KX Riders

Maintenance & Technical => KX500 Original => Topic started by: barryadam on May 25, 2009, 01:11:33 PM

Title: Easier to handle
Post by: barryadam on May 25, 2009, 01:11:33 PM

Latest modification. Design based on my KDXs.

(http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo1/barryadam_photos/DSCN4994.jpg)

(http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo1/barryadam_photos/DSCN4997.jpg)

Title: Re: Easier to handle
Post by: DoldGuy on May 25, 2009, 02:27:50 PM

Barry,
That looks good & in the right place. Being vertically challenged with the K5, I have to really snap the bike up to get it on the stand & there is no real good place to grab ahold of. Will install on the next sub frame I get before it gets powder coated. Also like how "Clean" the bike is, Good Pictures.

Title: Re: Easier to handle
Post by: barryadam on May 25, 2009, 03:16:42 PM

Thanks.  I just installed a NOS air box that had been waiting for an opportunity.  And cleaned the pipe, repacked the silencer, and resealed the pipe in the port.  Good excuse to clean it all up and stop that splooge from getting all over my boots and the the muffler junction.
Just tried some new 2-way radios this weekend, too.  The communication really changes the ride experience.

Title: Re: Easier to handle
Post by: KXcam22 on May 28, 2009, 02:45:52 AM

Barry,
 Thanks.  A friend just bought a KDX200 for his daugther and we spent about 6 beer arguing what that handle was for.  Neither of us were right. Cam.

Title: Re: Easier to handle
Post by: barryadam on May 28, 2009, 06:00:59 AM

Cam,

Ga head.  Try it.  Next time you see her bike, stand next to it on the LHS, hold the LH handle bar with your left hand, reach over with your right hand, grab that mystery handle.  Using your hip, you can throw the bike up and over like a cowboy throwin' a calf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYqrvSR7eWM

To do this on the stock KX, you have to use the side cover and the plastic is not strong enough.

Comes in handy for loading, puttin' it on and off a stand, or moving around on a trail.

<<Neither of us were right.>>
What other two uses could you possibly have come up with?

Title: Re: Easier to handle
Post by: BDI on May 28, 2009, 06:25:41 AM

Quote from: barryadam on May 25, 2009, 03:16:42 PM

Thanks.  I just installed a NOS air box that had been waiting for an opportunity.  And cleaned the pipe, repacked the silencer, and resealed the pipe in the port.  Good excuse to clean it all up and stop that splooge from getting all over my boots and the the muffler junction.
Just tried some new 2-way radios this weekend, too.  The communication really changes the ride experience.

The two way radio thing sounds cool and is something I have wanted to do. You should do a post about it.

Title: Re: Easier to handle
Post by: jfabmotorsports.com on May 28, 2009, 07:51:34 AM

I use a Chatter Box on the Ninja some time....Unless I ride with the wife! :evil:

Title: Re: Easier to handle
Post by: barryadam on May 28, 2009, 10:37:39 AM

Quote from: BDI on May 28, 2009, 06:25:41 AM

The two way radio thing sounds cool and is something I have wanted to do. You should do a post about it.

Done

http://www.kxriders.com/forums/index.php/topic,5894.0.html

Title: Re: Easier to handle
Post by: PowerFiend on May 29, 2009, 05:37:17 PM

Haha, so that's what that is for. I traded off a KDX220 for my KX500.