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[QUOTE="woodsy, post: 733868, member: 27856"] In response to your question concerning fuel economy on the big 5. When I bought mine it was a left over 2000 and I was in EXACTLY the situation you are describing except I was also using a few plugs. I ride mostly woods on mine – some pretty tight, nasty, narly stuff (JUST THE WAY I LKE IT!) and two-tracks/roads when I have to. When mine was new, I would have to find an open area to “clean it out” after every 10/15 miles of “trials riding” it. I got VERY tired of this and set out on a mission to create an UNSTOPPABLE, trail rideable BIG BORE 2 stroke and I was successful! Here is what I did: I put the bike together with EVERYTHIING that I would be using throughout the year! I bought some of this stuff on E-Bay CHEAP and met some really cool folks along the way. - Complete plastics kit from a KX125 – a little beat up but VERY functional! - IMS 3.8 gallon (it maybe the 3.7 model but it hold 3.8!) - 14 oz flywheel (more for the “thumper effect” then gas mileage!) - aluminum kickstand - 75 watt light coil - “Elba” front light assembly – bought from Ryan Dean – Part of the our US ISD Team! - Geared DOWN 1 tooth on the front sprocket (went to 13) – put on a new DID O-ring chain. - Bark busters, renthal bars. - Set my suspention up to MY liking! - Uni Dual Filter (air) - bought a PRO-CIRCUIT Spark Arrestor (turbine type!!) that fits the stock pipe perfect!! I have ALWAYS run 32:1 on my bikes (exactly what you are mixing) and have NEVER had problems with this mix – I don’t buy expensive oils – TCW3 has ALWAYS worked for me!! I run exclusively PUMP gas (premium grade)/don’t get into setting my bikes up for race gas – I like to be able to run whatever I can find on the trail!! So, all that being said, I started my “mission” by getting the bike “built”, putting a NEW plug in, filling with fresh fuel, putting on ALL my riding clothes and taking the bike out for a plug chop! Do you know what this is? If not, DON’T BE AFRAID TO SAY SO!! I will explain the process if you need me to!! After the intial main jet chop – it came back dirty, dropped 2 sizes and came back DIRTY. Dropped one more size and came back brown. Noticed that my bike liked to seep fuel out of the overfill on the bowl. Put in a new bowl needle set to factory specs – still seeped occasinlly. Reset my bowl level down 2 mill and BINGO the bike CLEANED UP BIG TIME!!! Redid the chop on the main and went right back to one below STOCK!! Did my mid range chop and ended up dropping my needle one clip – PERFECT!! Pilot is stock!! I now get NO spooge, NEVER FOULED A PLUG ALL SUMMER and I ride everything from very slow stump jumping to an occasional highway fly, and get GREAT mileage (for a big bore 2 stroke!). I weigh 215 dry – probably closer to 240 geared up (I am sure my “unique” custom mustard water bottle adds something :) ) and the bike aint light with all the stuff on it! I have found that “ride technique” REALLY effects fuel consumption too. If I ride my 5 like I use to ride my 250 CR’s/YZ’s it will suck fuel like a kid drinking a malt!! Thing is, I have learned to ride a gear higher and stay off WOT – with this kind of horsepower you dont hafta rev to FLY!! My bike will idle right down to walking speed in 3rd gear and all I have to do is throttle a little to raise the tire to clear a log – IT IS A RIOT! I run behind my riding bud, who is NO slow guy, on his XR200, him pinned FLYING through the woods and me just off idle in 4th gear BLURPING along right on his tail!! This technique REALLY saves fuel BIG TIME and it goes on for hours!! I also ride with A LOT of smaller bikes and never have a problem maintaining this technique thru the woods! Another thing that REALLY helps with the 5 in fuel economy is running a GOOD tire – I REALLY like the Dunlop 752 120x19 for my work – THEY HOOK UP REAL GOOD! I have tried LOTS of tires and the Dunlop seems to wear with the best of them. Spinning may look cool but it is a MAJOR fuel eater - get it not to spin and its like going to HYPER drive anytime you want to - talk about rush! I have never ran in the desert or wide open 5th gear 90 mph + stuff that you are speaking about (well, I cant lie, occasionally I will put my stock gearing back in and ride Silver Lake Sand Dunes at 90 plus and still be on the back wheel just SMOKING those Banshees and 250R quads – getting side tracked Woodsy…) cause we don’t have that type of riding here. If I were going to do what you are referring to I would probably do EXACTLY all I have just explained – maybe minus the flywheel weight and go to a 15 tooth front sprocket (yes – the KX is TOTALLY capable of pulling some REAL tall gearing - use the HORSEPOWER!) – and then pickup one of those Acerbi front mount 1 gallon tanks to compliment my oversize IMS IF/WHENwhen I needed it - RUNNING OUT OF GAS IS NO FUN!! That forward tank is used BEFORE the regular tank and you wont be hauling the extra weight very long at speeds over 80 mph – (less then twenty minutes at that rate and you will be on your regular tank!). All this being said and on another note – there is another site on the internet that I “frequent”. It is Pitbull-racing.com . You might wanna go to that site and ask someof those guys that actually run the desert what they do! Hope this helps! Woodsy Also, sounds like your bike may not be broke in yet - get some time on it and then recheck it! [/QUOTE]
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