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----- Original Message ----- From: "Carpenters Apprentice" To: "DSN KLR650" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:52:19 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Sleeping hands are an accident waiting to happen   Hello all knowledgeable and wise KLRista's. Went to the DR. the other day for a check up and took "The big OX". Nice ride, but about half way there my hands started falling asleep. The Dr. said it was CTS (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome) causing it. My question to the gathered knowledge is what has anyone done about this? I have read the different ideas about stoping the vibes in the bars, but I am wondering if anyone has actually had this problem and worked out a fix that might save my hands, maybe grips and deadening or some combination, and my life, rideing with numb hands just cant be safe. Thanks, Dana

On Mar 11, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Jeff Khoury wrote:   I use grip puppies and that REALLY helped.  10-minute 10-dollar fix.  Some people fill the bars with caulk, others use lead shot - still others replace the bars with tapered bars without a cross-brace. Heavier end-weights help as well. -Jeff Khoury ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carpenters Apprentice" att.net> To: "DSN KLR650" ups.com> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:52:19 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Sleeping hands are an accident waiting to happen   Hello all knowledgeable and wise KLRista's. Went to the DR. the other day for a check up and took "The big OX". Nice ride, but about half way there my hands started falling asleep. The Dr. said it was CTS (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome) causing it. My question to the gathered knowledge is what has anyone done about this? I have read the different ideas about stoping the vibes in the bars, but I am wondering if anyone has actually had this problem and worked out a fix that might save my hands, maybe grips and deadening or some combination, and my life, rideing with numb hands just cant be safe. Thanks, Dana

> > Hello all knowledgeable and wise KLRista's. Went to the DR. the other day for a check up and took "The big OX". Nice ride, but about half way there my hands started falling asleep. The Dr. said it was CTS (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome) causing it. My question to the gathered knowledge is what has anyone done about this? I have read the different ideas about stoping the vibes in the bars, but I am wondering if anyone has actually had this problem and worked out a fix that might save my hands, maybe grips and deadening or some combination, and my life, riding with numb hands just cant be safe. > Thanks, > Dana >

> > > My neutral started coming on all the time 5 to 10 thousand miles ago. > I fiddled with it some searching for wire problems and even replaced > the little thingy that the wire plugs into on the side of the engine. > No success. I just ride with it on. A friend used to have a car where > the oil light stayed on. A piece of black tape over it fixed > it....hah! My 99 used to be teal green. Green is my least favorite > color and I ride Kawasakis. Go figure. Red is my favorite color, > ahh.......go Ducatis. My teal bike now has bedliner plastic with a 3 > tone car paint gas tank . Black, red and yellow (my favorite colors + > mud tight now). I have left the mud on it so as to piss the Krooozer > riders off. I saw a Yamaha sport bike at a dealer today that > everything was chrome including the plastic fairing. How de do dat? > > > Criswell > On Mar 11, 2010, at 4:53 PM, revmaaatin wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> --- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com >> , "Weber" wrote: >> > >> > Hi everyone, I have never posted but I check in here every few days >> and have been a member for about a year. I have a 1997 KR and about a >> week ago I noticed my neutral light flashing and my rpm needle amid >> my temp needle go flat at the same time. I am thinking it is the >> kickstand switch. Anybody have any idea what it may be? It is >> happening more frequently now but the bike starts and runs fine even >> when the neutral light turns off and the needles go flat. Thanks for >> your input in advance! >> > >> >> Shorts. shh!!!! >> I hope you can find yours and kill it dead. >> They need to be found and eliminated. Several years ago a fellow >> poster had 'set his bike on fire' while riding at a MOAB gathering. >> Shorts: They come in more than just electric versions. >> I believe I had a short in my speedo cable. >> or was it? >> While traveling at a steady throttle at 5500 Roms, 75MPH GPS/80 >> MPH-GI (gauge indicated), the mechanical speedo began increasing >> without additional throttle. Before I knew it, I was doing a >> 125mph-gi; while GPS remained at 75mph. >> Now this speedo is Mechanical drive; and I have a 'short' in the >> indicator. Go figure. >> >> Cue the Twilight Zone music: >> All of this happened while traveling in the High Plains >> Dakota-Triangle, (similar to the Bermuda Triangle, but on the high >> plains). This triangle is part of that lonely stretch (US34)of road >> between Sturgis and Ft. Pierre, SD. >> >> While traveling Eastward, there was an increasing headwind >> component--resulting in a corresponding increase in the mph-gi. >> Although the GPS indicated a steady (= +/- 75 mph), the wind forces >> working on the KLR and the rider (me) were truly, about 125 mph due >> to the East ambient wind component that was on the 'nose'. 100 miles >> on a naked bike with a 125 mph headwind component will wear you out. >> Might even make your write tall tales. shrug. >> >> If you have never riden in this part of the world, or sailed ships >> above 40N or below the 40S th parallel, climbed mountains and >> experience the winds there, it is difficult to explain the size and >> magnitude of the wind. Sometimes for days, the wind blows at 40mph+; >> said to have made people--living alone--crazy during the pioneer >> days. Advesely affects many still today. twitch. >> >> Back to my story: >> As my riding partner (AJ/Reaps) and I descended the Western river >> bluffs and crossed crossed the Muddy Mo at Ft. Pierre, the weird >> indications ceased. With the High Plains Triangle in the rear view >> mirro, during the final 55 miles homeward I noted the difference >> between the GPS and the speedo to be the normal KLR's +5mph gi/error. >> >> Speculation and conjecture: This all occurred while riding a 'teal' >> colored 98. Those bikes/riders have always been the fastest, and this >> one continues to believe it to be true. >> Twlight Zone Music: off. >> >> Same bike now has a dead tach light. good bulb, bad wire somewhere. >> sigh. >> >> revmaaatin. and the wind is howling today.... >> > >