Jetting is cool!

 I changed the 2000 GasGas  EC300 back to the #8 slide and test rode
the bike in the street afterwards.  I don't care who you are, that
bike makes some of the sweetest power ever produced.  The power is
still slightly better than the 2005 EC300 I ride, but the '05 has
better forks.  I have spent some time and money getting the '05 to
have power like the older bike, and I'm close, but still not there.

Anyway, I was practicing my 2nd gear wheelies from near a dead stop in
front of my house and setting the front wheel down where I wanted it.
Sometime on the manhole cover and sometimes on the top or backside of
the speed bump.  That bike is still awesome.

Mike Baxter

 
LOL! Eric put the #8 slide and that new needle in his 300, too, and
tested it out at Stonyford this weekend. He was *quite* happy with the
results. Then he put it in the 250 and we headed back up the hill
(camped at Little Stony) and he loved it there, too. Good job on the
info, Baxter! Thanks for the pizza, too <G>

He wanted to test out my new PivotPegz on my KTM 450 so we switched
and I got to ride the EC250. Now for those of you that were lucky
enough to be witness to my superb EC250 riding skills in the Pine Nuts
(or, uh, Little Water Trail in Idaho, for that matter...) this may
come as quite a surprise, but I *LOVED* that 250! I finally got Eric
to say yeah we can lower the WP forks and shock that came on the 300
and put it on the 250. I rode snowy trails, huge downhills, even huger
uphills, tight switch-backy singletrack, baby head rocks, you name it
(well, ok...no deep sandwashes, but whatever...) and that thing was
fookin' awesome! I think the key to success was climbing aboard after
getting off my 450. It felt nimble and light and flickable and had a
turning radius somewhat less than a Mack truck. It also didn't feel
like I was trying to rein in a herd of wild horses when coming into a
corner. Eric's got that thing set up pretty sweet and it was an
absolute joy to ride. I thought about it all the way home, and when I
went to bed last night. It was exciting. I'm a 2-stroke girl at heart,
and I think Eric just lost himself a 250 <G>

Oh yeah...PivotPegz. I'm doomed. Now every bike I ride is going to
need a set of these pegs from heaven. They are a godsend for someone
like me who has an ankle that doesn't really bend. Worth every penny
and then some. I hope they make them for a GasGas EC250...

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Tami,
  I loved your ride report.  Thanks for sharing. Thank Eric for
sharing his bike.  I think that is great!
  Reggie is not tall (5'8" or so), but was doing okay with tall bikes
until he hurt his hip.  Now, he has problems resulting from his
injuries, and is saving to have his suspension on his "99 EC250
modified and lowered. (It's a "sister bike" to my '99 Sweet Baby",
that john now rides. It came over in the same shipping constrainer in
'98.)  We are going to have Drew Smith ( www.wer-products.net ) do the
same job on it that he did on Sweet Baby, with the addition of
lowering it 1 3/4".

  Yamaha footpegs ( '99-?) fit the GasGas off-road bike, exactly.

  One of these days, you ought to come down and ride with me.  Bring
Mike and Tracey Baxter with you.
  The TrainRobbers Trail is "rough love" heaven, and the Breezy Hills
Trail is "sweet soil and traction" heaven.  White Rock, Brock Creek,
Talimena, and Bear Creek are as wild and rugged as you will want to
ride.   Give me some advance warning, and I'll show them all to you.

Good Riding!

Jim
            Jim Cook
   Tree Dodger    Rock Finder
           Team LAGNAF
       2006 Gas Gas DE300

 Jim
do you need me to ship sweetbaby to you for comparison/settings ect...
john
    "I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers
    this morning what the rest of us said last night."
    ~ Greek proverb.

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Thank you, john, but I spoke with Drew Smith a couple of weeks ago.
(I fussed at him, just a bit, because he answered the phone, instead
of that fine looking female in the web site photo.  <VBG>   He was
just as friendly as he always has been. )
 Drew still remembers what he did to Sweet Baby, so we won't need to
separate you two anytime soon.  

Good Riding!

Jim



            Jim Cook
   Tree Dodger    Rock Finder
           Team LAGNAF
       2006 Gas Gas DE300