KASUYAHO’s XR650R

Trailboss wrote:

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Best way to stop pinch flats on them is to run a mousse tube mate honest have tried all the rims and tubes.
Its a big fast heavy motor bike that hits shit real hard and the stuff stays hit. They trash rims real fast :laugh:
I love my XR

TB

I don’t really want to get caried away with mouse tubes for adv riding.

I was talking to the yanks on a site a fair while ago.
The old Baja racers were saying that they don’t run mouse tubes,
including the Honda teams.
What they do run is DID rims as they have a different profile.
They found that DID give less pinch flats.
If i can dare say that
At the time i did not think much about it.
Not so long ago i changed the front rim to an excel.
First ride out i get my first ever pinch flat.
I do run 18lb in the front and 14lb in the rear with a D908.
And softer wall tires i run 16lb in the rear.

I put the pig on a set of scales,
the weight is exactally 50/50 front to rear.
130.6kg it weighs with no fuel and with oil.

KTM’s new weapon 690 weighs 140KG and 55hp at the rear wheel.

It just shows how far in front of the pack the 650R was in its day and still is,
at 130kg and 62hp.
Thats why i won’t sell it, what else is out there at the moment?
Nothing that i can see that lasts, is light, that makes the type of power the pig makes.

GB

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