500cc's of Glory - Racing the CR500 / Episode 2
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- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
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Redemption: It's what we were looking for at Dade City. After the brakes failed at Gatorback, it was time to give it another shot, this time with a more polished bike. Here is how it went.
great job man you have great talent to be able to ride a bike that vibrates that much for that long and to be acctually good at it keep it up! and long live the 2 strokes
awesome clips and great attitude you have. good to see a rider on an old skool and just having fun and coming back with a smile on your face. well done fellas..
I rode nothing but open 2 stroke bikes from the mid 70's to the late 90's. Had YZ490's, CR500's and KX500's. Love to see and hear the old big bores again. This guy can ride, and I would like to see him compete on a well prepped CR500 with modern suspension.
That is a well prepped and even has the most modern suspension available less custom valving. All makes use spring forks ,again , in their consumer flagship mx open class thumper. Do AMA rules allow 500cc to ride/race as equals to 450? If So like 745cc would be the 4t open class equivalent
I was literally toeing the rear brake, scrubbing speed entering the downhill right. Coming out of the corner I had to trust those carbide tipped pegs and my soft sole Alpinestars would stay locked as I let all 77 b.h.p. straighten my legs back and set my butt vertical to the rear fender. Just about the time I couldn't hold on any more I stood on the twin discs (same today really. Some guys prefer old cr brakes) and stared at the crossbar till my 22" Dunlop mx4 held rut. One crack of the throttle and clutch pull and it's 3 down. Now pin.. Shift pin.. Shift...
Goosebumps bro. Thanks for that.
A talented humble rider with a great attitude. Great Job hauling ass on that beast
CR500. The CR500's and CR250's from 20+ years ago sound great, look great and are so fun to ride.. Gotta have a few 2 strokes in the garage.......they make you smile:)
that fender harmonics was just wild!
I love it when I 1st fire up the 500 at the track, everyone comes over asking questions.
Startn the 500s are more tiring at times than the moto!
Gotta find top dead center. Will save alot of wasted energy.
Talented rider on one of the best winning open class machine in modern motocross... As I commented in the 1st episode, this bike makes the average week-end rider feel like Dave Thorpe, Eric Geboers, André Malherbe, Ricky Johnson, J-M Bayle, Jeff Stanton... Remember those guys ??? "Merci" for your footage. Mo.
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It's great that you have such a great attitude and are out there to have fun. So many riders aren't like that.
Great video love to see that old 500 still hold it's own on the track the new 450's are cheating if you ask me. You had to actually know how to ride to ride a two stroke fast; you got skill's man keep it up.
I still race one, Haven't stopped since the early 90s.You looked so smooth on that thing.With a little bit of work there still totally racable,and a blast to ride.Thank you so much for that. "I got a shit eating grin after watching your vids". Tim Cooper. 50Aclass
Really love watching and especially hearing that bike. You're a damn good rider too sir.
This is one of those videos or shorts I never get tired of watching , I've got a 94 ' 250 in my garage in race condition , so that 500 really tickles my fancy .Braapp!
Subscribed. You can clearly ride, man. That 500 looked great in the sand too. It's truly awesome to see a young guy like you do something like this. Unlike 99% of 500 owners (old dudes!), you're actually fast! It makes me wonder how far we've really come with today's over-complicated four strokes.
Rode those in my 20's. Stoked to see you ripping on it. Love it when it wouldn't start. Then you took holeshot. Bike was pissed. You were pissed. Perfect marriage. Goodtimes all the way!
That is badass!!! You take a 20 year old bike and kick butt against modern bikes!! Hell of a bike and hell of a rider!!!! As an old school racer myself ('79 - '84), this was very fun to watch!! Keep it up and good luck in the future!!
my pops raced an 86 cr500 back in the day and won on it a lot haha. got to race pro class on it for a while too. i got to ride it when i was young, before he sold it, and before i knew how to handle that kind of power so i never ripped it, but immediately learned to respect the potential i felt within that beast. it was very cool to see you ride that thing.
