DR650S, AKA Big Suzy

[08FJR4ME]

Honda gives you a little tool tailbag with the bike. Thats where I keep my reg in side of a couple of plastic bags. You will get tired riding the pig. It's a good workout much more than the FJR.

Dave

 

[Redfish Hunter]

Honda gives you a little tool tailbag with the bike. Thats where I keep my reg in side of a couple of plastic bags. You will get tired riding the pig. It's a good workout much more than the FJR.
Dave

I know about the tailbag on the Honda XR 650. It's a little pink clutch purse with enough room for mascara, lipstick and nail polish.

When I get home and have access to my Photobucket account I will post some updates and some pics.

 

[Redfish Hunter]

I now have 680 miles on Big Suzy and I have spent a lot of money on modifications with no sign of being done anytime soon.

Yesterday I received a slightly used Sargent Low seat from an awesome fellow FJR rider and forum member.

Of course I took some pics:









The Sargent is definitely better but is nothing like the Laam on my FJR. Of course this is a different animal altogether.

All this dual sport crap has led to:

 

[Fred W]

Oh Pops, you’ll put an eye out with that thing!

Have fun. I know you will.

 

[escapefjrtist]

That's ^^^^ awesome RFH, tell Pops congrats for us!

~G

 

[Redfish Hunter]

I am afraid that if one more box is delivered here with "Procycle" on the label Mrs. Redfish is going to Get Upset.

I have installed a Bajaworx tinted windshield:





To this level I have fallen, cleaning a damned chain:




Suzuki provides two separate power sources that work off the ignition switch. You can either build or buy a wiring harness with the matching plug like this one:



Why can't Yamaha do something like this? Why?

That enabled me to install the Garmin. This is not the final version of the DR Cockpit but it will work for now.

 

[Fred W]

Quit cleaning your chain. Use DuPont Chain Saver Teflon lube. It goes on wet and dries to a thin waxy film. As the chain is used it will slough off the dirty lube. Just spray more on without cleaning. This is what Ive been doing for many years now and my chain and sprockets typically last about 30-35k miles which about all you can expect.

 

[Redfish Hunter]

Dammit, do ANY two people EVER agree on the proper way to maintain a motorcycle chain? I have not heard or read the same advice twice on any forum or from anyone. Now I get yet another method from the smartest man on any of the forums I frequent. I Give Up.

I HATE this damned chain.

Sorry, rant over.

Great Day today. Big Suzy was ready before daylight, 5:45am:



I had my directions all ready:



Pop and the 250 Rally were ready:



The morning was glorious:





We found gravel:





We found Peace:



Sometimes Peace is where you find it:



We found some "Bridges":











Pop let me ride his 250 Rally:





We found some slick clay and some more gravel:







The DR650SE and CRF250L Rally in their natural habitat:



I think this 2018 CRF250L Rally is one of the coolest looking bikes I have seen in a long time.

 

[Fred W]

Ah ha ha ha... Mr Redfish Hunter has been hooked. Soon you will be looking for more aggressive tires, and off-road riding gear, and lots and lots of other inexpensive trinkets that add up to major expense.

How does Pops like his new two-fiddy? It seems to fit him well. Being 6'2" and shrinking daily, I can't fit on a 250. Wish I could.

I could go into all the theory om why cleaning a chain is a waste of time, or worse is actually bad for the chain. But suffice it to say that the proof is that many folks who scrub their chains all the time and make them all sparkly bright have the worst chain life. But you are right. If the FJR had a chain this thread would be on its way to NEPRT in 3, 2, 1...

 

[Redfish Hunter]

Fred you could fit on this 250. It's actually pretty big for a 250. Not much horsepower but it pulls like a little tractor. I think the fuel injection helps.

I have been hemorrhaging money into these damned Dual Sports at a frightening rate. My God, I only thought an FJR was a big investment. These things are ridiculous.

The Rally got some T-Rex Racing crash guards:



And a ManRacks luggage rack:





Of course the bolts that came with the rack had a different sized Allen head and they had a disagreement with the threads on the bike... so I had to go buy a metric 8mmX1.25 tap and some better bolts with the correct sized head.



