bclapham
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- Nov 5, 2001
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This week at the races, i was pitted next to Rick Peterson from RPMsBigBore since it seems we have a mutal friend.
It was a good oportunity to check out one of Ricks new big bore kits. He is running a stoker big bore 302 kit on the new KXF/RMZ four strokes. As we all have heard, these bikes are running way hot even as stock so you might think a big bore on these bikes is asking a lot.
What Rick has done is made his own cylinder! a very simple idea where a outer cooling jacket is machined from billet and the inner cylinder is fits inside as a removable sleeve- a similar concept to the two piece heads that we have seen on 2 strokes. the cylinder setup has been dubbed the "IceCube". Right now, they are racing this bike everyweek and really hammering these things hard to try and blow them up, its not until when they have good reliablility that they go up for sale to the public. For this reason i dont think some of the kits for the CRF250 are ready yet, but i am sure it wont be long.
cool stuff indeed.
It was a good oportunity to check out one of Ricks new big bore kits. He is running a stoker big bore 302 kit on the new KXF/RMZ four strokes. As we all have heard, these bikes are running way hot even as stock so you might think a big bore on these bikes is asking a lot.
What Rick has done is made his own cylinder! a very simple idea where a outer cooling jacket is machined from billet and the inner cylinder is fits inside as a removable sleeve- a similar concept to the two piece heads that we have seen on 2 strokes. the cylinder setup has been dubbed the "IceCube". Right now, they are racing this bike everyweek and really hammering these things hard to try and blow them up, its not until when they have good reliablility that they go up for sale to the public. For this reason i dont think some of the kits for the CRF250 are ready yet, but i am sure it wont be long.
cool stuff indeed.