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“Extra effort” has never been George’s strong suit.

tl;dr Moisture in the air can cause it to expand more, it's about partial pressures. This is in addition to corrosion issues. High pressure oxygen and oil can ignite, causing all sorts of issues. It's speculated that air can too. So if your bladder or piston leaks you can have ignition, could be especially problematic during a service. I don't know of this ever happening, with air it's mostly speculative, but IMO not worth the risk.

Throughout this whole thread there’s a lot of basic principles that have been overlooked or ignored.

I wondered if the HH rating meant anything. Thanks.

What if I told you the vast majority of RM450 potential or current owners are not Ken Roczen and will not notice an extra pound or two on the bike from adding a starter. What if I also told you that adding a starter is the simplest most common sense way to sell more of their machines.

The story continues. I did as @profmur recommended and checked the spacers. 19.5mm rotor side and 19mm opposite. This is per Dubya's team. They checked out fine. I pulled the brake and checked the brake pistons, everything seemed to move fine. They were clean with no pitting. I ended up overextending one and seemingly got air in the line resulting in brake pressure. I was short on time so swapped over the front brake from my KTM (2019 350sxf) with it's OEM pads and the 'new' Tusk rotor. Still the same issue. This led me to believe it was the...

Kenny and the team spent a long time and went through a lot of suppliers getting that bike to his liking. He didn't just ride it as he found it.

No excuses after this happened in Colorado, on THE SAME BIKE !!!

" I’m going to take this an opportunity to do things I normally don’t get to do this summer and enjoy it with my friends and family. " Kawasaki. Let the good times roll.

People don’t want truth…….they want rumors to fuel their speculation and conspiracies….the only truth is that Dan Fahie is a moran and should never do another interview….ever…

Just wanted to post a little update. I swapped out my pro taper throttle tube with the bearing for a motion pro plastic one and threw some pro taper grips I had laying around. They're the 1/3 waffle mix grips and they feel super soft so I figured it would be better than the full waffle I had on before. Also found some M12 rubber washers that were fairly dense on Amazon and put them under the bar mounts (both sides of the upper clamp) and torqued it down to spec. Man what a difference! I'm not exactly sure how...

Pretty much all of the Euro 2T 250cc+ have counterbalancer. KTM, Beta, Sherco, TM, etc.

Ride a KTM with a counter balancer, then jump on any other two stroke without. It will feel like a bag of hammers. The difference is surprising.

That's great in theory but in reality the market disagrees