plastic protection

[Charlie Y]

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----- Original Message ----- Ok I know I shouldn't ask this BUT, Am a just a Putz? OR should the guy in the SUV have ran back and gotten the piece OUT OF THE ROAD BEFORE, changing His tire, to stop others from hitting it and maybe a FATAL accident?  

[mark ward]

[Jeff Khoury]

I rode down to San Diego and picked up the new rims. I had left fairly early so I was bushed when I got home. I decided to take a nap before tackling a double wheel rebuild.  After a nap and some food, I re-laced and tried both wheels. The only snags were that I had completely finished the rear when I remembered that I had forgotten to balance it and had to rip it back off again, and I pinched the tube on the front while mounting the tire and had to replace it.  All in all, not bad.  Thanks everyone for your concern and suggestions. A special thanks to Jan Emery for offering to let me use his garage and tools. A most generous offer.  -Jeff Khoury

On Mar 12, 2010, at 7:08 PM, Jeff Khoury wrote:

  Rev, In the light of day I found the wheel not to be cracked but it is bent beyond all repair.  I tried to hammer it back with a brass hammer, but no luck. I then glanced at the rear and found it to be bent even more than the front! *%&^!!!! I called around to all the bike shops locally and no one carries rims in stock.  A friend recommended I try calling Eagle Mike.  I found he was in San Diego, so I called him.  He happened to have a used (good condition) front AND a rear lying around the shop and offered them to me for a reasonable price.  After a few "thank yous" we arranged to meet at his shop tomorrow morning. My brother let me borrow the tires and wheels off his KLR so I can ride to San Diego to pick up the rims.  I just finished swapping them at last light.  I'm off to go gas up so I can leave early in the morning to meet Eagle Mike. Thanks to all for the well wishes The saga continues... -Jeff Khoury ----- Original Message ----- From: "revmaaatin" To: "DSN KLR650" ups.com> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 9:53:35 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: Unexpectedly Airborne   --- In DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com, Jeff Khoury wrote: > > OK, so it's nighttime and I'm in moderate traffic on the 405. With about a second's notice, I see a 5"x5"x12" piece of black cast iron lying in the middle of my travel lane. (Imagine a chunk of a concrete parking stop for reference) With nowhere to swerve I brace for the impact at about 40MPH. > > The KLR handled the impact pretty well, if by well you mean leaping 2 feet straight into the air. It leapt so quickly, my shoulder broke the mirror loose as the front end headed for the sky. > > It wasn't very graceful, but I managed to stick the landing. I pulled to the side of the road next to a guy changing a beautifully bent 21" polished aluminum wheel on his SUV.... See More > > Amazingly, it did not cut the tire or the tube! Kudos to Kenda for making awesome tubes and tires. When I saw the wheel, I was SURE I had to replace them as well. A close inspection shows no real damage to the rubber. > > If I had been on any other type of bike it would have been a different story. There would not have been enough suspension travel to soak it up and if I had tubeless tires I would have had to land it on a flat front tire. > > My brother is going to go down to one of the big local bike shops in the morning to see if they have a new (or aftermarket) rim in stock. Excel makes the sock rims on the KLR and they're pretty common with the dirt-bike crowd, so they may have one. If they do, I'll lace it up this weekend. > > I'll probably replace the tube "just because" and inspect the tire VERY carefully. If it's even questionable, I'll replace it. > > Pictures of my bent wheel: > > [url=http://bit.ly/]http://bit.ly/ bGCBXS[/url] > > -Jeff Khoury > Wow. Glad you kept riding until all violent motion stopped. More than just the little engine says, "I think I can." Give us an update when you can see it in the light. I suspect the wheel is cracked as well. revmaaatin.

