![]() The Helibars can be slid down the forks and rotated front-to-back but they always keep their less-extreme tip-down bar angle. If I was to do it again, I’d buy bar risers with some range of adjustment. Further, during certain riding conditions the angle of the bars just don’t feel right to me. I prefer the factory handlebar position for more aggressive riding, but I like the more comfortable neck position and posture with the Helibars. However, after making this change I have mixed feelings about the new riding position. I installed Helibars on my 916 mainly to provide a more comfortable upright sitting position and to take some of the weight off my hands that helped solve a problem with numb fingers. But certainly for street riding it isn't the most comfortable position and the heads-down orientation isn’t the safest. Sportbikes are designed specifically to have a more forward riding position to place the center of your body weight lower and further forward, to better balance the bike and improve handling. ![]() ![]() To me downhill mtb racing seems to scratch a similar itch to BMX and the bikes are more expensive than dirt bikes and that sport booooominggg.Keep in mind that the position of your body on the bike affects the overall weight distribution. roller blading? None of these died because of cost, maybe they died because they didn’t evolve. Skateboarding was also a cultural phenomenon then and it’s practically dead with the youth. But if the data does bore it out then I am happy to agree with you but you definitely don’t seem to be considering all the options.īMX was also booming in the 90s and isn’t nearly as big anymore. It’s just slightly more complicated than ‘4 stroke bad’. This correlates to two stroke love especially when they are mostly buying Ktm exc two strokes which cost as much as four strokes so it’s not the price. Why is off road booming? My guess is the older demographic - the boomers of you will. Are 50,65 and 85 classes booming and then a massive drop off to 250f? Or are the smaller 2 stroke juniors struggling for numbers as well? But I would think that the best judge of whether it has anything to do with four strokes is in the junior classes. Motocross racing at the local level has never recovered. But the explosion of the industry correlated to the introduction of the 4 stroke. Was this because of the energizing factor of a totally different machine? Or was the machine of RC and the antics of JS259 the catalyst for this explosion? Maybe it was all TP199 but who knows. And they sold in droves and the rest of the manufacturers followed suit and the sport thrived. They realised they could make more tractable power in a more rideable package that the inexperience consumer would enjoy riding more. What happened was Yamaha realised they could make a better mousetrap. ![]() Although I’m not sure about the 125 class? Ktm raced a 550 or 570 fourstroke before the yzf400, so I guess the full change was to lower the capacity. Especially if the four stroke offerings were getting the "bold new graphics" treatment for several years in a row, while the new bits end up on the two strokes. I'm confident plenty more folks who like their 250F or 450F would do the same thing with a new two stroke. He didn't like it as well, but this kinda thing happens all the time. Hell I had a friend who was perfectly happy with a 96 CR125 and got into a brand new 2007 YZ250F. I would fully expect for consumers to buy them too - even if they have no business owning one or no real need. If all of this were to occur again (which I don't really expect), only this time it would be the two stroke being promoted, it wouldn't take years to persuade people to switch bikes. What ultimately happened is the four stroke had a huge advantage, especially in the 125 class, and that's when development stopped on the 125's. The YZ400F was a fantasy that first needed a big rule advantage, then needed the OEM's to subscribe to (or vise versa). But what I outlined is basically what already happened with the four stroke. ![]()
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