Kawasaki KX 500 Review

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Kawasaki KX 500
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Guest's Review of Kawasaki KX 500 Offroad Bike

3rd Jan 2008

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    4.5 stars
  • Length of ownership
    9 yrs.
  • Reliability
    4.5 stars
  • Year Manufactured
    '89
  • Build quality
    3.5 stars
Bad Points

I think the motor is the best thing on the bike but the suspension is quite plush also making it a very smooth ride.


General Comments

The ergonomics on my Kawasaki KX 500 could've been better and more like the Honda CR500's. Not much of a motor cross bike but anything else off road it's hard to beat especially wide open ground or on hills where power is needed the most. I hill climb competitively and all the 500's are very powerful but I opt for the mean green machine. My rarely used, mint, and shiny '89 KX has modifications (fatty pipe and silencer, V Force reeds and valves, 44mm electron-megaton flat sided carb, head shaved, cylinder ported, extra wide rear rim, and high gearing) but I just found more ways to get just that little bit more yet, but it'll still go over backwards in 3rd gear with 13 inches extended on the rear end on flat ground. Next I'm getting it bored over to a 565cc and installing a 46 or 48mm electron carb, installing inverted forks and a KX65 gas tank. I've got a friend that took 1st place at a national hill climb aboard a CR500 which was very fast. Couple of years later he purchased a KX500 fully modified and he had said the KX was by far more powerful than the CR. All depending on the individuals day though any bike could win at the climbs KTM, KX, or CR. Just from what's been said to me the KX's motor edges it out for hill climbing.

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