last year for the gen. i

[Eddie]

I sold my 09 KLR in 2012 and still enjoy the list a lot. To start a simple thread: What s the funniest way you ve ever dropped a bike? I fell exactly once on my KLR and that was at a stop along a remote country road. I put my downhill foot in a hole of sorts and over I went, upside down in a tangle of dried kudzu vines. Luckily, a 70+ year old man stopped his truck to help me get it back upright again. Zero damage to bike and rider, I thanked my good Samaritan and whomever imported kudzu. After all, without it, I wouldn t have had as soft a landing . -eddie in Georgia. From: 'Fred Hink' moabmc@... [DSN_KLR650] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 1:19 PM To: ateam@...; DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [DSN_KLR650] This group going away? This list is and always has been about opinions. You don t need to be an expert to have an opinion. I too read every post but as like most things with age, this list has slowed down quite a bit lately. We have had some characters on the list in the past that have mostly moved on. Remembering Gino, Jennifer, Bogdan, Jakeman, amongst others. Too bad we are not getting New Blood to fill those shoes. Through the past 20 years or so this list like a lot of other things have changed. One thing that never changes is good online entertainment. If you haven t seen any of Alex Chacon s videos, check out his latest here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owrFSzvTUng&feature=em-uploademail Fred http://www.arrowheadmotorsports.com From: TONY HERALD ateam@... [DSN_KLR650] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2018 6:58 PM To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [DSN_KLR650] This group going away? I hope not. I don't post because I don't have expert advice to contribute. But I read every post. Ateamnm Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:20 AM, RJTaylor@... [DSN_KLR650] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote: I noticed the KLR Adventure Group has already ceased activity. And this group has tailed off significantly. I assume everyone is going to Facebook groups for discussion? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Buddy Eckles]

Well said, Fred.

Sent from Outlook [b]From:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of 'Fred Hink' moabmc@... [DSN_KLR650] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> [b]Sent:[/b] Friday, March 16, 2018 10:21 AM [b]To:[/b] RJTaylor@...; DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Subject:[/b] Re: [DSN_KLR650] Re: This group going away?   This list is only as active as anyone wants to post something.  If you want to be constructive, that s great.  If not then maybe you would be better off some place else. Fred http://www.arrowheadmotorsports.com   [b]From:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com" id="ygrps-yiv-1180538268LPlnk85907"> RJTaylor@... [DSN_KLR650] [b]Sent:[/b] Friday, March 16, 2018 9:54 AM [b]To:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com" id="ygrps-yiv-1180538268LPlnk954776"> DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Subject:[/b] [DSN_KLR650] Re: This group going away?     To be honest.  I don't wish to be active in a list where it's limited to an obituary.  I dropped my alumni membership for the same reason.  This list is either active or it ain't.  Technical info is lacking.  And the philosophical questions are gone.  No more KLR rants. I simply pass over the technical articles in Facebook I don't need.  Standing joke among Millenials is that Facebook is "old technology". If it's too new for some people, well..... I'll stay on the Facebook and pass over what I don't need.  So the question remains.  Is this an active group or ain't it?

[bryanonfire]

It is true that activity on this site is a lot lower than in years past. When I post it is almost always to ask questions about why my motorcycle isn't working quite right, and sometimes to offer camping tips. I've thought about posting some trip reports but it seems... I don't know...a little vain, since I've been far more fortunate than most in the KLR love affair? Yet I do like to read other people's reports, especially if they are about someplace I don't know. Maybe we all need to think more about why we ride. KLRs still seem to sell pretty well. I see them out and about. What do we do to attract people to this site?

I've never been on Facebook or any other social media and don't plan to start now. Seeing people diving face-first into that tiny screen freaks me out. There is no life in there, no wind, no smell of fresh-cut hay, no crunch of glacier snow under your boots. My other travel hobby is river running all over the west, and groups like Utah Rafters at Yahoo have met the same fate... lost to Facebook. Yet people complain about the same thing, hard to find files about stuff you really want to learn about. 

Whatever happens, I'm grateful to this group because it was instrumental in changing my life. About fifteen years ago I decided I wanted to get a motorcycle and start riding to remote places. With a damaged knee, backpacking and skiing had become problematic. Partly it was because of the mileage you get on a bike, but it was also about living closer to the bone. You just can't carry as much as you can on a four wheeled vehicle so you have to trim life down to the basics. I never was into motor homes, but even a van was starting to seem a bit extravagant, not to mention having trouble on rough terrain. So I did a lot of research and decided my first motorcycle would be a KLR 650. I took a MSF course, shopped around, and bought a bike. A big part of deciding on a KLR was this group.

