IrishJedi (Kevin)

New Bike Project!! CRF230F Conversion

2006-09-21T00:40:00.000-07:00

Hey folks. Attached are some pics of my latest project. It's a conversion of a 2003 CRF230F. Basically, my objective was to take a relatively mild trailbike and turn it into a less mild, but well suspended all around dirtbike. First, here is the bike as purchased a couple weeks back:

The firs order or business was to strip the bike down to get some of the suspension work started. First, I removed the forks to be sold at a later date. Instead, I will mount a much better set of forks off a 1984 CR125R. Then I took the rear shock off and sent it to Hlebo Bros. to be revalved and rebuilt:

Here is the difference in forks. You can tell the wimpy 230 forks right away (they're on the right):

To make the new forks fit on the bike, I had to have my dad machine a spacer as the stem on the 125 is about 5/8" longer than the stock 230 one. Here is a pic of the triple trees I mounted with the new spacer....looks NICE:

I had to completely rebuild the forks and lower them about 1.5". While I waited for fork seals to arrive, I installed a White Bros Intake, a White Bros R4 exhaust, and installed the Honda power-up kit (new main jet and needle). Here is the bike with those upgrades...looking nicer.....:

Forks are now rebuilt and lowered. Here is a before and after pic of the fork legs showing the difference in length:

Forks are now on and look great!!! Just a few more modifications and the bike will be complete. Also got the rear shock back yesterday and put it on. Here are the forks about 90% complete:

Stay tuned for more updates!!! And very soon, a first ride report!

Emma Turns 1!!

2006-07-29T00:51:00.000-07:00

Yes, it's hard to believe, but the first year for Emma is in the books. Celebrating her birthday reminded me of a year ago, so I thought I'd post a pic of us back then. Don't have a lot to say this time around...I'll try and post shortly....I know....yeah right! Enjoy!

New Riding Pics!

2006-06-07T22:04:00.000-07:00

Greetings! Attached are a couple pics recently taken out at Prairie City. The place stinks most of the time because of the crowds, but we had a good time. This was in preparation for the 49er Enduro that Pop and I rode (Pop in black). I will post pics of that soon.

Riding Pics - Dawn's First Ride

2006-01-25T22:13:00.000-08:00

Here are some pics of Dawn's (my gorgeous wife) first trip out on the quad. I'm in a couple, but she is clearly the attractive one:

My Bike - 1998 KTM 400EXC

2006-01-24T19:05:00.000-08:00

Here's the bike that bit me:

2006-01-21T23:14:00.000-08:00

Greetings Random Person! I'm so glad that you came to my blog, (insert name here)! My buddy got me to start one of these. He writes about how long the lines are at the supermarket or about some democrat that he hates. What will I write about? Who knows. This will likely become what everything in my life becomes....cool at first, then I slowly start to fail until ultimately, so much time will have past that I can't even remember my password to get back out here. Enjoy it while you can! Here's a random pic for you. These are my dogs: Chewie and Leia

Checkout My Finger

2006-01-21T14:53:00.000-08:00

Hello

2006-01-20T15:45:00.000-08:00

Hello!