PRISTINE 2000 KAWASAKI KX500
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It's funny that Ken Sr. is more of a CR500 guy because when he rides a KX500 it really suits him; that bike looks like it was made for you man. What a glorious machine! God Bless Kaplan America!!!
The mic toss is one of my favorite parts of this channel
Mic toss and then...sending it! Wow! Bike is sic!
CR 500
Ken, I love ALL 2-stroke MXers, but the big bore 2-stroke MXers are like the male lions of the MX kingdom -- they roar and are the kings of the MX jungle.
Kx 500 moto beast ..baja king ..the blue and black give it a awsome updated look...definite 10 out of 10.🤤..Jeff Ward.. Rippa🇺🇸
wheelies at 300 rpm
WOW!
as usual, AWESOME content dear Mr. Kaplan
Cheers from Italy!
“Everywhere you look on this bike you see $100 dollar bills 💵 “
I know that feeling 🤣
Best demonstration of the correct starting technique ever !! Beautiful bike ,love that shade of green!!
Somewhere there's a motorcycle collecter tearing his hair out screaming " STOP RIDING IT " ! Then there's guys like probably you and I who want to slap some numbers on it and go to Ponca City or whatever your favorite track is ! Man I miss that front over and under that goes into wide open left hand berm then a drop down slightly canted jump in front of the scoring tower . WFO or go home on that one ! PK
100% My old man is the one pulling whatever hair he has left, on the other hand I want to drop a gear and disappear.
@@shornandkenny I think he does ride all of them 😂
U have to ride it bro,it's not a museum piece yet?🤨🤔💪👍💪
It’s a resto not a fucken relic. Shut up.
I'm the guy the wrecked it day one doing something dumb trying to show off lol 😆 so let's just keep that beautiful away
When i got my kx500 from you it looked so nice and clean just like this one. Well now i have been having fun with it so. Not so shiny anymore.
You ride it too much dude
@@throttlejockey3366 no such thing
@@throttlejockey3366 no such thing.
That's what it's for my man...we only go this way once👍
I love green. She sounds like a tank during the wheelies. Just low grunt . Bad ass machine. Green means GO
Shes a beauty!! Kawasaki lets the good times roll!!
Now thats a jolly green giant if i ever see one boy would i like to take a ride on that beauty cheers boys!
Man that Blue really Pops!!! Love it ! ESP the number plates on the sides so nice man!!!!
I like all you guys, yall always putting it out there 100% rocking it
Love me some team green!
I'm a CR guy All the way 💯%
But I will always have a spot in my garage for a beautiful clean bike like this KX. Man I would love to have that in my man cave.it's almost to perfect to ride.up and down the driveway on a sunny day that's about as dirty as I would let it get. Beautiful bike thanks for sharing it with us Ken
God bless America 🙏.
William Baker geez I wonder if were relatedv what the same last name.... There's absolutely nothing in the world stopping you from having that bike in that man cave as there's only three moving parts of the engine by it's self and today there is a company that specializes in all the parts necessary to build a complete new engine all internal parts cylinders and heads for 500 I think it's about like 600 bucks making a racing two strokes again very affordable over anything else.. my interest lies towards 125 two-strok I was looking the other day it's like $300 for the works..
. And rear suspension assemblies are not 1,500 anymore more like a couple hundred bucks here a couple hundred bucks there and you're back on the track not to mention if you open up eBay for dirt bikes parts they'll come rolling out at you across your monitor and fall on the floor and break your toe. And staying with the big four in Japan all four brands had exactly the same format with service manuals that has a photograph in black and white for every operation of taking the entire motorcycle part down to the last bolts on the frame and putting it back together with cable routing showing you exactly how to run the cables down the frames and under the tank and everything just like it was for when it came out of the factory I'm talking pictures they're about 2-in square probably bigger than that a lot or some other full page of black and white photographs not drawings not 20 miles of text like I'm doing now trying to explain it to you I don't paint pictures very well with words if you haven't noticed but yeah and you're going to pay some good money you're going to pay over 100 bucks for those manuals for a dirt bike or you can spend 60 bucks for a climbers manual that won't have any pictures other than a couple in there showing you a picture of the motor what it looks like I think we already know what it looks like and it'll have a whole bunch of reading in there that eventually will tell you something you're not supposed to do like the first time I did it thinking I'm going to save some money but climbers manual for my Harley and the first thing I did when it took the cam cover off was twist the bolt off in the cases cuz one of the cam gears either shafts had a left hand thread and they're like 200 bucks to find a used one cuz this was a vintage Harley really I bought a brand new man on the other day for an XR 1200 I've never been into and everybody claims that they're saying is the next sale well the only thing that's the same is the is the letter x everything else is different and there again I spent $175 for that manual and it has both the XL and the XR in it you'll find the same thing with Honda I had manuals for every one of the bikes I'd ever owned and
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And just the information I told you plus TH-cam videos on everything you ever want to do the dirt bike and there's quite a few good ones out there I can't marry the kids name it he spends like three or four shows going through the details of how he claims one up and puts it back together when he push it back together it's anodized as he shows you how to build your own do it yourself anodizing tanks and then he goes into powder coating if you want to do that and it shows you all the abrasies and all the polishing pads and the motors electric motors and stuff and it's all stuff he put together it's cheap but you ain't seen instead of triple clamps on an elephant or instead of black he's got them bronzed metal cast and others he'll do in ceramic coatings I mean it's just no end what she can do to polish one up he's been a whole show polishing up the motor mount bolts that you're not even going to see but it's just knowing that having a bike like that it's a piece of art when you get done more fitting for a man cave than anything else my name gave when you walk in the front door of my house directly in front of the door is it brand new harbor freight motorcycle bench with a hydraulic cylinder that's it raises it up and next to that instead of something like you to see all this China wearing test your drawers and things like that my furniture is brand new roll cabinets the big ones that's your everything girl pass on top the front rims carpeted but where the motorcycle lift is I used three 4/8 sheets of plywood and cover them with black and white squares so my man cave is a MotoGP version of a motorcycle shop ...... I've been here watching Ken evolve her probably 2 years now I see him when he was fighting the roofs on the buildings and it's falling in building for rotten and down that stuff where he's at those buildings they're a museum piece by their self that's where the first lantern factories was that is the first lantern Factory that was automated. If you ever tried to duplicate those Factory buildings today with the lumber that's in them first of all you wouldn't find the number trees don't grow that big anymore they chop them down turn them into stick houses way before they get big enough to make that place you'd have more money in one of those buildings then to build the whole goddamn Barber museum cuz it's just steeng mostly glass those Billings makes up that museum is three stories high with beans in about 2 ft and diameter you don't find those anymore at any price they're priceless basically you're not here anybody's got one they're not going to sell it.... He's never taking us for a video of you the PowerHouse I want to know where the steam engine is that could be running I'm making electricity for the whole complex and the town we've got to a college here where I live call St Mary's of the woods and at one time it was totally self-contained did not need any services from the outside world they had their own coal mine to make electricity and the coal mine still there everything is still there but they just kind of turn it into a museum please and turned everything over to public service and the gas company they still run on the coal fired boilers but their gas fired except for one they kept it cold fired and they keep these antique 200 year old steam engines was generators that's a flywheel that steam engine has got the magnets and windings in it it's hooked up to public service I didn't put out the same ac voltage so if they want to fire that up as back up that's what they do and darn it they had two of them there one of them was a backup for the other and they sold the the bigger one to the Smithsonian institution so you'll never see that again I want to get out of here 2 years ago I approximately my phone and I can't hear it amazed me what he was doing then as it was about five or maybe 10 years ago there was a one of the pro racers I can't marry his name and he wrote a Honda and they had a motorcycle shop that was just packed full of totally restored brand new looking everything in dirt bikes and he went out of business for some reason he's not forget now what it was and then here's Ken up here New England only he took it a few dozen steps f more I started out it was just a pickup truck and a toy hauler bring back six or eight or a dozen maybe I don't think it held that many now he's got 18 wheeler doing it and back then it was just testing them off and put them on the floor and then he started his own little monsters that's turned into and taking his dirt bike running looking like brand new and you got an armia mechanics downstairs are there completely disassembling until the last nothing bolt putting them back together to spec like you'd find it bare Jackson auction sale or the millionaire's going there and pay zillions for old cars well that's how he's running those restore jobs on these dirt bikes I've never seen anybody go to this much trouble but God there's long been forgotten that works of art I ain't can there there those Motocross tracks all over the place and he's not the kind of person that will makes everybody knows what he did and now I got this and that and but I'll bet you there's been a lot of n no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no n e w n e w n e w n e w n e w n e wo never before 2 stroke ownerss because Kaplan America and the Kaplan cycles museum0 off the subject of it but have you noticed that when AI takes over your life and all your correspondence it decides that you're not telling the story correctly and gets annoyingly with a habit of changing all your words after you read it I'm surprised you can't even give me any kind of thumbs up some of the stupid s*** that this phone Prince
. I guess I'm wrong I should have said type cuz the process of printing a newspaper it says it's a prince paper I spend an extra hour maybe 2 hours a day correcting artificial intelligence that's still that goes back and correct me after I post so it's hooked up with Google's the same time to do that and now it's got a habit of not printing keywords and letters like AI is missing now from that last sentence you got to see what my buddy's phone did to his text when he was trying to get back with his girlfriend after they just had a big falling out and she ran him off so he's typed this big romantic letter up here and without proofreading it and without proofreading it he hit the send button and what a hi had done to fix his story up better as a I wanted it to read as apparently his girlfriend
Love the KX500! And that one is done up perfectly!
