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Offline WRXBRUMBY

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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2008, 02:54:22 AM »
you mean the service honda has based it on the kx450f? and in doing so the klx450 will be doable?
2008 FE650 (KX500 but with manners and E-Start)
2003 KX500 Scares me! (Reminded me I couldn’t ride well)
1997 TE610 Arm chair! (Made me think I could ride)
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Offline Charlie500

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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2008, 12:28:06 PM »
My 1990 will be sweet when it's done but man these af bikes look wicked!
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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2008, 03:51:37 PM »
Hi all..
nice thread. .:)
quite a few of the bikes photo'ed in this thread are mine (or i built them)

Uncle albert, nice bike ;)
hope you enjoy riding it as much as i enjoyed building it  :)
by the way your silencer is an FMF  Q (a bit longer and quiter than the standard silencer)
made specifically for the Service powersports /Service Kawasaki ..  KX500AF
(it wont fit the CR500AF's i make)

 The black bling frame KX500AF -
 with the KLX450 headlight tailight in the first post is indeed made on the KLX450 chassis.
So just like we offer a CR500AF (mx oriented) , and CR500AFX,, (off road with lights)
We will be offering the lighted off road version of the KX500AF soon!!
 (KX500AFX)

a closer look at the frame coating.. on that bike-(now in england)


and some random glamis shots of the 07 KX500AF..
(that in the first post you see that bike a bit  fuzzy in "bike pics"
sitting near my bench and garage/shop door)





 

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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #18 on: August 22, 2008, 04:08:01 PM »
Danger-
nice talking with you yesterday!

nice site!
 and I'd like to apologize to those members who PMed me ( a few have) that i missed the PMs long ago... :(

there are just so many sites out on the web now,,
 many with good info..its hard to keep up..
if you do have a question for me. .. my email is always the best way:
ajwaggoner@servicehonda.com


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Offline WRXBRUMBY

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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #19 on: August 24, 2008, 05:08:19 PM »
That?s awesome to hear about the klx450 frame. I have a feeling the Klx?s wont hold their value too well stacked up against the rest of the 450s. Here?s  hoping that there will be a cheap rolling chassis coming up on the market. Then I will be able to give those CR500E (road registered CR500 in Aus) a bit of what for. Hehehe imagine the KX500 beast in traffic at the lights, oh I can see it all now.

please excuse me while I fantasize  :lol: :lol:
2008 FE650 (KX500 but with manners and E-Start)
2003 KX500 Scares me! (Reminded me I couldn’t ride well)
1997 TE610 Arm chair! (Made me think I could ride)
2000 CT110 Fun!
1986 KDX200 SOLD! (But looking for another)
1970 AG100 Still makes me 😀

Offline holeshot buddy

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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #20 on: August 27, 2008, 11:08:36 PM »
hi heres a piccy of my kx450/500AF 8-)
i think its the only one in australia
it was built by a friend of mine :-D
unreal job goes as good as it looks
will post better pictures later
oh the other 500 in pic is mine too its a 1983 8-)
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Offline mysnykkx500

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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #21 on: September 09, 2008, 10:58:15 AM »
How much weight do you save doing the af conversion ?? Is  Weight the purpose for the conversion??
Tim

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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #22 on: September 09, 2008, 02:05:54 PM »
Its mostly done to get a great 500 2 stroke engine,
 into a current chassis and suspension.


The weight saving are not that much.

but the bike feels 10 or 20 pounds lighter ,
as the newer chassis are designed to carry the weight much much lower.

The current crop of bikes ,
are almost 15 or 20 years of chassis development ahead of the original 500's.

and if you lower a bikes CG even an inch,.,its a huge handling and overall *feel* improvement.
and thats the real benefit of the 500AFs

AJ Waggoner
Service Kawasaki (Honda/Yamaha/Suzuki)
www.servicehonda.com


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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #23 on: September 09, 2008, 02:08:12 PM »
nice bike

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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #24 on: September 21, 2008, 04:42:58 AM »
 :cry:  Those are some beautiful bikes.  I would love to have one.  Hopefully they will be available when I can finally afford 1.
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Offline Neilios

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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #25 on: September 23, 2008, 11:01:22 PM »
It's nice to see the old next to the new.

I am doing a similar think with the CR500 and CRF, a they are move plentiful at the moment.

I will probably do a KLX next to go with my 1991 KX500.

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Offline Mick

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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #26 on: October 06, 2008, 08:28:06 AM »
...Is  Weight the purpose for the conversion??

The handling advantages are so great with a modern chassis it easily trumps any and all motor work.  Little a matter of opinion as much as tested and trued fact by AF rides every weekend.  Unless drag racing is the argument, a well balanced nimble chassis is going to leave a 70hp motor well behind in it's dust.  I'm the owner of a KX500 and CR500AF and I'll say my worked over KX has got a faster motor but the CR is a much faster bike.
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Offline Neilios

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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #27 on: October 09, 2008, 12:39:28 AM »
I have a 1995 CR500 which is currently transforming into an Af using a 2004 CRF rolling frame but the KX500 pitcured above is more powerful and with modern suspension and ohlins it handles and stops well. I like the 2 stokes more than my 450's!!!!

Offline cr37

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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #28 on: October 13, 2008, 03:46:42 PM »
I got my KXF450 roller to build my KX500AF! :-D

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Re: 500AF Pics
« Reply #29 on: November 16, 2008, 06:18:41 AM »
I'm a better fabricator than a Web master!!!! Now that I have figured out how to share some pic....I will. Please excuse all typos and spelling errors now and in the future. I slept that day in school.
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