Money no OBJECT !
Take one look at the Penrite Factory Honda CRF450LX Limited Edition and you have to wonder what might have been for a model that’s been withdrawn from the local market after less than two years. Certainly, it’s more like what many Red Riders were expecting to replace the popular and long-departed CRF450X when the six-speed “L” model was announced.
Perhaps it’s also more like what Honda Australia was expecting, but they’re not telling. Instead, the distributor was left scrambling to put together an LX Enduro Kit featuring an FMF pipe and Vortex ignition, plus graphics, to uncork the beast. We tested the $2600 kit on our CRF450L long-termer for six months from last December (ADB #483), reporting that throttle response and power were so much better that it was “like night and day”.
We did a heap of stuff with our build (as reported in #489) but the boys at Penrite Factory Honda went even further with their jaw-dropping CRF450LX LE
