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- First Name
- jason
- Last Name
- bohac
Background:
I've had a bad case of the "orange crush" ever since the dirt bug bit me. Unfortunately my budget did not agree. I ended up buying an older broke down XR400, and bringing it back to life. Rode it and LOVED it, such a great bike. Thought it would be what I needed for riding woods and stuff. After a few trips to SHNF, I started thinking lighter/smaller might be good. That was even further spurred on when i rode with a group of guys, one having a Honda CRF250X, and he was FAST [and bigger than me]. I was definiately thinking 250 range at that point. What finally sealed the deal for me was a trip to a MX park, Southwest MX park in Needville. It was my firt time on an MX track, and I was rock'n the XR like I didn't know any better [got a few funny looks ]. It was then and I found I really like jumping, and the XR didn't like it as much as I did. So the wheels start turning and I'm trying to figure out how to turn my XR into a modern 250.
I came across a comment on TON in a thread of someone else looking for a project bike, of this dude selling the KTM. So I sent him a message asking if he was interested in selling. Long story short, I sold the XR, and took that cash down to Victoria and picked up the KTM. That was over a year ago
A few details about the bike:
I'm the third owner, firt owner had it for about a year, older dude and just trail rode it. The guy I bought it from had just come off a bad crash on a CRF450, and decided something less powerful would be more safe. He bought the KTM from the dude in Lubbock IIRC, and dropped it off in the DFW area at a racing suspension outfit called Donnie Elmer. He spent about $1200 getting it resprung and valved front and rear for a guy is his size. As luck would have it, this guy was my size!
I takes it home, rides it for a while and loves it. As he tells it, he had just come off a jump and was down shifting and the shifter felt like it was sticking so he crammed it down as hard as he could and then just rolled. Pulled it apart and found a broken gear in the transmission. There it say, opened up for over a year, and he lost interest. Said he was going back to racing cars on dirt.
Everything was laid out nice and neat, and grouped together. So when i arrived, we looked evreything over and loaded all the motor parts [completely disassembled] into boxes. Things like the clutch parts were all bagged together in a zip-lock, as well as the cam stuff. All the bolts were in their holes where possible. So I felt pretty good.
Fast forward to now, I've had it just over a year, and finally motivated to get it going. I had a few 4wheeler project I wanted to get done first [Suzuki LTZ400 sport quad, and the beast]. Then it was too hot to spend any amount of time in the garage. So now I'm iching to ride it, and tired of getting made fun of .
Its going together nicely. So far I have the transmission back together [bought a complete one off ebay instead of just replacing the one gear, figured it was easier], shift forks and all that back in, and the cases are back together. A few other items are back in. I had to order a lock washer for the clutch basket nut, so I stopped the other night. I'm going to keep going and put the top end back on this weekend and stuff. My hope it to get to together and running sometime this next week.
Stay tuned......
A few teaser pics.
More pics to come...
sorry for the lame cell phone pics
and yes I am that much of a poser that I put stickers on a bike before it is running
I've had a bad case of the "orange crush" ever since the dirt bug bit me. Unfortunately my budget did not agree. I ended up buying an older broke down XR400, and bringing it back to life. Rode it and LOVED it, such a great bike. Thought it would be what I needed for riding woods and stuff. After a few trips to SHNF, I started thinking lighter/smaller might be good. That was even further spurred on when i rode with a group of guys, one having a Honda CRF250X, and he was FAST [and bigger than me]. I was definiately thinking 250 range at that point. What finally sealed the deal for me was a trip to a MX park, Southwest MX park in Needville. It was my firt time on an MX track, and I was rock'n the XR like I didn't know any better [got a few funny looks ]. It was then and I found I really like jumping, and the XR didn't like it as much as I did. So the wheels start turning and I'm trying to figure out how to turn my XR into a modern 250.
I came across a comment on TON in a thread of someone else looking for a project bike, of this dude selling the KTM. So I sent him a message asking if he was interested in selling. Long story short, I sold the XR, and took that cash down to Victoria and picked up the KTM. That was over a year ago
A few details about the bike:
I'm the third owner, firt owner had it for about a year, older dude and just trail rode it. The guy I bought it from had just come off a bad crash on a CRF450, and decided something less powerful would be more safe. He bought the KTM from the dude in Lubbock IIRC, and dropped it off in the DFW area at a racing suspension outfit called Donnie Elmer. He spent about $1200 getting it resprung and valved front and rear for a guy is his size. As luck would have it, this guy was my size!
I takes it home, rides it for a while and loves it. As he tells it, he had just come off a jump and was down shifting and the shifter felt like it was sticking so he crammed it down as hard as he could and then just rolled. Pulled it apart and found a broken gear in the transmission. There it say, opened up for over a year, and he lost interest. Said he was going back to racing cars on dirt.
Everything was laid out nice and neat, and grouped together. So when i arrived, we looked evreything over and loaded all the motor parts [completely disassembled] into boxes. Things like the clutch parts were all bagged together in a zip-lock, as well as the cam stuff. All the bolts were in their holes where possible. So I felt pretty good.
Fast forward to now, I've had it just over a year, and finally motivated to get it going. I had a few 4wheeler project I wanted to get done first [Suzuki LTZ400 sport quad, and the beast]. Then it was too hot to spend any amount of time in the garage. So now I'm iching to ride it, and tired of getting made fun of .
Its going together nicely. So far I have the transmission back together [bought a complete one off ebay instead of just replacing the one gear, figured it was easier], shift forks and all that back in, and the cases are back together. A few other items are back in. I had to order a lock washer for the clutch basket nut, so I stopped the other night. I'm going to keep going and put the top end back on this weekend and stuff. My hope it to get to together and running sometime this next week.
Stay tuned......
A few teaser pics.
More pics to come...
sorry for the lame cell phone pics
and yes I am that much of a poser that I put stickers on a bike before it is running