Bucket update

[Pumba]

Hey bucket people, as I know this is one place most of you in the know frequent I thought I would ask the question.

My frame is not the best, and I may have the chance to get hold of a RGV rolling frame (pretty much a complete bike but the engine is f#$ked) would transplating my engine into the RGV be worth it? asuming I can get it for the right money.

[CM2005]

Hey bucket people, as I know this is one place most of you in the know frequent I thought I would ask the question.

My frame is not the best, and I may have the chance to get hold of a RGV rolling frame (pretty much a complete bike but the engine is f#$ked) would transplating my engine into the RGV be worth it? asuming I can get it for the right money.

Hi Pumba, whats your current kwakka frame? Using an RGV frame will give you engine mount problems, and also, the RX engine will be pretty lost in an RGV frame! The RGV frame will be slower steering and higher weight because of wide wheels, and might not give the same feedback because of the stiff suspension. I used a GP125 with standard frame and sticky 18" rims and i have no probs with that. Look for a smaller frame if you can find one. Also, would you be riding it round Mt Welly alot?

Josh

[Pumba]

Hey Josh

The Kawaka frame is a G4 an old trail bike frame from the investigations I have made, its not wounderfull, but neither am I.

Thanks for your comments somthing to think about.

I will be riding Mt Welly alot, so far I have familiarised myself with the track surface on 3 of the corners as well as a bit of grass on the outfeild

[CM2005]

Hey Josh
I will be riding Mt Welly alot, so far I have familiarised myself with the track surface on 3 of the corners as well as a bit of grass on the outfeild

I know the G4 frame, is it suspension, ground clearance etc letting you down?
I've done two track inspections of mt welly, on the far hairpin...

And what happened to the Yamaha frame?

[speedpro]

The Kawaka frame is a G4 an old trail bike frame from the investigations I have made, its not wounderfull, but neither am I.

My mate Jim let me ride his G4 framed bucket round Mt Welly. He has made no mods to the frame other than to mount radiators etc. The suspension is another matter and is completely custom. I flattened the sidestand mounting tab round the sweeper in my 1/2 hour session on it without falling off. I also nearly wore through the leather on the side of my boots(not the soles) and had wear marks from my boots to my knee sliders.

The chassis is fine, it's the suspension and wheels that will be letting you down.

[quallman1234]

Time to pull out the bucket from the garage .

Was it bungbung who offered me that expansion chamber?

[bungbung]

Yup, I've sent a PM

[F5 Dave]

Hey! not my famed Ugly chamber?

[bungbung]

Hey! not my famed Ugly chamber?

Nah, 0.5xTZR250, A100 choice of champs

[bungbung]

Ivan's ugly chamber vs F5 Dave's ugly chamber: who will win?

Dave's is pretty in comparison (but will win in performance)

[quallman1234]

For the record. The Bike worked better without Ivan's Chamber attached.

Cheers for the chamber Bungbung! Legend!

[Skunk]

I've now finished making the AX100 a mono shock. We'll have to see if it works in Feb I guess.

[Buddha#81:Me]

I've now finished making the AX100 a mono shock. We'll have to see if it works in Feb I guess.

Photo's please

[Slingshot]

I can't wait for the series to start this year!!

It sounds like we going to have at least a couple of new competitors this year so the racing should be good.

I think it would be good to split the F4 class between alloy framed bikes and steel tube framed bikes. From what I've seen it seems that the frame type dictates the performance of the bike.
Good still all race together though and still have an overall series winner.

Skunk, that bike of yours is going to have more technology packed in than the space shuttle!!!

[Sully60]

Skunk, that bike of yours is going to have more technology packed in than the space shuttle!!!

I would like to think that Skunks engineering is a little better than that of a space shuttle, those things blow up in huge fireballs and rain down bits and pieces from the sky.

Anyway thats AJ's and my job!