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General => In General... => Topic started by: gwcrim on February 24, 2011, 11:17:40 AM

Title: Guess what I did?
Post by: gwcrim on February 24, 2011, 11:17:40 AM

I went into my basement tonight and walked over to my dirt bike.  I then pressed a button on the handlebars and..................



IT STARTED!!!

 :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Sounds like mechanical flatulence.
Exhaust smells funny.

But I pushed a button on the handlebars................


AND IT STARTED!

Now to get it titled and tagged.

Title: Re: Guess what I did?
Post by: Purpletj on February 24, 2011, 02:50:48 PM

Umm, do tell.. You have my attention.

Title: Re: Guess what I did?
Post by: maddoggy on February 24, 2011, 02:52:30 PM

oooooohhhhhhh noooooooooo! the dreaded four stroker!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how could you? :lol:

Title: Re: Guess what I did?
Post by: gwcrim on February 24, 2011, 02:54:17 PM

It's a KLX450R.

Has a Yosh exhaust and is loud as hell.  I don't like that.

Title: Re: Guess what I did?
Post by: Motorrad on February 24, 2011, 02:55:16 PM

Got one of these did ya?

http://joe-ks.com/archives_may2006/1stHybridMotorcycle.htm

Title: Re: Guess what I did?
Post by: 1989kawasaki on February 24, 2011, 03:27:22 PM

Quote from: maddoggy on February 24, 2011, 02:52:30 PM

oooooohhhhhhh noooooooooo! !!!!!!!!!!!!!! how could you? :lol:

LOL the the dreaded four stroker. its a FOUR JOKE

Title: Re: Guess what I did?
Post by: butchpatrick on February 24, 2011, 03:34:22 PM

Sorry for you........2 strokes for life!!!!

Title: Re: Guess what I did?
Post by: gwcrim on February 24, 2011, 11:53:48 PM

I do intend to keep a five hundo.  My plan is to title and plate the KLX and my old '89 500.  Then I use the engine from the 500 to put in the '02 250 chassis.  Once it's in there, I'll put lights on it and use the title for the '89 and viola!  A street legal KX500SF.

The reasons I bought the KLX are 1-I can ride farther distance and refuel w/out premix (it even came with an oversized tank) 2-electric start; 3-they stopped making them.  I figured I'd buy one before they're all roached out.

Yes siree!  Just press that button and FART FART FART FART FART.  She roars to life.

Title: Re: Guess what I did?
Post by: ID KX500 on February 25, 2011, 04:36:12 AM

I've really liked my kx450f, and will always have my k5 around, but for the riding you're talking you'll be better off. I get barely 20 miles to the gal on my k5. All the bad stuff that happens to 4 stroke is greatly reduced if you're not running in the high rpms like racers have to do.

I was hoping Kawasaki would stay with the klx and add the efi. I guess sales tells it all, but they aren't making a whole different bike only a handful of changes from the kx. Maybe if the economy turns around they'll revisit. I should be in charge of Kawasaki marketing in the US,,, there'd be a few different dirt bikes and would include 2 strokes,,, and all with efi.

Title: Re: Guess what I did?
Post by: gwcrim on February 26, 2011, 02:11:56 AM

If you could put the wide ratio trans from the KLX into a new KXF, add a nice stator and a big tank.............. there ya go!

Oh yeah....... no electric leg.  Had it not been for that, I wouldn't have bought it.  I ride with a guy who has a YZ450F and he can barely get it started when it's hot.  I want no part of that.

Title: Re: Guess what I did?
Post by: weymouth399 on February 26, 2011, 03:36:16 AM

Bad sales is why they don't make it any more.

I just bought a new 08 KLX450 for $4650.00 that's pretty cheap. I haven't even rode it yet, damm snow. Thats what happens when you live in Maine.  Even kills the ice.

I also would like EFI, maybe conversion?

Gonna make mine a killer enduro.

Bob W