Hawk 250 Street Riding

[JerryHawk250]

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.

[Megadan]

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.

[ChipToothy]

What top end do you get out of that bike? It looks and sounds much faster than the Storm.

[JerryHawk250]

Originally Posted by ChipToothy

What top end do you get out of that bike? It looks and sounds much faster than the Storm.

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.

[ChipToothy]

Originally Posted by JerryHawk250

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.

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.

[JerryHawk250]

Originally Posted by ChipToothy

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.

You can do the same porting and decking to the storm. Same heads.

[Megadan]

Originally Posted by JerryHawk250

You can do the same porting and decking to the storm. Same heads.

With the gearing he has it will just get to 64mph a bit faster lol.

[Azhule]

Originally Posted by ChipToothy

I need to sell this slow Storm and get the Hawk.

I can get the Storm up to speed whenever you're done with it

[Megadan]

Originally Posted by ChipToothy

What top end do you get out of that bike? It looks and sounds much faster than the Storm.

That would be the porting and higher compression at work. Mine sounds very similar.

[JerryHawk250]

I do need to repack the muffler. It's starting to get a little loud.

[Megadan]

Originally Posted by JerryHawk250

I do need to repack the muffler. It's starting to get a little loud.

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.

[ChipToothy]

Originally Posted by Megadan

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.

Where I live is about 2 blocks from where they host the 3rd largest motorcycle rally in the country. This is a proud Harley town everyday and I can't imagine a dirt bike ever getting near as loud as they roll their coal all day and night here. Big motors and raw pipes ahhhhh so loud. When my muffler starts to fade I'm just going to let it, might actually get a blink of respect out of it

[Megadan]

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.

[JerryHawk250]

Originally Posted by Megadan

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.

LOL, Brave? No. Crazy? yes but not as crazy as my brother-in-law on his HD street rod. He leans it so far over that sparks fly from the foot pegs. He scares the crap out of me. lol I've seen him drag the pipes on right hand curves. Notice the flat spot on the bottom of the pipe. lol

His Ride.

[Megadan]

Originally Posted by JerryHawk250

LOL, Brave? No. Crazy? yes but not as crazy as my brother-in-law on his HD street rod. He leans it so far over that sparks fly from the foot pegs. He scares the crap out of me. lol I've seen him drag the pipes on right hand curves.

Yeah, but leaning a street bike on street tires over that far is a lot less risky in my eyes. I have touched both pegs of my VFR to the road a couple of times now and thought nothing of it, and that bike can lay over. Leaning my very tall Hawk on off road type tires is a very very different experience lol