|
|
|
I hear you. At 104kg it weighs less than a few of my riding buddies.Just a word of advice: your post may have had some useful information in it, but when you insert porn into your message, that's the only thing people (like me) see.
I use a rubber hose on the stem. I hold the head upside down then grind slowly, alternating between forward and reverse. under the weight of a 12v cordless drill. when I'm done I pop in new valve seals.
HE bought the bike unregistered, I guess you can do that. The dealer gave him the NVIS docs and he did the registration himself.
I wonder how easy these things are to uncork? My old 95 Suzuki 200cc had 2lbs more torque and 5 less HP than the new KTM 300cc The KTM 450 4 stroke is about the same weight and kicks out a lot more of both.
You can't spec sheet these bikes. Take a ktm 300 into the nastiest **** you can think of, they are designed for it. They make it easy. Peak numbers mean nothing in the woods.
Guilty as charged. I like the rubber hose idea.
It can be tough finding hoses that grip. A few loose rounds of cloth hockey tape on the end of the valve works even better, it grips nicely in a drill chuck too.
Not sure about that. Of course you're not going to compare bikes made 24 years apart, my point is the current enduro 2 strokes are less potent than their predecessors, and the don't seem to have much on the current 4 strokes. By the way, in it's day a TS200R was the go-anywhere enduro, 45hp and 32lbs of torque on a 225lb bike was only outdone by competition 250 MX bikes off road -- not much would keep up with it in the nasty ****.
I'm sorry, what? The ts200r was 253lbs dry, ran 22 ft/lbs and 35 hp at the crank. A quick google will prove that. Not even close to a modern 300. Not even close to great in its day (which was my day as well, by the way), there is a reason they only sold a handful here.
There are no emissions controls on any 2 stroke nothing to do with euro anything. The ktm is 51 HP vs 35 for the old 200 a huge increase not sure where you got your #s?
Sorry, 35hp at the wheel, 30lbs of torque in factory tune. Standard operating procedure was a 35mm Kehien carb and a fatty pipe for another 5 ponies. $350 back in then. A little more torque and a touch less hp than the 50% bigger KTM. Also had a higher top speed, 144 vs 140.
Where are you pulling these numbers for the ts200r? They never ever got close to 35 at the wheel stock and barely broke 22 ft/lbs. You're dreaming lol.
Chart is on their first year TPI bike. Lowend power is fixed on newer models. You're comparing apples to oranges comparing a dual-sport geared bike against a woods-only bike and speaking of mods that would make one even more crappy offroad.
My bad, the old TS is 22lbs torque, I don't know why I remember it being more than that. It do recall it being a torquey bike.
Got a phone call yesterday from "the old lady across the street" ( her words not mine). Her husband had been yanking for a while and their lawnmower didn't want to fire. Propane up its hooha and half a pull and it fired.
|
|
|
|
|
