Well i did it, i cheated on a friend...

As most of you know i love Les at LTR, great guy awesome suspension guru. So today when I sent my 09 WR125 suspension off to Richard at House of Horsepower i felt like i was cheating on Les Why did I send it to Richard? I have known Richard for about 10 years. he used to live local, do suspension and win a lot of local races. Now he is at Cannon Racecraft (Oklahoma)doing suspesnion, developing OEM setting for manufactures and doing some nice high end development work. He has basically begged me to send him something to revalve. he knows me, knows I ride a lot and knows I am particular about suspesnion. He also was an early adopter for my steering dampers and has sold quit a few. Real good guy. Richard is also IMHO on the leading edge of a lot od suspesnion stuff. Working at Cannon Racecraft allows him to play with variable rate springs, mid valve springs, compression springs etc. He is an experimenter for sure. He does have experience with huskys and di d a lot of development and suspesnion revalveing for some up and comer WORCS and GNCC guys. his team won the Perry Mt's 24 hour and he is involved with many people at high levels. With all this in mind i sent him my 09 WR125 suspesnion today. While it is broke in and actually working pretty good I believe there is large gains to be had here. I asked for plush. this is hard on a 125 given it is so light. he babbled on and on about special tricks and valving and crazy mutli weight springs especially designed for 125 class bikes etc. I really look forward to what he can do. this should be interesting.

On a side note i spoke with a local 2 stroke engine builder. He works with all the top mini riders here and does extensive porting and motor work. I am going to have him look at the husky and see what he thinks and if gains are EZ to come by. My Berg 390 ride convinced me to complete my 125 project and make it the best bike it can be.

Will report.

Jeff Tasky had a 08 TM 530 witht hat stuff he let me ride a while back, the suspesnion was amazing.

And yes, Les does fantastic work for sure.

He is Mr Service that is for sure. Heard that from many people.

Just got off the phone with Richard...

He said "when do you want this back"? Me: "Dunno, when ever" Cool cuz I am doing a $3500 full works setup on yours, candy red fork tubes and shock body, diamond black coated fork sliders and shock shaft, custom triple rate fork springs, crazy revalve.

I told him I'm a 45 YO trail rider who is slowing down I just wanted it plush. He said no, you get the full treatment.

Candy red forks and shock body?

this should be interesting.

I didn't ask for it but i guess I'm getting it.

Well, I guess that's what you get for cheating....

The word's already out man. You're known far and wide as that guy on the super blingy husky.

Sounds like it's going to be pretty sweet. Make sure to give us one of your patented write ups when you get a ride or two on it.

Oh man.... I wish I could photoshop!

what have I done? I wanted my suspension old guy plush and now I will be rolling around on a bike that looks like it was built for someone fast.

"ur upper tubes and lower feet got here-- they are sick deep candy wine and blingy brite gold"

Kelly, what type of work does he normally do? High end only?

Or does he do stuff in the price range of the other suspension shops too?

He does everything. Was a local tuner here in the NW, did a lot or good works and MANY people in this area ran his stuff. Moved to Oklahoma a while back as Cannon Racecraft 9spring manufacturer) wanted him and made him an offer he could not refuse. Does a lot of support work for WROCS pro riders and GNCC stuff. Lots going on there. Has done a lot of work recently with some OEM stuff. Great guy and Mr. Customer service. I would say he has moved high end but still does everything.

Thanks!