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fork spacers
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:43 pm
by cmilbourn1
I changed my seals and oil and added 2 inches of spacers and 15w oil.
Made a big difference in the front suspension. Does anyone know of a
recomended length for spacers and if I could damage anything whith what
I did?
fork spacers
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:20 pm
by Ross Lindberg
I can't think of any reason longer spacers or different oil will hurt
anything. You are just pre-loading the springs a bit more. I tried 15
wt oil with Progressive springs and was unhappy with the rough ride I
got on washboard gravel roads and switched to 7 wt on Paul Streeters
recommendation. Much smoother ride now. Enjoy your "new" suspension!
Ross Lindberg
Fertile, MN
--- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "cmilbourn1" wrote:
>
> I changed my seals and oil and added 2 inches of spacers and 15w
oil.
> Made a big difference in the front suspension. Does anyone know of a
> recomended length for spacers and if I could damage anything whith
what
> I did?
>
nklr parking your bike
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:58 pm
by Terry Hamrick
and a man you can respect
albatross
On 7/27/07, revmaaatin wrote:
>
> --- In
DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com , Alan L
> Henderson
> wrote:
> >
> > I would love to be able to park in the back of the lot and walk in
> for
> > exercise! I would love to be able to to ride my bicycle 30 or 40
> miles
> > after work. Hell, I would love to still be able to work. What would
> you
> > think if you saw my KLR with a handicap plate? How can you tell by
> > looking that the person doesn't deserve to have a handicap plate. Yes
> > there is abuse. You still have to give the benefit of the doubt
> unless
> > you personally know that the license holder is a fraud.
> > Alan Henderson A13 Iowa
> >
> My friend Buck McQuen was a double amputee--at the waist! (At the age
> of ~65, he stepped off the back of his farm tractor while grinding
> grain for the hogs and got 'wound' around the PTO to the feed grinder
> he was operating.) He certainly qualified for a handicap plate but
> never used the parking spots--he said it was for 'handicapped'
> folks. "Save it for someone who needs it" and would 'fist-walk' across
> the parking lot to avoid using a handicap spot. Buck learned to fly an
> airplane (an Aerocoupe) after his accident--wasn't much that slowed him
> down--although climbing up and down from tractors was difficult. He is
> long gone now, and he could walk on his gloved fist as fast as most of
> us walk on two feet. An amazing man-he suggested about his
> accident, "that is one way to lose weight, but not recommended."
> Always a positive/humorous attitude in the worst circumstances to the
> very end. We could all do as well.
> revmaaatin.
>
>
>
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