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#11
11-03-2011 | 12:52 AM
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starting in 2012 in washington we will be able to plate a bike like that. I was BLOWN AWAY when the law actually passed. I have long daydreamed of a klx450 with plate. And next year I will be able to get one.
#13
11-03-2011 | 01:38 PM
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For those of us who are vertically challenged, 30" inseems and 37" seat heights don't mix. 
That particular bike looks goofy because they dropped the rear more than the front can be lowered.
Having been there and done that, you can only slide the forks up in the triple clamps 10mm before you run out of machined clamping surface. If you lower the rear more than 1" or so, the bike gets that chopper look and handles like a dump truck! I ended up lowering the rear just 1/2", then cutting the seat foam down 1" while leaving the forks 10mm up in the clamps. Mine turns better than stock now, and I can still touch the ground reasonably well.
That particular bike looks goofy because they dropped the rear more than the front can be lowered.Having been there and done that, you can only slide the forks up in the triple clamps 10mm before you run out of machined clamping surface. If you lower the rear more than 1" or so, the bike gets that chopper look and handles like a dump truck! I ended up lowering the rear just 1/2", then cutting the seat foam down 1" while leaving the forks 10mm up in the clamps. Mine turns better than stock now, and I can still touch the ground reasonably well.
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11-03-2011 | 01:44 PM
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For those of us who are vertically challenged, 30" inseems and 37" seat heights don't mix. That particular bike looks goofy because they dropped the rear more than the front can be lowered.
Having been there and done that, you can only slide the forks up in the triple clamps 10mm before you run out of machined clamping surface. If you lower the rear more than 1" or so, the bike gets that chopper look and handles like a dump truck! I ended up lowering the rear just 1/2", then cutting the seat foam down 1" while leaving the forks 10mm up in the clamps. Mine turns better than stock now, and I can still touch the ground reasonably well.
That particular bike looks goofy because they dropped the rear more than the front can be lowered.Having been there and done that, you can only slide the forks up in the triple clamps 10mm before you run out of machined clamping surface. If you lower the rear more than 1" or so, the bike gets that chopper look and handles like a dump truck! I ended up lowering the rear just 1/2", then cutting the seat foam down 1" while leaving the forks 10mm up in the clamps. Mine turns better than stock now, and I can still touch the ground reasonably well.
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11-03-2011 | 02:23 PM
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Speaking of revenue, how about the Discovery Pass? booooooooooo, I mean I'm not totally against the state trying to recover from this debt situation, but at least make the pass something you can transfer from one vehicle to another. I'm not paying $30.00 a year for each vehicle, that blows the big one!!!
#16
11-03-2011 | 02:26 PM
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Dude if we could sell kidneys, I would be on dialysis. .......wait what?
#17
11-03-2011 | 03:32 PM
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We need to go on a ride sometime so that you can ride it. I have nothing planned yet, but I may be in the market for something new next summer. Your dibs is noted.Here's a picture of mine in the heat of battle at Hatfield/McCoy, with my seat and suspension tricks...
#18
11-04-2011 | 10:18 PM
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For those of us who are vertically challenged, 30" inseems and 37" seat heights don't mix. That particular bike looks goofy because they dropped the rear more than the front can be lowered.
Having been there and done that, you can only slide the forks up in the triple clamps 10mm before you run out of machined clamping surface. If you lower the rear more than 1" or so, the bike gets that chopper look and handles like a dump truck! I ended up lowering the rear just 1/2", then cutting the seat foam down 1" while leaving the forks 10mm up in the clamps. Mine turns better than stock now, and I can still touch the ground reasonably well.
That particular bike looks goofy because they dropped the rear more than the front can be lowered.Having been there and done that, you can only slide the forks up in the triple clamps 10mm before you run out of machined clamping surface. If you lower the rear more than 1" or so, the bike gets that chopper look and handles like a dump truck! I ended up lowering the rear just 1/2", then cutting the seat foam down 1" while leaving the forks 10mm up in the clamps. Mine turns better than stock now, and I can still touch the ground reasonably well.
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