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Husky...would you buy a new one?
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[QUOTE="motometal, post: 1220343, member: 24727"] The cush drive issue is a tough one. I think the main thing that is tough on them is lots of pavement and hard accelleration, like the kart track would probably be tough on it, at least eventually. For me the bike will spend at least 50% of it's time on some type of back road (dirt/gravel), but some highway and blacktop. Taking off from my house, it's gonna be around 4-5 miles before I get off the pavement. It's one of those things that probably won't be a problem but if it is, it's a big one. If a cush drive is required, looks like $700-1000 but this may come down as the demand increases. Swade, when you say most of your riding is in the dirt, do you mean technical/woods or is quite a bit of it open trails/fire roads? Picking a good DS bike is always a challenge, since it is always a compromise...just a matter of priorities. For extended sessions of serious, technical riding I just get out my CR250. That being said, I still need to be able to cross a stream, duck under a branch, navigate rocks etc on my DS, and for that reason, I think with the 510 by the time I geared it to handle the road, 1st gear would be way high. The 610 has a wide ratio trans, and the 525 is somewhere in between the two. 525 vs 530 If I get a KTM it will probably be a 525 if I can find one, due to price. This is pushing the limit of what I want to spend anyway, and the '08s are that much more expensive. Never thought I'd be actully looking at a $8000+ dirt bike, at least not yet. I found limited info on the 530 but what I did find gave me the impression that the design changes were not necesarilly for a significant increase in power...but I could be wrong, let us know how yours runs when you get it. [/QUOTE]
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