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10+ rears work if you buy the new rotor but you wont get the old rotors to work without countersinking the mounting holes.
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It would be a nice upgrade
The only complaint I have so far, is that my boots get stuck underneath the fuel tank/sub frame area, when im really squeezing the bike before I hit a jump. I know some people catch their boots on the exhaust shields, but this is totally different. It is kinda scary because my boots lock in there as im coming off a jump which makes your body positioning awkward. Ive order a set if the raptor 7mm lower foot pegs and im hoping this will help with that issue, my other thought was to find a new pair of mx boots that arent as tall as my older gaerne sg10's. I wear a size 14 boot, so im not sure how that plays into the boot height/build.
After doing a bunch of laps on my yz250f, i got on my kx450 and I quickly realized that the suspension on my kx either needs to be better adjusted or sent back to factory connect for another revalve. Hands down the yz suspension blew the kx suspension out of the water. It really got me thinking about selling the kx and buying a 20/21 yz450 for a few different reasons. I like my kx alot, but the only place it lacks for me is in the power department. With the kx, i would have to send out my ecu to get remapped or buy the kawi tuner to change how the engine feels... the yamaha can be done with the app. Yes the app has its limits, but its a great start to being able to tailor the power to your like without putting in much effort.
I ordered a slater skins cover to see how much more gains will be had in conjunction with my No toil air filter setup. Im not sure yet if I want to try a vortex ecu or an exhaust system. From what I was reading most say the vortex itself has better gains than even an exhaust system.
Does this bike run a 110 tire no problem? I know complete opposite bike, but the 110 nerfed my Honda pretty good. And on already soft engine, it was not good. Id like to have a touch wider tire for some riding later in the day when it gets dry/slick
Might be the lighter weight and less inertia of the 250, making it, in a sense, feel better. I honestly did expect the suspension to feel as good as it did because I usually do a revalve for my weight. Yesterday i played around with the kx suspension and got it feeling better. Again, i always thought my kx suspension was good until I rode this kyb stuff. I havent ridden anything with kyb spring forks in over 10 years.
Now Im back to stock springs front and back, think Im a lil too saggy like 112 right now. Gettin a lil chopper sensation still, I'll try less ag and it'll probably help a bit.
I think I just suck at 4 strokes, I can't use compression braking to save my life. I pull in my clutch when I enter corners and I have to dump it somewhere. I've smoothed out my clutch dump a ton but it still sucks, freewheeling into corners makes the fork feel really harsh and too high in its stroke to really turn off the front wheel.
Any tips for getting off the clutch? I've forced myself to shift to 2nd in tighter corners so I really dont need the thing, I just have this muscle memory that has been built up over a decade of riding 2 strokes.
Being sagged out to 112 is a lot. I run 105/106 sag. Faster tracks I drop the forks to 5mm and tighter tracks back to the 7mm stock fork height. Havent touched the shock settings as stock comp/rebound has worked for me so far. I do really want .48 springs.
I'm gonna give the .48s another go with less sag and see what I think. If I can't get along with it I'll get a hold of you and we can swap.
Pit Row
Roll your turns with smooth throttle. Focus on setting up for the turn early and being smooth on the gas and through the turn. Sag should be at 104mm roughly, and specifically for the Yamaha you can actually sit in the middle of the seat and it will turn really well. If you have your nuts on the tank then your to far forward and won’t get any lean angle
Im struggling with some square edge braking bumps at my local track still. Also at the bottom of a 5th gear downhill, where I am going too deep in fork travel and getting bad headshake.
Local guy suggested I try +25cc-50cc of fork oil if I wanna run the stock springs, think I might try it out. I also need to stop thinking about suspension so much and just get some decent motos in. A big part of my problem is probably just me overthinking and hanging on too tight, once Im pumped up I totally lose objectivity.
I installed both these items and tried it out this past weekend. I tried it with both of the keefer maps and I could only notice a slight difference with the free feeling keefer map. I should have switched to the other maps that I have stored, but I ran out of time. My plan is to try the "exciting power" map and the map that mimics the 2020 yz250f feel.
This setup is much louder than the stock airbox setup.
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