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Should I spend the extra $$ for a KTM
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[QUOTE="JMD, post: 195310, member: 24087"] To quote Clark "Sparky" Griswold (from "Vacation"): You guys are all @#$%$# in the head. Yamamoto is right. Those damn KTMs are nothing but trouble. It seems like all I do is work on them. Just a week ago, I had to adjust that damn O-ring chain for the second time in as many months. You'd think you ought to get more than five or six days' trail riding and two or three cross-country races out of a chain adjustment! Not only that, but the air filter keeps getting dirty, and I have to clean it. Man, what's up with that? The brake pads keep wearing out, and after two years on the stock piston and rings, I only have 175 pounds of compression! I'll probably have to replace those rings at the end of this racing season, or the next. Forged Mahle piston my a$$. What good is all that fancy European craftsmanship when crap like this keeps happening? My advice is to buy a one-year-old YZ 125 that some teenaged racer has completely clapped out. Sure, it will have about 30 pounds of compression, but hey! It will kick over easier. And every moving part will be worn out, every tolerance about twice what it was stock, but it's a Yamaha, not one of those orange piles of junk. How much could it cost to maintain? :p [/QUOTE]
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