: I sit down waaaay too much and I have yet to do that! Nice work I am impressed.
Trace told me you were the fastest "sit -down" rider he has ever seen.... And he's seen ALLOT of them....
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Posted: June 14th, 2011, 2:18 pm
by AlisoBob
MojoScojo wrote:Get sore doing something? Spend more time doing it...
![Image](http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0805/no-longer-shall-we-spank-the-monkey-demotivational-poster-1212103323.jpg)
Posted: June 14th, 2011, 2:38 pm
by Rhino89523
Trace told me you were the fastest "sit -down" rider he has ever seen.... And he's seen ALLOT of them....
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I appreciate the compliment but it's really the only way I know how to ride. You met me, I'm built like Fred Flinstone, I have a huge Torso and short little legs, when I stand up my center of gravity feels like its at about the 10' mark and I can't ride fast like that. After Hoonfest Trace emailed me and said "dude you would ride so much faster if you stood up" I tried for a while and started crashing....I gave up. I am back to my old ways, I'm not the fastest guy in the world but I roll pretty solid. At this point winning the race would be still riding at 70 and being the last and only member of both CR500 boards.
I am selling the yz450, I took it out the other day and turned around, rode back home and grabbed my CR. I was thinking about all the stuff I wanted to do to make it mine and realized I was trying to turn it into my CR500. It doesn't have the torque of the CR so it wanted to be wound out, I was thinking about all those parts spinning twice as fast all the time and realized why they are so much maintenance and I don't feel like paying it to have something that will never be as bad ass as my CR.
So I'm shooting for still moto-ing at 70 still riding a CR500.
Posted: June 14th, 2011, 2:57 pm
by plynn41
Rhino89523 wrote:Just a thought, had your top bolt backed out or something and got that thing to twist in the past, had a crack for a while and then it finally did this.
Negative, I'm pretty sure. I had everything apart this winter and inspected the steel pretty close. Some of you will remember when I posted pictures of the frame cradle that had crushed tubes--so the bike has had some hard hits in its past, but the subframe looked cherry.
This was my 3rd ride, and I checked the subframe bolts before the ride. I found out why the frame rails were so beat up though. The private track I've ridden on the last two times is gravel and sand, and if I bottom the bike out on some jumps, the frame and pegs hit gravel. After doing that a couple of times I backed off, because I don't have a bash guard on and can't afford to put a rock through the cases. I never had that problem with bottoming on the '97 CR250R. Forks are all the way down in the triples, btw. I'm sure I need heavier springs.