dunlop 491 elite ii rear tire - mt90hb-17

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soutram
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travel to yukon...

Post by soutram » Tue Jun 25, 2002 12:37 pm

Here's a message Gord asked to be posted for him... Howdy guys. How's yer doohickey? :) I seem to have been unsubscribed to the KLR list somehow. No big deal - I was going to unsubscribe anyway because I'm leaving at the end of the week. But I just wanted to say see ya before heading off to the Yukon for two months. On Friday or Saturday I'll be taking the Icefields Parkway and then the Cassiar to the Alaska Highway, then the Klondike highway to Dawson City, and then the Dempster up to Inuvik. I'll grab a Cessna to Tuktoyaktuk so I can go for a dip in the Arctic Ocean. I'll also be doing some climbing/hiking a little south in the Richardson Mountains. Around mid-July I'm meeting up with some friends in Whitehorse who are driving up from Calgary. (Hopefully they can bring my Dual Star side racks if they're ready by then.) We're building a raft in Whitehorse. It will have a sail, oars and even a stationary-bike- powered paddlewheel to push it along over 65km-long Lake Laberge. The rest of the way should be ok - with the possible exception of certain places like Five Finger Rapids. Around early August my friends are heading home, and I'm off to the North Canol road. After Macmillan Pass it's abandoned, so there's lots of river crossings that are pretty darn high - especially at the beginning of the month. I wish I could go closer to Labor Day, but the timing doesn't work for me. I need to bring extra gas for the 750-800km round trip. Extra cables, levers and tubes too, because if something goes wrong out there and you can't fix it yourself you're looking at a 200km walk... After that I'm not sure where I'm headed. Either home or perhaps to Vancouver Island and nearby Denman Island to visit my dad. I'll be home around the end of August. You can reach me at gordmounce@... if you'd like to be included on the trip reports. They won't be anything especially eloquent - just a few quick updates and some stories for friends and family who worry when I do trips like this. have fun gord

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dunlop 491 elite ii rear tire - mt90hb-17

Post by Krgrife@aol.com » Tue Jun 25, 2002 1:20 pm

In a message dated 6/24/02 11:05:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time, moabmc@... writes: << MT90B17 Overall diameter is 26.18" Overall width is 5.15" Recommended rim width is 3.00" Load rating is 870 lbs @ 40psi They don't list the OEM Dunlop 750 tire but I suspect it would be narrower and not as big in diameter as the Dunlop 491. I don't have any experience with this tire on a KLR. I have mounted it on other bikes including a Honda XL600 and it seemed to work great. >> As I posted yesterday, my riding buddy has this tire mounted with no problems whatsoever. It appears to me to have much more room than my K270 5.10x17. kurt Grife

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