Anyone got a 17 kxf450

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walent215 11/26/2017 8:51pm
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mb60 wrote:
Anybody know of a shop around Texas or Oklahoma that has a smoking deal on a 16 or 17 leftover ?
mxb2 wrote:
Cernics in PA $5999 17 kawy 450 brand new. Specials. Add $$ for shipping. Still a great deal .
Must have been a special they only ran for a short time. Website is showing 6399 now. Still not bad but 5999 is great!
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mxb2 11/26/2017 8:54pm
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mb60 wrote:
Anybody know of a shop around Texas or Oklahoma that has a smoking deal on a 16 or 17 leftover ?
mxb2 wrote:
Cernics in PA $5999 17 kawy 450 brand new. Specials. Add $$ for shipping. Still a great deal .
walent215 wrote:
Must have been a special they only ran for a short time. Website is showing 6399 now. Still not bad but 5999 is great!
Yea, I think a Black Friday special.
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walent215 11/27/2017 5:23am
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mxb2 wrote:
Cernics in PA $5999 17 kawy 450 brand new. Specials. Add $$ for shipping. Still a great deal .
walent215 wrote:
Must have been a special they only ran for a short time. Website is showing 6399 now. Still not bad but 5999 is great!
mxb2 wrote:
Yea, I think a Black Friday special.
17 for lets say 6500 shipped would be pretty good! I may make a call...
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I had a 16 and now a 17 (with CV forks) and they are my favorite bikes. They do everything very well but the most glaring thing is how stable they are. I had Suzukis before these so maybe that skews my perception since the Suzukis had some rear shock voodoo shit going on. Anyway, I put a set of CV forks on my 17 and it went from very good to amazing.

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walent215 wrote:
Must have been a special they only ran for a short time. Website is showing 6399 now. Still not bad but 5999 is great!
mxb2 wrote:
Yea, I think a Black Friday special.
walent215 wrote:
17 for lets say 6500 shipped would be pretty good! I may make a call...
Talk to Jason, he will be back next week Dec 5, on vacation this week. Tell him billy sent you. He will take care of you.
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kkawboy14 11/27/2017 6:38am
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Kawasaki is doing there best to keep riding affordable and you guys are complaining? I would put a bone stock kx against any bone stock bike and I would bet everyone here would be happy with the kx
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mxb2 11/27/2017 6:41am
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kkawboy14 wrote:
Kawasaki is doing there best to keep riding affordable and you guys are complaining? I would put a bone stock kx against any bone stock bike...
Kawasaki is doing there best to keep riding affordable and you guys are complaining? I would put a bone stock kx against any bone stock bike and I would bet everyone here would be happy with the kx
People complaining don't even ride or buy new bikes anyway.
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walent215 11/27/2017 8:02am
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mxb2 wrote:
Yea, I think a Black Friday special.
walent215 wrote:
17 for lets say 6500 shipped would be pretty good! I may make a call...
mxb2 wrote:
Talk to Jason, he will be back next week Dec 5, on vacation this week. Tell him billy sent you. He will take care of you.
Appreciate that ! Thx Billy
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mxb2 11/27/2017 8:25am
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walent215 wrote:
17 for lets say 6500 shipped would be pretty good! I may make a call...
mxb2 wrote:
Talk to Jason, he will be back next week Dec 5, on vacation this week. Tell him billy sent you. He will take care of you.
walent215 wrote:
Appreciate that ! Thx Billy
Np man,. Jason Keller, Johnstown store. Cernics. Let us know how ya made out.
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walent215 11/27/2017 9:13am
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mxb2 wrote:
Talk to Jason, he will be back next week Dec 5, on vacation this week. Tell him billy sent you. He will take care of you.
walent215 wrote:
Appreciate that ! Thx Billy
mxb2 wrote:
Np man,. Jason Keller, Johnstown store. Cernics. Let us know how ya made out.
Will do!
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stax199 11/27/2017 10:39am
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got a 17 kx 450 after I sold my 15 kx 450.. both bikes are great! had 90+ hours on the 15 no issues and only just hit 20 hours on 17 running strong and looking great!
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mxb2 11/27/2017 10:49am
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got a 17 kx 450 after I sold my 15 kx 450.. both bikes are great! had 90+ hours on the 15 no issues and only...
got a 17 kx 450 after I sold my 15 kx 450.. both bikes are great! had 90+ hours on the 15 no issues and only just hit 20 hours on 17 running strong and looking great!
Which one do you like better ? Power ? Comparison? Overall bike?
sebastianer 11/27/2017 10:55am
11/27/2017 10:55am
maby a kawi would be good even after just comming of an 2015 kxf450 that i did not like even after much mods thing did not turn and felt heavy. is the new chassi much better ? also read on croverracings insta that the kxf450 has some piston problems that a lot of them breaks but i dont know nothing about it.
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kkawboy14 wrote:
Kawasaki is doing there best to keep riding affordable and you guys are complaining? I would put a bone stock kx against any bone stock bike...
Kawasaki is doing there best to keep riding affordable and you guys are complaining? I would put a bone stock kx against any bone stock bike and I would bet everyone here would be happy with the kx
Pretty sure Kawi are doing their best to make money, they don’t discount to play santa claus.
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sebastianer wrote:
maby a kawi would be good even after just comming of an 2015 kxf450 that i did not like even after much mods thing did not...
maby a kawi would be good even after just comming of an 2015 kxf450 that i did not like even after much mods thing did not turn and felt heavy. is the new chassi much better ? also read on croverracings insta that the kxf450 has some piston problems that a lot of them breaks but i dont know nothing about it.
The new chassis is much thinner and feels much lighter. Compared to the 18 YZ and 17 SXF I recently sat on, it is significantly narrower at the frame and shroud which I like a lot. Kawi nailed the ergos and chassis feel on this bike. I had previously ridden friend's 09 and 13 KX450Fs and hated them - they felt like tanks.

