Do you guys try to kill the engine asap after dropping the bike. I kinow it uses a dry sump but I doubt it is working properly when on its side.

 

I would definatly kill it before I picked it up. Ifyou don'**** probly in gear, andits going to spin as soon as that tire touches the ground. and if the engines reved high the front tire will probly come up and then the bikes back on the ground, but this time your under it and that sucks, trust me.

 

Jaysus Brian, when are yougetting the dilithium crystals and the warp drive installed? LOL.

 

Damn what a huge response! I'm still trying to load up that video...but I'll probably have to wait till I get home. We're running a shotty satellite connection out in the field here.

Anyone have any experience with a helmet cam? I'd love to get one of them going, get some awesome shots of my brother eating dirt/shrubs...or myself from a 1st person view.

PS: Totally pumped this was my first post that became a hot thread

 

Try pm-ing plameau or mono..........they were the ones that shot the video I posted.

 

No dry sump on the KLX.

 

stellar_d,you posted something we have all done and laughed at others for doing thats why it's hot.LOL

 

Check their web site, they have an animation of how it works. Basically it has two adjustment controls, a spring, and a number of steel *****. There are three springs of differing strengths and which one you choose controls the initial clutch plate drag at idle. The steel ***** sit in a groove and the centripetal force of the spinning inner clutch causes them to be pushed outward and as a result more fully engage the clutch plates.

At the softest spring, it feels kinda like a car's automatic transmission when you are sitting at idle. If you let off the brake, it will want to creep while in gear. When you slowly apply throttle, it immediately startings going forward and when the ***** engage more and more fully as the RPMs spin up, the take-off is smooth. With fewer *****, the final engagement is harder and faster.

with stiffer springs, the engagement is very light or none at idle as it takes some RPMs to get the clutch to engage. In this case, it's more like spinning up the RPM and dumping the clutch when you take off. The effect is adjustable depending on which spring you have and how many of the steel ***** you have installed.

The weird stuff starts when you have a stiff spring and are going down hill. If you tap the brake and lock up the rear tire, the tire will now free-wheel and you have no compression braking until you give the throttle a blip. The soft spring has pretty much full stock compression braking. The medium spring is less so, it will begin to free wheel if you are going down a slight incline and you slow to a low RPM. The hardest spring will freewheel sooner.

Shifting gears you don't use the clutch at all. In fact, you don't use the clutch at all except for feathering it out of corners if you want to, but even there it is not required.

It's taking a little while to get used to. I'm still not 100% sold on it, but I am warming up to it. The folks that use it, generally swear by it, claiming it gives them trials-like clutch control over the most technical terrain. The manual clutch still works, but it feels limp and mooshy. But it works. Except on down-shifting. If you try to pull the clutch to down-shift, it will freewheel thereafter until you blip the throttle again, so you no longer use the clutch at times you would normally, just when you want to feather the engagement.

Anyway, I'm still learning to use it ... I still have some combinations to try out to see what I like best. I need to install the thicker drive plate that came with the kit, I think, but they sent the wrong one, it doesn't fit my clutch hub. So I need to call them to send another.

 

I was thinking more along the lines of one those Orion slave girls:

 

Finally got to see the video now that I'm back home. Looked like a good whipe out. I'm really liking that helmet cam there I think I'd like to get one of them now after seeing that. Awesome looking ride too by the way.