Hi all,
I joined the forum a few weeks ago and is very useful to find hard to find information. I am based in the UK just north of London near to the famous M25 motorway which is nicknamed the UK's biggest car park.
I have an 87 KX 250 which is about to be rebuilt. The bike was bought for little money from a farmer who had left it in the barn for 3 years. It had 1 cm of dust all over the bike until I rescued it and gave it sanctuary.
It has had a new crank and it will be put back together this weekend. I will probably build a website to share the hard earned knowledge to save others some grief.
Normally I ride a Honda Hornet 600 on the road with a few mates who have R1's, GSX-r's etc. Quite new to offroad stuff, got the bug completely last year on an intro day with a Paris Dakar rider on a Honda CR 450 four stroke. Once I got some air, I was hooked.
It is more fun offroad and at least most people are going in the same direction and no cops or dozy car drivers. Going fast on UK roads gets harder with speed cameras everywhere, really busy roads and crazy car and van drivers.
A pal and I now go sand racing in the winter, a picture of me in action is below. The bike is a chinese 125 copy with a sawn off exhaust. The sand racing is awesome, just like speedway but on a beach, the track is a 500 metre (550 yards) oval marked out on the beach once the tide goes out. You just open the throttle and turn. No brakes are used, just slide and drift. Average lap just now is 30 seconds which equates to 40 mph average.
The plan is to use the KX for enduro's and beach racing and the lap speed should get to 50-55mph. The sand is awesome, even on the straight bits both wheels are sliding, on corners it is about keeping the front planted and letting the rear drift.
http://xtreme-action-images.com/sand/290309/pages/mar29_1338.htmBye for now,
Martin
