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Maintenance & Technical => KX500 Steel Frame Conversion (SFC) => Topic started by: hybridjunkie on February 10, 2013, 02:10:08 PM

Title: kx500af vs kx500sf (steel frame)
Post by: hybridjunkie on February 10, 2013, 02:10:08 PM

i am really wondering how do these two compare really speaking on performance and durability........anyone?

Title: Re: kx500af vs kx500sf (steel frame)
Post by: ID KX500 on February 11, 2013, 03:41:47 AM

I'm going to do an AF,,,but my guess is the most durable is the later SFs 05-07.

Title: Re: kx500af vs kx500sf (steel frame)
Post by: hybridjunkie on February 11, 2013, 12:09:03 PM

which one of the conversions do you think would run faster? (as if in a straight line race)

Title: Re: kx500af vs kx500sf (steel frame)
Post by: sandblaster on February 11, 2013, 12:58:03 PM

The one with the fastest engine  :|

Title: Re: kx500af vs kx500sf (steel frame)
Post by: Motorrad on February 11, 2013, 01:24:25 PM

Quote from: sandblaster on February 11, 2013, 12:58:03 PM

The one with the fastest engine  :|

nope..


The one with the better rider.

Title: Re: kx500af vs kx500sf (steel frame)
Post by: hybridjunkie on February 11, 2013, 01:26:27 PM

i have an 01 kx500 and wanted to know how would it run against a cr500r  is the cr faster then the kx?

Title: Re: kx500af vs kx500sf (steel frame)
Post by: sandblaster on February 11, 2013, 01:42:35 PM

If you drop them both out of the back of a airplane at exactly the same time they should hit the ground at about the same time  :-D

But if you want to know which is the fastest in a straight horizontal line with perfect traction with equally skilled riders....
Read this and you decide:

http://twostrokemotocross.com/2009/06/worlds-fastest-mx-bike-kawasaki-kx500/ (http://twostrokemotocross.com/2009/06/worlds-fastest-mx-bike-kawasaki-kx500/)

Title: Re: kx500af vs kx500sf (steel frame)
Post by: The Flyin Hawaiian on February 11, 2013, 02:31:41 PM

Ive been riding my 04 KX250/500 SF for about 2 years now with only 2 issues. I sucked a reed while using a V Force 2 and had a coil fail. Other than that its been stone reliable. Its purely a woods bike with no MX. It should get its first racing debut either at the River Ranch GNCC or the Alligator enduro during Bike Week. Im entered in the Alligator on the 500 but will be bringing a KX250 backup bike.

Title: Re: kx500af vs kx500sf (steel frame)
Post by: ID KX500 on February 11, 2013, 06:49:05 PM

Hey Flyin  Maybe I meant '04-07. Anyway the later steel frames are the shoot.