Horsepower ratings?

[Crasherfromwayback]

Classic. I simply enjoy seeing how much plop one individual can spout though.

[green machine]

Crasher, don't feed the trolls - Stylo's only on here cos his missus left him.
Look closely at those VMX pics and you'll see wankstains on his KX - of course these are only visible cos it never leaves the garage.

I've seen this carrotspanker pretend to post thoughtfully when all he wants is to start an argument about how great his old big 2Ts are.

5 bucks says he wears Lacoste shirts and pops his collars

There was a guy on here before called Armitage Shanks that used to roll out a pic of his KX500 any chance he got,it was the same photo Stylo always puts up......are these people one in the same,or 2 people that use the same photo on here?,if Stylo is the former Armitage Shanks,at least put a different photo up you've used that same one for years............

[Crasherfromwayback]

There was a guy on here before called Armitage Shanks that used to roll out a pic of his KX500 any chance he got,it was the same photo Stylo always puts up......are these people one in the same,or 2 people that use the same photo on here?,if Stylo is the former Armitage Shanks,at least put a different photo up you've used that same one for years............

Same 'person'.

[jasonu]

500cc 2 stokes dont have a power band either. They are just like a big lazy 4 stroke but they dont they dont rev. They dont feel fast to ride

What a load of bollocks!

[Crasherfromwayback]

What a load of bollocks!

Hate to say it mate, but as far as a KX500 goes, he's on the button. A CR500 hits a little harder, as they don't use power valves to smooth things out. But years ago at the Masterton Street races, after the F2 race (which I'd just won), a guy came up and told me I wasn't revving it hard enough as it didn't sound like it was in the powerband! They sound flat as a turd.

[Pornstar]

I raced a 1997 kx 500 in on a very muddy day once, it just massacred the 250's in the deep mud, it just went bauuaurrppp past them, the first start i tried 2nd gear as i would on my 250, she just sat and spun whilst the others took off, so after hookin 3rd then 4th it just reeled them in to holeshot,(what a cheat). They must be nuts out in the dry. all this talk of 5hundys prompted a trade me search, wish i hadn't, those AF500's, sigh.

[Crasherfromwayback]

wish i hadn't, those AF500's, sigh.

Yeah they're pretty cool for sure. I'd quite like one.

[CHOPPA]

What a load of bollocks!

I have owned a CR500 and a KX500 and they were powerfull but they didnt have a 'powerband' they are just like a big diesel tractor. Its not some insane arm ripping power like most people make out.

I have some pictures of mine on here somewhere, I could still clean up club days on them. I even did the nationals in the Pro Open class at Huntly in about 2005 on the CR500, crashed at the start and still managed a top 15 finish didnt race the rest of the weekend cause it was mud hole

[CHOPPA]

I hate it when I start reading the dirt section! Time for another dirt bike haha

[Pornstar]

very nice pics, yes, it looks as though you should have another dirt bike, ya big talent waster.

[Crasherfromwayback]

I hate it when I start reading the dirt section! Time for another dirt bike haha

How to fly lesson 1!

[scott411]

i have raced and won on kx500's, we used to run them a bit fat in the middle part of the power bandwith a pro circuit mx pipe (not the full horsepower desert pipe) and std silencer, fly wheel weight and the optional thick headgasket, i think at one stage i had abotu 20 holeshots in a row on it, and i started them in 3rd gear, in a straight line they are amazing,

imo there is no one that would do a faster laptime around a mx track on a 500 2 stroke than a current 450 mx bike (even a service honda built one) and even in motard the 450's kick them because of power band the new age 450's have,

500's got slower since the mid 80's when people realised you do not win races off road with massive horsepower, but with useable power bands, about 83/84 where the peaky 500's started to get mellowed out, and the same has happened with 450f's, they are getting mellower,

[Crasherfromwayback]

i have raced and won on kx500's, we used to run them a bit fat in the middle part of the power bandwith a pro circuit mx pipe (not the full horsepower desert pipe) and std silencer, fly wheel weight and the optional thick headgasket, i think at one stage i had abotu 20 holeshots in a row on it, and i started them in 3rd gear, in a straight line they are amazing,

and even in motard the 450's kick them because of power band the new age 450's have,

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I used to tune my 500's the other way when road racing 'em. And I certainly went faster on my RMZ450 (even my early 4 speeder) round Wanganui.

[scott411]

I used to tune my 500's the other way when road racing 'em. And I certainly went faster on my RMZ450 (even my early 4 speeder) round Wanganui.

agreed, the 4 speed rmz could be geared not to bad, but esp at pearoa you were really wishing there was a 5th gear there, (even with the extra 1000rpm i had with a yoshi japan motard cdi

[Crasherfromwayback]

agreed, the 4 speed rmz could be geared not to bad, but esp at pearoa you were really wishing there was a 5th gear there, (even with the extra 1000rpm i had with a yoshi japan motard cdi

I mashed my ankle to a pulp on my 4 speeder, and never road raced my injected 5 speeders. They'd be great though I reckon.