Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original

KX500.. HEY!!!! Where is everyone???

(1/2) > >>

sandblaster:
Seems this site like so many other forums is drying up.
It is very sad to me.
I learned so much over the last 10 years here and met a bunch of great guys.

What can be done to save it?

kxpegger:
I think a lot of it is other social media platforms and most people realizing that new OEM engine and drive train parts for the 500 are about gone. For the average guy new OEM parts have become unobtainium. Makes it a tough decision to buy or keep a 500 even if it still runs. I keep hoping someone will step up and start quality reproduction parts as good or better than OEM. What are the chances of that being profitable...

This site has been a tremendous wealth of information especially for 500's and an immense help to me personally! I don't know what can be done really? Even a lot of my printed favorite magazines which I prefer to online reading are gone or struggling to stay afloat. World keeps changing and "new" more often than not these days is not better than old.

 

motorman455:
I think it's just that time of year too. Although for those of us in snow covered states, this is the time of year for hop ups! I'm putting new cams in the kx450f and big bore in the Yamaha Raptor 700. I've already modded the KX500 so much that the last thing i did in the fall was to install a flywheel weight to calm 'er down a bit. That STIC carb mod made her almost too responsive!

Truckdriver:
I hope not I only joined a short time ago after looking in as a guest for a while. I got excited about my kx 500 again and found some great information here and people doing mods that I don’t think I could do, I appreciate the decompression valve that Larry installed and I’m excited about getting my 2piece clutch cover back, this site has been great. I come here before the clymer when I have something to fix

KXDINO:
People come and go on sites , get the information there after and cruise right on which is fine BUT i have come across the younger generation who dont even know what a kx500 is i kid you not, and that was at a kaw bike shop.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page