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I use a front sprocket that is one tooth smaller than stock (14 I believe) and it gives a little extra grunt for off road use. Doesn't make a huge difference in rpm at highway speeds. -----Original Message----- From: Dale Johnson [mailto:Dale_Johnson@...] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 14:23 PM To: DSN_klr650@egroups.com Subject: [DSN_klr650] Chain/Sprocket combo from Chaparral Well, it's almost payday. Looks like I am going to get the chain/sprocket combo from Chaparral, Renthal front and read steel sprocket and a RK O-ring chain for 108. My question is this, I am running stock front and rear sprocket now, I ride 150 miles a day street. but love to offroad too. My front sprocket is in good condition and my rear has one chipped tooth. Any suggestions on what size sprockets i should get? Thanks in advance. Also I am having a verry LONG day, so if this is a double post I appoligize. Dale A14 Can't wait to fix her ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a NextCard Visa, in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.9% Intro or 9.9% Fixed APR http://click.egroups.com/1/6630/6/_/911801/_/963523807/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit the KLR650 archives at http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.html?ln=klr650 Support Dual Sport News... dsneditor@... Let's keep this list SPAM free! Visit our site at http://www.egroups.com/group/DSN_klr650 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@egroups.com

This is a repost... I sent it last night, but egroups didn't take it... Here's try two...

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Sorry I couldn't help myself, but the whole backup discussion has bitten me this will be long winded so pass if you have no interest in your data. The optimal setup in my mind would be to have two large hard drives in a RAID0 (zero) configuration... This means that the data is actively mirrored across both drives, this has the benefit of preventing a failure of one hard drive from taking down your system. If there is a failure, the drives are automatically switched, and you can continue on your merry way. The bad part about this is what you do to one drive you do to the other, instaneously. So this won't prevent your computer from crashing when you delete the system registry or open that message from "a friend". Also this requires specialized hardware (a RAID card), but Promise makes an IDE RAID card for about $60, so a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks is finally becoming true as you don't need SCSI drives anymore. The good part is that you insulate yourself from hardware failure and you speed up your hard drive access (as you can read different information from both drives at the same time). Cost: RAID Card ~$60 Another IDE hard drive $100-300 In addition to setting up a RAID on my box, I would recommend picking up either a Castlewood Orb drive (about $170 for the drive and ~$20 for a 2.2 GB cartridge) or an Onstream tape drive (about $200 for the drive and $30-50 for a 30GB cartridge) for doing your backups on. Then with some backup software like Backup Exec (which I recommend for Wintel machines) you can setup the following backup schedule. You'll need at least 4 tapes (cartidges, whatever you're using). First do a complete backup every week (level 1) on a certain day like Friday. Then until the next level 1 backup, do incremental backups, level 2, (using the same tape) everyday, either based on the previous days backups or the last good level 1 backup. Every new level 1 backup you do with a new tape. At the end of the month you can start to recycle the first tape .... And so on. If you really wanted to get into it you could also schedule monthly and yearly backups. The weekly backups should be kept for one month, the monthlies for one year and the yearlies until you run out of storage space. Well, this is more of an enterprise level backup scheme but I think the basis of it still applies to home backups... If any anyone needs any recs or has questions I am more than happy to help... I deal with this everyday and it would be a whole lot more rewarding to help someone who will appreciate it rather than my ungrateful co-workers (whose collective asses I have saved more times than they know). Good night... Zack 91 KLR