Carson Mumford’s Manufacturing facility Professional Circuit Kawasaki KX250

CARSON MUMFORD’S PRO CIRCUIT KAWASAKI KX250

Professional Circuit and Mitch Payton appreciate had a rough lunge at racing the previous couple years. The foremost gamers for Professional Circuit 250 squad had been injured in both coasts this season so the team needed to pass looking out replacements. Carson Mumford was on Mitch’s radar and picked as a lot as contain in on the west waft sequence. We met up with passe racer and now mechanic Tony Archer to pass over easily one of basically the most trick bikes in the pits. Mitch Payton and the crew at Professional Circuit add their touch to every walk of the Kawasaki KX250. Let’s get into the info!

THE FRONT END

Carson is running Renthal 996 handlebars up front on his Kawasaki KX250.

It is doubtless you’ll moreover gape in this inform that Carson is the exhaust of the Renthal gentle half of waffle grips with grip donut. Tony silent makes exhaust of grip glue though they are wire tied. He likes to appreciate the added insurance coverage and preserve the grip in situation no matter what. Carson is moreover running the Professional Circuit billet throttle tube which any individual must cling over-the-counter from Professional Circuit for his or her non-public bike.

ARC lower free levers are ancient on the brake and take cling of for Carson’s bike. On both levers he runs them a smidge down nonetheless really neutral general. Inviting to perceive the effect aside taller riders love Carson to space their handlebars and levers for racing. Here is a inventory front brake grasp cylinder nonetheless it’s off an older model. Now we appreciate considered this prior to in the manufacturing facility paddock. The older grasp cylinder affords a greater piston and fluid capability. The team would rather some added stopping vitality up front. Faster riders depend heavily on the front brake draw and no longer mighty on the rear.

The brake lines are inventory nonetheless the team does lower about a of the sheething off them for weight and provides warmth shrink to fight water getting into this case of the motorbike.

It is doubtless you’ll moreover gape on Carson’s take cling of grasp cylinder and lines that there are carbon covers conserving them. This may maybe maybe maybe easily cease a shuffle if this part of the bike was broken so the groups provides this safety on there for sturdiness.

The crash swap is inventory nonetheless the total situation of the handlebars has been simplified to stay far from any considerations or getting hit. It is doubtless you’ll moreover gape that they pass the crash swap inward on the handlebars to provide protection to it even extra. The initiating button has a housing added by PC to give up Carson from truly bumping it precise by a shuffle. Riders love Carson lean over the bike and may maybe maybe moreover by chance hit the buttons with their chest or physique. It is doubtless you’ll moreover moreover gape that the initiating wire has been beefed as a lot as give up water or particles interfering with starts.

One thing that caught our sight was the buttons situated on the left aspect head tube. Here is the effect aside Tony and the team appreciate placed your entire start design buttons. This truly locations the buttons mighty nearer to the effect aside the precise connection is. It moreover takes pretty about a muddle off the handlebars by situation them right here. There  is some added epoxy on the buttons to preserve the water out as wisely.

Professional Circuit triple clamps. These are the same triple clamps that it’s doubtless you’ll moreover purchase for your KX whilst you wished to. Carson is a taller rider nonetheless doesn’t lunge too loopy with his bar mounts. It is traditional high nonetheless the team does appreciate alternatives if their rider prefers to lower or greater. The steering stem is firmly tight nonetheless no longer shimmering tight love on other manufacturing facility bikes in the paddock. Tony Archer has a torque spec he sticks to and does it every time the bike is constructed for racing.

SHOWA/Professional Circuit suspension is mounted to the front cease of the motorbike. Professional Circuit has a SHOWA technician devoted to the shuffle team and helps with R&D. It’s no shock that all Supercross suspension is shimmering stiff nonetheless the team is procuring for that chuffed steadiness. They wish it stiff nonetheless moreover that plushness feeling at the preliminary part of the stroke to amass the next feel in the fingers.

