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CR500 E start is about here
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Dirtbike guy here...never ridden a snowbike but I have one ordered for next year. I have a homebuilt AF I ride a lot and I have my Electric start on order. My snowbike will be a 500 as well but I'm bolting it up to an old steel frame and will be moving the Electric start back and forth. Pretty stoked to be able to run a light and any other electrical I need. Said to ship the second week in August......pretty fricken excited!!!
If I had two 500s I would probably keep the steel one snow only as well. Still have a separate set of forks and triples and steel frame I could use, just don't have a second motor.
I'll be interested to hear how the Estart works for you. It's something I don't think I will jump on right away, but really interested still.
How about the Kx 500
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It's nowhere near as thick as the Eline. I usually run stock pipes, years ago I would grab them as everyone was pulling them off to put a gnarly or a procircuit on....both pipes I don't like. Now they make the Fatty again and I do like that pipe. I run the fatty on my sand CR500...oh yeah I have one just for sand too. I run stockers or fatty's on my main rider the AF trail bike and I guess we will see what works out on the electric start deal....but it looks like enough room. On the trail bike i'm not opposed to throwing a little dent in a pipe because I don't come anywhere near needing all the power. On the sand bike I don't need electric start because it's sand...who cares, Snow I want the charging system for a set of lights and to be able to run anything else I need, guess we will have to see what fit's and how I like the power delivered in the snow. I'm not opposed to a little heat and tweek either. I have a stack of a dozen or so stock pipes and they all fit a little different from 25 years of pounding, and my fatty s have decent room....guess we will see. I don't mind being the test mule, if it just keeps me from getting smoked by the button on those KTM's out on the trail I will be happy.
Went riding with my main riding buddy a couple weeks back, his KTM had a dead battery and he had to kick all day...made us both realize what an advantage the button is. He like to stop in really lame places for me to kick, if he stalls in the middle of a move, or hillclimb he can just button out where often I have to start over or fall off the move, regroup and go at it again...he puts time on me every time this happens. When the playing field was leveled by a dead battery I owned him all day...a 500 starts easier than a 540 or whatever KTM is making now without it's button.
Went riding with my main riding buddy a couple weeks back, his KTM had a dead battery and he had to kick all day...made us both realize what an advantage the button is. He like to stop in really lame places for me to kick, if he stalls in the middle of a move, or hillclimb he can just button out where often I have to start over or fall off the move, regroup and go at it again...he puts time on me every time this happens. When the playing field was leveled by a dead battery I owned him all day...a 500 starts easier than a 540 or whatever KTM is making now without it's button.
I run a massive cpi pipe.. that is my issue. I might dent it to get the estart to work.. we will see.. you have to choose OEM or billet case.. so that is why I am holding off .. I might go liger ..
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Jealous....Liger would be sick. I have been thinking the same thing, I was originally going to order 2 electric start kits but then decided to see how it works and wait because I might want a liger as well. As it sits now I will move the electric start between my daily rider and the snow bike. If I did the liger I would leave the starter on my daily trail bike and move the liger with electric start back and forth between the snow bike and the dune bike
Yes I have a hard time believing it is going to start the Liger in the snow... They have yet to have anyone who had tested it in those conditions... But we will see... I know my Ktm one has all types of issues with cold weather...
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Much of my days lately have been spent dreaming of a billet Pantera/Liger kit with a pulsed PWK, electric start, custom pipe, etc. etc. I bet with a decomp on the head the electric start would have no problem. Unfortunately for me, it is not in the cards this winter. Guess I'll just have to ride my mostly stock, mildly ported CR 500. Poor me!?
I have never thrown a leg over a snowbike, but I've watched videos so I should be good at it right?
I remember watching Laird Hamilton ride a paddleboard in big waves, I grew up surfing and we were headed to Hawaii so I rented a paddleboard...It even had Lairds name on the side!!!! How hard can this be??? I should be ripping in no time!!! Short story, it didn't happen and I'm hoping the same thing doesn't happen to me with a snow bike.
Anyway, Panthera seems to have done their homework. The starter spins a stock CR500 to life easy, he has the whole thing well supported, the motor is beefier than the KTM's (he actually tried with the KTM motor originally and it was enough to start a CR but marginally at best) He says it will fire his Liger setup w a decomp.
We will see I guess, his price is resonable. 2 years ago I saw an Eline coil go for close to a grand on Ebay so for $500 more bucks you get a button and the coil. I can't wait for the thing to make it's appearance at my doorstep. I would love to do a Liger even if I can't figure out how to ride a snowbike and end up selling it. It would be cool to have those kind of ponies in the sand for the 2 times a year I ride dunes....on the trail it might be a little much for bashing through boulders.
I remember watching Laird Hamilton ride a paddleboard in big waves, I grew up surfing and we were headed to Hawaii so I rented a paddleboard...It even had Lairds name on the side!!!! How hard can this be??? I should be ripping in no time!!! Short story, it didn't happen and I'm hoping the same thing doesn't happen to me with a snow bike.Anyway, Panthera seems to have done their homework. The starter spins a stock CR500 to life easy, he has the whole thing well supported, the motor is beefier than the KTM's (he actually tried with the KTM motor originally and it was enough to start a CR but marginally at best) He says it will fire his Liger setup w a decomp.
We will see I guess, his price is resonable. 2 years ago I saw an Eline coil go for close to a grand on Ebay so for $500 more bucks you get a button and the coil. I can't wait for the thing to make it's appearance at my doorstep. I would love to do a Liger even if I can't figure out how to ride a snowbike and end up selling it. It would be cool to have those kind of ponies in the sand for the 2 times a year I ride dunes....on the trail it might be a little much for bashing through boulders.
if you can ride in the dunes you can ride a snowbike no problem.unless you are completely out of shape,sittin on the couch listening to Hillary spewing her garbage. just sayin you will have no problem
Yeah it shouldn't take much. Some people might have a couple tip overs. It's the most awkward on hard pack initially.
I think I will be alright, I can ride dunes, I run them once or twice a year and the rest of the time I run a CR500 in a 250x chassis on everything. I love rocks, sand, mud, snow, whatever. Hoping the snow bike works better than my XR...which did well haha
A little video clip of the XR650 doing a little snow battling.
A little video clip of the XR650 doing a little snow battling.
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