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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: chuck peterson on October 18, 2017, 07:18:15 AM
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Sort of a mythical beast, isn't it? 100mpg?
https://blacksburg.craigslist.org/mcy/d/2009-diesel-klr650/6337604063.html
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Just because the government paid that much for it doesn't mean it is worth that much.
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They've only recently been made surplus AFAIK. I wondered how long it would be before they started showing up for sale.
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I'd love to have one. I don't think I'd pay that much, though. :wink:
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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 :rolleyes:
$18,000 , :laugh: :shocked: :rolleyes: :laugh: :shocked: :rolleyes: Sure .
Dusty
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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.
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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.
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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 :rolleyes:
$18,000 , :laugh: :shocked: :rolleyes: :laugh: :shocked: :rolleyes: 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
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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 :grin:
Dusty
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Yes, but that was without Shayna.
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Yeah , Shayna got bored after it took five minutes to achieve 15 MPH and jumped off :rolleyes:
Dusty
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If it's anything like the diesel Royal Enfield the vibration alone will set off any IED's within a 100 yard radius.
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OK, OK , may have been exaggerating a bit . Of course it may have taken the entire 30 minutes to see 90 MPH :grin:
Dusty
So it will outrun a Convert?
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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.
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So it will outrun a Convert?
If you pull a plug wire off the 'Vert :rolleyes:
Dusty
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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).