trip rec's: n. texas & oklahoma

[Joel Nelson]

I have a 05 KLR650 . I put a Jardine Muffler on it and put a dynojet kit in to keep it from being too lean. The Muffler from Jardine was loud , which was to be expected. I also purchased a spark arrestor for that muffler. That made it more quiet but now I get the TWEETY sound under hard accelerating or letting off the gas . What makes the Tweety noise. Is it leaking exhaust from the joint into the header pipe? One solution is ditch the spark arrestor and piss off my neighbors, but that wouldn't be nice. I know we talked about the Tweety in the past but I can't recall the solution. tks SPARKS454

[nakedwaterskier]

I was told at the Julian Tech Day that it is the perforated baffle that you see when you shine a flashlight in from the rear of the exhaust that makes the tweety bird noise. The solution is to take a strong large flathead screwdriver and slice dn one side of the perforated baffle hitting the flathead with a hammer. It is easier and quicker than I thought. Jeffrey

[Tumu Rock]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "joel nelson" wrote:

> > I have a 05 KLR650 . I put a Jardine Muffler on it and put a dynojet > kit in to keep it from being too lean. The Muffler from Jardine was > loud , which was to be expected. I also purchased a spark arrestor > for that muffler. That made it more quiet but now I get the TWEETY > sound under hard accelerating or letting off the gas . > What makes the Tweety noise. Is it leaking exhaust from the joint

into

> the header pipe? One solution is ditch the spark arrestor and piss

off

> my neighbors, but that wouldn't be nice. > I know we talked about the Tweety in the past but I can't recall the > solution. tks SPARKS454 >

Tweety as we know it does come from the perforated baffle in the stock exhaust. Since you no longer have the stock exhaust on your bike, it's coming from somewhere else. Tweety as you are hearing it is coming from some other metal to metal contat area that isn't tight. Check the heat shield on the header and check the spark arrester you installed in the Jardine to see if either is loose. I've also had a slight tweet from the clutch lever rattling around in its perch. da Vermonster

[roncriswell@sbcglobal.net]

Another primo stop over in that area is the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge north Of Wichita Falls TX at Lawton OKLA where Ft. Sill is (artillery base). Small mountains (2500 feet) made of huge granite boulders (boulders the size of houses). Great for hiking, rock hopping and learning rock climbing. The refuge has one of the oldest buffalo herds around, plus some Elk, Long Horn cattle, deer, fox, wild Turkeys etc. They used to let you mountain bike some of the substantial hills on Ft. Sill (don't know if they still do). A friend did a spectacular endo trying to catch me on one and I blew my tire tub at the bottom of the same run. You can drive / ride to the top of Mt. Scott and watch them sometimes shoot artillery. Mount Scott is the tallest thing around on that prairie and you can see for miles. Ft. Sill was the gathering place for most southern plains Indians (Comanches, Kiowas, Cheyennes etc. to talk them out of their warring and raiding ways and live on the reservation). Interesting museum there on the Ft. talking about all that. I was raised south of there in Baja Oklahoma. Criswell

On May 6, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Mike Gragg wrote: > N- > > I'm way behind on emails so I'm not sure if you've received any > suggestions already, but..... > > If I might, I'd suggest you consider a detour south out of Stratford > to Dumas. At Dumas, take 152 west to 207. Go south on 207 and you'll > pass Lake Meredith, the Alibates Flint Quarries, and take a terrific > ride through the Palo Duro Canyon. Continue on 207 through Silverton > and Quitique, visit Caprock Canyons State Park, visit the Bob Wills > museum in Turkey, and then head east through Oklahoma's oil patch and > into the Oachita mountains near Broken Bow. From Broken Bow head > north to Talihina, ride the Talimena Drive to Mena, and then head > north to Fort Smith. > > You can see some of my photos of the areas I've mentioned at > http://gragg.smugmug.com/gallery/2889694_iUegw#20603331_fZ4oZ and > http://gragg.smugmug.com/gallery/478174_DTEjC#19445398_ajczD and > http://gragg.smugmug.com/gallery/2007379_5watt#P-1-20. > > Have a great trip! > > Mike Gragg > Euless, Texas > A18 > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:45 PM, nevadamontagu > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I'm riding from Denver to Fort Smith, Arkansas this month. I'm > > planning on heading diagonally from Denver to Boise City, OK. From > > there, I'll probably head through Stratford, Spearman and > Canadian, in > > Texas. It looks like the terrain gets interesting here. I'd like to > > follow the Canadian River for a bit as it meanders through hilly > > country. After that, I'll buzz straight across Oklahoma to Fort > > Smith. This will be a two day riding trip, each way. > > > > Any advice on neat, out-of-the-way places in western Oklahoma or > > northern Texas? How about nice camping spots? I prefer to camp > > primitively, instead of staying in campgrounds. > > > > Thanks, > > -N > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]