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WOW!!! Just rode the 380 with a dewd from Calgary I will refer to as "Oreo".....Oreo was out with me yesterday riding the 06 FE 450, he regularly rides a 06 KTM 250 XC and rides it pretty well.....Oreo is no cream puff.....a highly regarded Master from the late ninties, Oreo is better versed in a six pack of cheap beer than off-road these days but he still gets out and hauls now and again....just ask one of his fans....the Coffin.....any way this 380 was thought to be nothing more than a de_turned chick bike that might pull the skin off pudding....even Oreo thought it would run like someone jammed a potatoe up the pipe....We were wrong, very wrong, this thing hauls and rails....it feels like its is 20 lbs. lighter but is certainly not some chick 250.....you can ride this thing pinned, in the sweet spot yet there is dtull enough to jam and launch, wheelies are easy yet not as abrupt as with the 450....throttle setiing s are wider ywt it revs out quite far, past where a 250 starts to shut down....very little engine breaking keeps it very balanced through the trees (ps...we ride in the trees).....but it still feels like it pulls hard enought ot climb (ps....we ride in the mountains....the Canadian Rockies....and if you can't climb on this thing, you shouldn't be riding motorcycles)......jetting was excellent and we don"t think jetting was changed.....On another note, Oreo was a 4 stroke hater (mainly because he sucks at riding them) but he fell in love with this "sweet piece of nuclear pie".....he thought this thing ripped because it felt light but still had more than enough jam....but not quite as much as the 450 so Oreo could ride it all day long in the meat of the power where revs count and in this case work very well......no light throttle abruptness yet still more than enough to wheelie big......another thing, the front end. The best way to revalve your 4stk forks,,,,, take away engine braking.