Bud Racing's Radical Aluminum-Framed 125 Two-Stroke

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Skidaddle 12/14/2016 9:13am
12/14/2016 9:13am
On an Enduro bike with the electrics to run the lights, EFI shouldn't add but maybe, 300 bucks tops. Maybe 350 for a MX Bike since it will cost a few bucks for them to install a more powerful stator.

I'll be first in line when Beta makes a 300RR with OI like now and adds EFI.
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mx836 12/14/2016 9:24am
12/14/2016 9:24am
K-dubbb wrote:
208 pounds.....

New KTM's are lighter at stock trim.
Even after a front wheel is added with spokes thick enough so your front wheel won't go poof? Tongue
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Falcon 12/14/2016 9:40am
12/14/2016 9:40am
RandyS wrote:
I won't usually criticize someone who built a really cool bike, that obviously has more knowledge than me in setting up a pro level bike but...
I won't usually criticize someone who built a really cool bike, that obviously has more knowledge than me in setting up a pro level bike but this article just has a giant question mark all over it.

As a Kawasaki supported team they built a bike with a Yamaha engine. Huh?

They took a bike with an aluminum frame and the best stock suspension, pulled the engine and put it in an aluminum frame designed for a different engine. Added, tens of thousands of dollars in suspension and titanium to make a bike that weighs 208lbs, 16 lbs less than a KX250f. The same weight as the stock bike they took the engine out of ? Radical?????????
MXA weighs with fluids. That stock YZ125 they took the motor from has a dry weight somewhere around 192 pounds. Who knows how much the Bud Kawasamaha weighs dry? Probably still considerably more.
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Falcon 12/14/2016 9:43am
12/14/2016 9:43am
As for me, I'd love an EFI 250cc 2-stroke. It might make me think about buying a new bike.

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BobPA 12/14/2016 9:44am
12/14/2016 9:44am
K-dubbb wrote:
208 pounds.....

New KTM's are lighter at stock trim.
mx836 wrote:
Even after a front wheel is added with spokes thick enough so your front wheel won't go poof? Tongue
And with KTM's beefed up steering stem...
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Sidecar 12/14/2016 10:08am
12/14/2016 10:08am
Sidecar wrote:
It says in the original post that it could be raced in the emx 125 championship..... It was in 2016 [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2016/12/13/164074/s1200_IMG_0266.jpg[/img]
It says in the original post that it could be raced in the emx 125 championship..... It was in 2016


Muscle-Milk-KTM wrote:
Thank you for using my picture I took this year at Matterly Basin Cool
Sorry man, totally forgot as it's in my Matterley file in my phone and I took all the others in there....
Aceofspades 12/14/2016 10:48am
12/14/2016 10:48am
KTM and Husky cutrently make what are being called the "best 2 strokes ever made", plus the old yz250x is a great bike. Why the need for overengineered efi when carbs are so easy to tune? Im a 2 stroke guy to the core, but even I am considering a 450 for my new bike.
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Insider347 12/14/2016 11:29am
12/14/2016 11:29am
jeffro503 wrote:
I like those two freakin' bikes and you guys can bitch all you want. Sweet machines weather you like 2 strokes or not. Thanks to the...
I like those two freakin' bikes and you guys can bitch all you want. Sweet machines weather you like 2 strokes or not.

Thanks to the OP for putting the info up.
I agree, that thing is awesome!
Muscle-Milk-KTM 12/14/2016 12:59pm
12/14/2016 12:59pm
Sidecar wrote:
Sorry man, totally forgot as it's in my Matterley file in my phone and I took all the others in there....
No worries dude, I thought to myself, that sure looks like the picture I took. It is a lovely machine up close.
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JM485 12/14/2016 1:07pm
12/14/2016 1:07pm
JMX82 wrote:
That bike is old news...They used that in 2015. This year they raced KTM made to look like Kawasaki [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2016/12/13/164075/s1200_bud_ktm.jpg[/img]
That bike is old news...They used that in 2015. This year they raced KTM made to look like Kawasaki



My bike is pretty sweet isn't it!Wink
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ledger 12/14/2016 3:52pm
12/14/2016 3:52pm
Falcon wrote:
As for me, I'd love an EFI 250cc 2-stroke. It might make me think about buying a new bike.
2018 will be your year, congrats on the new KTM or Husky. Smile
Underground 12/14/2016 5:28pm
12/14/2016 5:28pm
Rocket88 wrote:
Exactly!

Everyone knows the Kawsuki's were piles.
Kx125rider wrote:
You take that back!
Rocket88 wrote:
No!

...and don't tell anyone about my Zundap/Carrabela creation.
With that Bud built engine, it would be a Kawahama.

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