[Mick DMember]

Thanks for the update Eagle. I have always liked the look of the Kato ever since Sutto rode that one on the Sofala ride a few years back. A few bad reports re: the subframe have been floating about and that tends to taint your thoughts a bit. Good to hear that you have had a great run with your bike. You always tend to listen to the bad stuff about a bike and absorb that info, it is always good to hear the up side of owning a particular model.

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The SX and the Pro Senior are the one and same. After 09 they started calling them Mini SX (I think)

I think they make a Pro Junior as well, Both are water cooled screamers. :pinch:

The Adventure series comes in both Senior and junior versions. The Junior being shorter in seat height.
The Adventure series are more user friendly, being air cooled and a whole heap quieter!

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I went through the whole 50cc scenario with my daughter.

We started her on a PW50 then we got a KTM mini adventure, then she progressed to the KTM pro senior of which we had two. She raced all four bikes and she was fastest on the mini adventure I think. Being air cooled and not so highly strung it was easier for her to manage. And it just kept going and going with minimal problems. The Pro senior however, was a totally different kettle of fish, it was loud and obnoxious and toey as a tom cat. If you let her ride it for to long on a grass track the things would get hot and burn the stator out and it would run like a hairy goat until you forked out the $160 for a new stator.

Once she started to get to tall for the pro senior and it was time to learn how to change gears we got her a PW80, once she got the hang of that and it was time to learn the clutch, she spent some time on a DS80 (JR80). once the clutch and gears were mastered we put her on a KX65 and she never looked back, the KX’s are great little bikes, we have had 4 over the years with out an issue of any sort and now she has a KX100 that goes like a scalded cat.

If your young bloke is small in stature at the moment, I would seriously look at a KTM mini or senior Adventure.

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Great report, I am glad we don’t have to deal with emus here on the coast!! Wallabies are stupid but emus take stupid to a whole new level!

Thanks for sharing your story!

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Great read Protty, we didn’t go anywhere I wouldn’t take the NX, although it was a lot easier on the XR. :laugh:

I know what XR’s are like when it comes to throwing rocks. I have had TB blow the lens out of my goggles one day. That hurt like a bitch! :pinch: You just gotta stay out of the kill zone!

I only got two pics from the ride.

At the Conglomerates in Lorne State Forest

And over looking The Hastings Valley from the Comboyne Plateau,the two peaks are Comboyne Rock and Bago in the distance

Thanks for coming, may the DR see you discovering more new horizons in the near future!

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Ooopps, I couldn’t work it out what video went where. All those pine trees look the same to me. :blush:

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Hey Galey, I dunno what went wrong with your original post but it wont let me, fix the video links so here are some I found on your channel, sounds like Bob commentating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIyGwoFsjAg&feature=plcp

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KING BOLLOCKS wrote:

and u would look good in flares snowy

Hahaha I think Bollocks just smoked you a beauty there Snowy!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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Gday Dirthopper, thanks for the intro and welcome to OBT, Tenere? You’ll fit right in here, especially seeing that you are at Newy. PTW is your local Tenere tragic, no doubt you will get to meet him soon.

Cheers
Mick

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As it had no brakes Kram gave me a few front brake calipers to try, along with a few assorted master cylinders. All were in a fairly poor state, so I picked the best of them and cleaned them up and bolted them on. At first they wouldn’t bleed and after a while, investigations found a blocked bleed screw to be the culprit. Fixed that and they bled up straight away and I had brakes!

Once I had them working I couldn’t help myself, I had to drag it out of the shed for a short test ride around my yard!

It runs well and changes gears smoothly, so I am pretty happy with the project so far, considering what a junk heap it was when it arrived here. I actually originally bought it for spare parts for my other NX and it wasn’t until recently that I decided that it was a contender for the Scrapheap adventure ride.

I am still toying with the idea of riding it without any fairings . So after my test ride yesterday, I put it back on the stand and started mucking around with some fairings that I have kicking around.

I am warming to the idea of putting the fairings on it, although most of the mounting hardware is missing.

I think it does look a lot better.

On a side note, after breaking my tail light on my XR650 with a wayward bolt the other night, I ordered a new one from our local Honda dealer. Well I was ratting around looking through the box full of NX plastics and actually found 2 XR650 taillight lenses, one brand new one still in the packaging! I had no idea that I had them or where the came from!

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boulder wrote:

600 for all three mate!!

Got a vision for the Scrapheap Adv ride Boulder? :laugh:

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Thanks Kram, just got onto Joe’s MC at Canberra and scored a seat for $50 and a chain guide for $20. :woohoo:

Note; you gotta ring them, they don’t respond to email enquiries.

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goldfish wrote:

That bolt on Chain guard is on the mighty Quinn. What do expect for 2 hungy

Try Joes Motorcycles in Canberra for any spares you need Mick

I best go see John and tell him he has my Chain guide then. :silly:

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Update

It is always a great moment when you have been working on an old bike and you finally press the starter button and it fires and runs sweetly! Not even a hint of smoke from the exhaust or the slightest rattle from the engine!

Thanks to a new float needle, that I had to give our Honda dealer my first born in exchange for, I have stemmed the flow of fuel from the overflow. A special mention goes to Horri a freind from New Zealand for his tip on using a strand of wire off a wire brush to clean the small hole in the pilot jet. I had searched my shed high and low looking for something to clean it with and completely overlooked the humble wire brush!

I still haven’t used Brianhare’s CDI repair technique yet, it is on the to do list. It is still getting spark after I bashed the CDI with a screwdriver (another of Brian’s suggestions).

I got the rear shock cleaned up and back in after greasing the linkage bearings and borrowed the seat off my other NX just to get an idea how she is going to look.

I had a spare XR600 front guard kicking around, so I though I might go for the high guard look on this beast and do away with the fairing for that naked look.

One of the exhaust cans has several rust holes in it, making it all but unrepairable, I couldn’t believe my luck yesterday when I logged onto ebay and there was a set for sale in Sydney for $55.00! I grabbed those quick smart! Thanks to TB for offering to pick them up for me.

I am still missing a few parts and am having a bit of trouble finding them 2nd hand.

I am needing a bottom chain guide, a chain guard, a rear brake fluid reservoir and most of all, a seat! So if anyone knows were to start looking please say so, there are very few (read none) NX650’s at the wreckers I have contacted so far.

She is not far off her first test ride, should be fun I think, once I fit a decent set of tyres.

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