Hmmm, interesting, I wonder if anything has changed since my EFI 2014 made in Japan and exported to Malaysia.
Mine is the red colour bike but I will need to check up the differences, if any, with what limited specs they have given online.
I have lowered gearing to 13/45.
done clutch switch bypass
fitted o2 bypass
removed airboxcover and installed after market airfilter.
I do not have any access to analytic performance systems.
looking forward to having more fun

Philip

 

Cool, nice bike for that. Yeah, my buddie has an 1/8th mile dirt/clay track on his farm. It's a practice/test track for his 2 son's that race micro sprints. The track is well groomed for us to do hot laps on with the bikes. We go out and have fun racing each other. He has a few dirt trackers, so there's always a bike for me to use. We reced together back in the 80's. There's also a track that has Vintage Night 2 times a year where only old school vintage flat track bikes can be raced. It's just a fun trophy race for the older guys to go out, show their stuff, have some fun, grudge race, etc. Kinda relive the old racin days for a night twice a year. We have a blast. Anyway, I still love that type of bike, so I want to build one like I raced when I was younger, but for the street. I just ride locally, and when I do venture out, I'll only do about 150 to 200 miles in a day, so a comfy bike isn't needed. I'd also love to build a 2-stroke tracker since I'm really a 2-stroke guy at heart. Either a Kawie 500 triple, or a Yamaha RD 350/400. But the XS650 will be first. I'll save the ring dinger for after my trail riding days are over, if they ever are....LOL

 

Would it be that difficult to start a separate thread for discussion of 1978 Yamaha SR500's instead of taking over the 2018 Kawasaki KLX250S thread on the Kawasakiforums site?

 

I started as new thread showing how I mounted a UFO '06 KX 250/450 rear fender.

 

This isn't how forums are designed to work no matter small or large (and this one is relatively large considering demographic).

Why not have only one forum here with only one long thread if every thread is literally just a free for all. it makes finding information difficult and is frustrating to follow posts when they are titled X and random people change the subject and begin talking about A, B and C. It's called thread-jacking.

That is what happened here with talk of vintage Yamaha flat tracks in the middle of a thread about the 2018 KLX250S just announced.

Good grief.

 

I'm done, you fly the plane.

 

Topic came up as a sideline about building rear fenders, led to a comment about a 650 street tracker, then to an SR500.

You know 95% of the threads would die after the first five posts. Everything after that is pure BS This thread pretty much filled the title with the first post. So... what have we really hurt? A bunch of people saying "Boy does that look good!"? That got said in the first few posts too. A "same old same old" just like my 09, but with EFI. Pop the party poppers, there will be pages of comments about that... no.

It digressed into the suspension, modules, bodywork. Sorry Werlock, we were having too much enjoyment, Guess we have to go to time out.

Apparently few of you ever did any after hours bike shop talk. It may start with one line of thought, technical or whatever, but will progress/digress into an evening usually quite enjoyable and often enlightening. The real fun and the reason they call it shop talk and bench racing. Forums are kind of on-line shop talk. Everyone here has gone off topic at one time or another, including all the "holier than thou"s. A majority of the threads are relatively short in numbers and can be searched. I find frequently the ones that stay on topic don't stay alive long enough to really get the best details.

But hey, wasn't the first time for me and likely won't be the last so, ahead of time - my bad, I apologize.

By the way, what did jetting and performance of a CV34 have to do with jetting and performance of a TM36-68 on a stock bore? I guess we all go off topic even if it's just a little bit.

 

Ahh, some aren't happy unless they have something to, ah forget it, I won't go there. If anyone had the right to complain, it's the Original Poster in "My" opinion. And yes, this slowly started off topic by talking On Topic, it was related due to an honest misunderstanding that was on topic. This happens a LOT on every forum I'm on (15 at least), and no one complains. But oh well, yeah, I stood in a corner with my nose touching the wall all day as punishment. Its a forum for cryin out loud, not wikipedia....!!! So you kids carry on with topic. The old timers are done playing... Sorry to offend anyone. Seems to be everywhere now.

 

I was shamed into deleting my post about the Astro 250 and Yammie 250. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the flat track builds. This is the kind of stuff I enjoy reading about. I am excited and super happy Kawi is sending the KLX to the US again, but well, OK, EFI, alrighty.

 

QOS, we are lucky that there is just a few members here that hijack with junk, er, off topics... Be thankful for that, overlook their messes, and "get on with it" - If I can do it, you can do it..