I had one of these years ago. This is the ultimate 500cc motocross bike. Absolutely crazy power
hello this is great what you are doing! you must continue to revive this engine!
people are admiring the bike and especially to the driver. continue to make us dream.
The bike sure looked better with yellow backgrounds and #28 graphics! Thanks for the footage
That is the kind of track where the 500 shines, loose and sandy, the extra torque gives it the ability to pull away from the 450s. Awesome videos
gotta love the sound of a two stroke im 45 and all race bikes were two strokes i miss the ride after growing up riding gotta love it
i created an account just bc of this vid. you deff gotta keep raceing this. your keeping the 2 stroke name alive and helping the 500 keep his. i love these bikes and love watching your vids of it. id race mine but i have to much into it. keep it up its awesome watching you thanks for the vids
Monumental set of videos! The bike and you are Internet Heroes!
I use to watch driven to ride, and man vs moto those are great show and this is my first time watching this and to see how happy this guy is just to be there and getting to ride is just fun to watch man keep it up!
Really enjoyed watching the past two vids on the CR500; keep 'em coming. You're doing great at the races!
You Bring back good memories for me I started out on a CR480 then to the 500 I'm 54 and would love to have one just to feel that power again good luck and be safe Rock that CR500 my name is Richard that's my wife name lol
Looking for episode 3! I ride a 450 but this really makes me want a 2 stroke again hell ya man
So awesome to be young and full of energy. Never get tired, can ride hard all day. Mid 40's now and its all over but the crying. Sweet vid bud.
Another awesome CR500-video from you guys. Well done and nicely ridden! I'm a bit stunned that you ride that monster without protection but it still makes me wanna ride my own CR5 immediately. Keep it wfo and the videos coming!!
I have a 2001 and love it and like you said everybody that goes by has to say something about it. People just love the sound of it and I love it too. I have the same exhaust combination on it. Keep on riding man you doing great, good luck.
Great riding! Oh the joy it brings to see someone truly ride a mean 2 stroke such as a CR500. Hard bike to ride, let alone race!
You are a genius!! big respect for you from!!
love to see this 500cc monster well handled on mx track. thanks for sharing and allow us to enjoy this.
good luck at Loretta's! hope you can keep this CR and buy a new bike.
saludos from Argentina!!
Still a better love story then twilight
how many people have told you their way of starting it? lol... ive raced three cr 500's over the years.... great vid, thanks so much for the recall on my glory day memories
dude never stops smiling.... ahh the joys of open class 2 strokes!!
That was a lot of fun watching your journey! Thanks for sharing!
I love watching you kickstart that beast. God I'd love to hop on after you get it fired up.
Yea, the vibration of those things is tremendous, its a wonder they stay together, gotta locktite all the bolts. Had a 2000 CR500, but realized it was too much for me, I race the +50 class, the crf450 is perfect for me. Hate to hear your selling, or sold it, you did great on it and was fun to watch, you have a great attitude and seem like a great guy. I wish you the very best!
I love your vids, you da man and congrats on running the old 500 with the new bikes, my 500 engine is a 1990 so same design as yours and when I watch you kick yours over it seems too easy like a worn top end, I just want to help out is all and want you to have all the power you deserve, keep it up we love what you do
I had chills the whole video. Gotta love that sharp 2-stroke pop!
You are a very good rider.. It's nice to see an old 500 be ridden well!!
good to see people still riding the old 2 stroke instead of those 450s ive always loved 80s/90s two strokes i got a 93 ds80
I gotta 89 ts 185, pretty fast bike for its day!
