A friend of mine has grown up riding quads in the socal deserts. I'm not talking redneck crap but hauling ass in the dunes and cross country in the hard pack. She's currently got a Banshee and a 250R Honda. About a year ago she added a '96 XR250 to her collection of toys. First ride out she started off slow and within an hour was cruising in 5th until she hit a soft sandy set of whoops and the rear end started swapping. Ended up over the bars and tweaked her ankle bad. This has scared her... Since then she's riden it 3 times, had a nervous break down once on it and basically has sucked when she was hauling ass the first time. She swares that she likes the power and that's not the issue. It's that it's a tiny bit to tall on seat height and just flat out too heavy. So I looked into all the TTR bikes and the CRF bikes and they're all just as heavy, only shorter... Then someone over on ThumperTalk (my hangout) mentioned the KDX. I hadn't even thought of one of these as an option. So how do these things compare to a XR250, power, weight, height, reliability... etc... They are 2 strokes right? Are these the auto lube ones or are you mixing gas in the can? I know these have been around for ever, what's the model and year break down? Any to ABSOLUTELY avoid as lemon years? I remember the old KDX200 with the lights and stuff. Now they've got a KDX220? IS that right? Anyone ride one in the SoCal Deserts? Ocotillo Wells? Plaster City? Barstow? Johnson Valley? etc... Anyone have one that we could meet and ride together and let her toss her ass on for 5 minutes to just see if it's something she likes? Info would be great... I'm 100% clueless as to these bikes just seen them around and with the advice of another member on TT I thought, oh DUH, that may very well be what she needs!!!
Khris
Khris