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replace license plate bulb with led?
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 7:58 pm
by Thane Silliker
KLR Folk:
What is the bulb used for the license plate light? Have folks replaced this bulb with an LED variation?
Happy New Year!
Happy Trails from London, Canada
Thane Silliker, CET, STOC #730
The ST1100 Sport / Grand Touring Motorcycle
KLR650 Adventure Touring
ST Owners Club Iron Butt Association
Canadian Motorcycle Association
2001 Iron Butt Rally Gold Medal
Cross Canada Record 59:45
http://www.silliker.ca
replace license plate bulb with led?
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2003 8:21 pm
by bigfatgreenbike
tsilliker@... wrote:
>KLR Folk:
>
>What is the bulb used for the license plate light? Have folks replaced this bulb with an LED variation?
>
>
I "replaced" it with the taillight.
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Devon
Brooklyn, NY
A15-Z '01 KLR650
'81 SR500 cafe racer
"The truth's not too popular these days....."
Arnold Schwarzenneger, in The Running Man
nklr bought a goldwing
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 12:13 am
by George Evans
Sam,
If that old Goldwing is in any decent condition whatsoever, you'll
get a ton of good riding out of it. My wife had an 81 that I bought
her in about 1995 with 51,000 miles on it. She put on 45,000 miles,
most of them pulling a trailer loaded with bicycles, before I sold it
last year. It would run 80 mph all day, didn't overheat, wasn't too
bad on tires, didn't use any oil and couldn't be killed even with my
poor maintainance which the last three years consisted of an oil
change every spring. Just on hell of a bike!
I always wondered what happened to it after I sold it. Then I ran
into a kid riding it last fall. It had 110,000 miles on it and he
had just returned from a 3000 mile road trip!
Well, just couldn't resist comment on the Goldwing - Have a Happy New
Year and watch out around them garbage trucks...
George
--- In
DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "Sam Teel" wrote:
> I'm adding an 81 Goldwing to the stable. I had a successful bid on
ebay and
> got it for $720. I'll be going up to Chicago in two weeks to ride
it back
> to Memphis. I just had to get something that would be comfortable
2 up. My
> wife has just been too understanding of my motorcycle craze, so I
had to get
> something we both could enjoy! Also picked up a HJC ZF7 helmet,
new in the
> box for $10.50 plus 10 bucks shipping.
>
> I'm keeping the KLR of course. I got the tires, Kenda 657's the
other day.
> Now to just get them mounted, down at the Harley shop. My
supertrapp discs
> finally broke free and now are jammed into the tip at about a 45
degree
> angle. I do wonder what the rich/lean effects of that are. I
suspect lean
> as the exhaust pressure would be lower. It runs fine but I'm
pulling a plug
> tomorrow to see what color it is. I've been riding the stuffing
out of this
> bike, three or four hundred miles a week. As long as the temps are
40 or
> above, I'm good to go. Me and another luster, Jim Wilkinson rode
down to
> Holly Springs in Mississippi two weeks ago. When I left the house
it was
> 29. When we got to Holly Springs, it was 31. A damn cold day but
we had
> fun and I had my first dirt experience. (Thanks, Jim, for showing
me the
> way - even when you were really to sick to be riding!)
>
> Had the supercrap scared out of me the other day on the way to work.
> Running down the interstate, left lane at about 70 behind a trash
truck. I
> was thinking, "this thing is going to start stinking or drop
something any
> minute now" so I backed off a few feet. Then BOOOMMMM! A cloud
of brown
> smoke erupts from the right rear of the truck. In a split second, I
> realized he had blown a tire. I hit both brakes, scooted over into
the left
> shoulder next to the concrete divider wall just as huge chunks of
tire tread
> go flying by my right shoulder. Not a speck of it hit me. It
occurred to
> me that situational awareness and the ability to not panic, (right
now)
> helped me avoid an injury.
>
> Well, enough wandering. Time for the new year to begin. Good
riding to all
> with the more shiny side up!
>
> Sam
> A9, 81 Goldwing