DUDE.... you guys ROCK! I gladly sold my 500AF (aka the "Widowmaker")....got a CR250R now. Braaaaap!
no man you are my hero you can't quit on the 90 s yet.
thanks for the video. i still have my 500, but i ride trails with it. please make some more videos this was great to watch
I love seeing someoen else bring the old bikes out and run them with the new stuff keep on doing it.
brings back memories, gave me goosebumps,awesome.. FROM ENGLAND
bummer you decided to retire the bike, my self and my father were pumped to see you ripping the 500. Great videos by the way.
Awesome to see!! Didn't do bikes I did quads and all 2 strokes!!! Love seeing 2$ out there just sending it!!!!
awesome rider
He doesn't quit!
to start warm old 2 stroke engine just hold throttle wide open and kick it and will start 100%:)
Awesome man !! Long live the two stroke ..kicking ass forever !!
its funny to watch the start up struggle,,,,lol...no one does the second gear rock back and forth to prime,,,then one kick...worked every time for me, i raced open class on several different cr 500's all were the same ...loved the video
Great idea to ride a classic 500 in with the modern bikes! And not like its 2001 model its a 94, thats awesome! Would like him togo a full season on it!
Really enjoy these vids, love the idea of 2 stroke vs 4! Keepem coming they're great
so awsome , brings back memories of dean matson and rick ryan , eric sandstrom , people you probly never heard of haha. all cr500 pro riders from the 90s
You got a large set of clinkers for takin that badass machine round the track show them four stoke boys what motocross was like be for the tree huggers regulated the motors long live two smokers!
we have a sand track in ontario that was alot of fun to race, i would use my paddle tire from racing at silver lake michigan then come back to ontario to race the gopher dunes by tillsonburg with the same set up and kill. brings back some great memories...thanks for the vid
As it pertains to bolts, Blue loctite is your best friend haha.
Stay on it, you'll work the kinks out and then it'll be a solid bike! You look good on it, matter of fact you're one of the first people that I've seen tame a 500 on a track.
Please keep it goin! Your rides are inspiring! Great attitude, you remind me of one of my riding buddys. Thanks for the great vids!
I've been watching this video since I was a colelgr student and now that I am a college graduate is it already sold? I love how it runs when the camera is focused on the rear fender
this guy has it all ! look so cool,smart and nice and plus he rides damn good ! cheers from France !!
the background music is pantera
beautiful bike good video is great
awesome vid love to see those 500cc bikes you are right when you get traction its like a sling shot.
Instead of abandoning the 500cc's of Glory series....you should do continue the series with an episode 3...except use a cr500 with an aluminum frame conversion. You'll destroy everyone!
That's what I like a bike that didn't get much done to it and it still kicks ass!!
this is how im going to feel my first race on my new RM. ive been riding an 07 crf250, and just bought a new 03 RM250 smoker. i love the bike! im 6'1" 145 lbs and the thing wheelies in 2nd and 3rd gear easy once i get on the pipe and the powerband kicks in! XD i haven't gone higher than 3rd gear yet, just messing around my neighborhood "matching the brake pads to the rotors" (; i replaced the front brake pads and used that as my excuse :P the springs seem kind of soft right now though, so im hoping to get that sorted soon(: i cant wait!!! my series that ill be racing in opens in February so i have some time to get ready. haven't rode since i broke my wrist last march, other than riding the dunes over thanksgiving. (snapped my radius, shattered my ulna, dislocated my wrist, and had a bunch of fractures and cracks in my proximal row, and a couple chips in the distal row too... so i effed up my wrist :P)
Great job and loved the videos. Can't wait for the next series.
Man...... That woz seriously impressive anyone that can go toe to toe on a mid 90's cr 500 and beat hi tech 450's is s bloody hero in my book..... Not a big guy either all technique and ability!!
You are one hell of a great rider buddy I wish I could’ve rode mind as good as you rode that one. I absolutely loved mine I just got too old to ride it anymore no I ride and XR 650 L and a VFR 1200 X. But I lost my left leg in a plane accident so I think I’m doing pretty good.
Sounds like a good proper running dirt bike for sure.
