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2004 Team Green KX500

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2-Stroke Tom:
A few post back some of us were discussing the Team Green KX500s, and some of the mods the factory teams did to these bikes. I have posted a few pictures of the one I purchased last year. I also received a desert tank and a bunch of other goodies with it that I just put on, so I will update these pics soon.

In one of the pics you can see the added protection they provided for the water pump. Team Green would buy several new KX500s, disassemble them, sebd them to a fabricator to have the frames reinforced/gusseted as well as other mods (weld on the steering stabilizer post, weld up the radiators so there were no seams, etc.), and then had them powdercoated. Mine does not have the trick clutch cover or billet extended clutch arm, but everything else is there.

2-Stroke Tom:
A few more. One picture shows the subframe mod they did to prevent the chain from eating through it.

The Flyin Hawaiian:
You guys are lucky on the west coast! There werent any Team Green riders riding the 500 here on the east coast. My brother has a ex Team Green support riders bike, a tricked out KLX300 with a 331 bb built by Stroker, KX500 forks and KX internals in the shock. Also has a slightly extended swing arm. Im currently riding my girlfriends 04 KX250, Im converting my 04 250 to a 500, she had Team Green support in 05. Id love to get my hands on one of the 500 though!
Nice bike by the way.

2-Stroke Tom:
Thanks Flyin Hawaiian. I am really lucky. The Team Green shop is only a few miles from my house, and when I got the bike, I had to call them to see how I would register the bike with the DMV because it never was! The Kawasaki/Team Green folks were really cool to me, and even answered a bunch of questions about the bike and what they used to do to set them up for desert racing. With the bike, I also got the stock muffler, which I want to weld on a Sparky like Destry Abbott's set up. The Team Green guy I talked to said this is the ticket for the exhaust.

I'm going to race this bike, so i just put the desert tank on, and went through the whole bike (except the motor because it rips so hard and has such good compression I didn't even bother to open it up!) and tightened/greased everything up. I thought it vibrated pretty bad for a bike that was supposed to have a balanced crank, but I found a cracked motor mount and problem solved!

Polar-Bus:
Look closely at the footpegs, they are factory unobtanium as well. Your 500 probably also has trick magnesium wheel hubs as well. !  I am surprised Kawi even sold you that bike. Usually most all the factories will "destroy" retired factory race bikes to protect thier (Kawasaki) R&D interests.  Kawasaki must have figured where R&D for the KX500 has run it's course at at the end of production, there's no harm in releasing the bike to the public.

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