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Shorts · #491 Unread post by **Shorts** » Thu May 10, 2007 10:36 pm

Start bolting "poo poo" on in the opposite order. Remember to fit the choke disk before you fit the lefthand grip. That's right I had to pull it back off then put it on a second time. It's a "dog" to push a fitted race grip over that knurled surface.

Hey, don't you have the Pro Grip grips? Does the ;eft grip just cinch on the bar with a tightening screw?

Fri May 11, 2007 2:10 am

Nice bars.

Sev wrote:The first and BEST response I got was from Chad. Went something like this. "Wait, you brought her in today? FVCK, peopleee're out riding and my engines still on the blatty bench. What've you got? Wanna get out n go at it? That little thing? We should spray the "dog" down. Then she'll reallly blatt!."

Translation, you rode in, my engines still on the bloody bench! Nice bike for a little thing, want to race it? We should put nitrous on it, then she'll fly! He's the guy who actually does nitrous kits too..." I backed away slowly.

Come on, juice the 599, you know you want to

#493 Unread post by **Sev** » Fri May 11, 2007 2:29 am

Shorts wrote:
Start bolting "poo poo" on in the opposite order. Remember to fit the choke disk before you fit the lefthand grip. That's right I had to pull it back off then put it on a second time. It's a "dog" to push a fitted race grip over that knurled surface.
Hey, don't you have the Pro Grip grips? Does the ;eft grip just cinch on the bar with a tightening screw?

The progrip is so tight on the knurled bar I didn't even need to tighten the screw. In fact I used WD40 just to get it on, then rode home almost immediately without securing it in place. It didn't move at all.

Shorts · #494 Unread post by **Shorts** » Fri May 11, 2007 1:43 pm

Ohhh, I see now.

The bar looks nice. I anticipate eventually replacing the stock Honda with a nicer one.

Do you feel a difference in how the bike responds to inputs since it's a little wider than stock?

#495 Unread post by **Sev** » Fri May 11, 2007 4:12 pm

As for the bars themselves they're much nicer to my wrists because I don't need to contort them to fit comfortably on the bars.

And steering... well it's like a new bike again. The extra leverage really increases the steering sensitivity. A little means a lot. It's been a blast so far, but I need more miles to truely run them in. And they still need a little fine tuning.

Up next weighted bar ends to damp some vibration.

*edit* I just realized that "chicken" comes across as "carrot" when it hits the word filter.

I'm going to change it to "contort" and hope something doesn't happen with that.

Shorts · #496 Unread post by **Shorts** » Fri May 11, 2007 4:29 pm

Cool, nice job. The black bars look hawt!

#497 Unread post by **Sev** » Sat May 12, 2007 4:30 pm

Okay, so I had accidentally set the right hand switchgear incorrectly on the bars meaning the brake lever would hit the throttle cable when I tried to brake. Obviously this affected the braking performance, so I pulled the throttle assembly off today, drilled a new hole - meant to mention that I used a 3/16" twistdrill - then bolted everything back on.

With a 3/16" twistdrill there is still a little slop off the mounting holes. Not much but it's there. In retrospect I might have gone a little smaller... or used a drillpress. It's kind of tough drilling into a round surface.

Shorts · #498 Unread post by **Shorts** » Sat May 12, 2007 6:12 pm

Yeah, drilling the little pilot hole for my right switch gear/throttle was hairy for the first pass. I used a narrow spring-loaded punch (the one-hand operating kind). From there I used my narrowest/smallest bit as it was easier for the bit to stay in the punch mark. Once that was drilled, then I bumped up to the appropriate sized bit. In fact, I think I stair-stepped each size to be sure I did not make the hole too large. Sure, its a little more time consuming by a few minutes, but I've always tried to go by the mantra, measure twice (or 3 times!), cut once. I learned that lesson quickly when I did my first bit of gumsmithing, when a thousanth of an inch is all it takes for a part to be deamed a fishing line sinker

Its easier to take metal away than it is to add it.

#499 Unread post by **Sev** » Tue May 15, 2007 4:15 pm

Killer Attempt

So, yesterday a Killer attempted to live up to it's name. That's right, a KLR650 dubbed a killer by those who ride them attempted to live up to it's name.

Stupid me, I tried to swing my hand OVER the bike with no windscreen on it rather then just trailing it behind me while I squeezed through a tight spot. Absentmindedly I misjudged the clearance, and gave my wrist a nice slash.

A killer indeed.

#500 Unread post by **Sev** » Sat May 19, 2007 2:55 pm

Replaced my airfilter with an OEM one. $50 every 25000km, I can live with that.

It starts better now.

Probably going to be doing sparkplugs at work on Friday.