I'm a lucky guy when it comes to KLRs. I bought a used 2003 with just three thousand miles on it in 2005. It had been dropped hard so some dings, but overall, solid. Since then I've ridden it in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. Mostly back roads. And I ride it to the grocery store a couple times a week, or to run other errands since the nearest town of any size is about 15 miles away. It still purrs like a chicken every time I start it up.

I liked that bike so much that when some jobs in the Czech Republic came up, I decided to get a motorcycle over there. They don't sell KLRs in Europe except, apparently, in the UK. But one turned up at a dealer in Olomuc, CZ. I'm guessing some guy wanting to live the dream ran out of dream after shipping the bike over from the USA and riding a thousand miles east. It's a 2009. I'm co-owner with a Czech friend. He handles the paperwork, I get to ride it a couple of weeks a year. The thing runs great and has taken me through CZ, Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania. This  September I'm going to ride out through Hungary to Romania and have a look around Serbia on my way back.

There's something about a motorcycle that is totally different from a car. In CZ, people planted hundreds of apple and pear trees along country roads. (f**kin' socialists ;>) When the fruit ripens, anyone can go out and gather up baskets full to take home to can or feed to their pigs. Mile after mile of fruit trees, on a public right-of-way. Riding down a narrow country lane with the scent of apples filling the air, dropping down into the cool moist air of stream beds and then up onto the dryer, dusty smelling meadows... can't get that from a car.

The coolest motorcycle moment of my life was when I took the most remote border crossing open between Montenegro (where, by the way, the roads are so steep there was a switchback IN A TUNNEL, and it was an unpaved road in an unlit tunnel) and Albania, where they really do have concrete pillboxes everywhere. After going through the straight-out-of-Hollywood border crossing with bored, suspicious crossing guards and a red and white gate with a cement counterweight, I rode through a stream, past a pillbox, and up a rough, unbladed road. Standing on the pegs due to the rough, uphill track I kept saying out loud, with a huge grin on my face, "I'm in fucking ALBANIA!"

Never been so stoked in my life, and I've had adventures in 24 countries so far.

Where they still harvest hay by hand and stack it in huge, steep cones. Nobody speaks any English so everything is sign language except hello, please, and thank you. The food is simple: lamb or fish harvested an hour or two before you eat it, and delicious fresh tomatoes and fruit. Yet one morning at a campground at the end of a long, unpaved road deep into the mountains, a beautiful little girl about six years old came up to me from her cabin as I lubed my chain for the day's ride and said, in perfect English, "What are you doing?" 

Daddy is a "businessman" in New York. She was back in Albania on a visit to the old country. Globalism.

And the KLR never gave me a moment of trouble. This is a machine that can take you to places you never dreamed of, and even after you've been there, it still seems like a dream.

Point Sublime. Kotor Bay. Spis Castle. The KLRs have taken me on fantastic voyages.

This year a similar opportunity came up in Australia. Yep, I am now half owner of a 2013 KLR in Oz. Haven't ridden it yet, I'm heading over to Sydney on May 2nd and will meet the bike for the first time in Canberra a couple days later. I'll saddle up and ride through The Great Dividing Range up to a job near Brisbane. Same paint as the Czech bike, which is kind of cool. So now I have one full ownership in the US and two half- ownership KLRs on other continents. My body isn't getting any stronger or more flexible but I feel pretty good at 59. I plan to ride as long as I can but I'm not a mechanical genius, I will need help from you guys when stuff doesn't work. 

For example, after riding in almost constant rain from Croatia through Austria on my way back to CZ, why did the 2009 bike just up and die a few miles from home in stop and go traffic? I pushed it into a convenience store/gas station that just happened to carry fuses. I found a blown fuse, replaced it, started up, blew again. Repeat. Put the bike behind the store under a tarp, found a place for the night, came back the next day (sunny now) put in a new fuse, and it was fine. Any ideas? I can't remember which fuse it was.

Why does my '03 eat batteries if I am gone for a month and forget to put it on the battery tender?

