First Look | 2024 Kawasaki KX450

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2/27/2023 7:36am Edited Date/Time 2/27/2023 10:22am
Joshracing wrote:
Poor Richie has time to scrounge through profiles looking at history.  Yeah, it's super amusing to me to read all the comments on plastics!   Remember people...

Poor Richie has time to scrounge through profiles looking at history.  Yeah, it's super amusing to me to read all the comments on plastics!   Remember people saying about the new KTM "Oh, those pointy shrouds will take peoples eyes out".   It's funny reading!!  Most cases, people will not mention anything performance related. 

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Nah I remember you talking shit dude, I don't need to look through anything to remember that drivel on repeat time after time 👍 Chuck, nice...

Nah I remember you talking shit dude, I don't need to look through anything to remember that drivel on repeat time after time 👍

Chuck, nice work on the pics, new Kawi looks mint as does your new build 👍

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Too funny Richie, yeah, it's a running joke.   Poor kids on Vital, know nothing about bikes, can only pick on the shape of plastics.  As I...

Too funny Richie, yeah, it's a running joke.   Poor kids on Vital, know nothing about bikes, can only pick on the shape of plastics.  As I wrote earlier, people complaining as the latest KTM shrouds would have eye balls removed in any crash, or just passing by.   There's another new bike about to be unveiled, in the next 2 weeks, watch the thread, first thing, 'look at the plastics'.  Nothing about performance capabilities or improvements.  Woohoo

Well then tell us about the performance capabilities and improvements, based on a picture. Different frame geometry, flex and handling characteristics? Air or spring fork on the production bike, and how will they perform? New linkage geometry? Changes to the intake and head? How do they affect torque, peak HP and power delivery? New clutch design? How about the weight? Are the production brakes getting a boost in power? Please, anything you can tell us about the performance capabilities and improvements to the production bike based on a picture is greatly appreciated. In the meantime the conversation will continue to be based on aesthetics because short of something glaring like a reversed cylinder or air shock that's all you can tell from a photo.

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2/27/2023 9:18am Edited Date/Time 4/8/2023 8:39am
Joshracing wrote:
I think most of you guys need to go here:  https://www.tupperware.com/    More interested in looks and shapes of plastics than performance aspects.  100% of you will...

I think most of you guys need to go here:  https://www.tupperware.com/    More interested in looks and shapes of plastics than performance aspects.  100% of you will never get the most out of the capable current model, so worrying about frame geometry is the last of your worries!   Yeah does look a bit like a KTM, NOT!

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Almost 6 months since you last repeated this same joke that you'd made even before that. Still no new material, huh? It's kinda funny people talking...

Almost 6 months since you last repeated this same joke that you'd made even before that. Still no new material, huh?

It's kinda funny people talking about plastic bothers you, unless you're a paid tupperware advertisement, casually name dropping them everywhere you go.

I do actually agree with your premise that a few mm here or there makes no difference to most of us, but I like seeing new stuff either way.

Joshracing wrote:
Poor Richie has time to scrounge through profiles looking at history.  Yeah, it's super amusing to me to read all the comments on plastics!   Remember people...

Poor Richie has time to scrounge through profiles looking at history.  Yeah, it's super amusing to me to read all the comments on plastics!   Remember people saying about the new KTM "Oh, those pointy shrouds will take peoples eyes out".   It's funny reading!!  Most cases, people will not mention anything performance related. 

Looks like the plastic is a little improved. 
 

 

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3/1/2023 6:08am

This video has some good footage of the new KX. From the Hawkstone International race:

 

 

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This video has some good footage of the new KX. From the Hawkstone International race:    

This video has some good footage of the new KX. From the Hawkstone International race:

 

 

That was AWESOME!!!!!!!!

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3/1/2023 9:13am

Track looked nasty. Not sure how much of it was the rider but the KX looked like the most settled bike on the track.

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3/1/2023 9:37am

Thanks for post that video, that track looks awesome!

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3/1/2023 11:49am

Bike looks awesome! 👍 Thanks for the footage! 

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3/1/2023 7:43pm

All these bikes look the same lol

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3/2/2023 12:54am

All these bikes look the same lol

TBH if you go back to say 1993, then 2002, then 2010.... throughout each era the bikes all follow the same trends. Yes they are similar but they all have their differences.

