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Wilson's Customer Appreciation Desert Ride 2/22 - 2/24
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<blockquote data-quote="CDA" data-source="post: 126540" data-attributes="member: 103"><p>2008 KTM 450exc</p><p>[ATTACH=full]13217[/ATTACH]</p><p> </p><p>Disclaimer: I borrowed this picture from the internet as I do not have the actual picture of the bike that I rode.</p><p> </p><p>OK, so this bike was previously owned by Rack. He sold it to his friend Dale who has come out to ride with us on the last few outings. I have no idea what all the extra goodies are on this bike but I believe this picture is close with the big tank on.</p><p> </p><p>I did not get a big ride on this bike but was requested to throw my leg over it for a small ride. This small ride is as follows:</p><p>On our ride Friday doing the Ridge Line, I mentioned earlier that there is a big mountain that needs to be climbed to get to the top. This trails has been getting hammered by Rack riding it 1000 times every time he goes out to the desert <img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/smirk.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":smirk:" title="Smirk :smirk:" data-shortname=":smirk:" /> and it was dry out. The last climb is a pretty steep climb and if you do not pick the right line, it could make you work to get over the top. As I mentioned in my 450 write up, you just point the 450 and hold on. The sxf just goes with or without you.</p><p> </p><p>Well we were sitting at the top and Dale was struggling a little with this hill along with a couple of others. All I know is I heard Rack yell "CDA, come here", so I handed my scooter over to G-Man to hold and went over to investigate. Dale was three quarters of the way up, but not far enough to walk it up the rest of the way. He was spent and Rack did not have on his helmet, so the ask me to ride it up. I jumped on and headed back down.</p><p> </p><p>First impression was that the bike was setup quite nice for the size difference between Dale and myself, with me being a little larger than Dale..<img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/smirk.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":smirk:" title="Smirk :smirk:" data-shortname=":smirk:" /> The batt was dead so the e-button did not work, so I bump started it on the way down. The bike fired up quickly and the motor still feels like is has plenty of life in it still. I pulled up next to our last guy that has not climb the hill yet (he was sitting on a 2013 KTM 200, with a full rekluse clutch. This is a whole other story on this scooter and I did not get the chance to ride it. Let's just say, the guy riding this bike was around 250lbs and I kept thinking he was riding a 300 the way he was tractoring this bike up the hills.) I told him to go ahead and he was waiting for me to show him the line up the hill. I told him start off to the left on the bottom and half way up drift to the right. He looked at my, hit the e button and took off. No issues, just straight up the hill.</p><p> </p><p>So as he was going up the hill I stopped to look at what I was straddling to get an understanding of what I needed to do to climb this hill and what was giving Dale so much trouble. I looked out back and saw he had a nice totally worn out knobby..<img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/thinking.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":thinking:" title="Thinking :thinking:" data-shortname=":thinking:" /> This is going to be fun.</p><p> </p><p>Well once the hill was cleared, I headed on up. I took the trail to the left as planned and then half way up, drifted right.......Well the tire was not hooking up the way I would have liked and that took my line away and I drifted back left right into the massive rock steps. I dropped her into 2nd from 3rd and kept the gas on and up and over the top we went.</p><p> </p><p>This 450 never hicupped or sputtered. Very well maintained bike from what I could tell, it just needed a new sneaker out back. As you saw in the earlier thread, a new tire did get mounted up the next morning.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CDA, post: 126540, member: 103"] 2008 KTM 450exc [ATTACH=full]13217[/ATTACH] Disclaimer: I borrowed this picture from the internet as I do not have the actual picture of the bike that I rode. OK, so this bike was previously owned by Rack. He sold it to his friend Dale who has come out to ride with us on the last few outings. I have no idea what all the extra goodies are on this bike but I believe this picture is close with the big tank on. I did not get a big ride on this bike but was requested to throw my leg over it for a small ride. This small ride is as follows: On our ride Friday doing the Ridge Line, I mentioned earlier that there is a big mountain that needs to be climbed to get to the top. This trails has been getting hammered by Rack riding it 1000 times every time he goes out to the desert :smirk: and it was dry out. The last climb is a pretty steep climb and if you do not pick the right line, it could make you work to get over the top. As I mentioned in my 450 write up, you just point the 450 and hold on. The sxf just goes with or without you. Well we were sitting at the top and Dale was struggling a little with this hill along with a couple of others. All I know is I heard Rack yell "CDA, come here", so I handed my scooter over to G-Man to hold and went over to investigate. Dale was three quarters of the way up, but not far enough to walk it up the rest of the way. He was spent and Rack did not have on his helmet, so the ask me to ride it up. I jumped on and headed back down. First impression was that the bike was setup quite nice for the size difference between Dale and myself, with me being a little larger than Dale..:smirk: The batt was dead so the e-button did not work, so I bump started it on the way down. The bike fired up quickly and the motor still feels like is has plenty of life in it still. I pulled up next to our last guy that has not climb the hill yet (he was sitting on a 2013 KTM 200, with a full rekluse clutch. This is a whole other story on this scooter and I did not get the chance to ride it. Let's just say, the guy riding this bike was around 250lbs and I kept thinking he was riding a 300 the way he was tractoring this bike up the hills.) I told him to go ahead and he was waiting for me to show him the line up the hill. I told him start off to the left on the bottom and half way up drift to the right. He looked at my, hit the e button and took off. No issues, just straight up the hill. So as he was going up the hill I stopped to look at what I was straddling to get an understanding of what I needed to do to climb this hill and what was giving Dale so much trouble. I looked out back and saw he had a nice totally worn out knobby..:thinking: This is going to be fun. Well once the hill was cleared, I headed on up. I took the trail to the left as planned and then half way up, drifted right.......Well the tire was not hooking up the way I would have liked and that took my line away and I drifted back left right into the massive rock steps. I dropped her into 2nd from 3rd and kept the gas on and up and over the top we went. This 450 never hicupped or sputtered. Very well maintained bike from what I could tell, it just needed a new sneaker out back. As you saw in the earlier thread, a new tire did get mounted up the next morning. [/QUOTE]
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