A producing facility Nissin caliper with Braking front rotors are ancient on the PC250. The Nissin caliper is manufacturing facility because it utilizes smaller/thinner pads which is most attention-grabbing for Supercross exhaust. It’s really extra of a weight thing then anything else. The team gained’t shuffle this setup for outside. It is doubtless you’ll moreover gape the rotund coverage carbon disc guard on Mumford’s bike. This guard protects the total brake draw on the wheel to boot to acts love a ski. When the bike goes into deep ruts the guard can wing by as an alternate of getting hung up by the caliper.

The front axle on the bike is titanium. The team has alternatives nonetheless we’ve considered Professional Circuit shuffle the titanium for several years now on the KX250. It is doubtless you’ll moreover gape the titanium pinch bolts on the axle lugs as wisely in this inform.

Excel A60 rims with KHI (Manufacturing facility Japan Kawasaki) hubs are ancient.

The front tire is a Dunlop spec tire that will at final assemble its technique to the user stage. The team has about a alternatives to prefer from and lawful now Carson is on the latest that they deserve to provide. Tony mentioned to us that after Carson stumbled on this tire there was no cause to swap around. Many of the manufacturing facility riders linger around one front tire sample for racing and rarely swap it up. Eli Tomac ran the same sample front tire for 3-4 seasons without changing!

The team is running a 1.8 radiator cap which is off a KX85. There may be a pin for the length of the cap to stay far from the rider spinning it off with their legs when cornering. It is doubtless you’ll moreover moreover gape the hoses to the accumulate can which is tucked below the quilt. The accumulate can traps the recent coolant and as an alternate of it blowing out the backside hoses it’s recycled help into the radiators as soon because it cools off. This avoids loss of coolant and affords efficiency to the total engine/radiators. The team moreover has greater temp caps if need be.

The radiators are oversized on the Professional Circuit Kawasaki KX250. They enact appreciate a constructed in oil cooler and are Martin Radiators. They’re welded and supported for sturdiness capabilities. On the left aspect of the radiators that it’s doubtless you’ll moreover gape the titanium bleeder that’s been added.

We seen that there were carbon extensions added to the shrouds on the bike. Riders with long legs love Carson Mumford will veritably get their boot or knee braces caught on the shrouds. This extension helps from that ever happening and provides some insurance coverage for the rider/team.

The team is running files on the motorbike the least bit cases. This purple nosed instrument is the logger that files every thing the bike is doing and aspects GPS. The mechanics, team, and rider can lunge over the bike after every single session. They’ll assemble changes essentially essentially based around rider solutions and this files acquisition shown above.

A Professional Circuit holeshot instrument is ancient on Carson’s shuffle bike. It is a two button draw. The pinnacle backside isn’t ancient very most continuously. With the addition of Supercross steel grates the team runs it as deep as they maybe can. They enact appreciate a fork guard brace below to support give up the fork guards from being ripped off because the holeshot instrument lets free.

THE ENGINE

Works Chassis LABs affords both the front and help engine hangars for the motorbike. They’re titanium and provide about a loads of alternatives for the team. Carson is on the “traditional” for his position up. Titanium nuts are moreover added to the bike. This may maybe maybe maybe alternate the flex characteristic of the bike now not astray. They moreover help with weight reduction. 7lbs+1 horsepower and vitality is king in the 250 class. Teams will enact whatever it takes to shed some lbs on their bikes.

The meat and potatoes. The Manufacturing facility Professional Circuit Kawasaki KX250 engine. Professional Circuit is the precise team that has their mechanics silent plot the engines. Tony Archer and his other teammates truly damage down the total motorbike themselves. Assemble day way loads extra to the mechanics at Professional Circuit and they rob pleasure in their work. It is moreover pretty about a responsibility for a Professional Circuit mechanic love Tony Archer to rob on. It is as a lot as them that their rider may maybe maybe appreciate a like a flash nonetheless safe motorbike to scurry every weekend while competing. All of this is completed in Corona, California. A really perfect majority of the parts in this engine that it’s doubtless you’ll moreover purchase for your KX250. There are some secrets and tactics that the team most attention-grabbing makes exhaust of nonetheless for basically the most part that it’s doubtless you’ll moreover purchase this. It is doubtless you’ll ship your engine into Professional Circuit and appreciate someone plot you a Professional Circuit shuffle horse. It is doubtless you’ll moreover moreover gape that the valuable duvet is akadized. This helps with sturdiness and warmth dispersion.

