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yeah, there were quite a few '08s that they were practically giving away at carter, but I wanted the '09 kawi and unfortunately they weren't desperate to offload it.

hoofarted wrote:

NightBiker07 wrote:You arent allowed to piss and moan when it blows up

We are all waiting....See my sig picture for details

So does that mean you fuckers gave up waiting for mine all these years?

Nice bike!

britincali wrote:Nice bike!

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M.F.D.B. wrote:

hoofarted wrote:

NightBiker07 wrote:You arent allowed to piss and moan when it blows up

We are all waiting....See my sig picture for details

So does that mean you fuckers gave up waiting for mine all these years?

nope, still waiting. and you are right, for trails, they will probably last about as long as a 2 stroke top end. but, it will cost you more period.
but you guys arent holding it WFO for 5 laps at a time.....and guys on quads always holdin they shit WFO for ever.

did you check out the suzuki ? not sure how it runs but it looks bitchin

I didn't like how it felt when I sat on it, the seat is like a rock. I didn't hear as many good things about it either.

lewisclan wrote:

britincali wrote:Nice bike!

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thanks guys

YOU F.....ING TRAITOR, go and join bannedkx450riders.crap.shit.crud.com

I think you should sell all your CR500s and resign from the forum, effective immediately.

OH BTW Nice ride Danny.

did you atleast look at the ktm ? the price probly scared you off otherwise i know you would buy one

look at all these extra parts offered. honda dont offer jack shit. big bore kits, cam shafts, cranks and the list goes on.

http://www.ktm.co.at/PowerParts.50.20.h ... id=+8475I5

100hp honda wrote: did you atleast look at the ktm ? the price probly scared you off otherwise i know you would buy one

Ya Price, lack of parts availability and high cost of parts, poor rear suspension, over heating, etc...

100hp honda wrote:look at all these extra parts offered. honda dont offer jack shit. big bore kits, cam shafts, cranks and the list goes on.

HOLY SHIT i hope you are kidding!!..................u are kidding? right?

CR500R7 wrote:I think you should sell all your CR500s

Miss. Cleo? Is that you?!?!?

I didn't even look at the katooms. I almost bought a '06 ktm 450 a few months ago that had a bad crank. I found out the crank was like $700, plus seals, gaskets and whatever else needed to be replaced while in there, like bearings. I would have spent over a grand fixing just that one problem. the jap 4 have all sorts of parts availability and a crank could be had for $200.
Yeah, KTM allows you to buy them already tricked out how you like them, but with the money saved, I can just do it after the fact with the kawi.

tonight I installed HD tubes, since those oem ones will pinch in no time (BTW Justin, you and Matt are cock suckers for giving me that 4mm michelin tube! that thing took me like 20 minutes to get in the tire and the stem through!)

oh, and I've already got some spare wheels, bought a pair of wheels off a '07 for my sand tires. already mounted the spikey front tire to the rim

dannygraves wrote: (BTW Justin, you and Matt are cock suckers for giving me that 4mm michelin tube!

heh heh heh heh

dannygraves wrote:took me like 20 minutes to get the stem up

poor wifey! send her back over here again, only takes me like 20 secs...

M.F.D.B. wrote: poor wifey! send her back over here again, only takes me like 20 secs...

M.F.D.B. wrote:
poor wifey! send her back over here again, only takes me like 20 secs...

Who's a naughty boy.

M.F.D.B. wrote: Ya Price, lack of parts availability and high cost of parts, poor rear suspension, over heating, etc...

i guess we might have a little more of an "in" with parts, never had trouble getting stuff, the crank had a bad year, they were to be changed after 20 hours in '06s+ early '07s, we know piles of guys that never did the crank change and the bikes have raced for seasons already. We also know that 4 of 5 PRO Team bikes had trouble, the cuz's beeing the 1 survivor. I do alot of machine work for the Honda and yamaha guys here too, like fixing cases + carving the welds down from where they've closed em back up. more yammys than anything. Get into setting lash and the ktm will never change, ever, not all season, the honda is needing work every other weekend, suzuki's strip the threads from the top of the head.

As for the suspension, wtf? obviously the guys racing them are overtalented to be able to ride beyond the bikes shortcommings.
not recognizing that what they are dooing works is like saying that GMs engines are all crap cuz they havent followed into OHC junk.

Overheating is an issue if you are riding a race bike in the bush, on the track its been excellent, actually finished the national down east in mud that coated the rads where others shit the bed

etc...

to me owning a KTM is like owning some exotic porsche or ferrari. They are badass, but the second something goes wrong, or even basic maintenance is needed the $$$ is rediculous. Id rather have a badass mustang or camaro that would cost $200 and a case of beer to replace the clutch in instead of thousands like the cars mentioned above. Like I said, katooms are nice bikes, but the cost of ownership is a bit much for me...

i want one of those old 550s, but to get one from where ever far away from here, then find it needs parts'd be unreal.
kinda like a hot skanky girl, you know shes ready to go, but do you want to risk it.

psh, you know you risk it every time

(BTW Justin, you and Matt are cock suckers for giving me that 4mm michelin tube! that thing took me like 20 minutes to get in the tire and the stem through!)

Thats why when i do HD tubes.. i go straight to a shop! DG you should have given me a ring i would have given you my spare has been sitting on my shelf for freakin 2 years. Never needed to put it in lol

dannygraves wrote:

brand new, $100 over invoice, financed as an auto loan, not a CC and a nice LOW rate.
It fires one easy kick, rides fucking awesome, quite a bit more hit than the 450s I have ridden. After my first wheelie going down the street, I have not been able to whipe the grin off my face. gonna set the sag tomorrow and ride saturday!
then the paddle is going on for dumont next weekend!

The bloke I bought my 07 CR250 from bought one of those KX450s and he loves that bike.

He lives 2820 miles north of me and where do you think he bought his bike from, 50 miles south of me.

Where he lives there was no Kawasaki dealer ( is now ) so he got one from Victor Motorcycles, at Victor Harbour, it was the cheapest place to get it even with being transported 2870 miles north.

So the crate my bike came in has had a road trip of 3690 miles.

, cool

ISBB wrote:Thats why when i do HD tubes.. i go straight to a shop!

I keep telling you guys, all u need is one of these:

dannygraves wrote:my camera phone is acting up and I don't have batteries for the digi cam (seth keeps burning them up in his leapster) but I was able to get one pic of the collection



now... who can tell me how many bikes are in this picture?

Well there is obviously 5 bikes in the picture, if I am correct from front to back it goes like this.

1. 95 pw80, 2. Gen-3 badass trail/mx bike, 3. Gen-1 built dunes bike, 4. 09kx450f, 5. 05 klx 110.

So did I get that right.

BTW Danny the picture shows me what I was looking for in your Gen-3 build thread, hows that for luck, just don't lose that picture.

Roostius_Maximus wrote:i want one of those old 550s, but to get one from where ever far away from here, then find it needs parts'd be unreal.
kinda like a hot skanky girl, you know shes ready to go, but do you want to risk it.

ya BOYEEEEE. find one and make it happen . they have alot of power dude. should be a few of them floating around canada.