Pick your weapon

[AlBundy]

The Machine has finally arrived.....mmmmmm
sorry about the quality ....I had to compress the heck out of the photo

VERY nice.

Looks an absolute weapon.

[916Senna]

As my mate at work said 'All the gear and no idea'... I think I will enjoy the summer of racing at least.

[Motardman]

As my mate at work said 'All the gear and no idea'... I think I will enjoy the summer of racing at least.

He's just jealous......beautiful machine mate.....shit now I'm jealous

[kezzafish]

I've had many a drag race between my KLX400R and the supposedly lesser DRZ's. With identical gearing there's bugger all in it, if anything the KLX was a touch more savage through say 3-4000, and there's plenty of occasions where that's less than ideal.
Used to ride with a friend and his slightly less powerful, porkier DRZS. The only places I had a clear advantage was in the very tight stuff with reasonable traction, and on the gravel.
So yeah, where it mattered.

I've never ridden a klx400r except for when i rode my DRZ! kawasaki and suzuki had a deal for a few years where they teamed up on their 400 enduro bike... they are the same bike! one's green and ones yellow

So the SM should have good torque but less top end.

ok in theory but not in practice the sm has less torque and heaps less top end revability

Another point to condser...
With DRZ400's, the SM has a 38mm header... The enduro model has a 41mm header. The SM suffers from restricted flow right from the start... Smaller carb, different cams and choked pipe, it all adds up.

Yeah it adds up big time, different compression ratio too. i dunno if you guys have ever ridden a 400E but they are a great bike, heaps of useable, torquey power. Don't get me wrong, i love my SM and you can have heaps of fun with it but as standard they've chocked it up big time, which is good in a way because it means there's plenty more unlockable power in there, you just gotta spend a bit to unlock it. I reserved mine before it arrived cos i didn't wanna miss out and i knew it was a good steed (from owning an E) but was a bit miffed when i tried to make the cunt stand up for the first time!

[Motardman]

Don't get me wrong, i love my SM and you can have heaps of fun with it but as standard they've chocked it up big time, which is good in a way because it means there's plenty more unlockable power in there, you just gotta spend a bit to unlock it. I reserved mine before it arrived cos i didn't wanna miss out and i knew it was a good steed (from owning an E) but was a bit miffed when i tried to make the cunt stand up for the first time!

Chat to Bulldog, he had a DRZ SM and had all the info to make it breath a bit of fire but sold it for a KTM as he didn't want to spend the 2-3 grand to do it...

[AlBundy]

Chat to Bulldog, he had a DRZ SM and had all the info to make it breath a bit of fire but sold it for a KTM as he didn't want to spend the 2-3 grand to do it...

Heaps of info at Thumpertalk about what it takes to wake them up.... Here's a 57hp bike thread...

http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/sho...ighlight=57+hp

[Motardman]

Heaps of info at Thumpertalk about what it takes to wake them up.... Here's a 57hp bike thread...

http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/sho...ighlight=57+hp

That's the one, he got heaps (in fact all) the info from there....mostly a real helpful bunch he reckoned.

[Aero165]

The Machine has finally arrived.....mmmmmm
sorry about the quality ....I had to compress the heck out of the photo

Oooooh yeah! Thats hot

[Ocean1]

I've never ridden a klx400r except for when i rode my DRZ! kawasaki and suzuki had a deal for a few years where they teamed up on their 400 enduro bike... they are the same bike! one's green and ones yellow

Yup, same production line. But the KLX is the same spec' as the DRZ400E, except for the instruments and light, it's road legal out of the box.

That's why I bought it, I'd ridden both the S and the E and the KLX was basically the best of both worlds. Fookin' chewed through the rear S12s though...

[pedronz]

Just lookin at the motard rim options available for a KTM525 at motoworks.co.nz
Any feed back on the RAD vs WARP 9 , Billet vs Cast???????

[Devil]

Just posted pics of mine:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=82501
Second page.