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Do you know how your friend dealt with the issue and if KTM warrantied the wheel?
It's on brand new shit.
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I own a spoke torque wrench but dont use it until I gotta tighten the spokes...I guess this just became another part of going over the bike from the factory.
At the last dealership I worked at we had a customer that serviced his 15 KX450F for the first time. He went and put the oil filter in backwards and locked up the motor. I asked Kawasaki if there was any possibility of good will and they paid for all the parts, crank, piston, cyl, head, cams, gasket seals, Etc. That were damaged all the customer had to pay was for the labor. On a failure that was in no way Kawasaki's fault.
Bottom line for me however is I have over jumped or come up short on jumps far, far worse then this on supposedly weaker wheels and never had this happen! I know it is weakness in the spokes (look at the size!) In this case I landed a little short rear wheel first and when the front slapped down all 8 spokes broke in the exact same spot. I didnt go down, i didnt even bounce I just accelerated out of a hard landing then realized my front wheel was all over the place. I have bent hoops before but never seen 8 in a row snap like that. I know it may look like they were over tightened like crazy but I know for a fact that they were right where they were supposed to be. I am taking it by the dealer where I bought it Northland Motorsports up here in Flagstaff AZ. Hopefully they go to bat for me!
They didn't say that to me.
Spokes are not the appropriate place for "weight savings"!!
I am aware of an electrical issue that can cause the 2016 250SX to quit randomly that needs to be addressed with the same urgency.
KC
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The spokes have less cross section than what anyone else uses.
I just don't want anyone to get hurt regardless of what they ride.
KC
Now think about when those spokes are so tight they're close to snap and you place an enormous impact load on them. There's no room for stretch and so failure occurs. The OEM would have an engineers failure analysis carried out and would most likely concur this, and you would be paying the bills for everything. Good luck with that.
His local dealership went to bat for him. ALL of the manufacturers will fix a problem IF the dealer pushes it.
60:1 with a blend and no suprise, but yes, it it was lube, it would sieze near the exhaust valve, not have that crap all the way around.....Water and sand ingestion I say.
As for the above I ran 60:1 Motul in my 08 KTM 300xc for around a year with no issues... I thought i saw on another thread that this was most likely from air filter failure, maybe not tho....
Z
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