Greetings fellow listers.
I had a strange occurence this weekend after about 150 miles of road riding. One of the bolts to the rear section of the frame just under the seat was broken off. The section of frame that I am referring to is the part that basically supports the rider and has no suspension or motor attached to it.
After riding I was sitting on the ground looking over the bike (with Beer in hand at this point) just sort of checking things over. Sort of bonding time with the bike. I looked on the top of the air filter box, just under the right side of the seat and there set a bolt. About 3/4 of it anyway. The rest is still in the frame.
I'm just wondering if anyone has had one of these break on the KLR. This machine has only 8K miles on it and I have only put on 700 myself. I'm starting to wonder if this due to some extreme off roading last weekend and the bolt finished breaking this week or maybe the previous rider was hard on it. Either way, it was a little scary to see that something like this was broken so suddenly and so early in the bikes lifetime.
Rich
A12 "Beast" (Now parked until I can get an easy out tool and some new bolts from the Kawasaki dealer)