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KX500B1 Rebuild Project
motojason:
--- Quote from: Foxx4Beaver on June 10, 2015, 06:51:35 AM ---that's beautiful!
now I think a lot of us would like to see a video, so we can hear that baby runnin!!...nice job!
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Thanks! I have helmet cam footage from the Team Cup. I'll work on getting it up on YouTube.
This is the first and only 500 I have ridden and it is way different than my 125/250s! The compression release on the head sure helps getting it started, that kick start lever has a looooong stroke...
umberto:
Great job, the bike looks fantastic! How did you guys do at Unadilla?
Foxx4Beaver:
--- Quote from: motojason on June 10, 2015, 07:06:56 AM ---Thanks! I have helmet cam footage from the Team Cup. I'll work on getting it up on YouTube.
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cool, let us know when it's up.
I got to ride with Dowd once, right on the tracks behind my house. He's good friends with Keith Johnson from Pembroke, MA...which is about 15mins away from me. Keith was a 9 time NESC Champion throughout the 90's who I regularly raced with.
One day in '98, there was a bunch of us practicing on the tracks that're about 400 yards behind my house in the powerlines...and all of sudden the two of them showed up, and just put everyone to shame. Dowd was on factory Yamamaha back then...and won Southwick that year too.
Keith and his cousin Dana Johnson are working vigorously with the new Southwick owners, to get it back on the Nationals schedule.
umberto:
That's awesome! Did you get to talk to him, or just ride with him? Either way that's a memory to cherish.
Foxx4Beaver:
oh yeah...we all talked to him and had some laughs for about an hour.
my 1st impression was how easy he was to talk to, always smiling, and you could see it in his face and personality, that he was a truly happy person.
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