the perfect windshield

[Jeff Saline]

On Tue, 02 May 2006 15:42:53 -0000 "Matt Brooks" writes: SNIP SNIP

> Also, I was wondering how many of you bought the new gaskets when > you > did the "Doo"? I am looking at the prices of things, and am curious > > how many reuse the old ones. > > Thanks, > Matt B > 06 GREEN with JC Whitney trunk (just getting uglier by the day:)

<><><><><> <><><><><> Matt, I bought the gaskets so we'd have them on hand if anyone needed one. So far I think we've used one side cover gasket in a dozen or so doohickey changes. Being careful when removing the side covers goes a long way in being able to reuse the gaskets. I've taken 5 minutes to remove a sidecover and gently loosen the gasket so it could be reused. That seems to me to be much easier than cleaning gasket surfaces after tearing a gasket. Best, Jeff Saline ABC # 4412 South Dakota Airmarshal Airheads Beemer Club www.airheads.org The Beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota 75 R90/6, 03 KLR650, 79 R100RT

[chris kelty]

I just installed one on my 04 looks great!!Color is grat with blk and red model Has anyone tried installing a pair of them as side saddlebags or panniers?? The trunk is very similar(knockoff) to the Givi bags which are used as side or top cases. Please respond off list if possible Thanks Chris --------------------------------- Sneak preview the all-new Yahoo.com. It's not radically different. Just radically better. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Andy Kirby]

Actually, please respond on list, I for one am curious to know if thsi would work as well Thanks Andy

----- Original Message ----- From: "chris kelty" To: dsn_klr650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 6:17 PM Subject: [DSN_KLR650] JC Whitney trunk >I just installed one on my 04 looks great!!Color is grat with blk and red >model Has anyone tried installing a pair of them as side saddlebags or >panniers?? The trunk is very similar(knockoff) to the Givi bags which are >used as side or top cases. Please respond off list if possible Thanks >Chris > > --------------------------------- > Sneak preview the all-new Yahoo.com. It's not radically different. Just > radically better. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > Archive Quicksearch at: > http://www.angelfire.com/ut/moab/klr650_data_search.html > List sponsored by Dual Sport News at: www.dualsportnews.com > List FAQ courtesy of Chris Krok at: www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html > Member Map at: http://www.frappr.com/dsnklr650 > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > >

[Tengai Mark Van Horn]

At 3:17 PM -0700 5/19/06, chris kelty wrote:

>I just installed one on my 04 looks great!!Color is grat with blk >and red model Has anyone tried installing a pair of them as side >saddlebags or panniers?? The trunk is very similar(knockoff) to the >Givi bags which are used as side or top cases. Please respond off >list if possible Thanks Chris

The spacing is different (at least for the boxy, all-black model), so you can't use a Monokey plate for the topcase. However, the individual Givi Monokey hardware bits (tongue and two mushroom heads) will work if you properly space them on your luggage mounts. I think the JC Whitney trunk (the all-black model; I have no experience with your model) is too tall, ergo, 'fat' for use as side panniers anyway, if looks matter at all to you. Mark

[Matt Brooks]

I had purchased one of the newer JC Whitney Medium trunks back in May when they were redesigned. Well, the mounting plate was plastic and had to be fixed with some two part plastic epoxy, and the "quick" release system never worked quite right. So I would be here to complain about it but.... Friday I was sent the new updated metal baseplate. I had never complained to JC Whitney about the cheap plastic one. They apparently just sent everyone who bought the trunk the updated baseplate. COOL!! I sent their customer service department a thank you, and also told them about the trouble with my trunks lack of quick release. They told me they would extend my warranty, and if I reordered one, they would send me a new one, and then I could send them the old broken one. They even covered the shipping for one way. Plus, the person I dealt with via email in their CS department was absolutely fabulous. I don't work for JC Whitney or support them in any way, but just thought you guys (and girls) might want to know about a good experience I had. Matt Brooks Antioch, IL 06 GREEN

[Donald Dickerson]

Matt, You too!? I was surprised, and delighted. The metal bracket is much better. No problems to date with the plastic one, but after reading from one reader how the tabs broke off, I quit letting my daughter ride with me. Now I don't have to worry about her leaning back and breaking the retaining tabs off and sending the trunk and her onto the highway! I never even knew about the new plate, just got an email from them saying my order had shipped. What order!?, my order was back in May and complete. I called and they said a new mounting bracket was on the way to me, didn't say why. Discretion told me to keep my mouth shut and see what they sent. I would have been happy had I requested the bracket, but for them to do it without being asked is even better. Don Dickerson --- Matt Brooks wrote:

> I had purchased one of the newer JC Whitney Medium trunks back in May > > when they were redesigned. Well, the mounting plate was plastic and > had to be fixed with some two part plastic epoxy, and the "quick" > release system never worked quite right. So I would be here to > complain about it but.... > Friday I was sent the new updated metal baseplate. I had never > complained to JC Whitney about the cheap plastic one. They > apparently just sent everyone who bought the trunk the updated > baseplate. COOL!! > > I sent their customer service department a thank you, and also told > them about the trouble with my trunks lack of quick release. They > told me they would extend my warranty, and if I reordered one, they > would send me a new one, and then I could send them the old broken > one. They even covered the shipping for one way. Plus, the person I > > dealt with via email in their CS department was absolutely fabulous. > > > I don't work for JC Whitney or support them in any way, but just > thought you guys (and girls) might want to know about a good > experience I had. > Matt Brooks > Antioch, IL > 06 GREEN > > > >

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[E.L. Green]

I just created it. Just rode in the rain with it. It's quiet, keeps the wind blast from pushing you around, and keeps enough rain off of you so that rain doesn't come down your neck. Oh, how it works: 1. Go to eBay, and buy one of those OEM windshields. 2. Cut the flip off the windshield and put it onto your KLR. You now have a summer windshield. But what about rainy weather and winter travel, you ask? Okay. Now take the windshield that you took off your KLR. Hold it up to the *front* of your chopped windshield. Using a small drillbit or nail, mark future holes in your chopped windshield so that you can mount the OEM windshield a half inch or so below the top of the chopped one. Drill holes. Put screws through holes. Put spacers on screws (I used big nuts). Put windshield on other side of spacer. Put washers and nuts on other side of windshield. You now have a gap between the chopped windshield and the OEM windshield. This helps equalize the pressure between front and back of your now-taller windshield as well as creates a stream of air up the back of the windshield as well as the front of the windshield and thus eliminates the buffeting. You've effectively created a +5 or +6 windshield, but one that is much quieter than the Clearview or the tall Kawasaki. It isn't as wide, but my experiment of using this in the rain shows that adequate protection occurs to keep rain from driving in through the front zipper of your rain gear, which is all I really care about. You can lean forward and tuck your helmet right at the top of the higher windshield. Wind blast hits my helmet about halfway up the visor, just right for blowing off rain. Another way of doing this would be to take a Clearview or a tall Kawasaki, and chop them up. The problem is that they are really too wide for this to be effective. The air coming in around the cutouts needed to fit the controls causes buffeting from underneath. I will try to take some pictures. Right now I am going to bed. - Eric the Wet (but only my rain gear!).