TE/TC 2017 TX 300

I am not crazy about the look but that is often the case with a new model change, take a while for the change to sink in. (New Chevy Tahoes are a good example, I like the way they look now but took a while for them to grow on me)

After a while the older ones will look dated and this newer design will be status quo. As I just bought a 2016 I do not think that i will be back in the market for some time. Damn, just realizing if I keep it for 5 years and buy new again I will be looking at a 2021 (That sounds crazy!)

Who knows what we'll be looking at by then.....

my AER thoughts/worries just hit me again.
While reading Dirt Rider's back page of June issue....2016 KXF450 "long Term" test bike so far, 36 hours total time.
Without getting into the quotes, lots of adjustments and air fork pressure settings changes for all 3 chambers...........and now all for nothing---- they stripped them and installed the Race Tech spring kit ........no more air, back to springs. tester is happy

It'll be a TE for me.....

me 3 for TE, can always pop off the lights to get that TX fashion look, just don't think it will a 17...... I think I need to go a little further down the timeline on this 2014 TE300.

For the riding I do and enjoy the TE has a first gear that the TX does not have So for King of the Moto and Last Dog Standing along with the National Hare & Hounds looks like the TE

Personally I like the wide ratio.... The 300 has plenty of torque to pull it.... Heck my brother has 16/48 gearing......

16:48 is he goin for a land speed record racer?!

He just like super long gears and his trail he uses 3rd the whole time

ask Roczen what he thinks about air forks---moto 1 of the glen helen national......

Ive said all along.... Air forks are ok if you within viewing distance of the truck.... but when some freak thing happens (which happens a lot off road) and you are 20 miles from your truck you are screwed.... or blow a seal on some whoops and you go arse over tea kettle.... I'll take the 3 lbs and no that wont be an issue for me...

From what I've heard, it was a piece the team modified that failed, not something factory KYB.

Its was stuff for their personally electronics.... but worst case senerio on springs you lose all your oil and still ride back ok.... I watched a guy on a virtually new (12 hrs on meter) KX450F going down a choppy downhill blow both seals and the bike immediately bottomed out which sent him straight into lawn dart mode and it was 12 ways of ugly.... I'll pass....

I like a light just as much if not more than the next guy but at a certain point whats the point... A lot of the weight of the bike is not actual weight but because of the engine gyro affect....

I blew out the rear Sachs shock (seal) on the first special test of Day 2 of a day 2 qualifier enduro on my 2011 TE310, I finished the event because I rode a pogo stick spring for the rest of the day. If it was air it would have been instant dnf. For now until I see Pros keeping those things together I will stick with springs---they could make Ti fork springs, no? At least lighter springs

there are Ti and plastic shock springs but i'v never seen anything but steel for fork springs

I'd like to see what the actual weight difference is.....

I know that the weight loss for the top pros is needed and wanted but of the general population how many can tell the difference? Look at Aj Cantanzaro he went to the first SX of the year on a BONE STOCK KX450f.... literally bone stock.... He didn't pass the sound test and Mitch gave him a PC exhaust so he could race... and he barely missed the main..... yes that bike has air forks but its still heavier than a Husky or KTM....

Yamaha still has the best stock fork bar none.....

Leave the oddball stuff for the factory teams and let it trickle down to the general public when its proven and/or needed..... 90% of the general public wouldn't know if you put open cartridge forks on a better and IMO they would probably like them better.... I would be just fine with OC or CC forks....

100% agree with racemx904 (Ron)
For me at my speed/skill level and for what terrain I ride and do--- OC (or close to OC...) spring forks are still the best choice for now.

Not trying to be a smart a$$, but..... how is the white TX different (subframe aside) from an orange XC? Is there really meaningful (key word) differences between the white and orange Austrian machines?

Heath