Dt170 vs ktm exc 125

[Calum]

@ninja Yeah it's a tad unfair. Again, the Aprilia is a production road bike. The EXC is a competition bike.

Although the Aprilia does use the Competition Rotax 122 engine. It is a Go Kart engine. And it is brilliant, just not that brilliant in stock trim. 26 ponies derestricted I believe.

[NINJA]

@calum So your still routing for the EXC as top dog then ???

[Calum]

@ninja There are other factors that determine this for me.

Mint cojdition MX 1800 pounds. Mint condition exc....considerably more.

For the extra dough you could have a much more unique, tractable bike if you went with the Aprilia.

Numbers aren't everything, but if you play top trumps I think the aprilia has more going for tit. Availability of parts, the tuning potential. The room for improvement, the list goes on.

If I wasn't interested in tuning, and had the money, I would get an exc. But I am and I don't so the aprilia gets my vote.

[NINJA]

@calum OK sound reasoning, but forget all that and just imagine a straight drag race over a 1/4 mile. Which bike would take the honours ???

[Calum]

@ninja Surely the Aprilia has better top end. A drag race hardly seems fair.

To be fair, way back when, I was out with my brother.

I was on my DT, my brother was on his RS.

We came across a KTM and he absolutely decimated it. But there's nothing to say that the KTM wasn't about to give up the ghost.

[NINJA]

@calum The 1/4 mile 'Drag race' is just to give it a set start and finish point, aka from one set of lights to another street race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VB1PGy3oLw

[Calum]

@ninja Shit video that. Baron can't ride for shit and just cries the whole time. I did see that a long time ago.

[NINJA]

@calum This one any better ???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFEzDz-7F44

[NINJA]

@calum Or this one;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgSYbAi-TGo

[terry.tz]

@ninja said in Dt170 vs ktm exc 125:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgSYbAi-TGo

this one is a crap comparison the RS with no rave valve feels like it has no balls till its going I like the DT pinned but the RS pinned nooo way its crap

[Calum]

@ninja Oh deary me Ninja. How embarrassing for that KTM Ey?

I was not expecting that.

[Calum]

@terry-tz You can even get Pneumatic valves for those engines.

So it's not electronically controlled. A spring adjusts its opening RPM. And it just pops open lol

[terry.tz]

@calum I would prefer the controller to be honest but I when my blade broke I pinned mine it lasted a few days before I was fed up with it like that and released it closed again I would rather be stuck to 80mph than put up with a gutless bike

[Calum]

@terry-tz Lol. Yeah been there made.

[NINJA]

Well this is an interesting video;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK4LJaUrHxw&t=170

[Irongamer727]

@ninja the question is where the Dt is?

[scrimsmustang]

Husqvarna Husaberg TM 125 they will a piss all over a DTR, The fastest 125 trail bike I have come across by far is the Honda CRM that makes a DTR seem like a 50 lol with or without a 170 kit or a WR200 engine the CRM will piss all over a DTR200 or WR200 once derestricted.

[Calum]

I gotta get myself that Honda lol

[scrimsmustang]

@calum I sold it to a shop in Lancashire called Bikeonic for 2100 fook knows how much they want for it though.

[scrimsmustang]

They bought my TSR aswell, also better than a DTR in my opinion, handle better 10 times better brakes and suspension but cant touch the CRM lol