canyonlands ?

[les123@home.com]

I took off for an afternoon cruise Saturday. I was about 90 minutes out when my right peg rotated and dropped 6 inches. Awful sinking feeling. Lost a bolt. Fortunately, I was just cruising on a straight stretch at moderate speed. Couldn't find the missing bolt. I couldn't devise anything better on the side of the road, so I just tightened the remaining bolt and didn't trust it on the way home. Your leg gets tired dangling there. Thanks, Tim Bernard, for the highway pegs. I picked up a few replacement bolts, replaced the copper anti-sieze I had put on them at center stand installation with blue loctite and torqued them all. Then I went over everything. I keep getting reminded this spring that I don't know all that much about motorcycles. Thanks to the listers who sent suggestions about my gas starvation problem last month. I believe a kinked petcock vacuum hose was the culprit. The problem kind of disappeared behind another of my screw-ups. I was going out to the bike most days after work for some tinkering. I don't know if I was high or what but one day I started it, didn't realize the choke was on and was alarmed at the idle at 3K rpm. Turned it down with the idle speed screw. From then on, incredibly, my idea of choke on/choke off was reversed. This gave me really strange symptoms - ohmigod, what have I done now! Someone with a working brain straightened me out when they noticed that I was riding with the choke on. A few more minutes of alarm and confusion until we turned the idle up again - and things were back to normal. No more problems. Hope most of you get a chuckle. Might help other new guys. Dave A14 Richmond

[Don Dotson]

It is on my day planner! --- rideoregon@... wrote:

> Haven't heard much lately about the Canyonlands get > together. > Is it still on and is anybody going? > > Steve Davis > Eugene, OR > > > > > > Visit the KLR650 archives at > http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.html?ln=klr650 > > Post message: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com > Subscribe: DSN_klr650-subscribe@yahoogroups.com > Unsubscribe: DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > List owner: DSN_klr650-owner@yahoogroups.com > > Support Dual Sport News by subscribing at: > http://www.dualsportnews.com > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >

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