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1/23/2018 5:32pm
1/23/2018 5:32pm
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1/29/2018 9:09pm
Just snagged my first Orange bike today! It is also my first bike with a kick stand and E start.
I am pumped to have a counterbalanced motor, especially after riding this monster yz with a k5 motor for the last 6months.
Some pre ride mods! I spent a few hrs on a 17 already, so I knew I wanted the head and the carb. Any other suggestions while I have it apart tonight?
Hoping to go for a ride tomorrow, then off to Phoenix on Thursday with 25 bros to ride, camp and then catch Supercross!
I am pumped to have a counterbalanced motor, especially after riding this monster yz with a k5 motor for the last 6months.
Some pre ride mods! I spent a few hrs on a 17 already, so I knew I wanted the head and the carb. Any other suggestions while I have it apart tonight?
Hoping to go for a ride tomorrow, then off to Phoenix on Thursday with 25 bros to ride, camp and then catch Supercross!
The Shop
Rk Tek Only - The thing is magic. As long as you were honest with Kelsey (whom I assume answered the phone when you called) about the type of riding you do, the range of elevation you ride, and the fuel you run, then your bike will run tremendously better across the board and will be anything but finicky. The bike sounds and feels crisp whenever you get on the throttle, it pulls every gear way farther, I shift less, and the way that it changes the power delivery to the rear tire seems to encourage you to ride a gear higher most places without experiencing any downsides. Even a gear higher, the throttle just feels so connected to the rear. I would bet that after one ride and you will concur with all of the claims about the head they make on their website and you will find other areas of improvement not mentioned. Also, if you're happy with where the jetting is at now, then leave it alone. After two heads, I haven't found a need to re-jet either bike after install.
Lectron and Rk Tek together - Bike ran more similar to what it did stock, but with a less excitement from what I can remember. While I never did go back to full stock to compare the feeling to be sure, I would say that it felt a lot like riding a EFI 4 stroke with the mapping set to a mild/mellow. I can see this being the ideal situation for some or in certain scenarios, but it's just not something that I've ever found myself looking for. Needless to say, the Lectron came off and I've never looked back.
I guess we will see on the carb. The smart carbs have worked really well on my kx500 and on a screaming little yz250.
Sounds like you are running a similar bike? Any other suggestions? Thanks for the info!
Plus, if I'm reading your original post correctly, you haven't even had a chance to give the bike a fair shake yet since getting it, so see if you find cause to be unhappy with the stock carb. Since you already know how your past bikes have benefitted from the Lectron carbs you've put on, then use that as a baseline from which to gauge whether the Rk Tek head alone leaves you wanting for a solution to a similar/same problem area/issue that led you to put on the Lectron carbs in the past. If the latter happens to be the case, then perhaps the Smart Carb will be the missing piece of the puzzle and will give you the perfect bike. But like I said, my experience is that the Lectron detracted from the gains received with the RK head, yet the RK head mated to the stock carb let the motor shine in a shit-eating grin way. And my experience here is from a 17 250 xc.
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