Hamon
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Of all days, it rolled over on New Year's Day.
That's right, the KLR has unofficially rolled over 100K Km. I say unofficially because I've changed the speedo out and had to estimate mileage due to a broken speedo cable once, and a broken speedo drive on the hub the second time. I'd say I'm give or take 1000 Km from the 100K mark.
Anyway, with those details aside, a couple notes on what has transpired in those last 100K Km:
-purchased in January 2008 with 7K Km on it
-put on the road as my only mode of transportation in early March 2008
-taken on numerous road trips the first summer, including Ontario, the Kootenays, North Cascades Highway, and the Oregon Coast
-first year's mileage was approx 32K Km (39K on odometer)
-second year (2009) saw less road trips, more commuting mileage, but still got a couple rides in including the Dempster up to Inuvik
-second year's mileage was again approx 32-33K Km
-third year (2010) was even more commuting, and even less road trips. I got out to the Olympic Peninsula and a comprehensive journey around Vancouver Island
-at this point, we're at 100K Km.
The KLR has been relatively trouble-free in this time. What has gone wrong:
-speedometer replaced due to speedo drive on hub disintegrating. It was cheaper to buy an aftermarket speedo than it was to replace the hub.
-intermittent quitting at idle in cold, rainy, situations. Solved by: T-mod, Thermo-bob
-fragile fairing subframe broken due to added weight of XS-Twin fairing. Solved by: new(used) fairing subframe and switching to the Britannia Phoenix Twin (which is amazing!)
-blown rear shocks (2 stock, 1 aftermarket a few times due to improper rebuilding)
-blown fork seals once
-broken clutch cable at 50K Km
-new rear bearings, front are originals
-1 flat tire
-lowside crash at 40Km/h bent my Caribou Cases bracket and rashed my case. Bent the bracket back, had a new retaining nut fabricated for my case lock, and good to go.
Not much needs to be done on it these days. It needs an oil change, a valve check (this gets done quite rarely actually), swingarm bearing check, and other'n that, it'll probably keep on ticking. She burns a bit of oil, but it's not bad.
More pics from yesterday's ride:
Closing thoughts: Although I've made a fair number of mods or farkles on this bike, I've done very little to the engine/carb. This, in my opinion, is one of the biggest reasons it's kept rolling for so long. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I love my KLR. It may not make much power, but at least it's heavy!
Travis
That's right, the KLR has unofficially rolled over 100K Km. I say unofficially because I've changed the speedo out and had to estimate mileage due to a broken speedo cable once, and a broken speedo drive on the hub the second time. I'd say I'm give or take 1000 Km from the 100K mark.
Anyway, with those details aside, a couple notes on what has transpired in those last 100K Km:
-purchased in January 2008 with 7K Km on it
-put on the road as my only mode of transportation in early March 2008
-taken on numerous road trips the first summer, including Ontario, the Kootenays, North Cascades Highway, and the Oregon Coast
-first year's mileage was approx 32K Km (39K on odometer)
-second year (2009) saw less road trips, more commuting mileage, but still got a couple rides in including the Dempster up to Inuvik
-second year's mileage was again approx 32-33K Km
-third year (2010) was even more commuting, and even less road trips. I got out to the Olympic Peninsula and a comprehensive journey around Vancouver Island
-at this point, we're at 100K Km.
The KLR has been relatively trouble-free in this time. What has gone wrong:
-speedometer replaced due to speedo drive on hub disintegrating. It was cheaper to buy an aftermarket speedo than it was to replace the hub.
-intermittent quitting at idle in cold, rainy, situations. Solved by: T-mod, Thermo-bob
-fragile fairing subframe broken due to added weight of XS-Twin fairing. Solved by: new(used) fairing subframe and switching to the Britannia Phoenix Twin (which is amazing!)
-blown rear shocks (2 stock, 1 aftermarket a few times due to improper rebuilding)
-blown fork seals once
-broken clutch cable at 50K Km
-new rear bearings, front are originals
-1 flat tire
-lowside crash at 40Km/h bent my Caribou Cases bracket and rashed my case. Bent the bracket back, had a new retaining nut fabricated for my case lock, and good to go.
Not much needs to be done on it these days. It needs an oil change, a valve check (this gets done quite rarely actually), swingarm bearing check, and other'n that, it'll probably keep on ticking. She burns a bit of oil, but it's not bad.
More pics from yesterday's ride:
Closing thoughts: Although I've made a fair number of mods or farkles on this bike, I've done very little to the engine/carb. This, in my opinion, is one of the biggest reasons it's kept rolling for so long. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I love my KLR. It may not make much power, but at least it's heavy!
Travis
