125-200cc 167 kit... can hurt people apparently...

Tough SOB...writing right after surgery and betting Walt that he'll ride first...WOW!

My moneys on Walt...Heck he'll just fab up another shoulder and ride.

Tried throwing a leg over a bike this mourning F That notion. Gonna be awhile Hell took me an hour to just get out of bed this mourning.

"You got about 3 seconds to get on that bike Marine!"

With all due respect SIR FU.

What, no Sir Sandwich? Has Sir FU Sir gone out of style?

I'm a little slow is all. Online I have lots of time to contemplate my responses.

George,

Glad to hear that it went well, you will lose the bet as I will be duct taping my hand to the throttle and finger on the brake and riding next week. Unlike your back I can't get paralyzed because I tore my shoulder worse. I do have to say that the second and third day after the tear the pain was drop me to my knees type stuff. I would like to say that I am used to pain at this point but maybe I am getting soft in my dotage.

For everyone else thanks so much for all the kind thoughts and good natured barbs. I deserve them all. I have been basically known as Dumb Sh*t this week at the course. I will say that the over bar incident had more to do with trying to change my approach in a ride that was 2+ hours old and being lazy. My entire mindset for the ride had been to take it very easy and putt along at the back and all of a sudden I am going to "keep up". Long, rocky down hill that I was almost uniformly out of shape on the whole way and finally couldn't save it with the help of a rolling 12" rock and a very large bermed rock to the side that said it ends here. The 167 had nothing to say about the incident. Wish I had been going uphill where I could just give it more gas and survive.

I wish I could have responded to this thread earlier, but we had the most intense thunder storm I have seen in almost 30 years. An hour of lightening bolts hitting in constant succession within a half mile or closer to the house. It was like someone had an unlimited magazine 12 gauge mag pulling the trigger as fast as possible. It was light more than it was dark for an hour. Only downside my internet antenna and modem fried. The last time I was in something like this is when I was hit by a very intense storm while on top of Pintlar Peak at 9500 feet. I hid under a garage sized boulder scared witless for an hour of hits all within 2-300 yds.

I promise to have a ride report on the 167 with no regard for break in putting in the near future.

Walt

See I told you he would fab up some new body parts. Heal up then give us the ride report. We need our test pilot a live.

George WON

George did a power up on my 2010 txc250 yesterday and was ripping it up and down the street one day after back surgery.

George,

You are the man.

All the rest of us can do is pretend.

Walt

Thanks Woodschick,

As I said it certainly wasn't the extra cc's that did me in. I can't wait to get back on it and put some serious ride time. My early take after dwelling on the few times I let it rip is that it really might be the best of all worlds for us trail riders. Impressive small bore bottom and mid, with a very solid top end. I wasn't expecting it to rev like it does because of the extra piston weight. I am going to give it a couple of rides without worrying about being gentle and then I will switch my 144 top end back on to compare. My 144 was running so outstanding after changing out the broken upper linkage spring that I will be very curious to compare. I really like to spend most of my time in the mid-range and let the low end get me through tight little spots and let it rip up the longer climbs. Pretty much what the 167 does.

Walt

Ouch, that must hurt. One good thing is you had the PWK and not the mikuni on the bike. With a perfect jetted mikuni you would have went off the back seat and busted your tail bone LOL.

I had a 167 in my 02' and I rode it 2 seasons on the same top end....was very nice....although i was use to reving its guts out and it didnt like that...but it was fun to ride