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BURKEDADDY, I'm planning on moving out West (Palm Springs or Vegas) in a few years but for now there was no point in keeping the R. There is absolutely no place to ride a sport atv in South Florida legally without having to drive 5 hours each way or driving 2 hours and paying $25 to loop around a 3/4 mile mx track.

I'm having fun with the bike though, when I get home and I'm frustrated, I can just open the garage and let it rip. Riding my R took days of planning, tralier loading and setup. I do miss off-road riding but I was just kiding myself with thinking is was practicle to have an atv in Miami.

 

It sucks to see less and less of the R...I'm not interested in watching 4 strokes race. I have a feeling the R is going to hold
it's track records for quite awhile. It's just that there were so many parts from so many different companies it was crazy. Plus,
they had the best of the best riders on em. Bill Ballance comes to mind right away. He was like the God on the 250R.

 

Bill Ballance, Barry Hawk, Gary Denton, Mark Earhart, Donnie Banks, Bob Sloan, - all these guys raced the greatest quad of all - the 250R!! They help immortalize this machine! Yeah the manufacturers didn't give us many new models, especially HP sport quads, but I think they would have had a hard time building something better than the R until now, and it is still a competitive ATV! Maybe only the yFZ and 450R are better.

 

R's still dominate around here which is so great to see. We hail the open class. It's amazing to watch because the new thumpers try to
step up in the open modified class. They try to run against Quadzilla's, 350/330R's and LT250R's. New thumpers don't do too good unless
theres an accident. Maybe they'll step it up this year

 

If riders of equal talent are racing Quadzilla's vs. YFZ's or 450R's there is NO way a
Zilla is winning, not on any mx track I have seen at least.

 

yup, zilla's suck

 

it's hard to not like the r, let alone forget about it since you see them everywhere and they still rock.

 

I know this is a little off subject but Tohatsu's new 2 stroke 40 outboard has lower emissions than a lot of the four stroke outboards. Honda could easily do the same and bring the "R" back.

 

did any one see the patented plans some scientists were working on probly 6 months ago in either dirtbike or motocross magazine. it was suposed to a super low emisions 2 stroke engine that didnt take oil in th gas. when it was put in the magazine it was still being tested and nat that much was said about it. does any1 know what happened with it?