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[QUOTE="EricGorr, post: 305561, member: 19611"] Rich and I didn’t build the Invader because we were looking for recognition. We were looking to get people to think differently, to start interesting discussions, kind of like what we do in this forum on DRN. Our prime motivation for this project came from a conversation with Danny Magoo Chandler. In 1981 he was a privateer riding an RM125 and was half sponsored by Krause and George Quay’s first suspension business Keystone Motocross. I built Danny’s engines that year and he spent the summer living at Krause’s house/shop. In 1980 when the Maico Magnum was introduced, Rick Sieman the editor of Dirt Bike magazine and he had the brilliant idea of getting Magoo to throw the bike around for some photos. To highlight the new frame, Rick rigged a small windshield bottle from a VW in order to remove the fuel tank and expose the new frame. It was a famous photo shoot because Magoo pretty much invented freestyle mx and those photos captured it in print. When we asked Magoo about the shoot, he commented that the bike handled better without the fuel tank because it was so narrow and light feeling, but unfortunately the fuel supply would only last for a few jumps. In 1982 we built our version of the mass centralized dirt bike and brought it to George Quay’s shop in Beaver Falls prior to the High Point National. Back then everybody used to hang out there, working on bikes, goin’ riding, shootin the bull, and wreaking havoc on Beaver Falls. I showed Magoo our bike for the first time, telling him that our conversation the previous year motivated us to build it. He had a good laugh ripping around George’s shop on the bike. The the number 1 & 2 points leaders in the 250 class dropped by and scoped out the bike; Ricky Johnson and Kenny Keylon. RJ was riding a factory Yamaha with the big high tank and the radiator mounted to the triple clamp. Kenny was riding the factory Honda. We talked about weight bias and riding and such. RJ brought up an interesting point that top heavy bikes were easy to throw down in a turn and it seemed that the greater the displacement the more beneficial it was for the bike to be top heavy. The next year RJ was signed to Honda and Yamaha started shifting down the mass of their bikes except the 490 which retained the “high and wide” look. [/QUOTE]
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