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I'm working on refining my packing list for my trip from NYC to South America on my KLR 650. Question is: - Can you use the front inner tube in the rear tire? This wouldn't be for thousands of miles, but to get you along till you can patch the original rear tube, or get a replacement rear tube. Tried searching for this in the list search functions, but I kept getting "The list DSN_klr650 is temporarily unavailable". When it did work I would have to keep hitting previous to search only a small sub-section of the list archives. The www.listquest.com address in the KLR650 mailing List FAQ seems to be gone. Is there any other places to search the KLR650 list archives?

[George Basinet]

I only used a new front tube in the rear one time and it lasted 50 miles or so. Now I take both sizes. George Escondido, CA

----- Original Message ----- Subject: [DSN_klr650] Minimizing Spares: Can you use a front tube in the rear tire? > I'm working on refining my packing list for my trip from NYC to South > America on my KLR 650. > > Question is: > - Can you use the front inner tube in the rear tire?

[Mike T]

The idea is to carry the front tube as a spare for both. I carry a tube repair kit for small -simple - clean punctures. A longer nail will chew up a lot of the tube near the rim strap though. I never regret carrying a repair kit and a front tube. I would air up the rear tire to be pretty firm though if I put the 21 in it. I don't want the folds to start moving around. My spare is a Moose HD 21". It will not fit in a fender bag easily. Usually people take a standard 21' tube as a spare. Mike T A16 Las Vegas Aka - LOT Dogmen (ADVriders) Aka - z89101 (other yahoo groups) Aka - dogman -----Original Message----- From: motolists [mailto:motolists@...] Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 11:30 AM To: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com Subject: [DSN_klr650] Minimizing Spares: Can you use a front tube in the rear tire? I'm working on refining my packing list for my trip from NYC to South America on my KLR 650. Question is: - Can you use the front inner tube in the rear tire? This wouldn't be for thousands of miles, but to get you along till you can patch the original rear tube, or get a replacement rear tube. Tried searching for this in the list search functions, but I kept getting "The list DSN_klr650 is temporarily unavailable". When it did work I would have to keep hitting previous to search only a small sub-section of the list archives. The www.listquest.com address in the KLR650 mailing List FAQ seems to be gone. Is there any other places to search the KLR650 list archives?

[Mark Sampson]

In an emergency this will work. Dualsport riders do this all the time. However-------I left mine in too long and the tube blew at speed----it was a nasty ride in which I almost high sided-------which is a terrible thing to do. If I do it again-----I will proceed with much caution and a lower speed until I can make a better repair. Mark Sampson www.bigdogadventures.com

[Judson D. Jones]

Using a front tube in the rear is just a trail rider's dodge to get you out of the woods. On a typical trail ride, you might never go over 40, and are probably within 50 miles of your truck. Fine if you want to travel light. If you are on enough of a tour to be carrying luggage, you ought to be able to find room for two tubes, and a patch kit. --- In DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "George Basinet" wrote:

> I only used a new front tube in the rear one time and it lasted

50 miles or

> so. Now I take both sizes. > > George > Escondido, CA > > ----- Original Message ----- > Subject: [DSN_klr650] Minimizing Spares: Can you use a front

tube in the

> rear tire? > > > > I'm working on refining my packing list for my trip from NYC to

South

> > America on my KLR 650. > > > > Question is: > > - Can you use the front inner tube in the rear tire?

[bigfatgreenbike]

orc37@... wrote:

>Didnt the assembly point change from Japan to Thailand sometime in >2000? That can be classified as a change, because now theyre >assembled by monkeys and have a lot of loose parts. I remember >someone commenting that the earlier KLRs were assembled quite a bit >better than nowadays. But I guess since he is considering 02-04 then >they are put together by the same monkeys. >

Man, that's straight-up racist. I like a good racist joke (especially one about white people) but that's not even funny. Japanese doctors doing germ warfare research during WW2 referred to Chinese, Thais, etc (basically any non-Japanese Asians) as "monkeys" or "logs. My '01 was assembles in Japan, and has all the same loose ill-machined sh*t as any other bike people bitch about here. Not to mention using something that resembles vasoline to grease all the rear suspension bearings. So no, the Thai's don't assemble a KLR any worse then the Japanese did. -- Devon Brooklyn, NY A15-Z '01 KLR650 '81 SR500 cafe racer "The truth's not too popular these days....." Arnold Schwarzenneger, in The Running Man