2011 Kawasakis are up

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adamdf 5/25/2010 9:18am
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Thanks GuyB, that new fork on the 250F seems pretty interesting!!
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DL 5/25/2010 9:21am
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Marzochi (sp?) has been doing that for a long time.... It's not even June yet and the 2011 new product info is hitting already.... wonder when the 2012 info will hit LOL.
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jasonv43 5/25/2010 9:49am
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GuyB wrote:
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How do I get to the hompage?Silly

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newmann 5/25/2010 10:04am
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DL wrote:
Marzochi (sp?) has been doing that for a long time.... It's not even June yet and the 2011 new product info is hitting already.... wonder when...
Marzochi (sp?) has been doing that for a long time.... It's not even June yet and the 2011 new product info is hitting already.... wonder when the 2012 info will hit LOL.
If it was a set of zokes, there would be all kinds of crazy ass comments about the dual leg design throwing off the handling and balance of the bike though. And on a Honda, it would throw off the pitch, roll and yaw. Looks to have potential from a lighter weight viewpoint, and that's something I can appreciate. Still though, 232.7 lbs "curb weight" for a bike designed to be raced in a class where the minimum weight limit, wet with no fuel is 194 lbs? Take off a full load of fuel and that bike is 25 pounds over the 125 class weight limit. And 12 year olds coming off 85's are riding these things. Yet no one can understand the increase in injuries.

The 450, they are too damned embarrased to even list the weight of the overweight pig. Too funny.
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GuyB 5/25/2010 10:13am
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Newmann, I think we got it the first three or four hundred times that you posted that you think the four-strokes are overweight.

Actually, the AMA has different weight minimums for two and four-stroke bikes. Maybe you can look at it as throwing you a bone. Anyway, here are the real weights.

250 Motocross Class: 194 pounds 2-stroke / 212 pounds 4-stroke
450 Motocross Class: 212 pounds 2-stroke / 220 pounds 4-stroke
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GuyB 5/25/2010 10:16am
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Newmann's a good guy, and loves some moto, but he gets set off easily on that topic. Smile
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huck 5/25/2010 10:18am
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GuyB wrote:
Newmann's a good guy, and loves some moto, but he gets set off easily on that topic. Smile
Good thing Newmann's the only one around these parts that does that.... Wink
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newmann 5/25/2010 10:25am
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Where do you get this 3-4 hundred times? No more than 80 so far! And I know the weight limits. And when the YZ250F hit the track back in 2000, I don't recall it having a 212 lb. weight limit restriction early on. Still have kids coming off 85's up to big heavy hard to start 250's. Mitch Payton said it nearly ten years ago. Still rings true today. Motocross used to be about lightweight racing machines, why should we be accepting this heavy stuff these days other than that's all that's being shoved down our throats? They had sub 200 lb. 500cc thumpers back in the 60's and 70's, you'd have thought a little of that would have trickled down to the public over the last 45 years.
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GuyB 5/25/2010 10:34am
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Okay, I'm exaggerating...just like you do. Wink
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newmann 5/25/2010 10:38am
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Yeah yeah, and those helicopters are red, not black. Smile
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ThePipe 5/25/2010 10:42am
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Newmann's words are as pure as the Wind Driven Snow
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RACEGUY 5/25/2010 10:48am
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I'll say it if no one else will.

Nice scoop, Steve.

Don't see it up at RacerX or TWMX yet.

I saw it here FIRST.

Thanks.
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ocscottie 5/25/2010 11:07am
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RACEGUY wrote:
I'll say it if no one else will.

Nice scoop, Steve.

Don't see it up at RacerX or TWMX yet.

I saw it here FIRST.

Thanks.
actually happens quite often, just too many people here are more focused on arguing on the forum rather than checking the homepage Cool

Pretty amazing at how far OEM bikes have come. Those things look so trick.
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cjmx 5/25/2010 11:21am
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very cool looking 450...thanks
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JackLHyde 5/25/2010 11:23am
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I'm not an expert, but isn't that age-old mountainbike fork tech with separating the fork legs adjustment?
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kardy 5/25/2010 11:40am
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I'm not an expert, but isn't that age-old mountainbike fork tech with separating the fork legs adjustment?
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JackLHyde 5/25/2010 11:42am
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Haha, thanks! I haven't seen the prices yet, but I guess I found one reason to justify it.
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GuyB 5/25/2010 11:43am
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Haha, thanks! I haven't seen the prices yet, but I guess I found one reason to justify it.
That they're green? Wink
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GuyB 5/25/2010 11:48am
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Showa for the 250 fork. The 450 is running KYB.
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RACEGUY 5/25/2010 11:54am
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FYI - roadrace guys have been using this fork set-up for quite some time also.

