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    Current and start. Yes, it's the same bike. Under $3000 and 4 years of use.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DELLORTO View Post
    if you do anything else than that you'll risk blowing the motor.....
    thats not really true... but it is true that in my search for power I did destroy a few engines on the way because i was trying some strange ideas, but now i seem to have them pretty sorted and very reliable, in fact i haven't blown one up for ages now lol, i better get back to the drawing board!
    The last 2 engines i have built have been far from just a carb change etc, they have had some serious work and are surviving well and are very fast.

    Hell even the very 1st motofxr racer i built for last years BOB is going hard out and the new owner is rough as guts lol! thats got cams, ignition, high compression, carb and all the light stuff, still going strong!

    thats why i cant agree with you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DELLORTO View Post
    haha i doubt the fasest fxr is standard......its the rider who is the fastest no the bike. Wouldnt bren's bike be WAY faster than stock one?
    well its sure as fuck louder than a stock one.

    a WAY (way faster bikes, missing the capitals, are much slower than WAY bikes) faster bucket aint gonna make you win, and its unlikely to put you much, if any closer to the front. (see streetstock for examples).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skunk View Post
    Current and start. Yes, it's the same bike. Under $3000 and 4 years of use.
    that looks real cool!!!

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    Nah, its all in the bike Im telling ya!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gav View Post
    Nah, its all in the bike Im telling ya!
    you think its a 200cc like Joe is? might have to start a rumor!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bren_chch View Post
    thats not really true... but it is true that in my search for power I did destroy a few engines on the way because i was trying some strange ideas, but now i seem to have them pretty sorted and very reliable, in fact i haven't blown one up for ages now lol, i better get back to the drawing board!
    The last 2 engines i have built have been far from just a carb change etc, they have had some serious work and are surviving well and are very fast.

    Hell even the very 1st motofxr racer i built for last years BOB is going hard out and the new owner is rough as guts lol! thats got cams, ignition, high compression, carb and all the light stuff, still going strong!

    thats why i cant agree with you.
    you know what your doing tho......alot people {including myself} are not experts and are very scared of blowing such a "rare" motor......you must of spent a fortune on fxr development...lol so you know now what make them fast and reliable {fortune in bucket terms}
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    Quote Originally Posted by DELLORTO View Post
    you know what your doing tho......alot people {including myself} are not experts and are very scared of blowing such a "rare" motor......
    Well, seeing as you were unable to change the stale fuel in your old FXR then you are probably right ......

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    Quote Originally Posted by DELLORTO View Post
    you know what your doing tho......alot people {including myself} are not experts and are very scared of blowing such a "rare" motor......you must of spent a fortune on fxr development...lol so you know now what make them fast and reliable {fortune in bucket terms}
    I've been quite lucky in that i managed to score a few dead engines and lots of old parts so it hasn't stung me to much, but i still wouldn't want to add up all the deaths!

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    R & D is never cheap .....

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    And anyway, why would you spend $3000 on that Chinese thing when you could buy this for $2000!
    http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List...x?id=246713571

    and with the left over, buy a tidy Suzuki GP125!
    http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-246562745.htm

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    Looks like quite a tidy GP, be a shame to molest it, could even be a nice resto.

    Far better life than my poor old GP100 that I bought in (large) parts for $40. Invested twice that amount on some knobblies & headed for the hills with some other demented friends.

    It easily had the legs on a A100, but the downside of that rotary valve engine was as you coasted down a hill & came upon a fallen branch & tried to pop a wheelie it would have loaded up so you smash over the branch only to accelerate a second later
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    Christ you go away for a week and you miss all the fun. Nothing like a good shit fieght eh boys

    I have a feeling that buckets has always cost what buckets has cost, from what I have seen and heard about there has been a lot of money spent in the past, but possibly it was never spoken about or added up the same way it now if with the advent of the internet.

    Just a theory, dont let it stop the shit

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    Trust me. The argument over how much a bucket should cost, and therefore how fast it may be, has been going on forever. Funny thing is that the FAST buckets all have more time spent on them than money. Money -yes, but time - YES, lots. It's the old story about a particular bucket not being in the spirit etc etc and how bucket racing is all about being "cheap" fun. Then someone mentions how all this money being spent is ruining bucket racing , what a load of crap.

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    At the end of the day talent counts for more than bike anyway. Still remember being seriously embarassed on my 360sx KTM by a guy on a KDX200 by the name of Chris Birch. You can buy all the bike you like but you can't buy talent and balls the size of coconuts.

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