Taxi testing, high speed or otherwise:
Do not attempt to "learn to fly tail draggers" by taxi testing your new KR. Learn to fly taildraggers in something else. Then taxi test your KR only long enough to learn how it handles. Taxi tests of any kind can only be labeled as "exposure". On nose draggers, if it handles well up to and including rudder becoming effective, what more is there to test?
Here is my measure of airplane ready. Tailwheel: Power up, increase speed to tail up, cut power, hold tail up until until you can't hold it up any more, come to a stop. If you can keep it on the runway it's ready to fly.
Nose wheel: If stall is 50mph, test to no more than 30 mph a time or two down the runway. If directional control is go, go fly. Both of these are in no wind. Anything more, what are you trying to prove? EXPOSURE, EXPOSURE,EXPOSURE. Any more testing than that tells me the pilot, not the airplane, is the one not ready to fly.
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