oversized front brake rotor ?

[nakedwaterskier]

I don't want to ride my KLR all the way up but I do have a moto trailer...so anyone else up for it? Big ride this weekend meeting at Brown's Campground just east of 395 on the Owens River http://www.brownscampgrounds.com/owens.html. The Barcroft research station has its open house one day a year the first Sunday in August. Its located above 127,000 ft in the white mountains and they open up the dirt road. We ride up out of Bishop into Silver Canyon on to the station. http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2336 No reservations required just ride on up and bring your tent you pay for the camp spot per night. We also get to ride into Red's Meadows on Saturday evening for a BBQ. Lots of hot springs around there and it's always a good time. Jeffrey Nakedwaterskier@...

[revmaaatin]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "nakedwaterskier" wrote:

> > I don't want to ride my KLR all the way up but I do have a moto > trailer...so anyone else up for it? > > Big ride this weekend meeting at Brown's Campground just east of

395

> on the Owens River http://www.brownscampgrounds.com/owens.html. > > The Barcroft research station has its open house one day a year the > first Sunday in August. Its located above 127,000 ft in the white > mountains and they open up the dirt road.

SNIP Jeffery, at 127,000 feet, you will set an altitude record for the KLR AND qualify for an Astronaut Pin. All on just 87octane gas and 38HP. Hmmm. I wonder what that will look like? revmaaatin. who can imagine a 'Galactic KLR'. No doubt it would be 95-99 blue. NOTE: Richard Branson--eat your heart out.

[Stephen Grisanti]

"Its located above 127,000 ft..." Damn, you boys have some real mountains out there!

--- On Thu, 7/31/08, nakedwaterskier wrote: > From: nakedwaterskier > Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Anyone else doing the Barcroft Research Station ride from SoCal? > To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com > Date: Thursday, July 31, 2008, 2:31 PM > I don't want to ride my KLR all the way up but I do have > a moto > trailer...so anyone else up for it? > > Big ride this weekend meeting at Brown's Campground > just east of 395 > on the Owens River > http://www.brownscampgrounds.com/owens.html. > > The Barcroft research station has its open house one day a > year the > first Sunday in August. Its located above 127,000 ft in > the white > mountains and they open up the dirt road. > We ride up out of Bishop into Silver Canyon on to the > station. > http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2336 > No reservations required just ride on up and bring your > tent you pay > for the camp spot per night. > We also get to ride into Red's Meadows on Saturday > evening for a > BBQ. > Lots of hot springs around there and it's always a good > time. > > Jeffrey > Nakedwaterskier@... > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > List sponsored by Dual Sport News at: www.dualsportnews.com > > List FAQ courtesy of Chris Krok at: > www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html > Member Map at: http://www.frappr.com/dsnklr650Yahoo! Groups > Links > > >

[nakedwaterskier]

The high altitude number was not mine. I copied and pasted. 12,700 OK? not 127000 ft. Eight miles high and when you touch down You'll find that it's stranger than known Signs in the street that say where you're going Are somewhere just being their own Nowhere is there warmth to be found Among those afraid of losing their ground Rain gray town known for it's sound In places small faces unbound Round the squares huddled in storms Some laughing some just shapeless forms Sidewalk scenes and black limousines Some living some standing alone Many people believe this is about drugs, but the band claimed it was inspired by a flight where singer Gene Clark asked guitarist Roger McGuinn how high up they were. McGuinn told him 6 miles, but for the song they changed it to 8. The band had been doing a lot of drugs at the time, including LSD, which this is probably about. If the band admitted the drug references, they knew it would get banned by radio stations, and that's exactly what happened when a radio industry publication reported that it was about drugs and stations should be careful about playing it. As soon as one station dropped it, others followed and it quickly sank off the charts. In his book Echoes, Gene Clark said that he wrote the song on his own with David Crosby coming up with one key line ("Rain gray town, known for its sound"), and Roger McGuinn arranging the song with help from Crosby. In the Forgotten Hits newsletter, McGuinn replied: "Not true! The whole theme was my idea... Gene would never have written a song about flying. I came up with the line 'Six miles high and when you touch down.' We later changed that to Eight because of the Beatles song "Eight Days a Week." I came up with several other lines as well. And what would the song be without the Rickenbacker 12-string breaks?" (Thanks to Kent at the Forgotten Hits newsletter, which you can join at The60sshop@....) This created a genr known as "Acid Rock," which was a kind of psychedelic music that became popular in the late '60s. Unfortunately for The Byrds, it also killed their Pop career. The band recorded this on their own, but Columbia Records made them re-record it before they would put it on the album, partly because they had contracts with unions. The Byrds liked the first version better. Don McLean referred to this in his song "American Pie," which chronicles the change in musical style from the '50s to the '60s. The line is "Eight miles high and falling fast- landed foul out on the grass." McLean could be sardonically implying that the song is about drugs, since "foul grass" was slang for marijuana. (thanks, Brett - Edmonton, Canada)

[nakedwaterskier]

Get one ASAP. It is the most important upgrade if you ride on the street. More important than upgrading your doohickey. With the bigger rotor, you don't need hard squeaky pads either. I got the EBC rotor and I had to grind dn the new caliper bracket some so it didn't hit the rotor bolts.