So my son has not only been totally in love with his new CRF50, but hes a fucking natural. Third time riding it today. And we have his throttle basically wide open now. He's able to do all the basic stuff like stopping, starting, cornering and also standing up. Not only that, but hes putting his feet down in corners and hitting it hard. The more I let the leash out, the more he wants to push it.
So today we shifted the bike into second. Within a few minutes, he got into a tank slapper and went down hard. No tears, and he bent the bars something fierce. But he wanted to get back on and rode for another hour with tacoed bars. Fucking crazy. Hes got a big bruise on this side, but otherwise hes all good. Fucking scared the shit out of me. Lesson learned, no more second gear until we get the rest of his gear.
After that I decided to head to Woodstock Harley/KTM to check out some bikes for me. I have been wanting to check out the 250SXF and the 350SXF. Man are they sweet. TCS and 2 fuel maps you can switch back and forth for more manageable power. And they had both in stock. 3 2017 250s and 2 2017 350s. Crazy thing is I used to race with the salesman dude from back in the day in the minis class. We knew all the same people/riders and had probably an hour of just shooting the shit about the old braaap days. Anyway he made me a super awesome price for the 350. $9199 msrp, $9000otd including all fees and taxes. Thats a great deal. Im chewing it over. And $8500otd for the 250. I need to basically pick one.
But I still need to look at the jap brand bikes. The CRF250R is like $2k cheaper and I wont be able to tell a difference because I will probably be slow for a long time. Need to get my chops back. Plus the KTM 350 is like the perfect bike everyone is saying. Check it out. I will update when I get one and with any other cool braaap stuff we are up too.
Also priced out a hitch for the explorer. About $200 if I install it myself. And the installs are super easy.
Here is the 2017 350SXF.
So today we shifted the bike into second. Within a few minutes, he got into a tank slapper and went down hard. No tears, and he bent the bars something fierce. But he wanted to get back on and rode for another hour with tacoed bars. Fucking crazy. Hes got a big bruise on this side, but otherwise hes all good. Fucking scared the shit out of me. Lesson learned, no more second gear until we get the rest of his gear.
After that I decided to head to Woodstock Harley/KTM to check out some bikes for me. I have been wanting to check out the 250SXF and the 350SXF. Man are they sweet. TCS and 2 fuel maps you can switch back and forth for more manageable power. And they had both in stock. 3 2017 250s and 2 2017 350s. Crazy thing is I used to race with the salesman dude from back in the day in the minis class. We knew all the same people/riders and had probably an hour of just shooting the shit about the old braaap days. Anyway he made me a super awesome price for the 350. $9199 msrp, $9000otd including all fees and taxes. Thats a great deal. Im chewing it over. And $8500otd for the 250. I need to basically pick one.
But I still need to look at the jap brand bikes. The CRF250R is like $2k cheaper and I wont be able to tell a difference because I will probably be slow for a long time. Need to get my chops back. Plus the KTM 350 is like the perfect bike everyone is saying. Check it out. I will update when I get one and with any other cool braaap stuff we are up too.
Also priced out a hitch for the explorer. About $200 if I install it myself. And the installs are super easy.
Here is the 2017 350SXF.