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Woods Racer - KTM, YZ, RM, or KX ??? Leaving the 4stroke!
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[QUOTE="CR Swade, post: 944144, member: 21423"] the 05 250E and the 98 250E have little in common, excpet for being made by KTM. The forks are drastically better, in fact stock are better than any revalves I have owned. The frame, steering head, rear suspension, engine, literally everything is so much better. Th engine is just about perfect in terms of delivery for woods work, plus the bike is substantially lighter than the older KTM's...nearly 10 lbs in full enduro trim. The handling is about as trail perfect as I have found...so much so that last year at the demo ride at DW I swore off converted MXer's and went back to KTM's. As far as the YZ, yeah its good, but dollar for dollar it won't touch the KTM in really snotty/rough stuff. If you tried to ride a stock YZ at speed in the woods compared to a stock 04/05 EXC it would pretty much be a no-brainer. If you want to spend a bunch of cash on converting a MXer, the RM and YZ do very well, but when it gets nasty they still show their MX breeding. Plain and simple, the 250E and 300E have evolved the engine to give high HP w/ a four stroke style delivery, but light two stroke handling and ultra light bike weight. Plus you don't have to drop another $1500 making it woods ready (tank, suspension, guards, 18" rear wheel, lighting coil/headlight). Lastly, in many states you can tag it, which came in nice this past week in Colorado riding in to little towns to fuel up after running nasty sidehill singletrack @ 13,000 ft...singletrack that requires a smooth bike and linear power w/ wide ratio tranny (low first gear and tall 5th, good for about 83-85mph). [/QUOTE]
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