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Posted by: markvette
ok some of you i already contacted and told you we had to blow off monster mountain this weekend. so we are looking for some place local to race, you all know me i want to go where the biggest turn out will be. mxmike, motown whee are ya'll going. we want to do rock hill but if ya'll go to gonzales that will hurt rock hills turn out.i guess if we had to we could go to gonzales. but i hate that track. ya'll let me know
oh listen to this, rogers called me yesterday and wanted to know if this weekend would be a good one to run the quads. man i told him how to you expect me to get anyone there with only a 3 day notice. he is having a big race the last weekend in november and quads are included. ya'll let me know about this weekend.
Posted by: markvette
yea its nov.30 and dec. 1. if he does like most tracks on these 2 day races he will run the small bikes on saturday and the big bikes on sunday. he is suppose to get back to me when its all ironed out. he said red bull is sponsoring the race.
on aother note. i just talked to mike shea, owner of graviety alley mx in breaux bridge. he's ready to do an all quad race and wants to set a date. whos game ??????????? also give me some input on a date that wnt interfeer with other big races. remember we will need some time to get the word out so we can have a good turn out like the first fernwood race. if you havent raced there it is one of the best facilities in this area. concrete starting gate,canopy over the starting gate, shaded bleachers and this guy really takes care of his track. the only track i know of that runs quads first. talk to your buddies and give me some input.
oh mrp tell your mom i said HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Posted by: markvette
got my flyer on the 23rd race at rock hill today. sounds like a blast. 6 foot first place trophies, and payouts for holeshots on all motos. avondale is having a 2 day race next weekend but i dont like the setup so we wont go. 1 moto on saturday and 1 moto on sunday.too far to drive both days and really dont want to rent a motel. do they have any camper hook ups there, hell i forgot about my camper. DUUHU !!!!
motown
when i talked to will about letting the quads we also talked about an all quad race, he seemed excited about doing it
i guess we will go to rock hill this weekend, gonzales will cost ne 3 times as much in gas money and we are pretty tight this week. later guys
Posted by: markvette
mike
dont tear it down till next week, LETS ALL GO TO AVONDZLE. you aint gonna believe this. will just contacted me and said he would pull his camper to the track and let josh and me stay in it if we would come and race. as the kid says on the computer commecials....dudes were going to avondale
Posted by: markvette
yep thats the weekend. we getting ready to get busy again, avondale next weekend, rock hill the next and then fernwood the next. gotta love it !!!!!!!!
Posted by: markvette
mike, you gonna make avondale arent you ????????
pajama boy is trying to call you to get directions to rock hill. i just talked to him and he is going to practice tomorrow night and race saturday
motown, no practice at avondale this sunday, just talked to them again. i hope yu make all them races. there should be a good turn out at all of them since they are all special races
Posted by: markvette
no no no that aint what your suppose to say. your suppose to say HELL YES mark i will be there. man you the one been going on how nice the track is. do something nice for the little woman and she will let you go.
Posted by: markvette
take it to kip. he will have a week to fix it. did pajama boy call you ??
Posted by: markvette
gaff
you have to pull the motor on a cannondale to adjust the valves.
Posted by: markvette
as far as mike being fed a load of csap, i dont think so. he hasnt really taken the quad anywhere yet to get it checked out. the guys here were just trying to help mike out with some probable causes. i too told mike to check te compression. i still dont have a lot of experiance with the dales but my experiance with other quads expecially 2 strokes tells me it could be a low compression problem which could be valves. and yes the dales arent perfect, i too think dropping the motor to adjust the valves is a little much but a little extra trouble is worth it considering the caliber of quad the dales are.
Posted by: gaff
Gonzales my track, huh. I wish mark and them was around this time last year, then they would know who's track it realy is, lol.
No practice this sunday at avondale, closed for construction. They will practice on saterday thow.
I'll be at avondale with my boy next week. Not sure I can race it thow. I put my quad on methanol and now trying to tune a bigger carb on gas for it. Can't practice any way. Grandma needs a roof put on and the only day I have to take off will be that sunday to go to the races. I may be ready or can tune it there, not sure. We will see, would love to run with yall.
Just bought a LT250R as well so I have been busy. Maybe I can keep up with this one, we will see.
Posted by: gaff
Oh, and thats shim over bucket mike. Take the frikin valve cover off, put it at Top Dead Center, slip the feeler gauges between the cam and shim and if it's in toulerence (wich it most likely is) tell the idiot to shove it up his arse and fix the real problem.
Posted by: gaff
I wasn't aware of that. Infact that kinda sucks. But in my probably 12 years of doing shim over bucket valve adjustments it was very rare that one was out of toulerence. Infact freakwent compression test will tell you when the valve adjustment needs done.
In a computerised fuel injection system I would think he could figure out a cold start with a lap top instead of pulling a motor. If pulling motors to do routine maintenance is what C-dale had in mind with thier machines, well that would be piss pore engineering in this century. My point here is, sounds like some ones getting fed a bunch of crap in my mind.
Posted by: gaff
I'm not trying to be harsh with the dales, just think thats a pretty balzy statement "oh hard starting, pull the motor and check the valves"
Simple, check compression, if low, put about a 1/2 oz of atf oil in the spark plug hole. Compression builds it's the rings, if not, it's the valves.
I'm just stating with logic systems on board it seems you could check the richness of the fuel mixture to see if you have a lean problem at start up, or check exhaust tempitures for burning efficentcy.
Like I said not bashing dales, but hay, dropping a motor is no piece of cake.
