NO lightly moded quad has a chance against any 250cc or greater dirtbike, 125cc's are quicker than any stock quad as well, so it would take a lot of heavy and major mods for one to beat a CR 250 or YZ 250 or RM 250..etc.

 

Yes..... You are correct Sir......[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

 

The original question was is there any stock or lightly modded quad that can beat a stock cr250 and the answer is no!!. And it is true you can mod a banshee out the wazue, but the fact is mod for mod the bike will win. I bought the factory built kx 250 race bike that Mike keidrowski rode in the 1987 ama supercross series at an auction , and yes it was the real thing it came with a certificate of authenticty from kawasaki and was signed by mike, and let me tell my experience, at the time i also had a cr500 that was piped and jetted, and the 500 was severly put to shame, you could barely kick the 250 over, it had so much more power than the 500 it wasn't even funny, it actually scared the **** out of me. Up until that point i loved the 500 because i'm a big guy 6'4" and i liked the power but the 250 was way to much, it was insane. so back to the question, i've ridden banshee's, raptor's and have owned several modded atc 250r's so you could never tell me that a quad could have as much acceleration as that 250 had, I'm not trying to offend any shee owners but the bottom line is what it is. Just my experience.

 

Do you still have this bike? It would be cool to just look at.

 

No I don't I sold it in 1992.

 

Makes you wonder why they bother having "shootouts" in magazines. Those bikes get hopped up so much that they are completely different bikes when they hit the track and will blow any stocker away. Hell, even the guys at the lower levels do mods that cancel any weaknesses that are pointed out in the shootouts.

BTW, what were your buying and selling prices on that bike?? I know those bikes retailed at high 2's to low 3's back then.

 

Bought it for $4500 and sold it in 92 for $3000, I sold it to a guy here in baltimore it may still be around. But your right it was nothing like like a stock 250, as I said it put my piped 500 to shame.

 

Im surprised it went down in value so much.

 

I bought it in the spring of 1988, so when i sold it in the summer of 92 i wasn't really worried about getting top dollar for it. I basically just wanted it gone, once i got into quad's i lost interest in bike's, I actually kept the cr500 longer becuase it was easyier to ride in the trails than the kx was, the kx was to much of a beast and didn't like trails much at all. But after about a year of splitting time between the bike and the quad i sold the 500 too. Quads are just more fun. I haven't ridden a bike since.

 

I guess its from a person who used to ride bikes and got used to the feeling.