nklr bought a goldwing

[Thane Silliker]

KLR Folk: What is the bulb used for the license plate light? Have folks replaced this bulb with an LED variation? Happy New Year! Happy Trails from London, Canada Thane Silliker, CET, STOC #730 The ST1100 Sport / Grand Touring Motorcycle KLR650 Adventure Touring ST Owners Club Iron Butt Association Canadian Motorcycle Association 2001 Iron Butt Rally Gold Medal Cross Canada Record 59:45 http://www.silliker.ca

[bigfatgreenbike]

tsilliker@... wrote:

>KLR Folk: > >What is the bulb used for the license plate light? Have folks replaced this bulb with an LED variation? > >

I "replaced" it with the taillight. http://xd8ad0695.ip.e-nt.net/klr/winterized_s.jpg -- Devon Brooklyn, NY A15-Z '01 KLR650 '81 SR500 cafe racer "The truth's not too popular these days....." Arnold Schwarzenneger, in The Running Man

[George Evans]

Sam, If that old Goldwing is in any decent condition whatsoever, you'll get a ton of good riding out of it. My wife had an 81 that I bought her in about 1995 with 51,000 miles on it. She put on 45,000 miles, most of them pulling a trailer loaded with bicycles, before I sold it last year. It would run 80 mph all day, didn't overheat, wasn't too bad on tires, didn't use any oil and couldn't be killed even with my poor maintainance which the last three years consisted of an oil change every spring. Just on hell of a bike! I always wondered what happened to it after I sold it. Then I ran into a kid riding it last fall. It had 110,000 miles on it and he had just returned from a 3000 mile road trip! Well, just couldn't resist comment on the Goldwing - Have a Happy New Year and watch out around them garbage trucks... George

--- In DSN_klr650@yahoogroups.com, "Sam Teel" wrote: > I'm adding an 81 Goldwing to the stable. I had a successful bid on ebay and > got it for $720. I'll be going up to Chicago in two weeks to ride it back > to Memphis. I just had to get something that would be comfortable 2 up. My > wife has just been too understanding of my motorcycle craze, so I had to get > something we both could enjoy! Also picked up a HJC ZF7 helmet, new in the > box for $10.50 plus 10 bucks shipping. > > I'm keeping the KLR of course. I got the tires, Kenda 657's the other day. > Now to just get them mounted, down at the Harley shop. My supertrapp discs > finally broke free and now are jammed into the tip at about a 45 degree > angle. I do wonder what the rich/lean effects of that are. I suspect lean > as the exhaust pressure would be lower. It runs fine but I'm pulling a plug > tomorrow to see what color it is. I've been riding the stuffing out of this > bike, three or four hundred miles a week. As long as the temps are 40 or > above, I'm good to go. Me and another luster, Jim Wilkinson rode down to > Holly Springs in Mississippi two weeks ago. When I left the house it was > 29. When we got to Holly Springs, it was 31. A damn cold day but we had > fun and I had my first dirt experience. (Thanks, Jim, for showing me the > way - even when you were really to sick to be riding!) > > Had the supercrap scared out of me the other day on the way to work. > Running down the interstate, left lane at about 70 behind a trash truck. I > was thinking, "this thing is going to start stinking or drop something any > minute now" so I backed off a few feet. Then BOOOMMMM! A cloud of brown > smoke erupts from the right rear of the truck. In a split second, I > realized he had blown a tire. I hit both brakes, scooted over into the left > shoulder next to the concrete divider wall just as huge chunks of tire tread > go flying by my right shoulder. Not a speck of it hit me. It occurred to > me that situational awareness and the ability to not panic, (right now) > helped me avoid an injury. > > Well, enough wandering. Time for the new year to begin. Good riding to all > with the more shiny side up! > > Sam > A9, 81 Goldwing