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Grey Hound
Ola,
So last Thursday I finally got around to picking up a bike out here, I managed to find a very clean 1999 model DT230. A very rare and interesting lil bike, they were only manufactured for a handful of years it seems.
Some highlights: 2 stroke, 40 BHP+-, power valves, traction control (lol wtf I know right?), electric starter, oil injection, nice digital dash with two trip meters (accidentally figured out this weekend you can have the trip meters count up and down)
loads of power for a small bike, was sitting comfy in 6th @ 140km/h :ricky:
Had a great lil shakedown on the beach out where we were staying, with pillion. the bike just glides over loose stuff. The traction control is really hard to notice but seems to work really well.
Will post up a short video clip when I get it off my girlfriends phone.
A few pics of the bike.
edit: ignore the 150R sticker on the tail, bigger bikes in Vietnam get registered as 150cc to get around some lame laws. In reality it translates to the traffic cops (peach fuzz) dont like having smaller bikes than other guys :laughing4:
Ran without issue at all, needs a new chain slider though, right up till about 5km from my apartment when I had an exciting end to this weekends road trip when my bikes CDI melted and had smoke spewing out from under the fuel tank
! At the end of it just a very dramatic electrical fault
So out of order for a lil while while the mechy out here gets it sorted.
My Mate from home who lives here and works with me managed to find a nice, yet older, KDX200 road legal and all :mwink:
So we are planning some proper shakedowns soon enough
So last Thursday I finally got around to picking up a bike out here, I managed to find a very clean 1999 model DT230. A very rare and interesting lil bike, they were only manufactured for a handful of years it seems.
Some highlights: 2 stroke, 40 BHP+-, power valves, traction control (lol wtf I know right?), electric starter, oil injection, nice digital dash with two trip meters (accidentally figured out this weekend you can have the trip meters count up and down)
loads of power for a small bike, was sitting comfy in 6th @ 140km/h :ricky:
Had a great lil shakedown on the beach out where we were staying, with pillion. the bike just glides over loose stuff. The traction control is really hard to notice but seems to work really well.
Will post up a short video clip when I get it off my girlfriends phone.
A few pics of the bike.
edit: ignore the 150R sticker on the tail, bigger bikes in Vietnam get registered as 150cc to get around some lame laws. In reality it translates to the traffic cops (peach fuzz) dont like having smaller bikes than other guys :laughing4:
Ran without issue at all, needs a new chain slider though, right up till about 5km from my apartment when I had an exciting end to this weekends road trip when my bikes CDI melted and had smoke spewing out from under the fuel tank
! At the end of it just a very dramatic electrical fault So out of order for a lil while while the mechy out here gets it sorted.
My Mate from home who lives here and works with me managed to find a nice, yet older, KDX200 road legal and all :mwink:
So we are planning some proper shakedowns soon enough
