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Thats a super nice swingarm DHQ. You are definatly rite about the swingers I posted needed new paint. Bushings ect. Yeah. I learned from this thread and Im glad I did. I hope other got something from it too. stop spaming to raise your postcount cowboy. I can post what ever I want and if you dont like it fuck you tooo!!!!!!!!!!!

Ide hold onto that built Banshee and get a GPR or Elka Steering Sabilizer and a LSR Antivibe stem. Fasst Flexx Bars will take arm pump from a 10 to a 3. That +4 swingarm is killing your handeling as far as MX or Woods riding goes. I Dont know what kind of numbers your putting out but a stock or even a -1 swingarm would be the way to go. Ask your builder what he thinks of putting a stock swingarm back on and he will tell you if you have too much power or not. If not put a few more dollars in the handeling dept and Race a few races on the Banshee. Also As you know added Compression wakes up a Banshee motor to a roar just with a NOSS Head smaller domes and a timing advance pays off in gold. 17cc domes and +7 timing advance on VP110 Octane and Lookout. 13/41 Gearing helps alot with lowend and Tire size and model play Massive roles to being fast to faster as well. If its killing you after all of that Then it would be wise to get the R. A ESR 310-330 and up built 250R Is no joke. They will smoke any Piped very mildly ported ported Banshee in a straight line. Still the Banshee is the funnest Powerband Ive ever riden. TRX250Rs will always be ready avaible the price is pretty much set on them. You have a great Banshee I would swap for a week or keep the shee thats my oppion. sorry bout the sloppy post

IDK Lonestar's stuff is pretty heavy duty and comes with a lifetime warentee (Though Im not sure if they would need the original recipt to verify first hand ownership. 4130 chromoly). They do slap too high of a pricetag on their stuff but you get what you pay for and Ive never been dissatisfied. Does Wheelman have a website. Im definatly into guys who can compete with big name companys like LSR. They arent cheap and LSR does nickel and dime you on little shit like bushing sleeves other odds and ends.

Im Talking about the DS650 But no doubt. If I can find a DS450XC For around a little under 4k Ide scoop it in a second. I just dident even mention that OR The KTM 525XC Because I doubt Ill be able to find either used with the kind of money I have. Even 4k is gonna be a hard number to hit and Im under a savings deadline +payments/Taxes/Mortgage/Upkeep Im sure I dont have to tell yinz. Ill probably be more in the 3500.00 range. Plus title transfer and gas money to go look at the ATV +40 bucks to give my buddie for lending me his Pick up. Theres an easy 200. It adds up quick. Too quick. EFI seems very nice but I wouldent base my choice on that factor. Its a Plus but not a 500 dollar + if you get what Im saying. I agree a Raptor could be the best big bore machine Cirtenly Lighter than the DS650. but I wouldent buy a 660 and a 700efi would probably take another oh say Wider new arms may as well shell out 400+ for standerd Elkas add another 200 For axle that over a grand That needs to be put into the SHEE. Im stumped on this one. Feedback from you guys will probably lean me twoards a cirten machine or narrow the selection. What are them Predator Owtlaws like? I kind of hate to buy one knowing the KTM is out there though. Its all about the $$$$ and condition of the bike.

Im going to post this in 2 fourms . I know its not that cool but I wouldnt want a fellow HQer to miss this deal. I know the ebay seller is a member on here as well. Mabey mention your a member on ebay and try and get the discount. USED LSR -1 AND -2 SWINGARMS! http://www.ebay.com/...forcev4exp=true http://www.ebay.com/...forcev4exp=true I would Jump on the -1 LSR swinger in a second if it werent for the fact Ide have to pay an additional $250.00 to get it Boxed in reweleded added gussets to make it stronger then new for fitting my rear Elka setup dual linkage wide spring. Im getting a used 4 stroke plus rebuilding my Banshee so I need to hold on to my coins. Plus by that time Ill find something or hsve LSR Make one for me for around 900 bucks new!!!!!!!!!!!! AWSOME DEAL! If you woods XC Guys want more traction -1 would be perfect -2 would be too much traction for me but Im a 280+lbs guy. Some woods/XC Racers swear by -2 and there a great deal. Ide think -2 for MX. If you already have +2+1 arms I can see the -2 working and making one radical diffrence from the way a stock banshee handels to that setup. Its a beautiful thing.

USED LSR -1 AND -2 SWINGARMS! http://www.ebay.com/itm/LONESTAR-Banshee-AFTERMARKET-1-negative-round-style-MX-swingarm-carrier-/290773063044?forcev4exp=true http://www.ebay.com/itm/LONESTAR-Banshee-AFTERMARKET-2-shorter-negative-round-style-swingarm-carrier-/290773063036?forcev4exp=true I would Jump on the -1 LSR swinger in a second if it werent for the fact Ide have to pay an additional $250.00 to get it Boxed in reweleded added gussets to make it stronger then new for fitting my rear Elka setup dual linkage wide spring. Im getting a used 4 stroke plus rebuilding my Banshee so I need to hold on to my coins. Plus by that time Ill find something or hsve LSR Make one for me for around 900 bucks new!!!!!!!!!!!! AWSOME DEAL! If you woods XC Guys want more traction -1 would be perfect -2 would be too much traction for me but Im a 280+lbs guy. Some woods/XC Racers swear by -2 and there a great deal. Ide think -2 for MX. If you already have +2+1 arms I can see the -2 working and making one radical diffrence from the way a stock banshee handels to that setup. Its a beautiful thing.

