Member’s Bikes

Dallas Gordon

Ernie Audino

The only thing not stock on this bike is I removed the countershaft disc brake.  They work great, but in wet conditions they collect too much mud.  So, I removed it and run only the brake on the rear hub.  All earlier ATKs ran only the caliper/rotor on the countershaft for the rear brake.  Starting in ‘93 the FIM pressured ATK to put a brake on the rear hub out of the FIM’s irrational concern that a chain might snap and the bike would then lose its rear brake.  Had never happened, but to oblige the FIM ATK added a rotor and caliper to the rear wheel in addition to the one on the countershaft.  Racers frequently removed one or the other, because two brakes on the rear wheel was really way too much power.

As to the Rotax engine in this bike, it is phenomenal.  Huge but controllable power.  Tons of torque down low, which allows me to run a gear higher in the woods and lug it whenever I want.  It is always a 1-kick starter when warm and a 2 or 3-kick starter when stone cold.  Oh, and best of all, it is blinding fast.
Ernie

Nick Burnham
United Kingdom

Here’s a pic of my road legal KX250 2000 yr here in the UK – you can see my license plate on the rear end! Now its nearly summer looking forward to getting it out of the garage and onto the highway & tearing it up.. creates a real stir everywhere I take it haha

Keep in touch mate
Nick

Jesse Miller
British Columbia, Canada

2006 Kawasaki KX125
*Renthal Twinwalls
*Renthal gold chain & chainwheels
*Renthal triple clamps & bar mounts
*Pro circuit platinum pipe & r304 silencer
*Pro circuit Clutch perch
*Elka suspension
*Sunline Vince V1 levers
*Sunline rim locks & valve stem
*Braking wave front rotor
*Cylinder has been ported and polished
*High compresion piston
*Running on VP racing fuel

My name is Jesse Miller and i am from British Columbia, Canada. I am 15 years old and i love motocross. Last year i finished third overall in the 661 BC Championship series. I have only ridden two strokes so far because there cheaper to maintain, funner to ride, and they take more skill to ride. With four strokes the bike does all the work, it tracts better, and it has more torque. I figure that if i can keep up to them on my two smoke I will be a lot faster than them by the time i am big enough to ride a four stroke. GIVER ZING

Jesse Miller #162      Thanks to my sponsors; Holeshot racing, Utopia optics, Renthal, Works connection, Boyesen, Factory effex, No-Toil,  Sixsixone Canada, RMR suspension,and Kawasaki canada for their support

Mark Naish
Australia

Here are two of Mark’s bikes. The CR500 is a 2001 with zero hours on it. The KX500 is from 2004 with 37 hours on it. Very clean machines!

Arie Crooijmans
Dutch Netherlands

Arie sent a couple of photos of his Service Honda CR500AFX being piloted by Dutch GP Racer Anton van de Wetering. The photos were taken on the yellow sands of Nunspeet during the 500treffen event.

Robert Hayes
Attleboro MA

Robert has restored a great pair of Honda CR two strokes. A 1977 CR125 and a 1978 Cr250.

Great job on the bikes!

Derek Harris
Houston, TX

Derek sent some awesome racing photos.

Stephen Abraham
Las Vegas, NV

Hey TSM,

First, I want to commend you guys for making such an awesome website for such an awesome breed of dirtbikes!

I am a fairly new two-stroke convert. My brother and I grew up riding XR’s till about October 07. That was when a friend of mine let me ride his YZ250. I was instantly hooked. About a week later, I traded my 1997 XR250 for a 2002 YZ250 and have never looked back!! My brother followed suit and bought a 2000 CR250. Both of us agree that these are the best bikes we have ever owned. I only wish that I had discovered the light side sooner!!

These are some pictures of my brother and I at the 2008 Glen Helen HYR 6 hour race. Needless to say, both our bikes made it through the whole race without any issues whatsoever (they were practically begging for more!). Now for the 24…

Anyways, thanks for the great site, all us two-stroke fanatics love it!

Braaap!

Brett Johnson
Perth Western Australia

Hey TSM,
I just found your site from thumper talk, and it is awesome! It’s so good to see a site with such passion for 2 strokes. Recently I bought what will most likely be my final dirt bike(as I can’t foresee any need to upgrade)…. A CR500AF (see attached pic). Now for the price of what I paid for the bike, and getting the bike shipped over here (Aus), I could have had any new 450 I wanted, but there was no chance of that happening. Now I have never looked back, I get a bike which is just as fast if not faster than any current 4 stroke at a 1/3 of the maintenance costs and rock solid reliability. Thanks TSM for making the perfect website!

Regards
Brett

Jose Delgado
Ashburn, VA

Jose is the one that originally came up with the idea for the member’s bike page. Thanks Jose!

Jose says;
I was happy to see there are people like me that refuse to give up two strokes as the most simple and efficient racing machine.

I do have stories of outperforming $7,000 four strokes with my not so new two stokes!

Larry Rhodes
Summit, NJ

The above photo is from my first race in 1976 at Englishtown NJ on my 1971 Rickman and then 20 something years later with some trophies I won with my “outdated trailbike” KDX 200.

My slogan is “I’d rather push my 2 stroke then ride a 4 stroke, long live the ring ding”…lol

I’ll be in touch and if there is anything you need me to do to support the cause, don’t hesitate to call on me.

Happy mixing!