WARNING: Long Story
I built this quad a hunnert years ago. It’s been apart for a long long time. It’s still apart but I finally got to address a huge problem. And since I have the welder out I’m fixing and changing what was already a pretty bitchen ride. When I built this I was racing desert on a 250r. I always ran 22” tire to get up out of the rocks so there was never enough power and I never wanted to build a big little two stroke motor and I kind of wanted a 4 stroke. First I built a 350X and put that in a R. Not fast enough. Honda then came out with the 400ex....shine. Me no likee. Dirt Wheels mag built a XR500 quad that was pretty awesome but they already had a XR600 two wheeler so that got me going. Plus I had one. I emptied out the motor and sent it off to Lonestar. They built a frame around it that would use 250R components. Unfortunately kickstarting a long stroke 4 poker takes a long kick and the kicker hit the footpeg before finishing the stroke. After trying unsuccessfully to fabricate a peg mount that would let the kicker get a full stroke I gave up. Plus Lonestar had an idea on how to mount the back brake pedal coming from the front, like an ATK, that I wasn’t fond of. I picked up a 650L electric start motor and away we go. Lots of problems solved and new ones to be addressed. The motor mounts were just strong enough to hold the motor without starting it. Broken, broken, broken. I was so busy adding metal that I never even got to powdercoat it. The swingarm was trying to leave the frame too. That’s when I decided to tear it apart and do a major. The swingarm pivot has to be tied to the motor like every bike since the 90s. Well that was a long time ago but everything is here to resurrect her once I get the rest of the nagging things rectified.(airbox& intake) plus it’s fun. Maybe after she’s back together and shaken down I’ll even be able to make her pretty. Now I have to figure out how to post pics.
