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[pchatter@yahoo.com]

Hi, I recently purchased a klr650 -A15, my first dual sport. I love this bike and am actually considering selling my cruiser. With the klr, I am discovering the amazing differnce a lighter bike makes. The question I have is replacing the stock mirrors with the honda xl659 mirrors to lessen vibration. Are the honda mirrors better? Does anything "special" need to be done to install them? Somebody who has gone thru this exercise please comment. --prashant

[Kurt Simpson (Dual Sport News)]

The question I have is replacing the stock mirrors with the honda xl659 mirrors to lessen vibration. Are the honda mirrors better? Does anything "special" need to be done to install them? Somebody who has gone thru this exercise please comment. _________ Better at cutting vibration? Yes. How much? Depends on the bike. My experience was a great deal. Most report improvement. A few don't see any difference. You have to purchase the entire unit, the base and the mirror with stalk...the KLR mirror won't fit in the base... Kurt

[Peter Berghs]

Hello, Welcome to the club! I too have an A15, great bike. The Honda mirrors go on with very little trouble...the only "mod" I had to make was to turn the front brake/switch cluster down just a hair to clear the weight on the bottom on the Honda mirror. THh change is so small you won't even notice it. The mirrors work well and are far better than the stock Kawi ones tho there is still some vibration. Good ridin' Peter B pchatter@... wrote:

> > Hi, > I recently purchased a klr650 -A15, my first dual sport. I love this > bike and am actually considering selling my cruiser. With the klr, I > am discovering the amazing differnce a lighter bike makes. > The question I have is replacing the stock mirrors with the honda > xl659 mirrors to lessen vibration. Are the honda mirrors better? Does > anything "special" need to be done to install them? Somebody who has > gone thru this exercise please comment. > > --prashant > > Visit the KLR650 archives at > http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.html?ln=klr650 > Support Dual Sport News... dsneditor@... > Let's keep this list SPAM free! > > Visit our site at http://www.egroups.com/group/DSN_klr650 > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@egroups.com

[John Todd Larson]

As a new rider (both to motorcycles and the KLR650), I am beginning to think I am shifting at the wrong rpms. All this talk about "never be in 2nd going 15mph" has got me wondering. I normally shift between 2500 and 3500 rpm. Is this about right? After 2500 miles I am still only getting mpg in the low 40s, so maybe I am shifting at too low of an rpm (admittedly, I occasionally am way off and get the chug, chug, chug until I feather the clutch a little). To be honest, if I am going 15mph in 1st, I am wanting badly to shift. I seem to recall that the manual that came with my '01 was suggesting even slower shift speeds, or maybe I was reading the chart wrong. Any help is much appreciated. Todd J. Todd Larson Senior Finance Manager, M&A Amazon.com larson@... (206) 266-4367

[RM]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, John Todd Larson wrote:

>As a new rider (both to motorcycles and the KLR650), I am beginning to >think I am shifting at the wrong rpms. All this talk about "never be in >2nd going 15mph" has got me wondering.

For my day-to-day around town riding, I upshift at 4k rpm. I try to hold around 3k to 3.5k rpm steady cruise. I used to get a consistent 50mpg this way. Now I whack the throttle wide open a little too often for that. RM

[Eric Knight Holbrook]

I upshift around 4-5 under "trying to get there" kind of riding. When I'm stuck in traffic, it's around 3 or so. I downshift around 3 - 4k but am very smooth with it when I can help it and try to have the gas in the right position so there's no lurching on the chain drive system. General riding I'm at about 4k just because I like how it sounds about there. The only time I'm above 5k is on the highway in 4th or 4th gear. In lower gears is just sounds insanely loud and stressed out on the bike especially in 1st or 2nd gear although it's fun to scare the passersby from time to time. I have a 16 tooth front sprocket and it's funny because I can actually go from a dead stop, having the bike shifted in 2nd gear. Not bad

--- In DSN_klr650@y..., "John Todd Larson" wrote: > As a new rider (both to motorcycles and the KLR650), I am beginning to think > I am shifting at the wrong rpms. All this talk about "never be in 2nd going > 15mph" has got me wondering. > > I normally shift between 2500 and 3500 rpm. Is this about right? After > 2500 miles I am still only getting mpg in the low 40s, so maybe I am > shifting at too low of an rpm (admittedly, I occasionally am way off and get > the chug, chug, chug until I feather the clutch a little). To be honest, if > I am going 15mph in 1st, I am wanting badly to shift. I seem to recall that > the manual that came with my '01 was suggesting even slower shift speeds, or > maybe I was reading the chart wrong. > > Any help is much appreciated. > Todd > > J. Todd Larson > Senior Finance Manager, M&A > Amazon.com > larson@a... > (206) 266-4367