That 250 sure made me think about buying one, though. At my advanced age, it would probably be the last one I'd have to buy, and I could save my cat-food money by sending Factory Connection my fork legs one at a time.
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KAWboy14 5/25/2010 11:59am
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GuyB wrote:
Okay, I'm exaggerating...just like you do. Wink
i can live with 80,,,,,but 300, no way!
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TriRacer27 5/25/2010 12:01pm
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RACEGUY wrote:
FYI - roadrace guys have been using this fork set-up for quite some time also. That 250 sure made me think about buying one, though. At...
FYI - roadrace guys have been using this fork set-up for quite some time also.

That 250 sure made me think about buying one, though. At my advanced age, it would probably be the last one I'd have to buy, and I could save my cat-food money by sending Factory Connection my fork legs one at a time.
Hahaha, that reminds me of a "Stupid Questions" sign I saw at a ski shop this year. They had all these stupid questions people had asked and one of them was "well how much to get just one ski waxed?".
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RACEGUY 5/25/2010 12:09pm
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RACEGUY wrote:
FYI - roadrace guys have been using this fork set-up for quite some time also. That 250 sure made me think about buying one, though. At...
FYI - roadrace guys have been using this fork set-up for quite some time also.

That 250 sure made me think about buying one, though. At my advanced age, it would probably be the last one I'd have to buy, and I could save my cat-food money by sending Factory Connection my fork legs one at a time.
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Hahaha, that reminds me of a "Stupid Questions" sign I saw at a ski shop this year. They had all these stupid questions people had asked...
Hahaha, that reminds me of a "Stupid Questions" sign I saw at a ski shop this year. They had all these stupid questions people had asked and one of them was "well how much to get just one ski waxed?".
I said "ONE AT A TIME" shithead.

Another guy with reading comprehension issues.Wink

BTW - this would allow you to modify damping or compression without spending all the labour to do identical mods to TWO legs.

Guess you're too young to understand my "senior citizen" cat-food budget reference.
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TriRacer27 5/25/2010 12:25pm
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RACEGUY wrote:
FYI - roadrace guys have been using this fork set-up for quite some time also. That 250 sure made me think about buying one, though. At...
FYI - roadrace guys have been using this fork set-up for quite some time also.

That 250 sure made me think about buying one, though. At my advanced age, it would probably be the last one I'd have to buy, and I could save my cat-food money by sending Factory Connection my fork legs one at a time.
TriRacer27 wrote:
Hahaha, that reminds me of a "Stupid Questions" sign I saw at a ski shop this year. They had all these stupid questions people had asked...
Hahaha, that reminds me of a "Stupid Questions" sign I saw at a ski shop this year. They had all these stupid questions people had asked and one of them was "well how much to get just one ski waxed?".
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I said "ONE AT A TIME" shithead. Another guy with reading comprehension issues.BTW - this would allow you to modify damping or compression without spending all...
I said "ONE AT A TIME" shithead.

Another guy with reading comprehension issues.Wink

BTW - this would allow you to modify damping or compression without spending all the labour to do identical mods to TWO legs.

Guess you're too young to understand my "senior citizen" cat-food budget reference.
Hahaha, I know what you meant, it just reminded me of that funny sign is all.

Besides, I was recently a college student working my way through school and racing at the same time, I know all about cat food budgets.

Though you probably are right about my reading comprehension Unsure
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7GP 5/25/2010 12:57pm
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RACEGUY wrote:
I said "ONE AT A TIME" shithead. Another guy with reading comprehension issues.BTW - this would allow you to modify damping or compression without spending all...
I said "ONE AT A TIME" shithead.

Another guy with reading comprehension issues.Wink

BTW - this would allow you to modify damping or compression without spending all the labour to do identical mods to TWO legs.

Guess you're too young to understand my "senior citizen" cat-food budget reference.
Someone needs to take a chill pill.....
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Brent 5/25/2010 1:02pm
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Man, 2 major new components on the 250 F, That's a lot of bugs to work out.

I think I'll keep my 2010 until the first year gremlins get fixed.

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