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I mean yamaha has showed you can just put out the same 2 stroke every year and still sell it like hot cakes. Kawi could just break out the old molds and bring back the same bike and call it a day. Or they could put the old motor in the current frame and then keep pumping that out for the next 15 years. I do hope theyre gonna update the kx65. Really all they need to do is update the plastics, throw on some inverted forks, and add a powervalve and that thing will be pretty decent.
Id love to see them allow 250 2 strokes in the 250 class. That would be huge toward making the sport more affordable to people. Motocross action did a shootout between a yz250 and yz250f to see how much it would cost to get each one up to 50hp. The yz250f was in $10,000 and the yz250 was $2200 for both to hit 49 hp. The yz250 was also a 12 year old bike vs a new 2019 yz250f.
”The hopped-up YZ250 peaked at 49 horsepower at 8500 rpm, while the his full-race YZ250F peaked at 49 horsepower at 13,500 rpm. The kicker was that the YZ250 two-stroke had 9 more pound-foot of torque than the thumper. Those kinds of torque numbers are game-changers.”
https://motocrossactionmag.com/two-vs-four-shootout-yz250-two-stroke-vs-yz250f-four-stroke/
They would still have all the cad files to remanufacture the tooling, heck probably needed replacing anyhow and tooling from China is cheap
And you thought those KIPS valves were shoddy before!
You are right about that. I just can't believe any manufacturer would go that broad into the segment now. Triumph, Ducati and Beta seem to be keeping their new offerings a little simpler.
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I hate to be that guy, but I had to go to a wedding and so I missed the reveal. Was it a KX or nah?
No one knows, it was the sound of a 2 stroke.
What reveal😂
We don’t know yet
You win points for lack of comprehension…
But what if it is a road bike 🫣
Clip sounds like a 300
To me the 125 would make the most sense. It would allow them to “compete” in ever class from 65cc up. I say compete it quotes because the mini bikes need massive improvements.
They have experience 👍
I am drinking before the race, but listening to the clip, it very well could be a 125 cracking just off idle
PLEASE a 250 and 300 offroad!
Interesting, my 04 KX250 vibrated less than some of my 4 strokes.
Let's be clear, though: even if they had a new 300 ready to go, they wouldn't go get that prototype bike, bring it into the local recording studio and grab the Neumann U87 to get a new clip for their 6 second Insta text tease.
Kawi's social media intern grabbed that 2-stroke dirt bike blipping throttle sound clip from whatever vast sound libraries they typically access (by the way, I see many dozens now just searching "2-stroke exhaust sound") -- with no inferences involved, other than that they are promoting a 2-stroke, as the ad says.
I remember the first teaser about the 2002 CRF450 was a similar audio only clip. Agree should look at Triumph for a bad and Ducati for a good example.
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Nooooo!😧 a two fiddy and 3 hunsky!🙂
Audio is of a Sherco 300
We need wider roads for that thing
This is exciting news.
That doesn’t seem likely, but it did sound like whatever it was just had the choke flipped off and it wasn’t warmed up yet…
Kx 144 bet.
Anyone notice they posted this news on 1/25? Hhmmm…..
I sell Kawasaki’s and a KLX300 is not what the true moto/off-road crowd desires
SM57 in the garage will do the trick.
But that didn’t happen, either.
It’s like a Zoom H1 and some proud dude’s piped Vespa.
I don't care if it has 15-year-old KYB and made in Malaysia, if it's 6k I'm in.
Makes sense they used a 2stroke in the science of supercross https://www.vitalmx.com/forums/moto-related/new-kawasaki-2stroke-possib…
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