On Mar 16, 2016 3:30 AM,
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> 1a. Luvin my Old KLR still
> From: achesley43@...
> 1b. Re: Luvin my Old KLR still
> From: Eddie
> 1c. Re: Luvin my Old KLR still
> From: Martin Earl
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> 1a. Luvin my Old KLR still
> Posted by: achesley43@... achesley43@...
> Date: Tue Mar 15, 2016 2:47 am ((PDT))
>
> Still love being out on my old KLR for afternoon rides down out back roads of gravel, broken up black top and good black top.
> Finally bought a new rear shock from Progressive and like it. Softens up the back a bit over our hash bumps in the roads. That was the KLR's present for the year.
> As per GPS, still using my Garmin 276c even though there are starting to get some dark streaks and smugges on it. I do have a spare that I can take the screen off it when the time arrives. Why Garmin has not made a good follow up to it for motorcycles is beyond me. I love being able to operate it on the go as per screen map plus and minus.
> I do have a Montana 600 also but mainly use it on me Suzy Bandit and in the Truck.
> Probably won't be much longer before I have to change out the chain and sprockets as the chain is starting to get fairly sloppy. Really thinking on going to down a tooth on the rear. Don't really want the tallness of the 16 front but would like just a touch more in that direction. I do have a very lightly use 16 so I could use it and the chain in stock and just go to a larger rear, But, that might end up costing me a longer chain. We'll see.
> Still loving the change in engine preformance with the KLX needle and jetting kit , plus the Ex Cam advance. Really woke it up in the 2 to 5 thousand rpm range when I run 99% of the time with the biggest amount of that time in the 3 to 4 thousand range.
> Hope to see more action on this old site. I still check it most everyday.
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> 1b. Re: Luvin my Old KLR still
> Posted by: "Eddie" edgyver40@... edgyver31906
> Date: Tue Mar 15, 2016 4:00 pm ((PDT))
>
> I sold my 2009 KLR in 2012 to buy a Yamaha Super Tenere 1200.
> I
> don't regret buying the Yamaha at all. But, there are plenty of days where it's
> just a bit much and I miss the 650.
> I did the doohickey, thermo-bob, Progressive suspension upgrade and a host of
> farkles on the Kawasaki and it was a faithful companion for ne
>
> ---
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> arly 19k trouble-free miles. (Barely broken in by some accounts!)
> =)
>
> -eddie
> Original Message:
> From: achesley43@... [DSN_KLR650] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com>
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> Sent: 3/15/2016 5:47:11 AM
> Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Luvin my Old KLR still
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>
> Still love being out on my old KLR for afternoon rides down out back roads of
> gravel, broken up black top and good black top.
> Finally bought a new rear shock from Progressive and like it. Softens up the
> back a bit over our hash bumps in the roads. That was the
> KLR's present for the year.
> As per GPS, still using my Garmin 276c even though there are starting to get some dark streaks and smugges on it. I do have a spare that I can take the screen off it when the time arrives. Why Garmin has not made a good follow up to it for motorcycles is beyond me. I love being able to operate it on the go as per screen map plus and minus.
> I do have a Montana 600 also but mainly use it on me Suzy Bandit and in the Truck.
> Probably won't
> be much longer before I have to change out the chain and sprockets as the chain
> is starting to get fairly sloppy. Really thinking on going to down a tooth on
> the rear.
> Don't really want the tallness of the 16 front but would like just a touch more in that direction. I do have a very lightly use 16 so I could use it and the chain in stock and just go to a larger rear, But, that might end up costing me a longer chain. We'll
> see.
> Still loving the change in engine preformance with the KLX needle and jetting
> kit , plus the Ex Cam advance. Really woke it up in the 2 to 5 thousand rpm
> range when I run 99% of the time with the biggest amount of that time in the 3
> to 4 thousand range.
> Hope to see more action on this old site. I still check it most everyday.
>
>
>
>
>
> Messages in this topic (3)
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> 1c. Re: Luvin my Old KLR still
> Posted by: "Martin Earl" mjearl4@... revmaaatin
> Date: Tue Mar 15, 2016 8:52 pm ((PDT))
>
> Andy and others-
> I am still loving my KLR as well.
> We don't have quite as many KLR days as the folks of LA have, but we get
> by, especially if we watch the forecast carefully.
>
> March in the Dakota's is a very fickle time; there was a weather window of
> 4 days and off I went! Temps were forcast to be in the mid-60's, with a
> brisk morning air. cough.
> I changed out my trail-gears of 14/46 for a 16/46; aired up the tires to
> 24f/26r, packed a few clothes and pointed the bike North.
>
> Logged 315 miles on Thursday on a trip from Sturgis, SD to Williston, ND.
> 150 miles of that was near, continuous gravel roads that begin on the N.
> side of Belle Fourche, SD which wind up through buttes, prairie, and wadi's
> speckled with open-range cow pies, conditional gravel roads (is some
> places) that resemble marbles over glass, and 'edge-traps' created by
> cattle trucks squeezing soft gravel roads up between the dual-wheels.
