Kawasaki KFX450 Spy Photos

What you all seen there is the new Kawadale.....aluminum frame

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Originally posted by mrbluehair
A couple of other things to point out are the fact that, the little branch in the foreground is a nice touch, you never see a clear shot of the front, perhaps some unresolved ideas, but somthing is always blocking it (There's that darn tree again)

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I noticed that too.

If they arent careful people are gonna start nicknaming it "The Wilson"

We've seen his eyes, and body.. but never the "face" ;)

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Originally posted by sdxp787
What you all seen there is the new Kawadale.....aluminum frame

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Please...:rolleyes:

Very interesting fender design .... looks like it's ready to be marketed for both woods and MX . If the final production does in fact have the removable fenders , all the MX guys will have to do is unbolt and ride .

Nice location for the coolant bottle .

Huge exhaust !!!!!

Renthals .... nice touch.


I wonder what that warning sticker says ???

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Originally posted by mrbluehair


Edit....look close, does anyone else see that the gas can looks to be empty??

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Yup ... doesn't look like there's a drop of fuel in that can . LOL

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Originally posted by mrbluehair
I immediately thought it was staged....if you ever see spy photo's of cars, they are usually less than clear, and these people get paid to do that.
A couple of other things to point out are the fact that, the little branch in the foreground is a nice touch, you never see a clear shot of the front, perhaps some unresolved ideas, but somthing is always blocking it (There's that darn tree again) No photos of it being ridden or anyone in riding gear, and the location looks like an industrial park near their Orange County Ca headquarters...who tests a new, semi secret quad in that public of an area.

It is a fun bit of promotion though.

Edit....look close, does anyone else see that the gas can looks to be empty??

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here is ur clear shot of the front.

The "Wilson" LMAO, that is a good one:D

Actually a Kawadale is not that far off. I would venture to guess that Kawi had a C-Dale for testing purposes to find out where the frame failures would occur so they could eliminate that on their model.

C-Dale was a sales failure, but they were the catalyst to what we are starting to see in the 450 class. EFI....Cannondale was the first, Alloy chassis, Cannondale was first, not the big companies, but a bicycle company.

I have ridden the ATK 450 updated C-Dale, that is a great machine, ahead of it's time.

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Originally posted by mrbluehair
The "Wilson" LMAO, that is a good one:D

Actually a Kawadale is not that far off. I would venture to guess that Kawi had a C-Dale for testing purposes to find out where the frame failures would occur so they could eliminate that on their model.

C-Dale was a sales failure, but they were the catalyst to what we are starting to see in the 450 class. EFI....Cannondale was the first, Alloy chassis, Cannondale was first, not the big companies, but a bicycle company.

I have ridden the ATK 450 updated C-Dale, that is a great machine, ahead of it's time.

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I agree, but I wouldn't go dig up a Cannondale motorcycle and ask James Stewart to run supercross with it.

The powertrain in this machine hails right from the KX450F motorcycle, which has done extremely well this year. Kawasaki has played the same endgame with the KXF 450 ATV as they did with the KX450F motorcycle-they waited, saw all and will provide a superior product.

Kawasaki roadbikes have been using EFI for years, and should be close to perfection on this ATV.

Cannondale ran a wager that the consumer would be willing to pay more for this "technology" and lost. Reliability issues and a product that cost them more to make than they could sell it for were the first of many nails in their coffin. They basically threw the bicycle fortune away on the off-road market.




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The only thing I don't like about this bike is the removable fenders. They look like a tree limb would just rip them off in the woods.:ermm:

I'm about to throw a kx450f engine in a kfx 400 than wait till the winter series is over!:mad: