home made hard bags

[Roy Bertalotto]

Stuart, Do you have a journal of your trips up north available on the internet? Sounds like a very interesting trip! Roy Bertalotto North Dartmouth, Mass http://www.rvbmotorcycles.com 2000 BMW R1100RS 2000 Buell M2 Cyclone 1998 Honda VFR 800Fi

[Stuart Heaslet]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:32:14 -0500 "Roy Bertalotto" wrote:

> Stuart, > Do you have a journal of your trips up north available > on the internet?.

The latest story hasn't been posted yet - I rode two roundtrips between Florida and Alaska (29,000 miles) during the 1999 and 2000 summer seasons. There is an old story at www.dualsport.org/alaska/index.html that just deals with the first 6500 mile leg in May 1999 from south Florida to Prudhoe Bay. Things improved after that shakedown . If you check back in a week or two I'll have something posted regarding the overall trip - some of the info will incorporate the old material. Stuart A12

[Fred Hink]

[b]Reports of one of Stuart's trips to Alaska and others can be found at....[/b] [b]http://www.angelfire.com/ut/moab/ontheroad.html[/b] [b][/b]  [b]Fred[/b] [b][/b]  [b][/b] 

----- Original Message ----- [b]From:[/b] rvb100@... [b]To:[/b] dsn_klr650@egroups.com ; fireball@... [b]Sent:[/b] Sunday, November 26, 2000 4:32 PM [b]Subject:[/b] [DSN_klr650] Stuart Heaslet's Yukon Ride Stuart,  Do you have a journal of your trips up north available on the internet? Sounds like a very interesting trip! Roy Bertalotto North Dartmouth, Mass http://www.rvbmotorcycles.com 2000 BMW R1100RS 2000 Buell M2 Cyclone 1998 Honda VFR 800Fi

[Roy Bertalotto]

Stuart, Great story! When are you going to come up the east coast, pick me up, and do Canada east to west! I haven't bought a KLR yet, but I'll have one before next spring. Although, I might use one of the other bikes for a trip such as this. A trip I plan on taking is cross country to Seattle, ferry up the inside passage to Anchorage and then back down through Canada, Montana and Wyoming. A fellow on the BMW list did this trip. Great reading also! http://www.azis.com/crosby!/alaska.html Roy Bertalotto North Dartmouth, Mass http://www.rvbmotorcycles.com 2000 BMW R1100RS 2000 Buell M2 Cyclone 1998 Honda VFR 800Fi

----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Heaslet" To: "Roy Bertalotto" ; "KLR list" dsn_klr650@egroups.com>; "Stuart Heaslet" Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [DSN_klr650] Stuart Heaslet's Yukon Ride > On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 19:32:14 -0500 > "Roy Bertalotto" wrote: > > Stuart, > > Do you have a journal of your trips up north available > > on the internet?. > > The latest story hasn't been posted yet - I rode two > roundtrips between Florida and Alaska (29,000 miles) during > the 1999 and 2000 summer seasons. > > There is an old story at www.dualsport.org/alaska/index.html > that just deals with the first 6500 mile leg in May 1999 > from south Florida to Prudhoe Bay. Things improved after > that shakedown . > > If you check back in a week or two I'll have something > posted regarding the overall trip - some of the info will > incorporate the old material. > > Stuart > A12

[Roy Bertalotto]

I would definitely hook up with you for at least the ride up through New England and eastern Canada. I'm pushing 50 and although I did a ton of riding in my teens and early twenties, I stopped riding while raising a family for the past 20 years. I got back into it "big time" this past summer. This coming summer will be a time for touring! When you have more definite dates. give me a post and we'll plan on meeting somewhere up here. Roy Bertalotto North Dartmouth, Mass http://www.rvbmotorcycles.com 2000 BMW R1100RS 2000 Buell M2 Cyclone 1998 Honda VFR 800Fi

----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 10:42 PM Subject: Re: [DSN_klr650] Stuart Heaslet's Yukon Ride > Hi Roy: Don't know if you have seen any of my previous posts. I will be > getting my KLR next February and have an east to west tour of Canada and > Alaska planned for next year. I plan to depart south Florida May 1, 2001, > northward to Newfoundland and Labrador before heading west to Alaska via > Yellowknife and Inuvik. By September 1, I will be out of Canada heading south > through 24 countries to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. I expect to take 2-3 years > to complete the tour. I am 63 years of age and haven't ridden a bike in about > 25 years. My Yorkie "Punky" will accompany me. Let me know if you would care > to hook up with me during the Canada and Alaska portion of my tour. I expect > to be in the northeastern US in late May. I am allowing the month of June for > eastern Canada, the months of July and August for western Canada and Alaska > and September from the Canadian border to Mexico. There is a chance that I > will cross the path of Mariola Cichon in western Canada or Alaska during the > first leg of her Ride Of The Heart TRW tour. We stay in touch. I've been in > contact with Stuart Heaslet and hope to meet with him soon to get the benefit > of his experience in the North country. He lives only about 40 miles from me > here in Florida. Hope to see you on the road. > > Lew Waterman > Punky & Lew's Americas Motopaseo > Greenacres, Florida

[Tom Simpson]

At 10:12 PM 11/26/00 -0500, Roy Bertalotto wrote:

>Although I haven't even picked up my KLR yet (two weeks!), I'm already hard >at work thinking up ways to modify it once I get it. I want to make my own >rack and hard bags. I just purchased from www.sportsmansguide.com a set of >fiberglass 25mm ammo cans that look like they will work out great as hard >bags. I'll weld up a rack system and I'll rig up some method of mounting >them so they can be quickly detached and brought into the tent or hotel >room.

These cans are very nice for this application in many respects. However, you may be surprised how little room there is inside them. Those ribbed walls are rather thick.

> I'll post the story on my web site when I'm finished. Has any one else done >anything like this? > What other modifications should I be thinking about? What are the >additions that "everyone" does once they get a KLR?

To me, it goes like this: Bash Plate (I like my Moose) Seat ( I like my Corbin, but thats a matter of taste) Braided Brake Line (have a Russell, it works) MAP Engineering Front Brake Rotor (Expensive, but darned well worth it) -Tom '96 KLR 650