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Husky vs KTM
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[QUOTE="dthoms, post: 579196, member: 35596"] Dennis, I went from a 95 RMX to a 02 KTM 250 EXC, and I love it. I haven't had a chance to hide a Husky recently, but have ridden about everything but. I don't know what kind of maintenance problems you heard about the KTM, but I haven't had any with mine yet, and I probably have 2,000+ miles on it. After riding the RMX for 6 years I was afraid I wouldn't find anything as dependable, and woods worthy. I have heard a lot of complaints about the suspension, but I think most of them are unfounded. My KTM has better suspension than my RMX in just about every way, and is much better in the deep whoops than my old bike. I have adjusted the suspension to my own taste, I am not afraid to adjust the clickers and the springs. I think this is important on any of the newer bikes, you need to be able to set it up for your weight and style, and area, otherwise you won't be happy, regardless of the bike you buy. If I had any complaints it would be that the front forks are to flexible, the RMX had strurdier forks than the KTM. The 03's have a larger diameter fork though. Stiffing up the springs on the forks seem to help the problem, but it's not a total cure. I think the short coming of the no linkage is the real big hits, and the stadium type whoops, if I get mine to straight line thru the big stuff it is too stiff in the woods. Then you get more deflection and feed back from the forks, and the rear wheel wants to hop too much. I have been told this can be fixed with different valving but I don't see it as that big of a problem. I've road newer MX bikes and they were better in the high speed big hits, but they didn't handle the rocks, roots and trail junk as well either. [/QUOTE]
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