The latest adventure I finally tipped the bike over! It's nice to have a bike that doesn't break when you do that. Dave came down for a Saturday adventure and we took off in attempt to make it from A to B. Well all the gravel roads had been freshly graded and were scary as hell, and once we hit around 3500' in elevation there was 6" of packed unpassable snow.
Lookout:
Eventually we headed back to another area that had some "off highway vehicle" trails. By OHV they simply mean 4 wheelers. They had carved tracks with 2' high berms in some places, and 2-4" rocks in the trail too. Simply put...there is nothing like trying to wrestle a 400 lb bike while floating on gravel and trying to maintain your line :)
This was my first trip after putting the stock exhaust back on too. The prior one was light, but way too loud. Guess i'm getting old as the crisp silence at 60mph was very enjoyable. I also found out that the KLR can cruise at 75-80 comfortably pending you have at least 30psi in the tires! For the prior 400 miles going anything over 53 was sketchy! Air pressure makes the bike rather enjoyable on the highway.
More modifications coming up:
1. Dash Display Plate (for heated grip switch, accessory switch and Multimeter reading)
2. Happy Trails panniers: 9" wide beauties!!! Can't wait to mount them and drink some beer...Should be next week when they arrive.
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