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Maynard Hershon January '10 |
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Two Weeks Clean
Hi! My name is Maynard and I’ve just kicked an unhealthy addiction to three online forums dedicated to Kawasaki KLR650s. I would check each forum two or three (or more) times each day, especially if I’d posted to one of them myself. I learned from those forums and contributed to them in return, but not often—only when I had solid personal knowledge of the matter at hand.
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Maynard Hershon December '09 |
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Boise,
Part Two
As Part One began, I thought I’d made a deal to trade my ‘08 KLR650 for an ‘04 Moto Guzzi 750 Breva - in Boise, Idaho, hundreds of miles west and north of my home in Denver. It was late September, ordinarily a time of relative warmth and good motorcycle traveling. Not this year. I rode I-25 north to Cheyenne, then west in the wind and cold on I-80 across Wyoming emptiness and a bit of scenic Utah to Logan.
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Maynard Hershon November '09 |
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BOISE,
PT ONE
As many readers will know, I do not love my KLR650. I have traveled on it in 2009 more than on any bike in years. But it shows evidence of cut corners and careless assembly wherever you look. Kawasaki has recalled them two or three times. A KLR will do many things, none well, none with even a hint of elegance. So I watch for bikes that might make me happier. |
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Maynard Hershon October '09 |
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As I admitted in a previous column, I bought a pair of cheap tires for my KLR650: stock-sized K761s, Kenda’s street-centric model for dual-sport motorcycles. At that point, my odometer showed just under 6000; my rear Dunlop was in its twilight miles.
My new rear Kenda behaved as well as any tire, I thought, even at a third the cost of a premium Metzeler or Dunlop. I rode happily for nearly 2000 miles, original 21-inch Dunlop on the front, new 17-inch Kenda on the rear.
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Maynard September '09 |
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In 1970, I surprised myself by buying a new Harley Sportster. I’d never thought of myself as a Harley kinda guy. I called on motorcycle shops for a living at that time, selling two-stroke dirt bike accessories and custom-printed T-shirts for an outfit in Redwood City. I visited shops all around the San Francisco Bay, including a few progressive Harley stores, stores that sponsored racers and thought outside the Real Steel box. |
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