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June 24, 2007
My Most Newest Toy
This is my most newest toy. Just bought it today. OK. This one in the photo isn't technically mine, but it looks exactly like the one I bought today. Like a genius, I didn't get the guy to take any photos of me on this awesome machine. It's a 2002 Honda XR400, a one cylinder 4-stroke 400cc thumper. Disc brakes front and rear. Gas shocks in front. Mono-shock suspension in the rear. Gears are one down, five up, and it's been rejetted for Denver. We'll probably have to rejet it again though for about 10,000 feet above sea level. Otherwise, they tend to cough and sputter when you're crossing the continental divide. Note that this XR400 has a rear-view mirror. The guy did this to make it street legal. No real reason to have a rear-view mirror on a dirt bike. As they say on Cannon Ball Run, "If it's behind you, it doesn't matter."
Update: I corrected the year of the bike to 2002 instead of 2003. I attribute the confusion to the "fog of war".
Posted by Rob Kiser on June 24, 2007 at 8:43 PM
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