careful on the slick stuff

[revmaaatin]

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

> > My wife and I took a drive Sunday to our northwest to look at the rare snow we get around here. The road was pretty clear but about 60 miles into the trip we passed under an overpass that was very icy and wiggled my truck around enough for a pucker moment. An hour later, a Harley guy went under the same overpass hitting the ice and loosing control. He died. Keep the scooters parked when frozen stuff is on the roads ..........and or wear a helmet at least. > > Criswell >

Ron, Jeff Saline and I have had this similar conversation/observation while riding in the Black Hills--that equally applies to any mountainous winter time riding; there is often ice on the roads/curves where the sun does to shine due to shadows. That will give you a thrill when you are thinking that the road has been clear for miles and you duck through a road cut and discover the road is frosted, snowed or iced over from snow-melt. A second problem, is that the paved prairie road/highway looks to be completely clear, but where there is a 'box' culvert, or steel culvert under the road, frost will remain on that portion well past 1000, even though the rest of the road is clear and dry. This applies to the gravel roads as well. A lot of the snow will be gone, or completely gone, but where there is a steel culvert, there will be a 2-3ft strip of frost. Most of my own advice, applied to myself, is irrelevant right now. There is a big snow drift across the 'cold-storage' unit where the motorcycles are now POW's, and they will be there for some time. There are just some times it is best to wait for a better day. revmaaatin.

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FWIW, I just went out and measured a typical shim/washer included in a carb parts box and got 0.0225 in. -eddie ************************************   Jeff Did you measure the shim? I would like to know what the thickness is; I understand that .020 is about right for the shim.. What say you...Anyone, Beuller..? TK [b]From:[/b] Jeff Khoury [b]To:[/b] The Reverend [b]Cc:[/b] DSN KLR650 DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> [b]Sent:[/b] Tue, December 29, 2009 6:49:27 PM [b]Subject:[/b] Re: [DSN_KLR650] i need help pls   I am having excellent results with this combination: Tweetyectomy $0.22 mod (1 shim) Slide Drill Idle Mixture Adjust Airbox "L" mod De-Californicated It really gives the bike a lot more "snap" and low-end.  Top-end I don't really care about because the geometry of the bike is not really suited to going much faster than it does stock. -Jeff Khoury ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Reverend" To: "DSN KLR650" ups.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 3:14:53 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: RE: [DSN_KLR650] i need help pls   Simple answer - stock, with the "tweety" removed. No rejetting or expensive parts, and the weight savings doesn't matter much in a weak bike like the KLR. -----Original Message----- From: DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ahmad may i ask what is the best exhaust system for klr 650 model 2010,thanks alot