Recent content by walkabout

As this was my first time riding with the dogs, I was concerned about the whole group riding experience but found everybody being friendly and very helpful. Also nice to see the variety of bikes and how well every one has handled the route. Thanks RovRat for the organizing of the trip, the...

Ek sal graag wil saamry, het nie baie ervaring nie maar sal dit hopelik maak.

R100 - done

"I like it when the bike moves around a bit on tar, makes life interesting. besides it looks cool when your rear steps out a bit in corners." ;D Ha, ha - don't know if I'm up for that yet. I bought the KLR with the tyres, have about 1 000km's on them and are also showing cracks all over...

Thanks. Groenie, what speed did you do on tar at that pressure, can you run at 120km/h or is that too fast.

What tyre pressure to run Michelin T63 â??s on.  I am currently using 1.4 bar for both front and back as I have been doing mostly dirt roads (only had the bike for 3 weeks).  However, I am doing a short trip to the Cedarberg on Saturday and will do some tar road as well.  What would be the ideal...

Thanks for the warm welcome.  I have been out for a ride of about 150km this weekend, 50% on dirt. must say it felt really good.  My impression was that the KRL felt much better on the dirt (mostly hard surface) at about 80km/h than on the tar at about 120km/h.  It was just great being...

I have been lurking on this forum for months now but can at last come out, took the plunge and bought a 2006 KLR with 6 500km on the clock.  Hopefully, this will give me the chance to do all the back roads touring that this forum had me craving for. I got the bike 2 days ago and had to ride it...