BRIAN DEEGAN S NEW 2021 KTM 450SX FACTORY EDITION

We're gonna go break it in. Been riding the 125 and I actually was having fun doing that so now we're gonna go break in the new 450. So I'm gonna get it muddy and sucked. I unload everything. I work on my bike and I ride the bike. And I packed this gear bag. Hey I left my boots though so we gotta go grab those. I'll go all the way. All new gear. Hopefully no one roosts me and gets me all dirty. So broke her in. Muddy. Went right through the mud. I was like oh this got roosted so bad. The bike actually handles okay but I got some work to do. The bars are way too far forward. Front's soft. Rear kicks a little bit. So we gotta do a little tune adjustments on it and see if we can get it to feel better. But it's so gnarly how fast the 450s are. Like like way too much power. You don't need that much power. It's just like and that's like stock. Crazy man. Like I said I remember in Carmichael race 450s he actually detuned his 450s. The thing is unless you're a pro racer you want the bike easier to ride. You want it fun to ride. You don't want it to explode everywhere. So anyway that's kind of the direction I've gone with it but it's still so much power. But anyway we're gonna go adjust the bars get it to fit a little better and we'll go back out again. Handlebars I like them so they're rolled back a little. When they're too far forward you want all this to be a straight angle. When you're riding you want to be straight down. You don't want to be riding over the front of the forks. You want to be kind of behind the forks. The body and all the arms. And when you tighten this I always do the front bolts down. I do the front bolts first and then I do the rear bolts. So you don't want to tighten the front bolts. I snug them down because you want a little gap in between the front and the rear and the clamp. You don't want to snug the front just in the back because it's hard on those brackets. You kind of want to match it up but the front should be a little tighter than the rear. So I rolled my bars back and then I'm going to take my levers and I'm going to put them forward just a hair. Right about there. You can always make sure you have a little play in your throttle. I have a little play in mine. 450's so fast you don't want it touchy touchy. I always like a little play in it. When you plan or you're going through a corner it's not when you start getting tired actually I feel like it helps a little bit not get whiskey throttles. With the KTM Air Fork stock suspension. Stock suspension is really good on KTM. You don't have to go waste a bunch of money going get your suspension done right off the bat unless you're a pro rider. Everything else if you're just a rider rides for fun, races, the vet class, try stock suspension. These guys put a lot of time and testing into getting this stuff right and the settings within the owner's manual are always pretty close. I'm right at the point where I might need a softer rear shock spring. Shock springs make a huge difference. If you can't get the rear to set, you can't get it to track, it always feels too high. I just went out on this bike and right now we're set at 9.5 bar. I'm going to bump it up. I'm going to go to, because the front felt low for me, I'm going to bump it up to 10 bar. I'm going to go to 10. Half a bar is a big difference and let's see if it makes a difference because I need to raise the front. What I think I need to do is I need to get the sag set. I'm going to try this first see if this helps and then I'm going to come back in and bug the WP guy Craig and see if he can set my sag for me. We're done today with breaking in the brand new 450. It was fun but coming from the 125 to this big difference, it's a ton of power. I still need to tune in the suspension on this thing but overall we got to break it in and have some fun on it. Next up I think we got to go try this thing out at the sand dunes. I think that's what the 450 is made for is for sand dunes so let's go do that but hey it's all good we broke her in