Wee-Strom - how many of you guys have a Suzuki DL650?

[Frulk_imp]

Rode a KLR for 6 years and just recently sold it to a buddy. No maint. issues whatsoever. Stock the bike will go to Tierra del Fuego and back but it was pure Hell in a Wyoming cross-wind. I'd call it biased 70/30 road-dirt, maybe even 80/20. It had a high center of gravity and with a full tank was a bear to handle in the rough stuff. Lowering the suspension helped to some degree but it was a still a handful. Dropped it once on a steep descent in the Owyhee Wilderness on the southeastern border of Oregon. Liked to kill me. In the bikes defense I was way beyond what it and the suspension were prob designed for. For that specific route the DR or a KTM 690 would have been more appropriate. Pictures were taken in the Wyoming Range Mt's about 40 miles down a dirt road...the last 3/4 of a mile being literally a cattle trail.

My KLR


And my buddies Scrambler.


He can take that anywhere I could go on the KLR with a much lower center of gravity albeit with an additional 50+ (approx.) pounds of steel and a much smaller tank. If you know how to ride you can make up for a lot of your bikes shortcomings (perceived or otherwise)