I hafta agree. Like the saying goes, "There's two people in this world that I trust. I'm one of them. You're not the other one." Not that I'd expect my friends to cheap out like that, but there's just a lot of hassle to make the repairs, etc. The only other person who's ridden my KLR was the guy who taught me to ride, and we swapped bikes (he had an old XR500) while riding fire roads. Actually, he test rode the KLR for me when I bought it. My friend Matt has trusted me with both his TL1000S and YZF R-1, but we've grown up together since second grade, and I'd readily let him ride either of my bikes. (Hopefully, he'll come visit so I can introduce him to dual sporting!) In fact, he's ridden for far longer than I have, and used to race in the amateur classes, so he's probably dropped more bikes than I'll ever own! OK, that doesn't sound as reassuring as I expected, but you get the picture. Dumping your own bike is one thing, and that's just the way it goes. But dumping someone else's is not cool.> ( KLR riders are really friendly and generous. I doubt you'd see a BMW > GS rider lend theirs out to anyone! So why are we so willing? ) > > This may relate to how many bikes that have been messed up by friends > and no money offered to pay for damages. I'm VERY particular of who gets > on my bikes
Hmmm... A friend of mine was in the Grand Canyon two weeks ago, and came across a Moto Guzzi tour group. He said, "They had a large chase van, probably full of spare parts!" I wonder if it's the same group... Chris http://www.galcit.caltech.edu/~stingray/klrsharkfin.html -- Dr. J. Christopher Krok Project Engineer, Adaptive Wall Wind Tunnel Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology MS 205-45 Phone: 626.395.4794 Pasadena, CA 91125 Fax: 626.449.2677> Subject: Re: RE: Tubeless spokewheels. > > I just had a bunch of Italians in my shop yesterday who were riding Moto > Guzzis. One of them had some broken spokes in the rear of the tubeless > spoked wheel.