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Sell it while the economy is still good. After it takes a dump the market will be flooded with cheaper bikes.

The wet bike is interesting. I found one for a good deal at an auction. And I'm gonna go through it and get it running. Apparently it has sat since 97. It's in pretty good shape though so it should be interesting to ride. I feel it's a good addition to the fleet.

I hardly ever race, maybe 1-2 times every two years. Put a lot of hours on my bike having fun. It’s way more fun this way, plus you get way more seat time for way less money. Once you get through the initial “breakup” anxiousness of it you won’t miss it at all when you experience what the other side is like. It’s just change that’s getting you, good change.

I have NO IDEA if this will work, but what I am trying to do is "recover" some engines that were broken in lightly that also did not get perfect ring seal. My plan is this: (1) Run a fresh tank of fuel, with a heavy dosage of Yamaha Ring Free Plus (as a way to break any ring glaze that has developed and is preventing proper ring seating): https://www.shopyamaha.com/product/details/ring-free-plus?ls=yamaha-mot… (2) When running this fuel mix, load the engine hard like I normally would have during a proper break-in Again, I could be a quack, but it's what I am...

Mine pulled out a few times while riding somehow. It would rip the wires and ultimately I had to buy a new harness. The 23’s have a new placement for that sensor which is on top of the air box now so hopefully that type of issue won’t happen anymore. If it ever happens again, you can ride the bike and it really doesn’t effect anything. I rode mine for weeks with the wires ripped out while I waited for the new harness to show up.

Do you have the stock ECU? Mine blinked 8 times and from what I understand thats a generic code on the Vortex. I plugged my stock unit in and the code blinked properly. I would however first check the air sensor and all the connections leading to it. That seems to be common culprit.

December of 98 my friend and I loaded up the bikes and pointed the pickup south from Bend Oregon. We ended up in Beaumont and it's insane hits that all the movies had at that time. There was some iteration of this jump on this hill and I hit it in 4th and caught the most air ever. All were dead sailors because a trickster, I was not. These local kids said that I was catching enough air to lay some fat whips down. If only I could. Thanks ML for the 2016 post. I wish I could get...

To all those saying it's lame because it's not an organized race, do you yell at restaurant patrons who order things you wouldn't have ordered? Having fun on a dirt bike is cool. Bring back the pros doing free ride videos! I wanna see Jett and Anderson in the hills doing stuff we'd never think of.