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Peter 
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 Posted: August 23 2007 at 09:42 |
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I can't find a UK dealer with a new price for the KLR ANYWHERE Peter, is it available in UK? I'm wondering if the price diff is that much here..... Kwakas tend to be more pricey here than over your side of the pond....
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PC, please bear in mind that the KLR (as with all such big "adventure" bikes) is a very TALL mount. Many folks would have trouble even throwing a leg over one, let alone putting both feet down at a stop. (i am over 6'2" -- not an issue.) Though the 2008 model has a slightly lower seat height, you should still see one up close, and at least sit on it to see if it "fits," before you get serious about buying one.
Re availability in UK, I don't know -- just google "Kawasaki motorcycles UK," or some-such.
Good luck, and keep the rubber side down (and between the ditches -- though I've often crossed ditches on my KLR!),  P.
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Posted: August 23 2007 at 09:57 |
UH OH PC -- just checked Kawasaki UK myself, and it looks like you CANNOT buy a KLR there (you'd likely have to go to the continent -- and maybe view some TOURIST ATTRACTIONS while there!).
You can, however, purchase this very interesting model (they aren't sold here, so I know nothing about them):
WHATEVER THE GOING
Model Year 2007
Adventure is where you find it. The KLE500 is designed to offer good all-round performance, great versatility and a dash of style. Urban tarmac jungle or unmade road, the updated and refreshed KLE500 is ready to take on the challenge. With a narrow chassis and wide bars this bike is manoeuvrable and lithe. The 498cm³ parallel twin water-cooled engine is tuned for rewarding low end power extending into a strong mid-range, ideal for tricky roads and city streets alike. The up to date upper cowl and Z1000 inspired headlamp and screen complement the new instruments, colours and graphics to bring the KLE500 bang up to date. Contemporary features also include three exhaust catalysers ensuring that the 8 valve DOHC motor runs clean as well as smooth.
Sounds pretty sweet, to me, and I believe the price was just under 4000 Pounds. (Don't have that "pound" symbol on my 'puter!) I'd check it out! (A twin will be better on the highway, and make up for the missing 150cc of displacement. Plus, it's a six speed (KLR is a five speed).
Just the ticket for a trip to STONEHENGE, and other such TOURIST ATTRACTIONS....
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: August 23 2007 at 10:22 |
Peter wrote:
PC, please bear in mind that the KLR (as with all such big "adventure" bikes) is a very TALL mount. Many folks would have trouble even throwing a leg over one |
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Sir - please bear in mind that it is considered inappropriate to use the expression "mount" and "leg-over" to a lady on this forum 
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Leg over? Mount?
WAHEEEEY! PHWOOOARR!
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Posted: August 23 2007 at 12:16 |
^  Do try to stay on topic, Jimberly -- any posts in this thread must include the words "TOURIST ATTRACTIONS." You're setting a bad example for all the young newbs. (Hmmm... Didn't Bowie pen that ditty?)
Well, at least I didn't offer to take PC for a leather-clad RIDE on my throbbing steely steed, with the massive, pounding pleasure cylinder of....
 Er, hang on -- TOURIST ATTRACTIONS, was it?
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 How about this one, PC, ever climbed aboard one like that, he asked her knowingly? 
Ohhh, er, missus! A nod's as good as wink to a blind bat! Holiday snaps? Could be taken on 'oliday.... Candid photography! Ohh, you're WICKED, eh? 
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: August 23 2007 at 12:28 |
That's rich - you're the one who dresses like this as a tourist:
Now that's just not attractive
Anyway - I'm an Admin, so I can do what I want, where I want, whenever I want, so yah boo shucks 
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Posted: August 23 2007 at 12:35 |
Jim Farten wrote:
I can do what I want, where I want, whenever I want |
Just don't do it on ME, okay, Jimber? 
And stay downwind will you, for the love of Christ!  Have you been into the scruncheons again? 
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Edited by Peter - August 23 2007 at 12:39
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"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Posted: August 23 2007 at 12:37 |
Peter wrote:
Jim Garten wrote:
I can do what I want, where I want, whenever I want |
Just don't do it on ME, okay, Jimber?
And stay downwind will you, for the love of Christ! Have you been into the scruncheons again?
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Too late, he's done it in the "ringing in your ears" thread. 
Edited by Geck0 - August 23 2007 at 12:38
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Wilcey
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Posted: August 23 2007 at 12:42 |
HE HE HE!!!
I am 5'11" So I can pretty much mount anything that comes my way.......