What a beast sounds like 4 stroke at low rpm
Exact same make and model as mine!
That KX 500 looks beautiful enough to be fresh out of the crate.
Love all you guys do!!
Gorgeous big bore! I wouldn’t change anything on this bike…..👍🏻💚🔥🏁
Just change the rider to my self, then I'd be more than happy 😊 😃
@@matthewjdouglas6471 👍🏻😂🏁
@@matthewjdouglas6471 yep 👊🏼
Beautiful piece of art be nice to see what it’s worth in 10 year time
thats in beautiful condition awesome ken but think you should put a stock oem front fender on it
You can still get em through Kawasaki also👍
Oh man, oh man, beautiful with a beautiful throaty sound
Look at the frame rails on that bad boy!!
Lovely looking machine 👌🏻
That bike sounds perfect.
Wow sweet looking graphics and black rims 👍
Hey Ken you ever see or get any Francis Barnet trials bikes in or about ,it was my first bike ,I think mine was a 195 cc not sure .
I live 20 miles from ponca city. I'd love ride the track but my knees blown so I go to kaw and ride trails. Jumps hurt when you get older lol
Perfect starting
Absolutely gorgeous , awesome bike !!
Love the kx 500 dirt bike guy's thanks for sharing videos top man 👍💙🇺🇸
I love the kx500!
I am sold! Would buy it if it is still available!
Will be on auction at www.kaplancycles.com Friday nite
Had a 2000 kx500....great bike.
Big mistake selling it
I liked the Yamaha power value system
Where do these guys find these gems, snr would find moses in a burning bush 👌
Right on!👍
More KX five hundie content!!!
The best desert scoot
I still race mine in the dez
Thanks
They’re scared to show the best 500 ever made. They’re Honda guys
No you don’t
@@Thefailcycle BRRAAAAAPPPP!!!!💚💚
@Quirin M. 300 lol. The Ktm 380 is way better and you can’t count a nonoem cylinder. In that case throw the ohlins yz360 in there. Overall the kx trumps all.
Any chance you'll stick that beautiful beast on the Dyno?
Sweet ride👍🏻
Definitely my next dirt bike
Yes!!! More Kawi's please?! Lol
You make it look easy kap
Good bless America 🇺🇲
#teamkap
You guys get the best of the best come through that shop! I'm always impressed! a fantastic mix of modern and vintage, and everything in between. Just awesome.
The Francis Barnet had a Villiers engine in I think .
I reckon you could give Ken a freight train and he’d still pop a psycho wheelstand on it 🤘
6:40 Where is the front sprocket retainer plate?
My favourite one yet Pure beauty Uk loves a 2 spit
Beautiful bike!
If that was my bike I would get a white/clear desert tank and change out that huge rear muffler with a shorty muffler
Awesome bike. It's a work of art.
You are one lucky man to ride the cr500 and kx500 😉👌
I always wanted to make an Enduro out of one.
Total BEAST of a machine ❤🇬🇧🙏
Nice..you need to go line up with dowdy&Johnson at the wick&rrrrrrrip it!!!!
Beautiful bike love to have it
Team green. Love it.
You must the saying it'll rip your house right of the foundation 🤣🤣🤣🤣
NICE IDLE WHEELIES holy crap
Serious machine ! Salute
this looks so sick
clean, green and mean
I gotta take a road trip to y'all I need quality work on my 500
I have the exact same bike
Nice Kawi dude!
Hey Jr,where IS that 92 you were ripping a couple years ago? Sell it? That's my favorite year/graphics and color scheme👍
Yup sold :-(
Looks 87”? Did I miss the year? I caught the mic toss of course!! 😂 fav part
2000 it says...last of the tube frames i think. Beautiful bike!
Same place seen this crash on the grass something bout Larry
I'm no bike salesman or a car salesman as we all know never buy a bike or a car from a mechanic and there's a good reason for that other than we run until they won't run no more what's the main reason we as a mechanic your boy will probably bad for this when we're selling our own personal vehicles for dirt cheap and they look brand new like it's too good to be true it's true they are very good and the person is trying to buy it is getting a too good of a deal cuz when you take it mechanic selling something that he built it's like taking his dog to the dog pound and partying with it we cry inside so why are we selling something that we would rather not ever part with because mechanics can't handle money we just can't do it we're worse than God,... Example you got a top race bike and it's perfect but you procrastinate on throwing a quart of oil in your car once in awhile and you go to pick up your girlfriend in the engine blows up bikes got to go right then you need a new engine for your car or you're not going to have a girlfriend that's why I've been told car salesman pretend to be dumber than a box of rocks and a lot of them are cuz if you know anything about mechanics and you you say the wrong word and the customer is walking away cuz he already knows more about it than you do and when you missing the key word that's that he's heard before and he didn't say it right he knows you're feeling with something or trying to hide something or trying to sell something under the table which may not be the case at all so trying to come to my point without writing another encyclopedia to stop all these countless hours of two-stroke versus four-stroke and then you got hours and hours of comment boxes of yes it is no it's not yes it is no it's not yes it is no it's not all spelled for nothing that's why I don't even in the magazine test where they can where they can tell you I don't understand why it's never been taught for the last 10 years or more well ever since they banned two strokes the first time has never been toss it two strokes herself supercharging engines it's ridiculous to try to think that you're going to pass a supercharged engine with a naturally aspirated engine of the same size no it's not going to happen I'd be like saying okay I'm going to enter top fuel nitro rails and make more horsepower with my Chevy pickup truck....
