Thinking of selling the KLX

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10-15-2006, 07:55 AM

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RE: Thinking of selling the KLX

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Well... I'll give it some more playing and get it running but man... I'm just spoiled rotten with fuel-injection and I do miss the MX so the immidiate hassle makes it real, real easy to want to say to heck with the KLX and go after a GasGas.

I'm used to the high maintenance of sport bikes and MX bikes, I just want my bike to start when I expect it to. :: chuckles ::

If I go that route, I'm plenty happy dealing with the internal maintenance of a gasgas for the higher performance and the lack of carb issues.

don't know what sport bikes you ride, but the ones I used to ride were little to no maintenance at all. adjust and oil the chain and you were good to go. i assume the new FI ones are even better. my ZX Ninjas were harder than heck to dial in after a Muzzy pipe with their carbs. now with a computer it's a cinch as you just said. and 2-stroke MX bikes are like the energizer bunny imo. buying a KLX 250 and now wishing you had a gas-gas whatever tells me someone didn't research their spur of the moment buying decision very well. but like someone already said, it's your money.

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10-15-2006, 11:21 AM

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RE: Thinking of selling the KLX

Ok ok.... the end I suppose everyone is right. What I'm mad at is the carb, the rest of the bike is exactly for the most part what I was intending to buy. I did'nt need an MX bike which is in reality why I did'nt fork over the last few thousand bucks to get something like a KTM, Husky, GasGas or Aprillia. What I needed was a solid trail bike that would allow me to run with my other enduro friends.

The sportbike I'm running right now is a 2005 ZX-6R that I bought new when fresh from Iraq. Its a street and track toy so I run it pretty brutally and they do need a pretty chunk of maintenance once in awhile. In my case though the big issue comes from a rather common problem with the gearbox which is going to force me to take it appart, re-shim and back cut the gears. Should'nt be to much of an issue really but that definitely jumps the maintenance.

Now rebuilding 2-strokes or single cylinder 4-stroke engines has always seemed easy to me. Now I know the first thing that comes into mind at that point is.., why would the carb be an issue then?.., its because we go to so many places in so many altitude and temperature ranges that its rare my bike is running just right whenever we get there... and the carb is annoying to get to enough that rejeting the carb for every situation is going to get insane, versus say... 40-hours of assured riding from a basic 2-stroke rebuild.

If I could touch it once every 40 hours and it would run ok I would be content. When somethings wrong everytime I ride.., I get frustrated.

FCR carbs are expensive enough I don't know that I feel this bike is worth it, I'll wait for some of the feedback from the others. That won't fix the nature of jeting, but those carbs are far more behaved then the CV carbs we're stuck with.

So you all got me... I'll keep the bike. My 3 RL enduro buddies were threatening me with physical violence if I got rid of the bike anyways :: chuckles :: Just have mercy on a poor complainer and wish him best of luck on finding a good fuel management system he can tie on with zip ties