{"id":839,"date":"2011-05-30T23:06:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T05:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trailmoto.com\/?p=839"},"modified":"2011-05-30T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T05:07:00","slug":"goodbye-yamaha-hello-ktm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trailmoto.com\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Yamaha &#8211; Hello KTM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just gotta dedicate this post to the last couple years of good riding on what I thought was an awesome bike, my 2008 YZ450F.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/trailmoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMG_0978.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 0978\" title=\"IMG_0978.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"535\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Things I loved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Looks: the white, black and red looked really good I thought&#8230; although the 2009 with the black wheels looked even better.\n<li>Factory Connection suspension: before I even rode this bike, I sent the suspension off to Factory Connection and had them re-do the springs\/valving for off-road\/trail riding.  It ended up matching my style of riding perfectly and felt like a cadillac through all the little technical chop.  It was a little soft on the whoops and any type of significant jump, but I don&#8217;t do that very much anyway.\n<li>Coming off my CRF450X, this bike felt a lot smaller and lighter with a lower center of gravity, seemed like it was a lot easier to recover if I lost my balance or got crossed up in ruts and roots.\n<li>Power was plenty for me and easy to manage.\n<li>Reliable, I never had any type of serious problem with this bike, just regular maintenance and TLC.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things I didn&#8217;t like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kicking it, I was spoiled that my first real bike had e-start.  Fortunately, I learned how to hold my mouth just right in about any situation and could usually start it in just a couple of kicks.  Cold= choke, 3 squirts, don&#8217;t touch the throttle, kick. Hot= half squirt, barely pull on hot start, kick. After wreck= hop on right foot while spinning counter-clockwise, hot start full open, kick 4 or 5 times&#8230; etc.\n<li>No kickstand, took me a little while to remember to turn off my gas every time I laid he bike down.  Made it a lot harder to ride with the kids and jump off to help them when they tip it over.\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope the gentleman who bought it off KSL will enjoy it as much as I did!<\/p>\n<p>New (to me) bike: 2009 KTM 450 XCF.  Thanks to my buddy Zac for giving me a deal I couldn&#8217;t pass up.  He took really good care of this bike and it has quite a bit less hours than my Yamaha was getting on it.  So far, I&#8217;ve ridden it in Moab, Cherry Creek, California, and a couple of trails up by Dayton, ID.  I love it!  It&#8217;s already a lot more scratched and probably feels a lot more abused than when Zac had it, but I think this is the start of my favorite bike relationship.  Hopefully, I&#8217;ll be able to stay injury free and find time to get it out regularly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/trailmoto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fb1.png\" alt=\"Fb\" title=\"fb.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just gotta dedicate this post to the last couple years of good riding on what I thought was an awesome bike, my 2008 YZ450F. Things I loved: Looks: the white, black and red looked really good I thought&#8230; although the 2009 with the black wheels looked even better. Factory Connection suspension: before I even rode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailmoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailmoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailmoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailmoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailmoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trailmoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/trailmoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailmoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailmoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailmoto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}