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[hawaiidirtrider Get Help Now]

It's christmas....  We all are motorcycle obsessed but there are breaks...

[pantsonfire TT Member]

Damn it! Can't wait for updates... I love hybrids

[randysoo TT Bronze Member]

It's time for more pictures!!

[trailrider72 TT Silver Member]

randysoo said:

It's time for more pictures!!

or a walk around video!!

[Ride Get Help Now]

Sorry bros, the killer weather has made me ride instead of work on the project, the wife and kids sucking up more free time in the holidays and some nasty dental surgery has slowed my progress. Will be working on it soon. Hope to ride it in spring. also been playing with a awesome 165 kit on my WR125 husky that turned out amazing and RIPS. Bike are just to much fun.

[MotoPhotog TT Bronze Member]

Hey Ride,

Long time no see. NIce looking build you have here.

I dont have the YZ426 anymore, i sold it in supermoto trim and a few weeks later picked up a 1990 KX500 for nearly nothing. My dad and I put a new top end in, gaskets all around, new hose clamps, waterpump seal, moose spacer on the carb, cant wait to fire it up this week. Looks like you have a kx5 as well!

Check out my newbie thread over here....

http://www.supermoto...to-be-back-soon!


Cant wait to see the rest of your project! When do you think you will have exhaust fitted?

[PBryant TT Silver Member]

ANy new pics of this beast?

[Ride Get Help Now]

Sorry, been swamped with life. Motor is apart so I can bore the swingarm hole slightly. Could not do it with motor intact as it has hardened steel inserts and was not going to bore. Will mount it and mill it out. Once this is done and the motor back together it should be fairly quick work on the rest. Hope to have it running in a few months.

[Rot Box TT Silver Member]

Any updates?...  Just tell me its gonna go for a scoot before winter?!

[Ride Get Help Now]

it will be on the trail within a few months I hope. Got sidetracked and rescued / gave some love to an abused 125 about to be a 165...

Went from this and needing a lot...



To this and needing nothing...

Edited by Ride, 20 June 2012 - 06:23 AM.

[Rot Box TT Silver Member]

Good work on the Husky!  I'll bet thats a really fun bike

[Ride Get Help Now]

Rot Box, on 22 June 2012 - 09:50 AM, said:

Good work on the Husky!  I'll bet thats a really fun bike

thanks man, it is super fun. Had many 125/144/165's and there is not much more fun than that.

Most people ask :you right that on these steep hills" thinking a 125 will not climb stuff but have found I can climb better on it as it is light and just keeps crawling up it.

this is not super steep but steep and no problem...

Vid -

[hawaiidirtrider Get Help Now]

I guess the air cooled project didn't get finished?

Edited by hawaiidirtrider, 29 January 2013 - 01:04 PM.

[Rot Box TT Silver Member]

Hard to say   I tried pm'ing Ride awhile back about a Husqvarna and it looks like he's no longer active dang it

[desertgasser300 TT Member]

pantsonfire, on 27 December 2011 - 03:06 AM, said:

Damn it! Can't wait for updates... I love hybrids

A friend of mine built this,
YZ125 frame with KTM 200EXC motor.

Edited by desertgasser300, 02 February 2013 - 08:58 AM.

[ATKfan TT Member]

This is a great idea for a sticky thread.   Really fun seeing homemade exotics.  That old Husky with the newer motor in it is wayy cool too.   Brings back memories of how special (and beautiful) the old 390 Husky was.  More please.

[rebelyell TT Silver Member]

Did you ever get the old yz465 shoehorned into the RMZ 250 and up an running.

[bowhunter007 TT Gold Member]

rebelyell, on 18 February 2013 - 08:13 PM, said:

Did you ever get the old yz465 shoehorned into the RMZ 250 and up an running.

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[hawaiidirtrider Get Help Now]

Just checking in but still interested... I know how it is. Once you have a couple of bikes keeping up with projects are harder.