Dano104
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- Sep 17, 2005
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Hello, I have a couple questions for you all. I'll start off with some descriptions about me. I'm 28 I stand about 5'7" :) on a good day :) I weigh in the neighborhood of 165lbs. Like the title says I have very little... to no experience on dirt bikes. The closest I have ever owned was a old TW200 (don't laugh), very far from an mx'er. I just finished a 7 year tour in the Army as a helicopter crewchief, I'm going to school full time ( gi bill ) and working full time; needless to say my wallet is a little on the light side.
My question is ..... which mx'er or trail bike would be cheap to fix up, or rebuild for lack of better words. okay okay, i'll cut to the chase, I can only afford about 1200-1500 dollars. So any bike that I'll hopefully be able to aford will be a fix-er-upper. I was looking into the 90-98 yz's kx's & rm's both 125's and 250's. I also thought pretty heavily on the kdx's, klx300's, and ktm 200's.
Am I wasting my time? Is it expensive to rebuild a bike?
I was a helicopter crewchief for 7 years, so I like to think my mechanical skills should be decent.
My second biggest fear or apprehension is my shortness! I would appreciate any opinions at all on this.
Daniel
My question is ..... which mx'er or trail bike would be cheap to fix up, or rebuild for lack of better words. okay okay, i'll cut to the chase, I can only afford about 1200-1500 dollars. So any bike that I'll hopefully be able to aford will be a fix-er-upper. I was looking into the 90-98 yz's kx's & rm's both 125's and 250's. I also thought pretty heavily on the kdx's, klx300's, and ktm 200's.
Am I wasting my time? Is it expensive to rebuild a bike?
I was a helicopter crewchief for 7 years, so I like to think my mechanical skills should be decent.
My second biggest fear or apprehension is my shortness! I would appreciate any opinions at all on this.
Daniel
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