My neighbor went and bought one of these and asked me to ride it back from the dealer for him. So. I did a 35 mile test ride on his brand new bike.
I have owned my 2011 KLR for nine years, and this new one handled like my old one, but the new one is different.
The dealer said not to get over 6k RPM for the first 500 miles or so. Honestly, I don't think I have ever had my own bike over that except for maybe two times. Anyway, I kept looking for the tach, there is no tach!
The thing still has only five speeds.
There is no easy provision for disabling the ABS.
I cannot tell if it makes any more power than my old school carburetor bike.
It has not lost any weight.
That stock seat is high!
The bike does have ABS, and is fuel injected.
They have fixed the balancer chain tensioner issue, (AKA Doohickey) I am told,
Kawasaki could have done better.
I have owned my 2011 KLR for nine years, and this new one handled like my old one, but the new one is different.
The dealer said not to get over 6k RPM for the first 500 miles or so. Honestly, I don't think I have ever had my own bike over that except for maybe two times. Anyway, I kept looking for the tach, there is no tach!
The thing still has only five speeds.
There is no easy provision for disabling the ABS.
I cannot tell if it makes any more power than my old school carburetor bike.
It has not lost any weight.
That stock seat is high!
The bike does have ABS, and is fuel injected.
They have fixed the balancer chain tensioner issue, (AKA Doohickey) I am told,
Kawasaki could have done better.