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From: Rowdy on 11 May 2010 11:11
Am 11.05.2010 16:39, schrieb john:
> "Rowdy"<thy-no(a)hottmail.com> wrote in message
>> Am 11.05.2010 14:39, schrieb john:
>>> guten tag hair Rowdy
>>
>> Morjen Herr Fr�hvogel!
>
> did you just call me a bird?

An early bird, presumably an East Coast bird?

> I didn't notice much difference between it& the xr400
> that said I think the earth moved under it as apposed to
> the bike moving... gravity defying bike...

XR400R, well. Been there, tried that, refused to buy one.
Too small, too much same-like-the-old-stuff w/ less displacement.
Grabbing the first WR400F ('98 ?) was when i found My Bike,
and the midrange plus of the 450s is the icing on the cake. VBG

> ktm seems to have a nice dirtbike you can street ride with
> out to much discomfort/ modification...

That's exactly my concern. Said wrench once claimed that these
DOHC, five valve, 10K5 revving Yammies were the only bikes on which
you can do freeway WFO for hours w/o any expensive consequences.

He did claim though, that UniCam or simply any well designed
4 valve OHC will easily produce the same power, while even
saving weight compared to DOHC; just not for my kind of
Real Dual Pupose Abuse. (RDPA (tm))

Hence I wonder whether KTM has finally arrive at Yamaha's
reliability, or if still bolts of finest Austrian craftmanship
will fall off it...

P.
From: Rowdy on 11 May 2010 11:16
Am 11.05.2010 17:04, schrieb JayC:
> Something like this would be nice:
>
> http://wrongcrowd.com/albums/neil/05570008_G.sized.jpg

The net is full of scary pictures, indeed.

If I were rich i'd get me that:
http://www.teslamotors.com/performance/acceleration_and_torque.php
This torque must be immense fun to play with.

Rowdy

From: john on 11 May 2010 11:46
"Rowdy" <
> Am 11.05.2010 16:39, schrieb john:
>> "Rowdy"<thy-no(a)hottmail.com> wrote in message
>>> Am 11.05.2010 14:39, schrieb john:
>>>> guten tag hair Rowdy
>>>
>>> Morjen Herr Fr�hvogel!
>>
>> did you just call me a bird?
>
> An early bird, presumably an East Coast bird?
>
my shop opens 5am til ~6 pm
i usually rollin about 6-7, depending if i
had 6 hours of sleep by then...

>> I didn't notice much difference between it& the xr400
>> that said I think the earth moved under it as apposed to
>> the bike moving... gravity defying bike...
>
> XR400R, well. Been there, tried that, refused to buy one.
> Too small, too much same-like-the-old-stuff w/ less displacement.
> Grabbing the first WR400F ('98 ?) was when i found My Bike,
> and the midrange plus of the 450s is the icing on the cake. VBG

tried the xr400 didn't much care for it, i like the 250 & 600 better????
it seems like the 4 door sedan of bikes to me (does everything ok
just not one thing really well)

>> ktm seems to have a nice dirtbike you can street ride with
>> out to much discomfort/ modification...
>
> That's exactly my concern. Said wrench once claimed that these
> DOHC, five valve, 10K5 revving Yammies were the only bikes on which
> you can do freeway WFO for hours w/o any expensive consequences.

well since i don't ride wfo on highways i can't
help you out on any durability issues <grin>

> He did claim though, that UniCam or simply any well designed
> 4 valve OHC will easily produce the same power, while even
> saving weight compared to DOHC; just not for my kind of
> Real Dual Pupose Abuse. (RDPA (tm))
>
> Hence I wonder whether KTM has finally arrive at Yamaha's
> reliability, or if still bolts of finest Austrian craftmanship
> will fall off it...
>
> P.

loctite & spares are always a fine idea
john
wife says, "are you happy to see me or is that an impact driver in your
pocket?"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/ImpactDriverWithBits.png


From: Volker Bartheld on 11 May 2010 12:57
Hi!

On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:34:00 +0200, Rowdy wrote:
> Suzuki RMX450 (what's that? is it an good)

You want this one. But I'm afraid you would NOT want to pay the recommended
price for it.

Cheers,
Volker

--
@: I N F O at B A R T H E L D dot N E T
3W: www.bartheld.net
From: IdaSpode on 11 May 2010 13:21
On Tue, 11 May 2010 15:48:52 +0200, Rowdy <thy-no(a)hottmail.com> wrote:

<snip>
>I'm beginning to lean towards these pumpkins. The 450EXC Champion
>Edt. is a relabelled '09 with '10 VIN, the SixDays is noticably
>more expensive so the 450EXC SF (sans fuss) gets into focus.

As you seem to have a bias against KTM in general, I'd suggest you not
own one, it will sense your reluctance to trust it and be nothing but
trouble...

>Rowdy

DJ
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