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[Tommy]

I'm a re-tread rider, getting back in, after 11 years out. An 85 KLR600 has popped up for sale about an hour from me. The owner has clear title, and new tires, but that's about all I know, besides that the photo shows a decent clean bike, with no mirrors. Questions: Are these substantially different from the KLR 650s? Were mirrors not required on street legal bikes in '85? I posted this on "thumpertalk.com", but haven't received much for an answere. Advice/opinons are appreciated. KLR600 GOTCHAs or other KLR forum links would be good, too. Tommy

[dumbazz650]

--- In DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "Tommy" wrote:

> I'm a re-tread rider, getting back in, after 11 years out. > > An 85 KLR600 has popped up for sale about an hour from me. The > owner has clear title, and new tires, but that's about all I know, > besides that the photo shows a decent clean bike, with no mirrors. > > Questions: Are these substantially different from the KLR 650s? > > Were mirrors not required on street legal bikes in '85? > > I posted this on "thumpertalk.com", but haven't received much for

an

> answere. > > Advice/opinons are appreciated. KLR600 GOTCHAs or other KLR

forum

> links would be good, too. > > Tommy

Motor on the 600 is very similar to the 87, except bore & stroke. Same vulnerability on the doohickey, and the spring loaded balancer sprockets. Frame is very much different, wheels are different, '84 was kickstart only, '85 had electric too. Also different instruments, different plastics and smaller tank on the 600. Mirrors were required for street legal vehicles from 1968, maybe even earlier. Adding a mirror is easy, basic aftermarket unit is about $12-15 and if the mount hole is boogered out, you may also need a billet mirror mount to fit the back of the clutch perch, also about $15 from Fred or Dual-Star. Unless it's a really good deal, I'd pass on it in favor of the 650, but that's just me. check the FAQ at www.bigcee.com/klr650faq.html hth, MarkB

[Mike Torst]

I am late on this - rear drum brake, ah how cheap is it? Mike Torst Las Vegas

> -----Original Message----- > From: Tommy [mailto:m1sshooter@...] > Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 7:28 PM > To: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [DSN_klr650] KLR 600, newbie info. request > > I'm a re-tread rider, getting back in, after 11 years out. > > An 85 KLR600 has popped up for sale about an hour from me. The > owner has clear title, and new tires, but that's about all I know, > besides that the photo shows a decent clean bike, with no mirrors. > > Questions: Are these substantially different from the KLR 650s? > > Were mirrors not required on street legal bikes in '85? > > I posted this on "thumpertalk.com", but haven't received much for an > answere. > > Advice/opinons are appreciated. KLR600 GOTCHAs or other KLR forum > links would be good, too. > > Tommy > >

[kdxkawboy@aol.com]

In a message dated 2004-03-21 10:30:58 PM Pacific Standard Time, vegasklr@... writes:

> > > I am late on this - rear drum brake, ah how cheap is it? > > Mike Torst > Las Vegas > >

Actually Mike, back when the KLR600 was first released rear drum brakes were the norm on dirt bikes, including the MX/XC race ready models. Back then there was nothing cheap about using drum brakes on dirt bikes. Pat G'ville, Nv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Tommy Johnson]

'not late.... Asking price is $900. Thanks, Tommy --- Mike wrote:

> I am late on this - rear drum brake, ah how cheap is > it? > > Mike > Las Vegas > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tommy > > Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 7:28 PM > > To: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com > > Subject: [DSN_klr650] KLR 600, newbie info. > request > > > > I'm a re-tread rider, getting back in, after 11 > years out. > > > > An 85 KLR600 has popped up for sale about an hour > from me. The > > owner has clear title, and new tires, but that's > about all I know, > > besides that the photo shows a decent clean bike, > with no mirrors. > > > > Questions: Are these substantially different from > the KLR 650s? > > > > Were mirrors not required on street legal bikes in > '85? > > > > I posted this on "thumpertalk.com", but haven't > received much for an > > answere. > > > > Advice/opinons are appreciated. KLR600 GOTCHAs > or other KLR forum > > links would be good, too. > > > > Tommy

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[bigfatgreenbike]

tls@... wrote:

>If you spend most of your time being overtaken by cars in the slow lane, >maybe all that sound coming out the ass end of your LOUD PIPES SAVE LIVES >MAN!!! "muffler" gets you some extra attention. Otherwise, however, its >_only_ effect is to harm every single other rider of road and trail by >making all of us seem like inconsiderate fools chasing a mystique built >up by movies made by people who didn't even ride anyhow. > >

TrailRider's editor Paul Clipper said it particularly well- "Mike Lafferty rides a quiet bike, and Larry Roessler could kick your ass riding a KX80". Goes on to mention how spending the exhaust money on suspension, or just more riding, would make you a LOT faster anyway. FWIW there are riding areas I know where I won't take people with loud pipes. And most people I see with really loud bikes are riding from bar to bar. I'd like to see someone put in a ten hour day on a bike with an open pipe. -- Devon Brooklyn, NY A15-Z '01 KLR650 '81 SR500 cafe racer "The truth's not too popular these days....." Arnold Schwarzenneger, in The Running Man