![]() It was my pit bike and my girlfriend bike. So this is the XR100 in its first round of mods from when I was roadracing. ![]() Grab some popcorn and over the next week or so I'll document and explain this bike. Hopefully you'll be convinced to buy your own XR100 or pull the one you already have out of the garage. You can go to my LinkTree and find the YouTube series but that's not going to explain the details of this like a build thread and since flat track has no forum or home on the web and since the inmates of ADVRider seem to like a good story I'll tell it here. Everything has been changed, modified and or replaced. It is not a play bike and it has a single purpose - to destroy the class and push the limit of what an XR can be.Īll that is left of the bike in the top photo is the cases and the transmission gears. This is the third XR I've built but this is the one that I didn't put limits on. After that anything goes.Īnd by "anything" I mean everything. The rules for this class are simple: air cooled, 150cc's. Racers being racers there was soon an industry built around modifying these bikes in incredible ways but it was Colin Edwards who capped the arms race and created the class called Mad Dog. The training was riding XR100's because if you could beat the King on a minibike then you were doing all the right things. There's a laundry list of famous racers who went to Roberts ranch to train with the King: Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey, Kenny Roberts Jr., Rich Oliver, Jorge Lorenzo and Colin Edwards. Roberts realized that the dynamics of the way a motorcycle handled and slid were the same between his 100+ hp GP bike and his 8hp XR100 but the consequences of a crash on each were much different. It's not much of a stretch to say that America's first premier world title by King Kenny Roberts was due in part to the humble XR100. In fact I'd go so far as to say that if you're a serious rider there's not a single motorcycle more important to your personal growth than a mini bike. ![]() It's a kids bike? Not for real men? Ha! Nothing could be further from the truth. It's also how you know if what you've done to a bike works.īut one type of motorcycle has been with me for longer than any other and that is the mini bike. I can't stop - racing is how you improve. When I had kids I scaled the racing back but didn't stop. Eventually I moved to rally racing and off road. I started racing 125 GP bikes then 250's. None of this hipster flat seat shit or 17" front knobbies. I've raced most of my adult life so the guiding principle of all my builds is that they fucking work. Sometimes I build motorcycles for clients and sometimes for me. I have a compulsion for building and modifying motorcycles and I've gotten very good at it. ![]() So some of you may know me from the many builds I've done over the years. ![]()
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