Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Original
Question about aftermarket parts
delphipro5:
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--- Quote from: sniper1 on May 04, 2011, 06:21:45 PM --- The suspension on the K5 is just aweful for tracks and jumps but I see a lot of guys going with a stabilizer and I never had any headshake or stability issues at high speed so what is the advantage of a stabilizer I never seen one on a mx bike but read about them on the legend danny hamel's bike.
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If your KX500 does not exibit any high speed headshake you either have not gone over 50 mph, or you have arms of steel !
IMO, forget all the useless aftermarket BS bling and spend money on getting your suspension resprung and revalved. The KX500's suspension is circa mid 90's and sucks by todays standards. I had Factory Connection massage my 5 and absolutely an amazing difference. The KX500 will NEVER be a MX track weapon, but it's night and day difference from stock. Lastly a Scotts steering damper is MANDATORY if you want to get some precision out of the front end on the KX500. A steering stabilizer allows you to slide the forks up higher in the triple tree to gain some cornering bite, while not gaining the inherant "death swap" at higher speeds.
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+1 ALL THE WAY!
And I like aftermarket BS Bling :-D BUT AS YOU CAN SEE FROM MY BUILD ONLY IF IT SERVES A REAL FUNCTION TOO!
sniper1:
I have held my old 01 K5s wide open with 15/45 gearing and all the bolt ons going accross silver lake dunes and never missed out on a chance to hit a paved road to race my friends cr500 and never had an ounce of headshake I thought it was on a monorail or something.
I wasn't ever a weakling at 5'10" 250lbs when I used to ride but I'm down to 208 now but 15 years of wrestling and uncle sam probably helped strengthen my arms and unloading semis for UPS for 4 years and driving for UPS for 14 years might have helped with the arms :) I like that lol arms of steel I'll have to tell the wife about that one.
Seriously I never missed a chance to hit a dirt or paved road to hold it wide open same with the drags at silver lake and no headshake we'll have to see how the new 02 k5 handles when I pick it up today maybe things have changed.
This is me at our hunting trailer at 208lbs and I preferred the 250lbs I was when in the army :)
I raced open class for 12 years and never see any K5s with stabilizers at the track but my money will go into suspension first then cooling second and motor third but if the stabilizer helps on a track then count me in :)
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