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todays ride at Jimmy Weinerts training facility, it’s a deep sand track
First ride on mine today and was pleasantly surprised. Turns really well and very user friendly power. Only mods so far are taking out the rubber plate on the airbox and removing all the restrictions on the silencer. Plus new grips (more below).
This is the version sent to Brazil, so Nissin front brake and regular grips (terrible) instead of ODIs.
The blue looks sharp on it; nice retro look. Good job!
Throttle Therapy today at JWTF.. track is so fun to rail those sand berms
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I have the same two bikes. I'm interested to hear your thoughts comparing the two after you've got a few hrs on the kx. I'm only planning on keeping one of mine and trading one for a 2 stroke but struggling to decide which one to keep 🤣
I'm keeping both. I like the 450 on sand or deep tracks. 350 for short tracks or harder dirt. I also have a 23 300XC. I have set up and use specifically for woods riding. I prefer 4 strokes for Moto. The 300 xc/sxf would probably work good for Moto. Lots of low end grunt out of corners. My XC pulls my 6'1" 235 pounds butt around with ease. To be honest the 300 is probably faster than the 350.
Yeah i had a 23 300sx but just didn't gel with it on mx tracks, was great in the bush but hardly ride any of that.
I'm finding my lap times are almost identical on the 350 and the kx on all track types. I can just ride longer on the 350 but I do love the extra torque of the 450.
I guess the only solution is to keep both and just add a 2 stroke to the garage ha ha.
First world problems 😉😂
Would the stock valving be enough for a C level vet rider at 240 lbs with gear? Plan would be to replace the forks and shock springs, maybe add more fork oil if necessary.
The more I ride my 350 the more I hum-and-haw over replacing it. I just do not want to spend the 2 grand plus for a WP 6500 spring conversion and associated valving at both ends. Cdn dollars we are talking around 2500-2800 for a full spring conversion with corresponding valving work, which I am told I would require for my weight.
I would say no. I’m 250 and the stock stuff was ok at slow sleep but no holdup on any of the hard hits or G outs. But everyone is different.
Yes. I’m a 220lb fast Vet B rider myself, and think the stock valving is fine. I’ve been winning races with mine. Before you throw a ton of money away on a revalve, try this.
Go on the Race Tech spring rate calculator and figure out the correct spring rates and order them. It is easy to change them out yourself. While you have the fork caps off, add 50ml of oil to each fork tube.
The valving is far more balanced than previous generations, so I bet if you get the appropriate spring rates in there, you will be able to fine tune the suspension with your clickers. After you install the heavier springs, dial in your rebound a few clicks to compensate for the faster rebound due to the heavier springs.
Anyone have thoughts on the Tickle map? Improvement? Or any other maps that work good on the app?
I’m searching for more exciting hit and pull. May just put a vortex on it.
Personally I like the stock power, but I'm old. If you want more excitement a full after market exhaust, opened up airbox, and Vortex should do the trick.
Run the Chavez map with full PC T6 exhaust.
I'm guessing you've opened up the airbox and exhaust already? That's where biggest gains will be made on this bike.
You will find very little gains with the kx app. By all means try a few maps but if you want anything significant it won't be had with the stock ecu.
Thank you!
Insert the Chavez map from Keefer inc.. it’s super easy to do
once the app syncs to the bike you just push the numbers into the chart and push the send button on upper right hand side of screen, at that point its loads to the bikes ECM
it’s super easy and takes less then 2 minutes to complete
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Keeping both keeps your engine hours lower on both. 😍💪🏾
Adding 50mL or 50cc is a lot! I would only add 10cc at a time to test.
Stock is 321cc, I added 30 to put me at 350 which is decent and Im not clancking them. Somewhere in the 340-360cc range is good depending on your tracks and ability. 50cc is on the high side for sure but still in an acceptable range.
That is a good point. I just wonder if keeping both and swapping back and forth is really doing me any good. Maybe I'm better off just having one and getting completely comfortable with it.
It's a tough life when this is the stuff that keeps me up at night 🤣🤣🤣
They come stock with 321ml (same as the previous gen KX450 that had the same forks). Being that he and I are both big boys, I’m confident that the oil volume I recommended is correct, although he could certainly go up in smaller increments if he wishes. That is the oil volume Race Tech set my forks at when they revalved my 2019, and the 2024 has the same forks with slightly firmer fork valving. Based on what I’ve seen and heard, 370ml is a pretty standard fork oil volume on this bike. He could increase the oil volume 10ml at a time, but I don’t feel it is necessary.
Does anyone know if the 19-23 kx450 pro pegs will fit on the 24?
Yes they fit
Not exactly the same. The fork has more changes than I thought compared to the 23. Interesting video.
Good info!
Well I know guys who have just one bike and puts ton of wear on that one bike. Heck if you eventually do 2 top ends on one bike that is about $4,000. Right? About half the price of a bike in just top ends. That’s not including other wear parts. In the long run with 2 bikes I feel you can just about spend close to less of maintenance cost. Even less tires. And if one bike do break you always have a spare.
if you are trying to become a pro racer you have a point on getting good with just one bike. But if you are not getting paid to race and getting free bikes. I believe you can save lots of money and headaches by having 2.
Good info. It's worth noting that none of those new changes really affect the oil volume in the outer chamber.
Hi guys, yesterday my motorbike and that of a friend of mine arrived, as regards the recall to the frame I noticed that one had an additional weld done while on the other unfortunately they used putty.
Have any of you had fractures even after putting the putty on?
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