nklr: khi gas turbines

[oldwing@cox.net]

I beleive that my cable has broken for the second time. I have not yet had a chance to chec k it but the speedo stopped working on the way home from work yesterday. Both times that it broke were on very cold days. This time was it was well below freezing and I remeber that last time it was cold as I had to wait a few weeks for it to warm enought to fix it. The bike is an 02 with about 40k miles. Anybody else have this apparently cold weather problem? -- Bill Lewis Roanoke, Virginia Professor of Motorcycleology 2004 R1150RT 1990 R100RT 2002 KLR 1978 Oldwing w/Friendship 1 for sale Expect The Unexpected

[Tengai Mark Van Horn]

In ~150,000 miles on KLRs, I have only had one speedo cable break, and that was about 3,000 miles after I bought my first KLR, used, in 1997. Just pitching ideas: Do you lube your cable? I keep mine lubed with a lightweight oil. If you're lubing your cable with motor oil, maybe that could be part of the problem? My Tengai's speedo cable has been 'on it's way out' for about the past 8,000 miles, but just lube it at every oil change and it keeps on goin'. I tote a new spare for when it finally snaps. Mark At 8:03 AM -0500 2/12/11, wrote: I beleive that my cable has broken for the second time. I have not yet had a chance to chec k it but the speedo stopped working on the way home from work yesterday. Both times that it broke were on very cold days. This time was it was well below freezing and I remeber that last time it was cold as I had to wait a few weeks for it to warm enought to fix it. The bike is an 02 with about 40k miles. Anybody else have this apparently cold weather problem? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[spike55_bmw]

Never looked at the Kawasaki company site before to know this but I was just reading that Kawasaki Gas Turbines will have a booth at Globalcon (energy show) in Philadelphia this March 2011. It appears that they have some very good heat-rate / low emissions power generation turbines. Alas, not small enough yet for the mighty KLR. http://www.khi.co.jp/english/gasturbine/index.html Don R100, A6F