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Message: [QUOTE="Clutch, post: 192815, member: 16182"] The KDX 200 is a great bike. One of the greatest of all time. Some people will talk about buying a more modern bike like a KTM 200 or Gas Gas 200 but these are people that can afford it, and are concerned about having the newest and most modern thing to keep up appearances in the dirt bike community. People who just want to have fun and not impress anybody ride KDX's. It will become one of your most prized possesions and your best buddy on the trails. You will like what it does for you, so you will feel guilty when you don't maintain it and will want to take as good care of it as it does to you. I have a 95, and it has been a great first "real" bike for me. I wish I had a new 220 though. The 220 is a better bike. The low-end is great, and the hop-up potential is better. My bike has FMF exhaust and a RAD valve with carbon fiber reeds and a 51-tooth rear sprocket, and I still wish I had that 220 grunt down low. If you are going to race this bike, people will talk about having a 30cc disadvantage because you have to race 250's...big deal, most people can't ride their bike to its fullest potential to begin with. You can certainly beat people on 250's with this bike if you can ride. I have ridden a 97 and 98 220, and liked both of them better than mine. The 97 had an FMF exhaust, and the 98 had an FMF pipe, Boyesen reeds with the stock cage, and was ported. That 98 is the best woods bike I've ridden. It was stronger down low than stock, and the porting made it pull as hard in the mid to top as my 200 does. Get a 220, I think you will stall it less. You can short-shift it and chug along. Anybody who talks bad about the KDX like it is an outdated beginner bike that is just for your wife can go to hell and die. It is very reliable and also a great value; the only bike that would be more reliable would be a XR 50 or XR 250. I have taken it to many a backwoods Georgia trail and don't bring any tools along, and I haven't been stranded yet, except for when I do something dumb like drown it out or get stuck in a rut with really thick mud. Even then, I was still able to get it started. I haven't had any engine failures except the occasional spark plug fouling and a couple of frayed cables, but that is more of a lack of maintenance on my part. (I now own a cable lubing tool.) The KDX is a kind of bike where if you spend a little time the night before your ride doing some maintenance to it, you will know it will do well for you all day the next day without any problems. If you have been researching into KDX's already, then you're probably already sucked in by it's charisma and what everybodty has been writing about it, so you might as well join the club. You won't regret it. [/QUOTE]

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