Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Super Motard
2000 KX5 Street SuMo Build
Brute:
The story about the guy that let a friend ride a brand new bike and they wrecked it? Yea, that was me. Back in the '80's. Two weeks old. Guy said he would pay then said "No" when I pushed him.
It went down, righted itself without a rider, hit a large rock (boulder) and cartwheeled a fair distance. Not pretty but at least the guy and his daughter were not on it any more. Sucked.
Brute:
Got my plate today! I am curious, idling with a pretty tall kickstand on flat concrete or asphalt, the bike just sits there. Makes me wonder if it has already been balanced. Or it just could just be one that came in good from the factory?
I remember seeing that Sandblaster's idled in circles before balancing.
Brute:
Ran it up and down the local Highway for a bit this morning and did a plug color check. All good. Light/medium brown. Could be a little lighter, but not dark enough for 'lazy' me to want to change jets. :-) Had the stuff sitting on the bench to put the Oxy probe in the pipe but think I will bag that as the plug color is pretty close.
Took it on a 30 mile ride combined freeway and secondary roads. Interesting how much more noticeable the 'run on' is on the street! The power pops on a single 500 are fairly dramatic on deceleration. Would be an unwelcome surprise on a 'pushing the limits' corner.
I happened to be looking into my left hand mirror about the time it snapped off at the base and vacated the bike while on a freeway run. Little vibration on it at speed in certain RPM ranges.
Max temp (Lugging a bit on a long hill) was 210. Average was in the high 180's/low 190's. Speedo says the max speed reached was 93.8. Probably from rolling on the throttle at the freeway on ramp to merge. Builds speed quickly the higher the RPM gets. Lot's of grunt down low too!
Only killed it three times at lights. :-P There is a fine line between a smooth start and doing a wheelie as the power starts to climb pretty hard at about 3000-3500 RPM. Found short shifting made it much smoother.
All in all I am happy with the conversion. Got lots of looks and thumbs up. There are tunnels under SeaTac Airport and it sounded great going through there. 8-)
Foxx4Beaver:
nice!...I'd love to hear a 500 on the pipe going through a tunnel!
sandblaster:
To help smoothen out the hit I geared mine pretty high.
Requires a bit of clutch to take off in first but isn't to hard on things.
I still have not tapped mine out on top end but I suspect it should do about 100 or so as it does mid 80's in 4th gear..
I have a lot of guys giving me the thumbs up when they catch me at a stop light :-o
Better ride it all you can while the weather is cooperating :-D
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