Vintage Smoke

Sorry, but I was away all last week for the annual vintage 2 stroke street bike gathering at Deal's Gap. A quick follow up.... I spoke to Evan. He was away on business for a bit, but as soon as he realized I was looking for him he called me. He answered the questions I had and all is good. He is ramping up production a bit and will be filling orders for product people are waiting on ASAP. Yes...I am Vintage Smoke. I no longer have a retail shop and I am working out of a shop at my house. I am specializing in vintage 2 stroke street bikes (mostly RD350 and RD400). If there is anything I can help you guys out with let me know! I am also pretty active at 2StrokeWorld.com www.VintageSmoke.com

I need to reach out to them and I have been calling all week, but they don't have a voice mail to leave a message. I tried e-mailing and even sending them a message on facebook, but have gotten no response. Are they on vacation, out of business, or ?

I have no idea. I left in 2004 and moved back to NJ.

Here's a link to the build thread. Any real progress starts on page 4. Years ago I used to work for Metal Tech building A-Arms. You can see the influence in my engine cradle/mounts. A couple of the tabs I used were actually A-Arm shock mounting tabs I trimmed down a bit. http://www.2strokeworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=13533.45

I have 2 crappy ones so far that a friend filmed. I plan on getting a better vid soon. I wasn't getting on it too much since it was my first ride on a fresh motor.

Thanks!! I have been thinking of painting that on the tank!!

A couple of reasons. I was approaching a deadline and needed something to get me on the road. I had been planning the trip to Deals Gap for months and was running out of time. I have a set of FMF's I was considering using, but the work to reconfigure them is crazy. Remember....Banshee pipes curl up and over when exiting the exh port which is the exact opposite of a street bike.....unless I wanted to run them through the gas tank!! LOL I actually considered DG RZ350 pipes, but I knew they wouldn't be optimal and I would probably need to cut out a lot of the lower fairing. I liked the idea of a 2 into 1 since when I get the time to tuck it up properly I will be more likely to be able to hide it in the fairing. I was worried whether or not a 2 into 1 would work well, but that pipe was designed by Slinger of GPL Racing as an experiment of sorts for a friends radically ported RZ350 race bike. It actually worked pretty well on his bike and their final conclusion was that it would work great on a bike with less radical porting which is exactly what I had. I was able to fit it and get on the road with a minimal amount of work. If the pipe wound up not working well at least I wouldn't have tons of hours into it. The pipe actually works great. It pulls hard starting from the lower mid range, with a hard hit around 6K and it keeps pulling on top. Plenty of over rev and no perceivable drop off. Keep in mind i haven't touched the jetting since I literally guessed at the initial settings. I haven't even touched the mixture screws. I am sure the performance will be even better with a little fine tuning. I am hoping that with a little work I can get the pipe to tuck up and look as nice as it works. Besides....it sounds awesome!!!

Are you saying that RZ pipes work well on Banshee motors? Even without power valves?

It's very low i meant.

They're very low. I haven't had a chance to properly mount the exhaust yet. I dragged it coming out of the parking lot on my first ride!!

Thanks!! Well...more than double the horsepower and at least 50 pounds lighter.... It goes really nice!!

I thought you guys might like this. It's a 2010 Ninja 250 with a Banshee motor. The build thread is on www.2strokeworld.com but it is down right now (happens once in a while). I will post a link to the build thread when it goes back up! The pic is below and here is a link to my photobucket album on the bike. The pics are in no particular order and most of them are for my reference, but there is some cool stuff in there. http://s250.photobucket.com/user/BlacksmithCycles1/library/EX350?sort=3&page=1