lowering links return!
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2016 7:11 am
Probably about 15 years ago I put a set of lowering links on my KLR due to a hip injury where I needed both feet on the ground. As soon as I healed up enough, off they came.
Fast forward 14 years! Still doing about 99% solo riding on the roads less traveled. Dropped the KLR on a little muddy gravel road last week, again. Main reason was slid the back around to far with the brake and my poor old tired leg just could not hold the lean angle so I stepped off and eased it to the ground. Now, to pick it up. Seems every year, it gets harder and harder for me to do this. I just bearly got it up this time.
So, getting home, I made the decision to put the old links back on, if I could find them in my shop somewhere's. Did find, did install, even changed out the handlebars and broken clutch lever while working on the front to get the tubes up an inch.
Feels kinda funny to have both feet on the ground again on this old bike. And, maybe, just maybe, it won't be down on the ground so often.
Don Dodge
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:22 AM, 'Magen, R. A. ' quahaug@... [DSN_KLR650] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Saturday night we REALLY had some wind !! My 300+ pound bike got blown over ! It was under it's cover, parked in the back yard/drive between the covered '77 Bonneville and the -also covered- {tall sided} Potter15 sailboat. Went right over -opposite side to side-stand- onto the trailer tongue.
The cover got ripped in a couple of places. Joanne & I got it up, BUT the RIGHT side of the plastic 'frontage' {where the headlight is inset} is all cracked !!
a - does anyone have a used one available ? 'aged', faded & sub-bleached, etc is just fine
b) anyone know what a new one costs ?
c) A 'fix' I am thinking about takes me back to Viet Nam . . . as a wooden boat builder I am VERY familiar with Epoxy & Fiberglass cloth. Some 5:1 mix and some 2in strips of cloth should be almost invisible. However, when I was 'over there', there was a C-123 that 'accumulated' a 'few' bullet holes during operations. No problem, the 'tin benders' would patch her up with strips & squares of Aluminum riveted over the holes. They would paint them RED and the ship was nicknamed 'Patches' !! I just may do the same with the fiberglass repairs !! . . . or paint the whole front Camouflage . . .
Ron
2003 KLR650
1977 T140V Triumph Bonneville {soon to have a sidecar}