[rob atomic]

heya you dont need to watch your tach just to shift. shift when it feels like you need to shift! use the force....! -rob atomic seattle hard trance/goa live pa http://www.evergo.net/~atomic dsn_klr650@yahoogroups.com Subject: [DSN_klr650] newbie question As a new rider (both to motorcycles and the KLR650), I am beginning to think I am shifting at the wrong rpms. All this talk about "never be in 2nd going 15mph" has got me wondering. I normally shift between 2500 and 3500 rpm. Is this about right? After 2500 miles I am still only getting mpg in the low 40s, so maybe I am shifting at too low of an rpm (admittedly, I occasionally am way off and get the chug, chug, chug until I feather the clutch a little). To be honest, if I am going 15mph in 1st, I am wanting badly to shift. I seem to recall that the manual that came with my '01 was suggesting even slower shift speeds, or maybe I was reading the chart wrong. Any help is much appreciated. Todd J. Todd Larson Senior Finance Manager, M&A Amazon.com larson@... (206) 266-4367 Visit the KLR650 archives at http://www.listquest.com/lq/search.html?ln=klr650 Post message: DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: DSN_klr650-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: DSN_klr650-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com List owner: DSN_klr650-owner@yahoogroups.com Support Dual Sport News by subscribing at: http://www.dualsportnews.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

[Ted Palmer]

John Todd Larson wrote:

> As a new rider (both to motorcycles and the KLR650), I am beginning to think > I am shifting at the wrong rpms. All this talk about "never be in 2nd going > 15mph" has got me wondering. > I normally shift between 2500 and 3500 rpm. Is this about right?

Depends on the situation, but considering the engine's youth, I would shift a bit later. _Very_ generally, the wider the throttle opening, the higher the revs you should use. As the bike is still being run in, I guess the owners manual might tell you that up to 4000rpm is ok, and by now maybe more. You will eventually have a ~6500rpm redline, so the engine is designed to spin. The engine's peak torque would be somewhere around 5000rpm, so the designers were expecting the engine to spend quite a lot of time up around there.

> After > 2500 miles I am still only getting mpg in the low 40s, so maybe I am > shifting at too low of an rpm

In my experience, the KLR takes a while to run in, so don't be too concerned about the fuel mileage yet.

> (admittedly, I occasionally am way off and get > the chug, chug, chug until I feather the clutch a little).

Well, that's just inexperience. Bike gearboxes are lot closer ratio'd than most car 'boxes so you have to get used to shifting, and bikes are designed for that.

> To be honest, if > I am going 15mph in 1st, I am wanting badly to shift.

Heh, try riding a four cylinder 250: peak power after 17,000rpm, sweet range past 10,000rpm (e.g. Kawasaki ZX2-R).

> I seem to recall that > the manual that came with my '01 was suggesting even slower shift speeds, or > maybe I was reading the chart wrong.

Dunno. Can you quote some of that stuff from the book? Mister_T KLR600 ("Big Red") Melbourne Australia

[Dave Tice]

Hello all, I picked up a 1996 KLR last friday. It has 20,000 miles on it There is an od knock comming from the motor that I didn't notice when I bought it. Could this be the evil counter balancer and chain that I've heard about. It seems to eminate from the right side when I take of in first gear or accselerate from the bottom end. Or from an idle just popping the throttle a bit. Other than that the bike is in very good shape. Thanks in advance for any advice. Cheers, Dave

[John thomas]

I would recomend changing the dohicky asap and aslo a check of the valves. Thomas Forest Park Ga. "Old Geezer club member 39.6" 90 Tengai 20,451 miles 78 CB400A 7,839 ----- Original Message ---- From: Dave Tice To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 7:40:18 PM Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Newbie Question Hello all, I picked up a 1996 KLR last friday. It has 20,000 miles on it There is an od knock comming from the motor that I didn't notice when I bought it. Could this be the evil counter balancer and chain that I've heard about. It seems to eminate from the right side when I take of in first gear or accselerate from the bottom end. Or from an idle just popping the throttle a bit. Other than that the bike is in very good shape. Thanks in advance for any advice. Cheers, Dave ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]