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Can my KLR Do This?

Ironbutt said:
OK.. so here's a few tips about a KLR.

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6 It's never the bikes fault but if you own a KLR; no one will blame you for blaming the bike.
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Best advice yet!

I have most of the other stuff you mentioned already done. I just need to learn how to ride this thing as an adventure bike. The tires on it are some Kenda K761's. I don't know if those are any good, but I can drag peg with them and they instill a lot of cornering confidence on the pavement. Since I've always been a street rider my whole life, I can't wait to get it on some unimproved roads and start going over more things. Bent levers here I come!
 
Breaking Daniel said:
Best advice yet!

I have most of the other stuff you mentioned already done. I just need to learn how to ride this thing as an adventure bike. The tires on it are some Kenda K761's. I don't know if those are any good, but I can drag peg with them and they instill a lot of cornering confidence on the pavement. Since I've always been a street rider my whole life, I can't wait to get it on some unimproved roads and start going over more things. Bent levers here I come!
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YMMV but I had dunlop d606 rear and pirelli mt21 front full knobbies and could corner quite well still. When I had more street oriented tires the klr was surprisingly great at handling
 
I've done it on a sport bike and on Ducati Monster. When I had KLR I didn't even pay attention to curbs. They were like speed bumps in my way.
 
FWIW I park my bike on a concrete platform that has a 7" step. I climb this on my 570lb Caponord pretty much every day when I get home. :thumbup

I'm at walking pace and give the gas a little blip just before the front wheel engages. Momentum takes me up and over.
 
RRR70 said:
I've done it on a sport bike and on Ducati Monster. When I had KLR I didn't even pay attention to curbs. They were like speed bumps in my way.
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The KLR is like a dumptruck. Just run over that curb, speed bump, small animals. Whatever. Chug chug.
 
I finally did it! Sorry for sounding like an idiot about jumping curbs for the first time, but as stated, I'm not an off road or adventure bike guy (although I am slowly turning in to one).

Behind my wife's work is a shit ton of curbs of all varying heights and slopes. I bottomed out on a few but the skid plate spared any damage. I just carried enough momentum on those ones to teeter forward and over. Some had sidewalks once you got up them, and others were just the concrete parking stops that the tires would end up straddling.

Tons of fun!
 
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