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Offline dave916

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kx500 v cr500 v YZ495 v ktm500 test (1990) link
« on: January 21, 2010, 04:43:46 AM »
http://cr500riders.com/cgi/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1263938606
from cr riders not mine ,interesting read
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Re: kx500 v cr500 v YZ495 v ktm500 test (1990) link
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2010, 04:47:42 AM »
Your link seems to be broke give us a little info about it ;-)
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Re: kx500 v cr500 v YZ495 v ktm500 test (1990) link
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2010, 07:58:42 AM »
the link ok,
 think u need to register with cr500rider to view site now
 an old 90s mag shootout between the above bikes ,about 3 pages long
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Re: kx500 v cr500 v YZ495 v ktm500 test (1990) link
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2010, 02:25:57 PM »
I still have this magazine in a trunk!!!  I have almost every DIRTRIDER, DIRTBIKE, and MOTOCROSS ACTION magazine since about 1986!!!  God I'm pathetic. :lol: 
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Offline blaisintreez

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Re: kx500 v cr500 v YZ495 v ktm500 test (1990) link
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2010, 08:36:15 AM »
i know a guy that sold all his old mags to a mxer that wanted to catch up on the past 10 years, anyways he got $100 for them anyways
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Offline kwakman

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Re: kx500 v cr500 v YZ495 v ktm500 test (1990) link
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2010, 02:38:09 AM »
USMC, i'll happily buy everything youve got with the 86 kx500 in if you dont need those issues anymore, gizza pm if your up for it, cant find em anywhere.
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And lo, I did loft the front wheel and carried it forth to the unbelievers, and cast it down before them and said unto them ''look now upon the might of my throttle control ye pitiful cretinous ones''
And the unbelievers did quake in their boots....

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Re: kx500 v cr500 v YZ495 v ktm500 test (1990) link
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2010, 03:30:04 AM »
Quote from: dave916 on January 21, 2010, 07:58:42 AM
the link ok,
 think u need to register with cr500rider to view site now
 an old 90s mag shootout between the above bikes ,about 3 pages long

You have to own a CR500R/AF to join CR500Riders.
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Re: kx500 v cr500 v YZ495 v ktm500 test (1990) link
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2010, 04:00:34 PM »
Quote from: kwakman on February 11, 2010, 02:38:09 AM
USMC, i'll happily buy everything youve got with the 86 kx500 in if you dont need those issues anymore, gizza pm if your up for it, cant find em anywhere.

I live in the past and I am too attached to my babies.....however I will do this for ya......I am almost done with my k5 restoration......I will leave you my mags in my will just in case my 5 hunnie rockets me head first into the canyon wall like the wiley coyote chasin the roadrunner...... :-D
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I once heard my buddy Bill ask Danny Hamel after a race....
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Re: kx500 v cr500 v YZ495 v ktm500 test (1990) link
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2010, 08:39:10 PM »
is it wrong to hope someone crashes and burns? :evil: :-D
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And lo, I did loft the front wheel and carried it forth to the unbelievers, and cast it down before them and said unto them ''look now upon the might of my throttle control ye pitiful cretinous ones''
And the unbelievers did quake in their boots....

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Re: kx500 v cr500 v YZ495 v ktm500 test (1990) link
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2010, 01:05:27 AM »
Here's the article.  Double click the picture for full size.
« Last Edit: February 12, 2010, 01:08:07 AM by Danger4u2 »
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Re: kx500 v cr500 v YZ495 v ktm500 test (1990) link
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2010, 02:09:29 AM »
Quote from: kwakman on February 11, 2010, 08:39:10 PM
is it wrong to hope someone crashes and burns? :evil: :-D

I am holding a copy of the September 1986 issue of dirt bike and it has the "6 meanest 500's" shootout in it.....I'll try to scan the article and post it up...
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I once heard my buddy Bill ask Danny Hamel after a race....
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Re: kx500 v cr500 v YZ495 v ktm500 test (1990) link
« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2010, 05:57:01 AM »
Thanks for posting up that article, fun read, makes me want to go out and ride. I miss $4000 brand new big bore bikes, what a new 450 cost, 9-10 grand?
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Re: kx500 v cr500 v YZ495 v ktm500 test (1990) link
« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2010, 08:34:35 PM »
http://www.mxworksbike.com/1989%20RC500.htm  i like this article about eric geboers factory cr500  :-P i just finich rebuilding my cr500 engine (pics) my comparing kx500 vs cr500 : the powerband of a kx is better then the cr (standard) but i ame more the honda fan becouse the mecanic for the gearing and other things are better + i find the looks of a cr is more my thing
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