Only one I found, was 2 years ago, a used K&N.
K&N Air Filter discontinued?
I've owned this 2005 since the Spring of 2006. I managed to put around 15k miles on it over the years, but admittedly haven't rode it at all in the last 2 or 3 years. This week, I got motivated enough to put a new battery in it and see if it would start on 2.5 year old gas. To my surprise, it did. It won't hold an idle, but I was able to get it out on the road and give it an Italian tune-up. Yesterday I pulled the tank, drained it, and started looking over all the other items I've neglected over the years. The oem air filter is starting to disintegrate, so I thought now would be a good time to put a K&N drop in filter in, but I can't find one anywhere online. Every site that has a listing for the KA-5087 says "out of stock" or "not available". I found 5 at an ebay store in Australia, but the shipping is more than the filter, raising the price to around $200. I don't think I want one that bad. Does anybody have a source for these in the US, or is there a second-best option like Uni Filter or HiFlo?
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yeah same here, a year after getting the gen 1 back on the road (on the winter service) I found the bike had eaten most of the stock foam filter
Argh, So I looked for a K&N thinking I would only ever have to buy one, but I couldn't find one anywhere in the UK or mainland Europe.I considered buying a K&N pancake filter and cutting it down to the stock carcase size and gluing it in place (a sort of DIY K&N) but before starting the project I realised my mistake (not oiling the stock one) so I bought a cheap High flow paper element one off E-bay oiled it and had no more issues. still using that high flow been 6 years now still going, yearly clean and reoil all it needs. so in fact I didn't need a K&N anyway.
Has anyone been able to find a US-based store with any KA-5087's in stock? How do the other (cheaper) air filters stack up against the KN when it comes to a FOG'ed up ninja? I'm going to send an email to K&N to let me know what's up with it.
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Busted my baiku wide open and man, she is blown tf out.. good lord...
Looks like it's possibly an OEM boy, and she an '09. It's incredible that she still starts right up even after sitting a short while. I assume that if this wasn't noticed, then it's fair to say the carbs haven't been cleaned, spark plugs changed, so on and so on. I'm worried that once she gets running and the particles in the carb get all kicked up she'll have some issues, but starts fine as long as the particles are settled.
That being said I have no reason to suspect I'm going to be having any issues running/whatever, but I assume all of that garbage is somewhere deep within my babygirl.... Ik there's a couple threads on this specific topic of blown out air filters, but any suggestions what to do? I'm still super reluctant to start a thread for any and every ol' question I have that I don't feel is sufficiently answered by my forum searches and/or the archive.
I'm probably going to purchase the KA-5087 if there's no real comparable alt for it. There was one other site (in a place other than NZ) I could find called smart-stuff parts that has it listed for $64.92, but looking at the websites terrible rep, I'm not skimping on money to risk it. So I'll probably go with the UK site from the link earlier in the thread.
Busted my baiku wide open and man, she is blown tf out.. good lord...
Looks like it's possibly an OEM boy, and she an '09. It's incredible that she still starts right up even after sitting a short while. I assume that if this wasn't noticed, then it's fair to say the carbs haven't been cleaned, spark plugs changed, so on and so on. I'm worried that once she gets running and the particles in the carb get all kicked up she'll have some issues, but starts fine as long as the particles are settled.
That being said I have no reason to suspect I'm going to be having any issues running/whatever, but I assume all of that garbage is somewhere deep within my babygirl.... Ik there's a couple threads on this specific topic of blown out air filters, but any suggestions what to do? I'm still super reluctant to start a thread for any and every ol' question I have that I don't feel is sufficiently answered by my forum searches and/or the archive.
I'm probably going to purchase the KA-5087 if there's no real comparable alt for it. There was one other site (in a place other than NZ) I could find called smart-stuff parts that has it listed for $64.92, but looking at the websites terrible rep, I'm not skimping on money to risk it. So I'll probably go with the UK site from the link earlier in the thread.
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