Hello everyone. This is my first KX500 but not my first big bike. I've been riding and racing since I was 11 but have given up the actual racing about 15 years ago. Now its just fun times on the track - okay so thee is still a bunch of friendly competition and fender banging
- and a bit of trail riding at the local OHV parks every now and then. My current stable is a Honda XR100, a Yamaha YZ85, a Yamaha YZ250 and the newest addition - a 1992 KX500. She is very clean but in need of some TLC. She hasn't been ridden in a few years, let alone started. So far I have replaced the oil, the gas, cleaned out the carb and cleaned the lpug. She fires up on the second or third kick and sounds sweet. However she just doesn't have that 'Push your eyeballs back' power that I remember my '86 YZ490 and a friends '89 KX500 having when I last was doing some serious track work back in the early 90's. So I will be digging through all of the info I can find here. My next plans are to install a new plug and inspection of the reeds and then probably pull the head and the exhaust pipe so I can look in the cylinder to see if anything looks obviously bad. Compression appears to be good, but I will give that a through testing just to be sure.
Sorry for the long windedness here so I will stop for now.
Again thanks for this great forum with all of its members and information.
Oh, I'll get a few pictures up here in the next couple of days or so.
