still looking for an 08+ head,,,, anybody?

[watsonsb]

Check out these guys on ebay. I have been to their place and they are good people and usually have alot of klr baskets. http://stores.ebay.com/Parts-New-And-Used> Good luck, Watson Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: "christopher.eckert@... [DSN_KLR650]" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Date: 03/03/2016 2:22 PM (GMT-06:00) To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Subject: [DSN_KLR650] still looking for an 08+ head,,,, anybody?   I guess I am going to either need to ebay one or go buy a crash or parted out bike. If anybody knows of places parting out 08+ KLRs please let me know

[flipo37129]

Nice insight to the Western Dakota's, thanks Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Tablet

On Mar 16, 2016 3:30 AM, DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com wrote: > > There are 3 messages in this issue. > > Topics in this digest: > > 1a. Luvin my Old KLR still > From: achesley43@... > 1b. Re: Luvin my Old KLR still > From: Eddie > 1c. Re: Luvin my Old KLR still > From: Martin Earl > > > Messages > ________________________________________________________________________ > 1a. Luvin my Old KLR still > Posted by: achesley43@... achesley43@... > Date: Tue Mar 15, 2016 2:47 am ((PDT)) > > Still love being out on my old KLR for afternoon rides down out back roads of gravel, broken up black top and good black top. > Finally bought a new rear shock from Progressive and like it. Softens up the back a bit over our hash bumps in the roads. That was the KLR's present for the year. > As per GPS, still using my Garmin 276c even though there are starting to get some dark streaks and smugges on it. I do have a spare that I can take the screen off it when the time arrives. Why Garmin has not made a good follow up to it for motorcycles is beyond me. I love being able to operate it on the go as per screen map plus and minus. > I do have a Montana 600 also but mainly use it on me Suzy Bandit and in the Truck. > Probably won't be much longer before I have to change out the chain and sprockets as the chain is starting to get fairly sloppy. Really thinking on going to down a tooth on the rear. Don't really want the tallness of the 16 front but would like just a touch more in that direction. I do have a very lightly use 16 so I could use it and the chain in stock and just go to a larger rear, But, that might end up costing me a longer chain. We'll see. > Still loving the change in engine preformance with the KLX needle and jetting kit , plus the Ex Cam advance. Really woke it up in the 2 to 5 thousand rpm range when I run 99% of the time with the biggest amount of that time in the 3 to 4 thousand range. > Hope to see more action on this old site. I still check it most everyday. > > > > > Messages in this topic (3) > ________________________________________________________________________ > 1b. Re: Luvin my Old KLR still > Posted by: "Eddie" edgyver40@... edgyver31906 > Date: Tue Mar 15, 2016 4:00 pm ((PDT)) > > I sold my 2009 KLR in 2012 to buy a Yamaha Super Tenere 1200. > I > don't regret buying the Yamaha at all. But, there are plenty of days where it's > just a bit much and I miss the 650. > I did the doohickey, thermo-bob, Progressive suspension upgrade and a host of > farkles on the Kawasaki and it was a faithful companion for ne > > --- > New Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail replacement - get it here: > http://www.oeclassic.com/ > > arly 19k trouble-free miles. (Barely broken in by some accounts!) > =) > > -eddie > Original Message: > From: achesley43@... [DSN_KLR650] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> > Reply-To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com>, > To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: 3/15/2016 5:47:11 AM > Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Luvin my Old KLR still > > > Still love being out on my old KLR for afternoon rides down out back roads of > gravel, broken up black top and good black top. > Finally bought a new rear shock from Progressive and like it. Softens up the > back a bit over our hash bumps in the roads. That was the > KLR's present for the year. > As per GPS, still using my Garmin 276c even though there are starting to get some dark streaks and smugges on it. I do have a spare that I can take the screen off it when the time arrives. Why Garmin has not made a good follow up to it for motorcycles is beyond me. I love being able to operate it on the go as per screen map plus and minus. > I do have a Montana 600 also but mainly use it on me Suzy Bandit and in the Truck. > Probably won't > be much longer before I have to change out the chain and sprockets as the chain > is starting to get fairly sloppy. Really thinking on going to down a tooth on > the rear. > Don't really want the tallness of the 16 front but would like just a touch more in that direction. I do have a very lightly use 16 so I could use it and the chain in stock and just go to a larger rear, But, that might end up costing me a longer chain. We'll > see. > Still loving the change in engine preformance with the KLX needle and jetting > kit , plus the Ex Cam advance. Really woke it up in the 2 to 5 thousand rpm > range when I run 99% of the time with the biggest amount of that time in the 3 > to 4 thousand range. > Hope to see more action on this old site. I still check it most everyday. > > > > > > Messages in this topic (3) > ________________________________________________________________________ > 1c. Re: Luvin my Old KLR still > Posted by: "Martin Earl" mjearl4@... revmaaatin > Date: Tue Mar 15, 2016 8:52 pm ((PDT)) > > Andy and others- > I am still loving my KLR as well. > We don't have quite as many KLR days as the folks of LA have, but we get > by, especially if we watch the forecast carefully. > > March in the Dakota's is a very fickle time; there was a weather window of > 4 days and off I went! Temps were forcast to be in the mid-60's, with a > brisk morning air. cough. > I changed out my trail-gears of 14/46 for a 16/46; aired up the tires to > 24f/26r, packed a few clothes and pointed the bike North. > > Logged 315 miles on Thursday on a trip from Sturgis, SD to Williston, ND. > 150 miles of that was near, continuous gravel roads that begin on the N. > side of Belle Fourche, SD which wind up through buttes, prairie, and wadi's > speckled with open-range cow pies, conditional gravel