nklr: tires, again

[Shepard,Brian]

It is most disturbing when a veteran rider has a bad day. One of my heroes was killed last year. I'm speaking of Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad, 3rd person to walk on the moon, who died in a motorcycle accident last year. This really disturbed me that the best of the best who have all the right stuff can go out this way. It really makes you think long and hard. Nobody is really safe. Murphy's Law I guess. I am going to cool out for a while because I have had several close calls in the past two weeks through no fault of my own. It's pure luck that I didn't go down or get hit, pure luck. God bless all of you. -Brian Shepard Philadelphia PA A13 -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Simpson [mailto:ajax@...] Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 11:25 AM To: Karl Raupp; DSN_klr650@egroups.com Subject: RE: [DSN_klr650] Re: Motorcyclist mag writer McQuide killed - NKLR

> Yes, and as was already mentioned, the motorcyclist will lose every > incident - PERIOD!!! Although accidents happen, do your best to read > the traffic, give yourself an out, and especially with the KLR > brakes, don't tailgate - give yourself extra room to slow down since > the KLR is not going to when your life may depend on it. > > Take care. > Karl

the two incidents involving our fellow riders has brought a renewed sense of apprehension to my daily commute...could have been my day this morning as I was coming down my favorite hill and started to slow for a left hand turn...the driver stopped at the intersection pulled out and when it was way to late turned back to the right and saw me and acknowledged his error with a shake of his head...if I hadn't slowed I'd have been toast... Kurt ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Accurate impartial advice on everything from laptops to table saws. http://click.egroups.com/1/4634/6/_/911801/_/962129012/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Visit the KLR650 archives at http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.html?ln=klr650 Support Dual Sport News... dsneditor@... Let's keep this list SPAM free! Visit our site at http://www.egroups.com/group/DSN_klr650 To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@egroups.com

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Attachments :--- In DSN_klr650@egroups.com, "Karl Raupp" wrote:

> I know I mentioned this before, but have you seen the Continental

TKC-

> 80's??? If I was riding like you (commuting and exploring), those > are the tires I would go with all the time. I have a set on my KLR > right now...

Here's a pic of the TKC-80's. Ed Duvall, WA '96 KLX 650 R '82 Katana 1000 ===== Ed Boyd List Guy Duvall, WA '96 KLX 650 R '82 Katana 1000 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/