TE/TC 2016 TE 300 gearing

Has anyone went with smaller sproket on rear to make 1&2 gear bigger? I skip 1 alot because its a radical bike. I use 3-4 alot on single, some say change to xcw gears, my bikes brand new though. Any thoughts? Some want slavens head? This bike has plenty power, if anything i would like to tame it. I hear fly weight or thicker head gasket squish better? Any thoughts?

My brother took the 15 off the front and is now running a 16... Hes runnning 16-50 for the same reason your talking about.... But personally I didnt see a problem with using 2 and up....

Your bike has XC-W gears...

Yes it does... the TE is an XCW tranny

The first thing I did on my new TE300 was to replace the 1st and 2nd gear from KTM XC. BTW this is my 6th such conversion and all riders are happy with this mod... None of us is a racer and we all ride off-road,extreme stuff. 14/50 gearing.

13/50 is stock right? My 300 xcw came with 13/50 and 1st seems kinda useless so far. I may try a 14 since I have one already.

14/50 is all we use even with XCW trans... We need just enough torque to go uphill,not lots of torque to go down by digging holes in the trail.

15 stock For 2016 te300?

Ours is a 14

Ours? A 2016 te300?

my 2015 300 xcw came stock with 13/50

My 2016 TE300 stock is 13/50. I hardly use 1st gear, except in extreme terrain. I'm hesitant to change gearing but, I might try a 14 in the front, just to see how it works.

I didnt find the low first as bad as the lack of top speed

my 2016 TE 300 with stock gearing will run about 85 mph and crawl as needed 2 weeks ago did the National Hare and Hound then last weekend changed the tire and finished King of the Moto
What more can you ask from a stock bike with stock gearing from slow to fast it is all in that gear box

My 14 did right at 67 on GPS until geared up

I hit 75 at the Virginia city Grand Prix last year on my 15 300 running 13/48 and I probably wouldn't have pushed it much harder. I'm actually probably going to get a 14 up front as well and see how it does

Go big and use the power that motor has

Im going bigger too, 14 up front

90 + mph with 14/49 gearing