So I picked up this Houser chassis last week because I always wanted a 426 hybrid.
Back story is I use to have the 2000 yz 426 dirtbike and loved the motor, yes there have since been faster bikes and motors since then, but I always enjoyed it when I had it. This always left a part of me wanting to have that motor again in a quad chassis. When my buddy got his yfz I was rather disappointed. From a chassis perspective I was never comfy on it and felt like I was sitting up too high, and from the motor aspect it felt like it had no balls compared to the 426.
So I've always kicked around the idea and recently I decided I was going to go for it and get myself a 426 hybrid one of these days. There was that PRP I was watching and going to go for, but this Houser came along and I bit the bullet and bought it. In the end its going to be more expensive to build this to what I want then starting with a complete bike. But I know when I am done it will be exactly what I want.
So the seller had it listed as a 250R Houser hybrid and I thought it was so. After I finally got it home and looked it over I realized it wasnt a 250R houser chassis and was kind of let down. But it turns out its a hybrid 400ex chassis, and I'm ok with that since the 400ex and 250R share the same geometry, and this will even take 250r plastics so good enough for me.
More about the chassis: It is I believe an 02 houser 400ex yz426 hybrid chassis. The chassis is a no link so it keeps in line with all my other R's that are no links as well. I managed to actually find more info on it and its previous forms after I stumbled across it on google. The person who I purchased it from must have not been the one who owned it for a while, but none the less its still cool to find previous forms of the bike. I'm going to do a build thread in the other section on this bike, and it is going to take me some time since I have other projects and will just acquire parts for this either when a deal comes along or when my other projects are finished. But anyway here are some photos of the bike and its previous form.
Here is pretty much everything I have at the moment: Frame, Subframe, Swingarm, Axis No-Link rear shock, and airbox
Here is what the bike must have originally looked like. It was set up for TT when one of the previous owners got it back in the mid 2000's
It was ran that way for a while until he started to change it up
And here is the final form of the bike that I could find pictures of. Not sure if it has been assembled since this
This is certainly going to be a project, the frame needs a little tlc before powder(mainly because of my OCD), and the quest for the parts I want has begun. Anyway hopefully this project comes together sooner rather than later because I am excited for it
