Smack over site?
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Hi,
Jim Cook closed his doors over five years ago; The shop was Smackover Motorsports and the forum was called "Talking Smack".
The forum there was called "talking smack" and I ran it for Jim on my home linux server at no charge to him for about five years prior to that time. When Jim closed his doors - A few of us started the forum here in 2006.
Uwe Hale originally created "Talking Smack" for Jim back in 1999 or so - In 2001, I moved it over to commercial forum software, vbulletin, so that it was faster and we had searching etc. I remember GMP, gasgasman, and cruiser were the backbone of the community, even way back then...
Jeff
Jim Cook closed his doors over five years ago; The shop was Smackover Motorsports and the forum was called "Talking Smack".
The forum there was called "talking smack" and I ran it for Jim on my home linux server at no charge to him for about five years prior to that time. When Jim closed his doors - A few of us started the forum here in 2006.
Uwe Hale originally created "Talking Smack" for Jim back in 1999 or so - In 2001, I moved it over to commercial forum software, vbulletin, so that it was faster and we had searching etc. I remember GMP, gasgasman, and cruiser were the backbone of the community, even way back then...
Jeff
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blanc,
Jim is still an active member here and posts occasionally, name is "Wudsracer". Jim is a great guy and did a lot for the brand. Cruiser and I bought our '03 250s from Jim as well as many parts. Back in the day Jim was probably the top GasGas parts dealer in the country. There was a lot of good info on that old site that was unfortunately never archived.
There are a few sharp guys here with first hand 200 knowledge, like stainlesscycle and widebear. I would say for a new owner with a good basic understanding taking a fresh look at the bike, one would have to first focus on any possible compromises related to the 250 based design, just like you would if it was a 125 based design like the KTM. Knowing what I know from the past and backed up by stainlesscycle's experience, the first thing I'd do is swap in a 36mm carb.
Jim is still an active member here and posts occasionally, name is "Wudsracer". Jim is a great guy and did a lot for the brand. Cruiser and I bought our '03 250s from Jim as well as many parts. Back in the day Jim was probably the top GasGas parts dealer in the country. There was a lot of good info on that old site that was unfortunately never archived.
There are a few sharp guys here with first hand 200 knowledge, like stainlesscycle and widebear. I would say for a new owner with a good basic understanding taking a fresh look at the bike, one would have to first focus on any possible compromises related to the 250 based design, just like you would if it was a 125 based design like the KTM. Knowing what I know from the past and backed up by stainlesscycle's experience, the first thing I'd do is swap in a 36mm carb.
