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.