Here is a custom Professional Circuit take cling of duvet that the team designs in home. It is doubtless you’ll moreover moreover gape the oil pump which that it’s doubtless you’ll moreover purchase for your KX250. The team is running Hinson parts with inventory plates. Also they are the exhaust of the Professional Circuit take cling of springs. It is a reasonably inviting hitting take cling of. The team needs one thing to take inviting in the whoops nonetheless you moreover will deserve to appreciate it gentle sufficient in converse to tackle it off the initiating.

On the brake pedal that it’s doubtless you’ll moreover gape the team is the exhaust of a brake snake. Here is produced from an extinct take cling of cable. It keeps the brake pedal from getting pulled outward by particles or complicated blocks which in flip will trigger brake failure. The brake pedal itself is an SR part with folding tip on it.

Within the event of a crash or arena with the valuable start button there may be an auxiliary start button added to the bike. It hides at the help of the quilt and intensely protected in opposition to the exterior. We practically overlooked it when scouring the bike for goodies. The team ancient to shuffle it help additional by the airbox final year.

Objects love the ignition duvet and timing plugs (in purple) that it’s doubtless you’ll moreover purchase lawful from Professional Circuit for your motorbike. Are trying the hose routing for the Professional Circuit radiators. It is custom routed by the skid plate and keeps it in situation. It is doubtless you’ll moreover moreover purchase the CMI shifter shown in the inform above. Carson is running the conventional shifter and shifter tip. The team does appreciate alternatives nonetheless even with Carson’s greater toes they preserve it traditional. It is doubtless you’ll moreover gape the rotund coverage skid plate protects either aspect of the motorbike extraordinarily wisely. This carbon skid plate is outsourced and supplied to the team for racing.

On this inform we can gape the carbon case saver that Professional Circuit is the exhaust of. This product is moreover made in home at the shop in Corona,California. It is bolted on with aluminum bolts to in the event the chain does attain off the case saver will shear away and the chain may maybe maybe appreciate room to pass by without getting jammed up. Here is moreover a merely perceive at the swing arm pivot which is titanium. It is doubtless you’ll moreover gape the traipse on the cease to preserve mud from getting trapped in this case.

On the flip aspect of the swing arm pivot it’s doubtless you’ll maybe maybe gape this brake pedal give up constructed into it. This give up will give up the brake pedal from getting shoved too far upwards by one thing, that will trigger the heart of the rear brake grasp cylinder to be pulled out. Here is a security measure for the team to be definite there may be a limited probability of rear brake failure precise by the shuffle.

Vibram grip tape is ancient on either aspect of the motorbike. Now we appreciate most attention-grabbing considered this trace of tape ancient by Professional Circuit Kawasaki. It comes pre lower and lasts pretty a really very long time prior to needing replace.

The foot pegs are designed in home at Professional Circuit. Identical with the mounts. They’ve inventory springs with titanium pins. It is doubtless you’ll moreover gape they are placed in backwards in contrast to inventory so the mechanic can eradicate them like a flash on shuffle day if need be. The cotter pin can get broken below the footpeg so this is one more insurance coverage measure completed by Tony Archer. To preserve mud from packing into the springs Professional Circuit provides this titanium peg armor covering the location. Here is one more merchandise designed and made in home at Professional Circuit.

The team designs and runs their very cling air boots on the KX250. Here is a giant part that Mitch Payton and the crew work on. The team is now on their Sixth era of this airboot. The team builds the engine to the spec they love and then they just precise-looking tune it with the air boot. The air boot plays a great position in the vitality division on the KX.

An SRKX450 subframe is ancient on Carson’s KX250. The pipe mount is de facto beefed up on the SR oem units from Kawasaki. Professional Circuit prefers to shuffle this as an alternate of the conventional model to add some sturdiness to the mounting level on the Professional Circuit expend.

