could of knocked me over with a feather

[Tengai Mark Van Horn]

If I remember, Millerized's was Line-X-ed (urethane coated). Protected from the sun, but not the impact. Mark At 7:19 PM -0700 5/18/03, TONY CORNETT wrote:

>If you paint it with a paint containing a UV barrier it will not readily >shatter. The sun is an enemy to pvc. TC > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "James L. Miller Jr." >> ABS or Schedule 40 PVC. If it ends up on it's side, it'll shatter >> like glass. From a been there done that standpoint. Middle of a >> stream, tools everwhere (thanks Mark Van Horn) I now use 3" sch80 >> pvc. It's 3/8-7/16th of an inch thick. Much thicker than sch40. >> Glue on sch40 sockets and screw in caps. This HAS been laid down, >> and no damage this time. Attached to the PD NERF/highway pegs with >> 2 stainless steel screw clamps. I tried using 4, the the center 2 >> kept snapping off. The outside ones hold just fine. The SCH40 >> fittings are just fine, no need to use the sch80 stuff if installed >> right. You need some 3" sch80, let me know. I've got lots of it. >> millerized

[zrod73026]

I have a 2 inch tube mounted above the stock skid plate, using two pieces of 1 inch angle to the front motor mounts and 2 stainless U- Bolts through the flat sides of the angle holding the tube. --- In DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "Mark St.Hilaire, Sr" wrote:

> > Anyone use the PVC type tool storage system without the "help" of

the

> > Happy Trails highway peg to secure to? > > Hi Joe, I'm using a tool tube / footrest that sits on top of the U-

bolts of

> my skid plate. I used 4 stainless hose clamps, two on each side of

the frame

> tube, to clamp it into place. The clamps run around the tube and

through the

> holes in the skid plate... > > If you don't have a skid plate, you could probably run the tube

along one of

> the back frame supports, under the rack, or somewhere like that. > > Mark > > > > KLR650 Motorcycle Pages: > http://klr6500.tripod.com/ > > HomePage: > http://home.adelphia.net/~msaint/index.html > > My Adelphia Email can be "iffy." If > you don't get a response, please try: > KLR6500@h...

[Bogdan Swider]

Thanks, Devon, T Mark, Tony, Zrod, Joe and especially Mark S who provided pics for input on my question. Do I understand correctly that you need a tool to open the cap and access whatever you store in the pipe ? Bogdan

[James L. Miller Jr.]

I use my belt. Just like you'd use a strap wrench, cept using your hand as the handle. That is if you tighten the caps too tightly. Mine didn't loosen the entire 8200 miles last trip, and didn't loosen on the fall in Feb. Still not loose, but loose enought open with my hands. millerized --- In DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "Bogdan Swider" wrote:

> > > > Thanks, Devon, T Mark, Tony, Zrod, Joe and especially Mark S who

provided

> pics for input on my question. Do I understand correctly that you

need a

> tool to open the cap and access whatever you store in the pipe ? > > Bogdan

[kdxkawboy@aol.com]

In a message dated 2003-05-19 5:57:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, judjonzz@... writes:

> > Just got back from the Madison BMW Club's Great River Road > rally. Craig Olson and I rode out KLRs down, and while there, > drew a lot of comment and questions from the crowd. Craig's > bike drew more comment, because he is working on an > outstanding fashion idea: green A17 with yellow accessories > (HT racks, Rally pros, fork boots, Pelican box, and ortlieb > throwovers, all yellow). The yellow label on the Jim Beam rye (no > Overholt in Prairie du Chien) fit the scheme very nicely. My blue > and black A12 receded into the background by comparison, but I > still spent a lot of time answering questions. > > The GS ride in the breaks of the Wisconsin River was pretty > entertaining, and on the KLR it was easy to speed ahead of the > GSes to get photo ops. Several GS riders talking about getting > KLRs when it was over. > >

Over eight years of riding KLRs I have to say its the BMW crowd that has always given my bike a closer look. There is a group of BMW riders from Reno that do the same 1000 mile/24 hour rally I do and we have a friendly little competition going which I lead 3-2, I've beat them back 3 times out of five. In fact it was one of them that introduced me to the term that a KLR was 'poor-man's BMW'. Pat G'ville, Nv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]