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Actually bought it over Memorial Day weekend for a great price. The 22 CRF450 sold 3 days ago. I'm back where I belong.
I'm also at the tail end of a lengthy ACL recovery and have about 5-6 more weeks before I'm riding again. In the meantime, I have boxes of parts piling up in the garage ready to be installed.
Congratulations! I miss my yz250, I fell for a GREAT deal on a 22kx450, witch I like but miss my yz
Congrats!!
Great choice. Congrats!
Good luck with the rest of the recovery and enjoy the new one man, everyone loves a fresh YZ 🤘
The Shop
*Standing up and starting to clap, slowly and with great respect. There's a tear forming in the corner of my eye.
Beautiful!
Gobbless
Congrats, love my 23 YZ250 as it has been a solid bike and fun from start to finish at the NGPC series over the last year. You also got it from the right shop as Duane and Team SVC are great!
For sure! I've purchased about 6 bikes and a waverunner from SVC.
I know the YZ like the back of my hand and I'm excited about the updated bodywork and seat. Can't wait!
Nice👍
Alright, I'm back riding! First ride out at Elsinore a few weeks ago was pretty sad. Rolled everything and felt completely out of sorts. After such a long time off and a fresh memory of jacking up my knee, it was all mental of course.
I made a couple small changes for comfort (bars and seat) before heading to LACR yesterday. Everything just started clicking for me. Probably got 80-90% of my speed back just hammering laps. Put 90 mins on the bike, which is more than what I'd normally do on a practice day.
As far as the bike... A-Kit is amazing... Just... wow. I couldn't stop smiling. Jumps, whoops, hard pack, soft, bumps, square edges, didn't matter. It felt perfect everywhere. I set the sag and haven't touched a clicker. It was nice being able to hammer chop again and not feel like the bike might step out randomly.
Power is obviously good. Its a YZ250... same engine from 1999 so there are no mysteries here.
Parts/changes:
-KYB A-Kit
-VHM Head
-FMF Shorty Silencer
-VForce 3
-Jetting (48 pilot, 175 main, 40 power jet, N3EW-3 needle, float height set at 7.5mm as it was too low stock)
-Raptor Pegs (7mm down)
-GUTS tall foam and ribbed cover
-Renthal Fatbar 827
-Lightspeed front disc cover and lug guard
Do you think the japanese brands that stopped producing two stroke are bitting their tongue a little bit. I have about 4 tracks from a three hour drive from my place and there is almost a 50/50 mix of two stroke and four stroke at each of them everytime I go. And I remeber hearing somewhere, maybe on pulp from Keefer, that one of the best kept secret of ktm is that they sell more two stroke then four stroke.
We're you parked next to the bleachers on the main side? I was eyeing that KX on the way out. If not, there were at least 2 KX250s out there haha.
It was probably about 50/50 out there yesterday...
Yeah that was me by the bleachers, I saw the other one out there too!
I was feeling decent towards the end sort of but it’s so different riding the KX from my usual KTM. I just sold my 350 a few weeks ago to get ready for a new one so i pulled the garage queen out of mothballs and ripped it… didn’t even check the jetting so it was a little herky jerky down low!
Wow, where did you get the A-kit? Probably costs as much as the bike.
Pit Row
That first time riding after the full ACL surgery & recovery is like being reborn again! Glad your back👍
Haha yeah just about. And all of it together was just about the same as what I paid for my 22 CRF450. So that's how I justify it...
Purchased the kit through MXLocker. Came from Europe via a vendor who purchases from Technical Touch. The price was approximately $1k cheaper than what I was quoted if I bought it from someone out here. I'm guessing I still could have found a better deal, but I was good with it. I've wanted to try a-kit for so long and so far I'm not disappointed.
Edit: I'll also mention it exchanged hands with a suspension guy before it was shipped to me. They set it up for me and really I was super suspicious about the whole thing, thinking I was going to just get some box setup with the wrong springs and everything. Nope, turned out perfect!
I believe it. The 125s are usually the first bikes to get sold out. Then the 250Fs.
Also KTM pretty much has the off-road scene secured. Their XC/EXC bikes pretty much rule that segment of our sport.
Wow that’s awesome 👍
Were you in the red leatt gear? That kx was barkin' out there. I was on my ktm 125. Hadn't been to lacr in about a year, too bad it's a 2 hr haul for me, track is always fun.
Most suspension companies sell kit suspension
no i ride in TLD gear, i had white pants with blue jersey… there is some red in the sleeves I think. I have a full Tom Morgan Motor, fresh top end, with PC exhaust and shorty silencer running C12 and get a lot of comments on the exhaust note!
I know the feeling, i drive down from vegas 3.5 hours each way and hadn’t been in probably 2 years so i was not feeling very flowy most the day. I did get the ski jump back down after the large uphill jump on the main track and the long double as you drop back down the second time after the large table up top on the main track so those were fun!
I did ride the vet track a couple times but just wasn’t feeling it … next time i swear i’ll do the uphill step up and double following and the weird corner double/table thing before you drop back down to the three tables! I’ve done them before but again just wasnt feeling it and trying to get comfortable!
Update with a couple more changes:
-FMF Factory Fatty pipe
-PC Shorty Silencer (DV12 special?)
-YZ250x CDI
First off, just want to comment on the A-Kit again... I keep waiting for some sort of shortcoming and having to make adjustments. Nope, still haven't touched a clicker. It's amazing how well the tires stick to the ground in chatter, how plush it feels, yet it never bottoms. I've had a few rough landings at this point and the suspension is bottomless.
As for the changes above. I didn't really like how early the stock pipe signed off on top. The factory fatty opened it up quite a bit more. The 250x CDI was the icing on the cake. Smoother transition from bottom to mid and feels even more open on top.
2 reasons for the silencer change. First, I don't like the sound of the FMF shorty. It sounds ratty and blown out brand new. The PC just sounds better. Second, even with (what should be) proper jetting I was getting a ton of spooge. 3 rides on the PC shorty and not a drop of oil, so something with the diameter or outlet size must make a difference in the back pressure/heat. Sounds and runs crisp! I'm sure I could have leaned out the jetting a bit more to compensate with the FMF shorty, but I ended up where I wanted regardless.
Photo is pre silencer change...
Smokers forever baby!!
Congrats.
Hey man how tall are you? I noticed the lowered pegs and raised seat, something I seem to have to do to all my bikes.
6'1", but proportionally longer legs and a shorter torso.
Gotcha, that makes us nearly the same, which is also why I never liked moving the pegs back with my short torso.
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