How hard do YOU ride your KLX?
#22
06-13-2014, 12:08 AM
I finally rode mine hard enough to make the fan come on, multiple times.
It was 80º and humid, and I was climbing a wet, slippery, and very steep mountain. The kind of steep, where if you stop, you have to turn back down to the last flat spot and try again.
Other than that, I've banged back out my radiator guard braces after a crash on late spring ice and I have a couple of dents in the rim from trail rocks I didn't see or were the lesser of two evils. I never flatted when I got those dents either (pre-Tubliss).
It was 80º and humid, and I was climbing a wet, slippery, and very steep mountain. The kind of steep, where if you stop, you have to turn back down to the last flat spot and try again.
Other than that, I've banged back out my radiator guard braces after a crash on late spring ice and I have a couple of dents in the rim from trail rocks I didn't see or were the lesser of two evils. I never flatted when I got those dents either (pre-Tubliss).
#23
06-13-2014, 12:42 AM
Pfffft!!! Don't call up that poseur, dan, with his photoshopped pictures of his fake racing scenario with his upside-down bike. It's obviously faked.
#24
06-13-2014, 04:40 PM
That may be why your fan comes on. Not riding hard at slower speeds puts less air through the rads. Hard fast riding puts lots of air through the rads. A good bit of my trail riding is steep, tight climbs in first gear. My fan runs a lot doing this.
#25
06-14-2014, 05:57 AM
Thanks for the reply. My trail riding sounds very similar to yours so that must be the reason.
#26
06-14-2014, 04:12 PM
The fan temperature sensors will also switch on and off at different points. They will not all be identical due to manufacturing differences, etc. Besides your riding style, you may have one of those sensors that triggers at a lower temp point.
#27
06-18-2014, 11:14 PM
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: South Puget Sound, WA
Posts: 740
The hardest rides I have put the KLX through are the desert100 races here in the WA desert. It's not sand so much as 100 miles of whoops, rocks, and sagebrush. We've been through a few high speed get offs but the dang thing still works.
The weak spot on this bike has been little pecker pole sapling trees sliding between the bars and the radiator and busting plastics.
The weak spot on this bike has been little pecker pole sapling trees sliding between the bars and the radiator and busting plastics.
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