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dr-digest             Monday, June 5 2000             Volume 01 : Number 161



Re: (dr) dr350 plastic
Re: (dr) Shock Links
(dr) Sunday's Tale

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Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 11:57:14 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (dr) dr350 plastic

Maier has yellow fenders for the front. They have a yellow MX style fender
for the rear that looks really sharp! UFO has a yellow twin beam off road
light that looks cool. One of the gas tank guys (IMS I think) has a yellow
over size tank. I saw that in the Dennis Kirk catalogue. I have not found
anyone who makes yellow side covers. Anyone else know of some?

Mike A.
Nashville

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Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 14:40:19 -0600
From: "Ben Wall" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (dr) Shock Links

Jesse and others who responded, thanks for the replies.

There are no visible adjustments anywhere near the lettering and the manual
doesn't mention it, the only adjustments that I can find on the shock are
the spring preload and the compression damping located on the reservoir.

I think that Jesse must be right, it has the clevis for the dirt-only model
but not machined for the adjuster, strange.

Thanks again for the responses, I won't lose any sleep over this,
    Ben

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Jesse Kientz www.kientech.com <[e-mail]>
To: Ben Wall <[e-mail]>; DR List
<[e-mail]>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 8:48 PM
Subject: RE: (dr) Shock Links


> Hi Ben, Is there an adjustment screw between and slightly below the H and
S
> If so you have the dirt model shock if not it is the same clevis but not
> machined for the rebound mechanism components. Which does not normally
come
> on the DRS model.
>
> Regards,
> Jesse Kientz
> http://www.kientech.com/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]]On
> Behalf Of Ben Wall
> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 2:54 PM
> To: DR List
> Subject: (dr) Shock Links
>
>
> I've got a trivia question about my 90 DR350S.
> On the bottom of the shock where it bolts to the linkage there is an
> inscription that looks like this:
>
>     <------>
>   H            S
>        Ten
>
> Does anybody know what this means, if anything?
>
> Thanks,
>             Ben
>
>
>
>
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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 10:28:21 +0100
From: "Copsey, Stephen J (Steve)" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (dr) Sunday's Tale

Had a great ride Sunday - the tracks were drying off after several weeks of
rain but still lots of deep water around.

Anyway, I was blatting along on the DR when I thought to myself "Hmmm,
wouldn't it be good if the throttle was about 1" closer and a bit higher -
it would make grabbing a big handful much easier.

So, I made sure I was going at a cracking pace, deliberately let the front
whip out from under me on some slime covered chalk, and dropped the bike
there and then to achieve the required "modification". To help this I let
the bike slide a long way while I slid next to it on the ground to closely
inspect the "modification" as it happened. So slid a bit
more.....hmmmm.....yep, getting there....sliiiide........yyyyyup!....that's
perfect!

So got up, looked around to make sure no industrial espionage was taking
place to copy my engineering technique. Inspect the bike - looks OK, the
required bend fine. Slightly scratched sidepanel and exhaust (part of the
design spec of course).

Engineer fine (good MX body armor), but very sore thumb which somehow got
bent whilst "measuring by eye" the modification.

While I was getting some drink out my bag I was passed by two horseriders
who seemed unusually friendly - had they seen ????

So, what's the lessons learnt?
Don't go so damn fast all the time.
Wet chalk is definitely my least favourite surface (can be worse than ice)
Farmers like using chalk to surface tracks in areas that are not chalky.
Body armor good - how do you stop bent thumbs???

sc

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