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guymanbro@excite.com
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Post by guymanbro@excite.com » Fri Sep 07, 2001 11:12 am

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., "Steve Viertell" wrote:
> I understand there's some significant weight savings with the
aftermarket exhausts - What say ye ole grizzled vets? Seems like saving weight up high would be useful. Depends how you define significant...You do save some weight but how much, I don't know exactly. I'd guess that I helped my bike lose maybe 10 lbs with the S-trapp install but I never actually weighed it. So what is that on a 350lb bike... 2.85% or therabouts. Significant??? You make tha call (remember those commercial cliff- hangers?) dat brooklyn bum
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Steve Viertell
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Post by Steve Viertell » Fri Sep 07, 2001 11:26 am

I wouldn't call 10 pounds significant, I thought someone said the stocker was 50 pounds or something like that...Maybe I dreamed that :) Steve Viertell, Chico, CA '01 Concours, "Smurfie" '01 EX250, "Ninjita" '01 KLR650 "Thumper" COG 4274 IBA 6049 WA6ZGK www.viertell.com/bikes/
>>> 09/07/01 09:02AM >>> --- In DSN_klr650@y..., "Steve Viertell" wrote: > I understand there's some significant weight savings with the aftermarket exhausts - What say ye ole grizzled vets? Seems like saving weight up high would be useful. Depends how you define significant...You do save some weight but how much, I don't know exactly. I'd guess that I helped my bike lose maybe 10 lbs with the S-trapp install but I never actually weighed it. So what is that on a 350lb bike... 2.85% or therabouts. Significant??? You make tha call (remember those commercial cliff- hangers?) dat brooklyn bum Checkout Dual Sport News at http://www.dualsportnews.com Be part of the Adventure! Visit the KLR650 archives at http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.html?ln=klr650 Post message: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: DSN_klr650-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com List owner: DSN_klr650-owner@yahoogroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Eric Knight Holbrook
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Post by Eric Knight Holbrook » Fri Sep 07, 2001 12:36 pm

I think one, "it sucks" is usually worth about 50 "it works fine for me" comments in people's mind, plus, people generally don't comment when something is >not a problem< for them unless they feel the need to defend something. Let's say there's 990 positive comments/posts about the KLR, but imagine if 10 or 20 said the KLR sucks. A person looking to buy a new KLR and reading this group would probably come away thinking they might hold off. Those negatives really pack a punch. Especially when you consider that of the 1000 posts, there's probably 5,000 more that would have been postive but they just didn't post. As far as the Supertrapp. Yeah, people here and there are going hate it or have it break on them and those will probably be the people who post. The one's who it works fine for or don't have an issue with it, probably won't. With mine, I put it on, haven't messed with it, haven't repacked it, haven't tried to adjust or screw around with it, and it works fine and sounds great nearly 5,000 miles later. Has it improved performance? Yes, a bit. Enough to warrant it's installation? No. I did it for the look and sound and on both those counts it more than does the job. Based on how it's held up, I'm guessing it could go another 5,000 or 10,000 more before anything would happened to it. It just acts like a fixture on the bike now and I don't even think about it. If things were coming loose of it, or I hear rattles or saw cracks, then I'd worry, but I haven't. I ride the bike hard, rev it very high, leave it out uncovered in rain and snow, and yet it holds up very well (the Trapp and the bike). If it was going to break or show a weakness (the trapp), my gut feeling is that it would have done so by now. 5,000 miles is a long time. Now, having said all that, I have to mention that I'm about to trade in my KLR and go back towards the Sportbike area. This was my second KLR (had one about 10 years back) and while I love it, the problem comes down to me doing alot more riding on highways than I had anticipated last January. I don't want to Kill this bike by riding it at 6,500 RPM for 2 hour stretches on the highways and I really can't afford both bikes. I got a good trade in of about $4400. BTW, for anyone whose interested, the Pirelli Scorpion tires are Kick- ass for more street oriented use. I have the 140/80 rear and 90/90 front, and it such a HUGE HUGE difference in stability and traction around corners it's amazing. Plus, the 140 just looks nice and fat too :) The wear is excellent so far as well. You can find them here: http://www.pirelli-moto.com/products/products.asp? tyre=Scorpion+MT+90+S/T Anyhow... So long. Long live the KLR! I have a bout 5 or 6 more days before I let her go.
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Bogdan Swider
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Post by Bogdan Swider » Fri Sep 07, 2001 12:39 pm

> With all the horror stories I hear about various exhaust systems: > Supercrap, Cobra, etc. Sounds to me like the stock system the KLR comes > with is A-OK. > > comments?? > >
I'll comment till my ass is blue. Without doubt the best system (again especially for the money) is the stock can WITH the Tweety killing mod that Elden figured out and I had done. I'll send anyone the directions but I must warn you that your computer must be machine enough to take the hit. Bogdan
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InWoods13@aol.com
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Post by InWoods13@aol.com » Fri Sep 07, 2001 4:36 pm

In a message dated 9/7/01 10:16:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, eric@... writes: >>
Ditto on the IDS2, happy thumper. yup
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