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.
Greetings from Mid-Michigan with a '92 KDX250
- dingerjunkie
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Greetings from Mid-Michigan with a '92 KDX250
Theory and Practice are ALWAYS identical...theoretically...
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Re: Greetings from Mid-Michigan with a '92 KDX250
Hello, and welcome to kdxrider.net. Congratulations on your KDX250 purchase.
Typically, there are no cars in the woods to dodge, just trees.
Typically, there are no cars in the woods to dodge, just trees.
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Re: Greetings from Mid-Michigan with a '92 KDX250
welcome aboard
let me know if you ever plan on riding cedar creek area, that's the closest one to me![Very Happy :grin:](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
let me know if you ever plan on riding cedar creek area, that's the closest one to me
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newbbewb wrote:DIYmirage has it right.
-1996 KDX 200 woods weapon (converted to 99 green body)
-1996 KDX 200 plated street toy (barney edition)
-2003 Yamaha TTR125-L (wifeys bike)
-1997 KDX 220 project bike
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Re: Greetings from Mid-Michigan with a '92 KDX250
Will do, though it will be in the spring. I'm going to take my time and really do this bike right...not to mention getting myself in shape. Cedar creek sounds like a plan...looking forward to the "social side" of the community and introducing my son to that aspect of riding.
Theory and Practice are ALWAYS identical...theoretically...
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...your theater is on...
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...your theater is on...
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Re: Greetings from Mid-Michigan with a '92 KDX250
the social side is pretty solid
I don't think think I have ever ridden anywhere without running into other KDXers
I don't think think I have ever ridden anywhere without running into other KDXers
newbbewb wrote:DIYmirage has it right.
-1996 KDX 200 woods weapon (converted to 99 green body)
-1996 KDX 200 plated street toy (barney edition)
-2003 Yamaha TTR125-L (wifeys bike)
-1997 KDX 220 project bike
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Re: Greetings from Mid-Michigan with a '92 KDX250
Welcome to the board! Lots of great info here and all the advice you could want.
Sthutch
1st Bike: '72 Arctic Cat Whisker (rode it to the wheels fell off)
2nd Bike: '76 KT250 Trials (gone, but not forgotten)
3rd Bike: '01 KDX200
4th Bike: '96 DS80 (okay, my 9yr old's and it's gone)
5th Bike: '04 RM65 (okay, he's now 10 and it's gone)
6th Bike: '08 KTM 105xc (okay, he's now 13)
7th Bike: '06 KTM 200xc-w (okay, he's now 16)
1st Bike: '72 Arctic Cat Whisker (rode it to the wheels fell off)
2nd Bike: '76 KT250 Trials (gone, but not forgotten)
3rd Bike: '01 KDX200
4th Bike: '96 DS80 (okay, my 9yr old's and it's gone)
5th Bike: '04 RM65 (okay, he's now 10 and it's gone)
6th Bike: '08 KTM 105xc (okay, he's now 13)
7th Bike: '06 KTM 200xc-w (okay, he's now 16)