Posted by: gaff
Well my point here mike, I don't get it either. Shim over bucket is a huge reliable way of doing it. Say like threaded adjusters you have on your EX. Now those damn things get so far out of wack and in most cases poeple don't even notice untill they hier the loud ticking of the valves, and then they ask, Whats that noise. But out of say a million problems I've had on repairing or rebuilding quads and bikes NEVER have I had a valve that needed adjusted because the machine was hell on cold starts. Go figure.
Now if you plug a lap top into that thing and throw it threw some diagnostics, now here we go, bet they could figure it out pretty quick.
I have run into this problem on Husquavana bikes. In all cases it was the carberation that was screwed up. Well you don't have a carberater. But you have some type of fly wheel senser, a oxygen senser, and many other things that either require a toulerense or callibration.
When your truck doesn't start well in the morning, does the chevy guy ever tell you to adjust your valves, lmao. Dealing with the Kenner shop still?
I know about your private joke and the Gonzales track, lol. Hope you guys have a graet time, tell every one I said hello. At work now, just got here today. Getting back out of shape AGAIn, 5th time this year. Every ones got thier Hurricane insurence checks in and I guess my wife has made me the district handy man. Trying to get out and about but just way to bizzy fixxing every ones crap. Just wish I got paid for it thow. Huh, after all these years they still think buying me a 6 pack at the end of the day does the trick. It's the frickin year 2002 man, atleast buss up with a 12 packBR>
I have no time to even mess with the quads. I brought my son to practice last saterday for 5 hours. Only wheeled the lakota out tuesday to switch the carbs, never had time to even tune it.
I got a cool deal on the LT, just need to ship it here. It's at my brothers in Ohio, should ship this week thow.
I got it to ease my brain on what quad and how much, or just give it up all together. I'm going to run the LT for a while see how I like it and see if running a comparable machine agaist most of the guys will jar me into that new one. I just don't know thats why I bought the LT. I even contenplated calling you to work out a deal on the EX. But for the LARGE amount of cash I'm looking to spend this LT should make my mind up.
I need to look at Avondales schedule, that race next week is that the 2 day one. Kinda hoping not but do you know?
Posted by: gaff
well I'll be there, got these darn roofs to put on. If I don't get them on surely I won't be able to race. But if I give it hell I'll see what I can do.
Posted by: MrP
Saturday and Sunday I am riding at a friends practice track. Nov. 23 & 24 I will be at Swan MX in Tyler, TX. Is Rogers planning the big race for Nov. 30? If so, that sounds good to me.
Posted by: airtimehocutt
have you checked the simple things, like fuel filter? or air cleaner? what plug are you using? i'm running a cr8. my dale came with a cr10 and it fouled after about 4 rides. good luck.
Posted by: MOTOWN
Hey Mark I'm gonna go to Gonzales Sat. night. It will be their last race of the series but it doesn't matter cause all four raceses had 11 quads or more at the gate. I know that is a lot for the track but it is always like that. Sun. is Hammond, but I'm not to sure w/ Ricky and his "liking quads one day hating quads the same day" attitude will let us race but I don't think I would race their with out praticing a day before. But mike said he was there over the weekend so I don't know about that on. With Fernwood I don't care Just set it up when ever and I tell as many people I know. Also Avondale has been good lately and the owner did metion a all quad race sun to me at pratice so I guess word is spreading about quads.
Posted by: MOTOWN
Hey Mike, I will pull if need be. Dude you need to get that fixed. So whats up for Sun. I think I'm gonna go to Avondale later sunday evening to run some laps.
Posted by: MOTOWN
Hey Mark you talking about the 16th & 17th weekend? IF so sounds good to me!
Posted by: MOTOWN
Good! Now I know my plans for the next four weekends.
Posted by: Cdale1
this weekend im runnin the w.o.r.c.s. race in medville between Reno NV and Susanville CA
Cdale1
Posted by: Cdale1
dang gaff chill out my dale will still beat ur lt hehe
Posted by: mxmike
Im going to Gaff's place(j/k)in Gonzalis.I just hope my quad startsI may need a pull start when I get there.
I was thinking about Pervace but im going to wait for there Championship race the 23rd.
I went to hammond last Sat. It was cool.The pond section was closed.I could tell Ricky was bitting his toung.He would wave and smile when he would go by me but under his breath he was probley saying that A-hole.It was like he was letting me get away
with somthing.The only reason I went is because alot of my dirt bike friends were going.
Posted by: mxmike
I would fix it if I new what was wrong with it!!!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like I might be down for awhile after this race.I guss im going to pull the motor
and have the valves adjusted.That just dont seam right though.Cold start problems=need valve adjusting,Hmmmmmmm.What do I know im no mecanic and cant spell.
After I pull the moter and put it back it probley will never run again,lmao.
Posted by: mxmike
DAMM yall when yall gona give me time to fix this thing,lol.
I realy dont want to stop riding anyway.Im finally back in pretty good shape and starting to get some big air again.I may have to try and get it fixed during the week
next week.I wish I could adjust the valves myself but I have no clue about the top end of a 4-stroke.
I guss thats what I get for not buying it from EZ-RIDE there bikes dont do that
Posted by: mxmike
I want to.
Posted by: mxmike
Its not her,I woried about my bike/
Posted by: mxmike
I may do that.I would like to just bring the motor but dont really have time during the week to pull it.I will probley talk to him today to see if I can drop it off Monday.
Mr. Potato head did not call,LOL.Hes gettin pretty fast on that raptor.
Posted by: mxmike
Gaff I was just picking on ya with the Gonzalis thing.LT250r cool.
Im still dont under stand what the valves have to do with cold starts.It starts fine after the 1st start and will run all day but the next day I try and start it even after making shure the battery is full charged It fouls a plug.
Posted by: mxmike
Yea I believe it is the 2 day race.
I drove by there yesterday and seen about 8 loads of dirt.
