CR500 Drag Bike:
I guess a little background about me is in order first with regards to my proficiency level and personality in order to help you understand the content of this page. I have loved motorcycles as long as I can remember. I started riding when I was four or five around 1967. I learned on a borrowed a Suzuki 90 and then my parents bought me a Honda Z50. In 1977 I was fifteen and my parents put together a Kawasaki KE90 from a couple of non-running ones. At seventeen I bought my first motorcycle, a 1976 RD400, with my own hard earned money. In 1979 and I started racing dirt bikes on a used 1974? Yamaha YZ250. I loved the fact that money alone was not what won MX races, that it was mainly based on physical ability and skill especially in the lower classes. A good rider on a old bike could win. At some point I got good enough I needed new MX bikes to be competitive. I advanced to be a winning intermediate or slow to midpack semi-pro racer and even won the 1986-87 250B TSCEC (Texas State Championship Enduro Circuit). My first new motorcycle was a 1982 Yamaha YZ125. For the next 15 years or so I went through many YZ's, CR's and KX's as well as street bikes among which were RD400, 350's, RD250's and a CB900.
I worked in two cycle shops in the mid 1980's through 1992 in my hometown and became a Certified Honda Motorcycle mechanic about 1988. I was certified for Polaris PWC's, ATV's and Kawasaki certified for Hi Performance Jet-Ski's.
I have worked in the computer industry since 1992 and was certified for Windows NT. I also went back to school in 2000 and received my AA degree from Cisco Jr. College in 2003. I was accepted to the University of Texas Austin for Mechanical Engineering in 2003. I moved, enrolled and attended class for one week before I had to give it up, for now. I had just had a total knee replacement, the fourth and fifth in a series of knee operations, in the summer of 2004 and I was just not physically and financially recovered yet, I'm still not but I'm getting there. I was forced to abandon UT and move back to Abilene, TX. where I am now try to get back on track doing something I have always loved, working on and riding motorcycles!
And now what hopefully brought you to this page in the first place. Please keep in mind I have much more time than money, can you relate?