I have an unhealthy motorcycle obsession and I can say your channel has evolved into one of my favorite Moto channels on KZread! Very happy your bike is ok!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Yay!!

@robvanduren761

8 ай бұрын

I can relate ive owned more than 40 motorcycles and a shit load of bicycles

If this video doesn’t gain you a bunch of subscribers, nothing will. Love the honesty and the emotion you show in the discovery. Been there myself!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Thanks man

I tend to purchase new bikes and ride them till there flat wore out. My survivors are a 92 XR628R, a 03 XR400R and a 2016 KTM 300 XC-W. I’ve worked on the KTM far more than any bike I’ve ever had. It’s about done (more work than it’s worth) while my remaining XR’s soldier on ...Also have an old Yamaha 92 WR500Z in great condition simply because I haven’t lived in an area to really enjoy it for many years.

I'm happy for you bro, that could have been ugly. I cant imagine how good it feels to battle with your SON!

Amen, i can feel your excitement through my screen, im happy for you and Loretta!!!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

So happy

I absolutely love that feeling you received once you seen the issue! It feels so damn good. 😂

@bikemancody2752

8 ай бұрын

WOOOOO!

I love and follow your 23 300 xc adventurs cause i have the same bike. And i love the sponsore shout outs cause then i know where to get the parts at

This video made my day! Glad it wasn't the dang crank.... Rock & Roll!!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

🤘🏻🤘🏻

Been a yamaha guy for 20 years (and several kdxs', also worked at a mutiline dealer for 20+ years and still do but never touched a ktm.) Just got a 23 300xc with 9 hrs on it. You're freaking me out, breaking all this stuff lol. Got a buddy going to Baja also. Sounds like that's going to be a blast!!! Be safe and bbbrraaaappppppp. Thanks for all the info!!!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

I’m sure it will be fine.

@lonniecushing7949

8 ай бұрын

@highlandcycles put a little more time on it this weekend. Definitely a sweet bike... suspension is nice enough I can actually sit down and go pretty fast but the seat is like a 2x4 lol. Guess I'm going with seat concepts comfort seat.. Have fun in Baja amd be safe. If you run into 787x, he's a good dude.

You called it at the race!!! I guess you know what you’re doing a little bit right. Lol good job man.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Haha. Guess so

That's the reason I do the wet mod on all my bikes. I seal the vent hole with sealant. Let that sealant dry. Lay the bike on it's side and dump about 4 to 5 ounces of shock fluid in. Shock oil foams less. Seal the cover real good with a good sealant. I let the sealant setup real good by leaving the bike laying on it's side overnight. Don't need to vent. I know I have 4 bikes setup this way and never had a problem after I did this and none are vented. I have a total of over 600 hours on the combined bikes. These are 2017 and 2018 Huskys and KTM 300's. The oil keeps everything lubricated including the bushings and the bendix plus the gears. I Don't even have to think about doing the routine maintenance anymore. Love your videos!! Sure appreciate everything you do!!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

I have thought about that. I’ve done a few and I really like the idea.

@bradleymuha4861

6 ай бұрын

@@highlandcyclescould you make this into a video if you ever find yourself doing this?

Your mini-celebration upon finding the issue made me excited haha! Have a Chinese KTM copy engine and find it kinda funny that these China engines literally have bendix issues as well. Love to hear your bendix maintenance since I should probably look at mine since it doesn't engage all the time and know a few that have blown up :). Can only think of cleaning them and re-greasing.

Yeah Buddy!!! Happy for you, happy for the rest of us knowing that’s a lesson we can take away too.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

You got that right!

Good find! This is why your channel is so popular with so many.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Thanks man.

You ought to do a video on maintenance for a bendix and discuss differences between brands

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

That’s coming

Happy for you it was an easy fix. But not very happy on the bendix blowing upi. But still need to bust your balls my Sherco has not given me any problems. haha🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

I guessed wrong but happy with your outcome. Good luck in the Baja!! What a weird year running south to north. A logistic nightmare!! Keep a countershaft seal with you in that race. When I ran my XR650R hard in the dunes I went through a few of them....

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

We aren’t racing the XR. But I do have a spare.

Wow morgan i'm glad things worked out on your bike and it wasn't something too serious.