Full respect from OZ CR500 riders mate. Lovin the old school. Please don't sell the beast. Post more footage and if you need help ask your subs. Surely we can help ya keep the big girl runnin.
awesome footage love every bit of it cant wait for more soon
You absolutely have to get the first tooth on the starter gear as high as the starter will engage and not even rest your foot on it until you kick it or they can be hard to start. Fresh rings help too.
I agree with that except for one thing. Him smoking them with the old steel frame bike makes it so much more epic! He should trick that bike out and keep going at it!
That is fantastic news! Put up a fundraiser and two stroke fans will donate towards your monster bike efforts!
Loved the vid, ya kicked ass.. gotta love dem 5 hundreds
You have some skills. It would be hard to race against modern bikes, let alone be in the front of the pack consistently with a big 500 2 stroke. Nice riding !
thats awesome man keep repping the big bore 2banger pisbowl an 4stroke any day
Watching him ride that CR500 makes me think riding a 450 4 stroke for years prepares a man to rip on a cr500.
Same way learning to rip on a 125 2 stroke made the abilty to rip to the fullest on a CR250 2 stroke made the transition seamless.
Too much bike too soon for your abilities makes one clam up. I started on a 86 cr500 as a 160 pound 18 year old coming from trail riding a 86YZ125. Trust me I know this concept. I never got the comfort with riding tracks because i tried to learn it on the CR500.
If Honda starts putting R&D into the CR500 2 strokes again we might see a higher level of racing emerge.
sickness!that holeshot after it wouldn't start was killer hahah.
You looked really good out there on that bike! i could see how soft the suspension was off of couple of those jumps.
i hope by now youve learned the proper way to start that bike!!
my 1996 cr250 is a psiho, can't imagine what 500 would do to me. respect!!
This is like a mono series, I'm looking for episode 3! ;)
Mini series
Iv got a 83 YZ490 and that thing will piss all over any of the modern 4 strokes. It was preped for the Australia Finke desert race and it has no bottom end power bugger all mid range but top end power ya gotta ride it to believe it. Stock 490s were quick but this thing just wants to wheelie all the time. Its like a 125 in power delivery, but in 750 cc quantities. Bloke i bought it off said it dynoed close to eighty hp. It has whitepower shocks with near 14 inches of travel at the back and near 13 up front. Only gotta 4speed in her, but top gear power starts are no prob.
Take up a collection! keep the bike -- you are an animal on it. Ricky Renner got quite a few donations to ride his 125 -- you may be able to do the same (with this bike AND a 250 at Loretta's). I would throw the price of a piston you way myself. It is just too much fun watching your races on this monster!
cool that looks so much fun .hell of a rider .wicked
Great story man. enjoyed it.
This was great also, you should do more of these types of videos
CR 500 ridden properly and Pantera "walk" as soundtrack. Can't go wrong
A Scott's steering damper will make the old girl feel like a 125. I rode a 96 for years. And after I out a steering stabilizer on it it handled like it was a newer lighter feeling bike.
sand is punishing but amazing also, perfect for the 500's, i raced gopher dunes (all sand) every year right after racing silver lake michigan, but at SL id have a 10 paddle cheng shin tire on and that is something you may want to try. its like being on dry sticky pavement lol. im getting arm pump just remembering those days 😂🙌
Awesome job hanging on to that thing reminds me of my 94 CR250 except quicker.
I love watching a 500 tear up a sandy style berm... The roost!!!
damn ...i think i saw you about 3 years ago hauling ass through the withlacoochee forest....i was on a CR500 of sorts..but an ATV :P was odd seeing another person running through there as its ...slightly illegal ..but you didn't stop XD
it says at the end that the bike is retired and is forsale...so no episode 3 :(
Great talent. Good style.on a man's machine smacking them thumpers 👍
If it was a KX500 it would have started right up. Haha. Awesome to see a 500 in the stock frame showing 450's what's up.