Dirt Rider's Internet Bike Story
Who is in:
www.thumpertalk.com
www.crfsonly.com
www.dirtrider.net
www.ktmtalk.com
www.minibiketalk.com
www.dirtrider.com
(there is the possibility of a freestyle board, still pending)
Dirt Rider magazine has invited the above listed forums to participate in a bike build up, where the motorcycle that the members of each forum decide to build will be featured in an article in the magazine. Some boards are small and some are huge, hopefully we'll get an interesting mix of bikes for the story. The rules are pretty simple and as follows:
--We must have the finished bike delivered to us in Southern California no later than April 2nd.
--We will need the bike for 2 weeks to photograph and test it. The bike will be tested for the purpose it was intended. MX bikes on MX tracks and trail bikes on the trails. Don't try and out think us on where we are going to test. We promise to get the bike in its element. Build the bike that represents the members! It would be best if the bike were set up for an average sized guy of average ability level, say 180 lbs, intermediate ability, but this is not a rule.
--The bike and what is done to it must be decided in a single forum on message boards by members of the site. In other words, there must be a clear and easily locatable track history of what bike is selected and what is done to that bike. We will have an address to that form in the magazine so the Dirt Rider readers can look in on it themselves to see the history. You can use polls, votes, other threads to make decisions, but everything should be traced back into a single thread to make it easy to keep track of. It is up to the forum moderator to make the final decision on specifics, but it should be done in the forum (in public) for all members to see.
--You can use whatever parts and changes to any bike that your forum sees fit, there are really no hard and fast rules other than these:
Using the MIC published RPM numbers for sound testing and the SAE J-1287 test procedure,
MX bikes must be below 99db
Off-road bikes must have a Spark Arrestor and be below 96db
--Ideally the forum will first select the brand (very easy in some cases), then the model, the displacement, then decide how to make that bike the best it can be and show off the expertise of the members and what they believe is the best bike out there.
--Dirt Rider will not be shooting these bikes out or doing a comparison test with them. We will test them individually and show our readers what your forum thinks is the best bike out there.
So good luck and I'm really interested to see what shows up in April!
Jimmy Lewis
Editor
Dirt Rider Magazine
that's the idea. Time Frame is the killer. Why not start with a good base. Plus, where this bike will be tested (California) it will be more of a WORCS type situation.wanaride said:. . . unless you are in the desert or maybe a WORCS race, I don't think the 500AF is a good choice. I haven't ridden one so maybe I'm dead wrong, but I can imagine a 500cc 2T would be a handful in tight, rocky, root infested rutted trails, even with a massive FWW.
Of course, considering the timeframe and the infinite range of opinion, maybe you should just hop up the 500AF and call it good?
Okiewan said:Another thought...
This thing will obviously create some competition between the various boards ...
PLEASE do NOT turn this into something less than what it's intended to be. Some board bashing is sure to follow, we aren't going to be a part of it. Cool?
Build the bike that represents the members!
The bike will be tested for the purpose it was intended. MX bikes on MX tracks and trail bikes on the trails. Don't try and out think us on where we are going to test. We promise to get the bike in its element.
Convertible, I like that! Supermoto wheels and a plate would make that sucker rock. Might not necessarily be legal in CA, but it for sure would sneak through in Idaho, maybe even TXTony Eeds said:Since it has a light, I assume it has a battery. What about including a tag for DS work and perhaps a state of the art GPS system wired in? Make it convertable. An AFX prepared for the woods would still be more bike than many of us need on a MX track.
AJ Waggoner said:but recently cali has gotten extreemly strange on licensing SM's or dual sports,
basically has just decided not to do it anymore,
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