2022 kpr200
 

I received my bike about 5 days ago and put it together that night, :lmao:
sometimes other things just have to wait!
I ran the engine through a couple of heat cycles and dropped the oil and cleaned the screen, and refilled with T4. Also I checked the coolant level in the radiator per owners manual after blipping the throttle a few times then letting it cool down. Then I took it out and seated the rings for about 25 miles and dropped the oil again. What I found out is the bike is geared a little too low so I took the rear wheel off and removed both rear and front sprockets and ordered new ones. I am going with a 16 or 17 front and a 42 rear.

GEARING STOCK 15t front 46t rear
Front sprocket is a JTF259
Rear sprocket is a JTR269

The sprockets that Megadan posted in his resource thread for the hawk also work on the KPR. :tup:

And the mods began. :clap: I think that's the best part of ownings a new bike. I think that's why I have been buying a new bike every year. It's a sickness I tell you, but somebody has to do it. :lmao:

Yeah, I love tinkering on the bikes too it’s a lot of fun! The only thing I want to do after the sprocket change is gutting the cat and wrap the pipe up the muffler. I really like the stock sound and will probably keep the exhaust.

Awesome herbie! Keep s posted on your adventure and of course....lots of pics!

Thanks 2LZ, I appreciate that! Yeah you never know where all the tinkering will lead you, Probably in trouble with mama. :lmao:

I decided to change my sprockets again, 17f 42r was too tall of gearing. I went with the stock 46 tooth rear sprocket and the 16 tooth front sprocket and this seems to be the sweet spot for my style of riding. At 65mph I am running 7k rpms as that is acceptable to me. The bike has little to no vibrations which is great, no tingling hands :tup:
I absolutely love the instrument cluster on this bike, it has all the stuff I like, analog tach, digital speedo, fuel gauge, gear indicator, clock and even a shift light :tup:
The bike is getting broke in and I am running at some higher rpms, for a 200cc this thing is a lot of fun. Not super fast but fun none the less. Its light and cruises 65mph just fine. It's fun riding a bike that will rev in the upper regions. :tup::tup:

The seating position is comfortable and the seat itself is pretty good. The front suspension absorbs the bumps pretty good but the back is super stiff, I'm going to have to address this in the future. All in all the KPR200 is a great bike and to me after wrenching on it a little seems pretty on par with the Japanese, maybe not quite but close. I feel it's well worth the money.

I changed the oil again because I wanted to change the oil filter as well this time. I chose the hiflo filter, I've had good luck with them and they are cheap enough for us frugal riders :tup:

Man this little 200cc engine is really impressive, in 4th gear I hit 68mph and the rpms were still rising, I believe it would do 70mph in 4th! Of course that's speedo not gps but still impressive none the less! :tup::tup:

Time to gut the cat! First step is to make my reference mark

Next cut it in half, I cut in it in the center where there was a weld, look how thick the metal is! Easy welding this

Material removed, man what a pain in the hootie. If you are going to do this job be sure to wear appropriate protection, this stuff is bad juju. I wore my painting resperator, long sleeve and gloves.

welded back together

Wrapped the pipe

Attached to the bike, I had to dremel out the holes with a metal file as neither bolt hole was aligned. It wasn't off much but needs a little touch up

While I have all the tupperware removed it's time to check the valve clearances. If you take the tupperware off you have to remove both seats, the smaller side panel with 2 screws and 1 bolt. The front plastic piece has to come off that's in front of the radiator. The small plastic piece up by the triple trees has to come off, 3 screws. Then the large panel, I didn't count how many screws but just search them out, some are inside the opening by the triple trees. The hard part once all screws were out is knowing what else held it in place, so I took a pic of the tank so you can see what's behind it. It has a pop pin you have to pull out on then you push the fairing piece towards the rear wheel and it will come off.

Time to do the intake valve first, the clearance is supposed to .08mm and mine was spot on.

Next is exhaust, you have to move the radiator out of the way to access the service port. To move the radiator remove one bolt at the top and lift it up to clear the 2 pins out of the holes. Valve clearance is supposed to be .12mm and mine had almost nothing so I adjusted it to proper specs.

Here's a pic of the timing port

Just got back from a nice 150 mile ride. It was such a beautiful day today, sunny and 65 degrees with a slight breeze. I believe after the cat gutting job I have a little more top end power but time will tell. I'm thinking of doing a baffelectomy next. I'm not sure though because I like it quiet but I think it will help with the exhaust flow.

Bar end Mirrors
 

The one bad thing for me about the KPR is the mirrors, when I have my riding gear on all I can see is my arms and nothing behind me. So I bought these bar end mirrors from Amazon for $23 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FCCJR87...roduct_details and they work great, I can see everything behind me now. I scrapped the supplied bolt and tension plug and I am going to install the mirrors with the weights attached. To do that you need a 1/2" piece of 3/16" vacuum hose and you can reuse the original bolt or....

Buy a little bit longer bolt to give you more threads for security. This is the bolt you will need

Put the vacuum hose into the hole and it will look like this. See the bolt by my finger with the cap nut on it. I turned it around so the nut is facing like this so that the bar end weight will fit in there

Then I took the bike to breakfast this morning, 3 hours later and about 135 miles I made it back home, I just wanted to ride all day!

One more pic

I guess I should have included the final product :lmao:

I like the bar end mirrors. :tup: I did my 150 miles yesterday and last night.

The glass fell out of one of my mirrors a couple weeks ago. Lol. But, for $25, I'm not mad.

What bike did you have them mounted on? The KPR200 has very little vibration on the handlebars and the rubber around the bolt should help isolate it even more. Time will tell

My kpm 200. But, I also swapped handlebars also. Vibrating wise, it's my second roughest bike, behind my RC390

baffelectomy
 

I used my drill an extension and bits

These are the bits

With the extension

I have a clean 3/4 hole all the way through. The exhaust has a little deeper tone but is still pretty quiet, win/win in my book. A better flowing exhaust and still quiet.
If you end up doing this job, be sure and run a magnet down the hole to get out as much bits as possible, then start it and blow out the fine metal dust particles.

Ram Mount
 

I needed my Ram mount, this looks like a good spot

Drilled and tapped to 10mm

Ram ball

Phone mount

Nice mods. :tup: I like the idea on drilling the exhaust.

I got up early to take a ride before mama woke up. I'm at about 650 miles on the KPR now. I changed back to the stock 15t sprocket to give it a try at top speed. After I gutted out the exhaust I removed the air filter snorkle to give it a better huff and puff. I rode around for a while and decided to hit the interstate on the way home. My top speed was a pretty steady 80mph except when a few wing gusts and hills hit me and then it would still hold 75mph pretty good. The bike is so smooth and I feel very confident in the machine at that speed. The bike has been running flawlessly since I purchased it! Lifan really put a lot of thought and research in the development of this engine and it shows. I would say the transmission is matched to the power of this engine perfectly! I've had many bikes over my 50 years of riding and it doesn't get much better with the power to transmission match up. :tup: The MPG has been in the 70ish range I would say, and that's running it pretty hard. I'm having a blast on this bike, it's so fun to ride and tinker on

I have to protect my baby, so I'm installing a Viper alarm. This alarm has lots of features but I only want the alarm and lights to go off if someone is messing with it, makes life easier to wire it as well.