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[hondav2]

Just thought I would start off a thread for owners of DR650s . Lets hear from you guys . Here is one of my rides
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78644
and here is another.
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=137804

Cheers Toddy

[NordieBoy]

You may get a better response if your first post contained your ride report and didn't lnstantly direct people to another (spit) site.
Oh and I thought there was a DR650 thread already

[Crisis management]

What happened Nordie, the RTV go solid in your ear?

I enjoy advriders DR thread but its bloody huge and almost impossible to find anything in it, Nordies thread here is certainly more info packed and accessible by comparison but, that aside, why do we need a bike specific thread? I enjoy the mixture of stuff here and at the end of the day, barring a few technical variations, they are all motors and two wheels.



Hang on......elitism, I knew I was missing something!

[cooneyr]

You may get a better response if your first post contained your ride report and didn't lnstantly direct people to another (spit) site.
Oh and I thought there was a DR650 thread already

Just cause your DR650 thread has the show at the moment!

I'm here! Almost stock standard 1997 (98 reg). Play with a 14 tooth CS sometimes but generally 15tooth. Went into a ditch at 60+kph so now new braided front brake line, CR bend bars, and new kill/starter switch block (everything else fine including the forks).

My bike seems to be a little different from other later NZ bikes with no Micro switch on the carb and larger hole in the exhaust.

Have made up soft pannier bars and currently making a new tail rack pic attached. The rack in pic at Mackley River limiting for space and too far back. Plans for a IMS 18l just before Xmas and complete suspension rebuild to suit my weight (closer to 125kgs with day riding gear) sometime in 2008.

Cheers R

[SDU]

Ok here's mine.
Pic 1 Danseys Pass on the way to the Brass Last year (yes it's been lowered)
Pic 2 At the Waimakariri River

[hondav2]

Just cause your DR650 thread has the show at the moment!

I'm here! Almost stock standard 1997 (98 reg). Play with a 14 tooth CS sometimes but generally 15tooth. Went into a ditch at 60+kph so now new braided front brake line, CR bend bars, and new kill/starter switch block (everything else fine including the forks).

My bike seems to be a little different from other later NZ bikes with no Micro switch on the carb and larger hole in the exhaust.

Have made up soft pannier bars and currently making a new tail rack pic attached. The rack in pic at Mackley River limiting for space and too far back. Plans for a IMS 18l just before Xmas and complete suspension rebuild to suit my weight (closer to 125kgs with day riding gear) sometime in 2008.

Cheers R

My luggage on old bike is Happy trails brackets with soft bags ( on 2nd set now ) suzuki tail rack with large alloy plate bolted to it and home made Ventura bracket. I use a Ventura Bathurst bag and another waterproof bag that someone left behind at the BMW MOA rally in USA. Alloy bash plate, 2 extra teeth on rear sprocket. Had a windscreen but its in a creek at 10,000ft above Telluride in Colorado after I arsed up, progressive front springs, was going to fit a progressive rear shock but got sent the wrong one ( bugger ) . Hope to clock up 60,000 miles ( 100,000 kms ) this summer , original clutch and timing chain, never had tappets reset , and goes better than my newer bike with only 11,000 km on it. Repairs, Ignition pickup, and switch on clutch lever which I disconnected, and heaps on tyres , battery as cable chaffed thru and cooked it, disc pads, chains and sprockes, found its best to buy the best chain u can , less sprocket wear, big tank IMS I think , done over 300miles on it but mostly in NZ goes on res. as about 230 miles. Cheers Toddy

[hondav2]

Here is me at Bonnerville Speed Week, I had covers made for the Ventura bag, i could carrry a 24 pack under it.

[Mole_C]

I got mine 2 days ago, had a little off 2day Dropped it hooning round on the muddy grass. Twisted the bars but with a bit of pushing and pulling there pretty much back to straight. Just need a few minor tweaks to get them perfect again

[Crisis management]

Congratulations Mole, now that your fully trained feel free to join a few of us on sunday.....look at the Sunday ride thread.

[hondav2]

Here is 2 more pics, White Sands of New Mexico and when she ran out of spark South Vaginia. Having some problems gettin pics on here.

[Transalper]

...Having some problems gettin pics on here.

Don't make me come all the way down there and show you how.
You must know how, you already have at least one picture attached earlier. You know you can attach up to 6 pictures in each post.
Are you dial up internet?

Oh yea, i like my DR650 too.... got an IMS Tank, a Givi Topbox, Scott Oiler, Barkbusters, a Bashplate and a bit of a windscreen on it.

[hondav2]

Don't make me come all the way down there and show you how.
You must know how, you already have at least one picture attached earlier. You know you can attach up to 6 pictures in each post.
Are you dial up internet?

Oh yea, i like my DR650 too.... got an IMS Tank, a Givi Topbox, Scott Oiler, Barkbusters, a Bashplate and a bit of a windscreen on it.

Dial up , no broadband or woosh, satelitte only other option , but i got a good back yard to go ridin in , show us your windscreen, got to much buffeting with mine wouldnt get another

[Transalper]

My screen is just a simple bit of plastic (not perspex but similar). I reenforced the yellow plastic headlight sourround with a strip of alloy bar bent to stop the panel destorting flat.
I get some buffeting with mine too, a common issue on a lot of bikes. I do however prefer that to the original full body wind blast.
When i sit in a sports bike position similar to when i had the CBR1000 I can get my chin very close to the screen then everything goes quiet and calm.
Been looking at screens appearing on other bikes about the place and forming a plan.
I think the trick might be to add an adjustable spoiler to the top just in front of the screen. With this you can tune the screen to your head height and other variables.

[marks]

I get some buffeting with mine too, a common issue on a lot of bikes. I do however prefer that to the original full body wind blast.

Is it just lack of screen height that causes buffeting? - I presume by buffeting you guys mean getting your head blasted by redirected wind?

I just put a screen on my 660 and will now have to try ear plugs because of the increased wind noise. also seems more sensitive to side winds - is that normal?

cheers

Mark

[Transalper]

A bigger or taller screen might help get your head out of the turbulence but... on these sorts of bikes especially, you'd often end up with a big sail effect really messing up the handling, especially in any cross winds or when trucks pass the other way.
I believe most helmets are much quieter in clean air as on an unfaired bike. My old CBR was quieter with the small stock screen on than it was with the slightly larger after market one i tryed later. The taller one once again got my shoulders out of the blast but gave more turbulence about the head. An even larger screen just wouldn't have worked for me or the bike, if i'd wanted that i'd have been on a Goldwing.

I think the idea of an adjustable spoiler on top of the screen is that you can tip it to change the wind blast angle coming off the top of the windscreen hopefully getting you helmet close to being back in clean/less turbulent air.
Another thing i've been told is to mount the screen with some kinda spacer to let some air get behind it to help stop buffet directly behind the screen. I do think this helps too.
I wish i was an expert, then i'd know just how to fix it.

Cooneyr sat on J's DR with the screen on it a while ago, he sits taller and further back on the bike than me, while i found the screen better than naked, cooneyr hated it. Different screens for different riders on the same bike. Nordie has something on his DR, next time i ride with him i might try get some open road experience on his DR to see how his screen works for me.