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Pacific Barbarian:
I would hereby just like to introduce myself. Found this forum recently, not sure what took me so long???

Anyway, I have a 2009 Raptor 700, live in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa. My bike is a normal trail bike, cause that is what I normally ride, occasionally dunes.

Few pictures of my bike.











This is where I ride mostly.





I am looking forward to contribute here and also learn more. One reason I am here, love Raptors!  :thumbs:

preddy08:
Very very nice lookin trail bike! I liked how suspension was atop of your mod list!  :thumbs:

I'm gonna toss out some advice on your bike that you may want to keep an eye on. You may already know, but I'm just sayin.

I've owned those G-Force hubs and they are GREAT for the money, but they will bend a OEM axle. Maybe not now, maybe not tommorrow, but sooner or later it will. I've had good luck with the G-Force axle BTW.

Rox raisers and a OEM stem is also something to keep an eye on. I had that same setup for a while and on the first roll the stem got bent pretty good. I noticed you like the forward placement of the raisers. Hermann and Houser both offer a +1" forward stem. I have a +1 forward and +2 up hermann stem and love it.

MORAPTOR700:
Nice looking quad you have there. Where abouts you located from Cape Town, thats where my boss is from.  :)

Krandall:
Dang, that's a clean bike!!!!!!!

anything done internal motor wise or stock?

Pacific Barbarian:
Thank you guys very much for the nice compliments and excellent adice. I really appreciate it and am in no way offended by the suggestions. All valid points.

I shall respond to all three replies prior to this post.

@ Krandall. I only have a Stage 2 Hotcam in. But I am in the process of ordering parts for some extra mods. Going to have cylinder head portwork done by Freez (some might know him from quad forums). Going for +2 Valves, +3 Throttle Body, Hotcam Stage 3, and some of Freez's secret timing curves :batman:

@ Moraptor700. I used to live in Cape Town, basically grew up there and went to school. Now I live 900 kilometers north of Cape Town, in a small town in the Kalahari Desert. Escaped escalating crime  ;)

@ Preddy08. Thanks for the heads up on the hubs. I have read about that issue. But like you said, great price to widen the rear. Gotto admit, I have given it some punishment, but not enough to tell! So when it does bend the day, out will come the stock axle, in will go RPM Dominator II.

@ Preddy08. The stock stem and rox risers are a bit of an issue for me as well. Everyday I look on ebay at an aftermarket replacement. I really like the ASR (American Star Racing) steering stems. They make good products, got a set of ASR a-arms on my wifes Raptor 350. But I am not sure how the lengths work. I want my handlebar setup to be one inch higher than what it is now. I want to toss the rox risers. They are 2". So what setup do I get to give me one inch higher than what I have now? With steering stems, do they come same length as OEM? And to increase height you have to request 3" antivibe risers? So what I want is an aftermarket stem with antivbe clamp, and the total height must be 1 inch higher than my current set up with stock stem, 2" rox risers and flexx bars. I am not sure what length aftermarket steering stem and antivibe risers to order to give me a setup 1" higher than my current setup. Advice shall be appreciated greatly.

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