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Ran into a problem with finding a good location for my hour meter after installing Renthal Fatbar36's. Which, by the way, have been a great improvement, I'll never go back to Twinwalls!
That being said, I previously had my Works Connection hour meter mounted on the top bolt for the front numberplate when I was running Twinwalls.
But I ran into an issue when switching to the Fatbar 36's, with the crossbar pad coming into contact wit hour meter and putting a good amount of pressure on the meter.
No problem, I'll just mount it on the upper tank bolt. Nope...the gas cap comes into contact with it when unscrewing/screwing it on and off.
Figured I'd just order a couple hour meter brackets with more offset, so it would clear the gas cap, the first one arrived on Friday and the hole pattern was well off and it won't work. The second one arrives today, but I noticed another problem I don't care for. When fueling the bike yesterday, I realized it's very easy to splash fuel on the hour meter when mounted on the upper tank bolt. I just don't care for that.
I also tried to mounted it on the right hand side of the head tube, on the bracket where the couplers are, but it doesn't clear the fork tube when you turn the bars to the right.
I know some people use double side tape and stick it on the frame, but I'm more trusting of nuts and bolts.
The only other thought I had was drilling and taping the frame and mounting it around the radiator area on the frame rail, but I just can see drilling into a frame to mount a damn hour meter! Seems like a bad move.
Anyone have a solution for this?!
Thank you!
Pit Row
I race Enduros and the occasional Hare Scramble. 40+A, Not super fast but maybe slightly above average A rider.
My question is, My race this past sunday had a lot of open field sections and being it was a race, I held that thing tapped in 5th in those fields. This is something I would never do on my two strokes that I have been riding for 22 years now.
Should I be concerned with anything or will this bike handle that kid of occasional "abuse". I did find myself using the clutch far more than I ever did on my 250XC to keep it hooked up and driving straight. It's a handful in the tight trees and this race had a huge number of logs to cross that were big, small, straight, angled, on the ground, off the ground, etc.. That was a workout!!
I plan to drop the oil tonight into a clean pan and inspect it and to clean the scavenge screen before new oil and filter is installed.
Right on, I appreciate that!! Sounds like a worthy upgrade!
Anyone have the part # for the 21 kx250 brake hanger and rotor ?
Also, I can't find it again but did someone say their 450 burns a bit of oil on start up ? I get a few puffs of black smoke at start up..
I am 220lbs with no gear on and am riding the suspension stock with minor clicker changes and it's working pretty well.. It's a little divey in front under hard braking but in order to get the good small bump compliance I like, I am going to have to live with that for now. The shock feels really good over chop and chatter but this past weekend over the hundreds of logs and rocks the club was subjecting us to in their enduro, I was getting beat up and kicked around a little.
I was trying to get over to my guy Corey at ProTune and ride and do some testing and suspension changes. I don't anticipate having to do a whole lot though.
The full blown moto engine and transmission isn't ideal in the tight woods but I am making it work right now. I think if I could buy the tuner and change the ECU tuning a little bit to mimic "launch mode" it would be good. I rode a couple sections that were super tight in launch mode and it really worked well. I just had to force myself to NOT shift to third unless it was a really fast spot.
In my post I talk about how I used the WC bracket and mounted it to the upper tank bolt, but it comes into contact with the gas cap when unscrewing/screwing it on and off.
Unless WC has a bracket with more offset? The bracket I have, that came with my hour meter, has zero offset, the hour meter is centered on the mounting bolt.
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