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That is such a good looking bike. Wow. 

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 Today at the Dutch season opener in Lierop.

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 Today at the Dutch season opener in Lierop.

Lierop ? I thought he was shut down.

3/5/2023 2:10pm

Have to say I'm a fan of green fork guards

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3/5/2023 2:16pm
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I think they need to make that exhaust longer....tf is that about?

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3/5/2023 2:47pm
 Today at the Dutch season opener in Lierop.

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 Today at the Dutch season opener in Lierop.

WCRider wrote:

Lierop ? I thought he was shut down.

It was but they managed to re-open.

That's why they made a pre season race to "celebrate" it without beeing part of the Dutch Masters.

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3/28/2023 2:40pm
For us guys that was more interested in the boots. Looks like tomorrow we will find out about them
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4/8/2023 7:33am

From all Japan MX Championship:

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It’s a decent traditionally-advanced looking shroud but what’s up with these huge shroud designs lately, i.e. KTM, Gas Gas. The designers are younger generation I guess. Honda always comes through though. Anyway, looks like a nice design but very plastic heavy. 

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It’s a decent traditionally-advanced looking shroud but what’s up with these huge shroud designs lately, i.e. KTM, Gas Gas. The designers are younger generation I guess...

It’s a decent traditionally-advanced looking shroud but what’s up with these huge shroud designs lately, i.e. KTM, Gas Gas. The designers are younger generation I guess. Honda always comes through though. Anyway, looks like a nice design but very plastic heavy. 

Nice looking!  Looks production ready.

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4/8/2023 9:41am

All I know is I want one.

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From all Japan MX Championship:  Yahey722 photo

From all Japan MX Championship:

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 Yahey722 photo

Absolutely gorgeous 

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4/10/2023 6:47pm Edited Date/Time 4/10/2023 6:55pm
It’s a decent traditionally-advanced looking shroud but what’s up with these huge shroud designs lately, i.e. KTM, Gas Gas. The designers are younger generation I guess...

It’s a decent traditionally-advanced looking shroud but what’s up with these huge shroud designs lately, i.e. KTM, Gas Gas. The designers are younger generation I guess. Honda always comes through though. Anyway, looks like a nice design but very plastic heavy. 

The manufacturers keep pushing them further forward with more midsection bow, so as not to get hung up on boots, which is a good thing.

4/10/2023 7:43pm

Man, Febvre got into some mega tank slappers in both motos in Switzerland. Not sure how to read that. Twitchy on decel or just him feeling comfortable pushing it to the limit since he was the fastest guy on the track at times. He was hauling.

 

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4/11/2023 6:38am
Man, Febvre got into some mega tank slappers in both motos in Switzerland. Not sure how to read that. Twitchy on decel or just him feeling...

Man, Febvre got into some mega tank slappers in both motos in Switzerland. Not sure how to read that. Twitchy on decel or just him feeling comfortable pushing it to the limit since he was the fastest guy on the track at times. He was hauling.

 

That track looked super edgy and firm. I wouldn’t read into it too much. 

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4/11/2023 7:08am
Man, Febvre got into some mega tank slappers in both motos in Switzerland. Not sure how to read that. Twitchy on decel or just him feeling...

Man, Febvre got into some mega tank slappers in both motos in Switzerland. Not sure how to read that. Twitchy on decel or just him feeling comfortable pushing it to the limit since he was the fastest guy on the track at times. He was hauling.

 

It’s a factory bike that likely doesn’t have the same frame. Different steering offset, factory suspension, different wheelbase and is ridden by one of the fastest people in the world. It couldn’t be further from any chassis situation you’ll ever have 

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4/11/2023 7:38am
Man, Febvre got into some mega tank slappers in both motos in Switzerland. Not sure how to read that. Twitchy on decel or just him feeling...

Man, Febvre got into some mega tank slappers in both motos in Switzerland. Not sure how to read that. Twitchy on decel or just him feeling comfortable pushing it to the limit since he was the fastest guy on the track at times. He was hauling.

 

I saw Renaux (and others) almost have the bars swapped out of his hands a few times on decel. Those braking bumps looked brutal.

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5/1/2023 4:40am Edited Date/Time 5/1/2023 4:40am

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