Anyway, I've learned a lot from this site, tires to oil, and gotten great advice on fixing stuff. I'm never going to Facebook, so to me, I'd like to keep it alive even if traffic is thin. This site led me to buy the first KLR, and look what happened! Magic.

And yep, I have stopped at Fred's place in Moab a couple of times (a bit hard to find, but worth it) and he has been great about helping me out. I can get by without the site, but I'd rather not.

OK, I have had a couple of whiskies while writing this. Still, more problems are solved by throttle than by brakes.

Bryan

Eloy, Arizona

[Fred Hink]

Thanks Bryan,   For not wanting to write up a trip report, you paint a mighty vivid picture.  Keep up the good work.   Yes, there was a time when the KLR was new as was the internet.  A group was formed online to discuss a camp trip to Moab and this list was an offshoot of those first get-togethers .  Since there were no other KLR or dual-sport message groups at the time, we were all new to the idea of being able to ask and answer questions online.  We had many Colorful characters in our day and life on this list was never dull.  We have always been a respectful mature group and personally I d like to keep it that way.  It seems like most Facebook sites end up name calling and for me that would just kill any desire to stay there.  Facebook has it s place but so does the mailing lists.  Different strokes, etc.   About your fuse issue.  It was common knowledge of the Gen 1 KLR would blow the headlight fuse sometimes because of an intermittent problem of having both the high and low beams on at the same time when the dimmer switch was in between the high and low positions.  Going to a 15A fuse would mostly cure that problem or just be careful not to hit the inbetween spot for very long.  I haven t heard of anyone complaining about blowing head light fuses on the Gen 2 KLR though.  There was a recall on the wiring harness on your bike where there were some sharp edges above the motor (motor mount I believe) that would cut into the wiring harness.  You might check your wiring above the engine to see if you see any bare wires.  I d also check any electrical add-ons to see if there might be a problem with those.   So don t worry, this list will most likely out live us all.   Fred http://www.arrowheadmotorsports.com   [b]From:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com">bryantburke@... [DSN_KLR650] [b]Sent:[/b] Saturday, March 17, 2018 9:35 PM [b]To:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com">DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Subject:[/b] [DSN_KLR650] Re: This group going away?    