This is the happiest I’ve ever been to see a KTM NOT in catastrophic failure mode hahaha! Super stoked Loretta is just fine!!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Hehehe. Me too.

Had a very similar issue with my gasgas. Need to install the bronze bushings. Also had a hard time finding a bendix, R.M. Didn't have, had to order from slavens. Also think it messed up my flywheel woodruff key some how flywheel spun and broke key. Good luck as always enjoy your videos

Damn Morgan.. I was jumping around the room with you 🤣🤣

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

😂🤣

You had me worried 😅 I have the same bike. Thanks for all the info. Makes having this 300xc even better.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Glad I could help!

Yep Morgan- welcome to the dead bendix club ! I have a 23 300 XC like yours done about 60 hrs and thats the only thing thats gone wrong for us- the bendix on ours crapped out and started shreiking and chattering/slipping-we were just lucky it didnt jam out -engaged- like yours. Where we live it was $300 for a new one and EX-Austria 3 weeks. Never killed a bendix on any other KTM 300- and have owned many- im thinking the Bendix quality is slipping like some of the other components on these later bikes. Relief for you that its not the motor

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

That’s a bummer. My bendix in my 18 has over 500hrs

@andykerr9545

8 ай бұрын

Yes I agree Morgan- I also have a 2018 300 exc as well- its bendix is still going strong hence my comment re poorer quality in later models-its even the same part number for the 18 model exc and 23 XC-so i ended up putting it straight into the 23 XC to save us until the new one came ex-Austria-wouldnt you think they would keep some in stock if it does 5 model years ?? Shameful really ...

@motozz8258

8 ай бұрын

@@andykerr9545 Bendix has been a ktmhuskabeg issue for over 10 years , better now was the talk? Almost certain the new design is better but still fails true to euro quality

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

@@andykerr9545 totally. Rocky Mountain has them in stock if you need to get one. I checked yesterday. I am excited to try the beta out next. I’m hoping it’s good.

Ha, yes!!! So stoked for you Morgan! That made my day!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Mine too!!

Awesome. Glad it was an easy fix for you! Also good looking out and reminder for us to check other things. I’m pretty certain I’d have jumped right to pulling the head off lol

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Yeah. I thought about that but it just sounded different

Great video Morgan! So happy the bike is okay, especially since I have the same one 😂 Maybe you can do a video on Bendix maintenance?.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

That’s coming soon.

Reminds me of the meme about “working on bikes calms me down”

Doesnt matter what brand it is no matter how brand committed someone can be, stuff breaks, fixer up and get back on the trails 🤟🤟

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

YEP

I’m happy for u 😅 nothing worse I know with my bike love finding a small problem after thinking I’ve just blowen the piston out the side even though it’s not

Good honesty about wrenching. I appreciate that.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

You bet

Yay happy you found out what’s wrong with it 😄🤟🏽 you were doing really good at Aztec too 😄🤟🏽

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Ugh I know. Next time.

Another good point to having a kick start, glad it's just a bendix, crazy if you don't have a buddy around to push start, you have to drive to a hill to bump start the bike. I do have a 2023 TX300 but things like this make my 2018 carb and kickstart 300 look better all the time, hope it didn't chew up the ring gear.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

It wouldn’t have helped until I pulled it out of there.

@davidanderson2393

8 ай бұрын

True but you wouldn't be running around the country side after getting it out trying to find a hill to bump start your bike. I'm old and don't like kicking on bikes much anymore(spoiled) but if it's a possibility to get me out of the dingle berries. I carry a fair share of spares when I ride out in the woods and don't relish the fact of being stuck trying to push out from single track out in the bush when riding solo. There is always a chance of being sidelined for one reason or another, and have towed out enough people, but when your list of options keeps getting narrower as time goes on. Just another thing to add to the list of riding a new bike, not like there is a long list(spoiled).@@highlandcycles

Never been surprised that my Honda wasn’t blown up 😂. Ktm’s are pushing the whole enduro, cross country style motorcycle industry forward developing modern 2 strokes so I’m a big fan but damn, always something with those things.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

This one has been brilliant for 165 hrs

@ratherberiding5964

8 ай бұрын

@@highlandcycles I’ve enjoyed watching the videos you post of it. A bunch of my buddies just bought 23’ and 24’ 300xc’s and xcw’s. They are amazing.

