The DR650 thread

[Waipukbiker]

Ive heard of DRs doing over 100,000 kms without any issues too so there dousnt seem to be a common pattern of type of use. Im running a magnetic drain plug plus a magnetic washer in the filter housing so hopefully will give some warning of any tooth decay. I think the biggest strain on the trans is when power is put on at low revs and the engine gets very chunky, It feels like the balancer shaft cant cope with the power pulses at low revs so these "Power shocks" are being transmitted through the gears. Hard to avoid sometimes when in low gear on a tight uphill twisty track.

[RogIrwin]

Cool feedback. What's it like weight wise compared to the stock one.

Marving is about 3.5kg and the stock is about 8kg. Or at least that what I got on my scales ( unknown accuracy ).

[Mo NZ]

The whole seat or just the foam and cover?

I have a new seat cover and foam. No base.
pm me

[Shoshoni]

Here are some pics of my poor DR650SE K9 after third gear went, one gear was seized on the shaft and the other is in four bits.
Also the case on both sides has damage and the fork gear selector is broken.
Sorry about the cell phone quality pics.

[Scubbo]

I saw a 3rd gear set for sale for this problem from procycle -- but seems like it's a bit late for that now

[badlieutenant]

Here are some pics of my poor DR650SE K9 after third gear went, one gear was seized on the shaft and the other is in four bits.
Also the case on both sides has damage and the fork gear selector is broken.
Sorry about the cell phone quality pics.

Are all DR's made in the same factory since they started ? same suppliers etc ? My 96 is still going and apparently its done the amazon and Europe and Australia before I got my grubby mitts on it. Is this something I need to be paranoid about with high Kms ?

[pomgolian]

[QUOTE=Shoshoni;1130738148]Here are some pics of my poor DR650SE K9 after third gear went, one gear was seized on the shaft and the other is in four bits.
Also the case on both sides has damage and the fork gear selector is broken.
Sorry about the cell phone quality pics.

Sorry to see your grim pictures, can we have some more info please, Kms, kind of use, service schedules, when it happened, did you often run low revs under load ? (which has been mentioned as a possible contributor to a weak point failure) mines the same year and thought they may have rectified this issue by 2009 but obviously not.

Hope you find a cheap motor to get it going again.

Paul

[NordieBoy]

Do you remember what gear you were in when it happened?

[NordieBoy]

Are all DR's made in the same factory since they started ? same suppliers etc ? My 96 is still going and apparently its done the amazon and Europe and Australia before I got my grubby mitts on it. Is this something I need to be paranoid about with high Kms ?

What sort of km's has it done?

[badlieutenant]

What sort of km's has it done?

unknown. I think it did india as well. ALOT at a guess drbig (i think that is his handle on here) knows more about the couple and their journey. He had a picture of himself with his bike in the Andes or some place like that and he reckoned he has barely traveled compared to the German guy. My mate bought his bike off him (german guy) for 250$, un regoed. . A 94 version with the most comfortable seat Ive ever sat on the 94 vs 96, strangely, fell very similar to ride

[RMOTO]

Here are some pics of my poor DR650SE K9 after third gear went

That'll buff out

[Shoshoni]

Here are some pics of my poor DR650SE K9 after third gear went, one gear was seized on the shaft and the other is in four bits.
Also the case on both sides has damage and the fork gear selector is broken.
Sorry about the cell phone quality pics.

Sorry to see your grim pictures, can we have some more info please, Kms, kind of use, service schedules, when it happened, did you often run low revs under load ? (which has been mentioned as a possible contributor to a weak point failure) mines the same year and thought they may have rectified this issue by 2009 but obviously not.

Hope you find a cheap motor to get it going again.

Paul

I used the bike on a daily basis and when going off road was mostly gravel roads.
The bike had over 60,000 kms, oil filter + oil changes every 4,000 kms and service schedules were done when it was time for them and I didn't run the bike in low revs.
The failure happened when I shifted into third gear going up a hill on the road, I felt a clunk - clunk then the back wheel locked and that was the end of my ride.

[car]

Here are some pics of my poor DR650SE K9 after third gear went, one gear was seized on the shaft and the other is in four bits.

Yeah, that looks familiar. Mine went the same way. The details of mine are listed in the blowup thread over on Advrider, a thread I ended up unsubscribing from because I got tired of listening to endless circular arguments about how I shouldn't even be discussing a $2000 catastrophic failure with other people who'd experienced the same failure. Mine was perhaps complicated by the fact that I'd dropped the bike fairly heavily a few months before -- hard enough to twist the selector shaft. Entirely possible that I damaged something when that happened.

NordieBoy, last I heard, you were starting to see some sort of pattern -- mostly Aus/NZ, mostly in the 40k - 60k range? Dunno how that turned out.

I replaced mine with an XT660R which was a superior road bike IMHO, but too big, too covered in plastic, and too high-geared for me to handle confidently on dirt. Maybe a better rider could have got more out of it, but I missed the DR every time I so much as looked a dirt track.

[TLDV8]

Was the third driven gear sleeve removed prior to the picture, the oil hole in the shaft is showing but not the one that lines up with it in the bush ?

[Shoshoni]

Was the third driven gear sleeve removed prior to the picture, the oil hole in the shaft is showing but not the one that lines up with it in the bush ?

Yes it was removed prior to the picture been taking, it had seized itself to the gear.