klr650: :> how do you do it ? <:

[revmaaatin]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "sopris_2000" wrote:

> To us, the KLR's are pigs for big dog offroad riding. As I say the bikes fly like a angel and land like a tank.

Colo- I have "flown" an OEM KLR650 >3ft

[Thomas Komjathy]

I flew a KLR in the Mojave Desert in 1990 at about 45 MPH, hit a wash out, and the guy with me said I flew about 20-30 feet up and about 50 feet long, then hit with a sickening crunchy sound. The bike flipped through the air and landed on a big sage brush (no damage), but I had a right broken shoulder, collar bone, 2 ribs and a fractured sternum, plus torn ligaments. I was in the air long enough to say to myself "this is going to hurt" and I landed on my head and right shoulder. That was the easy part, because then I had to ride 20 miles back to civilization, on washboard fore roads, with my right hand on the throttle, all the shaking made me misty eyed and my shoulder area made funny crunching noises during the trip. TK [b]From:[/b] revmaaatin [b]To:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Sent:[/b] Wed, March 3, 2010 2:56:41 AM [b]Subject:[/b] [DSN_KLR650] Re: klr 650 :::: lowering :::::  

--- In DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com, "sopris_2000" wrote: > To us, the KLR's are pigs for big dog offroad riding. As I say the bikes fly like a angel and land like a tank. Colo- I have "flown" an OEM KLR650 >3ft

[Roger Dill]

TK, I know the feeling!!! ... and the thought processes. My thought when I had a head on collision in Mexico was, "This is not good!" Funny how you remember that. Anytime I go traveling off road on a motorcycle I now carry a gps and I get medical airlift insurance through my wife (a travel agent). That way, I or my friends wiil know the exact coordinates to either transport me to the nearest hospital, or pick up my body if that should be the case. -- Roger Dill Innovative Financial Solutions 210-681-1848 T 866-831-4661 F www.ifsdebtpros.com

[Thomas Komjathy]

I'm back to a KLR full time. I have strayed a few years with some of the fuel injected, hot rods, but when things go wrong, it is buy the diagnostic equipment $$$$, or farm the repair out to anyone that has it, which no one has around here. So I take it to a shop that has a dyno and figure, they work on Suzuky's all the time, surely they know something about this system...NOPE! They tried to bypass the ECM with a PC and it kicked their asses, "I told you the ECM has to be reset before any zoom zoom stuff can be done" I said, I know, I...Well, y'all get the point. So I'm back to the KLR, punking repla racers in turns and fixing it with bailing wire and a Swiss Army Knife... Life is good. TK [b]From:[/b] revmaaatin [b]To:[/b] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com [b]Sent:[/b] Wed, March 3, 2010 4:55:50 PM [b]Subject:[/b] [DSN_KLR650] Re: klr650: :> How Do you do it ?  

--- In DSN_KLR650%40yahoogroups.com, "guymanbro" wrote: > > No punchline, I think the guy in the Volvo X-country had a speedo that was off or he just thought he was going 100 mph. I don't claim to have gone that fast but maybe the hand of god was giving me a little push... I'm pretty sure the speedo on my KLR just did what it did because of the broken cable. It was on a looooong downhill in the Canadian Rockies. If I remember correctly it was around 6500-7000 rpm, still not quite redline. > > da Vermonster > Bro, Mo, and others-- Now that we have had a lengthy discussion, etc, I seem to recall a discussion here (4-5 years ago) on the merits of running the KLR650 (OEM, etal) at anything over 6,500 rpms. Torque drops off, fuel consumption increases, and the density of traffic tickets increases exponentially. or was it oil consumption? Different valve timing, and a bigger carb would certainly do wonders for the top end and cut a huge divot in your wallet. Some KLR sage suggested if you want more HP and more MPH, paint it orange. shrug. Orange seems to cut huge divots in the wallet as well, and more than one rider has come back 'home' to the KLR just because it cost so much less to operate/own the venerable VW/Swiss Army knife of motorcycles. How fast is fast enough? shrug. Funny how many bones you can break at