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Thinking of buying a 2000 KX250. Advice needed
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[QUOTE="duncanstives, post: 1428318, member: 110498"] Hey all, Thinking of trading the venerable 96 KDX200 for a 2000 KX250 and wondering if its a good idea. Heres my story and why I am considering this: Been riding just over a year but picked it up pretty quickly... I live in eastern KY surrounded by hundreds of miles of all types of trail so I can ride literally every day... Usually I come home from work and try to put in at least 4 or 5 miles of trail riding... I havnt done any racing but I like to go fast and I always try to push myself to the limits. A few months ago I went for a long ride with some guys (we rode a semi-legal route from my house to the far side of another county... About 110 miles over 2 days). Two fo the guys I was riding with were legitimate fast riders with many (hundreds in one case) of races (hairscrambles and stuff... Not motorcross) under their belt... They have both even raced in Baja 1K (though that was on sport quads). I had ridden with one of the guys before and could not even keep him in sight when he was riding fast but it had been awhile (and Ihad not ridden with anyone else since) and I was eager to see how my skills had improved. They all show up on 2008-2012 ktm 250 2 strokes and here I am with my crappy 96 KDX200 with busted plastics and a dubious front wheel bearing (ran out of time to change it before the trip)... I was a little nervous but it wasn't a race and I knew I could at least hang with the two other guys who are slow. We get ready and take off... Much to my suprise I was in the zone like crazy... I found myself able to easily keep up with the leaders... I swear I have never ridden so well or had so much fun... I was absolutely beating the sh*t out of the KDX and amazingly keeping up with the guy on the 2012 KTM (also happened to be the fastest rider). Second day was even better... I seriously could not believe it but I was leading and leaving everyone behind... I would ride for 20 minutes and then pull over and wait. The guys were having trouble believing I'd only been riding a year and I could not believe my KDX was still on one piece... It was definitely WAY down on power compared to the KTMs and as a result I don't think the throttle spent more than 10% of the time at less than 90% open. That said we made it back in one piece (I never even crashed on day two... The only member of our group that didn't... LOL) and back at the house everyone is talking about the ride and the guys are telling me I need to get into racing and its so much fun and I would be pulling great times, etc... Then one of the guys tells me "Hey while we load up the other bikes why don't you take my KTM out and see how you like it? You'd be crazy fast on that bike" Hmm... Don't have to ask me twice. Hopped on the KTM, Electric start, WTF is the sh*t??, took off.... HOLY FREAKING POWER! SO MUCH WANT! Unfortunately a new KTM costs about as much as I could get for selling BOTH my kidneys where as a used KX250 costs about as much as I could sell my KDX for (to my girlfriend actually so it'll still be around anyway) and I am pretty sure you can get parts at Wal Mart. Sorry for the wall of text... I am bored at work. tl;dr version is: Want more power than my KDX... Should I get a 2s KX250? How will it compare to a KTM 250? Thanks [/QUOTE]
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