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250R's Can Be Slayers

The question - What's the big deal about a 250R beating Banshee's or LT500's ?

The response - I just don't get it. A well running 250R smokes most of these on a day to day basis. It's lighter, has a higher power to weight ratio, is easier and cheaper to be made to be fast and is an all around better handling quad. Why build an extra 50 pounds of motor just to move an extra 50 pounds of quad?

Rick - who will race ANY quad any time, nitrous or no nitrous. Hope you can keep that little NOS tank full long enough to impress me.

My sentiments exactly Rick!!!! I really loved the post that said that the Zilla was an 80's quad and the Banshee was a 90's quad and so the Banshee was more of a "today's" quad and built the best ever. Well, even the '86 TRX was built MUCH better than today's Banshee! And the Banshee really has not changed that much since it was first built. One big difference is the J arm to A arm, and from what I hear, the J arms were better. Oh well, enough of my childish venting... If only Honda would have made a 90's 350 twin themselves - Oh my! BUT, it's really not that needed... some of us can take the best quad ever produced and make it run right with today's supposedly big bad 90's machines... and if we want to gamble our motors away, we can run NOS too, but a true TRX abuser is hard to find.

Trax310

I've been that kind of person. Back in 1990 I had NOS on my TRX (I think it was before anyone else dared to put it on). It was VERY fast. So fast that no one would race against it. It was a true 250 cc motor (66.4 mm Wiseco piston). I could launch it hard; on the button (laughing gas on) easily in 4th gear with 14/37 gearing. It shot out of the hole like a cannon. Clicking into 6th gear way before the top of Oldsmobile hill - it was revved out well before the top of the hill. It was a VERY fast ride. So fast I had to put on the breaks - big time - to slow down for fear of over shooting the hill. I saw God so many times near the top of that hill...

This was before Pro-X barrels and such. There were some fast TRX's (running alcohol and such) but the Banshees were still kind of new to the scene - though their cousin the RZ350 had been around for a long time (that RZ engine is old tech). Everyone thought that since they sounded so fast they must be fast. Not so - even then without the gas a good running TRX could smoke them. The problem was that no one had the money to properly modify the 350 cc twin to make it fast. The few guys that could keep their LT500's together long enough to put a run or two together before melting down had some fun but they were no match for that TRX on the bottle either.

Personally I'd rather have seen Honda make a 250 cc twin than a 350 cc twin. I have a thing for multiple 125 cc cylinder motors.

Rick

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250R's Can Be Slayers
The question - What's the big deal about a 250R beating Banshee's or LT500's ?
The response - I just don't get it. A well running 250R smokes most of these on a day to day basis. It's lighter, has a higher power to weight ratio, is easier and cheaper to be made to be fast and is an all around better handling quad. Why build an extra 50 pounds of motor just to move an extra 50 pounds of quad? Rick - who will race ANY quad any time, nitrous or no nitrous. Hope you can keep that little NOS tank full long enough to impress me. My sentiments exactly Rick!!!! I really loved the post that said that the Zilla was an 80's quad and the Banshee was a 90's quad and so the Banshee was more of a "today's" quad and built the best ever. Well, even the '86 TRX was built MUCH better than today's Banshee! And the Banshee really has not changed that much since it was first built. One big difference is the J arm to A arm, and from what I hear, the J arms were better. Oh well, enough of my childish venting... If only Honda would have made a 90's 350 twin themselves - Oh my! BUT, it's really not that needed... some of us can take the best quad ever produced and make it run right with today's supposedly big bad 90's machines... and if we want to gamble our motors away, we can run NOS too, but a true TRX abuser is hard to find. Trax310 I've been that kind of person. Back in 1990 I had NOS on my TRX (I think it was before anyone else dared to put it on). It was VERY fast. So fast that no one would race against it. It was a true 250 cc motor (66.4 mm Wiseco piston). I could launch it hard; on the button (laughing gas on) easily in 4th gear with 14/37 gearing. It shot out of the hole like a cannon. Clicking into 6th gear way before the top of Oldsmobile hill - it was revved out well before the top of the hill. It was a VERY fast ride. So fast I had to put on the breaks - big time - to slow down for fear of over shooting the hill. I saw God so many times near the top of that hill... This was before Pro-X barrels and such. There were some fast TRX's (running alcohol and such) but the Banshees were still kind of new to the scene - though their cousin the RZ350 had been around for a long time (that RZ engine is old tech). Everyone thought that since they sounded so fast they must be fast. Not so - even then without the gas a good running TRX could smoke them. The problem was that no one had the money to properly modify the 350 cc twin to make it fast. The few guys that could keep their LT500's together long enough to put a run or two together before melting down had some fun but they were no match for that TRX on the bottle either. Personally I'd rather have seen Honda make a 250 cc twin than a 350 cc twin. I have a thing for multiple 125 cc cylinder motors. Rick