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Marketplace => eBay Finds => Topic started by: paul on July 18, 2012, 03:46:01 pm

Title: good price kx 500
Post by: paul on July 18, 2012, 03:46:01 pm

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/KX500-1986-/200794472758?pt=AU_Motorcycles&hash=item2ec0488136

Title: Re: good price kx 500
Post by: Stevo17 on July 19, 2012, 09:20:46 am

WTF is going on with the rear brake arm?  The 86 doesn't have one as the caliper mounts into a gusset inside the swing-arm

Title: Re: good price kx 500
Post by: Nathan S on July 19, 2012, 11:52:39 am

Is it an '85 with a rear disc conversion?!
That sort of full-floating disc conversion was relatively common on road-race and dirt track type events - maybe some history there?

WTF are those shrouds?

Title: Re: good price kx 500
Post by: GMC on July 19, 2012, 12:53:55 pm

I thought 87 was the first of the rear disc?
Yes probably set up as a floating disc, I tried the same thing in 87 but it didn't acheive what I was hoping for. ( a non chattering brake)

Title: Re: good price kx 500
Post by: Nathan S on July 19, 2012, 03:48:33 pm

86 was the first with the rear disc.
87 was the first 500 (and 250) with the conventional (non-strut-and-rocker) suspension linkage.

Too much chattering hey Geoff? Sure the problem was with the brakes? :D

Title: Re: good price kx 500
Post by: Simo63 on July 19, 2012, 05:44:11 pm

Goneski .. anyone here?  Looked like a decent mount for the $$