Archive for August, 2010

Honda CRF450X – the bike that everybody likes. We had people call our office and say: “what??, you don’t have any 450X? only XR’s?”. Well not long afterwards we had answered the call of our clients and purchased new Honda CRF 450 X for you. Well done we thought and showed up at long off road rides in Baja Mexico with our brand new bikes. Happy dirtbikers so we thought…

Not for long. On our first trips we had problems starting the new bikes, guys were kicking them like nuts…it looked like you have to charge them up with your leg so you can go a few miles. In our misery we have tried for years now to resolve this problem. At one time we wrote a nice letter to Honda of North America and explained them the situation. It took about a week for Honda powersport to give us a call to explain to me that our fleet of over 10 bikes were not problematic. His words: “These bikes are more sensitive than your Honda XR400 and you have to do a better job cleaning the air-filters” !! – I told the guy that I used to race Pro AMA Supercoss and know how to clean an airfilter and that a SX bike might be sensitive too. continue