[Jeffrey]

I was on the 405 going south at 80 mph in the HOV lane; bit south of Mulholland. I rounded a gentle turn only it wasn't so gentle at 80. A pool man's chlorine crate was in the middle of the lane. I slowed to 60 quickly . Couldn't change lanes because of a truck. Luckily the chlorine bottles where empty and the crate blew a couple of feet towards the side of the lane right before I got there and I squeaked by. I have no idea what would have happened if I hit it. If old plastic, I might have just broken/squashed it. If not, I might be pushing up daisies. Jeffrey number 3

[roncriswell@sbcglobal.net]

Not a good idea to hit anything on the road if you can. When I was a kid on my Vespa, I would kick empty boxes on the road for grins at speed. One wasn't empty. It had rocks and bricks inside of it. Right when my foot hit the box, I noticed it had stuff in it. SURPRISE! I stayed upright but it almost tore my foot off. No hemet, no boots either. It wouldn't have been pretty. I think laws should be stiffer for Yahoos carrying crap in the back of trucks not secured properly. I have almost been hit by a slab of sheetrock flying through the air. I see chairs, ladders etc. all the time that has flown out of the back of pickups. When I rode my KLR in Copper Canyon, there were some Concours riders in Creel loooking for a rim. One old guy hit a rock doing about 100 mph on a paved road and damn near bought the farm. A friend hit a rock on his KLR recently in Mexico and did an endo breaking his shouder, some ribs and punctured a lung. Not good when you are 75 years old as he is. Criswell

[mark ward]

[sh8knj8kster]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "roncriswell@..." wrote: I think laws should be stiffer for Yahoos carrying crap in the back of trucks not secured properly. ~~~The laws are there, they're just not enforced. Some time ago our county started to enforce this particular law, in regards to taking trash to the county dump sites. Anyone caught not using a cargo net covering the entire pick up bed was cited. For a while the county used code enforcement agents at each local dump site (we're in a rural area) to write the tickets but the local padre can write them too. I've seen state police go after larger trucks carrying un-secured brush in the back of their beds (tree services) Anyways, we went online to find an elastic cargo net that would cover the entire bed of our F-150. It was fairly cheap and free shipping too. We use it every Sunday going to the dump as we haul a bit of cardboard. Works well to keep any objects we carry in the bed, where they belong, and not flying out onto the side of the road, which is what the enforcement was originally designed to do, keep litter off the roads. Like most well intentioned laws, we seldomn see other pick up truck owners at the dump getting their with their bed covered, and the enforcement isn't there either. eh! Jake Reddick Fla. Do not mess with the forces of Nature, for thou art small and biodegradable!" http://www.shakinjake.blogspot.com/ > > Not a good idea to hit anything on the road if you can. When I was a kid on my Vespa, I would kick empty boxes on the road for grins at speed. One wasn't empty. It had rocks and bricks inside of it. Right when my foot hit the box, I noticed it had stuff in it. SURPRISE! I stayed upright but it almost tore my foot off. No hemet, no boots either. It wouldn't have been pretty. I think laws should be stiffer for Yahoos carrying crap in the back of trucks not secured properly. I have almost been hit by a slab of sheetrock flying through the air. I see chairs, ladders etc. all the time that has flown out of the back of pickups. > > When I rode my KLR in Copper Canyon, there were some Concours riders in Creel loooking for a rim. One old guy hit a rock doing about 100 mph on a paved road and damn near bought the farm. A friend hit a rock on his KLR recently in Mexico and did an endo breaking his shouder, some ribs and punctured a lung. Not good when you are 75 years old as he is. > > > Criswell >

[dooden]

Enforced like the laws that address modification of exhaust systems. Remember loud pipe save lives... make everybody deaf however. Dooden A15 Green Ape

