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Old 07-20-2009, 12:22 AM   #17228
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I have a few friends up north with ktm quads and dbikes, i think their reliablity is horrible. My buddy has replaced everything bushing and tie rod a couple times in the 2 yrs he has had his quad. My zuki probably doesnt have the hrs his has but I havent done any bearing bushings or tie rods on mine and I have seen several track days on mine. My yammy raptor had way more hours than his and I did some bushings.

His quad makes some wicked power tho. Will eat my 450 but he is also a big bore 570 now with a fairly big cam and minor head clean up. Where mine is fairly stock. I use to beat him when he had a hi comp piston and cam but then it blew up and he had to go big bore.

I think ktm bikes are like high maintence women: look good, pricey, require lots of attention, when shit happens it a castatrophe and did I mention expensive.

I rode the zuki for the first time since May 3 on sat, felt good day of but sunday I felt like a bag of smashed assholes. Sore stiff and frickin lazy. The girl needs a real tune, is there a dyno shop in town for bikes? I heard ducati has one but the roller is really narrow, is this true? Ill try and call them later this week. Leaving a few poines on the table with this tune.
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