Ok, been lurking a few days, reading as much as I can and using the search function to learn what I can. Rode a buddies Banshee last weekend (had to have one) then he found me one and I picked it up from a 66 year old man that bought it to ride his 5 year old grandaughter on!!!! Yea I know I was thinking the same thing....WTF MAN!! Any way I drove way out the way to go look at it and the bike is pretty clean for 2001 model. Ole man and his wife just wanted it GONE!!!! So I took it off there hands for 2 grand! Went to buddies house yesterday and he said it was a super score! We looked it over cleaned it up, tuned it up, checked compression (125psi) and rode the hell out of it. Its got a boost bottle on it and my buddy said that the first damn thing that needs to go, so we pulled it off, stuck a stock crossover tube in it and fired it up and was riding it and the bastard started blowing oil and smoke out the tail pipes like no other! We thought that maybe the ole man was running some cheap ass two stroke oil in it so we drained the tank, mixed 32:1 Castor 927 with 93 Octane and put the boost bottle back on and fired it up again and it was back to running normal again. So was it the oil/gas mixture or did removing the boost bottle and putting the stock tube back in it change the jetting in it some way?
The oil coming out the pipes was a hard VERY sticky ass tar like build up. Maybe the old man done too much puttin around on the bike and when I was running the shit out of it it busted loose some build up?
Not very many mods on the bike, Gold series FMF's, K&N air filters, Tors delete, and the freaking boost bottle.
Heres a few pics of the bike.
Great site by the way, looking forward to my new addiction!