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ID KX500:
kx500 is a great power source but check this out. But a bike falls short even at 70HP.


BoonDockers is an Idaho company. I would want the turbo with tires and track.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P48ZTCuRZ_w&feature=youtu.be

sandblaster:
I'll take two please...

Foxx4Beaver:
those are cool...but the engine maintenance must be through the roof on those 4Ts if you're climbing deep snow hills a lot and making that engine work like they were in that vid...constantly beatin the snot outa them at high revs :|...I think I'd rather go the way Bigred did and use the K5, that way if it does grenade, it won't cost as much as a new bike to fix it.
Although I'd love to try one of those 4Ts on some  groomed snowmobile trails with the turbo :-D

don46:
My son and I were invited on a ride with Timbersled last year, they brought out 4 2012 and 2013 kx450's and the area sale rep had a kx500  in an al chassis with the ap carb. we rode these for 3 hours and as some would suspect I thought you would have to ring the snot out of them, not so. They told me the 2012's had over 300 hours with no internal maintenance, just oil changes. the 13's had had the forks switched because they wouldn't hold air in the cold and the one I was riding I suspected the clutch was slipping but man were they fun. As a life long sledder I was skeptical, they will go places a sled won't due to the narrowness and how nimble they are, you can almost sidehill a vertical incline. they will not climb like a snowmobile but thats not the end of the world.

My first 20 minutes I was wondering what the hell I was doing, I fell over a bunch, can't put your foot down in the soft stuff, but then it cliked and we were going like all get out for the 2.5 hours. I think if i didn't have to drive so far I would have one, and it would have to be the sx version then modified with the wider/longer track, at 6 grand you would have to be pretty serious about it.

Foxx4Beaver:

--- Quote from: don46 on January 16, 2014, 04:39:00 AM ---as some would suspect I thought you would have to ring the snot out of them, not so. They told me the 2012's had over 300 hours with no internal maintenance, just oil changes.

--- End quote ---

that is surprising, maybe it's just because of the nature of how loud the 4Ts are, that makes me think they're being pushed to the limit....being a life long sledder myself, I'm probably basing it off the way I ride my 2T sled...hard.
If I ever was to get one of these, I still think I'd rather go 2T though...those 4ts make me very nervous....and my "luck" sucks. 

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