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[dsn_klr650] extra rims
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2000 7:54 am
by Jim Jackson
Price here from the mfg for a front rim, spokes, nipples and hub without
axle and brake/speedo attachments is $763.56. I've heard Excel makes the
rims but I can't find their web site and Dennis Kirk doesn't sell them in
the proper sizes:
Front: 1.60 x 21
Rear: 2.50 x 17
If you come up with anything please pass it on.
Later,
Jim Jackson II
A13 - South Carolina
>
>Havin' a great time breaking the new beast in. What a pig it is off road,
>now I know why tire discussions play such a big part on this list. You need
>knobs for the soft stuff for sure, I think an extra set of rims would be
>the cats ass.
>ciao
>John
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[dsn_klr650] extra rims
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2000 8:43 am
by Jim Jackson
Ya mean it's not that simple? I figured if I found a log along the highway
somewhere I could just pop the bike up and swap 'em out... can't take more
than a minute or two right?
Jim Jackson II
A13 - South Carolina
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'Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove
doubt.' Abe Lincoln
>
>Havin' a great time breaking the new beast in. What a pig it is off road,
>now I know why tire discussions play such a big part on this list. You need
>knobs for the soft stuff for sure, I think an extra set of rims would be
>the cats ass.
>ciao
>John
>
>
>This reminds me of a funny story. While at the Thumper Rally in Salmon,
>Idaho I mounted up some IRC GP110 tires to replace my rapidly wearing
>MT21's. The MT21's still had some life in them, so I just strapped them to
>the back of the KLR and road back to New Mexico. Outside of Salt Lake, I
>stopped at a rest area. This guy came up to me and inquired about where
>I'd been and this and that. He saw the knobbies strapped to the bike and
>inquired "So, when you want to go offroad, you just stop and mount up those
> knobbie tires, right?" At first I thought he was joking, but then
>realized that he seriously thought that anytime I wanted to go in the dirt,
>I'd just pull to the side of the road and swap tires. Being the jokester I
>am, I said," yep, that's exactly what I do". He walked back to his family
>and I later wandered to the facilities. As I was passing his car, he and
>his wife were talking, "... and when he wants to travel off-road, he just
>pulls of to the side, changes tire!
>s and goes. When he gets back to the road, he changes tires again..."
>
>If only it were that easy.
>
>Gino
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[dsn_klr650] front sprocket nut torque /
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2000 2:55 pm
by e. rhoads
> I incorrectly posted the torque for the countershaft sprocket nut on the
> newer KLRs as 72 ft/lb.
>
=== No, 72 lbs. is the correct torque for that bolt. I have a copy of
original shop data sheet for the trans. change here and was specifically
given the torque spec of 72 ft lbs. for that nut.
eric