KX Riders
General => Introductions => Topic started by: Wayfast1500 on April 12, 2010, 08:14:44 AM
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Hey guys, I was found this site while browsing thumpertalk. I'm a welder from NH, I've been riding atvs since I was 12. Last year I traded my banshee for a 2000 kx 250 and havnt looked back. I'm in the middle of building a '86 yz 250, and I also ride street on a built Harley. I love the kx, I ride everything from mx tracks to woods to riding on frozen lakes with a set of ice tires I made.
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wayfast, welcome! This is a great site and lots of super folks!
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Welcome to the site NH,
What kind of welding do you Do? I got my 6G pipe w/stick after graduating H.S. and did a 5yr Apprenticeship with The SteamFitters. Got to learn Mig Tig and then Hired out for the Railroad, I regret not getting a Machine and keeping up with it.
There's always someone who needs something repaired.
Maybe we should start a restoration thread as there are a bunch of folks currently breathing life back into some of the '80s bikes. This is a great group of Gearheads and Throttle Jockey's. I'm sure we/they would like some pic's of your YZ build. You never know what or who can learn from your work. And although this is primarily a KX site 99% of the "Other" bike zingers are mearly for entertainement.
Tuck\o/
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Im kind of a jack of all processes, but I prefer TIG. I've been doing repair work out of my garage, but now that I'll have a college degree in welding I'm hoping to get into some aerospace, or pipe welding. I'll post some pics as I work on the yz, but my kx is taking most of my time trying to get it dialed in.
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Welcome Wayfast, I too have a 01 kx 250, and also had a 86 yz 250, The yz mays a great play/woods bike but not much for MX, just not enough hit. Good luck.
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Welcome wayfast from a fellow newbie
Thanks for keeping the 80s bikes going they are so great in there own right
I have a 1988 KX and I am looking for another at the moment (1986 KX80) I am on the hunt
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I figured the yz was either going to be mellow or have a "lightswitch" powerband. All I use to do when I was in my young teens was build old stuff like that. When I was 14 I picked up a '76 skidoo olympique, restored it and flipped it, started doing a '76 RM 250 that year with the dual rear shocks but it was too far gone for me at that time and I got rid of it, did a few old street bikes ect. Besides the yz Im also building a '73 dodge charger. Its a 318 car now numbers matching, but when I'm done it will either have a turbo 410 stroker or a mild 440. Im leaning towards the stroker since I already have the 360 long block and its kind of out of the ordinary.
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hey does the car have torsion bars
I recall as a kid we had a plymouth wagon and one bar let go and whamo we were dead in the water
I love the charger and the 318 is a great engine to build
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yup, it does have torsion bars. From what I hear when they let go it sounds like a gun shot.