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Really stuck KLR

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    Really stuck KLR

    This is why you avoid deep mud holes on a 430-lb beast like a KLR650:

    Stuck KLR650

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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    Yea...I had one of those as my first bike and do not see how anyone would find riding them offroad enjoyable. Unless it was a fire road or a dirt road.

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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    Quote Originally Posted by csmutty View Post
    Yea...I had one of those as my first bike and do not see how anyone would find riding them offroad enjoyable. Unless it was a fire road or a dirt road.
    Which is really all they're designed for.

    Even my XR650L sucks on muddy trails, and it's about 75lbs lighter than the KLR and has more ground clearance.

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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    I never miss an opportunity to post this: from a ds ride last year. Lmfao.

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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    Totally an FML situation....damn

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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    I had a 2006 KLR before my 2 V-Stroms. It was Kawasaki Green, so it looked like a Preying Mantis.

    About four days after I put my new V-Strom (#2) on the road, I was cruising down a dirt road in Barre when I hit some clay. There are many pictures of "sleeping V-Stroms" but this is mine.


    So later, when I hit an even worse trail, alone and out of cell phone coverage with my 485 lb bike, I bailed before I got to take any epic pics.


    But my favorite "sleeping pic" is a guy who was headed down a trail fairly uneventfully, until one of his bags hit a tree and spit him off the bike. When he picked himself up:



    ...And I believe that's a DL1000, which weighs about 525lbs wet.

    I always joke that BMW GS riders invite me along on rides "Because it takes three of them to pick one up." But in fairness, I'm little better off, and when everyone is loaded down with camping gear, food, clothing etc for a four day trip, things can go wrong more easily. This guy pre-rode this route alone, without gear the week prior. But then he dropped it on his leg.....


    Luckily, he was completely unhurt.

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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    Dumb. At minute 1 I tip the bike on it's side and slide it grabbing the wheels.

    This guy just didn't want to tip the thing over.

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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    id have grabbed the front wheel and pulled the fucking thing on its side out of the ditch...

    or i would have gone around it in the first place...

    guy deserved that one...

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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    That's, like, Rule #1 of Off Roading: *Never* enter water if you do not know how deep it is. Try to watch someone else go through first. Then, modify your line accordingly.

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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    I like how he coated his friend in mud at the end of the vid. Betcha he was sore the next day.

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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    Forrest Area
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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    Quote Originally Posted by gregp View Post
    That's, like, Rule #1 of Off Roading: *Never* enter water if you do not know how deep it is.

    Plus then there's that rut that he directed the bike into -- clearly he didn't create it himself. Why he didn't ride over the firmer ground on the sides is totally beyond me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Garandman View Post

    Wow. I bet his airbox was in nice shape after that. V-Stroms are known for collecting oil in their airboxes even just lying on their sides.

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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    not as deep, but not a DS bike (or rider) either:


    full ride report here, in case you missed it last year

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    Haha, awesome. Kind of like this dude who rode his 1955 BMW R50/2 over the Bayley-Hazen Military Road's hero section.





    It's a great ride report, actually -- very witty.
    http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=590054&

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    wow, stuck for sure...it's always those super awkward, unpredictable angles that getchya

    then there's mycirus:


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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    Quote Originally Posted by markbvt View Post
    Plus then there's that rut that he directed the bike into -- clearly he didn't create it himself. Why he didn't ride over the firmer ground on the sides is totally beyond me.

    --mark
    Having spent most of my riding career off road, I would have to assume that there is somewhat of a matching water filled rut on the other side, just out of sight. The tall embankments made that extraction very difficult, otherwise, the bike could have just been laid over and dragged out.
    On some bikes, you will see straps that have been attached to the forks, just above the fender, just for this purpose.

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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    Quote Originally Posted by breakdirt916 View Post
    wow, stuck for sure...it's always those super awkward, unpredictable angles that getchya

    then there's mycirus:

    Wow, how did I get dragged into this....I was laughing at this one. I went flying through the air on this one.

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    Re: Really stuck KLR

    That looks like a 1997 CR250 - with the bars rotated w-a-y forward.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gregp View Post
    That looks like a 1997 CR250 - with the bars rotated w-a-y forward.
    Yup, Luckily I was riding with James and his fanny pack of tools so we could adjust them back to where they should be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by markbvt View Post
    Plus then there's that rut that he directed the bike into -- clearly he didn't create it himself. Why he didn't ride over the firmer ground on the sides is totally beyond me.

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    I know what he did, he thought it would be cool to blast in between the rut, been there done that on my KLR 250, fortunately it is much lighter than the 650 or a Big Boxer, ahem.

    When he and his buddy almost got it free they go forward without even thinking about going backwards first, and over the high pass, what a hoot.

    The music is perfect, and the video rocks.
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