2006 Alu-framed Kawasakis

Turns out that both the 2006 Kawasaki 250F and the 450F will come with aluminium frames

450F:

250F

Found it on some german MX-site: www.realmx.com

Yup seen the pics and they look ok. Haha too bad they aren't coming with the works Showa forks mounted on the front of them.

those frames look VERY similar to honda's

Does anyone know what changes are being made to the 06 Crf250?

No, I doubt anyone will until perhaps June-July, and even then they're just possible changes, it'll be later than June-July till the final list is established.

Hmmm, if that's the 06 then what is this -

This looks more like a production model bike but who knows!?

Are the '06's really coming out w/ aluminum frames? That would be sick

That's the plan.

The pics in Zenith's post are of the first prototypes. The Kawasaki engineers found something that greatly displeased them so they scratched the whole first protoypes and started over again.

Seems like every company is jumping on the aluminum frame bandwagon, eh?

KTMRdr46 wrote:

The pics in Zenith's post are of the first prototypes. The Kawasaki engineers found something that greatly displeased them so they scratched the whole first protoypes and started over again.

Seems like every company is jumping on the aluminum frame bandwagon, eh?

That's the truth. So do you know what greatly displeased the engineers by chance?

I wonder if the 125 and 250 will have the aluminum frames too?

Thats sweet! Thanks for someone posting about the 06'. I know for sure I'm getting the 06' kxf250 but it bothered me that i didn't know anything about it untill now. Thanks a bunch!

TenEighty - I forgot where I read about it. I believe it was a combo of things and the engine being at the top of the list.

looks cool

but i hate those kind of pre pics, what you see there and what you buy are not even close to the same thing

TenEightySalomon wrote:

KTMRdr46 wrote:

The pics in Zenith's post are of the first prototypes. The Kawasaki engineers found something that greatly displeased them so they scratched the whole first protoypes and started over again.

Seems like every company is jumping on the aluminum frame bandwagon, eh?

That's the truth. So do you know what greatly displeased the engineers by chance?

Well i know that the motors were junk, so they had to re-design them from scratch. That frame looked unstable. Its was like a twinspar but with the other type of sytle. Yamaha made theres with indentions for strength, the first kawasaki frame looks like they would flex alot. So maybe they did change it to a twinspar design.