I'm heading to the garage to service my (and my son's) bendix. Good Vid Morgan!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Good idea

What a relief hey Morgan awesome 👍👍

I called it! Yeah I’ve had a bike do something similar before. Glad it was something simple. And like you were saying yesterday, maybe it was for a reason. I’m gonna take mine out and grease it up.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Right on!

I assume you’ll be checking the runout on the crank, the cases and the flywheel. That would suck if the bendix jam knocked the crank out of true or cracked the case. Great video, Morgan - we’ve all been there when it turns out the worst case isn’t the case!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Yep. I will be triple checking everything

@williamcrotts7054

8 ай бұрын

Friend of mine builds all the motors for James Flynn, he has to weld the cranks or James will spin them.

Glad it turned out well for you! I was planning to call tomorrow with some questions and an order but was thinking the timing might not be great if you had an engine tore down all over the table ha.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Hahahaha

So glad it wasn't anything too detrimental.. now I know what to look at on my bike if this happens

Good deal! Buying go fast parts is always so fun. Buying parts to fix broken things is always such a bummer. Even if it’s equal money…not sure why that is.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

100% agree

I'm stoked that you're stoked. But KTM, you can do better. I was really hoping it wasn't a piston or something to do with the TPS. I was about to adjust mine Saturday before racing the national enduro on Sunday. I decided to wait because I didn't want to make an adjustment before a race. Now I can check mine without worry.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

And I can say that it does seem to run a bit better since I added some gas. I got the hole shot by a mile before it blew up

@MrBrandonh98

8 ай бұрын

@@highlandcycles That's an interesting comment about the hole shot. Any chance you took off with your finger still on the starter and that's what caused this?

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

@@MrBrandonh98 I’ve been thinking about that and the jump I cased. It’s definitely possible. But I’ve been getting holeshots on this bike all year. I’ll never know for sure but I’ll be paying attention

Well, I went for it over the pond! Came up short , cased it! My race ended in about 30 seconds 😂

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

🤣😂

I run my 22 TPI with plugged drain at the stator house and a bit of thin oil just touching the bendix. 240 hrs and no issues.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Definitely considering that mod.

Super lucky the motor is okay! One of my buddies and I had a race this past weekend and his bike blew on him, scary stuff!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Yep

I had a similar thing happen to me a few years ago on my 2016 te 300 I had shut the bike off went to start it starter did nothing but click went to kick start it it was locked up thought I had blown my engine by eating a sandwich got the bike home just knew the crank had locked up my bendix had busted out in a new bendix the bike was good as new again but I was pissed that that had happened the bike only had 50 hours on it at the time

only bendix problems I've ever had was with my knees and elbows locking up... guess I should man up and buy an electric start bike so I can experience this pain as well... Glad it wasn't your engine though, that would've been a different kind of bendix'n all together...

That's great news!!!

daisy's revenge 🤣🤣🤣. sold your soul when you went TBI. Next you'll be fitting tublis 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

😂🤣😂

No kidding I was oiling up mine yesterday thinking "do I really need to do this"....guess so lol

Love it!

It would be handy if it had a kick starter. I think KTM has made a mistake removing them.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

I agree

@user-se7vt5ow4e

8 ай бұрын

This is why I am switching to a Rieju 300. Kickstart, carb and KYB suspension . What was good in the past is still good.

Took one look at that hokey bendix on the first lube and ordered a new one for backup

I run oil in my 12 to 16 style ktm 2 stroke starters and they work amazingly. Keeps me from having to tare it apart all the time.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Great tip!

Awesome video

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Thanks

Awesome news!!! Don't they make a thing...what do you call it? Oh yeah...a KICKSTART!!! Laughing with you, not at you.😅

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

😂🤣

Awesome

That KTM was not ready to race. Glad it wasn't the bottom end and good thing it didn't lock up while going fast and causing a good wreck

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Agree. But it was ready to race for 165 hrs previously

@NorthWestMotos

8 ай бұрын

I'd say that bendix had a nice life. How ever many thousands of starts it did@@highlandcycles

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

@@NorthWestMotos yep. Just failed at the wrong time. Or right time if you consider how bad it would have been if I’d been on the face of a jump

Best case scenario👍🏼

Also Tokyo off-road has upgrade kits for those bushings.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Yep. That where I ordered them from

@Gmullinax

8 ай бұрын

I'm going to Tokyo Offroad, right now. Bye.

