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From: Las Vegas, NV
LOL!...no kidding. Like that place in a tight trail where you need to turn around but the ground is slightly uphill on both sides of the trail. You're trying to use the gas and forward gear to roll sideways up the side of the trail to get enough angle for the rear of the bike to head down the trail the way you were going. You gas it up the side of the trail and the bike rocks backward but not quite enough to the get the rear to pull up the other side of the trail to get turned around. You rock forward with the gas and roll backwards by gravity. You do this a few times thinking it's finally going to work until you wise up, get off, and just manhandle the bike around to go back the other way. I like it when it's decently uphill on both sides of that narrow trail, and you stall the bike right about the time that the bike is almost completely 90 degrees in the trail, and your feet have no hope of touching the ground. A scene from Laugh-In occurs. Yes, reverse would be nice sometimes.
Could you imagine what stunters would do with reverse? haha.
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From: Boulder Creek CA
Just installed IMS 3 gal tank and was wondering about how many miles before reserve. Just looking for ballpark figure ... over 100,150 or more. My klx is a 2012 with dynojet stage one kit,120 main and 2 1/2 turns out on idle jet. Also have a kdx 300 snokel and stock exhaust. I am hoping for 150. What are other riders getting ????
And there is no "secret reserve" in these tanks.
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Even with a 300 cylinder, full Muzzy exhaust, all airbox mods, and a 36mm pumper carb, hard off road can drop my mileage into the low 40's and as high as low 60's on pavement and easy dirt roads...with 13/47 gearing. I had a couple of open class enduro race bikes that wouldn't drop out of the 20's during full blown competition events. Are you sure there's not a hole in your tank?...LOL!
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I had a similar issue, check your warm up procedure, jetting for elevation, and idle screw.
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Yes, that's really bad mileage. Mine got 70 before mods, but no power. Check your carb adjustments/jetting.
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