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Message: [QUOTE="TexKDX, post: 209566, member: 16276"] Hey Benj, Setup on the 300 (and many bikes for that matter) is everything. I am lucky enough to have both a '99 300E and a '99 XR250 (now 280). I too believe the Honda makes me a better rider, teaching me how to keep my speed up entering corners and using the natural berms to maintain momentum thru the corners. The 300 can be ridden the same way, however braking becomes more important because you can gather speed so much faster between turns. The Honda also teaches you how steady throttle can help your riding in the whoops. Because the Honda doesn't accelerate abruptly, I find that getting my timing down on the whoops is much easier on it. It also showed me that the rear shock on the 300 had too much preload which causes the front end to look for the bottom of the whoops rather than letting you skim across the tops. If times got tight and I had to get down to one dirtbike, I'd have to say the XR would win out. It is so versatile, durable, and fun to ride. No, not the big balls thrust and whoop blasting of the KTM, but overall a great machine. Lastly, the comment earlier about the little XR's fork flex being gone does not track with my experience. Those 40mm forks respond well to the Summers brace. xrsforever's bike has one and it is loads more stable in the front than mine without; I just don't want to give up the fork boots!! [/QUOTE]