Oak Ridge Postal Service Mortem Together With Requiem

I bring my Loser #2 trophy in addition to caput dorsum home, knowing it is going to last a tardily night.  With less than ii weeks earlier the side yesteryear side race inwards Martinsville, VA in that place volition last a mad scramble vehement into the motor in addition to starting the "LI$T".  Monday morning time a frantic online shopping spree to last sure.  So spell my competitors are dwelling household enjoying a beer in addition to tending to aching muscles, yours really is upwardly to his eyeballs inwards dirt, carbon, nuts, bolts in addition to parts of Kawasaki Heavy Industries finest.

The prissy matter close a unmarried cylinder two-stroke is that they are pretty tardily to function on.  I'm used to roadracing, having to attention for a twin cylinder EX500 superbike in addition to a four-cylinder FZR 489 hybrid alongside finicky Keihin flatslides.  The KDX is a please compared to them.

What I detect during the autopsy is anything exactly delightful.

Piston: shot

Head: shot

Crank: shot

Cylinder: inwards request of boring

Morale: wavering

Luckily I get got around other motor from a parts bike.  I had it running briefly concluding twelvemonth in addition to everything seemed basically inwards order.  I'm planning a inexpensive in addition to dingy rebuild on it.  Run a flex hone through the bore, novel piston in addition to rings, swap over the BDK steel valves from the other cylinder in addition to pray for the best.  After iii events I am running sec inwards points inwards cast alongside the VCHSS, non close to quit now.  The pull per unit of measurement area is on.  Going to last close.  I may get got switched genres, exactly 1 matter close racing that never changes: it's ever a goddamn struggle.

An hr prior, this was a motorcycle.

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