Lol MiniMulisha, it wasnt your bike i was referring to, as the "Shiny trophy hunter".. i was actually referring to another bike, entered by a member who contributes very little to Forum, other than entering bikes in FOTM... We used to have similar people in the Street Rod community when i used to build street cars and rods... Top end machines that hide in garages, owned by people who contributed nothing to the community other than to take awards.. Doesnt take away from the effort, money or time gone into a project, just the motive behind it, or the insult to the movers and shakers or valued contributors who make the effort to enhance the forum or whatever, and dont get a mention...Thanks for the vote but hey man think ya got ya hand on it!!
Shinny thropie hunters?? to much money on a toy?
you may think that but to some of us its our lifes!!
We not some posser try hard want to be!! There is some of us that this is what we do we ride/ race minis.
We in it for life!! My bikes may hav cost a bit more than some out of the box chinese copy, but im gunna hav for my kids to ride when they grow older , and cant say a china bikes going to able to hold up like a good old HONDA built z50!!
I cant say i seen you at any races on ya bike on the line at the gate , and i bet if ya did ya would nt be doing it on the same bike for years with out touching the motor like my good old crf ,3-4 yrs racing on same set piston and rings!!
You can hav some chink build your bike for ya and another 1000 same as it or you could build a honda up yourself and hav a 1 of a kind bike that YOU built!! and know it will last the best testy of all time!!
HONDA FOR LIFE!! THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY 10 INCHES
Anything else is just a cheep copy!!
And no, you havent seen me at any races.. did my time behind start gates, spent the money, did the kms to race events, and yes, on a Jap Open Class mxer, so believe it or not, i do understand that at times, Jap QUALITY will outlast a China.. and yes, the old YZF400 is still going strong, on it's second set of rings.. No, i dont expect the Blitz to last the same amount of time, and still be competitive..
My argument was actually against trophy hunter types chasing a free prize pack, from a forum they dont contribute to actively...
Yes. Yes i Did.
worth every cent too, and will do it all over again with the Blitz and the MiniBlitz... It was a tongue in cheek comment at the prices of Sano/taky/Five-O parts that a premium must be paid for, cause it has "USA" stamped on it, despite the fact it's probably been manufactured in China..Lol Barryman, i didnt bag the bling... i like bling... bling is rather awesome, as i have proved with the Bling-40... I bagged the cost of said "Made in USA" bling, for CRF's/KLX's etc. Despite comments, i'm not detracting in the slightest, the time, effort or appearance of any of the CRF's entered this month... Seems my intended insinuation was missed, in regards to trophy hunting.. lol..I too would have to agree with the boys on this one. Building these things are a passion for people. If you can afford it, then good on you. You bag the bling then vote for a Z50 WHICH IS A HONDA and is blinged!!
There is an appropriate Greenday song for you Thump, "Walking Contradiction".
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As for my voting for MiniMulisha's Zed, i wouldnt say it's blinged.. I actually referred to it as a stealth build... nothing stealthy about Bling. ha ha ha.
And yes Barryman, i do actually understand "passion" when it comes to building ANYTHING. There's 13 bikes in my shed, and not one of them is stock standard. of the 23 bikes that have passed through my hands, none remained stock. Every one of my bikes is or has been modified, some more than others. At times in the past, i've spent money i didnt really have, in the pursuit of a passion, in building something better than standard, and different to anything anyone else has... I've always done the same with cars. I've never owned a stock vehicle in my life, and in my younger and more "fiscally irresponsible" days, i managed to justify spending $75k on a $15k Ricer...
Difference is nowadays i dont have the spare cash to drop all the money on my Jap bikes... The passion to build something is still there, so what spare cash i do have, goes into the chinas... I'd love to have the money to build something like MiniMulisha's zed, or better still, something like Snitchy's zed.. sad fact is i dont, so it's chinas for me, which *can* be built into the same weapon a CRF can using the right parts, with the right amount of research and thought gone into building it..
So yes mate, i do get the whole "passion of building something" regardless of cost..
Kudos to the Viking.. lol.. think Dready put it better than i did.. regardless of the origin of the bike, or the quality of the build, we build what we can with the means at our disposal, for the same result, to enjoy ourselves...No biggy when fresh motor is only 400 bucks .... tell ya what .... you stay on your slow expensive RELIABLE bike .... and I'll stay on my FAST CHEAP unreliable one because I can fix it ...in fact I enjoy it
Look at the end of the day t's each too there own I'm sure we both enjoy riding and I think that's all that matters,I actually love hondas and what crew ut into them and really see value in em ...in fact want to build one but at 6.2"I just find my midsize more rideable.
hey i cant find where is specifically said "Such and such's bike is crap"... hmm, perhaps i didnt actually say that...
