• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

AJP RP5 250 enduro bike for $4700 new.

Zomby woof said:
Interesting. Kind of like a modern day XR200.

I can't touch the ground on my WR. It seems too long in the tight stuff, and has way more power than I'll ever use in the woods. I bet I would be faster on a smaller, slower bike like the PR4 or PR5
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Just common sense really ... These bike companies here (chinese brands) are trying to produce what you are describing ...Not sure if they actually have a business model and are targeting specific people, but many businesses do such a thing.

You want the easy way to reduce the distance between the ground and your feet? Use smaller diameter rims! Along that common-sense line, most of us do not need 10, 11, or 12 inches of suspension travel. All that excessive suspension travel is detrimental and serves no real purpose to many of us.
 
I think these bikes are cool as hell. I'd like to have one myself if my XR250 ever died. Basically the same bike it sounds like. I love riding that bike on gnarly trails and steep hill climbs. It's easier to ride than my Beta a lot of the time for that kind of stuff.
 
Jhunter said:
Low seat height is perfect for the Ladies and Teens who want to trail ride and have no dreams of being the next Supercross Star.
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Yep, many just wanna ride a motorcycle. Its fun riding a bike and its provides freedom at a low cost :)

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I think I wrote this out here before, but I can remember times before the 3-wheeler invasion ... Many, many people who were afraid to ride a motorcycle, all got a 3 wheeler when they arrived because it was so much easier to ride than a bike. (A 3-wheeler is really a tricycle with an engine :) )
 
I'm still not sure how I survived my childhood because of a Big Red 3-wheeler. I swear that thing was out to get me most of the time. My daredevil tendencies didn't help though.
 
T.Read said:
I'm still not sure how I survived my childhood because of a Big Red 3-wheeler. I swear that thing was out to get me most of the time. My daredevil tendencies didn't help though.
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That balloon-tire suspension had not been perfected yet on the early models :)
 
So, what about the view of air resource boards? For instance, would they qualify for green sticker status here in Komifornia?
 
I don't see a CA dealer or any signals or specs regarding a "dual sport" street legal, emissions certified, etc... yet.
 
Motosportz said:
Interesting. $4700 new entry level EFI enduro bike. 2-3 inches shorter than most bikes.

Edit - opps site says $5500 but read in a mag $4700.

http://motoajp.com/ajp-enduros/pr5-enduro/

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I like that swing arm. You could stuff a tool roll in there.
 
Would be nice to add another 250DS to the offerings here. It's clearly got a license plate mount, key ignition, and probably wires for signals. With EFI, it's easy to make a legal map and small Catylytic Converter that could make it squeek and pass the Communist Air Retard Boneheads AKA CARB standard here, which means it's good to go anywhere.
 
They are not certified street legal, but they have all the equipment. I think they are legal in other parts of the world, but I think it takes a lot of money or rigamarole to get them to pass here.
Importer says they can be plated depending on your luck.
 
27 Horsepower. 249 pounds. Delphi fuel injection system. Hmmm... Shave off a minimum of 15 pounds and a minimum of $1000 and you'd grab my attention.
 
Wr250r has same power but weighs about 50 pounds more. It also costs quite a bit more (it is already street legal though). This would be an awesome bike to have it it proves to be reliable.
 
LandofMotards said:
Wr250r has same power but weighs about 50 pounds more. It also costs quite a bit more (it is already street legal though). This would be an awesome bike to have it it proves to be reliable.
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YZ250F 40 horses, 231 lbs. -- wet weight. I think the sticker on the YZ is a little high at $7950. But it'd be hard to choose the AJP over something like the YZ. Maybe if I knew I could tune the Fuel Injection and ECU. Maybe get a good aftermarket exhaust. There isn't much info out there on these.
 
Yeah you could compare it to something like that but you wouldn't just be enjoying riding, there's a ton of maintenance involved. This, if it's anything like the wr250r has oil change intervals like a car and wild valve check schedule. My wr250x had 24,000 mile valve checks. Yes, the amount of zeros is correct :). Not to mention regular consumables like tires should last longer. I don't even look at these bikes as a great beginner bike. It'd make a great additional bike to save my TE hrs for races while I beat this thing in every trail I can find in CO. My only complaint about my wr250x was weight. Couldn't understand why a beginner 250cc bike would be 300 pounds. The power was never even a concern.

As far as getting performance parts for it, I'm sure they exist somewhere but then you're kind of defeating the purpose of this bike lol.
 
That's exactly how I see it too....race bike (YZ) with all the good and bad that comes with them vs the AJP fun care free (hopefully) fun play bike that you can ride and enjoy without all the tedious and required maintenance of the pure breed race bikes. Oh, the AJP's are also 2-3K cheaper, have a 2 year parts warranty, and a big deal to lots of trail riders ...a lower seat height :D. IMHO it's hard to make either bike act like the other and I don't think it would be worth it in the end anyway. I like it that we have different tools for different jobs.
 
Good question Cosmokenny. I want to test ride the P4 and P5. I 'd like to see if the even simpler air cooled P4 would make me smile. I have a feeling using it as intended it would.
 
I wish I could have a test ride on one of those bikes just for the fun of it. A simple play bike that is fun to toss around would be kewl... That little CRF 230 I had was fun and I'm sure this AJP would be just as fun.
 
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