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "sh8knj8kster" wrote: > > > > --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "roncriswell@" wrote: > > > > > > > I think laws should be stiffer for Yahoos carrying crap in the back of trucks not secured properly. > > > > > > > ~~~The laws are there, they're just not enforced. Some time ago our county started to enforce this particular law, in regards to taking trash to the county dump sites. Anyone caught not using a cargo net covering the entire pick up bed was cited. For a while the county used code enforcement agents at each local dump site (we're in a rural area) to write the tickets but the local padre can write them too. I've seen state police go after larger trucks carrying un-secured brush in the back of their beds (tree services) > > > Anyways, we went online to find an elastic cargo net that would cover the entire bed of our F-150. It was fairly cheap and free shipping too. We use it every Sunday going to the dump as we haul a bit of cardboard. Works well to keep any objects we carry in the bed, where they belong, and not flying out onto the side of the road, which is what the enforcement was originally designed to do, keep litter off the roads. Like most well intentioned laws, we seldomn see other pick up truck owners at the dump getting their with their bed covered, and the enforcement isn't there either. eh! > > > > Jake > Reddick Fla. > Do not mess with the forces of Nature, for thou art small and biodegradable!" > > > > http://www.shakinjake.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > > > Not a good idea to hit anything on the road if you can. When I was a kid on my Vespa, I would kick empty boxes on the road for grins at speed. One wasn't empty. It had rocks and bricks inside of it. Right when my foot hit the box, I noticed it had stuff in it. SURPRISE! I stayed upright but it almost tore my foot off. No hemet, no boots either. It wouldn't have been pretty. I think laws should be stiffer for Yahoos carrying crap in the back of trucks not secured properly. I have almost been hit by a slab of sheetrock flying through the air. I see chairs, ladders etc. all the time that has flown out of the back of pickups. > > > > When I rode my KLR in Copper Canyon, there were some Concours riders in Creel loooking for a rim. One old guy hit a rock doing about 100 mph on a paved road and damn near bought the farm. A friend hit a rock on his KLR recently in Mexico and did an endo breaking his shouder, some ribs and punctured a lung. Not good when you are 75 years old as he is. > > > > > > Criswell > > >

[Don Bittle]

I've been out of the loop for awhile (2003 klr650) so I'm wondering what the response has been to KHI's putting such an expensive and vulnerable fairing on the new bike. My bigger question is, is there some sort of steel guard that has been invented that will hit first in a dump, rather than the fairing? It would work much like handguards that also protect your levers. The price of 2009's is so attractive that I may trade.

don

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[Craig Kahler]

How about a ban on recap tires. Sometimes its like an obstacle course driving on I95 & I81 (major truck routes). I especially hate driving those roads at night. Craig Kahler

--- On [b]Tue, 3/16/10, Dooden [i][/i][/b] wrote:

From: Dooden Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Re: Unexpectedly Airborne To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 10:06 AM   Enforced like the laws that address modification of exhaust systems. Remember loud pipe save lives... make everybody deaf however. Dooden A15 Green Ape --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogro ups.com, "sh8knj8kster" wrote: > > > > --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogro ups.com, "roncriswell@ " wrote: > > > > > > > I think laws should be stiffer for Yahoos carrying crap in the back of trucks not secured properly. > > > > > > > ~~~The laws are there, they're just not enforced. Some time ago our county started to enforce this particular law, in regards to taking trash to the county dump sites. Anyone caught not using a cargo net covering the entire pick up bed was cited. For a while the county used code enforcement agents at each local dump site (we're in a rural area) to write the tickets but the local padre can write them too. I've seen state police go after larger trucks carrying un-secured brush in the back of their beds (tree services) > > > Anyways, we went online to find an elastic cargo net that would cover the entire bed of our F-150. It was fairly cheap and free shipping too. We use it every Sunday going to the dump as we haul a bit of cardboard. Works well to keep any objects we carry in the bed, where they belong, and not flying out onto the side of the road, which is what the enforcement was originally designed to do, keep litter off the roads. Like most well intentioned laws, we seldomn see other pick up truck owners at the dump getting their with their bed covered, and the enforcement isn't there either. eh! > > > > Jake > Reddick Fla. > Do not mess with the forces of Nature, for thou art small and biodegradable! " > > > > http://www.shakinja ke.blogspot. com/ > > > > > > > > > Not a good idea to hit anything on the road if you can. When I was a kid on my Vespa, I would kick empty boxes on the road for grins at speed. One wasn't empty. It had rocks and bricks inside of it. Right when my foot hit the box, I noticed it had stuff in it. SURPRISE! I stayed upright but it almost tore my foot off. No hemet, no boots either. It wouldn't have been pretty. I think laws should be stiffer for Yahoos carrying crap in the back of trucks not secured properly. I have almost been hit by a slab of sheetrock flying through the air. I see chairs, ladders etc. all the time that has flown out of the back of pickups. > > > > When I rode my KLR in Copper Canyon, there were some Concours riders in Creel loooking for a rim. One old guy hit a rock doing about 100 mph on a paved road and damn near bought the farm. A friend hit a rock on his KLR recently in Mexico and did an endo breaking his shouder, some ribs and punctured a lung. Not good when you are 75 years old as he is. > > > > > > Criswell > > >