New guy here and new owner in western NC
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New guy here and new owner in western NC
What's going on everyone? My name is Jared.... I live here in the beautiful mountains of western NC towards Asheville, and today just purchased my first dirt bike, a 2000 KDX 200. I've ridden before but always rode my friends extra KTM 200 EXC that he never rode anymore. He's been working a lot lately though and I wanted to get something of my own anyways. I only do woods riding, and in my digging around it seemed everything pointed to the KDX as being an awesome reliable woods bike, so that's what i found. Drove up to Collinsville, VA today and picked this bad boy up that I had found on craigslist. Pretty clean bike.... I don't think I got too bad of a deal on it, especially this time of year
Pics kinda suck as it was getting dark and the weather was pretty crappy..... rain all day, turned sleet, turned snow....yuck!
Anyways I'll get some better pics tomorrow once I get it off the trailer. If anybody is around the WNC area let me know
This is my first dirt bike and first 2 stroke, so I've definitely got lots of learning to do. Gonna have to pick up a service manual and get to reading. And get reading around here too..... I'm sure there's some oil threads around here somewhere, lol
This is my other ride too..... 2004 CBR 600 F4i. I bought it new back in Oct 2004..... it's currently a little over 291,000 miles and running strong. Did I mention I LOVE to ride?
Love me some trackdays too
Pics kinda suck as it was getting dark and the weather was pretty crappy..... rain all day, turned sleet, turned snow....yuck!
Anyways I'll get some better pics tomorrow once I get it off the trailer. If anybody is around the WNC area let me know
This is my first dirt bike and first 2 stroke, so I've definitely got lots of learning to do. Gonna have to pick up a service manual and get to reading. And get reading around here too..... I'm sure there's some oil threads around here somewhere, lol
This is my other ride too..... 2004 CBR 600 F4i. I bought it new back in Oct 2004..... it's currently a little over 291,000 miles and running strong. Did I mention I LOVE to ride?
Love me some trackdays too
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Welcome to the forums!
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Welcome, and congrats on your new wheels! I'm also in WNC, just outside of Boone.
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Great KDX and congrats. Did you say 291,000 miles on your CBR?! Awesome and well done keeping up with the maintenance.
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Sullyfam wrote:Great KDX and congrats. Did you say 291,000 miles on your CBR?! Awesome and well done keeping up with the maintenance.
No kidding! That's impressive.
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New guy here and new owner in western NC
Thanks guys! And yea that is indeed correct, lol..... it's definitely been one hell of a great bike. Never once let me down or left me stranded. Still on the original clutch too
Kinda cheesy but this is a little video I made a couple years ago when it turned 200k.... it's only a 5 digit odo so it resets back to 00000 every time. Video quality kinda sucks (upload fail...ugh) but you get the idea. Don't mind the banjo music, lol
https://vimeo.com/34062690
Got a little better pic of the KDX too after I got her off the trailer..... here at work with me today
Kinda cheesy but this is a little video I made a couple years ago when it turned 200k.... it's only a 5 digit odo so it resets back to 00000 every time. Video quality kinda sucks (upload fail...ugh) but you get the idea. Don't mind the banjo music, lol
https://vimeo.com/34062690
Got a little better pic of the KDX too after I got her off the trailer..... here at work with me today
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New guy here and new owner in western NC
Pretty...makes me want a "little brother" to my 250.
Theory and Practice are ALWAYS identical...theoretically...
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Just my opinion, but I would attach the front ratchet straps to the bars and not the "bark busters." I would hate for one of the "bark busters" to work loose going down the highway.
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'17 Yam YZ85 (soon to be FOR SALE)
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Ahhhh good point..... they did feel good and solid but I suppose anything can happen. Noted for next timeG22inSC wrote:Just my opinion, but I would attach the front ratchet straps to the bars and not the "bark busters." I would hate for one of the "bark busters" to work loose going down the highway.
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Awesome.... I'm not too far away. I work in Morganton.... about 25 miles west of Hickory. We'll have to try and get together sometimeJulien D wrote:Welcome, and congrats on your new wheels! I'm also in WNC, just outside of Boone.
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I was actually born in Morganton! Didn't live there very long, though. We usually hit Brown Mountain OHV which is not far from there. There's also Brushy Mtn, which is probably my favorite. It's in taylorsville, sort of halfway between hickory and north wilkesboro.
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Oh yea?? Well dang... small world indeed! haha. Brown Mtn is where my buddy Scott and I usually always rode at.... we just got the season pass. I like Brown Mtn quite a bit, though there's still some stuff there that's still a little ahead of my skill level, lol. Been to Brushy once too (actually only my second time out when we went there, and it started poouurring rain. I crashed sooooo many times). Definitely will be going back at some point though. If you can let me know when you guys plan on heading out to either, I may tag along if I canJulien D wrote:I was actually born in Morganton! Didn't live there very long, though. We usually hit Brown Mountain OHV which is not far from there. There's also Brushy Mtn, which is probably my favorite. It's in taylorsville, sort of halfway between hickory and north wilkesboro.