>
> The wind was 25+ mph tailwind which made the riding more enjoyable going
> N. ah, not so easy going South on Saturday. shrug.
> I traveled near the area of the now-more-famous Hugh Glass, and his bear
> mauling experience. (Movie: The Revenant)
> I did not see any signs of Hugh, Leo, the movie company or angry bears. I
> guess I should look harder or slow down so the bear can at least get a
> glimpse of the KiLeR.
>
> There were an abundance of Golden Eagles (soaring), Pronghorn Antelope,
> Mule Deer, some White Tail deer and a few Prairie Dog towns without much
> activity, and of course, cows and calves; many of the mothers of all
> species having recently given birth. None of the critters move much with
> the wind is blowing. My guess the (hungry) Eagles are looking for fresh
> animal births that were not protected or were stillborn.
> Still to early here for vultures which migrate on the big-winds out of the
> South...my Missouri KLR brother =m2, tells me he is seeing buzzards in
> central Missouri, so Spring is not far behind.
>
> Two years ago, I was in middle Tennessee and noticed a huge crowd of
> vultures, some in trees, some on the ground, harassing a cow in a
> farm-field along the Natchez Trace. Her calf was dead, and the
> vultures were in the mood for converting calf-flesh to buzzard scat.
> It was the big circle of life being completed on the TRACE as well as here
> on the prairie. Same story, just a different location.
>
> I visited our friend Ross L. who lives in Williston, and works in the
> BAKKEN oil fields supplying fork lifts of all sorts and variety's. Oil
> field work has noticeably slowed down significantly as evidenced by the low
> number of trucks on the highway, as well as the minimum amount of
> cycles you spend at a stop light.
> Ross tells me that people just abandon their apartments and contents as the
> availability of U-Haul trucks prohibits some folks from taking their
> worldly belongs home, to where ever that might be now, or next. Williston
> (community) has gone through a huge boom to a nearly identical bust. Many,
> many apartments are left in various states of construction, unprotected
> from the elements and will be 'dust' in short order if the roofs and
> windows are not installed. From some appearances, it is already to late
> for many construction projects that I could see.
>
> The N/S ride home on Saturday was a parallel-offset ~20/30 miles into the
> Montana side of the Dakota's state line, resulting in an increase of ~35
> miles for the return trip.
> Forecast wind for Saturday, was about the same as Thursday, 25+ mph, with
> G38; temps did not reach 45F until 1000 so we were not in much of a hurry
> to get cold! Ross rode with me ~100 miles West, then South, to the I-94
> interstate where we parted company. I noticed in the first 100 miles
> (about 25 washboard gravel) that the steering head bearing seemed to be a
> little loose, and turned out, they were loose enough that you could feel
> them unload in the washboard section. I elected to stay on paved roads for
> the next 235 miles.
>
> The Montana prairie is also returning to life slowly; it is possible that
> we are still a good five weeks or more of Spring blizzards, or Spring rains
> if the weather forecasters are correct in their assessments of el Nino.
> The gravel roads are presently a very dusty affair, as though it were
> middle summer. It would be nice to see some rain in the upper plains
> states, perhaps the el Nino will do some good here soon. The middle South
> is feeling the brunt of that now, and if the jet-steam brings down the
> cold, el Nino will bring the snow...and delays to KLR riding....
>
> The rain falls on the just and the unjust. (Matt 5.45) Perhaps it will
> come soon.
>
> and so it goes.
> m1.
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> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:47 AM, achesley43@... [DSN_KLR650] <
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DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> >
> > Still love being out on my old KLR for afternoon rides down out back roads
> > of gravel, broken up black top and good black top.
> >
> > Finally bought a new rear shock from Progressive and like it. Softens up
> > the back a bit over our hash bumps in the roads. That was the KLR's present
> > for the year.
> >
> > As per GPS, still using my Garmin 276c even though there are starting to
> > get some dark streaks and smugges on it. I do have a spare that I can take
> > the screen off it when the time arrives. Why Garmin has not made a good
> > follow up to it for motorcycles is beyond me. I love being able to operate
> > it on the go as per screen map plus and minus.
> >
> > I do have a Montana 600 also but mainly use it on me Suzy Bandit and in
> > the Truck.
> >
> > Probably won't be much longer before I have to change out the chain and
> > sprockets as the chain is starting to get fairly sloppy. Really thinking on
> > going to down a tooth on the rear. Don't really want the tallness of the 16
> > front but would like just a touch more in that direction. I do have a very
> > lightly use 16 so I could use it and the chain in stock and just go to a
> > larger rear, But, that might end up costing me a longer chain. We'll see.
> >
> > Still loving the change in engine preformance with the KLX needle and
> > jetting kit , plus the Ex Cam advance. Really woke it up in the 2 to 5
> > thousand rpm range when I run 99% of the time with the biggest amount of
> > that time in the 3 to 4 thousand range.
> >
> > Hope to see more action on this old site. I still check it most everyday.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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