A motocross bike on our tracks. But it's only a 250. How
hard could it be?
It took a while to find the button and then I realize it's
down there somewhere. So, a lot of clutch starting, I think!
A lot of interest in that video about converting a motocross
bike to a Enduro bike, or a woods bike, or GNCC. Whatever
you wanna call it. And FFRC said they would lend me a
motocross bike if I wanted to explore that project.
So we're on a 250SX
and this thing's set up on the red spring so it's set up to be
aggressive... as aggressive... I can't talk! Aggressive as
possible.
And uh man, she just wants to absolutely go mental. So it
definitely needs a bit of a engine work to settle it
down. There's a flywheel coming from Steahley. It will
help quite a bit. First thing for me is these Rox pivoting
risers. Not saying these are recommended or have to be done,
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of course, I'm just trying to get used to riding a two-stroke
again. Up the bikes with so much grunt. Suddenly I'm having
to Be careful with that. Gear changes again. Especially a
bike that's not set up. Low down. So yeah, getting used to
a twitchy little two-stroke and I have to say the thing is a
featherweight. I don't know what these weigh. They've gotta
be 95 or 96kg.
Just ridiculous. So
I'm definitely not feeling at home on it yet.
Loving it. There's a lots of protection we need to put on
but at least for the first ride, some barkbusters.
Courtesy of Fastway, one of my favorite mobs. One thing FFRC
were gonna do with this motorbike was the 4CS forks. Many of you will
know that KTM have issues with the 4CS.
FFRC have
done a fair bit of work, especially with the
dyno. They discovered the design flaw.
It just keeps getting on the pipe! It's hard to get up
places, you need traction like this.
It's in second gear. And she keeps spinning...
One of the handy things with the KTM is you can take these
bolts out and get a lot more full-lock turn. The suspension
feels pretty firm. I know a lot of motocross bikes
nowadays don't have too many issues coming across to dirt
riding but this is definitely too firm.
Given a ninety-three kilos, I thought she wouldn't be too bad.
Back off the damping. All I've noticed so far, it's harsh
and yet on big movements, she does compress a lot. Which is
weird. On. She's bogging down.
Just gets into the powerband. and Come to the front wheel.
Okay, we've just put the G2 throttle tamer in. Oh, yeah.
Oh, that's so nice. Much more controllable. First half
turn of throttle. It feels a lot more gentle now.
So much better. Now the strange thing is I put the G2
throttle tamer on the Beta RR300. Barely made a
difference. I assume because the engine was already tamer?
Beta RR480?. Big difference. This is a bit
snappy off idle. It's been fuel injected. On this bike, Again,
just for that first half turn of throttle. She's so much more
Yeah. In the van. You're not using a lot of throttle. That
is so much better.
After a few hours, I was just starting to get the hang of a
two-stroke again and man, was it fun! But as expected, the
power delivery needs to be far more linear. A flywheel weight
is desperately needed. To improve stall resistance and
smooth out that response. And suspension needs a lot of
attention particularly those atrocious four CS forks.
Stay tuned. It should be fun.
Yeah