[dsn_klr650] harleys

[Kurt Simpson]

> Early HD's WERE dirt bikes. My first Sportster, a l958 XLCH, was

considered

> a dirt-bike-with-lights-bolted-on. A dual-sport in its day, as was the > Triumph TT Special and the BSA Hornet. The Britbikes weighed less than

the

> KLR and the Sporty not much more.

my first showroom new bike was a 1969 XLCH. I hated it at first, it felt like a tractor compared to my buddies Norton Commando...later I came to imagine that I was the only one who knew how to ride it. I won a lot of bets from guys saying that they couldn't start it with any number of kicks and I would start it with the first... Kurt