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Old 03-13-2008, 10:16 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Yeah I believe that I'm finally going to take a hard look at the possability of trading off "M" for a smaller bike. That bike being a KLR650. I don't believe that there is a better bike in that size/class at least for the money.

It's still big enough that I can take medium length trips but lighter for the everyday driving. The riding position suits me better and I can go play in the dirt if I decide to.

Anyway sometime next week I'm gonna take "M" over to let them look at her and based on what they offer I'll either trade or take another shot at selling her out right first.

Potentially by the end of next week I could be on a new bike.

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Old 03-13-2008, 10:20 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Sounds like a great plan to me. The KLR is only a smaller bike in the physical size sense. It's probably faster than the M.

What do 16k and 6k mean?
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What do 16k and 6k mean?
Hmm that doesn't work does it?

Lemme fix that.
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Old 03-13-2008, 10:24 AM   #4 (permalink)
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1.6k to .6k Better?
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Old 03-13-2008, 10:26 AM   #5 (permalink)
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I suppose, if you like to refer to engine displacement in decimal fractions of a thousand cubic centimeters.
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Ya know Don...

I've actually considered one too. Probably not for the same reasons you are considering, but I'll go ahead and share mine anyway.

Since the real estate boom created willy nilly frickin' growth around here. It's nigh on impossible to get anywhere. Traffic was impossible before, now it's worse.

Hell on a Saturday the main six lane drag through town is packed wall to wall bumper to bumper. It's a half-hour trip to go four miles to the mall. On a Saturday no-less! I am always on my bike it seems, but my mileage doesn't reflect it. There is no such thing as a "quick trip" across town either.

My routes have become more and more creative lately, and it seems that others are taking the same clue. So as I'm stuck on a side road in a queue waiting to get on a main road, I look wistfully at a patch of grass next to me. It leads to a six foot embankment. I look at the jack-offs in front of me that are holding up the queue because they don't want to turn right and assimilate with traffic going north....lord no...they want all the way into the second lane that goes north, or all the way over into the south bound lane, which is also blocked by northbound cars waiting to turn west. On top of this...the tossers hog up the whole lane on the side queue...there's enough room to let other cars that just want to go northbound without the westbound turn out into traffic. But no...we have to hog the whole lane.

So I sit. Rationalizing and calculating. Yeah....the Uly was made to go off road....yeah....I could make it up that embankment...wouldn't that be sweet... Then my rational side kicks in and says that I wouldn't make it three two feet up that slope with all that torque and them street rated sticky Dun-slops, before I'd be on my keister. Looking quite the fool, down, with a bike on me, and everybody clowning me out of there windows for trying to be Mr. Big shot.

So it got me thinking about finding a used urban assualt cycle to add to the stable, and the shortcuts I could take with it........

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How about "Going from 324.6 tsps to 131.8 tsps"??
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Old 03-13-2008, 11:18 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Tim there have been many time I would have taken off across country if I had the bike for it. Traffic here is a pain as well.
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A guy that works for me bought one last year. I rode it a while, nice bike, but a few things came up for me.

1. Shifter needs an extension. The stocker is SHORT.
2. Do the airbox mod, and re-jet.
3. Throw a pipe on it.

It's a fun bike, just needs some tweaking to wake it up. He didn't do the suspension, but I would if I owned one and rode it off road at all. It's soft, but adequate for street riding.
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Our mfg engineer bought one last year. He really likes it. 1st week riding through the woods at night he got T-boned by a deer but only mild injuries.
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Our mfg engineer bought one last year. He really likes it. 1st week riding through the woods at night he got T-boned by a deer but only mild injuries.
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You're almost always better off trying to sell the bike outright.

Remarkably enough, I've read of such situations before.

I read an article about either the Goldwing or a H-D something or 'nother and the journalist said "these bikes are great for cross country driving, but just going to work and back, they are big and somewhat clumsy."

So, a plus 1 here if most of your miles in the foreseeable future are to work and back.

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You got me curious so I looked it up, that's a pretty nice looking bike Don. I would think the M95 might be worth something, being that they don't make the M in that size anymore.
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The only problem with that is it's just a rebadged Mean Streak.

And I'd be a little surprised if the KLR is faster than the M. Probably handle better, though.
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speed isn't everything.

if the bike has a top speed in excess of 90 mph, just how fast do you need to get there?
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Sounds like a great plan to me. The KLR is only a smaller bike in the physical size sense. It's probably faster than the M.

What do 16k and 6k mean?
I own a Miata. I know speed isn't everything.
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the later miatas are cooking over 120 hp (i think the latest edition is nearly 140)

for that small a car, it's got to be reasonably zippy.
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NC (the latest versions) Miatas are putting around 170hp out at the crank. Yes pretty zippy, but I drive a car that's putting 250hp to ground and still weighs less than 3000lbs. The Miata still a dream in the twisties.

To be clear. The Miata (95 R) is an autocross toy. The more powerful car is a daily driver. I have way more vehicles in my name than some one with my income/debt ratio deserves.

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I'm one generation behind on this car; not hard to do these days.

and to think, the original miata had a whopping 88 hp, if I recall. Nearly 20 years ago.

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You're almost always better off trying to sell the bike outright.
So, a plus 1 here if most of your miles in the foreseeable future are to work and back.
I have hade it on Auto Cycle Trader and other local sites to no avail, I may have the option to have the dealer sell it on consignment which will allow me to get more out of it as long as some one wants to buy it.

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You got me curious so I looked it up, that's a pretty nice looking bike Don. I would think the M95 might be worth something, being that they don't make the M in that size anymore.
Yep they only made it two years one as a Marauder 1600 and one as a Boulavard M95.

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The only problem with that is it's just a rebadged Mean Streak.

And I'd be a little surprised if the KLR is faster than the M. Probably handle better, though.
Top speed is less but I agree that it might have a quicker take off. I got the chance this weekend to ride a Kawasaki 250 MX bike and that thing was unreal, just blip the throttle and you were gone. I came out of a turn in second and gave it a little throttle to get over a hill (they call them jumps now a days) and I did my first double, and not a camera in sight. It scared the crap out of me, but on the next lap I did it on purpose.

Yeah I want another dirt bike.
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