Then the factory "handguards" were swapped out for real ones.

 

[Bugnatr]

WD 40 is great for cleaning the plastics but for crying out loud stop using WD 40 to clean your chain, it's hard on o rings. Use kerosene before rinsing with water just like Yamaha recommends in their manuals. In fact, just stop cleaning your dualsport.

Dirt, mud and grime is a badge of honor. A clean bike is a...well you know.

PS. A big Red? Now there is a machine to be reckoned with in the Prairieville mud

 

[Fred W]

+1 on that. Cleaning a dual sport amounts to hosing the heavy mud off with a garden hose until you can see what color it is underneath. No point in detailing it when you’ll be getting it dirty again in the next 100 yards you ride it.

 

[bigjohnsd]

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="Bugnatr" data-cid="1404442" data-time="1535780092"><p>

WD 40 is great for cleaning the plastics but for crying out loud stop using WD 40 to clean your chain, it's hard on o rings. Use kerosene before rinsing with water just like Yamaha recommends in their manuals. In fact, just stop cleaning your dualsport.<br />

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Dirt, mud and grime is a badge of honor. A clean bike is a...well you know. <img src='https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/no.gif' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_emoticon' /><br />

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PS. A big Red? Now there is a machine to be reckoned with in the Prairieville mud<img src='https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/punk.gif' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_emoticon' /></p></blockquote>

Doug, WD40 is not harmful to o-rings, read the following:

https://www.watt-man.com/uploads/WD40experiment.pdf

Based upon the above results I use nothing but WD-40 on the KLR Chain, 12,000 miles and counting.

 

[Redfish Hunter]

That Big Red was bought new in 1984 and has been in continuous service ever since. Pop put down a deposit and got on a waiting list to get that thing. That was the first shaft driven and reverse equipped 3-wheeler to hit the market. Pop uses that thing all the time. My son prefers it to my Yamaha Big Bear 400 4-wheeler.

BigJohn, thanks for posting that. I wasn't sure how to go about this discussion.

Installed the Tusk D-Flex handguards on Pop's 250 Rally this morning. After I cut his grass.

 

[Bockelrider]

Looks like you are both having fun!!

Great pic for a new bike!

 

[Redfish Hunter]

And even more money has been spent on the Dual Sports. Dual Sport meaning both Checking and Savings accounts...

Pop's 250 Rally got a Seat Concepts semi-custom seat:





And Big Suzy got a Fisher Custom:

 

[Panman]

Looks like you and Pops are having fun with the new toys, I need to get into the seat thing for the new to me S-10.

Redfish, it's so cool that you can do the things you are doing with your Dad. Way cool!

 

[Fred W]

My WR came with a Seat Concepts reworked seat. It grips the butt pretty good when you sit, but is best used on a bike that you stand on the pegs a lot. Jus sayin...

The older I get, the better I once was.

 

[Harald]

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote'data-author="Bugnatr" data-cid="1404442" data-time="1535780092"><p>WD 40 is great for cleaning the plastics but for crying out loud stop using WD 40 to clean your chain, it's hard on o rings. Use kerosene before rinsing with water just like Yamaha recommends in their manuals. In fact, just stop cleaning your dualsport.<br />

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Dirt, mud and grime is a badge of honor. A clean bike is a...well you know. <img src='https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/no.gif' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_emoticon' /><br />

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PS. A big Red? Now there is a machine to be reckoned with in the Prairieville mud<img src='https://www.fjrforum.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/punk.gif' alt='Posted Image' class='bbc_emoticon' /></p></blockquote>

Doug, WD40 is not harmful to o-rings, read the following:

https://www.watt-man.com/uploads/WD40experiment.pdf

Based upon the above results I use nothing but WD-40 on the KLR Chain, 12,000 miles and counting.

The most mileage I ever got on a chain was my CBR1100XX that had 34,000 miles on that chain when I sold the bike. The only thing it ever saw was WD40.

 

[Redfish Hunter]

And today this happened:







And since all the tank advice and parts came from there I felt I owed the folks at Procycle a toast of thanks.