It is true that activity on this site is a lot lower than in years past. When I post it is almost always to ask questions about why my motorcycle isn't working quite right, and sometimes to offer camping tips. I've thought about posting some trip reports but it seems... I don't know...a little vain, since I've been far more fortunate than most in the KLR love affair? Yet I do like to read other people's reports, especially if they are about someplace I don't know. Maybe we all need to think more about why we ride. KLRs still seem to sell pretty well. I see them out and about. What do we do to attract people to this site?   I've never been on Facebook or any other social media and don't plan to start now. Seeing people diving face-first into that tiny screen freaks me out. There is no life in there, no wind, no smell of fresh-cut hay, no crunch of glacier snow under your boots. My other travel hobby is river running all over the west, and groups like Utah Rafters at Yahoo have met the same fate... lost to Facebook. Yet people complain about the same thing, hard to find files about stuff you really want to learn about.   Whatever happens, I'm grateful to this group because it was instrumental in changing my life. About fifteen years ago I decided I wanted to get a motorcycle and start riding to remote places. With a damaged knee, backpacking and skiing had become problematic. Partly it was because of the mileage you get on a bike, but it was also about living closer to the bone. You just can't carry as much as you can on a four wheeled vehicle so you have to trim life down to the basics. I never was into motor homes, but even a van was starting to seem a bit extravagant, not to mention having trouble on rough terrain. So I did a lot of research and decided my first motorcycle would be a KLR 650. I took a MSF course, shopped around, and bought a bike. A big part of deciding on a KLR was this group.   I'm a lucky guy when it comes to KLRs. I bought a used 2003 with just three thousand miles on it in 2005. It had been dropped hard so some dings, but overall, solid. Since then I've ridden it in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. Mostly back roads. And I ride it to the grocery store a couple times a week, or to run other errands since the nearest town of any size is about 15 miles away. It still purrs like a chicken every time I start it up.   I liked that bike so much that when some jobs in the Czech Republic came up, I decided to get a motorcycle over there. They don't sell KLRs in Europe except, apparently, in the UK. But one turned up at a dealer in Olomuc, CZ. I'm guessing some guy wanting to live the dream ran out of dream after shipping the bike over from the USA and riding a thousand miles east. It's a 2009. I'm co-owner with a Czech friend. He handles the paperwork, I get to ride it a couple of weeks a year. The thing runs great and has taken me through CZ, Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania. This  September I'm going to ride out through Hungary to Romania and have a look around Serbia on my way back.   There's something about a motorcycle that is totally different from a car. In CZ, people planted hundreds of apple and pear trees along country roads. (f**kin' socialists ;>) When the fruit ripens, anyone can go out and gather up baskets full to take home to can or feed to their pigs. Mile after mile of fruit trees, on a public right-of-way. Riding down a narrow country lane with the scent of apples filling the air, dropping down into the cool moist air of stream beds and then up onto the dryer, dusty smelling meadows... can't get that from a car.   The coolest motorcycle moment of my life was when I took the most remote border crossing open between Montenegro (where, by the way, the roads are so steep there was a switchback IN A TUNNEL, and it was an unpaved road in an unlit tunnel) and Albania, where they really do have concrete pillboxes everywhere. After going through the straight-out-of-Hollywood border crossing with bored, suspicious crossing guards and a red and white gate with a cement counterweight, I rode through a stream, past a pillbox, and up a rough, unbladed road. Standing on the pegs due to the rough, uphill track I kept saying out loud, with a huge grin on my face, "I'm in fucking ALBANIA!"   Never been so stoked in my life, and I've had adventures in 24 countries so far.   Where they still harvest hay by hand and stack it in huge, steep cones. Nobody speaks any English so everything is sign language except hello, please, and thank you. The food is simple: lamb or fish harvested an hour or two before you eat it, and delicious fresh tomatoes and fruit. Yet one morning at a campground at the end of a long, unpaved road deep into the mountains, a beautiful little girl about six years old came up to me from her cabin as I lubed my chain for the day's ride and said, in perfect English, "What are you doing?"   Daddy is a "businessman" in New York. She was back in Albania on a visit to the old country. Globalism.   And the KLR never gave me a moment of trouble. This is a machine that can take you to places you never dreamed of, and even after you've been there, it still seems like a dream.   Point Sublime. Kotor Bay. Spis Castle. The KLRs have taken me on fantastic voyages.   This year a similar opportunity came up in Australia. Yep, I am now half owner of a 2013 KLR in Oz. Haven't ridden it yet, I'm heading over to Sydney on May 2nd and will meet the bike for the first time in Canberra a couple days later. I'll saddle up and ride through The Great Dividing Range up to a job near Brisbane. Same paint as the Czech bike, which is kind of cool. So now I have one full ownership in the US and two half- ownership KLRs on other continents. My body isn't getting any stronger or more flexible but I feel pretty good at 59. I plan to ride as long as I can but I'm not a mechanical genius, I will need help from you guys when stuff doesn't work.   For example, after riding in almost constant rain from Croatia through Austria on my way back to CZ, why did the 2009 bike just up and die a few miles from home in stop and go traffic? I pushed it into a convenience store/gas station that just happened to carry fuses. I found a blown fuse, replaced it, started up, blew again. Repeat. Put the bike behind the store under a tarp, found a place for the night, came back the next day (sunny now) put in a new fuse, and it was fine. Any ideas? I can't remember which fuse it was.   Why does my '03 eat batteries if I am gone for a month and forget to put it on the battery tender?   Anyway, I've learned a lot from this site, tires to oil, and gotten great advice on fixing stuff. I'm never going to Facebook, so to me, I'd like to keep it alive even if traffic is thin. This site led me to buy the first KLR, and look what happened! Magic.   And yep, I have stopped at Fred's place in Moab a couple of times (a bit hard to find, but worth it) and he has been great about helping me out. I can get by without the site, but I'd rather not.   OK, I have had a couple of whiskies while writing this. Still, more problems are solved by throttle than by brakes.   Bryan Eloy, Arizona

[Martin Earl]

Bryan,What a great post.Please update us when you meet your 3rd wife in OZ.Enquiring mind want to know.! heh! IRT to the 03 eating batteries; You don't mention your battery maintenance schedule other than the tender...or if it is a wet, lead acid battery, vs a sealed lead acid, or glass mat battery, etc. I personally rotate my tender ~every 2 weeks on a wet, lead acid battery, or a sealed lead acid battery if the bike is not going to be ridden during that time frame.I have found on my 01, when a wet battery is used, it requires a battery service of distilled water every oil change = 1500 miles, or once a month at temps above 90F.YMMV. m1. By all means, share your stories; it will perk things up again and others will think more about riding their bikes.

