USMC diesel KLR, CL, Blacksburg, $18k

[chuck peterson]

Sort of a mythical beast, isn't it? 100mpg?

https://blacksburg.craigslist.org/mcy/d/2009-diesel-klr650/6337604063.html

[fotoguzzi]

[Sasquatch Jim]

Just because the government paid that much for it doesn't mean it is worth that much.

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

They've only recently been made surplus AFAIK. I wondered how long it would be before they started showing up for sale.

[ITSec]

I'd love to have one. I don't think I'd pay that much, though. 

[oldbike54]

 Yeah , only it doesn't matter if it gets 100 MPG , because it will only run about 40 MPH , on level ground , with a 10 MPH tailwind , with Shayna Texter riding it 

 $18,000 ,  Sure .

 Dusty

[bigbikerrick]

I was just hearing one run on you tube, man those bikes are noisy! I think in the future, stealthy, electric bikes will be what the special forces use. Still a cool bike, that would probably be a blast to own, just for the weirdness factor!
Rick.

[Bonaventure]

Our police dept has I think six of them, but they don't use them.  Got them last year on some kind of surplus deal for free. 

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

Yeah , only it doesn't matter if it gets 100 MPG , because it will only run about 40 MPH , on level ground , with a 10 MPH tailwind , with Shayna Texter riding it 

 $18,000 ,  Sure .

 Dusty

On a half-hour test ride, the M103M1, though sluggish at first, gathered speed with dogged insistence. The footpegs and handlebars buzz as the engine revs - the counterbalancer that controls vibration in the stock KLR has been omitted to save weight and reduce complexity. Shifting through the five-speed gearbox gets the M103M1 past 90 miles an hour, a speed it will hold, apparently, until the end of time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/automobiles/24KAWASAKI.html

[oldbike54]

On a half-hour test ride, the M103M1, though sluggish at first, gathered speed with dogged insistence. The footpegs and handlebars buzz as the engine revs - the counterbalancer that controls vibration in the stock KLR has been omitted to save weight and reduce complexity. Shifting through the five-speed gearbox gets the M103M1 past 90 miles an hour, a speed it will hold, apparently, until the end of time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/automobiles/24KAWASAKI.html

 OK, OK , may have been exaggerating a bit . Of course it may have taken the entire 30 minutes to see 90 MPH 

 Dusty

[normzone]

Yes, but that was without Shayna.

[oldbike54]

 Yeah , Shayna got bored after it took five minutes to achieve 15 MPH and jumped off 

 Dusty

[molly]

If it's anything like the diesel Royal Enfield  the vibration alone will set off any IED's within a 100 yard radius.

[rodekyll]

OK, OK , may have been exaggerating a bit . Of course it may have taken the entire 30 minutes to see 90 MPH 

 Dusty

So it will outrun a Convert?

[bigbikerrick]

Interesting link, Charlie, thanks for posting that! I bet one of those would be cool for an off road sidecar rig, being a diesel,it should have alot of torque. can it run on regular diesel fuel you buy at the corner station?
Rick.

[oldbike54]

So it will outrun a Convert?

 If you pull a plug wire off the 'Vert 

 Dusty

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

Interesting link, Charlie, thanks for posting that! I bet one of those would be cool for an off road sidecar rig, being a diesel,it should have alot of torque. can it run on regular diesel fuel you buy at the corner station?
Rick.

AFAIK, it'll run on pump diesel, plus JP-8, biodiesel and #2 heating oil (which is basically non-taxed diesel).