[dsn_klr650] suzi dr200: nklr

[Weaver, Mark]

the non-lowered dr200 is still fairly tall for a short person. it would work for my wife, but she's around 5'8 or so. we got her (yeah right, it's really for her) an xt225 which is plenty short. she can put both feet flat footed and have them bent considerably, yet the bike still has over 11" of ground clearance. also a very smooth engine, which seems perfectly happy to turn at freeway speeds (60-65, not 80 mph). she let me borrow it last weekend, and i had a real hoot and holler on it. i was doing trails that i would never conceivably have survived on the klr. it's just so dang easy to ride. i was even doing downhills that woulda been kinda hard on a mountain bike (had a few high adrenaline moments looking down a rocky switchbacky chute, but i knew i didn't want to go back down the hill i'd come up earlier, so i pressed on). anyway, what you obviously need to do is go sit on some. it may end up that the suzi is lower, but that's hard for me to imagine. whatever you end up, have fun, and ride safe. mw

> -----Original Message----- > From: Darrel & Deanna [mailto:elcid24@...] > Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 6:30 PM > To: szlanyi@... > Cc: KLR list > Subject: [DSN_klr650] Suzi DR200: NKLR > > > Istvan- I recommend taking a look at the Suzi DR200. A > student had a new > one in my last m/c safety class. It is low, lean, full ds > garb and has the > magic > button. Thinking about getting a DR or XT225 for the wife now. > > Darrel > A12 > > From: Istvan Szlany > > > >I was thinking of a electric (and possibly kick-starting) > 300-400 cc DS > >bike, but all of them are too tall for her. ... Lowering > links could be > >the > >solution, but I don't know enough about bikes to know which > ones can be > >lowered. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > Was the salesman clueless? Productopia has the answers. > http://click.egroups.com/1/3019/5/_/911801/_/958440295/ > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > Visit the KLR650 archives at > http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.html?ln=klr650 > Support Dual Sport News... dsneditor@... > Let's keep this list SPAM free! > > Visit our site at http://www.egroups.com/group/DSN_klr650 > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@egroups.com > >