nklr would you do this?

[E Hines]

Thanks everyone for your inputs.  This is want I am thinking of doing.  Leave on Thursday about 1:00 and try and get 200 + miles in.  Than 500 to 600 on Friday.  Than an easy ride to Moab and an even easier ride to SLC.  I will be monitoring the weather for the whole route before I leave.  I will be taking my V-Strom.  If the weather is bad before I leave or is expected to get bad, I will throw my KLR in the back of my 4x4 ranger and head out.  I than can stop in Moab and do the rim, etc.  I am still looking for routes and must sees and any other info that you can think of.   The only problem with this idea is that now I have to do big maintenance on two bikes and a truck, so I am prepared.  The business trip is for some refresher and updated training (IT world is always changing).  No high pressure, been doing this for 18 + years.  It is actually a break from work.   [b]From:[/b] "roncriswell@..." [b]To:[/b] E Hines [b]Cc:[/b] BMWDFW BMWDFW@yahoogroups.com>; DSN DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> [b]Sent:[/b] Thu, August 19, 2010 9:53:37 AM [b]Subject:[/b] Re: [DSN_KLR650] NKLR Would you do this?   Ed if you take I-40 to Albuquerque then ride to Farmington, Shiprock, Cortez and on to Monticello, the only real areas to worry about usually are around Clines Corner NM and maybe Monticello UT unless it is a freak storm. September / October can be really nice weather but I have been snowed on riding from Moab to Monticello in early June. You always have to watch the weather anytime above 6,000 to 7,000 ft. out west. I had to leave Jackson Hole hurridly one June morning as snow of 6 inches was forecast later that day. Criswell On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:14 PM, E Hines wrote:

  I have a busines trip I must take in October of this year.  I must be there on the 11th and I will be done by 12 noon on the 15th.  I would leave Fort Worth, TX on Friday the 8th.  I would try and make the first 800 + miles on Friday so I could take it easy the last two days.  Here is the dilema,  I am going to Salt Lake City, Utah.    My big fear is snow and ice going over the mountains.  I have never riden more than 500 miles in one day and I have never made a trip this far.  I have heated grips and a heated vest, plus other good cold weather gear.  I have riden over 100 miles in 26 degree weather and rode back in 30 degrees and I will not tell you I was hot, but it is do able and I would do it again if the conditions are good.  I have enough vacation saved up for the return trip to go south if the weather turns and come back through California, Arizonia, and New Mexico, El Paso, etc....So, anyone/everyone what do you think? P.S.I am planning on taking the Amarillo/ New Mexico route.  Maybe if time permits stopping in Moab.  Depends on first day's miles.

[Michael Sutherin]

I did the drilled hole and shimmed the needle (.22 cent mod). Yes it made a difference. But I'm still surging at 4K RPM and above. According to "experts" here and on other forums, I'll need to turn my pilot screw out another 1/8-1/2 turn. (I'm about 2-1/8 turns out now). Will do that probably do that this weekend. Other than the surging, yes it has helped. Thinking I might just go with a dynojet in the near future though. Sorry, can't help on the other questions. Mike in Champaign County, OH

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Brad bejou.mn@gmail.com> wrote: 1. How many of you have done the drill the slide and shim the needle? Does it make that big of difference? Should I do it? 2. Reading my Clymer manual this carburator looks quite complicated. Do they give much of a problem? 3. In Oct I'am going to be in CO Springs and would like to go up Pikes Pike. Will a stock bike run at 14,100 feet? Thanks Brad 2009 KLR

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