Well Im tearing down the Banshee and doing a complete rebuilt from PCed frame to 4 mil wood XC Motor. This will take a good year to get every last detail done. I have 1500.00 So in two months Ill have $-3500.--4000.00 for A used for stroke. Ill look around on Craigslist. If I find a super deal Ill take it but if I wait till November Im gonna have a tough decision to make. It gonna be a 4 Ive owned 250Rs and rode 2 strokes all of my life. Im keeping the Banshee even upping it to be one of the baddest stock chassie banshees for harescrambels XC racing and general racing. Its my main bike. I want lowend grunt a manuveraable couch on wheels but one I can get wild on still . I want a solid woods bike but I dont want to have to invest stock with a few addons is good for me. Im looking at the DS650 But the weight of the bike is what is keeping me looking. Ill be on all fours by that I mean I wont be to much jumping but I will be riding with a few 450s and I dont want to drag ass. ROTAX Motor is a huge plus too. Brings me to the Raptor 700- I rode a few raptors and they arent the most comfterble machines and they stand up way too much. If all of the 700s are the same I dont think I want to gear up to ride something that may flip over on steep hillclimbs. Remember I live and ride in PA and TREVERTON is not far at all/ YFZ450- Yeah, up untill now this would have been me all time choice but I already have the Banshee and the top end race bike I want. I love it but I like comfert and the torque of the bigbore bikes as well. Ill look at any 450 if I can find a deal but if Im gonna spend 3500-4000.00 Im gonna get the best used YFZ I can find. If thats what I end up with. I will be useing the 4 stroke for general riding around woods, hillclimbs, a few groupe rides, mudding with 4x4s and if Im riding and people start weekend practice racing Ill join in. I wont take the banshee out in the snow its j ust to cold to fast. I dont see how a 4 stroke will differ. But yeah any oppions or what you would spend your money on 4 stroke ridinhg wise lemme know what you would choose. Thanks in advance. Neil

Damn I hate scum like that. Words cant express how much I hate them. I feel bad for dude cause he trusted these assholes and got burnt Bigtime. Then people go on to think to bring their gun in cirten transactions and something like this happens and they end up going to jail for shooting someone whos only goal was to steal at any cost. What Goes around comes around. This is TRUTH!

I love the all Yami Blue of course 2006 on that chart but I think they always came that way. My other faves would have to be. The 87 is sweet and those colors scare everybody NOT on a Banshee. 89 Is a good year. 96 red and white I was never a huge fan of the Yellow Mixes, Bumble bee Banshee, I was never a huge fan of purple either. I loved the Dull Green Blasters! I wish there were a stock Balck and Green Banshee. I heard 10HP plus more mechanicly sound crash proof but Mr. Yamaha got stingy. I wasent a fan of the White/grey/Black VS Yami Blue years. Seems that was the year a few of my friends got Warriors and Raptors in White and grey. Im Glad I got my Blue one. I would love fullbores but I would get to pissed off at every scratch. You can never go wrong with all black either. Too hard to pick just 1 style.

By looks alone I would guess its a fancyer better looking VF3 Model since I see the same petals. But if these do in fact work as good as they look Ill be selling my VF3s and upgrading. I figure Ill be on whatever 4 stroke I end up getting while the Banshee is torn down and built back up peice by peice and this is gonna take a good part of a year to complete. Im gonna sit back and see what the Pro HQers say. I am exited enough to post about it. Bone stock Banshees may be some rare machines to find even after 20 years of production in the States. But piped/Upgraded Filter re jetted banshee's with better reeds, handelbars and Tires is the way a Banshee should be.

PM SENT.

Yeah or mabey dont smoke weed before doing something important. Did you reuse the gaskets to reinstall the reed cages or just forget to use them at all. If you dont have the tools or dont know how to do a leakdown test (which you should if you read this board) then atleast put soap and water around anywhere that can suck in air and melt your whole engine down. I hope you are just young an inexpirenced and you learned a lesson on thi$$$$$ Failure. Or get a 4x4 if your gonna ride in wet stuff and find a mechanic. Im sure theres plenty of people who will do your work for you I would I dont mind wrenching and getting paid for it.

I wouldnt do that. Sems sketchy. If that long one bent and stripped the bolt rite off that power+weight. Cutting it and adding 2 shorter bolts could be even easyer to bend/break. I got my parts guy to get me what I need for a few dollars. I should have rode it over and showed him cause I was banging it back in and riding it. I kept forgeting. I hope this works. It doesnt look like anything besides that bolt. If its real bad how much for that carrier with both bolts rjdgriff?

Hey guys, Im having huge issues with the Long Bolt that slides through the axle carrier. It is bent and stripped at the thread end. I bought what looked to be a replacement so I lined up my rear sprocket and started banging it out when all of a sudden I noticed the bolt I bought looked to be the rite length but it was a hair to wide to go in. I still have the original swingarm and carrier chopped for suspension. Mabey its a year thing.Mine is an 03. This Bolt looks about rite but it looks a little to thick. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Yamaha-ATV-Banshee-Rear-Wheel-Bolt-Part-90101-12694-/250778479225?pt=Motors_ATV_Parts_Accessories&hash=item3a638fea79&vxp=mtr Can anyone help a brother out. This is killing my whole warm season. Its bent bad this time. It could ding or even wedge itself into the rear sprocket and that could lead to a whole lot of hurt. For me and SHEE!!!

I would put some serious thought into a 2:1 setup with a 35PWK 38 Would probably be a bit much. I swear by mine and I know a few trail/all type riders who also wouldnt switch back.. If You say the 28s arent putting out enough I know The 2-1 setup would give you more power everywhere. For Sure. What Pipes and other mods do you have to up the power/compression on your SHEE?