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How to ride a 500
Foxx4Beaver:
--- Quote from: Brute on August 23, 2015, 05:24:34 AM ---Still fun to watch even if it is the hundredth time. :-D
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+1...it's beautiful music.
MRDART:
Are you going to ride mx? Dessert?
If mx here are two different methods...
AIM and shoot! Not the fastest way though...
You line the bike up for the straights and go wot...
Or tried and tested method of throttle control, Keep it in the meat of the pwrband use the awesome power available to get up over the bumps and ruts early coming out of the corners, let the bike work for you don't try to wrestle it around.
Back in my 125 days I was pretty fast, but I wrestled the bike around the track, when I switched to 250 I wasn't strong enough to do that and had to adapt to a different riding style, I switched to the 500 after 2 years and had to refine my now soft riding technique even further, back in those days I was 5 ft 4 in and weighed around 125 lbs, someone said I was the smallest 500 rider in Sweden... Sadly I'm no longer that light... Pushing 200 lbs nowdays but I can still move a 500 cc bike around a mxtrack pretty fast making the young guns look foolish when they get beat by an old fat guy on a bike thats obsolete.... :-D
justreal:
Turn it on and leave it on ,, just avoid "target fixation" (dont look at what or where you dont want to go or hit) just my .02
Foxx4Beaver:
--- Quote from: shorty on April 10, 2012, 04:54:59 AM ---Hey guys. I am 5 foot 4 and getting a KX 500 :-D. Can anyone give me any tips or pointers on things like body position, good cruising gears, is it better to ride high gear, low RPM, or high RPM, low gear? Is there enough seat foam to shave a couple inches off? Any other tips or tricks, or things I should look out for on the trail? I don't wanna wreck it my first run out!
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I ride mine exactly the same way I grew up racing 125's and 250's....in a lower gear, in the upper revs, whether I'm on a track or in the woods...it's just something I can't change after 39 years of riding.
Everyone's different, everyone's got a different style of riding....ride it whatever way makes you comfortable...it won't take you long to figure out what works best for you.
alexander-vmann:
any pointer tips and tricks to how i can improve? https://youtu.be/rrhJeBkvp4c
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