picked up new bike today !!!

[botdave91]

First time to post on the site, but have been following for a couple of weeks. This is a great site and has taught me a whole lot I did'nt know about my bike. My question is about a kick start conversion for the 650. A good friend of mine has owned a few KLR's over the years and told me has heard of such a thing. Being a mechanic by trade, I don't like being stuck broken down somewhere with something simple that I can't easily fix. Just wondering if there is a kit available, or if the KLX 600 kick starter will actually fit??

[zrod73026]

I believe in 96 or 97 the clutch size was increased, making it impossible to fit the kickstart kit. Rod, (thought I was wrong once, but was mistaken)

--- In DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "botdave91" wrote: > First time to post on the site, but have been following for a couple > of weeks. This is a great site and has taught me a whole lot I > did'nt know about my bike. My question is about a kick start > conversion for the 650. A good friend of mine has owned a few KLR's > over the years and told me has heard of such a thing. Being a > mechanic by trade, I don't like being stuck broken down somewhere > with something simple that I can't easily fix. Just wondering if > there is a kit available, or if the KLX 600 kick starter will > actually fit??

[kdxkawboy@aol.com]

In a message dated 2003-07-06 8:29:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time, botdave@... writes:

> > > First time to post on the site, but have been following for a couple > of weeks. This is a great site and has taught me a whole lot I > did'nt know about my bike. My question is about a kick start > conversion for the 650. A good friend of mine has owned a few KLR's > over the years and told me has heard of such a thing. Being a > mechanic by trade, I don't like being stuck broken down somewhere > with something simple that I can't easily fix. Just wondering if > there is a kit available, or if the KLX 600 kick starter will > actually fit?? > >

Up through the mid/late 90s Kawasaki sold a kickstarter kit for the 650. Then Kawasaki made a few internal/external changes, like the case is no longer plumbed to take a kick starter, and dropped the kickstarter. At the time Kawasaki was saying they had sold so few retrofit kit that it wasn't worth keeping on the shelf. Pat G'ville, Nv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Geoff Minto]

Devon Jarvis wrote:

>Unless the UK importer does something >the US doesn't, like run the bikes >on a dyno a few times before delivery, I >doubt the motors have been run >for more than a minute or two before >they give you the bike. Maybe he >meant they were built close enough to >just run OK from the get-go.

Yes I didn't explain that very well - my dealer did mean that the engine tolerances are such that the running-in process is virtually unnecessary - he also said that the main reason for telling people, particularly new bikers, to follow a run-in procedure is to avoid someone wrapping their bike round a tree the first week they have it. Thanks for the other useful info Crishan Gunasekara wrote:

>Try this site SignalDynamics.com

I had a look but their indicator unit isn't compatable with the KLR. All the best, Geoff KLR 650 C8 Perth Scotland