"slightly" used gear oil color ?

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:25:32 GMT, bruno.TakeThisOut@hpsvbpm.fc.hp.com (Bruno
Melli) wrote:



 >
  >> Yep. Mine requires that I put gas in it.
 >
 >What kind of bike do you have ?

94 Husaberg. Never had a top end done. It only holds liter of oil,
so I change it pretty frequently. Other than that, I put gas in it.
Kawasaki has probably already sold more 250Fs than Husaberg has sold
total bikes in the last 5 or 10 years.

 >I'm sure 2 strokes have their share of issues, but nothing compared to
 >what I've read about the latest high revving 4 strokers:
 >
 >I've heard of the titanium valve issue with the 450 CRF. And how they have
 >a small oil capacity so you could potentially run out of oil on a long
 >ride.
 >Just yesterday I was reading through one of the dirt magazines. They were
 >explaining how to "fix" the new Kawasuki 250F because of
 >- Gears that lose teeth
 >- valve springs that fatigue right away and float the valve.
 >- The need for larger radiators and water pump to prevent them from
 > overheating.
 >
 >In comparison, a top end job once a year seems very easy.
 >
 >bruno.

In article ,

 > Not. I'll chime in on the rest of the defense posts here. I love my 4
 > stroke. Can't believe how hard it pulls.

No need to defend the 4 strokes. I tried vlj's CRF450 and I want one (and an
enduro bike, and a trial bike... they are extremely fun to ride.

Speaking of vlj, we met a while back at the local MX track. (He brought
the kids to play with their new bikes). So anyway he shows up, unload the
kids' bikes, warm then up by riding them back and forth and trying to do
stoppies WITHOUT a helmet on or any other safety equipment.
I'm thinking to myself, "great role model". I'm starting to look around to see
if I can move my truck so other people don't think I'm with him.
So then he starts his bike and warm it up the same way. Then he has to
screw the muffler insert back in because he is about to lose it.
Then he has to borrow a 10mm wrench from me to adjust his shit lever
because his brand spanking new boots don't fit under it.
He goes riding for 2 minutes or so then comes back and reborrow my
wrench because now he can't downshift.
So he puts everything back the way it was and proceed to put his old boots
back on (I don't know what hapenned to the new boots. Did they ever show
up on ebay ?). So here we are 45 minutes later and we still haven't started
riding. So you'll excuse me if I think 4 strokes are high maintenance. It
doesn't take me 45 minutes to get going on my YZ !

bruno.