Inside Travis Pastrana’s RMZILLA 500 Two-Stroke

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Published 2020-05-12
We’re at the Moto Fite Klub race today and Travis Pastrana has his RMZILLA 500 here. After staring at it for a while, we asked its builder Ron Meredith to tell us the story about how the Suzuki RM-Z450/Honda CR500R hybrid came to be!

All Comments (21)
  • @howardwoods342
    That's why travis will always be my favorite. Cause at the end of the day he knows, there is nothing like a 2 stroke
  • @willstuber5022
    Ron: So Travis, how much power you want your bike to have? Travis: Yes.
  • @mrdilligaf1968
    Beautiful machine and runs so crisp on the throttle ! Love the 500 2strokes , manufacturers seriously need to bring them back
  • @johnbecker8481
    I was always told if ya can't start it you can't ride it lol
  • @ronaldtravis970
    Travis is just so cool and just 1 of the nicest people you could ever meet . I’m sure his parents are proud of the man he grew to be ! For real 👍
  • @thatrigwelder
    I can remember lookin at my dads old Mx magazines back in the day and seeing these old graphics
  • @Jeepboy
    I love how Travis makes it look so easy as if anyone could do it!!!!!!
  • I wish i had a mechanic who would just be like " yeah....sure. It'll be ready in 4 weeks". Ol Trav has the life I tell ya lol 😆
  • @JerryJrsGarage
    My 85 CR500 made my arms like Jello I always loved the first 25 mins though 😂. Pretty amazing what a counter balancer does inside the engines that have it. I do dig those colors! Hot pink on the seat 👍🏼👌🏼
  • @johnthomas6614
    That is a really awsme build. I've had a few 500s over years back n day & if u got em started & they DONT HURT u sme how startn. The vibration is insane. What arm pump I cant fill my upper body. life long pastrana supporter. Trick on Trav
  • I been waiting for this damn video ever I saw Travis riding it ... thank the GODS
  • @Toma.s
    How cool!!! Thanks for the video
  • @MrDen119
    Awesome one of a kind bike! Would love to ride a 500 again!
  • @marknelson526
    Hell yeah! Travis I been waiting for someone to do this u are the man and always will be but that just sealed the deal only u would ride a 500 2-stroke while everyone else is riding 450s
  • thanks for showing us pastranas rmzilla 500 of the mods Im sure he appreciates electric start because of his leg surgeries and with the 500's being notoriously hard to start with the harder compression and just were always harder to start. so the electric start that's genius and riding them today, they should probably all by modded as such. hope he's at red bull straight rythem again whenever the next one is and I hope to be there this time live. I'll be living in Los Angeles whether it takes place 2020 or 2021 the next one so I hope to see him there. He knows he can be wide open through the whoops with this bike and makeup time its fast there
  • @edwindude9893
    I had an Honda CR 500 that we called the ‘CRazy bastard’ !