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Marketplace => For Sale => Topic started by: Boyracer on December 01, 2015, 09:52:07 am
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Anyone ridden one of these?
Great fun bike, 93 Safari winner model, on Gumtree, located Newcastle.
http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/sandgate/motorcycles/kawasaki-klx650-great-condition/1095970903
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I rode one around my backyard.
That was enough.
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I rode one around my backyard.
That was enough.
What he said but left out big and heavy
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Good motor for sidecars, several 24hr wins.
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Great bike for their intended purpose. Nice strong engine.
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Great bike for their intended purpose. Nice strong engine.
Anchoring large boats?
They do go well.
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Brother inlaw had one almost every ride would broke rear Spoke
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Brother inlaw had one almost every ride would broke rear Spoke
Interesting. The one I rode had four broken rear spokes...
It's owner is 120kg, and he still hasn't replaced them...
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I had one for a short period of time, engine pulled very well for a rough old girl. Could set one up as a good adventure bike.
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I worked at a bike shop in cairns and a bloke bought a spanker back years ago. with very few kms on the clock he clips a low lying rock with the sump plug and in a very short time he had a very expensive rolling frame...
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I have nearly gone done this path several times including recently,,,,
for the sake of an affordable Adventure tourer,,,
But I have always feared their biggest problem,, the famous
Catastrophic Doohickey failure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYTaI1vL08 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsYTaI1vL08)
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that model had faulty stators when they 1st came out and the fault was not removing the varnish off the 3 phrase alternator where the star connection were joined by a crimp on joiner and could have been fixed easily by just soldering the 3 wires together but since they all failed when nearly new the stators were replaced under warranty other then that they were a good bike
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Good bike for Condo 750 perhaps? Or even Finke?
Tex
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Except they're supposed to be very heavy on fuel...
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Good bike for Condo 750 perhaps? Or even Finke?
Tex
I seem to recall a pretty big thread on ADVrider where someone set up and modernized one for that in last year or two.
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Good bike for Condo 750 perhaps? Or even Finke?
Tex
Speaking of that, I've still got your map roller and assorted accessories here!!! Ill get it back to you sometime this life!! ;D ;)
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Speaking of that, I've still got your map roller and assorted accessories here!!! Ill get it back to you sometime this life!
You've got that stuff?! I tore my shed apart last week looking for it! ;)
Here's a KLX650R having a quick wash at the Dakar Rally in 1996 or so:
(http://mastermarine.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/Aldos-KLX650-at-Dakar/i-wXzpDKc/0/XL/IMG017%20copia-XL.jpg)
Tex
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Sold the old girl thanks everyone, it went like like stink and had better fuel range than an XR650 :)