I havent been on an aluminum frame 250 two stroke enough to make up my mind. As far as the fourstrokes go, and my kind of riding the steel frame has been a better ride for me if the suspension was done or swapped away from the bottoming cones, which just dont work for me. The newer 125 is much better than what I have, but that is an engine and forks thing.
450F Meet Elise
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I havent been on an aluminum frame 250 two stroke enough to make up my mind. As far as the fourstrokes go, and my kind of riding the steel frame has been a better ride for me if the suspension was done or swapped away from the bottoming cones, which just dont work for me. The newer 125 is much better than what I have, but that is an engine and forks thing.
There is usually a pretty practical reason why the natives do something up here. Their speech patterns are all necessarily slurred if they grew up out in one of the villages: 1. It is usually pretty cold in the winter and you learn to talk and breathe with your mouth partially closed. 2. In the summer there are more mosquitoes and and as they are called "no see'ems" that you will swallow if you open your mouth fully. If you spend much time out in those areas you will want one of those bee keepers helmets on.
Those of us who came from somewhere else do chuckle a lot about it. But don't do it if you are counting on one of those people who can live just fine in the dark at 40 below to help you get home!!
Floyd got caught going through a stop sign that he just didnt see until it was too late to make a real stop. It was the flattest part of Nevada near Minden. He got pulled over and the officer saw his license was from up here and said "I guess you don't know what those red signs mean that we have ALL OVER down here." Floyd said he took it to mean two things everywhere. Then went silent. The cop waits a second and says "want to explain that?" Floyd gets full eye contact and he says "I took it to mean sales tax on pussy, and I think you stop that."
They made him get out, and do a field test.
I think she looks way better out doors.
Took it for its first real ride today. The hourmeter, freshly installed, read 0, right now it reads an even 2.
I loaded up early, its dry for the most part with lingering spots that still being wet, turned into frozen slicks overnight and stayed that way for the first part of my ride, and yes, I caught one at the wrong moment and went down.
I am a was never that great B rider that hasn't ridden since October, so keep in mind that you're probably faster than I am.
The bike has plenty of power, but its not violent, the motor is very easy to keep happy, I didn't really have to worry about gear selection unless I was up shifting or slowing way down, transmission shifts beautifully. Throttle response is instant. I did notice in really slow stuff it was a tad easy to stall. It also burns through fuel like crazy.
The bike has a dunlop d756 front and a Maxxis Desert IT rear, I'm not a fan of the 756 front and have had less than pleasant experiences with the Desert IT, so that might be part of why I felt like it was a tad easy to wash the front end out. Maybe a better tire or maybe I need to adjust the fork height, or maybe adjust the clickers a little softer, one thing I forgot to take with me was a screwdriver and the goods to make tweaks to the forks/shock, but they felt pretty good to me, riding through sandwhoops is much easier now, borderline fun actually, the bike powers through them without losing very much momentum.
I also spent some time on the MX track with it, it turns and leans better than anything else I've ever had, clearing jumps is super easy with the 450 power.
All in all, I'm really happy with it after the first ride.
Took it for its first real ride today. The hourmeter, freshly installed, read 0, right now it reads an even 2.
I loaded up early, its dry for the most part with lingering spots that still being wet, turned into frozen slicks overnight and stayed that way for the first part of my ride, and yes, I caught one at the wrong moment and went down.
I am a was never that great B rider that hasn't ridden since October, so keep in mind that you're probably faster than I am.
The bike has plenty of power, but its not violent, the motor is very easy to keep happy, I didn't really have to worry about gear selection unless I was up shifting or slowing way down, transmission shifts beautifully. Throttle response is instant. I did notice in really slow stuff it was a tad easy to stall. It also burns through fuel like crazy.
The bike has a dunlop d756 front and a Maxxis Desert IT rear, I'm not a fan of the 756 front and have had less than pleasant experiences with the Desert IT, so that might be part of why I felt like it was a tad easy to wash the front end out. Maybe a better tire or maybe I need to adjust the fork height, or maybe adjust the clickers a little softer, one thing I forgot to take with me was a screwdriver and the goods to make tweaks to the forks/shock, but they felt pretty good to me, riding through sandwhoops is much easier now, borderline fun actually, the bike powers through them without losing very much momentum.
I also spent some time on the MX track with it, it turns and leans better than anything else I've ever had, clearing jumps is super easy with the 450 power.
All in all, I'm really happy with it after the first ride.
I would have to agree with you......like i I said before the 10 KX 450 I rode, I was definately impressed with, felt very comfortable on it, awsome handeling, and as you said the power was very strong, but linear, more usable power than anything I've ridden.if it wasn't for the fact that 4skins were gay I'd put one in the back of my truck.
To each his own.
I think bangin' smidgies is cheating, too. Takes away a skill set.
I mean, they can hardly defend themselves...-BIG DAN