I searched kwaka UK this morning, ...... nothing going, the beloved said he had looked at the KLE500 and found it somewhat lacking...... although he didn't expand on that .....
We often ride down to avebury (about a 1/2 hour jaunt) when the kids are elsewhere, but would love something meatier to get to tourist attractions further afield..... We want to ride down to Poland to visit friends..... taking in some continental tourist attractions on the way.
There are a few rental places in Germany/Holland etc and have thought about having a trip that way before we splurge...but to be honest we just can't afford another bike right now, we merely dream.......  and plan it all in our heads!
A bike is the BEST way to see the country...and something you can take off road is a MUST......
(ok you kings of the double entendre, pick the bones out of that little lot!!)
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Posted: August 23 2007 at 20:41 |
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 03:32 |
Hyperborea wrote:
Aren't bikes off topic? |
Not as much as abuse
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 03:59 |
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Aren't bikes off topic?
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well spotted, strictly speaking they are..... however, without the bike we have no way of getting to the tourist attractions...... so it's a chicken and an egg thing really, they go hand in hand.......
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 04:01 |
prog-chick wrote:
HE HE HE!!!
I am 5'11" So I can pretty much mount anything that comes my way....... |
prog-chick wrote:
We often ride down to avebury (about a 1/2 hour jaunt) when the kids are elsewhere, but would love something meatier to get to |
prog-chick wrote:
There are a few  places in Germany/Holland etc and have thought about having a that way before we splurge...but to be honest we just can't afford another right now, we merely |
prog-chick wrote:
A is the BEST way to the and something you can off is a |
prog-chick wrote:
ok you kings of the double entendre, pick the bones out of that little lot!!) |
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 04:24 |
^  genius.
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 05:29 |
Ricochet wrote:
andu wrote:
2. Louvre Museum (Paris) - as an art lover I could never agree on that. Of course if art is just a "touristic" attraction for those people, I could understand them, but still not excuse them maybe too much lust in that place, but I couldn't agree myself. I'd be dazzled to see all the art I can from there. plus I wanna see Foucault's Pendulum, so I'll definitely book the Louvre when I'm in Paris
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The best way to see 'Le Louvre' is out of the main season on nocturnal (We & Fr up to 10PM) prepare a good music programm on your MP3 (any mind alterating substances are optional) and get lost...it's quite a strange athmosphere! Has anyone seen this great French TV serial 'Belphegor' That's it!
Under the Glass pyramide you have a shopping mall (including a Megastore) and some selfs which are among the cheapest places to get food in the center of Paris! I go quite often there to the Maroccan counter to have a 'couscous' or just a mint-tea...and speaking about mint-tea, one of my favourite places in Paris is 'The Mosque de Paris', it's beautiful and you have an inner garden where you can smoke a waterpipe and have mint-tea (or both) and it's right around the corner of a nice botanic garden 'Le Jardin Des Plantes' and a nice museum of natural History with stuffed mammouths etc. ...so can leave your kids in the museum and go smoke a waterpipe and drink a mint-tea (or both) and have optional one of these delicious 'loucoums'....
BTW Rico, Foucault's Pendulum is not in the Louvre, there are two in Paris, one in the 'Pantheon' and the other in the 'Musée des Art Et Métiers' ...
Edited by Alucard - August 24 2007 at 05:31
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Jim Garten
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 05:36 |
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 06:37 |
^last hints lead in fact to Japon:
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Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear
"Hey there! Rotter's Club!
Explain the meaning of this song and share it"
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 19:51 |
I think anyone coming to London is in for a disappointment. Consider yourself lucky if you escape without being mugged. This city is going down the sh*thole.
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Posted: August 24 2007 at 20:04 |
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Someone's chopped a post of mine on this here topic....why?....was it too near the knuckle and true?
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Posted: August 25 2007 at 04:53 |
Kid-A wrote:
I think anyone coming to London is in for a disappointment. Consider yourself lucky if you escape without being mugged. This city is going down the sh*thole. |
I don't know..... I regularly do the museums with my kids, they still love the NH, the Science and the V&A...... which are now all free to enter (improvement on my day)..... ......unlike the Louvre though, some of the most expensive food in the capital is served in Britains museums and tourist traps..... and without doubt the WORST service of any country I have visited!........ hmmmm maybe you have a point, I so don't want that to be true tho......
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tate St Ives is rubbish, was there a few weeks ago, 4 galleries of random scribbles by Brian Wilson. Tate Liverpool or modern much better.
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