The DR650 thread

[Underground]

Why am I posting on the DR thread ? you may ask ,
Well I have a little project in mind , we've been flat out since xmas turning a wee bus into a camper / support vehicle and its going to need a trailbike hung on the back of it.
I've thought about various bikes and whittled it down to a DR650 for several reasons , weight being the main one while still having a worthy machine capable of a bit of two uping.
What I want to run by you jokers is ... I've got a broken KTM 400 with some nice WP USD's and shock sitting in the basement and I believe its no biggie to put the forks on a DR , not so sure about the shock .
So is this a good ,bad or ugly idea ??

Oh , and I'm on the lookout for a crashed DR going cheap (anyone want to crash one and sell it to me ?)

[NordieBoy]

Bung the front end on, but uprate the springs and disc.

Shock.... Probably too much work. Linkage or PDS?

[Underground]

Bung the front end on, but uprate the springs and disc.

Shock.... Probably too much work. Linkage or PDS?

The disc certainly needs to be a bit bigger ... but springs ?? DR is only about 10kg heavier so I would probably just suck it and see .
Shock is linkage (whats a PDS?) might have to bring the shock round and have a measure up against some of your bits .

[cooneyr]

Run Nordie run! UG wants to measure your bits!!!

There is a thread buy a guy who built a DR650 adventure and wrote about it on Advrider. He put on WP48 forks of a 640 Adv which I'm guessing are on the 400 LC4. The first post has all the info you need. Little bit of machining and a spacer on the DR stem, press it into the WP yokes and bob's your uncle. Biggest issue that he mentions that I can see is that the WP forks are 3/4" longer than the DR's forks. Better hope the WP shock is similar.

Cheers R

[Underground]

Thanks for that Ryan ,very informative thread .I was picking that the WP forks would be a bit longer and kind of assuming the shock would have a similar effect . I may have to grow some longer legs as the WP's will only slip about 10mm further up through the tripples .

[wysper]

Just reading my way through this.. up to page 20 at the moment.
Anyone used these guys in the states for anything? http://www.procycle.us/bikepages/dr650.html

[NordieBoy]

Just reading my way through this.. up to page 20 at the moment.
Anyone used these guys in the states for anything? http://www.procycle.us/bikepages/dr650.html

Yep.

Perry is a good bloke.



For a yank.

[Squiggles]

Just reading my way through this.. up to page 20 at the moment.
Anyone used these guys in the states for anything? http://www.procycle.us/bikepages/dr650.html

Yep, have landed 2 large orders... need to land a third soon if i'm to get rotor bolts at a reasonable price (under $13 each would be nice)

[Squiggles]

Anyone else thinking of placing an order with Procycle in the near future?

[Eddieb]

There's a set of Ventura L brackets on trade me at the moment, $10 start is reserve. Normal retail is about $120 I think.

[wysper]

Anyone else thinking of placing an order with Procycle in the near future?

Is that you bidding on the l brackets on trademe? If it is I will leave you to it.

[Squiggles]

Tis me, Hanne is getting tired of being jabbed in the lower back by the rack i've got there currently

[wysper]

Good luck!

[Crim]

G'day
Not sure if you fellas have seen this before - may be of interest

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tec...oad#Ergonomics

Cheers
Crim

[Aslan]

G'day
Not sure if you fellas have seen this before - may be of interest

http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/tec...oad#Ergonomics

Cheers
Crim

thanks for posting - useful info - cheers Aslan