I want my TRX to go faster

[cobbadiggabuddyblooo]

I've gotta drop up to MPE possibly late next week and the motor rebuild is lookin like 2 weeks away so I'll just unbolt them anyhow and bring them up. You can get some measurements and possibly trace up a outline to give you an idea of the shaping,taper, length and position of link pipe and the collector ect.

[QuickDraw]

I'm excited!

[Tarwetijger]

With all this talk about Falcos, Tuonos and other non-TRXs I would like to share my potential next bike, which I just discovered :



A what? It's a Husqvarna Nuda 900R. With a modified BMW F800 engine (so parallel twin!), 100+ bhp, 100 Nm, 175 kg dry.

It is like a dream combination of the TRX and XT600 I own at the moment.

http://www.bikez.com/motorcycles/husqva ... r_2012.php
http://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/ ... 0%2012.htm

[stevepeanut]

That Husky is proper cool. I just finished sorting out a bandit 1200 that I bought for drag racing, its not far off standard but goes like a bullet compared to the TRX. Its been sat in the garage since I blew the clutch up at Santapod, just spent a lot of money on a fancy lock up clutch and now it runs ace. It makes the TRX feel slow in comparison. But its running 120bhp compared to the 79bhp of the TRX.

[emway]

Serious Quick with your TRX cost's serious money.

[phuk72]

Serious Quick with your TRX cost's serious money.

You're not wrong.

For less than I spent on the TRX, I bought a tweaked Buell 1125R about 14 months ago. 150bhp and sorted suspension - yeeee haaaaaaa!

[Tarwetijger]

You're not wrong.

For less than I spent on the TRX, I bought a tweaked Buell 1125R about 14 months ago. 150bhp and sorted suspension - yeeee haaaaaaa!

I'm not really into any vehicle from the US... I had to look this one up and have to admit: that doesn't look bad at all! What's it like, to ride, compared to the TRX and/or modern sportsbikes?

[misterdimwiddy]

....................or get a Tuono

The Superduke is a better bike IMHO and if it was my money I'd be getting that or maybe a Buell 1125CR over a Tuono.

That comment may end up costing me £4.5k.

Have never looked at the 990 Superduke before but after a bit of research, it looks an ideal replacement for my SP1. Not as radical (uncomfortable) as the RC8 and enough power + high spec brakes/suspension to be very handy on track. I am gradually getting fed up of being blitzed on the straights and held up in the turns by litre rockets.

My plan currently is to use my TRX this year (3 more track outings?) and then maybe commit and sell everything to get a KTM for road and track.

The good thing about turning 50 this year is that you suddenly become very aware that life is short and you've got to live your dreams while you can. Becomes easy to justify almost anything.

[Yoozy]

I was out with a lad last week on KTM 950SM, the carby version. It went like stink and he couldn't half get round the bends well on it. Seemed to know a lot about them and said he had 950 originally, but sold it to buy a 990 injected one and it wasn't as good so bought another 950. Check em out their cool.

[stevepeanut]

I am still struggling with the TRX, I fall in and out of love with it all the time. Some days I have a great ride on it and other days I am frustrated with it. Out on open twisty roads between 50-100 I wouldn't want anything else, the rest of the time its not so good, its not nice to ride around town or at slow speeds. At the moment, if I go out for a ride, 9 out of 10 times I would take the bandit.

[phuk72]

You're not wrong.

For less than I spent on the TRX, I bought a tweaked Buell 1125R about 14 months ago. 150bhp and sorted suspension - yeeee haaaaaaa!

I'm not really into any vehicle from the US... I had to look this one up and have to admit: that doesn't look bad at all! What's it like, to ride, compared to the TRX and/or modern sportsbikes?

If you think of it as a more modern and better TRX you will be about right. Looks are marmite but make no mistake it is a modern superbike. The engine is a very close relative of the Aprilia RSV engine (bored out to 1125) - so it bears no relation to the Harley engined bikes previously made by Buell.

Standard they make about 130bhp and are more than capable of keeping up with pretty much anything on the roads. It took me a while to sort the suspension to stop it being ultra twitchy on the bumpy back roads but the suspension tweaks combined with 61mm throttle bodies and an open pipe make a good difference.

I've ridden it a good few miles and it is pretty comfy - I like it a lot.

[phuk72]

....................or get a Tuono

The Superduke is a better bike IMHO and if it was my money I'd be getting that or maybe a Buell 1125CR over a Tuono.

That comment may end up costing me £4.5k.

Have never looked at the 990 Superduke before but after a bit of research, it looks an ideal replacement for my SP1. Not as radical (uncomfortable) as the RC8 and enough power + high spec brakes/suspension to be very handy on track. I am gradually getting fed up of being blitzed on the straights and held up in the turns by litre rockets.

My plan currently is to use my TRX this year (3 more track outings?) and then maybe commit and sell everything to get a KTM for road and track.

The good thing about turning 50 this year is that you suddenly become very aware that life is short and you've got to live your dreams while you can. Becomes easy to justify almost anything.

The boys from the Superduke forum were at the last TD I did - and they are plenty fast enough for the fast group. Mate had one that had done over 50,000 miles and it still looked like new.

I would have bought one over the 1125 if I could have found one cheap enough (but the 1125 was soooooo cheap and had only just been run in)

[phuk72]

At the moment, if I go out for a ride, 9 out of 10 times I would take the bandit.

To be honest, that was why I sold my Triumph Sprint - it was just too good at everything that I was riding it all the time and had stopped using the TRX for fun

[Snod Blatter]

I am still struggling with the TRX, I fall in and out of love with it all the time. Some days I have a great ride on it and other days I am frustrated with it. Out on open twisty roads between 50-100 I wouldn't want anything else, the rest of the time its not so good, its not nice to ride around town or at slow speeds. At the moment, if I go out for a ride, 9 out of 10 times I would take the bandit.

You are not alone. I love the looks and noise of the TRX and even other people's reactions to it (usually jealousy!) but to ride it just lacks something. I am hoping that better suspension and dropping the front/jacking up the rear to quicken the steering will bring it to life.

I took it to Germany last year and it was great because their roads are table top flat so the crap suspension doesn't matter and the corners are relatively sweeping with a constant radius so the slow steering wasn't much of an issue either. Then I came back here and the small roads, big roads covered in cameras and terrible road surfaces conspire to make me choose the 250s over the TRX as they are much more flickable and much more fun at legal speeds. Quite a lot cheaper too.

[Tarwetijger]

Hey now stop it guys! This is still a TRX fan forum, not a TRX bash forum!