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Introductions / Hello from upstate NY!

« on: November 20, 2014, 10:47:13 PM »

Thanks for the welcomes and kind words! It's been an interesting ride the last few years for sure.  Beobe99 I literally lol'd reading your post, but I understand where you're coming from completely! I think at this point I'd like to find a "good" deal on a nice machine, or a super cheap clapped out machine; whichever comes first I suppose. There's a few that I've been looking at, there's a sharp looking machine in PA for 3500, and a pretty complete but less nice one in MI for 1400.  The prices are really all over the place so it's kind of tormenting trying to find "the one"; I swear this is worse than dating. Is your Laeger the one on Craigslist with the white frame and red 89 plastic? I have a 21' Checkmate boat that I think I'm going to unload to fund this life changing adventure.

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Introductions / Hello from upstate NY!

« on: November 20, 2014, 01:16:28 PM »

Ironically I'm spitting distance from there.  I grew up down in the fingerlakes, but recently moved to the Watertown area for work after I graduated from school.

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Lounge / Esr

« on: November 20, 2014, 01:08:24 PM »

I know this is an older thread, but for what it's worth DynoPort pipes are a WORKS pipe designed to pull throughout the RPM range,  the owner Rich Daly is obsessive about performance; I run his pipes on everything I own and swear by them. You won't have to work so hard to stay on the pipe with his chambers, but they are designed for a specific displacement range.  So if you want performance details for you application, call him directly; they are still in business but do mostly sled stuff now since the quad industry went to 4-stroke.  Krank-It pipes are essentially relabled DynoPort pipes, and are equally good.  Scott Carey at Krank-It used to build some incredibly nasty 2-strokes, mainly 250R motors back in the day. My Blaster has a Krank-It motor in it, and it really puts out.

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Introductions / Hello from upstate NY!

« on: November 20, 2014, 12:44:37 PM »

Haha yeah it's been comin' down pretty good.  I'm not in the Buffalo area though, so I'm missing out on all that fun; I have buddies out there running payloaders to clear snow and riding their snowmobiles to the bar ... err... the restaurant right on the main roads through town.  Around here it's been more of a "standard" winter lol, nothing unmanageable so far.

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Introductions / Hello from upstate NY!

« on: November 20, 2014, 10:26:00 AM »

Hey gang,
I just wanted to introduce myself after signing up to your forum.  I'm Taylor, 32 y/o dude from the snowy north. I don't own a 250R, unfortunately, but have been on quads since I was about 7 years old. Since I was a kid, the 250R has been a dream machine; I spent countless hours on the trails / quarries around my home town watching guys with R's run around, dreaming of my own.  Unfortunately, at that time (and most of my life therafter) the feasability of owning one just wasn't there; expenses and other priorities in life didn't allow for it. I worked as a machinist for quite a long time, during that time running a 700 dollar Blaster and slowly transforming it into the race machine it is today; I've actually owned it for close to 15 years. In 2009, the recession struck home and I found myself unemployed.  Since then, I've returned to college, graduated, and started a new career in engineering.   With that, I feel that 25 years later, it's time to attempt to fill that childhood dream.  I've been casually shopping for the right machine / deal, and it led me to your forum.  I'm a board member for a Jeep club forum, and I look forward to getting to know some of you and seeing what this new group has to offer! Cheers to all and to keeping the 2-strokes alive!