Funny you should say that Lear......when gas started going up, I started commuting to work on my ktm adv....about 42 miles each way on S. Florida highway madness well after a couple months and doing some math and a couple close calls.....I said F'it and bought a folding bicycle and started takin the train to work.....even thou my office is only about 3 miles from the local train station....I started to shed a few pounds and improve my stamina....now I ride that bike to the train station by my house also.....lost about 15 lbs (which is a lot for me) put on some muscle, started working out a little too and now I can stand on the pegs with no effort on da klx in sugar all day long ......smoked all my friends this weekend...except one, but he is a true former mx'er.

 

I have done a fair bit already.
https://www.kawasakiforums.com/m_308321/tm.htm

My goal is 120kgs.
Oil, water but no fuel.
5.7kgs to go.

 

Problem I have with the KLX, it was/is a grrrreat starter bike, and a great bike for 50/50 short street drives, and pretty good for off road drives, but just not the ideal. Mods, one after another, trying to make it the bike I want, even though the power I want isn't coming from that motor. All the money spent on my bike, as few as they are, I could go buy the bike I ACTUALLY want probably brand new, and if not, cheaper for a used 07' which is what I have, a used 07'(with money spent on bike and mods).
This is why I had a hard time getting the big bore kit, it still wouldn't be the bike I want, and more money sunk into it that will not come out in a re-sale.

 

You do have a point there.
We spemd a lot of time and money trying to turn the KLX into the "bike we want" when that bike is probably already out there.
The reason I bought the KLX to start withwas every other bike that would have been "better" for my use, (off road 90%) is/was way too tall.
And that is still the case.

Now it's like renovating an old house, something else I'm 80% through, you keep doing/spending that little bit more, and more, and more, and more....................................... it never ends.
A friend told me when I first bought the house to knock it down and bulid a new one.
No said I.
This house has "character", we will renovate. Won't take much.
5 years later, many $$$$$, and it's still not finished.
And guess what? Still not the ideal house for us.

Anyway, I have spent plenty of time and money on the KLX and some of the mods have been specifically for my vertical limitaitons.
I have come too far and "must" keep going.

Now if I just do this then.............................................. ...........................