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Anyone on a 2007 450EXC?
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ApatheticEnd
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My 05 will loft the front with no pull on the bars in 3rd, sitting on the tank, and I'm 190lbs! Move back and give a good tug on the bars to bring it up in 4th. Beyond that gets a bit scary (4th topped is over 100km/h) so I've never tried it but I'msure you could do a 5th gear stand up. Not that anybody around here would perform such hooiganism.
From what I understand all that DOT emissions SMOG crap comes off in minutes and will restore it to it's roost throwing glory. Check out thumpertalk or KTMtalk.
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My 05 will loft the front with no pull on the bars in 3rd, sitting on the tank, and I'm 190lbs! Move back and give a good tug on the bars to bring it up in 4th. Beyond that gets a bit scary (4th topped is over 100km/h) so I've never tried it but I'msure you could do a 5th gear stand up. Not that anybody around here would perform such hooiganism.
From what I understand all that DOT emissions SMOG crap comes off in minutes and will restore it to it's roost throwing glory. Check out thumpertalk or KTMtalk.
Floored
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I'm familiar with the pre 2007 performance, but I'm trying to find out about now in it's "Quiet" mode.
With Parking and Gas pricing in town here (today's gas was $1.259/L), I'm thinking of using a bike during work. But Customers as a rule don't "Love" motorcycles, especially loud ones.
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I'm familiar with the pre 2007 performance, but I'm trying to find out about now in it's "Quiet" mode.
With Parking and Gas pricing in town here (today's gas was $1.259/L), I'm thinking of using a bike during work. But Customers as a rule don't "Love" motorcycles, especially loud ones.
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From DIRTBIKE magazine, Mar 2007.
"It comes geared 15/45, which would be good for about a buck twenty if it had the motor to pull it. I swapped to a 14 counter and a 50-tooth rear sprocket. This made for just under a 90 MPH top end with a good spread through the trail gears. The 450 EXC uses a key; turn it on, choke it, stab the e-button and listen to -- the softest music ever to grace a dirt bike. This sucker is big-time quiet and a run through the gears shows that you'll realize much more chain racket than actual exhaust belching. Another very noticeable trait is the smooth power; it's smooth down low, smooth through the middle and a little soft on top. Compared to and XCW it feels like a 300 and at first I really missed the bottom and mid muscle that I was accustomed to. During the first 80 miles of trail i never suffered from stallouts or inadvertent flamers, but did lug it many times two gears taller than I should have been in. Increadibly, the more time I got on the machine the better it started to run. It's quite possible that I adjusted my style to fit the powerband, which in all honesty is quite chewable. Once I accepted what was, I rode it accordingly. I still wanted more, but only in the really deep tight trails stuff did I really snivel. Get on hard pack roads and faster trails and this street legal machine performed just like an enduro scoot. The closure to this story is quite succinct. I need one of these - BAD."
Hope that helps...
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From DIRTBIKE magazine, Mar 2007.
"It comes geared 15/45, which would be good for about a buck twenty if it had the motor to pull it. I swapped to a 14 counter and a 50-tooth rear sprocket. This made for just under a 90 MPH top end with a good spread through the trail gears. The 450 EXC uses a key; turn it on, choke it, stab the e-button and listen to -- the softest music ever to grace a dirt bike. This sucker is big-time quiet and a run through the gears shows that you'll realize much more chain racket than actual exhaust belching. Another very noticeable trait is the smooth power; it's smooth down low, smooth through the middle and a little soft on top. Compared to and XCW it feels like a 300 and at first I really missed the bottom and mid muscle that I was accustomed to. During the first 80 miles of trail i never suffered from stallouts or inadvertent flamers, but did lug it many times two gears taller than I should have been in. Increadibly, the more time I got on the machine the better it started to run. It's quite possible that I adjusted my style to fit the powerband, which in all honesty is quite chewable. Once I accepted what was, I rode it accordingly. I still wanted more, but only in the really deep tight trails stuff did I really snivel. Get on hard pack roads and faster trails and this street legal machine performed just like an enduro scoot. The closure to this story is quite succinct. I need one of these - BAD."
Hope that helps...
Floored
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Thanks Bayner, but I already read the report, and I found it kind of odd. They loved the bike..........but they had to change their riding style.........and they wanted more power..........and they need one of these bad.........but they'll wait for a 525?????!!!!!!!!!
In the end I got the sense that officially they had to like the bike, but didn't reeeeeally. I bet that if they were to get one, they'd change the pipe to get the power back.
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Thanks Bayner, but I already read the report, and I found it kind of odd. They loved the bike..........but they had to change their riding style.........and they wanted more power..........and they need one of these bad.........but they'll wait for a 525?????!!!!!!!!!
In the end I got the sense that officially they had to like the bike, but didn't reeeeeally. I bet that if they were to get one, they'd change the pipe to get the power back.
tonybalony
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i don't think their tight trails are our tight trails.
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i don't think their tight trails are our tight trails.
tonybalony
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i'd like to come over and find out.i'm from port alberni,but find few good singletrack when i go there.
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i'd like to come over and find out.i'm from port alberni,but find few good singletrack when i go there.
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gordbull
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Floored wrote:
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Floored wrote:
My handle bars don't fit in my tight trails!
canuck0199
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HI Floored,
All these street legal dirt bikes have to meet emissions and niose regs so they come LEAN and OVER piped.
My 640 Adv came from the dealer with about half the power it should have.
I almost drove it straight back to the dealer to demand my 10 grand back!
A little jetting and pipe-work will turn it into the machine it is supposed to be. You wont be disappionted!
Canuck!!
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HI Floored,
All these street legal dirt bikes have to meet emissions and niose regs so they come LEAN and OVER piped.
My 640 Adv came from the dealer with about half the power it should have.
I almost drove it straight back to the dealer to demand my 10 grand back!
A little jetting and pipe-work will turn it into the machine it is supposed to be. You wont be disappionted!
Canuck!!
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Sully
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I just sold my 07' EXC450 and got a new XC-F 450 and 990 Adventure. But here is whatI did to my EXC450 and it worked awesome.
JD Jetting jet kit and removed all the emission junk. Including the air pump and charcoal canister.
Modified the muffler end cap for more flow by cutting slits in the internal endpipe. It was still very quiet after doing this but increased flow by 30-40%.
Changed the gearing to 14/50 which was a good comprimise for the street asI would normally run 14/52 for the woods.
I have had 4-5 EXC450's now and this one was one of the strongest running I've ever owned...mostly due to the jet kit.
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I just sold my 07' EXC450 and got a new XC-F 450 and 990 Adventure. But here is whatI did to my EXC450 and it worked awesome.
JD Jetting jet kit and removed all the emission junk. Including the air pump and charcoal canister.
Modified the muffler end cap for more flow by cutting slits in the internal endpipe. It was still very quiet after doing this but increased flow by 30-40%.
Changed the gearing to 14/50 which was a good comprimise for the street asI would normally run 14/52 for the woods.
I have had 4-5 EXC450's now and this one was one of the strongest running I've ever owned...mostly due to the jet kit.