Braidwood Vinduro 2016

A bit of the 15 km loop of the Braidwood Vinduro, I took the '88 400WR and decided to follow my mate on his ($200) 1982 XR250, this is a non-competitive event on private property and after 6 laps around this property, I would love to go back for more! Hard to open up the 400 on most of the course, but it gets a chance to stretch it's legs a little at the end. Most of the tracks are tight to keep the speed down, which is why I'm building the '88 250WR.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkNqiccfNZg

Nice trails.

They are great trails, the organisers put loads of time and work into setting them up. Although this seems very slow, the XR250 I was following was smoking all around the outside of the motor (not from the exhaust) and the rider must also be hard on his rear brake since the hollow axle had water in it that was boiling!
The 400 is barely getting into the meaty part of the power delivery which is a bit frustrating, but I put the cameras on my helmet to get footage of others, not myself so following someone else was the only way to do it.
I'm hoping that the 250 will make for better viewing since it will be using the upper rev range and not sounding so slow!
Having said that, I just love this 400 motor, it works in a rev range that no other two stroke I've ever owned will operate in, you can rev it or lug it around like in this video, it just works everywhere!
Tony.

rev that sucker, they go good

Let it rip & steer it with the rear wheel

Now that it's had a couple of tanks of fuel through it, I'd call it "run in" now. This motor had all new bearings, conrod and piston, then I had to completely disassemble the engine to change the crank cases so it has been a fairly good shake down period with no issues so far.
I'm now confident enough in the motor to let it rip.
Prior to this event, I hadn't even had it in 5th or 6th gear!
Tony.

just remember you have the Maserati engine and the morris minor brakes...

the 87-88 brakes arent bad..not as strong as modern units but much stronger than 86 and earlier.

I never had a problem with my brakes. The rear doesn't lock up as fast as my disc bikes but still works well.

As it turns out, I'm still running a DRZ400E wheel, caliper and master cylinder on my Husky.

sweet setup! dont show us that throttle cable tho!!!

Waiting on a new one to arrive!

Brake lever in transit as well!

How's it work?

Works brilliantly, I used the rear axle from the DRZ and fabricated the mounting bracket on my mill, but I could have made it without using a mill.
Tony.

Nice