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Buying my godson a used KX 65 for Xmas. Kind of a goober question because I'm sure it varies from shop to shop, but curious if y'all would trust one with a full rebuild from a shop. They have all the receipts and pictures of it torn down, and if it was a bike for me, I wouldn't be so worried. Anybody have any bad experiences, or good, with these things. Also, if anybody within 5ish hours of me has one in decent shape they want to part with, let me know. Thanks.
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03-05 RM65's are the exact same bike as the KX65's.
Those little 65's are great bikes!
Here are some KX65 tips I wrote out a year ago: https://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Tech-Help-Race-Shop,42/Lowering-KX65,131…
Before that, used Super M and had a Piston seize. Always 32:1
I put a paddle tire on it and we went to Pismo dunes. Learned immediately that the little tires do not do well in the sand, but once it's pinned in second gear it'll plane up on top of the sand. At the time my boy hadn't been on the bike that long and wasn't very comfortable once it got going fast. So he would pin the throttle, dump the clutch in first, nail second, then grab third. From there he would ride all around, never letting the throttle off the stop. It sounded like there was a stuck throttle cable or something was wrong. He rode it like that for most of the day- you could see people watching him, lifting their left foot in an effort to somehow help him shift, for the love of God. I would ride up next to him and yell "SHIFT". He would shift, it'd go fast enough to have the bike get a bit unstable and he'd chop the throttle. Back to third gear and screaming the ever living snot out of it.
You'd think that with nothing more than a one main jet size bump that would be the torture test. But no, it wasn't. At some point the water pump seal began to leak, it eventually it went dry and that poor bike seized up tighter than a turtle's butthole lathered in Preparation H. We get it home and I pounded the piston loose with a rubber mallet. After scrubbing the cylinder walls down with pool acid and stainless steel scouring pads to remove the aluminum piston deposits I re-assembled it with a new OEM piston and it fired right up. Although we did replace the pistons whenever a look up the exhaust port showed blowby, he rode it for about two more years. Shockingly it never needed a crank, clutch, gears, or much of anything but clean air filters, 32:1 Super M, and 91 pump piss.
Yeah, I'm a fan of the KX65.
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