@motozz8258

8 ай бұрын

lol ready to race upgrades of a poor quality ongoing, the ktmhuskagas and there own economy circle :)

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

@@motozz8258 damn good way to make money. 😂🤣 and win off road championships

You might have lost the race, but could be a lot of worse, and that's a win in my books :) You don't screw up if you don't try, but you're a doer Morgan!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Amen!!

So glad it wasn't any worse! Would love to hear a bit more about the bendix......never even heard of it, let alone having to due maintenance on it! LAMO! Did some googling of course, named after its inventor....that's about as far as I got! LOL

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Hahaha. There will be a vid about service and install soon

When I saw the motor locked, and the e-start didnt work, I thought exactly this as my Beta 300 does the same thing when I need to lube the Bendix assembly !!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

That’s good to know. I have a 24 300RR race in order

@TheDirtyBirchTrails

8 ай бұрын

awesome !!@@highlandcycles

This video made my day🤙🏽

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Yay

My sherco starter started acting up at 100hrs.. 4 months on a 2023 250 2x. Front roller bearing in the starter was rusty. Oops. Cleaned and lubed it.

I think that the stupid combo start stop button that we all actually accidentally pressed start with the engine running is a likely contributor to this failure. I am going to check my bendix for issues.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

It would be but I switched mine out for separate switches from MotoMinded

Happy for you. I guess it's good that didn't happen on ride 30 miles out.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Totally

You called it back in Sept ! @ 14:40 ish ... The Shlog #259

🤘🤘 i felt the relief!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Yeah

Well I pull and service the bendix every 70 ish hours. Hope that helps me. On a good side note we did burn down a sherco this weekend. Melted the top end in a sand wash!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Awesome 🤣😂

@mschumaker1

8 ай бұрын

what exactly do you "Service", when you pull it? I have about 65 hrs on mine

@westcomotofilms3865

8 ай бұрын

@@mschumaker1 remove, clean the side case with brake clean. Grease bendix, teeth of stater, grease bushing for bendix and reinstall

@williamcrotts7054

8 ай бұрын

Doesn't the owners manual recommend that?

@mschumaker1

8 ай бұрын

@@westcomotofilms3865 thanks this is my 3rd KTM and ive never done that, ran each bike to almost 200 hrs no issues with that before tho

Coulda took the bendix out of the xcw to check 🤷🏼‍♂️ but judging by those pushes for the bumpstart you did no harm by getting the exercise 😂 Good content Morgan 🤙

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Hahahaba.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

My legs just don’t work that well anymore unless I’m on two wheels. Bicycle or moto.

I broke the Bendix on my 2021 at around 80 hrs by hitting starter and kill at same time

Morgan, this comment is a hail Mary attempt to fix my bike. I know you're a busy many and this is going to sound like a very basic problem that I should be able to fix on my own. I've been building bikes/cars for 20+ years and am a competent mechanic. However....the condensed version... '05 KTM 300. Brakes were perfect until the pin/pads fell out one day. Pushed the pistons in far enough to replace the pads and haven't had brakes since. I cannot get the master cylinder to push fluid. Stumped, I ordered kits for everything. Lightly honed the master cylinder bore ( 2000 grit clean up pass, everything was fine) , rebuilt the master cylinder and caliper....will not make pressure or move fluid. Brakes systems are incredibly simple and I can't believe I'm stumped. I'm hoping there's some weird quirk these bikes have that you're familiar with. If so, please enlighten me!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Make sure your lever is completely releasing pressure off of the master. If it’s even pushing a little it won’t pick up fluid

@shinyribs2178

8 ай бұрын

@@highlandcycles Thanks. I did run the adjuster all the way to ensure that. If I cover the banjo bolt hole with my finger and attempt to bench bleed the master cylinder I can feel a little suction when the piston retracts, but it still won't push fluid out. Beats all I ever saw! Thank you much for your time 🙏

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

@@shinyribs2178 dang. Sorry man.

