Wilsons Sandbox

Gino has the scoop on it...part of the Spring industry announcements. We used to get advance reports from Hiro Watanbe but and his troublesome friend, Redondo Ron, have vanished... Kurt

>>> lucynethel1998 03/28/02 12:29PM >>>

On Ortega Highway yesterday I stopped for a 5 minute break near Quest Diagnosics. I swear a KLR650 TWIN went by me? Even stranger for me, it actually had to STOP in front of me at the red light so I was able to SEE and HEAR the V twin. Anyone else seen or heard of any test bike or "anything"? The other weird thing about it, was it was a BEAUTIFUL candy RED. It was liking looking at "my" bike, cept it was BEAUTIFUL instead of somewhat ugly. (No offense to my bike!) Wonder if I missed out on some news or something? I know I have been sick lately BUT....I knows what I see & hear. Well, "kinda". Another thing I know for sure now. If they built the bike I saw and heard yesterday, I would choose it over the V Strom I was planning. I waited a full day before asking this group since I was checking ALL search engines I could so I wouldn't yet again make a fool of myself.... Mike 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/

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., "lucynethel1998" wrote:

> On Ortega Highway yesterday I stopped for a 5 minute break near > Quest Diagnosics. I swear a KLR650 TWIN went by me? Even stranger

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> me, it actually had to STOP in front of me at the red light so I was > able to SEE and HEAR the V twin. Anyone else seen or heard of any > test bike or "anything"? The other weird thing about it, was it was

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> BEAUTIFUL candy RED. It was liking looking at "my" bike, cept it was > BEAUTIFUL instead of somewhat ugly. (No offense to my bike!) > Wonder if I missed out on some news or something? I know I have > been sick lately BUT....I knows what I see & hear. Well, "kinda". > Another thing I know for sure now. If they built the bike I saw and > heard yesterday, I would choose it over the V Strom I was planning.

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> waited a full day before asking this group since I was checking ALL > search engines I could so I wouldn't yet again make a fool of > myself.... Mike

A Yamaha TDM perhaps? Or maybe a Zukasaki Bombadier 950. same motor as in the ski boat. Slide

> > A Yamaha TDM perhaps? > > Or maybe a Zukasaki Bombadier 950. > same motor as in the ski boat. > > Slide

No. It said in silver-KLR 650, also had a V logo. I posted back to Kurt, don't see it (as USUAL!) I was drinking some water out of my tail pack. I tried to scramble into the pack to get my digital camera. The guy was stopped right in front of me about 10 feet away. He saw me and flat nailed it down the road (through a RED light) I just threw my helmet and water into a saddle bag and took off after him. Between being old, him having a head start and much faster bike, I am very sick, well, I have a bunch of excuses but he left me for DEAD. In case my lil KLR 650's feeling got hurt, I posted some pix of her in the phot's section under "oldtimer2's KLR". She's a bit "sensitive" about the whole thing. Especially since I have a check already from the bank for my new V Strom. I got BAD sick about 2 months ago the day after I got the check. Have been in and out of the hospital. As a result, have NOT taken the check to the dealer and NOW, do not plan to! If I can find this bike in production, I will buy it! ANY price, period. I can't believe how good it looked in red. I wonder if it is a joint venture bike between Kawasaki & Suzuki? The motor looked different than the SV 650 though so I just don't know???? The weirdest part (to me) was it even had all the KLR badging etc. If anyone gets/has ANY info on this bike PLEASE e mail me at oldtimer2@.... I am probably going back into the hospital in a day or so and don't know what will happen. May have Cancer? Thanks, Mike P.S,, the check was from People's First Bank. You get approved right on the internet in 10 minutes! Had the check 2 days later at only 7.49%. Sure beats the dealer financing! Mike