more broken stuff... big rant now

[klr_gil]

Hi All, Well, had the bike a year now. Fitted a tank bag and side luggage, I'm really liking it! I love the motor! A great around town ride and works very well for the occasional 200 mile jaunt. But....... And I mean butt.... Anyone have any experiences/recommondations for replacement saddles? The stock saddle is just too soft, there is no support. Maybe thats OK for off-road, but I'm using the bike for light one-up touring. any suggestions? thanks! klr_gil a-15 r-100s

[klr_gil]

Hi All, Well, had the bike a year now. I've fitted a tank bag and side luggage, I'm really liking it! I love the motor! Great around town bike, and good for the occasional 200 mile day! but...... And I mean butt.... Anyone have any recommendations/experiences with replacement saddles? The stock saddle is just too soft, there is no support. Maybe thats OK for off-road stuff, but I'm doing light one-up touring. Any suggestions? Thanks! klr_gil a-15 r-100s

[marshall]

Gil, Words alone cannot convey how strongly I feel about the quality of both product and customer service provided by Rocky Mayer of Bill Mayer Saddles. I sent Rocky my stock seat last fall and he really sent back a masterpiece. Not the cheapest answer to your request, but true quality is never cheap. This is the best bargain for the money, and truly the best single investment I have ever made in any bike I have ever owned. It will take a few hundred miles to break your saddle in, but then it just keeps getting better and better. I now have over 6,000 miles on the seat and I can't tell you what a difference it has made in my cycling enjoyment. Just my .04 worth, Marshall in Slidell, La 95 KLXC3 "Blackhorse" (in honor of those who served)

----- Original Message ----- From: "klr_gil" To: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 6:22 PM Subject: [DSN_klr650] replacement saddle > Hi All, > Well, had the bike a year now. Fitted a tank bag and side luggage, > I'm really liking it! I love the motor! A great around town ride and > works very well for the occasional 200 mile jaunt. But....... > And I mean butt.... > Anyone have any experiences/recommondations for replacement saddles? > The stock saddle is just too soft, there is no support. Maybe thats > OK for off-road, but I'm using the bike for light one-up touring. > any suggestions? > thanks! > klr_gil > a-15 > r-100s

[kilrcalikawi]

well that leads me to my other theory, there are three types of people, people without money (probably don't buy new motorcycles) people with enough money to survive and play a little people with money coming out their ears I along with the majority of the other listers probably fall into the center catagory, I have enough money to buy a 5K$ bike and fix it if it breaks, I don't have enough to buy a 10K$ and fix it if it breaks, which it will because it is a machine just like a car, or a boat or a house for that matter, stuff breaks, if you abuse it it breaks more, if you use it a lot it breaks more, if you don't take care of it it breaks more, if you play with it too much it breaks more, if it's not broken and you try to fix it, it will break. Thats just the way it is. I have seen a lot of people wondering about the quality of the klr lately, yes it has problems, we know about them becuase we share them with each other via this list. Before the internet we would have probably had our doohickeys fail and just think it was a freak thing that happens and not a defect of the bike. What we have done is managed to pick apart a bike and inform people of what happens to it, what you can do to fix it and how to improve upon what you have. I have almost 2000 miles on my bike now (and have yet to pay a dime for it, thank you uncle kawi), I love it, sure I've had my problems with it, (like I have had with my camaro and my various trucks) but all in all it is a good working machine, and serves it's purpose. There are bikes built for certain things, if you want a dirtbike go buy a friggin dirt bike, if you want a street bike go buy a harley (or a ninja, kinda depends on the street I guess), if you want a touring bike, go buy a goldwing we all know that. If you want something that will do it all for a fraction of the cost it's the KLR we all know that too, and even those of us out there who are looking at their KLR's in a different way now because of all the problems we have found know that. My point is, don't get discouraged if your KLR breaks, it like everything else breaks, we just happen to know when where and how it is going to now and we know the shortcomings of this bike when we go out to get one, unlike most riders who are uninformed about the bike that they are purchasing and have no idea what is in store for them. So for all of you KLR riders out there starting to doubt your bike, just think about all of the poor suckers who bought bikes that were giant pieces of crap and have no one to help fix them, and can't afford to take it to a dealer for repairs. okay I'm done for now I'm going to go buy my new $20,000 harley and pray it doesn't break, it shouldn't as long as I keep it parked in the garage. Trev A16 Hopefully this posts, I wrote he** in a reply and havent had anything post since oh I guess it was this one below

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., RM wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, kilrcalikawi wrote: > > >Well yeah if you beat the hell out of em, only difference, the BMW part > >prolly costs 4 times as much as the KLR part > > See, that's what gets me. I really don't beat the bike all that hard. > The two-up off-roading probably explains the subframe bolts but the rest > is a mystery. I take hard-way sections from time-to-time but I just don't > ride it that hard. > > Stu, Krok, Scotto, Russell, Toby, and everyone else who has ridden with me > know that I'm the logical choice for riding "sweep" - I rarely crash and > I'm usually the slowest rider.