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Motorrad:
Okay I am in a pickle and need your guys honest oppinion

for those of you with DLC coated forks.

Just got a set of 08 450 forks mounted up to my k5 and the seals leak. No chance to ride them to get an oppinion of them (never ridden a new 450 either). The issue I'm having is do I put in new seal and ride stock for a season. Or pop the $$ and have them resprung and valved to desert racing right off the bat. 

Sooooooo

How do they perform stock??
What's your weight?
Riding ability?
Terrain?

Motorrad:
17 views and no one has ridden a 08-10 kx450??

Danger4u2:
How do they perform stock?? 
Keep in mind I have a 500 engine in a 08 450 chassis.  It handles better than stock CR and KX500. I don't get very high on jumps, 3 ft. off the ground is a big jump for me.

What's your weight? 
My standing weight is 245 add the gear I wear and the items I carry, a few tools, water in a camel back = combined weight of 300 pounds.

Riding ability?
Veteran C class, ride for fun, I was out run by a 16 year old girl on a KTM 300 in the woods.  She came up behind me, I pulled over to let her by and then tried to keep up with her.  After the second turn I never saw her again.  I asked a KTM guy parked next to my truck about the "chick with the pony tail" and he said she races and she's fast.

Terrain? 
Single track woods rider with a mix of rocky single track in the small mountains here in Oklahoma. I ride at organized dual sport meets,  07 KLR650, 04 street legal KX500 so I don't have much to compare with a KX450.

The issue I'm having is do I put in new seals and ride stock for a season. Or pop the $$ and have them resprung and valved to desert racing right off the bat.
I had my forks and shock revalved and resprung by Factory Connection in Muskogee OK. for my weight and riding style.  One day service. Had a cracked plastic part that cost $158 from Kawasaki total with part was about $1100.  Have not ridden the bike yet, still in the assembly process.
I hope be together this weekend for the first ride after taking the whole bike apart.
I would say install the seals and see how you like it if you are doing the work.  If your having someone else doing the work it might be cheaper to do it all at one time.  Unless your heavy like I am or money is not an issue, respring/revalve.

Motorrad:
Well I'm 200lbs In full gear (on the nose). 

Very fast open desert.

Not sure how the a b c class's work
the way a desert race is setup is
expert (destry Abbott runs in this class)
amature (the class I run in)
novise
beginner

my 91 ex factory bike suspension set to me I can out run the suspension pretty easy. 

I guess honestly I'm just dreaming that I don't have to touch it. As I was trying to convince myself that motorcross suspension on a heavyer guy would be fine for desert.  Keep dreamig right?

I am going to have race tech build me one of their one off custom shocks. Might as well have em do the forks at the same time.   

Now how to hide the $$ from the wife?

Danger4u2:
Veteran C class = Have fun, go home unhurt.
I've never raced other than playing chase on trails or unofficial sand drags with buddies.
I'm one of the ride leaders at most of the dual sport meets I go to.
I guess you would call our group novice and the ride we do would be called
hardcore. No beginners.  We do a 200 to 250 mile loop.  About 25 percent single track,
50 percent fire roads 60 to 70 mph, 25 percent black top for gas and eats.
Most of us ride our bikes to the meet.  But the last 2 that I have attended I trucked
my bikes because the weather look like rain all the way there.

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