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Title: My First KX5
Post by: E ticket rider on November 13, 2012, 11:18:06 AM

Now I did it! I found myself with a 1989 KX500 in the back of my truck, in need of restoring. I get it home, unload into the shop, the wife walks in and thats when the fight started! :-D JK! Shes cool with it.
So I found this fourm and it has more info than the rest of the inter net!
I line in S.E. New Mexico, and ride a 2K XR650R.
I just about finnished my XRR and started looking for a Open Class MX bike and found this(http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p303/big-daddy_photo/100_0573.jpg)
 shes ROUGH! but shell buff out!!

Title: Re: My First KX5
Post by: sandblaster on November 13, 2012, 11:21:15 AM

Hello and welcome to the forum.
If you get the K5 up and going you will find that it will put a smile on your face compared to the XR.
I liked all my XR650R's but I love my K5's :-)
Keep us updated on your progress.

Title: Re: My First KX5
Post by: Foxx4Beaver on November 13, 2012, 11:21:32 AM

Welcome to the site....and that's not that rough,I've seen ALOT worse and look brand new again!!

Title: Re: My First KX5
Post by: E ticket rider on November 13, 2012, 01:28:43 PM

Thanks guys!
 Ive had worse!
 I yanked and cleaned the carb the day it came home, 3 slow kicks, and one good one and she started right up! And hell yah I terrorized the neighborhood! (there gettin used to it!) that's how she earned "E-Ticket Ride"!  it came with all the plastics, but there all trashed, even the tank is trashed! The frame looks straight, but the sub is trashed, Ill post a trash pile when I tear into it!! The motor feels real good! And the WHEELS ARE REALY STRAIGHT!!
The suspention is realy cush, Im a big guy, 6'1'', 275#. I think the rear spring need to be tighter, I dont know the rates. Ive seen them from 5.0 to 6.somthing.
I want to make this a rider, trail/dune rocket, and I dont want the rear tire to chew the fender up every weekend!

I think its been looped out a few times! This is my first KX. Im liking it!

Title: Re: My First KX5
Post by: Motorrad on November 13, 2012, 05:34:01 PM

where bouts in NM?   Looking to relocate there myself..

Title: Re: My First KX5
Post by: E ticket rider on November 14, 2012, 03:29:15 AM

Im in Artesia, between Carlsbad and Roswell.

Title: Re: My First KX5
Post by: E ticket rider on November 14, 2012, 03:31:05 AM

We moved out here from San Diego in 2010.

Title: Re: My First KX5
Post by: Motorrad on November 14, 2012, 04:20:40 AM

Hah funny I'm in San Diego looking at moving to the outskirts of Alamogordo .

Artisia. Is that the town with all the oil rig statues on the main street through town?
Believe I rode through there about 1.5 months ago

Title: Re: My First KX5
Post by: E ticket rider on November 14, 2012, 05:11:13 AM

Thats the town! Whats bringing you out here?

Title: Re: My First KX5
Post by: E ticket rider on November 14, 2012, 05:13:20 AM

Alamogordo is just over the hill! Some good mnt trail riding in Cloudcroft.

Title: Re: My First KX5
Post by: E ticket rider on March 17, 2013, 04:02:30 PM

So I got some plastik
(http://)(http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p303/big-daddy_photo/000_0245_zps1f367c22.jpg)

She's slow going...but she'll come around!