New Built Kawasaki KX500AF

Beeby wrote:

That looks awesome. I actually can’t believe you get so much demand for 500’s they are just so damn fast. I’d imagine a 250 that looked...

That looks awesome. I actually can’t believe you get so much demand for 500’s they are just so damn fast. I’d imagine a 250 that looked like that would sell well though, hey Kawi ;-)

AJ wrote:

We offer 125 250 and 500.The 500s put sell the others by a lot,but most of that is due to the custom nature of our builds...

We offer 125 250 and 500.

The 500s put sell the others by a lot,but most of that is due to the custom nature of our builds.  500s are available brand new from.us, for 27 years,that's longer than any Japanese pr euronpem made them.   And it's a nichemarket but we are fairly well known in it.

 250s and 125 are available from srveral regular oems at a lower price, so that's naturally going yo dampen our sales in those displacement.

 

I will say that one thing really surprised me is when I brought back the kdx200 in a new  modern chassis ( this was importantly prior to  ktm offering a 150 or 200 exc model)  I had very little demand for it. I honestly thought it would do really well as it was such a cool off road machine and handled better than any bike ever made 

( according to dirt rider and dirt bike mags) and it was a brand new production bike,every part.

Everyone loved it, but very very few ordered them. 

Currentl  it makes sense it would have limited sale  today, as there are oem.options,but back then there really wasn't anything out in that lightweight  offroad category ,a category the original kdx200 had absolutely dominated for years and kawasaki had sold  metric tons of them

Stuff like that is hard to predict  🤣

Anyway I still love building those,but noone orders them ha.

AJ wrote:

Since all the hype over Kawasaki releasing a new 2 stroke model..Just a reminder we( Built500) have offered  modern 500 2 strokes for the last 27...

Since all the hype over Kawasaki releasing a new 2 stroke model..

Just a reminder we( Built500) have offered  modern 500 2 strokes for the last 27 years and counting

 

You might dig pics of this one..

mxaniac wrote:

Looks gorgeous.  I'd  built one many years ago, but it wasn't a work of art like yours. Unfortunately it burned up in a fire in 2020.

Looks gorgeous.  I'd  built one many years ago, but it wasn't a work of art like yours. Unfortunately it burned up in a fire in 2020.

AJ wrote:

Since all the hype over Kawasaki releasing a new 2 stroke model..Just a reminder we( Built500) have offered  modern 500 2 strokes for the last 27...

Since all the hype over Kawasaki releasing a new 2 stroke model..

Just a reminder we( Built500) have offered  modern 500 2 strokes for the last 27 years and counting

 

You might dig pics of this one..