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teamexileracing

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Meh long story but heres the damage.
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(Its the right side if your looking at it left side if your sitting on it that is bent. Its not much but just enough to piss me off.)

K heres the day long day told some friends i wanted to go practice because i have my first race in 3 weeks. Nobody ended up wanting to go because it was raining. And me i dont give a **** about any kind of weather, ill ride in anything ask my firends, thats why i ride by myself all the time.

Anyways i was out at our little woods track by myself and good thing i told ben (93warriorridr) that he could come off road out there because i would of been out there by my self. Anyways after about an hour of riding by myself i ended up flipping it the first time nothing happend, i just shook it off and just sat around for a while. Then i met up with ben. So we went and off roaded for a while then i told him to come back and time me a couple of times.

Anyways I did a couple laps fine then on my 3rd i was pushing it and on this one turn you come out of this trail 6th pinned into a downward slopeing hill and you have to get into 2nd and slow down emidetly or you will go into prickers. And since my holeshot hd's suck in dry they did even worse in the wet and when i hit this hill i just slamed on my fronts and back brakes to slow down. I ended up turning sideways started sliding then caught and edge and bailed. Well when i tucked and roled after i opened my eyes i was just about to get up when the warrior rolled all the way over and landed flat on its tires on top of me. I would of had some major head problems if i didnt have my helmet on because that thing hit my head hard.

Anyways what happend i hit my fronts and backs because if i hit just my backs it the warrrior would go sideways and just flip like what happend the first time i roled it. Well the fronts stop that and you can control the front more when you do that. Well the fronts cant do that very well when your front left brakes dont work and only your front right do. Well the problem i went sideways was becauase the left was just spinning and the right would catch causeing the back to just pull out anyways. Well thats why i ended up flipping it.

The bend isnt that bad but how do i bent them back? I dont have any money to buy some new bars now. But i need them strait for my race.

Hahaha check out all the prep work i have to do before my race.
-Bend bars back
-Get back right bead on tire to seat
-Nock link out of chain
-Replace all front and back brakes
-Bleed brakes
-Change oil and oil filter

I hope i can start and finish this race but i have my doughts and heres what i think will happen at this race or the worst that can happen. Eather i Bite it and wreck the **** out of it, I dont think that will happend but you never know. Or my engine blows because its aready smoking how it is. I dont think it will make it though the whole race.
 
O yes i know the lights are cockeyed but they have always been like that from the first owner and im too lazy to fix them. Ill end up fixxing them when i get my other engine back.
 
O stress marks?
How do you get rid of them because i found one on the red center peace and its pissing me off.

Also i thought this was funny i have rolled this bike soo much and this is the first cassualty too it. But this was also the hardest i have rolled it. I was fuckking flying when i rolled it. Hahahaha actualy im really lucky because when i ended up opening my eyes after i saw it land on top of me i looked up and saw the a-arms and tire right in front of my face. If it would of rolled anymore then that it would of crushed my legs. Holy **** now that i think about it im really really ******* lucky.

I cant wait to widen this bitch. Im tierd of being soo unstable. I have and exstended axle on there right now its jsut spaced as a stock one right now thought. If i just widen that up will it get me a little more stable because i cant get my a-arms for a while?
 
haha..ill sell you my stock bars new grips and brush guards if you want them..but it doesnt look that bad..i have never rolled my warrior and its stock width..just use more of your body. I dont think there is any way to get rid of stress marks. my first race is sept. 15
 
well i think this roll was unstopable because of how my brakes were messed up. But i think im just going to heat them up and bend them back. And i found out that you can heat up the plastic and the stress marks will go away.'

Good luck on your race by the way.
 
You know you're one talkative SOB....lol. Is that even a word?? I've said this a thousand times on here, just try to FINISH your first race, that should be the big goal. You're not going to win, trust me. If you even finish you accomplished something that 99% of riders out there can't. I wouldn't widen the rear without doing the front too, it will handle really weird and you'll probably end up eating dirt eventually.
 
Glad to hear you're okay. You were down there getting acquainted with the underside of your quad, huh? I usually wouldn't recommend doing that while its moving.
Think you are outta luck on getting rid of the stress marks.
 
I'm skipping yet another essay which Im sure is pointless, and just gonna say sorry about your bars, I think I have a few stock z400 ones if you cant get a replacement.
 
You know you're one talkative SOB....lol. Is that even a word?? I've said this a thousand times on here, just try to FINISH your first race, that should be the big goal. You're not going to win, trust me. If you even finish you accomplished something that 99% of riders out there can't. I wouldn't widen the rear without doing the front too, it will handle really weird and you'll probably end up eating dirt eventually.

Hahahaha i do like to talk a lot and list every detail if you havent noticed yet on here.

Dude i know that racing is going to be super hard and all im aming for is finishing, i dont plan on doing any better unless im racing like 5 year olds which could probly still beat me ::). But this is how i see the race theres only 3 ways im ending the race eather crossing the finish line all fine, being pull out because my engine blew, or if worst comes to worst im coming out on a stretcher. I will not give up at any cost, idk care if i **** my pants im not giving up.

About the plastics i think you can heat them up to get rid of them which ill try.

About the bars i think ill just heat them up and bend them back because im flat broke. Acutaly i have negative money, Negative 700 or somthing like that. All the money i make goes eather to my brother or my dad.
 
you can bend the bars back with a pipe, jsut go easy. and riding alone is something i NEVER do! (unless im putting around...) i wouldnt want to wreck and be stuck in the woods alone with a broken machine or worse a broken leg, arm, etc... not a lecture just smart riding.
 
You heat those bars up they WILL break on you when your riding.. Metal will tend to get harder as you heat it and become brittle.
 
You heat those bars up they WILL break on you when your riding.. Metal will tend to get harder as you heat it and become brittle.

Soo just put a big steal bar around the end and pull up on them? Well what ever i dont have our torch anyways at out disposel anyways tomarrow and thats when it has to happen so i guess im going to just bend them back.
 
as long as there is no kink in it you should be able to bend it back, just remember that its not as strong as before.
 
well finaly had a day off from work and i went riding with the bent bars, really didnt affect me much but i ended up hitting a hitten log in tall grass the bike turned and went into this tree that we cut out that was on the side of a trail and just missed my lights bending my light bar pritty bad. Well after i went to my girlfriends house to go swimming me and jimmy went home to fix my bike, Heres what we got.

Before
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After
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Light bar bent back(i think i did pritty good)
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Then just some random pics
Me working
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Jimmy not working, hahaha
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And the toys getting tucked in for the night
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Well i think i did pritty good over all with bending back of everything.
 
thanks, well the motor is in peices right now, i need a new left center case. But i have a web cam race cam, kibblewhite raceing springs, and a wiseco 10;25.1 high compression .20 over bore piston. Then im getting an oil cooler kit too.
 
k i had a chance to ride her today becaue i didnt have work or anything. But i was riding and i noticed they were flat, but then i noticed that when i was going strait that the bars were not strait. I was totaly pissed and freaking out because i thought i bent the stearing stem but i took some time and looked at them and found that the bars are bent in like 2 other directions. But idk i really dont want to **** with them, i seem to ride fine without them. Ill just get some new bars after my race when i get some money.
 
no its nothing like that, its an ovious bend in the bars the whole left side is bent back towars the person. And the right is a little. Everything else it good i already checked it all.
 
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