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 9:35 PM, bryantburke@... [DSN_KLR650] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote: It is true that activity on this site is a lot lower than in years past. When I post it is almost always to ask questions about why my motorcycle isn't working quite right, and sometimes to offer camping tips. I've thought about posting some trip reports but it seems... I don't know...a little vain, since I've been far more fortunate than most in the KLR love affair? Yet I do like to read other people's reports, especially if they are about someplace I don't know. Maybe we all need to think more about why we ride. KLRs still seem to sell pretty well. I see them out and about. What do we do to attract people to this site? I've never been on Facebook or any other social media and don't plan to start now. Seeing people diving face-first into that tiny screen freaks me out. There is no life in there, no wind, no smell of fresh-cut hay, no crunch of glacier snow under your boots. My other travel hobby is river running all over the west, and groups like Utah Rafters at Yahoo have met the same fate... lost to Facebook. Yet people complain about the same thing, hard to find files about stuff you really want to learn about. Whatever happens, I'm grateful to this group because it was instrumental in changing my life. About fifteen years ago I decided I wanted to get a motorcycle and start riding to remote places. With a damaged knee, backpacking and skiing had become problematic. Partly it was because of the mileage you get on a bike, but it was also about living closer to the bone. You just can't carry as much as you can on a four wheeled vehicle so you have to trim life down to the basics. I never was into motor homes, but even a van was starting to seem a bit extravagant, not to mention having trouble on rough terrain. So I did a lot of research and decided my first motorcycle would be a KLR 650. I took a MSF course, shopped around, and bought a bike. A big part of deciding on a KLR was this group. I'm a lucky guy when it comes to KLRs. I bought a used 2003 with just three thousand miles on it in 2005. It had been dropped hard so some dings, but overall, solid. Since then I've ridden it in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. Mostly back roads. And I ride it to the grocery store a couple times a week, or to run other errands since the nearest town of any size is about 15 miles away. It still purrs like a chicken every time I start it up. I liked that bike so much that when some jobs in the Czech Republic came up, I decided to get a motorcycle over there. They don't sell KLRs in Europe except, apparently, in the UK. But one turned up at a dealer in Olomuc, CZ. I'm guessing some guy wanting to live the dream ran out of dream after shipping the bike over from the USA and riding a thousand miles east. It's a 2009. I'm co-owner with a Czech friend. He handles the paperwork, I get to ride it a couple of weeks a year. The thing runs great and has taken me through CZ, Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania. This September I'm going to ride out through Hungary to Romania and have a look around Serbia on my way back. There's something about a motorcycle that is totally different from a car. In CZ, people planted hundreds of apple and pear trees along country roads. (f**kin' socialists ;>) When the fruit ripens, anyone can go out and gather up baskets full to take home to can or feed to their pigs. Mile after mile of fruit trees, on a public right-of-way. Riding down a narrow country lane with the scent of apples filling the air, dropping down into the cool moist air of stream beds and then up onto the dryer, dusty smelling meadows... can't get that from a car. The coolest motorcycle moment of my life was when I took the most remote border crossing open between Montenegro (where, by the way, the roads are so steep there was a switchback IN A TUNNEL, and it was an unpaved road in an unlit tunnel) and Albania, where they really do have concrete pillboxes everywhere. After going through the straight-out-of-Hollywood border crossing with bored, suspicious crossing guards and a red and white gate with a cement counterweight, I rode through a stream, past a pillbox, and up a rough, unbladed road. Standing on the pegs due to the rough, uphill track I kept saying out loud, with a huge grin on my face, "I'm in fucking ALBANIA!" Never been so stoked in my life, and I've had adventures in 24 countries so far. Where they still harvest hay by hand and stack it in huge, steep cones. Nobody speaks any English so everything is sign language except hello, please, and thank you. The food is simple: lamb or fish harvested an hour or two before you eat it, and delicious fresh tomatoes and fruit. Yet one morning at a campground at the end of a long, unpaved road deep into the mountains, a beautiful little girl about six years old came up to me from her cabin as I lubed my chain for the day's ride and said, in perfect English, "What are you doing?" Daddy is a "businessman" in New York. She was back in Albania on a visit to the old country. Globalism. And the KLR never gave me a moment of trouble. This is a machine that can take you to places you never dreamed of, and even after you've been there, it still seems like a dream. Point Sublime. Kotor Bay. Spis Castle. The KLRs have taken me on fantastic voyages. This year a similar opportunity came up in Australia. Yep, I am now half owner of a 2013 KLR in Oz. Haven't ridden it yet, I'm heading over to Sydney on May 2nd and will meet the bike for the first time in Canberra a couple days later. I'll saddle up and ride through The Great Dividing Range up to a job near Brisbane. Same paint as the Czech bike, which is kind of cool. So now I have one full ownership in the US and two half- ownership KLRs on other continents. My body isn't getting any stronger or more flexible but I feel pretty good at 59. I plan to ride as long as I can but I'm not a mechanical genius, I will need help from you guys when stuff doesn't work. For example, after riding in almost constant rain from Croatia through Austria on my way back to CZ, why did the 2009 bike just up and die a few miles from home in stop and go traffic? I pushed it into a convenience store/gas station that just happened to carry fuses. I found a blown fuse, replaced it, started up, blew again. Repeat. Put the bike behind the store under a tarp, found a place for the night, came back the next day (sunny now) put in a new fuse, and it was fine. Any ideas? I can't remember which fuse it was. Why does my '03 eat batteries if I am gone for a month and forget to put it on the battery tender? Anyway, I've learned a lot from this site, tires to oil, and gotten great advice on fixing stuff. I'm never going to Facebook, so to me, I'd like to keep it alive even if traffic is thin. This site led me to buy the first KLR, and look what happened! Magic. And yep, I have stopped at Fred's place in Moab a couple of times (a bit hard to find, but worth it) and he has been great about helping me out. I can get by without the site, but I'd rather not. OK, I have had a couple of whiskies while writing this. Still, more problems are solved by throttle than by brakes. BryanEloy, Arizona

