450X on the Blackstuff

alcanara · Jan 1, 2009

Hi all you 450X owners......From reading your threads it is hard to work out whether you trailer the bikes to the trails or ride the tarmac.

I wanted to know what it was like on the normal roads getting to and from the green stuff..... Is it good.... can it do the occasional commute/trip to the shops??

It would be very interesting to know as it is such a focused bike on paper?

Your Thoughts???

cheers

stuart :rob

ovenpaa · Jan 1, 2009

No problems on tarmac, I would put my road work at 20+ hours and it is fine but does tend to rip up the back tyre somewhat. For long distance stuff I use a Cooper rack that fits to the towbar of the car.

Jay B · Jan 2, 2009

I agree with Ovenpaa - its fine on the road espacially with the 15 tooth drive as it gives the bike more top end speed.The front end will start to bob a bit around the 65mph mark.The downside is how fast it chews through the rear tyre.It is a focused bike but is a great enduro tool that is at home doing the odd road blast to get to the tracks etc
Jay B

ovenpaa · Jan 2, 2009

Top end on 15T is an indicated 155km/hr plus which is over 90mph - fair to say it was getting a bit lively at that speed but I have had the same on forest roads a few times and it seemed stable enough. I commuted to work on mine a few times to get the first few hours on it and I travel up to 50 minutes each way by road sometimes to get to the western sea and it is fine, quite comfortable in fact at 90-100km/hr which is 60mph ish.

Just choose a route that has gas stations and/or strap a couple of MSR fuel tanks to the rear mudguard :thumb2

alcanara · Jan 2, 2009

Thanks guys... your comments are really reassuring.

I did here some funny stuff at launch about warranty being invalidated if you blasted it for too long???

Thanks again

Stuart

Brommer · Jan 3, 2009

thats true warrenty on the engione is gone when you go for a longer periode over 120km/h (15fs). but the warenty is very strange.
it says,

if you go for a longer periode faster then, when te display starts flashing speed then you should slow down, when it stops flashing but is constant speed then a fault error will be stort in the pcu.

but how long a "longer "period is nowone at bmw holland cab tell me....
or how long you must slow down,, noone can tell.
But i thought that possu?? told that is you go 30 seconds over the speed then you should hold loose youre gas for a sec and then you can go on again.. (damn my typing end english is worse today.......)

alcanara · Jan 3, 2009

Cheers Brommer.... I got the gist of your writing... thankyou very much

Stuart

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