@shinyribs2178

7 ай бұрын

Hey Morgan, I got it fixed and I can't believe it. Thought I would tell you in case you run across a similar issue. The banjo bolts on this bike aren't cross drilled. There's only one fluid port drilled in to the banjo region. Reddit for the win, the theory is IF the bolt lands in such an orientation that the fluid port is pointing towards the brake line that the air pocket behind it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to bleed out. Changing nothing else, I cross drilled the banjo bolts, stuck them back in and the brake pumped up immediately. Just in from a test ride around my main loop a few times and it's fine. Who knew?!

I am happy to! Ktm are bullet proof! 👍🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

@motozz8258

8 ай бұрын

are you a biden voter , just asking for a friend

Great news

Couple ounces of oil was the preventive maintenance!

What a relief! Guess I better service mine.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Definitely

Good news !

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Totally

El Cheapo bushings probably got it going in the wrong direction, I put XRC bushings in every other year on my 16'. Same thing happened to me on my third ride when I picked up my bike from the dealer....was freaked that the motor blew....nope a $5 bushing

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Yeah. I ordered the XRC ones.

I glad that's all it was

Sherco guys can’t hear you over the whine of their clutches.

Glad it was the lesser of the evils. You'll be back in business quickly.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Yep

I was thinking bendix!

Interesting! Good friend of mine had his bendix shred with less than 10 hours on the clock on his 2023 Husky 300TX. Maybe a quality issue as much as a service issue?

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Maybe

Hmmm, 320 hours on my 2018 and I've done NOTHING to the starter. BUT, I'm not a complete loser. She's coming down this winter for another top end and I will update and service the starter.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

My 18 hasn’t had much done either and it has over 500hrs

please do a bendix service video.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

That’s coming as soon as I get the new one

My 19 250xc has 140 hrs on it. When should starter be maintained? Is it just taking it apart and greasing it up? My 14 300xc bendix died at 75hours

Will check out my Bendix (2022 ex250)

Any chance the starter was accidently pressed when you cased the pond jump. There was some rev action.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

That’s what I’m wondering too. I don’t have a great video of it. My camera fouled up and the one I’ve seen is too far away.

KTM ready to race this is a slogan from husky before ethey got bought by ktm

Hey, im soon gonna rebuild my front forks. What is your opinion on KYB seals? Or should i just get SKF seals? My forks are 2021 wp xact

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Get SKF

At least it wasn't a spark plug! We would never hear the end of it if this was your Beta😂

@highlandcycles

Ай бұрын

Hahahah. It wasn’t the KTM’s fault though. After market switches.

When I first saw this i thought about the video i just saw stating ktm only runs 1mm between piston and crank I assume at BDC. He said they shave a little off pistons.

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

I was worried about that

Glad it was a minor fix. Sorry to hear about the race. How many hours on the bendix?

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

165

@The_Snowbike_Channel

8 ай бұрын

@@highlandcycles that’s impressive!

@motozz8258

8 ай бұрын

@@The_Snowbike_Channel lol

Let’s see a vids of you casing the double!!

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

I don’t have a good one yet. My camera fouled up.

@BlakeAnderson760-nl6ph

8 ай бұрын

@@highlandcycles dang it!

A kickstarter is a handy invention ain't it....

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

Oh man I wish I had one. It wouldn’t have started until I got that thing out of there v

That's exactly what I guessed it was.....ok not really. I better check my 18. Its got 85 hrs on it.

If only it had a kick start

I have a 2024 250xc that I got with 0hrs and now have 56 hrs on it and the sploog is so bad it drips on the hub and swing arm. Running it 60~1 ratio like it calls for. No it acts like it’s running out of fuel. Fixing to go back to a beta

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

That sucks. They have had a few fuel pump issues.

Hi I’m currently on a very lazy and linear KTM 200 that I ride hard enduro on. Now I’m looking at a TPI 250 next however that certainly is not as lazy and linear. So I’m considering a fly wheel or clutch weight but I’ve heard fly wheel weights are more effective( from you ) but also heard they cause vibrations. Please advise me on which one or a different solution (keeping in mind budget) Would be greatly appreciated 🙏

@highlandcycles

8 ай бұрын

I’ve never felt a flywheel weight make more vibes. I would go that way

@aaronnortje3474

8 ай бұрын

@@highlandcyclesthanks a million much appreciated

I'm guessing a simple seized piston.