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Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:19 pm

them titanium plates and rods may be japanese scrap????

BuzZz · #12 Unread post by **BuzZz** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:31 pm

9000white wrote:them titanium plates and rods may be japanese scrap????

Or more likely Russian scrap...... that's GOTTA be worse....

TMcMahon51 · Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:44 am

I actually did know the surroundings, very well in fact. I've been offroading there since I was 10, and even helped add some parts to it. It wasn't my fault because the godd@mned throttle on the bike got stuck while I was coming out of the pit. I was thinking of ditching the thing and jumping off but I was riding lead in a sort of "follow the leader" type thing. I would have been killed if I did, so I chose to live and be a robocop lookalike

. Actually, not quite, since the plates/rods or all internal.

PS: They replaced my whole femur with a titanium rod, cool as it won't break again!

#14 Unread post by **Sev** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 8:30 am

This might sound stupid, but I was under the impression that the easiest way to deal with a stuck throttle was to pull in the clutch and brake. The engine will start racing, but it's not connected to the drivetrain.

Then again there are automatic dirt bikes out there, and I don't know anything about dirtbiking in general.

Renegade · Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:44 pm

There's also a kill switch.

#16 Unread post by **Sev** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 1:07 pm

Renegade wrote:There's also a kill switch.

LoL

Psyco Diver 69 · Sat Jul 09, 2005 2:22 pm

been there on the stock throttle, I always just jammed my rear brake on as hard as I could to kill the motor. Of course if your moving at a pretty fast that could cause a problem. But sometimes it happens so fast you don't have time to react.

Kill switch won't work over a certain rpm because if you hit it, it might cause detonation, and bye bye piston. But looking at what happened, I think I would rather blow a motor that get that hurt.

Renegade · #18 Unread post by **Renegade** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:43 pm

Psyco Diver 69 wrote:been there on the stock throttle, I always just jammed my rear brake on as hard as I could to kill the motor. Of course if your moving at a pretty fast that could cause a problem. But sometimes it happens so fast you don't have time to react.

Kill switch won't work over a certain rpm because if you hit it, it might cause detonation, and bye bye piston. But looking at what happened, I think I would rather blow a motor that get that hurt.

Apparently you've never done a Wide-Open, throttle chop/sparkplug test to check how your bike is jetted. (2-stroke that is)

#19 Unread post by **ZooTech** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 4:48 pm

Renegade wrote: Apparently you've never done a Wide-Open, throttle chop/sparkplug test to check how your bike is jetted. (2-stroke that is)

No, his dirtbike utilizes a sophisticated computer-controlled ignition system that disables the handlebar-mounted SPST switch over a certain RPM.

Psyco Diver 69 · Sat Jul 09, 2005 5:29 pm

no I can't shut my bike off at high rpms, the key switch and kill switch don't work. I never owned a motocross bike (well a KX125 but I never did a high rpm shut down) I always owned enduro bikes because I ride trails and pits.