Wilsons Sandbox

Posted: **Sun Jun 22, 2008 3:38 pm**

I just traded my 2000 Concours straight across for a 2004 KLR with 11K miles on it. Now I have TWO KLRs. The Connie was very heavily farkled and set up for LDR. I don't think I want to do a lot more 800 to 1000 mile days, and the 88 KLR I got two summers has been a blast to ride. I added an IMS tank, raising links, Progressive springs, big front brake, SS lines front and back, Pack Rat ammo can frames and my own ammo cans, engine guard bars, highway pegs, bash plate and a few other mods. The new 04 bike is relatively stock. It has been lowered about 2" via lowering links and raising the fork tubes in the trees. It also has a very nice set of Givi bags and a JCW type top box. Since the original '88 KLR had been lowered, too, I don't have a set of standard links, so does anyone either have a set of standard links they want to sell cheap, or could someone tell me the center to center distance between the holes on a set of standard links? I am thinking of fabricating a set out of 1/2" aluminum plate. The other questions are should I keep the old bike, and what should I move over to the new bike. I am planning a ride up to Whitehorse and maybe beyond this summer, which is why I got a newer bike. I like the idea of having two KLRs, but I don't want to strip the older one down to nothing. I am thinking of getting a new bash plate, IMS tank, dash, front engine protector/highway pegs and grip heaters for the new bike, and swapping the big brake and SS lines from the old bike to the new one. Also, can anyone tell me who has dohickeys in stock? Any other ideas? Dave C

Posted: **Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:05 am**

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "David C." wrote:

> > I just traded my 2000 Concours straight across for a 2004 KLR with > 11K miles on it. Now I have TWO KLRs. > > The Connie was very heavily farkled and set up for LDR. I don't > think I want to do a lot more 800 to 1000 mile days, and the 88 KLR

I

> got two summers has been a blast to ride. I added an IMS tank, > raising links, Progressive springs, big front brake, SS lines front > and back, Pack Rat ammo can frames and my own ammo cans, engine

guard

> bars, highway pegs, bash plate and a few other mods. > > The new 04 bike is relatively stock. It has been lowered about 2" > via lowering links and raising the fork tubes in the trees. It

also

> has a very nice set of Givi bags and a JCW type top box. Since the > original '88 KLR had been lowered, too, I don't have a set of > standard links, so does anyone either have a set of standard links > they want to sell cheap, or could someone tell me the center to > center distance between the holes on a set of standard links? I am > thinking of fabricating a set out of 1/2" aluminum plate. > > The other questions are should I keep the old bike, and what should

I

> move over to the new bike. I am planning a ride up to Whitehorse

and

> maybe beyond this summer, which is why I got a newer bike. I like > the idea of having two KLRs, but I don't want to strip the older

one

> down to nothing. I am thinking of getting a new bash plate, IMS > tank, dash, front engine protector/highway pegs and grip heaters

for

> the new bike, and swapping the big brake and SS lines from the old > bike to the new one. > > Also, can anyone tell me who has dohickeys in stock? > > Any other ideas? > > Dave C >

Hello Dave, The only thing I see you should do 'first' and that is you should do a wallet biopsy. I believe you are going to need about 20 Franklin's to make your bike what you want it to be. IRT the idea of two KLR's--the 88 does not have much value--just ask your insurance agent after some guy/gal runs over your bike or it is stolen. sigh. What you did not tells us; do you want to have two fully functional bikes in the stable? or did you tell us much about the overall condition of the 88'. A good solid bike has much personal value--but if it is not solid--it is just a donor bike. If you are not strapped for cash, save one for a friend, or set up for two different scenarios. ie. one for highway, one for dropping in a mud hole or on a rock. shrug. That said, if you only want one all around bike, I believe you have found a near perfect donor bike to upgrade the '04. Swap out the parts, and sell the 88 as a rat bike, etc. or save the 88 when you know you are really going to beat on it unmercifully. That 88'--It certainly has more value to you than the insurance company...at the very least, you have a second set of wheels that could be swapped out in less than an hour and the rest of the bike could be pieced out on eBay or flogged off on your friends at the DSN. cough. revmaaatin.

Posted: **Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:05 pm**

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Bogdan Swider wrote:

> > > FWIW Zumo is the word they prefer to use in Spain for juice rather than > jugo like in Mexico. >

Hmm, I wonder if that is left over from the Moors. "Zum" is a Leb-Arabic word for the juice they serve with stuffed zucchini, and could have a wider application for all I know.

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