speedo check and shift lever

[D.J. Rogers]

Tim, Yeah, nice rain. I rode to Tofino for the first time in the stuff on Monday. More fun on the way back, after the roads dried a bit. Anyway, I digress (sp?). My GPS shows that the KLR's speedo is about 10% optomistic, give or take a klick. 110 indicated is about 100. This seems about normal for this bike, esp. those of us with metric speedos. 4500RPM gets me 100km/h almost right on the button, for what that's worth. Interesting, my odo was within 0.2km of my GPS reading after 500 k's. Cheers, D. GBG eh14

--- In DSN_klr650@egroups.com, tryce@r... wrote: > Well, after a long weekend up here in Canada, I sure had an exciting ride > into work this morning! This past weekend, I put about 300km on my A9 > riding the forest service roads near Squamish, BC. Even though it rained, > the experience was fantastic! > > Dreading coming back to work today, I thought I'd make it a little more > enticing for me to get out of bed in the morning, and decided to ride to > work. Then, it happened. Nothing like a police radar check to wake you > up! The police up here set up a system where your speed is measured as > you come around a corner, and then displayed on a LED screen as you drive > by. They have no intention of pulling you over; they just try to scare > you. Anyway, my speedo was reading about 59km/h when I was clocked doing > 52km/h. Seems to me Kawasaki set our speedos a little high so that we > wouldn't get ourselves into situations we couldn't control (not that any > listers would do that!). Less accidents=good bike? > > Next on the list of scary experiences: I was cruising on the highway, and > realized that the shift lever was getting a little 'soft' under my foot. > Then, I couldn't shift at all! After a quick stop on the side of the > road, I discovered my shift lever was almost broken through, with a big > crack running right in front of the connecting clamp. For an A9 with > 20,000 km on it, is this a common breakage? How much does a replacement > usually go for? > > Thanks for your help! > > Tim Ryce > A9