KX Riders
Maintenance & Technical => KX500 Aluminum Frame Conversion (AFC) => Topic started by: 570mitch on August 20, 2010, 01:05:36 AM
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Finally got a video of my AF in competition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XgYbVK8a90&feature=related
It was our local event in Cornwall 2 weeks ago. The KX can be seen 2 minutes into the clip.
Off to Harewood in Yorkshire next weekend.
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:-D Way cool mitch, I like the crisp sound of the K5, the accelleration is impressive.
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That's how to do a video. No nonsense, video right off the line. No video of set up or getting ready. Looks like a fun ride.
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I Should have changed down to third for the final bend. Seems a bit flat there, but it is steep.
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Hey Mitch,
It looked like you were doing great, Thanks for taking the time to report back and sharing your video,
seeing the old girl competing and doing well against the pack makes us all look good! Like Danger said, you can see the
difference in acceleration of your bike compared to the 4T's.
Good on Ya Mate! Looking forward to the next video-- and podium!
Tuck\o/
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Cheers Tuck
I think my podium days are long gone, we may have the accelaration over the 4t's but they are quicker on the gas and easier to ride.
Gonna keep trying though.
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Nice... The 2 strokes were definately faster off the line!
Looked like you had the most acceleration by far, and carry nice speed on the sweepers, if the throttle transition was smoother on the 2 strokes, you'd have them beat easy I bet
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lookin good mitch.make those diesels 'ave it!
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Kept the KX at home for the last event of the season recently and had a ride on a 650 Husaberg, was going well until I lost the front in the Top 10 run off. Signed off for 6 weeks so far with a broken collar bone.
(http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee165/Highspeeddiesel/Photo0013.jpg)
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Lot more entertaining "Hill" than Barbon, I like it.
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awesome Video....food job, In the states I have never seen race like that on asphalt very cool, what final gearing did you use, how long was the race do you know elevation changes from start to finish?
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The course climbs 350 feet in 1/2 a mile. As you can see we race against the clock, so you can loose out by 0.01 of a second, and you only have yourself to blame when you make a mistake.
Gearing I was using there was 15/38 but still had to start in 2nd, 1st gear was too much, as you had to change into 2nd on that right curve after the start and we banned tyre warmers years ago. You can usually do a burn out to warm the rear tyre, but this track does not allow burn outs, so that's all done on cold tyres.
The tracks are all different over here, but all on tarmac, it's proper name is "Speed Hill Climb"
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That cool. I did a similar race on a gravel mountain road. Course was 7 miles long, 4000' vertical. The only vehicle that beat me was an alcohol powered dune buggy. I could have used 2 more gears - never thought about gearing when I showed up at the race. Good video. Cam.
PS heal up fast. I have broken both sides of mine
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Cheers Cam
6 weeks since the fall now, just started to drive again.
Private tarmac roads 7 miles long are rare in the UK, even 1 mile is hard to find, but they are trying to change to law on the mainland so we can close the roads and race on them.
My dream would be to pop over to the US and do Pikes Peak.
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Still looking for a decent KX Mitch - so far they're all miles away or want silly money.
Kicking myself for dithering on that one in Cornwall I mentioned to you at Wiscombe.
Appreciate you bearing me in mind if you come across one ?
Cheers.
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Oy-Mitch!
I apologize for not keeping up with the guys on the site, I hadn't realized you had gotten hurt mate...
Putting in a good word for your complete recovery! Work has finally started to pick up and I've gone missing from the site.
Tuck-O \o/
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Hi Mitch
loved the vid of your bike , i was trying to tell my mate at work how quick of the mark it was ....awesome... theres a hill climb track near me in salisbury ,wilts called gurston , have you heard of it.. funily enough i broke my collar bone on my kx500 at matchams when it was open , never known pain like it!!! hope your all mended ta jerry
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Hi again Mitch
just remembered why i went to 250 instead of 500 ,broken collar bone,broken foot ,knocked myself out ,apparantley i was awake , but i cant remember going to hospital,coming back from hospital or the last race.....thankfully they didnt all come at once!!! 88 kx500 .......89 kx250.....wonder why eh :)
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Hi All
Thanks for he concern into my injury, finally back to work tomorrow and in the process of starting up on my own soon, after a forced delay.
Jerry, I have ridden at Gurston for many years, especially throughout the 90's but rode there in May 2010 on the new bike, very fast track and my old steel framed KX used to hold the 500 record there.
Kawasaki Freak, I still have a frame and other bits here if you find an engine.
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Hi Mitch
glad to hear your all mended , if your at gurston in the future let me know im only in salisbury ill pop up to watch!!, a guy i used to work with ken selwood used to run some pensky formula one stlye car up there ,sorry dont know the correct spelling or the class he run i just know it was quick , poor guys dead now ,not racing a racing incident thankfully.
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Thanks Mitch - I haven't forgotten.
RoyceRR - you're a stone's throw away - I hope to do Gurston next May if I can get my hands on a bike.