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[QUOTE="bulldog71169, post: 249779, member: 22770"]
Thanx for the advice Gary... maintenance is a must in this house... even his XR was gone over after almost every ride.  The deal was for my son to ride he had to learn how to work on it.  So he does the filter after every 1-2 rides and oil changes every 15 hours or so.

I know my questions have been vague but I'm not sure what I'm getting into with 2-strokes, other than limited seat time here in CA soon.

the 90% rider and 10% bike thing... I agree with and he has learned that, since on a tighter track with little or no straights he is very competative, but cant handle the big tracks we've recently ridden with huge straightaways.

Sounds like most of the big 4 are evenly matched... he rides his XR wide open most of the time but thats because of the lack of power.  He is going to want to be able to trail ride and do some singletrack again.

Are the RM and KX lacking power or speed on the top end?  I would imagine if they are strong low and mid then he can always grab another gear.
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