Show us ya DR650!

[Tony W]

That's one tough looking bike TLDV8 !
What are the pannier racks, "off-the-shelf" or adapted ?

[TLDV8]

That's one tough looking bike TLDV8 !
What are the pannier racks, "off-the-shelf" or adapted ?

Tony, i took the easy option after thinking about making a set.

Link here
http://www.moto-sportpanniers.com/brackets.htm

There was a distributor for them in Queensland,although a little pricey at AU$355 they bolted on with no trouble,i can get some close up pics if you want them..

[Bass]

Not a croc to be seen but managed 875kms today,)

FARRRK mate!!!! You did 875 km in one day on the standard seat!!!!

RESPECT!!!!!!!!!!

Can you still walk??

(and yes, the Jim Jim road looks familiar)

Actually, that road gave me a few minor pucker moments.
The straights and wider bends were in good order when we went through there, but the surface in some of the tighter corners had deteriorated badly. It meant that I was going rather faster than I was comfortable with when I hit some of those corners and it was "hang on and hope".
This seemed to be a pretty common situation in Oz where the 4WD's cut up the tighter corners pretty thoroughly, but it was a lesson that I just never seemed to learn.

The DR saved my stupid arse more than once.

[TLDV8]

FARRRK mate!!!! You did 875 km in one day on the standard seat!!!!

Corbin on the way via Pro Cycle,never could get a reply from Corbin.
Pity the exchange rate has dropped over 30 cents,DR 650 Corbin is AU$722.
That was 875kms on the stock seat and suspension. so look forward to some comfort,have a Corbin on the TL back home,they are good.
If i get time the Ohlins will go in this weekend.
Missed out on a set of Ohlins forks with no international shipping.

Mount Wells Road to Pine Creek ???





To big to post.

http://photos.imageevent.com/dr650/nt/fogdam/FD1.jpg

[Bass]

To big to post.

That last photo is a cracker!

What a land of amazing contrasts Australia is - from tropical wetlands like that, to utterly barren deserts.

Mate, once you get a decent seat and some good suspenders on the old girl, we will be looking for photos from ALL over.

[twotyred]

got any pics of what you hang off those fine looking frames?

Tony, i took the easy option after thinking about making a set.

Link here
http://www.moto-sportpanniers.com/brackets.htm

There was a distributor for them in Queensland,although a little pricey at AU$355 they bolted on with no trouble,i can get some close up pics if you want them..

[TLDV8]

got any pics of what you hang off those fine looking frames?

Havn't got any pics handy but have Andy Strapz expedition panniers (You just reminded me i was going to get a set of liners)

http://www.andystrapz.com/products.php?PCID=51

and a Wolfman expedition seat bag (small)

http://www.wolfmanluggage.com/

I had looked at getting Happy Trails alloy pannier box's at first (good weather and security protection) but decided corrugations and the real possibility of the DR ending up on its side was enough to go with soft luggage.

http://www.happy-trail.com/

[GaZBur]

Here is my DR in road legal motard trim. Photo was taken by ecclesnz at the 1/4 mile sprints in Otago a couple of weeks ago. I will be riding it at the Burt Munroe Teretonga track and Wyndham street races.

[NordieBoy]

So what's your best 1/4 time now?

[GaZBur]

So what's your best 1/4 time now?

The times were crap this year despite the bike being slightly faster the very strong head winds pushed my times a full second slower than the 13.880 I got last year. So 13.880 it is still better that the 14.836 i did this year, first time they ran Nth to Sth too!

[twotyred]

Here is my DR in road legal motard trim.

nice wheels!, what are they?

[GaZBur]

The mags are off a GSXR250. I use Dunlop 501's 110/70-17 front and 150/70-17 rear. The mags were not trivial to set up - had to get an engineering firm to sort them for me. GJS engineers in Dunedin. All up though including buying second hand mags it was under $700 plus the cost of tyres. Now its set up with disks and sprockets attached to each set of wheels so changing to knobblies takes about half hour.

[Paladin]

The mags are off a GSXR250. I use Dunlop 501's 110/70-17 front and 150/70-17 rear. The mags were not trivial to set up - had to get an engineering firm to sort them for me. GJS engineers in Dunedin. All up though including buying second hand mags it was under $700 plus the cost of tyres. Now its set up with disks and sprockets attached to each set of wheels so changing to knobblies takes about half hour.

Now that sounds like a good plan ...... a set of mags and road tyres so I can have the little KLX be a motard during the week and then quickly wack on some wheels with knobblies for weekend adv/offroad fun!!!! That cost doesn't sound too outrageous - do you reckon that's typical to get set up for a spare set of wheels?

Dave

[GaZBur]

It depends mostly on axle diameters. If you can match those up spacers are not too big a problem. You can get bearings with different internal and external diameters to fit into the mags so the axle stays the same or you can go the other way and adapt an axle.
I got the mags from a wreck - about $200 incuding all the attached disks, sprocket and axle spacers.
Got the engineering company to quote me for fitting with new sprocket and machined down front disk 300mm to 290mm so I could just pull the wheels on and off without doing any adjusting to brakes. Only thing I dont have is a speedo but that could be easily fixed and will be when I get a spare $200 fro a Trail Tech Vapor.
They quoted and charged me $480 for thier work but admitted if they knew what an absolute bastard machining floating disks were it probably would have been $100 more on the quote. I can recommend GJS engineering in Dunedin as they know and do a lot of bike work and were good to me.
With the DR you just drop the rear shock to the lower mount hole and leave the front as is as the 17in drops the front quite a bit. You will notice a huge improvement in handling on the street with the smaller front! You will be amazed how well they handle after conversion even with stock shocks etc.

[fatmonkey]

heres a pic from the test run, 6000km in 10 days, 90% dirt, with a dr 250 in tow. bike is now in bits, more mods required i think