On The Pegs January 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 1 | Page 87

On The Pegs
ally sandy races he’s pretty
rough on clutches, or in the
mud. But most of the time
he’s not that bad on clutches.
We don’t put a new clutch in
for every race.
We run a fan on the ra-
diators, right out of the hard
parts catalogue. It’s got a
programmable thermostat so
I can set how hot it gets when
it comes on. It’s pretty neat.
We’ve got a few trick little
things like an SXS skid plate
from Jonathan Seehorn. And
then we’ve got a carbon fiber
ignition wire guard coming
out of the ignition cover to
keep rocks and stuff from
hitting it.
Stew runs the Fastway
ankle savers foot pegs. He
Vol. 3 Issue 1 - January 2018
and Grant were the first ones
to use them. They were cast
iron back then. Those things
weighed five pounds each.
These don’t weigh anything.
The rear master cylinder is
stock. The hose is Galfer and
the caliper is stock. We always
run the stock rear brake pads.
The linkage is stock. This
bike is a lot more stock than
what everybody thinks it is.
Stew’s not real picky to work
with. He’s got a few things
that he’s really picky about,
like bar position and the brake
pedal. He likes a lot of power
out of the motor. He runs the
bike at a really high RPM so
we kind of do what we can
to prevent overheating issues
and stuff like that with that
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kind of stuff.
I always bleed the brakes,
but usually the fluid looks like
brand new. The thing that he’s
the hardest on is the tires, the
rear tire. He can smoke a rear
tire faster than anybody I’ve
ever seen, and that’s because
he rides at such a high RPM all
the time. The bike spins all the
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