Recent content by Kurlon

I've rocked full large course built sumos, clamps, fully worked forks, shock to match, had a shortened swingarm for a bit, etc, and I raced my 150SX with just a wheel swap, not even an oversized front brake. For short track, the 150 worked pretty damn well and got bounced back and forth between...

Seeing it getting VERY flexy on a landing didn't inspire confidence, nor did it throwing chains from swingarm flex?

In the US, with other brands normally the warranty clock wouldn't start ticking on a demo until the bike was actually sold and MSO/Title signed over. You're loosing nearly a year of warranty, that's a personal call if the savings is worth that shorter warranty?

...wouldn't be my first over-build... :D My first race bike was a CRF70, that at the end I did regular big bike trackdays on after spending stuuuuuuupid amounts on developing it. I'm not looking for quite that level of dumb, but my normal logic is assume whatever I buy I'm going to need to...

So, work's being a bitch which means my bike shopping has hit a brick wall for now. While discussing the various options on the market and my use cases a friend asked me why I wasn't considering something like a Surron? I immediately shot that down as the only experience I have with them was the...

'Hard' enduro at my skill level is that small rock or root in my path these days... :D On the road side, there is changes to technique that allow safe control of a bike when you're not as inseem graced as others, even at 5'10" I try to adopt them as just good riding habits. I can see where it's...

Road race or sumo, it's the only one I ever encountered. A friend got it as an easy to plate woods/ice bike, then got the itch to road race... given we have a motard class and our rules basically allow singles everywhere, he tossed 17s on and sent it. Ultimately ended up a B bike beside an...

I've never actually lowered any of my bikes? In fact I tend to end up trying to raise at least one end of them for most racing formats I do? My MT-09 the rear is getting JACKED up. :D The SuperMono experiment is the odd exception due to going to a much shorter front end, but even there, the...

My 150 I would do a variation of that, from the right side, lock the front brake, left hand grabbing way back under the fender, and lift and pivot on the front wheel to get onto the stand. I can't pull that off with the larger machines. I've done the rear wheel lift, sometimes get sketchy if the...

Basic sumo setup, but road race spring rates instead of MX, rear was 95Nm spring, .5 up front, and little me at 155lbs. For those paying attention, the front end is 06 SMR with 8mm wider width clamps. Still have the forks. Raced on a 1.6mi road course. I had delusions of going sport bikeier...

So, recent bikes I've owned: 2016 KTM 500XC-W, cut down for road racing 2019 KTM 150SX, MX'd and sumo'd That 500 was every bit of 250lbs. The 150SX was about 200lbs ready to rock. You bet I could tell the difference between the two hefting them. Hefting a Stark onto a stand, felt like my 500...

At least in the US, DOT is not going to be happy about a registered vehicle that can only update the odo when ridden in areas with cell reception or a charged phone...

Another thing to consider with voltage: The higher the voltage, the wider of a gap it can jump. As voltage climbs, you need to start increasing separation between tracks on boards / etc to keep it from arcing out internally.

Damn right! The 902 looks like a contender to me, depending on where the weight comes in. I hate that it's not planned to be available until the end of the year...

Popped down to MB+ today to window shop/drool on bikes in person. They have an MX 1.2 on it's charging stand between a pair of KTM 500EXCs. I lifted the 500 up on my hip, then did the same with the Varg and... I forgot how heavy both are. KTM has migrated the side hand grip spots more forward...