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Offline serafin

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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #30 on: March 11, 2008, 03:23:46 PM »
I'm 45 been riding since I was 11.  I raced mostly MotoCross all thru the late 70's till 89 then took time off to finish college and get my career going. Recently got back into riding 3 years ago when I bought my 500 been having a blast ever since.

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Offline TheGDog

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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #31 on: March 11, 2008, 06:37:19 PM »
In 6 little days... St. Patrick's Day comes once again... and it will be the last of my 30's (I'll be 39).

KX500... because there's just no other substitute for being "At the top of the Predatory Chain".

The '97 RM250 I'd had was kickass in a major way....

I probably would have been happy with the DualSported '01 KTM450MXC I had, but caution had me sell it to make some funds available last year when my wife was pregnant with my (1st and only) child and her work situation was iffy.

Since I realized I don't get to go riding a lot to warrant the cost of a new bike.. and since daul registration for a converted DualSport make that part of it pricey.  I decided my next dirt ride would be strictly dirt... and I missed the two-stroke power delivery.  I'm sorry... but to me... the 4-strokes just aren't explosive enough.

I first bought this ultra cheap '90 KDX200 with the plans to restore it.  Quickly realized it may be more work than I wanted to bother with so gave that bike to my younger bro when I spotted the '97 KX500 on Craigslist for $1250.00 (and also so I'd have someone to go riding with).

Man... I soooo freaking LOVE the K5.  As a matter of fact... because of buying the K5... the first time I took her for a quick blast down that first whooped-out section of trail near where we parked in Stoddard Wells....  I came back to the truck where the others were suiting up and said "WHOA-HO-HO MAN!!!  I gotta start going back to the GYM!!! HOLY $H!T!!!"

And that's just what I've done. 

The arm pump situation was soo intense that first ride.  As a software engineer I type a lot so my arm pump situation made me actually a lil nervous at times when making the jump to ludicrous-speed.  Plus... my secondary goal is to start now so that when I hit 40 I'm gonna be lookin' like the Shiznittle!!

I love the looks you get with this thing too!!!  Not only when you show up that massive cylinder showing and ginormous gleaming shiny FMF Fatty pipe.... but the way people nearby have to turn around to look because they know somethings different as soon as they hear it fire up!  There's something deeper, meaner.. ballsier about the exhaust note of a big ol' 500cc two-stroke that either most of them have never heard before... or remember watching with awe as a kid.

And OMG!!! this things suspension feels better than the '01 KTM (both bikes re-sprung and re-valved by the same suspension tuner shop) I can bash thru gnarly-a$$ mean desert whoops at crazy speeds!!  The only bike I've ever rode that was more plush in the desert was an  '82 Husky 250XC which came stock with Ohlins forks and shocks 13" out front and 13.5" out back.  But that thing was not for turning sharply.....whereas the K5 does just fine.... almost as good as the '97 RM250 did.  I think it can be made to do it equal with better tire selection.

And man-oh-man once you've tackled a treacherous tight twisting technical uphill with a K5... you're SOOOO glad it was a K5 underneath your a$$ and not something smaller. Soooo stress-relieving to just plain know you're not going to kill the engine, no way no how.

and isn't it beautiful how something that doesn't look like a jump can become a jump when you've got that much STANK to put on it whenever you please?

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The other part of me going back to the Gym is because my vow is that my newborn son will not drive a car until he can blow past me on dirt bikes out in the desert and make me look real bad.  Once he can do that... I'll know there is nothing the streets can throw at him that will phase him.  That is.... except for young lil hotties standing at the street corner waiting for the crosswalk to change.  :-D
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big props to the guy that said he was 72!!  I'm gonna be like that guy.. hell yeah!
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Offline k5abuser

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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #32 on: March 12, 2008, 02:53:43 PM »
feel 71 act 12 ride like im 16 . remember / danger is natures way of selecting the stupid/ . that is way most k5 riders are older .  we started later and were afraid . only at first now the more we ride the power we WANT.i started riding when i was 9 . small town no police . now i am 40 .
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Offline kx666

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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #33 on: March 13, 2008, 02:45:10 AM »
Quote from: ericac on March 10, 2008, 01:43:29 PM
HAH! i win. im only 18. and most kids my age are scared of my bike, which is fine with me cuz im not about to let em' ride it!

d**n, i thought i had a chance to win this one! I bought my 2001 k5 in 2002 at age 16 so that i could be faster than my buddy with the cr 500.

A lot of young guys tell me how much the bike sucks until mine scares the sh*t out of them.  I dont think the big bore 2 will die. AMA will let 250s race with 250Fs next year, this may start a trend for the privateer....
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Offline alan

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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #34 on: March 13, 2008, 03:26:52 AM »
Retired ............62 :x :-( :-( :-(
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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #35 on: March 13, 2008, 03:41:06 AM »
Old enough to know better, but still learning at almost 51.
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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #36 on: March 13, 2008, 04:18:34 AM »
Im 500 in dog years! (37)
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Offline Johnniespeed

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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #37 on: March 13, 2008, 11:04:10 AM »
This post was started in 03, so I guess IT is five years old. I am 52 years old and just learning how to ride, the bike didnt come with instructions. For a year back in the early eighties, I had a Husquavarna wr250. Never really got good at riding it, then about six years ago picked up an old cr250, rode it a lot, rode it until it felt slow, then bought a NEW KX500 in the fall of 04,drove from Michigan to Warren Ohio to pick it up. The 500 never feels slow, but I now am used to it, I love all that power, I love how easy it starts, I love the stories my friends tell about my roost.
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Offline SMPKX500

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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #38 on: March 13, 2008, 01:41:54 PM »
36 years for me. Started out on a kx 80 at 13. Moved to a 125 then a 250 for some time.

 Always wanted a 500 and when I ran across my 04 I had to have it. None of my friends will ride it. They just look at it like d**n.....u crazy!
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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #39 on: March 13, 2008, 04:49:15 PM »
I've been riding since I was about 10 or so years old. I'm 33 years old now and this ain't my first 500cc dirt bike I've ridden. I weigh a whopping 157 lbs and 5'8" tall, so when some punk thinks he can whoop me on a bike I put him in his place usually. The first place I ever tried out a 500cc was at the sand dunes in Utah, I had a Honda CR500 and a KX500 at the time and I only weighed about 125 lbs. I made it to the top of the face without a paddle, gee I wonder why? =)
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Offline KX500freak

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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #40 on: March 14, 2008, 01:03:40 AM »
well i,m 35 now 200lbs  :roll: due to lazy driversyndrom :|

riding dirt since 13 yrs till 18 then from 06 till 07 hopped up again,
now knees are worn and supermoto is better so from 07 till now on sumo
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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #41 on: March 21, 2008, 05:54:18 PM »
18  :mrgreen:
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Offline Arigato

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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #42 on: March 22, 2008, 04:03:21 AM »
I'm 40. I started riding when I was 30.  Mr brother talked me into buying a roached out '86CR500.
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Offline alan

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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #43 on: March 22, 2008, 10:34:09 AM »
d**n, I looked at this old post and and I was 5 years younger and now I am on Social Security.... :-o :-o :-o :-( :-( :x :x :-( :cry: :cry: :cry:
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Offline BDI

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Re: How old are you?
« Reply #44 on: March 22, 2008, 10:50:22 AM »
Old enough too sleep alone but young enough not too want too.
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