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Hello: Boy, I'm just full of questions today. Okay, here's another weird one. I replaced my stock 99 KLR650 pegs with a pair of IMS Pro Pegs. Big bucks, about $90 or so from local dealer. Mounting pegs. Right peg is perfect. The peg is fine and the replacement spring to hold the peg in place is much beefier. Nice. 2 minute job. Left peg is not perfect. The peg is fine but the spring is not as beefy as the one on the right. Looks almost like the stock spring. It's puny and while it does push the peg back into place it's sort of anemic (read OEM). Call IMS. IMS says "We'll ship you out a new left spring today". Wow, great service. Two days pass. Package arrives. Open package. What's inside? You'll never guess. A little bag with Kawasaki written on it. Says "Genuine Parts" "92144-1567" "Spring, Step RE (OB). What the heck? I compare it to the left spring I already have and it's the same. Call IMS. Wait 5 minutes for the right guy. Explain situation. He says "We use what Kawasaki sends us". I explain again that I purchased IMS Pro Pegs for $90 f**king dollars and I don't want a Kawasaki OEM spring. I want one like the big burly one on the left. He shrugs. He says there's nothing he can do. I ask once again: "who makes the springs on the right, it's not at all like the OEM right spring?". He says: "Kawasaki". When I ask him why he didn't tell me that a week ago when I called to complain about the spring he just grunts. Okay, so here I am. I'm pissed. I'm guessing I have few options: 1. Fred: Do the IMS pegs you have at the shop have a big beefy spring on the right and a little stock looking spring on the right? 2. Fred: Do you know where I can get a burly left spring? 3. Anyone else out there deal with this or even notice it? Thanks for listening. Tom A13 PS: The really funny thing is that the background music/speech you hear while waiting on hold for the correctt IMS guy for 5 minutes goes like this: "If there's anything we can do to improve our products just tell our people. We're here to make you a satisfied customer". There's irony for you. ===== ========================================================= Tom Vervaeke, Colorado, USA |Email: tom_vervaeke@... '99 Kawasaki KLR-650, 5.0K |Ph: 719-495-2152 (home) '96 BMW R1100GS, Black 61.5K|Ph: 719-590-2133 (work) Colorado DualSporters Group |Ph: 719-650-4578 (cell/riding) Try: http://www.egroups.com/group/Colorado-Dualsporters ========================================================= __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/

tom_vervaeke writes:

> Right peg is perfect. The peg is fine and the replacement spring > to hold the peg in place is much beefier. Nice. 2 minute job. > > Left peg is not perfect. The peg is fine but the spring is not > as beefy as the one on the right.

Springs? You got springs with your aftermarket pegs? You don't need no stinking springs. Send those overpriced footrests back and get the $70 set. No springs included. Gravity, the motorcyclist's natural enemy, happens to be your friend in this case. Not only is it free, it's the law. Just let this convenient force of nature return your pegs to their fully extended position and your aura will assume the warm glow of contentment. Chris "Mr. Easygoing" Lawson

yeah, i don't have any springs on mine either, and no probs yet, including enough offroad abuse to cause my recently-discovered bilateral fork seal leaks. doh! _pete -----Original Message----- From: LawsonCL@... [mailto:LawsonCL@...] Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 6:05 PM To: DSN_klr650@egroups.com Subject: [DSN_klr650] Re: IS IMS PULLING MY CHAIN? tom_vervaeke writes:

> Right peg is perfect. The peg is fine and the replacement spring > to hold the peg in place is much beefier. Nice. 2 minute job. > > Left peg is not perfect. The peg is fine but the spring is not > as beefy as the one on the right.

Springs? You got springs with your aftermarket pegs? You don't need no stinking springs. Send those overpriced footrests back and get the $70 set. No springs included. Gravity, the motorcyclist's natural enemy, happens to be your friend in this case. Not only is it free, it's the law. Just let this convenient force of nature return your pegs to their fully extended position and your aura will assume the warm glow of contentment. Chris "Mr. Easygoing" Lawson 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

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----- Original Message ----- [b]From:[/b] tom_vervaeke@... [b]To:[/b] DSN_klr650@egroups.com [b]Sent:[/b] Tuesday, September 26, 2000 2:10 PM [b]Subject:[/b] [DSN_klr650] IS IMS Pulling my Chain? 1. Fred: Do the IMS pegs you have at the shop have a big beefy spring    on the right and a little stock looking spring on the right?   [b]Looks like the right spring has two coils and the left has three.  I wasn't aware that the stock pegs had any springs. :[/b] 2. Fred: Do you know where I can get a burly left spring?   [b]You might try a large motorcycle parts department.[/b] [b]Did Susan get her part we ordered for her Suzuki?[/b] [b][/b]  [b]Fred[/b]

>to be able ride their KLR on our public lands, there are a thousand >irresponsible riders who would run the land the bare and another thousand >environmentalists who would like to make sure no one but themselves

Motorcycles don't run the land bare. For someone to say this is pure evidence that they don't ever get very far off the road, or off the trail either. They spend time in high-density areas and they **think** they really get "out there". The impact of motorcycles is like a drop in the ocean compared to the impact of extraction industries. People see a rutted trail and get all 'varmintal. Excuse me, but strip mines, or pollution might be a little more significant than a mark in the dirt. Environmental opposition to motorcycles is a **social issue** NOT an environmental issue. Those within the environmental movement are actually taxing the movement to forward their own silly exclusionist peeves. They are damaging the name of true environmental concern, callously trading away possible environmental strides by making enemies with a large portion of the voting public! Am I the only one who sees the idiocy in this? Why can't they enlist support from ALL forest users? What they need is a little diversity training before they throw the baby out with the bathwater. I realize you're (ZM) probably aware of this, but I get so tired of hearing that motorcycles are a significant tax on the environment. A motorcyclist who is concerned about shared lands is on equal footing with anyone who is concerned about shared lands. You can see the truth - there's no need to repeat their BS. ride-on, Tom