And just the other day I'm reading a story about the last 3 years of trouble compounded trying to electronic fuel inject the Husqvarna and the KTM two strokes. I'm here by now everybody's heard the stories of piston seizures . And of course when I was going to Honda R&D with pop Yoshimura it was pretty easy to see why carburetors don't have automatic adjustable main Jets you pick up a jet it's got a number on it you screw it in the carburetor and that's it that's all it will do but when you're dealing with fuel injection it has to constantly compensate for the air density and when the air pressure inside the crankcase is above the air pressure of the atmosphere at sea level which has to be 14.7 lb per square anything above that is supercharged and the reason the only reason why you'll never get an ounce more horsepower out of a four-stroke same size as a two-stroke
And the same time popular was training us at Honda School in Milwaukee in 1975 he was already trying to build a four-stroke MotoGP to beat Kenny Rogers CZ 500 and 750 knowing that would never happen as it did not ever happen that Mr Honda was paying population a million bucks a year to try so hell yeah you give me a million bucks a year and I'll turn the moon into green cheese for you with Swiss cheese holes and 3D Motocross or an under an in and out and up and 👎 and it say they don't tell you that the reason they've been too strong because they couldn't meet the missions burning all that oil like they do
.. problem with all that there are no standards on motorcycles yet as they didn't put out enough to make it measurable and it was Honda of Japan they said look boys we do this and that and this other and we won't have to make two strokes at all and we can double the prices of the four strokes and that's exactly what they did and Mr Honda and the whole family have this mental problem about two strokes the only way I can figure it out cuz if you look back in history they had six cylinder 50cc four strokes cranking over 25,000 RPM to keep up with a 50cc single moped and road racing they still race 2 cycle Vista scooters over 100 mph in Germany Italy and when you hear about the mods and the rockers in England it wasn't only because of the dress different if you wanted to really piss off a rocker you get on your best mosquito dressed like Pee-wee Herman and put it on a 650 Bonneville I'm passed a turn up boys at your own game on their own turf then you got a major riot of people getting murdered in the streets in the 60s what we listen to The Beatles
an absolute dime piece 🤟
Does this KX500 have the rip your house off the foundation torque that it’s cr500 competitor has?
Yes.
I second that...yes
Are these "Old School" bikes you show here for sale??? I've been looking to possibly purchase a big CC'd 2 stroker. 450cc and up.
Yes www.kaplancycles.com
@@KaplanCycles Okay thanks.
I need that bike
I want it 😫
Kawasaki gods in house.
GRATULATION KX500 :-)
Unless you are Jeff Ward and win every moto 🤟the flying freckle brought me a big smile today thanks Ken
if your a Jeff Ward fan check out Robbie Gordons stadium truck race from last years Nashville indycar race I believe Ricky Johnson was in it too a totaly amazing series that is under rated and needs more airtime but you can find many races on youtube
Kawa Powa!
Another Kaplan Beauty !!!!! 😛👍👍👍👍😛👍👍👍
She looks real TRICK 🤠🙏
This bike is dope!!!! How much
😱😱😱 perfect motorcycle
Nice Unicycle...
🇺🇸 I just wanted to say I love you guys it's been a while since I've had time to get on here.. 🇺🇸
ML&R
😍 one day
Nice job
When is this beast available for sale ? I might buy it
Today at www.kaplancycles.com
@@KaplanCycles i was looking for the 2000 model you guys done a video on.
great beginner bike
That's a great comment
Good 500 kx 💚💚💚👍
Wow....nice ride and colors!! Stop showing these or I just keep buying them....
Why do you rip up the ..... 😄 like to see it fly 😐
This dude loves tellin y what’s brand new lol
Jousting sticks, he who knows will understand
that is DEFINITELY a man's bike! 😁
Power band ken 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Haven't seen a Suzuki for a while rm or pe something please
They got a RM370 in this week.
Fukn Lovely! 🤤
Just my opinion CR 500s sound better 💯%
Yup meaner