[ccoppolapolnet]

Wow, amazed by the stories in this group! My adventures have all been through the hills of central Pennsylvania. 4 months ago I got a 2007 KLR with 5000 mi. My best ride is a 160 mi trip to see my son. Not so far, but it was 20 degrees out and the mule never hesitated a step the whole way. He just picked up a second 2007 so we have plans to increase the miles as it gets warmer: Anthracite Offroad Adventure area, Rauch Creek, Bald Eagle state park, and when we get time off work together, the Carolinas. No international borders yet, but every bridge, tunnel, railroad and mountain crossed is a thrill!

[bill wilson]

Wow! Brought tears to my eyes.  And I thought my trips through the U.S. and Mexico were adventurous. Tell me what I can do to keep the group site open.

I've missed the usual input from a lot of regulars to this site, like the Rev and others, and wondered if the great KLR itself (& not this group)  was in death row.

The Great one (KLR650) has many weakneses, as all mechanical devices have, but almost all of them are fixable by the rider or local 

moto mechanics, enroute. Anywhere, especially in the U.S. and Mexico.

Good to see some action  on Fred's site!

Bill Wilson

privateer38@...

Owner since 2006

Be 80 this year

Upper overhaul by me at 56K miles. 72K miles now.

Planning a US-64 trip, AZ  to NC Atlantic Ocean. All US-64.  More miles than US-66 in existance. Starts at Teec Nos Pos, AZ.

Sounds good to me anyway. That is what KLRs are good for.

Thanks Fred for staying with us. 

[Fred Hink]

Thanks Bill, you just did. Fred http://www.arrowheadmotorsports.com From: bill wilson privateer38@... [DSN_KLR650] Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2018 8:42 PM To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: This group going away? Wow! Brought tears to my eyes. And I thought my trips through the U.S. and Mexico were adventurous. Tell me what I can do to keep the group site open. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Lwalker]

What a great write up on travels! I want to encourage more of these, if you will provide them. Places I will never travel for sure. Thanks, and hopefully the group will remain

[Dore, Peter]

Search the back of the dragon, and the claw of the dragon , I road and posted the gps trail for the back of the dragon a year before it broke into the public, that whole south western Virginia area is full of curvy roads, and interesting towns. Watch your back brakes on the down hills, I over heated mine. Peter Dore' Sent from my iPhone