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Offline steve234

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Not vintage but!
« on: April 17, 2010, 05:48:30 am »
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Offline Nathan S

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Re: Not vintage but!
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2010, 07:59:11 am »
Isn't the price supposed to be one of the reasons why you'd buy a 2-stroke?

I recall seeing a new Service Honda CR500 advertised by a dealer in Australia for about the price of a new 4-stroke - can't see how they're justifying another ~$4000 for the Kawi.
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Re: Not vintage but!
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2010, 11:39:14 am »
There in lies the problem with building one of those, you have to buy & kill a kxf to create something much better. I think you'd be in a much more exclusive club if you owned the kawasaki though

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Re: Not vintage but!
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2010, 11:44:11 am »
Arent kawasaki suppling them with the parts minus the KXF engine though ???
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Re: Not vintage but!
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2010, 11:52:08 am »
Good point, wouldn't have expected the version to have been any cheaper. Only thing I could think of is freight has gone up?

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Re: Not vintage but!
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2010, 12:13:43 pm »
Wow :o. Whats the mark up on those - at the factory, at the distributors and the dealers.