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Well im 15 and I bought a 06 crf 150f and its just not enough power for me lol.. And the problem is i dont have 4 grand to buy the R or trade it in and get a 250 R.. So i was wondering if any can suggest anything to make it more of a motocross bike? Also i was thinking about getting in to actually racing it and was wondering if it was even worth my time trying with it ? I am a very good rider and my main goal is to get more acceleration and get the suspension taken care of because even with a down side i still bottom out >.<.. Please help me!

First thing to do, is to get the Power-up kit from your dealer, then open up the airbox, Remove the Baffle in your exhaust. That should help a little.

i had the 2004 crf-150 and had a bit of the same problem. there isnt really alot you can do but here are some suggestions:

aftermarket air filter
uncorked airbox
big gun exhaust (really made mine sound mean)
carb re-jet
bbr motorsports 175cc big bore kit
high performance cam shaft bbr
bbr rev box

all of that alone combined with a couple of things to make the bike lighter will total up to around $1500.00

dont forget about the cr85 suspension conversion kit. you can find some cr80/cr85 forks on ebay and the cr80/cr85 rear suspension there too. its a lot cheaper then ordering the kit from reger engineering. they charging like $1600

I don't want to be a killjoy here, but don't waste your time and money on a 150F. If you want to spend enought to buy a 150R, then go at it, but there's just not alot of cheap things you can do to make this a motocrosser. Unless, this is your first bike and you are just getting used to riding or something, then go with MILD mods like intake, jetting, exhaust, gearing, suspension, those kinds of things. But i wouldn't spend over $500 trying to pep it up.

I did the same thing, bought a 230 when I was skilled enough to have a 250X/R. I then tried to make it a real good machine, just wasting lots of money i could've put into a new bike. But the 150F/230F are just nice beginner or trail bikes.

xanderdos wrote:Well im 15 and I bought a 06 crf 150f and its just not enough power for me lol.. And the problem is i dont have 4 grand to buy the R or trade it in and get a 250 R.. So i was wondering if any can suggest anything to make it more of a motocross bike? Also i was thinking about getting in to actually racing it and was wondering if it was even worth my time trying with it ? I am a very good rider and my main goal is to get more acceleration and get the suspension taken care of because even with a down side i still bottom out >.<.. Please help me!

DO NOT TRY TO MAKE IT A RACE MACHINE!!!!!!! dont waist your time trying to make a trail based bike into a race based bike you will run into nothing but problems just go out and buy the 150r or 250r DONT MAKE THE MISTAKE I DID!!!!

if youre worried about money then sell the 150 and buy a 125 2 stroke for about 1800

i think zak has had the best idea yet

zak13 wrote:if youre worried about money then sell the 150 and buy a 125 2 stroke for about 1800

That is a good idea, it would teach patience...

to deal with the gas/oil mixing, and fuel guzzling. Not to mention the total loss of low-end power, and replacing piston and rings every few hours...

I considered it, but after riding a smoker, I decided to stick to my thumpers.

RedneckRider181 wrote:

zak13 wrote:if youre worried about money then sell the 150 and buy a 125 2 stroke for about 1800

That is a good idea, it would teach patience...

to deal with the gas/oil mixing, and fuel guzzling. Not to mention the total loss of low-end power, and replacing piston and rings every few hours...

I considered it, but after riding a smoker, I decided to stick to my thumpers.

yea it will teach regular maintenence skills too
i rode a pinger and i thought it was amazing but i rode a thumper and it pulled better so i would reccomend a pinger for the beginners because it teaches good riding skills such as shifting and clutch control but after you learn all those skills thumper it is lol
xanderdos have you ridden a pinger before?

RedneckRider181 wrote:

zak13 wrote:if youre worried about money then sell the 150 and buy a 125 2 stroke for about 1800

That is a good idea, it would teach patience...

to deal with the gas/oil mixing, and fuel guzzling. Not to mention the total loss of low-end power, and replacing piston and rings every few hours...

I considered it, but after riding a smoker, I decided to stick to my thumpers.

it aint hat bad...mixing gas oooooh. its easy as heck. low-end? downshift you fool rev it out longer before you upshift and psitins and rings every few hours....no! but when you do its also easy as cake

bocephus450x wrote:

RedneckRider181 wrote:

zak13 wrote:if youre worried about money then sell the 150 and buy a 125 2 stroke for about 1800

That is a good idea, it would teach patience...

to deal with the gas/oil mixing, and fuel guzzling. Not to mention the total loss of low-end power, and replacing piston and rings every few hours...

I considered it, but after riding a smoker, I decided to stick to my thumpers.

it aint hat bad...mixing gas oooooh. its easy as heck. low-end? downshift you fool rev it out longer before you upshift and psitins and rings every few hours....no! but when you do its also easy as cake

its not that hard but it will teach proper maintenence

bocephus450x wrote:

RedneckRider181 wrote:

zak13 wrote:if youre worried about money then sell the 150 and buy a 125 2 stroke for about 1800

That is a good idea, it would teach patience...

to deal with the gas/oil mixing, and fuel guzzling. Not to mention the total loss of low-end power, and replacing piston and rings every few hours...

I considered it, but after riding a smoker, I decided to stick to my thumpers.

it aint hat bad...mixing gas oooooh. its easy as heck. low-end? downshift you fool rev it out longer before you upshift and psitins and rings every few hours....no! but when you do its also easy as cake

Amen brother! If only we had more like you...

bocephus450x wrote:

RedneckRider181 wrote:

zak13 wrote:if youre worried about money then sell the 150 and buy a 125 2 stroke for about 1800

That is a good idea, it would teach patience...

to deal with the gas/oil mixing, and fuel guzzling. Not to mention the total loss of low-end power, and replacing piston and rings every few hours...

I considered it, but after riding a smoker, I decided to stick to my thumpers.

it aint hat bad...mixing gas oooooh. its easy as heck. low-end? downshift you fool rev it out longer before you upshift and psitins and rings every few hours....no! but when you do its also easy as cake

Yeah, I know the mixing ain't complicated, but it's just more to deal with, and expensive. From what I hear they aslo guzzle the fuel, even more costly. I guess you can afford it without the cost of valve maintenance though, . But I do know how to shift gears, and when I upshifted, it bogged bad, so I shifted back down and revved it out. I'm surprised the damn thing didn't hit the rev limiter, and even then it still had poor power when gearing up again.

I'll say it again, i'll stick to my thumpers...

bocephus450x wrote:

RedneckRider181 wrote:

zak13 wrote:if youre worried about money then sell the 150 and buy a 125 2 stroke for about 1800

That is a good idea, it would teach patience...

to deal with the gas/oil mixing, and fuel guzzling. Not to mention the total loss of low-end power, and replacing piston and rings every few hours...

I considered it, but after riding a smoker, I decided to stick to my thumpers.

it aint hat bad...mixing gas oooooh. its easy as heck. low-end? downshift you fool rev it out longer before you upshift and psitins and rings every few hours....no! but when you do its also easy as cake

ya but think about it for a kid that just rides his trail bike and barly has to do any maintnace it may be easy for you but not him