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Nice trail bike for all around use, especially if you plan to do pavement and open desert in the mix. Also will handle single track pretty well, but not as easy to finesse the gobs of low end torque in tough slow technical situations as it would be with a smaller machine. Still gets the job done though. Suspension valving pretty good off the showroom floor, but needs a little tuning for the above mentioned technical situations. I don't weigh all that much, so I installed lighter springs (.42 for the forks, 4.2 for the shock). Stock tires are great for the pavement, lousy for the dirt. Trying different tire combos, which is easy to do, since the bike tends to wear tires pretty rapidly compared to my old 450 Stock gearing very high. I went with a 48 on the rear to make tight trails more manageable. Also swapped the stock seat for a Guts Racing standard soft seat. I installed a heat shield on the exhaust header as of late....tired of melting pants in low speed tip overs. Will install wrap around style handguards soon, as they look and protect better than stock ones. Pretty happy with it. It's just too tall for me, but so are all the modern dirt bikes.