I have 2 seasons on my 16 with zero problems.

sebastianer 11/27/2017 11:11am
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Jbulz wrote:
The new chassis is much thinner and feels much lighter. Compared to the 18 YZ and 17 SXF I recently sat on, it is significantly narrower...
The new chassis is much thinner and feels much lighter. Compared to the 18 YZ and 17 SXF I recently sat on, it is significantly narrower at the frame and shroud which I like a lot. Kawi nailed the ergos and chassis feel on this bike. I had previously ridden friend's 09 and 13 KX450Fs and hated them - they felt like tanks.

I have 2 seasons on my 16 with zero problems.

ok thanks, wold be cool to see how many hours everyone has on there kxf 450. i only had 50 hours on mine 2015 didnt like it did not ride much.
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kkawboy14 11/27/2017 2:30pm
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kkawboy14 wrote:
Kawasaki is doing there best to keep riding affordable and you guys are complaining? I would put a bone stock kx against any bone stock bike...
Kawasaki is doing there best to keep riding affordable and you guys are complaining? I would put a bone stock kx against any bone stock bike and I would bet everyone here would be happy with the kx
mxb2 wrote:
People complaining don't even ride or buy new bikes anyway.
I like the way you think! Smile
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mxb2 11/27/2017 2:32pm
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kkawboy14 wrote:
Kawasaki is doing there best to keep riding affordable and you guys are complaining? I would put a bone stock kx against any bone stock bike...
Kawasaki is doing there best to keep riding affordable and you guys are complaining? I would put a bone stock kx against any bone stock bike and I would bet everyone here would be happy with the kx
mxb2 wrote:
People complaining don't even ride or buy new bikes anyway.
kkawboy14 wrote:
I like the way you think! Smile
Truth bomb braaa

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nc_mx_kid 11/28/2017 10:51am
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solid bike, I enjoy my 2018
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I have a 16 with two seasons. IMO the weakness on this bike is the fork. I have since got the spring conversion. Other than an air fork issue, no other problems.
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Cygrace74 wrote:
Have my 17 for sale for 5,000 and no one even messages me or even comes to see it. I work at a Kawi dealer and...
Have my 17 for sale for 5,000 and no one even messages me or even comes to see it. I work at a Kawi dealer and have never understood why cause they're not prone to major issues like some other brands, they don't have any crazy trick parts stock but they hold together and seem to not hold value. Great for someone who wants a lightly used bike but sucks when time t sell
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Crazy good bikes, saw them at $5999 brand new leftover 2017 450. Great deal.
https://houston.craigslist.org/mcy/d/tomball-2017-kawasaki-kx450f/73362…
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Well, a lot has changed in 4 years.
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I have a 16' and love it. Added a Rekluse, FMF exhaust, swapped out the air forks after a few rides for a set of revalved KYB's I had from an old bike and now its the best four stroke I have ever owned. I have other newer bikes that I ride but just can't bring myself to sell this one, I like it that much!
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I have both a 17 and a 19 with spring forks on both. The 17 is a really good handling bike, as good as the 19 IMHO. I do prefer to take out the 19 as I like the juice clutch and the e-start and at least on my two bikes the 19 motor is better - quite a bit more overrev.

But overall the 16-18 is still a really good bike (with a spring fork).
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sebastianer 6/29/2021 6:49am
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really liked mine 18, now i only has 2 strokes enduro bikes and thinking of maby buy an 17-18 kx450 again.
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JBecker 72 6/30/2021 3:29am
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I had my 2016 pretty well dialed in. Great bike, wish I could have kept it. But I sold it in February and used the funds on a new YZ250F. Like everyone else said, great bike overall. The KYB spring fork off a 2012 bolted right up and made a huge improvement. And Tokyo Mods did the mapping and got the bike really running nice. Exhaust seems unnecessary, but certainly made the bike look better.

Overall solid bike and all my friends who rode it liked it as well.

Edit: just realized this thread is old as hell

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