I've done "roll on tests" against a number of stock HD big twins with my KLR685. The KLR beat them all. Maybe not fair comparing a modified KLR to a stock HD but...life isn't fair either.
But much more fun is running down a herd of them on a twisty road like the Beartooth Pass in MT. Best of all is explaining that your bike has 1/2 the displacement, costs 1/5 as much to buy and 1/3 as much to insure while burning 2/3 as much fuel...and 2/1 as much fun. (for those that slept thru fractions 2/1 can be read as "two times"
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The KLR will kill the Harley or probably most cruisers in the canyons.
Jeff
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I wanna see the Softail and Mean Streak keep up in a game of Follow the Leader with a KLR !!!!!
Any Takers ?????
Mike
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From: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:14:31 -0400
Subject: Re: [DSN_KLR650] World's Fastest KLR
I'm not positive on this, but I think my 2003 Harley Heritage Softail will out run my 2006 KLR. It would definately be a close race.
And my Harley is lower maintenance and leaks less (no) oil!
Jeff
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To: DSN_KLR650 DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com>; mark ward
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It never ceases to frustrate my friend when I out-accelerate him on his V-Star 1100 when I'm on the KLR.
However, most modern motorcycles (read: non-cruisers) will eat the KLR for lunch.
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:56 AM, mark ward nomad59@... [DSN_KLR650] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Book, If I remember right is was, Motorcycle Consumer News,
Just looked at another web book that said Mean streak was 13.8 and the KLR did the 1/4 13.2 and 14.4
So depending on bike rider etc., STILL not bad, when considering 650 compared to 1600?
Mainly, I was responding to, "Worlds fastest Snail".
My friend was never, able to out run me on his Meany-streaker, until after I hit about 55-60mph, then, well nuff said. lol.
On Thursday, June 12, 2014 1:02 PM, "'Fred Hink' moabmc@... [DSN_KLR650]" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
First off this speed record wasn t for acceleration but for top speed. I d like to see your books as the information I have been able to gather in my last few minutes is that a Kawasaki mean streak 1/4 mile time is in the 13.5 second range. The information I have found for a stock KLR puts it in at about 14.5 seconds.
http://www.kawasakimotorcycle.org/forum ... e-ets.html
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthre ... 4&page=102
Where did you get your information?
Fred
http://www.arrowheadmotorsports.com
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Subject: Re: [DSN_KLR650] World's Fastest KLR
Check the books....
The KLR will OUTRUN the Kawasaki 1600 Mean streak, by almost 2 seconds. (In the 1/4mile)
So for the Quarter mile race, KLR is an OK stock bike.
On Thursday, June 12, 2014 11:03 AM, "jokerloco9@... [DSN_KLR650]" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Is this kind of like the worlds fastest snail?
I'm racing a car at Speedweek August 9-15
Jeff
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Subject: [DSN_KLR650] World's Fastest KLR
http://www.worldsfastestklr.com/
Anybody going to Bonneville in August? http://bonnevillespeedtrials.com/
Fred
http://www.arrowheadmotorsports.com
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Fred posted:" I ll do a roll on test with you. We start at 150......." Since you are in the USA, I'm confused as starting at 150 kph for either a stock KLR or Harely must mean kilometers per hour and not much left for either from there. Not sure where one might go with modified stuff as that's generally a "who has the biggest wallet". Fun though!
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Since we were comparing apples to oranges, I thought I d continue in that vain. Who said anything about KPH? MPH for me..... Middle of fourth gear and two more gears to go... Completely stock and lots of room to roam. [b]2007 Corvette C6 Z06 with MM6 manual and GU6 3.42 gears [/b] Gear Ratio Final MPH @ RPM RPM @ MPH 1 7.83 71.0 5426 2 5.51 100.9 3815 3 4.14 134.3 2867 4 3.42 162.5 2369 5 2.77 200.6 1919 6 2.29 242.5 1587 R 9.92 56.0 6871 [b]From:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Sent:[/b] Thursday, June 12, 2014 4:26 PM [b]To:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Subject:[/b] [DSN_KLR650] Re: World's Fastest KLR Fred posted:" I ll do a roll on test with you. We start at 150......." Since you are in the USA, I'm confused as starting at 150 kph for either a stock KLR or Harely must mean kilometers per hour and not much left for either from there. Not sure where one might go with modified stuff as that's generally a "who has the biggest wallet". Fun though!
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Apples to oranges is a great comparison, Fred! Yes, that looks like a pretty fair roll-on comparison, or at least one far more worthy of mention over pie & coffee. It's always best to inspect the other guy's weapons before agreeing to the duel.
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On 6/12/2014 3:47 PM, 'Fred Hink' moabmc@... [DSN_KLR650] wrote: Since we were comparing apples to oranges, I thought I d continue in that vain. Who said anything about KPH? MPH for me..... Middle of fourth gear and two more gears to go... Completely stock and lots of room to roam. 2007 Corvette C6 Z06 with MM6 manual and GU6 3.42 gears Gear Ratio Final MPH @ RPM RPM @ MPH 1 7.83 71.0 5426 2 5.51 100.9 3815 3 4.14 134.3 2867 4 3.42 162.5 2369 5 2.77 200.6 1919 6 2.29 242.5 1587 R 9.92 56.0 6871 From: mailto:DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 4:26 PM To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: World's Fastest KLR Fred posted:" I ll do a roll on test with you. We start at 150......." Since you are in the USA, I'm confused as starting at 150 kph for either a stock KLR or Harely must mean kilometers per hour and not much left for either from there. Not sure where one might go with modified stuff as that's generally a "who has the biggest wallet". Fun though! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Hmmmmmmmm! I have a ways to go. LOL! A quick top end run last week to check out a new set of tires at speed gave me a GPS reading of 92.6 mph with a few more left in it. Didn't hammer on it long. 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