Twin Air affords the air filters on the Professional Circuit motorbike. It is doubtless you’ll moreover gape the team is cutting out the panel to provide extra air lunge to the consumption. It is a thinner supercross filter and it’s bolted in with a titanium fastener as an alternate of the plastic particular individual that comes inventory on the KX250.

Professional Circuit provides this additional guard on their expend for sturdiness. Riders can squeeze the expend so inviting (eg Malcolm Stewart) that they can truly dent the pipe in with their legs. Also riders get hit pretty a shrimp precise by the initiating and the pipe can get broken. Professional Circuit reinforces their expend to stay far from any valuable arena now not astray.

The team is running files acquisition the least bit cases on the bike. It is doubtless you’ll moreover gape the 02 bung on the expend which affords the team facts on the air/gas facts while the bike is running.

Samco hoses are ancient on the bike and they will tailor the hoses to the groups’ needs. It is doubtless you’ll moreover gape that the hoses all appreciate oetiker clamps on them. The team doesn’t must menace anything else coming free precise by a shuffle. They’re lower.eliminated, and changed every weekend. Let’s get to the precise cause we are the exhaust of this inform. The electrical water pump has been added to the PC KX250. The team was on the fence originally to switching to this fashion nonetheless after checking out they stumbled on a transparent advantage. This was an evident no brainer after seeing they dyno charts and lengthen in vitality.

THE REAR END

The rear grasp cylinder on Carson Mumford’s bike is a manufacturing facility Nissin. This does no longer appreciate a window in it. Rocks or particles can ruin the window causing the fluid to seep out. The team knows its rotund and works on the bike sufficient to no longer need a window. The clevace they are the exhaust of is moreover made by Professional Circuit with titanium hardware connected.

RK chains with traditional grasp hyperlink with Renthal sprockets are ancient on the rear cease of the motorbike. The team is running a 13/49 aggregate and don’t fiddle with gearing too mighty on memoir of wheel space. They take a look at the bike with the wheel the effect aside they need it and will tailor the engine to work with this gearing. The team is moreover the exhaust of their carbon Professional Circuit chain guides which it’s doubtless you’ll maybe maybe moreover purchase at their shop or on-line. It is doubtless you’ll moreover gape your entire dimpling and machining completed to the rear axle in this inform. Reasonably frosty! The sprocket is moreover utilizing titanium sprocket bolts shown in the inform above.

Professional Circuit is moreover running a titanium rear axle on the motorbike. The axle blocks are moreover one more merchandise that Professional Circuit designs and produces in home. PC moreover runs a cotter pin which is very rare to perceive on any bike in 2023. It is doubtless you’ll moreover get a merely perceive at the SR manufacturing facility brake hangar that is produced from billet in this inform moreover.

Excel A60s, KHI hub, and spec Dunlop tire are ancient on the Professional Circuit shuffle bike. The team doesn’t fiddle 120 rear tires. The 120 can provide a greater footprint nonetheless it’s far going to moreover rob the bike of vitality and that’s a no lunge in the 250 class!

A rear Braking rotor is ancient on the help cease of the bike. It is doubtless you’ll moreover moreover gape the caliper has a carbon protective part to support stay far from particles or considerations on the shuffle note. The carbon guard is designed by Professional Circuit.

The rear brake caliper is one thing the groups works with loads. The rear brake piston is lined to minimize friction and holes drilled into it to disperse warmth. On high of the caliper there may be moreover a gap drilled out to disperse warmth as wisely. The brake pads and brake line is inventory.

A SHOWA A Kit rear shock is ancient out help. It is doubtless you’ll moreover gape the shaft has a groovy fascinating inexperienced coating to minimize friction. The team does chassis high on the bike and shortens or lengthens the shock to preserve the chassis high the same every time the bike is on the note.

Professional Circuit linkage is ancient as wisely. Comparatively a lot of these parts that it’s doubtless you’ll moreover cling for your KX. Professional Circuit works with the SHOWA techs to search out a linkage ratio that they deserve to shuffle on the motorbike.

Throttle Syndicate affords your entire graphics and seat duvet for the motorbike. Carson doesn’t appreciate a preference on seats love about a of the alternative riders enact in the paddock. GUTS light weight seat foam is added to the bike.