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Power delivery of KX verses CR
kieran:
This is cool. Someone just starts a thread labelled KX Vs CR, and everyone just gets to sit back and watch the fur fly!!! :-D :-D :-D
Mint!! :evil:
CR480R:
--- Quote from: BDI on December 21, 2007, 04:05:14 PM --- What the hell are you honda lovers doing here anyway trying to figure out how to make your bikes fast? I think It's kinda cool normally I have to spend a bunch of money and drive all the way to the sand dunes to hurt some cr500 owners feelings but I can do it right here for free. :wink: What sand dunes do you guys go riding at anyway? I sure would like to go riding with some top riders like yourselves maybe you guys could show me how to use some throttle control. :-D :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I am here because my next big-bore is going to be a KX500 and I enjoy learning about them... I love green bikes and I already have a couple KX250 powered machines that I am workin on.. And if you think you are hurting anyones feelings by bashing Honda's you are wrong... It doesnt hurt me one bit that you had a bad experience with your CR... I just find it a bit rediculous for you to claim them as unridable and try to back it up with several videos showing nothing but rider error... Thats all... The way you guys describe your KX's makes me want one even more, I almost had one last month but I was a day late coming up with the cash... The time will come...
--- Quote from: don46 on December 21, 2007, 02:40:53 PM ---So, all you Honda guys, maybe you need to go where you'll feel the love: http://cr500riders.com/cgi/yabb/YaBB.pl
This is a KX site, period. sorry for the bluntness but I don't want to continue with the "mines better than yours" .
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Who said anything in this thread about CR's being better? Or even equal? So does having past experience with some CR's that were not back-flipping rider-ejecting unridable POS machines make a person into a honda lover all the sudden? Does someone thinking that the hondas are decent bikes somehow threaten you? Isnt this a CR vs. KX thread? Isnt the nature of a thread like this going to evoke a variety of opinions?
Hillclimb#42:
Its all good. I think they are all pretty close. Kx's, YZ's, Cr's, KTM's, (maybe not RM's), but like Don says it is all about rider preference. Some guys might like to ride a moped thru the woods.
This thread is all about comparing the two (Kx vs CR) and you have to have some CR experince to even have a comment. That doesn't make you a CR lover or hater. Everyone would have to expect that the Kx gets the thumbs up on this site and will get the thumbs down on the CR 500 site. It would not make alot of sense for guys dicussing kx5 mods to wish they rode a CR. Honestly, I have beat CR's and they have beat me. The same is true about mx's or street, ice circle trak or whatever. Again rider preference.
The best point that I see so far is again by Don saying that everyone tunes and sets up their suspension differently. They kx's and Cr's design's may not have changed much since the 80's, but there is endless things you can do to set them up. Also you have to figure that rider skill level factors in to the equasion. We are kinda trying to compare apples to oranges, when generalizing like we are, but at least we have something interesting to comment to and read about.
Thanks for geting this thread going guys, but we might as well debate politics or religion.
Mick:
--- Quote from: BDI on December 21, 2007, 07:53:01 PM ---If you made one aggressive lap on a motocross track on my bike with out winding up in a wheel chair that would make you one bad ass mother.
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I suppose I would. On the other hand I can stay up front all day aboard my CR. However the KX is quite the dune bike. Maybe one day we can go head to head on our green machines? But my 500s are two different bikes, different colors, and seperate purposes.
stewart:
in the past25years i have gotten to own and race agianst sevral cr 500s yz 490 and 465s and miaco 440 and 490 kx 420s and 500s etc , all were fun nothing like a big bore 2 stroke,,,but i think the k5 moter has proven the most reliable and able to be modifyed to all types of ridding ..and i have yet to lose a drag race on one of my k5s
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