General
Independance Pass in the Rockies
Heading for the Independence Pass: Panorama view from the first part of the climb: As we got higher there were more snow along the road: We made it to the top: The decent was great also: Drove trough Aspen and that sure looked touristy. To get back to Denver we just drove the I-70 but … Continue reading
KLR’s Doohickey
Day 5, May 21th Apparently the KLR is famous for its “doohickey”, has to do with the tensioner for the chain driving the balancer shaft …it tends to break: Luckily we got some help from Martin, bought one of the KLRs from him and he had good knowledge about it and we spent most of … Continue reading
More preparation and shooting
Day 3, May 19th More preparation, we changed the oil in one of the bikes since we didn’t know when that was done last: Finishing installing the 12 volt outlet: Did a short test ride, the intercom sure is nice and so far it works great! Looked at were to mount the helmet camera, had … Continue reading
Looking over the coolant system on the Transalp
Was a little worried that the thermostat wasn’t operating as it should since the temperature gauge hardly moved. Only on really slow riding it jumped up. So started by stripping the bike down: Drain bolt for the coolant: Hmm no washer on that bolt? Water didn’t start draining until we opened the cap on the … Continue reading
Rear Homemade Aluminum Tank
This I worked with early 2009 during the winter. Got some good help with problems I had on advrider. Had the rear spring out and had pulled the rear wheel up to see that I still could use the full suspension length and worked with cardboard to see what I could do: Some bending and … Continue reading