09 klr250 By cyborg (Read 1,665 times)

[jct842]

I bought a 09 klr250 yesterday. Around 5k miles in great shape. Am really impressed on the ride it gives on my 2.5 miles of dirt road to pavement. Probably is 150 lbs lighter than the Majesty scooter I had been riding and my back can sure tell the difference. Will probably ride it as is for a week or so before I get into adjusting the shocks, will wait till I get it legal and plated tomorrow to go for blacktop riding into town.

The tires are dunlops and maybe 50% so I will be changing them out later on this summer. The clutch and front brake levers are less than perfect too. I may try to aneal the one and bend it back, the other has the ball broken off and both still very useable. Have all the service records too. I am not impressed with the rubber hand grips, so those will get replaced with some thicker ones. If it had had bark busters the levers would still be fine so an thinking about a set of them.

If the chinese bikes would come with all the paper work needed I probably would have gone that route and saved some money. I went thru that a couple times, once with a scooter and once with a car from a local dealer. 3 weeks on the chinese scooter and 32 days with the car. Never again. The dealer for car sold me a car taken in trade and apparently had a loan on it so he did not legally own it and waited till the last min to pay it off and get title! After that last time if the title or mso does not come with it I am not going to do the deal. John

[cyborg]

Great bike!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!! That bike was on the very short list ( I was down to 3)when I was looking for a dualsport ,,,the 300 cylinder and piston is available from kawi very inexpensively,,and is a 4-6 hour job depending on your skills,,,,,and speaking of Chinese I've been hearing rumors of a rx3 zongschen in 350 and 450 cc's,,,and I may go that route myself,,,,,almost sold myself on the rx3 in 250cc but I talked myself out of it,,,,,

[jct842]

Here it is. The ride is so much softer than that damn majesty. The last year it was just killing my back. The KLR has some where around 9" of travel on both front and back. With the engine and wheel locked together on the majesty hitting a small bump you have to get some where around 250lbs moving to absorb a road shock. The majesty is still running and I will probably put it on craigs list and sell as junk or a parts bike due to the engine blowing oil.

Nice to be in ARKANSAS when it comes to getting a new ride legal. It cost me a total of $116.36 for full coverage ins. and registering and plating it.

[jct842]

And it is almost 200lbs lighter weight.

[cyborg]

GOOD ON YA LADDIE!!!!!!!!!!!! A most excellent machine if there ever was one,,,,,one of the nicest suspensions on a street bike,,,amazing how good they are,,,once you get used to it you'll be looking for stuff to jump,,,,lol,,,I love my dually and will never be without one again as long as I ride

[jct842]

I told a small lie....turns out it is a KLX250. Think I have some latent dislexia guess with all the klr650's out there I got it's baby brother confused! I would change the title but you can't edit that on this stupid proboard format.

Edit: put 70 miles on it tonight after it cooled off some. Seat kind of sucks but I expected that. I will have to admit the dunlop knobs are noisey but they handled a lot better than I expected. A bunny jumped out down near the lake on black top and almost did a stoppie with the front brake with out sliding. Yea I like the suspension.

[cyborg]

i almost said something about the r/k thing but they are essentialy the same bike,,with minor carb and cam differences and one has road lites,,,no biggie still a very good machine parts are cheap and plentiful,,,,ebay is filled with them,,,here in the US we think anything under a 900 is a moped,,,almost anywhere overseas especially asia anyhting over a 150 is considered a big bike,,,over on the adv boards theres a great writeup on bill blues 351cc kit,,,guy put 70,000+ miles on the klx without a hiccup,,went all thru burma and beyond,,,an incredible ride,,,he was saying the 351 is more reliable and is smoother and starts easier than the stocker,,this is the route i would go if i ever bump into one of them

[cyborg]

Oh i forgot to add,,you LUCKY BASTARD!!!! i feel better now

[jct842]

First thing I have in mind is to "fix" the seat. It is like sitting on a padded 2x4. Soon as the garage is cooled off today I am going to pull the stock seat to see what I will have to do to adapt a big bike seat on there. Wish I had put a bit more insulation in there then the air conditioning wouldn't take quite as long to cool it off.

Also noticed there doesn't seem to be any storage even for the registration papers. Will fix that too.

[cyborg]

see on the "drivers side" if the two frame tabs are on there,,,i forget what year they stopped putting them on there,,,,,the suzuki dr350-drz400 tool tube fits like a glove,,,yes the seat is miserable,,,one of the only things wrong with the machine when it left the factory,,,other than that that thing is legendary

[cyborg]

I get it ,,, you're too busy riding the new toy to post about it,,,I don't blame you,,,,

[jct842]

Wish I was out riding it. Have had to take it easy last couple days, had my hip come out of joint. No one will believe it but I got up off the crapper and it went out of joint. The VA put the hip in wrong 22 years ago. The angle of the cup was off and it came out of joint a lot since. Besides it is just too damn hot around here to ride. I had way more riding days when I lived in cooler Illinois looking back.

The bike did come with a new 13 tooth sprocket and if there is a 14 on there now I may change it. I put the big luggage rack on it. Have an idea for increasing the seat width with a cover using a swimming noodle for padding on sides and a sheep skin on top.

[cyborg]

Corbin and Sargent both make killer seats for that machine,,,I want a Corbin for my dr350

[jct842]

Will have to check them out. Put the new 13 tooth on, crap that should have been stock instead of a 14 tooth. That little 250 engine sure has a lot of power.

[cyborg]

it is amazing how much power they have,,,,even stock,,,,,