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You can continue to kickstart your dinosaur, I'll push a button like a gentleman...different strokes and all.
Enjoy the initial $1k cheaper price tag, because when it comes to sell...Zooks are lucky to get $3k on the used market, even being only a year old.
The Shop
Not everyone has $10k for a bike. Good clean used bikes are getting good money.
I've ridden the kick start all my life, and recently rode and raced the e-start KTM 350. E-start is better.
So what?
I just bought a 2003 rm250 to tinker around with. It has a kick starter. So what?
At some point I'll buy a 250 Husky. It has a kick starter. So what.
My 300 has e-start....along with a kickstart, the kickstarter might be rusted closed for all I know.
If I weren't so lazy I'd bring up the clip from SX last year, where where the HEP boys crashed in a corner and were kicking their asses off trying to get going, some dude with e-start picked up his bike up and cruised right away.
Now if the Suzuki’s weight was less than the ktm with a kickstarter, then yeah makes sense.
I'm not saying a kickstart is better, but the obsession with the "innovation" of estart is ridiculous. If any of the estart brands offered the same bike without estart, which would be slightly cheaper, slightly lighter, and require less maintenance, I'd pick that one over the estart variant. That's just my preference though. Everyone has their own.
Innovation will continue with every brand out there besides suzuki. Get used to it or stay on your dinosaur.
P.S. I'm 3 E-start bikes in now and have never had a single problem. Never even had to do maintenance on the system. However I did snap a kick start lever on a 450 a few years back. So I'm not entirely sure where your "less maintenance" logic is coming from?? the suzuki R & D department? too soon...?
Pit Row
I'd be no better on a KTM than I would be on an RMZ, but I will be earning more contingency on that RMZ!
This video details the thrust of the problem pretty well:
The weight issue how many of these guys are not overweight themselves? As a pro cyclist a few ounces on machine makes little difference it’s the Rider !! Also Suzuki build Quality looks as good or better than the others welds and fit and finish from what I’ve looked at...Anyways bottom line I’m having a Great time on my Rmz and hoping they stay in business!! Ps would love a EStart ...
Zoom is not the only one, it is how the manufacturers operate. But having leftovers is bad for profit.
Do you get excited this time of year too? All the 2021 model talk
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