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Hawk 250 Street Riding
Took the Hawk out for a Saturday morning ride through the twisty roads of South Louisiana swamp to stretch her legs. This is how I get my stress relief from working all week. Took an hour ride and did a quick edit to condensed it down to 20 minutes of the fun stuff. Didn't want any body falling asleep watching. lol. I haven't figured out how I'm going to mount the camera to my street helmet yet so I just clamped it to the Handle bar. I didn't have an external mic so you don't have to listen to me talk. LOL This video is just for the riding pleasure.
It was a cool morning so the camera case started to fog up. I'll just call it special effects. ![]() Enjoy the ride!! The bike has approx. 5,500 miles at this point running the 17/40 tooth sprockets for the streets. Engine Mods are ported and decked head 1 mm. 10:1 compression, Keihin PWK30 carburetor, Decat Ebay CRF230 exhaust, direct ignition coil, NGK DPR8EIX-9 Iridium IX Spark Plug and dual oil coolers.
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I did the same thing this morning. Left an hour early to go to work and rode the long way around to get there. Great way to start the day.
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What top end do you get out of that bike? It looks and sounds much faster than the Storm.
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Bashan Storm: Ebay steel exhaust wrapped, folding shift lever, seat mod, vm26 carb, air pod, dual led scrambler headlamps, windshield mod, led brake/tail light, secondary led brake light (swingarm), Ebay 295mm rear shock, back up CDI (racing unknown), oil cooler, digital gauge cluster, |
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74 to 76 mph easily. Most of the riding I did that day I was running between 60 and 65 at about 3/4 throttle.
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That would be the porting and higher compression at work. Mine sounds very similar.
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I do need to repack the muffler. It's starting to get a little loud.
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Ditto! Mine didn't last very long lol. Debating doing a fine stainless steel wool around the core with some ceramic cloth behind it. Just to see if I can get it to last longer.
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64mph at 8499 rpm is the fastest mine will roll under it's own power. 67 downhill once on the freeway ha. The deck and port work is the only thing I can see different. I need to sell this slow Storm and get the Hawk.
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You can do the same porting and decking to the storm. Same heads.
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With the gearing he has it will just get to 64mph a bit faster lol.
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I have the 46T, 43T and 40T. 46T has the most torque and top end. The other 2 will only just barely break 60 mph.
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My current Hawk with the ported head and smaller diameter rear tire (4.6x18 Shinko 700) with what is essentially 17/45 gearing is effectively a 17/47 setup, and it hit 66mph with less than 200 miles on the engine and effectively ran out of gear/rpm.
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I failed to mention that I'm still running stock knobby tires. On some of those curves I could here a little tire squeal.
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You are a brave man with those knobbies lol. Good example of what makes a DOT knobby tire what it is though, because a softer non DOT knobby would have probably lost a few shoulder lugs.
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