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That third build is amazing, it came out looking almost exactly like a Grom! 
5ivemoto barn to Grand Canyon build thread
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Treitz. Considering I'm really not that old I'm really bad at this ha. Cause I've got a super cool video of the xs360 electronics box going up in smoke a couple days before the trip but I can't upload it. Ha oh well. Y'all will have to take my word it's pretty cool looking
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Great shot there ^
Quick question, since you just put so many miles on them.... How shit are those Firestones, really? We all rag on them and for very obvious reasons, but from a practical standpoint, are they as bad as they're made out to be, or are they just bad relative to more modern rubber on the market?
And can we please not turn that question into a shitstorm, I really just want to hear 5ive's personal experience.
Quick question, since you just put so many miles on them.... How shit are those Firestones, really? We all rag on them and for very obvious reasons, but from a practical standpoint, are they as bad as they're made out to be, or are they just bad relative to more modern rubber on the market?
And can we please not turn that question into a shitstorm, I really just want to hear 5ive's personal experience.
Ha. I wasn't going to say anything but since you asked.
Here's how it went. As far as the wet cattle guards and gravel roads that we went on no complaints at all. They handled well and felt grippy.
The pack on the bike changed the characteristics of it quite a bit, being so much high weight but I leaned the bike pretty hard because you have to on some of those turns.
Here's the rub. We hit Albuquerque late one night ahead of a rainstorm and deep in the ABQ traffic. I hit grooved pavement doing about 65 and the treads wanted to follow the grooves. Badly. It was more scary than it was dangerous in all likelihood. But we all had a good oven mitt laugh afterwards and it was bearable but it is worth mentioning that in that one area they are lacking
Other than that they were uneventful.
We even did way too much off roading following the damn grom around so Jarod could get a pic with those giant cacti, ha. But they were fine there as well
So in a nutshell, all positive feedback. Except the grooved pavement. They did not handle that well.
So there's my two cents.
Here's how it went. As far as the wet cattle guards and gravel roads that we went on no complaints at all. They handled well and felt grippy.
The pack on the bike changed the characteristics of it quite a bit, being so much high weight but I leaned the bike pretty hard because you have to on some of those turns.
Here's the rub. We hit Albuquerque late one night ahead of a rainstorm and deep in the ABQ traffic. I hit grooved pavement doing about 65 and the treads wanted to follow the grooves. Badly. It was more scary than it was dangerous in all likelihood. But we all had a good oven mitt laugh afterwards and it was bearable but it is worth mentioning that in that one area they are lacking
Other than that they were uneventful.
We even did way too much off roading following the damn grom around so Jarod could get a pic with those giant cacti, ha. But they were fine there as well
So in a nutshell, all positive feedback. Except the grooved pavement. They did not handle that well.
So there's my two cents.
Nice shot of the bikes. Cool stuff man.
Hurco550 thanks man. We are all hooked on this now. It was our first trip really and we are already talking about next year. We all bought some more field find Hondas but I think we may be leaning towards building Harley's for the next trip... Guess we will have to find another forum.
Possible destinations we are talking about are the smokey mountains or somewhere in the Pacific Northwest....
If we build the Hondas maybe lean towards scramblers so we can do a little on off road action...
But that's all just dreaming right now.
Here are the latest shit boxes we scored. Got em all for 500$. The usual no title non running junk
Possible destinations we are talking about are the smokey mountains or somewhere in the Pacific Northwest....
If we build the Hondas maybe lean towards scramblers so we can do a little on off road action...
But that's all just dreaming right now.
Here are the latest shit boxes we scored. Got em all for 500$. The usual no title non running junk
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Nice finds.
