I live in Florida so I cant make a regular dirt bike street legal and the trails we will be riding, the bike has to be street legal. I am trying to decide which dual sport would be the "dirt" bike, one that is closest to a regular dirt bike as possible (will be riding on a friends track once in awhile). I am still basically a beginner and Im a small,short chick so I dont want anything over 250cc. I know that the klx is capable of being lowered so I am not worried about that. However, I have read about all these mods that are needed for the bike. For beginner dirt riding, would it be adequate to just ride it stock for awhile? Im coming from a drz125 so I think it would have enough power for me. What do yall think?

 

Um you're in the wrong section clicky the linky see you there. https://www.kawasakiforums.com/forumid_69/tt.htm

 

Just a quick answer, the bike is fine as a stock bike, we are just power heads and need more horses, OK the real reason is some of us are over the 200 lb weight class and need extra power to pull our big rear ends around.

 

Speak for yourself Deej!!!! lol But true, prolly the wrong section to ask those questions. By the way, Welcome crashd3 to the forums.

 

Just to chime in here, it all depends on what you are coming from and comparing to. I don't know anything about a drz125 so I don't know how the KLX250 will stack up against that. Folks that have ridden MX bikes say that the KLX250 is pretty anemic in stock form. But I'll admit that I had a ton of fun on mine in stock form and was not unhappy with its performance. But then I did the standard carb, airbox, and exhaust mods and found they did make a very big difference. Dropping a tooth on the front gear also makes it more peppy. You can do all that for under $100 so it's not going to break the bank. Call that stage 1.

If you really want to notch it up at some point after that, you'll be spending some cash for an aftermarket exhaust, but the improvement in sound alone, let alone the additional performance, will be worth it, IMO. That'll be around $400. May as well throw on a K&N or UNI filter here too for another $20 to $40 depending on what you get. Call this stage 2.

Stage 3 will be another $400 to $500 and that would be going to a higher bore size using the KLX300 cylinder and piston set. Again, this will ratchet up performance yet again, similar in effect to stage 1 and stage 2. But it doesn't stop there, there is even more performance to be gained by swapping in a pumper carb and overboring to even higher bore sizes, and those are cost comparable to stage 2 and stage 3.

So I personally think you can have great fun on the stock bike. Especially as a beginner, it will work great starting out since your focus will be learning technique and getting comfortable. But when you get to the point where you want more, you can move up to stage 1 cheaply and easily. Later, when you are ready to notch it up again, you can decide if you want to take it to stage 2 or higher for a little more $$. The bike is pretty easy to open up performance wise and provides plenty of room in that area for advancement, so it is a great starter bike with a lot of room for growth.

 

Sorry about the wrong area, I usually pay attention to that. I suppose I wanted to know what strictly mxer's thought about the bike. Thanks guys.