roads (is some > places) that resemble marbles over glass, and 'edge-traps' created by > cattle trucks squeezing soft gravel roads up between the dual-wheels. > > The wind was 25+ mph tailwind which made the riding more enjoyable going > N. ah, not so easy going South on Saturday. shrug. > I traveled near the area of the now-more-famous Hugh Glass, and his bear > mauling experience. (Movie: The Revenant) > I did not see any signs of Hugh, Leo, the movie company or angry bears. I > guess I should look harder or slow down so the bear can at least get a > glimpse of the KiLeR. > > There were an abundance of Golden Eagles (soaring), Pronghorn Antelope, > Mule Deer, some White Tail deer and a few Prairie Dog towns without much > activity, and of course, cows and calves; many of the mothers of all > species having recently given birth. None of the critters move much with > the wind is blowing. My guess the (hungry) Eagles are looking for fresh > animal births that were not protected or were stillborn. > Still to early here for vultures which migrate on the big-winds out of the > South...my Missouri KLR brother =m2, tells me he is seeing buzzards in > central Missouri, so Spring is not far behind. > > Two years ago, I was in middle Tennessee and noticed a huge crowd of > vultures, some in trees, some on the ground, harassing a cow in a > farm-field along the Natchez Trace. Her calf was dead, and the > vultures were in the mood for converting calf-flesh to buzzard scat. > It was the big circle of life being completed on the TRACE as well as here > on the prairie. Same story, just a different location. > > I visited our friend Ross L. who lives in Williston, and works in the > BAKKEN oil fields supplying fork lifts of all sorts and variety's. Oil > field work has noticeably slowed down significantly as evidenced by the low > number of trucks on the highway, as well as the minimum amount of > cycles you spend at a stop light. > Ross tells me that people just abandon their apartments and contents as the > availability of U-Haul trucks prohibits some folks from taking their > worldly belongs home, to where ever that might be now, or next. Williston > (community) has gone through a huge boom to a nearly identical bust. Many, > many apartments are left in various states of construction, unprotected > from the elements and will be 'dust' in short order if the roofs and > windows are not installed. From some appearances, it is already to late > for many construction projects that I could see. > > The N/S ride home on Saturday was a parallel-offset ~20/30 miles into the > Montana side of the Dakota's state line, resulting in an increase of ~35 > miles for the return trip. > Forecast wind for Saturday, was about the same as Thursday, 25+ mph, with > G38; temps did not reach 45F until 1000 so we were not in much of a hurry > to get cold! Ross rode with me ~100 miles West, then South, to the I-94 > interstate where we parted company. I noticed in the first 100 miles > (about 25 washboard gravel) that the steering head bearing seemed to be a > little loose, and turned out, they were loose enough that you could feel > them unload in the washboard section. I elected to stay on paved roads for > the next 235 miles. > > The Montana prairie is also returning to life slowly; it is possible that > we are still a good five weeks or more of Spring blizzards, or Spring rains > if the weather forecasters are correct in their assessments of el Nino. > The gravel roads are presently a very dusty affair, as though it were > middle summer. It would be nice to see some rain in the upper plains > states, perhaps the el Nino will do some good here soon. The middle South > is feeling the brunt of that now, and if the jet-steam brings down the > cold, el Nino will bring the snow...and delays to KLR riding.... > > The rain falls on the just and the unjust. (Matt 5.45) Perhaps it will > come soon. > > and so it goes. > m1. > > https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=oa-2115-f> > 0 > viruses found. www.avast.com > https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=oa-2115-f> > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:47 AM, achesley43@... [DSN_KLR650] < > DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Still love being out on my old KLR for afternoon rides down out back roads > > of gravel, broken up black top and good black top. > > > > Finally bought a new rear shock from Progressive and like it. Softens up > > the back a bit over our hash bumps in the roads. That was the KLR's present > > for the year. > > > > As per GPS, still using my Garmin 276c even though there are starting to > > get some dark streaks and smugges on it. I do have a spare that I can take > > the screen off it when the time arrives. Why Garmin has not made a good > > follow up to it for motorcycles is beyond me. I love being able to operate > > it on the go as per screen map plus and minus. > > > > I do have a Montana 600 also but mainly use it on me Suzy Bandit and in > > the Truck. > > > > Probably won't be much longer before I have to change out the chain and > > sprockets as the chain is starting to get fairly sloppy. Really thinking on > > going to down a tooth on the rear. Don't really want the tallness of the 16 > > front but would like just a touch more in that direction. I do have a very > > lightly use 16 so I could use it and the chain in stock and just go to a > > larger rear, But, that might end up costing me a longer chain. We'll see. > > > > Still loving the change in engine preformance with the KLX needle and > > jetting kit , plus the Ex Cam advance. Really woke it up in the 2 to 5 > > thousand rpm range when I run 99% of the time with the biggest amount of > > that time in the 3 to 4 thousand range. > > > > Hope to see more action on this old site. I still check it most everyday. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Messages in this topic (3) > > > > List Sponsors - Dual Sport News: http://www.dualsportnews.com > Arrowhead Motorsports: http://www.arrowheadmotorsports.com > List FAQ courtesy of Chris Krok: http://www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html > Members Map https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=212558560286766214899.0004d0fa9f1732283bb6f&msa=0&ll=38.522384,-109.489746&spn=6.831383,9.624023 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Yahoo Groups Links > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >