idling revs for a klr 650 (1989)

[Stephen Grisanti]

"Bitchin? Hmmm. Is that a good thing? smile. It would have been hideous good fun as a 1970 teenager. During that same time period, it seems to me there was a BSA500 in my home town that was set up the same way--500cc with a straight pipe. 1970: Hideous good fun. Now-- 40 years later, it is just hideous noise. I doubt the 55 year old crowd (in 1970) appreciated it then either. Probably they would have (rightly) been bitchin about the noise." An observation on the noise of an unmuffled KLR: After my stolen bike was recovered with the SuperTrapp pipe missing I reinstalled the stock pipe. While riding to work one morning it fell off, victim of insufficiently tightened hardware. I rode the remainder of the way in and all the way home with that muffler bungeed to the rear rack. Just by chance the road took me through a school zone with a parked cop at the roadside and I was fortunate in being able to pull in the clutch and coast past on the downgrade, still not sure I wouldn't be pulled for excessive noise. At highway speeds it was painful, even with helmet and earplugs. I was bitchin' at my own self for having to deal with that. Loud pipes? You can have 'em, but depending on whom you offend you shouldn't necessarily expect to keep 'em. Stephen

--- On Fri, 11/13/09, Martin wrote: [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Martin]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Stephen Grisanti wrote:

> > "Bitchin? Hmmm. Is that a good thing? > smile. > It would have been hideous good fun as a 1970 teenager. > During that same time period, it seems to me there was a BSA500 in my home town that was set up the same way--500cc with a straight pipe. > > 1970: Hideous good fun. > Now-- > 40 years later, it is just hideous noise. > I doubt the 55 year old crowd (in 1970) appreciated it then either. > Probably they would have (rightly) been bitchin about the noise." > > An observation on the noise of an unmuffled KLR: After my stolen bike was recovered with the SuperTrapp pipe missing I reinstalled the stock pipe. While riding to work one morning it fell off, victim of insufficiently tightened hardware. I rode the remainder of the way in and all the way home with that muffler bungeed to the rear rack. Just by chance the road took me through a school zone with a parked cop at the roadside and I was fortunate in being able to pull in the clutch and coast past on the downgrade, still not sure I wouldn't be pulled for excessive noise. At highway speeds it was painful, even with helmet and earplugs. I was bitchin' at my own self for having to deal with that. Loud pipes? You can have 'em, but depending on whom you offend you shouldn't necessarily expect to keep 'em. > > Stephen >

S- Tell us how your bike was recoverd. I think I remember you posting that your bike was stolen, but I don't remember the post saying it was recovered--or do I? Did you get it back in like 3 days???? Tell us how you got it back and was anyone prosecuted? Was the bike really beat up? Did you buy it back from the insurance? revmaaatin.

[Kenneth Mitchell]

Tonight when I sat down to read the day s posts, I never expected to find I d started a discussion of literary history and influence. However, as a professor of English, I feel compelled to weigh in on this textual controversy. In Macbeth, we have a man s statement of the futile, random, unsatisfying and insubstantial nature of life. In The Sound and the Fury, Faulkner certainly echoes Shakespeare s concerns, but his literal and more ironic point relates to the story told by the idiot, Benjy. My use of the phrase was not to highlight the nature of life, but to comment on loud, crazy tales told by irrational people, so I was quoting Faulkner s use of Shakespeare s words. KLR content: I always ride my bike to work. Ken

--- On Fri, 11/13/09, Mike Frey wrote: From: Mike Frey Subject: Re: [DSN_KLR650] Re: NKLR: loud pipes - freedom? To: "List KLR" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Date: Friday, November 13, 2009, 10:10 AM Must be this part: Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. (and we're really off on a tangent now!) Jud wrote: > > Actually, it WAS Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5 (originally > intended to apply to unmuffled Harleys). The Faulkner title is a > reference. > > --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com > , Kenneth Mitchell > wrote: > > > > Well, that's half right. It was a William, but not a Brit. He was > from Oxford, Mississippi. > > > > William Faulkner, hard to read but well worth the effort. > > > > Ken > > > > > > --- On Wed, 11/11/09, DAVID CRITCHLEY wrote: > > > > From: DAVID CRITCHLEY > > Subject: Re: [DSN_KLR650] Re: NKLR: loud pipes - freedom? > > To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com > > Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 11:00 PM > > > > Was that Southerner called Shakespeare? > > DC > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ List sponsored by Dual Sport News at: www.dualsportnews.com List FAQ courtesy of Chris Krok at: www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html Member Map at: http://www.frappr.com/dsnklr650Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Michael Martin]

Sean, The manual specifies 1200 - 1400 rpm. Mike Martin, Louisville, KY [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]