100K Milestone

[Hamon]

Of all days, it rolled over on New Year's Day.





That's right, the KLR has unofficially rolled over 100K Km. I say unofficially because I've changed the speedo out and had to estimate mileage due to a broken speedo cable once, and a broken speedo drive on the hub the second time. I'd say I'm give or take 1000 Km from the 100K mark.

Anyway, with those details aside, a couple notes on what has transpired in those last 100K Km:
-purchased in January 2008 with 7K Km on it
-put on the road as my only mode of transportation in early March 2008
-taken on numerous road trips the first summer, including Ontario, the Kootenays, North Cascades Highway, and the Oregon Coast
-first year's mileage was approx 32K Km (39K on odometer)
-second year (2009) saw less road trips, more commuting mileage, but still got a couple rides in including the Dempster up to Inuvik
-second year's mileage was again approx 32-33K Km
-third year (2010) was even more commuting, and even less road trips. I got out to the Olympic Peninsula and a comprehensive journey around Vancouver Island
-at this point, we're at 100K Km.

The KLR has been relatively trouble-free in this time. What has gone wrong:
-speedometer replaced due to speedo drive on hub disintegrating. It was cheaper to buy an aftermarket speedo than it was to replace the hub.
-intermittent quitting at idle in cold, rainy, situations. Solved by: T-mod, Thermo-bob
-fragile fairing subframe broken due to added weight of XS-Twin fairing. Solved by: new(used) fairing subframe and switching to the Britannia Phoenix Twin (which is amazing!)
-blown rear shocks (2 stock, 1 aftermarket a few times due to improper rebuilding)
-blown fork seals once
-broken clutch cable at 50K Km
-new rear bearings, front are originals
-1 flat tire
-lowside crash at 40Km/h bent my Caribou Cases bracket and rashed my case. Bent the bracket back, had a new retaining nut fabricated for my case lock, and good to go.

Not much needs to be done on it these days. It needs an oil change, a valve check (this gets done quite rarely actually), swingarm bearing check, and other'n that, it'll probably keep on ticking. She burns a bit of oil, but it's not bad.

More pics from yesterday's ride:

















Closing thoughts: Although I've made a fair number of mods or farkles on this bike, I've done very little to the engine/carb. This, in my opinion, is one of the biggest reasons it's kept rolling for so long. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I love my KLR. It may not make much power, but at least it's heavy!

Travis

[franhoser]

Awesome stuff.

All i remeber when i see that bike is how many times i had to pick it up or push you.

[Big Booger]

Glad to hear. Mine has almost 70,000 abusive km. on it. Still runs great.

[KLRsuperRIO]

Congrats thats awesome. Got to love a klr.

[cheeseburger]

Woo! Congratulations Travis, that's quite an accomplishment.

[Aquafire]

Happy new year and congrats on the 100,000. I get tired just READING about how much you've ridden!

[Buckethead]

Well done, Travis!

[toowheels]

Congrats Travis!

I got my '02 to 140,000km and it now belongs to someone else...and still being ridden!

My repair list is similar to yours except the stator went on the way to Baja in '06...though thankfully not when in Baja! Only time it ever left me temporarily stranded.

KLR's

Dave
www.motooverland.com