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I’ve put 6 hours on my 23 in about 2.5 weeks. Chassis continues to be better every ride. Love the bike. Only complaint is the lean pop and it vibrates more than my 21 through the bars. Once I get to 10-12 hours and the chassis is completely broken in, I’ll send the suspension off to Factory Connection and let them work their magic.
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To be honest, I’ve been riding the bike in -1 and -2 map, just to roll corners smoother and be less jerky with throttle.
The Vortex makes a HUGE improvement to the power curve over the standard ECU under any circumstances, no matter what model year - it makes a bigger improvement over most any other engine or exhaust mod ever would.
It's easy enough to change the map just by removing the seat and changing the map screw on the ECU, it takes less than 3 minutes tops.
Most guys pick a map and ride with it - I dont know of anyone in race conditions who change maps mid moto.
... you won't see any map switches on a pro race bike...
I feel like the rear ended of the bike is super high at recommended setting. The last 2 days I’ve been the most comfortable at 1 line up in the clamps and 110mm sag.
Not sure if my “feel” has changed because I’ve been mountain biking a lot, interested to hear your thoughts?
9.95 Bars
I weigh 165, Vet Intermediate
I'm running 105mm sag, and I also went down to a 39 Nm spring I had laying around since I was struggling to get my race and static sag set properly. I wouldn't mind trying 107-108mm to see
Forks at the top line (first line below the cap), at 148 psi (5'10" 150lbs)
I'm also running pro taper evo sx race bend bars.
This setup does very well on the softer sandier tracks here in Michigan which is what I mostly ride. I will say when i've gotten to some choppier more medium surface tracks the bike doesn't behave how i'd like it to on braking bumps, but I have not had enough time on tracks like that to figure out my clickers and what works.
Currently running 105 sag. Will be trying different sag settings soon, mostly because I just like experimenting.
Had mine valved by JBI, very happy! 15 hours, currently the funnest bike I've ridden in many years.
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Hope this helps anyone that is looking
As far as which bike, depends on budget and what you want out of the bike. Newest technology or happy with riding the older version?
I’m 50 and grew up riding and racing two strokes. I’ve had a 11 & 13 350 and the bikes to me had a close sensation of a 250 two stroke, well minus the whiskey throttle.
I’m in Nor Cal and except Hangtown the tracks are on the tighter side with jumps out of tighter corners. Not areacross but generally not big open tracks with longer turns where you can keep a lot of momentum going.
I really liked my previous 350’s and they had some simple mods (gearing and pipe ) mainly. My biggest complaint was trying to catch a tight rutted turn and seat bounce a jump that’s right out of a corner. Also it just seemed to take a bit to get to top end where it really came to life.
I always read that people say that they can ride them longer than a 450 but for some reason it seems for me that I had to put a lot of effort of effort into riding the 350 and it would make me pump up pretty quick.
If I was 180lbs or under the 350 would be a no brainer for me. For reference my current bike is a 21 KX450F.
Is the 23 350 that much better down low through the mid to pull my fat ass out of a corner noticeably better than the older generation?
Appreciate any feedback one can pass along!
The owner of the ktm has a few upgrades in the bike and a slip on exhaust. I plan to get a vortex ecu for the 350, plus this ktm already comes with the vented number plate as well
as the slip on pipe that the owner put on, will put me ahead of the game in making the bike even better. If you look it up, the resale value is also much higher for the ktm versus the gas gas version.
Is there a good source anywhere for fork settings as far as air pressures that correlate with body weights?
Also, what are you guys running for chain slack? Manual calls for 58-62mm but MXA and others report the KTM engineers suggest 70mm.
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