Greetings from Mid-Michigan with a '92 KDX250
Posted: 01:13 pm Aug 09 2014
Hello All...obviously a noob to the forum, but looking forward to being able to learn and contribute.
I'm a 43-year-old just returning to the dirt. In my teenage years I bashed through the woods on an '85 IT200, then switched to street bikes from College through to present-day.
As someone who was raised on the West coast before hitting the Great Lakes in my adolescence, Michigan winters have always sucked to me, so I got in a habit of buying a basket case every late Summer or early Autumn to rebuild through the "dark days." I'd ride it through the summer and sell it off for the next season's project.
Anyway, I now have two kids who have been hooked on dirt bikes (youngest son got to go to a local MX track for his first spectator-day a month ago). Since he's into it, and since I'm honestly tired of dodging cagers with a cell in one hand and a bagel in the other, I decided to get back to the woods.
I just picked up a '92 KDX250 as a starting point for my return less than 24 hours ago. I'll make sure to put a triage/restoration/upgrade thread together. Looking forward to getting good info, meeting some other woods-guys from this area and doing some virtual bench-racing.
I'm a 43-year-old just returning to the dirt. In my teenage years I bashed through the woods on an '85 IT200, then switched to street bikes from College through to present-day.
As someone who was raised on the West coast before hitting the Great Lakes in my adolescence, Michigan winters have always sucked to me, so I got in a habit of buying a basket case every late Summer or early Autumn to rebuild through the "dark days." I'd ride it through the summer and sell it off for the next season's project.
Anyway, I now have two kids who have been hooked on dirt bikes (youngest son got to go to a local MX track for his first spectator-day a month ago). Since he's into it, and since I'm honestly tired of dodging cagers with a cell in one hand and a bagel in the other, I decided to get back to the woods.
I just picked up a '92 KDX250 as a starting point for my return less than 24 hours ago. I'll make sure to put a triage/restoration/upgrade thread together. Looking forward to getting good info, meeting some other woods-guys from this area and doing some virtual bench-racing.
