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[aches@deltech.net]

( KLR riders are really friendly and generous. I doubt you'd see a BMW GS rider lend theirs out to anyone! So why are we so willing? ) This may relate to how many bikes that have been messed up by friends and no money offered to pay for damages. I'm VERY particular of who gets on my bikes ( no matter what make or how much it cost me) and MORE SO on Who's bike I do check rides on. This comes from 41 years of motorcycling and surviving to tell about it. ;p Andy Chesley

[Jim Hyman]

John, Your first message was sent directly to me & not the list. I replied to the message from home. I'm replying to this message from the egroups website. When I hit "reply" from your egroups message, the default is to mail "TO" the message's sender & not the list. By clicking on the down arrow at the right of the sender's email address, you have the option of sending to the list or the sender. When I respond to a mesaage, I first select DSN_KLR as the recipient. Before I send the message, I 'copy' the message & my reply (using CTRL+c on the complete message text & reply). Then I send the message to the list. Next I hit REPLY again, this time selecting the (default) sender. I delete the original message text and PASTE the copied message & my reply. Now I can send my reply directly to the original poster only. I assume that the rest of list is like me, in that I receive my messages batched in DIGEST mode (how presumptuous of me!). I do this so that the sender will get a 'personalized' reply that won't get lost in the 25 messages in DIGEST mode. No-one has (yet) complained that they're getting 2 responses from me. Many (lazy?) listers do not delete the message trailers that are attached at the end of messages by email servers or egroups when they respond to messages. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME You'll notice the "NKLR" in the SUBJECT line of this message. This is done to allow listers who filter their email to scan for & ignore or trash messages that aren't related to KLRs specifically. You'll soon find out that there is a wide variety of subjects on our list. Don't overlook the SEARCH feature to look for specific topics of interest. Be sure to check out the FILES, LINKS, & other options available at the website. Hope this helps & welcome to the list. Professor A9 Federal Way, WA. [USA] ps: Canuks are more than welcome on the list. [G!] eh? ================================== --- "John Magee" wrote:

> Sorry Jim if you get multiple replies from me....my posts were > disappearing. > > You made it sound as though there is nothing north of the > border....everyone in Canada must be holed up in their igloos. > If he is in Vanc. B.C., he should have no problem finding brake > pads, maybe even find a shop open on Sunday...what a concept! > > I have always wanted to do the trip to Yukon/Alaska as well. > I used to live in the west, but didn't have my KLR back then. > Now I'm in Toronto, Ontario Canada and am thinking seriously > about it. I'm not sure of the distance but I believe it would be > around 9000-10000km or up to 6000 miles return trip from here. > > Canuk on a KLR