[dsn_klr650] front sprocket nut torque /

[Jim Jackson]

Price here from the mfg for a front rim, spokes, nipples and hub without axle and brake/speedo attachments is $763.56. I've heard Excel makes the rims but I can't find their web site and Dennis Kirk doesn't sell them in the proper sizes: Front: 1.60 x 21 Rear: 2.50 x 17 If you come up with anything please pass it on. Later, Jim Jackson II A13 - South Carolina

> >Havin' a great time breaking the new beast in. What a pig it is off road, >now I know why tire discussions play such a big part on this list. You need >knobs for the soft stuff for sure, I think an extra set of rims would be >the cats ass. >ciao >John

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[Jim Jackson]

Ya mean it's not that simple? I figured if I found a log along the highway somewhere I could just pop the bike up and swap 'em out... can't take more than a minute or two right? Jim Jackson II A13 - South Carolina -------------------- 'Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove doubt.' Abe Lincoln

> >Havin' a great time breaking the new beast in. What a pig it is off road, >now I know why tire discussions play such a big part on this list. You need >knobs for the soft stuff for sure, I think an extra set of rims would be >the cats ass. >ciao >John > > >This reminds me of a funny story. While at the Thumper Rally in Salmon, >Idaho I mounted up some IRC GP110 tires to replace my rapidly wearing >MT21's. The MT21's still had some life in them, so I just strapped them to >the back of the KLR and road back to New Mexico. Outside of Salt Lake, I >stopped at a rest area. This guy came up to me and inquired about where >I'd been and this and that. He saw the knobbies strapped to the bike and >inquired "So, when you want to go offroad, you just stop and mount up those > knobbie tires, right?" At first I thought he was joking, but then >realized that he seriously thought that anytime I wanted to go in the dirt, >I'd just pull to the side of the road and swap tires. Being the jokester I >am, I said," yep, that's exactly what I do". He walked back to his family >and I later wandered to the facilities. As I was passing his car, he and >his wife were talking, "... and when he wants to travel off-road, he just >pulls of to the side, changes tire! >s and goes. When he gets back to the road, he changes tires again..." > >If only it were that easy. > >Gino

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[e. rhoads]

> I incorrectly posted the torque for the countershaft sprocket nut on the > newer KLRs as 72 ft/lb. >

=== No, 72 lbs. is the correct torque for that bolt. I have a copy of original shop data sheet for the trans. change here and was specifically given the torque spec of 72 ft lbs. for that nut. eric