Anyone going to swap their track kit off for the summer months? Or, just run em as is!
Summer snow bike uses
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Nice photo??
Here is my Summertime use. I am not sure if I like your summer time use better though.
Here is my Summertime use. I am not sure if I like your summer time use better though.
Thats a clean setup, makes me want to do that to my 450 but I ride dirt so much on the weekend that I would have to swap alot of wheels out.
That looks like a great use for summer.
Unless you are into Motocross the best snow-bikes are a bear on the single track that I usually ride.
The little KTM 250 is perfect. For most riders 2 bikes is the more reasonable way to go. The Yamaha's with the tuner can be made into reasonable trail steeds in particular the FX.
Still I prefer a 250 for single track.
Unless you are into Motocross the best snow-bikes are a bear on the single track that I usually ride.
The little KTM 250 is perfect. For most riders 2 bikes is the more reasonable way to go. The Yamaha's with the tuner can be made into reasonable trail steeds in particular the FX.
Still I prefer a 250 for single track.
That looks like a great use for summer.
Unless you are into Motocross the best snow-bikes are a bear on the single track that I usually ride.
The little KTM 250 is perfect. For most riders 2 bikes is the more reasonable way to go. The Yamaha's with the tuner can be made into reasonable trail steeds in particular the FX.
Still I prefer a 250 for single track.
Agreed I like the 250F is the summer, and I ride Moto but I am very light weight 135lbs. I always over jump everything on a 450f so I don't tend to use it much in the summer.
Nice motard. Here's mine. Hasn't seen life as a snowbike yet but a kit has been snow checked for next year so it's wheels are in motion! I like adventure but I'm not really into "trail riding" around here that much so the street inspired setup is just too fun for terrorizing the neighborhood. I do plan to get some knobby tires for it though. Apparently you can run 17" rear knobby backwards on the front so that's what I'll do.
My hope is the stiff supermoto fork setup will lend well to a ski for winter without mods to the forks.
My hope is the stiff supermoto fork setup will lend well to a ski for winter without mods to the forks.
Nice bike! Yes, it is a pain to switch fork springs. What springs do you have in there right now? I went .58 on my timber sled, I'm 170 pounds, and I wish I had went stiffer. I bottom them out all the time (not jumping). That might be partially due to the timber sled kit however. Other kits that don't put as much pressure on the front ski might be able to get away with less stiff spring. Just guessing there.
I have no idea what they are but they feel much stiffer than any dirt or dual sport forks I've ridden. Not sure if that's valve or spring or both as I'm new to motards. They do have less travel also. Hoepfully they will work out because they seem like nice legs. I was trying to avoid an air type fork as I'd read they aren't ideal for snow use and is also rather not fuss with air. Hard enough keeping tyres happy don't want to add forks to the list of leakers. Even heard of guys getting stranded in the woods after an air seal blowout.
Another thing I liked about them is that they are fully adjustable and they each do the same jobs, in other words right and left have compression and rebound damping. I've never been comfortable with the idea that one leg is doing one job and the other does the opposite. Maybe I'm olde schools. I do have the comp and rebound damping backed all the way off because I was missing that plush dual sport feel on the street and these are like a sport bike feel by comparison. Hopefully that isn't a problem on the snow.
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I'm 220 and run .60 springs with an sx120 with TSS. I almost think they are too stiff. Bike is pretty light though.
When I get my machine back together definitely giving a go at it in the dirt. Although it is tempting to leave the track on for the summer and rip around on the lake.
I'm hoping I really like it on the dirt and don't mind swapping, then I will sell my 450, and keep a 250 two stroke as a spare bike.
