2018 KLX250, We're Baa-ack
 

How about the new KLX? Any body got the scoop? Looks like they dropped the "S".

Is the injection system the same as what's been on the Euro model for years?

Can you add a BB 351 cylinder and keep the injection?

https://www.kawasaki.com/Products/2018-KLX250

WOOT!!! Fantastic news! So happy I bought my 2014 and that 4 years later they're making them again. I don't have any feelings of obsolescence now. I am pretty sure I'm going big bore, not sure if I want KK nikasil or BB 351. I DO want Bill Blue's 33/34 flat slide carb though. Regarding the 2018 fuel injection, I would guess it's the same that has been spec'd on the European/Asian bikes.... Did I read on here that it was hard to mod for big bore?

Yeah, I just came here to post this, but you beat me to it. Here's a different one about it.
Same old bike with EFI, that's it.

BTW, They never stopped making them. Just stopped selling them in the US FYI.

Kawasaki Brings Back New and Improved KLX250 Dual Sport - ADV Pulse

OUTSTANDING!

Now we move into the arena of EFI re-mapping and tweaking! I wonder if the fueling and ignition systems are both on the ECU ?

Yeah it's the same bike Kawasaki's been selling to the rest of the world. So maybe we're catching up with the rest of the world or Kawasaki finally ran out of carb bikes to send to the USA:p Would have been nice if they'd done suspension upgrades and a little lighter weight instead of gaining a few pounds.

didnt the kawi site say they improved the suspension? whatever that means

Well, it's already adjustable from the start. Maybe they're actually setting them up for the average size North Americans and like individuals instead of only light weights... but I doubt it.

I wonder what is so hard for them to cause them to not make the plastic look like the KX motocrosser. They make the sport bikes look like what is racing, why not the dual sports. Another challenge not met. Instead we get a rear fender/tail light that looks like it should be on the back of a 1935 Auburn roadster.

I've toyed with the idea of fiberglassing a nicer back end for the little guy, but i'd hafta move the exhaust down low (like a flat tracker) and relocate that behemoth of a battery. would be pretty sleek though.

As far as I know there are no known examples of fuel injected KLX351's running.

There are plenty of KLX292 and KLX331 running though.

I used to have a Euro KLX with the 292cc kit and have spoken to several people with KLX331. Most people use use EJK or Powercommander to get a mapping that works.

Not sure if the US is just getting the Euro/Asia KLX or if its an entirely new injection system.

Why not just replace the rear fender with a KX fender. I did and it looks much better. My opinion, the bike is to tall for a flat tracker rear tail. Then again, when I was racing flat track it was on converted street bikes. Not like the lowered MX bikes like today. For me, thats not a flat tracker. But who the hell am I...??...LOL :p


BTW, I'm also toying with fiberglassing a flat track seat & tail piece, classic old school style. But not for my KLX, I'm planning to build a tracker with an XS650 like I raced back in the day but street legal. Be a great local hooligan bike for toying around town. Planning to sell my KLX in a few months for a euro 300 2-stroke, so lookin for a street bike. I prefer buildin my own. I just haven't worked with FG in so long. Thinking of working from a mold so outer layer is gel coat.