A Great Night Of Fun.
Well Friday May 23rd was my oldest Grand daughters Grad night and instead of her doing what most teenage kids do on grad night she came over here for a night of celebration which was great by all parties involved. I forgot to count the heads but there was a pretty fair amount here enjoying the times. The best thing about it was that other than a bill fold being lost somewhere ( most likely place the mud pit) everyone enjoyed themselves, no one got hurt and all made it home always a good thing when riding and party is involved.We shared stories and congratulations as well as some food, beer, wine along with some good old family get together fun along with a few friends Kayla brought with her for th evening. Oh Kayla is my oldest Grand daughter forgot to mention that. That morning and the prior evening before they had all got here I had did some work on the atv's (more in the Forum area) changed tires, gearing, intake setup and a few other odds and ends. So all the bikes where different from the last time we had all got together for a ride. So I was anxious to see how everything did.
The short answer would be all did great and somewhat amazed me. I had put Kenda Executioners on the 660 Grizzly last year. Great tires for heavy mud and I would recommend them to anyone. But the one draw back is the do rob power for being so big and will cause hard steering if over sized is installed as we had. This is the wifes bike so I was hearing about how her arms hurt from low speed steering maneuver's. Time to change them for some ITP Radials all terrain and back to the original size. Amazing results. This bike was jetted, air intake converted, exhaust opened up and a few other things done to it when the Kendas where put on. So it felt like it had a lot of power then.
Well after we took the Kendas off and put on the ITP's I found out what I did not know due to the weight factor of the tires and wheels. It rocks! The power factor was un-real for a Utility bike we just did not know it because of the tires/wheels bogging it down so much, now we do. So to all that think "I want those Big Mud Tires on my bike" go for it just make sure the need is there and the power to match, you will lose power by doing so. That said the Kendas are not collecting dust, they are now on the Honda Rubicon and look very nice. The Honda not being a fast bike to begin with is perfectly suited. Plenty of low end power, shaft drive makes it a big plus factory over belt drive so they will still get used heavily and did.
Anyway we all played around, the mud pit got used pretty hard, know one even got stuck once which was great as I did not really want to start towing vehicles out. My brother-in-law brought over his X-Factor Can-Am. He has modified it with a Aaen exhaust and new CDI box as if they really needed it. Awesome bike, 0 to full heart beat in nothing flat topping out around the 70+ mark in nothing flat. My Can-Am Outlander use to be very fast but I put the bike mud tires on it (coming off soon) and slowed her down.
We had drag races most of the night, the X-factor taking all entries. The only one coming close to him I think was the Polaris Outlaw 500. I had lowered the teeth on the front gear from 14 to a 13 for more lower end even at that I got with 8 mph of his top end so this makes me think I could possible of taking him or tied with the old gearing but yeah he beat me. I might have a gear selection on hand for next time, maybe a 15 tooth for nothing but top end, slow low put once going watch out. As they have no tach nor speedo on them kind of hard to tell the gains other than the feel.
Anyway was a great night, as said no one was hurt including people and bikes. I do have a major clean up on the bikes as they are all covered in mud from top to bottom, oh well the price of fun times of which I will gladly pay. Next event if mother nature allows, Milford Lake in Kansas Memorial weekend now that is going to be some fun......