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Hi Everyone,

New to the forum, I recently purchased a pretty rough 88 KDX 200. I owned a C series in my early 20's and liked it so much I had to have another. Hope to learn a lot here.

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Welcome to kdxrider.net. Congratulations on the 1988! Awesome user name!
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Thanks, I tried uploading pics but they are too large.
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Welcome. You can try cropping your photos to make them fit, that’s what I do. Congrats on the 88, the most desirable of the air cooled bikes. The first year with the Keihin.
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Welcome to the forums and good luck on the new bike!
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HECK YEAH! That looks good. I like the Oakley Factory Pilot sticker.

You might want to shorten the fuel tank vent hose and tuck it into the hollow steering stem.
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Ah yes, it came with a pretty cool looking 100% sticker on the fork under the headlight plastic too. The plan was to run it through the steering stem, but I got an awesome deal on this blue silicon tubing and the OD is just a frog hair too big to fit through.
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Nice, a rare white air cooled KDX...one of the unicorns of the KDX line.
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Welcome, white looks great
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Those plastics are awesome (and probably very valuable)
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Thanks guys, I thought the white was rather eye-catching myself. I knew they were uncommon, and a new plastic search has yielded nothing. I thought about emailing DC plastics and asking if they would do a run of white for me. I've been talking with a guy who owns a local custom decal shop, thinking about having some blue side panel decals made to match. Do you guys know if my air-cooled brothers have white decals available for their green plastics? If not, I may have a source for them before too long here.
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Thank you for participating on kdxrider.net. :bravo:
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Cool, thank you. I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to trim to fit. If the price is reasonable after he does mine it may be nice to have pre-cut and trimmed decals though. I believe he laser cuts his. He does a lot of vintage snowmobile decals for restoration.
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That sounds nice.
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See the plastic rub block for the brake line on the swing arm? Was that new in 88? I always wondered why they’d just let the brake line grind away on the swing arm like that. The 87 didn’t have it in the magazines I’m pretty sure
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It is homemade.

It DOES rub a dent in it over time.
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One of the previous owners installed that. I looked at the diagrams on kawasakipartshouse because I hadn't seen one before either, definitely an afterthought.
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Though I have not done it myself, I once thought a VERY thick, tough piece of tape might work, then replace it often.
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I had a piece of fuel line tie wired to the cable on my 87, that worked very well and never needed replacement.
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