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So I went and picked up a 16' Kawi 450 today. Not the brand new one I had put money down on ( long story ) , but walked out of the shop today with one that has 2.8 hours on it. Pro circuit has already modified the ECU and have the suspension already done from Factory connection. Come to find out , the guy who was riding it does testing for FC , in which I called and it seems this bike has the whole works done to the suspenders. I guess the ECU gets re-worked because of back firing issues the stock 16's have ( which I didn't know? ). Also has a brand new set of bridgestones on it ( not the standard Dunlop's ).
First ride will be on Saturday. Real curious on how that suspension is going to work. The test rider said that he has the bike pretty dialed and feeling very balanced. And possibly the forks have something in them that were being tested before the production run , and said it helped....I just don't know what it is just yet. So that saved me another $800.00 on top of what the owner of Hillsboro motosports knocked off because I couldn't get my brand new 16'. They basically did everything to it I was going to do , and then knocked more money off because it has 2.8 hrs on it. Pretty stoked right now!
Anyways , thought I'd share. Looking forward to throwing a leg over a 450 again.
First ride will be on Saturday. Real curious on how that suspension is going to work. The test rider said that he has the bike pretty dialed and feeling very balanced. And possibly the forks have something in them that were being tested before the production run , and said it helped....I just don't know what it is just yet. So that saved me another $800.00 on top of what the owner of Hillsboro motosports knocked off because I couldn't get my brand new 16'. They basically did everything to it I was going to do , and then knocked more money off because it has 2.8 hrs on it. Pretty stoked right now!
Anyways , thought I'd share. Looking forward to throwing a leg over a 450 again.
I can't wait to hear the ride report this weekend!
Still has the new bike smell??
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I can't wait to hear the ride report this weekend!
Weird double post??!!
Pit Row
If you don't like the suspension I have some A Kit stuff I will make you a sweet deal on
@Billy....Motosports lent Jay Whipple the bike for a couple weeks. He needed a bike for a class he was teaching down here , and while he was doing that , FC had him do some testing for them. He's been doing testing for FC for a long time. After the school and testing he gave the bike back to Scott. I called Jay yesterday and talked to him for a bit about the bike. I mainly just wanted to see what he had done to the suspension and what pro circuit did to the ECU ( or whatever it is the re-map ). So it ended up being a great deal for me. Fixed ECU , the suspension is already done and then he knocked the price down even further because it's considered used. Sheeesh....I couldn't hardly tell it had been ridden.
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