I had a ‘92 KLR last serviced/repaired at the local Kawasaki dealer in 2011, but over that span of time the only changes to the bike had been cosmetic.
Sorta ironic, the longest running unchanged continuous-production motorcycles might be the Honda and Suzuki dual purpose 650 thumpers. Once I met two Honda 650 dual sport riders from Oregon down in Oaxaca, Mexico. Along the way they had rebuilt one of their bike’s motors in a motel parking lot.
I was impressed.
Wow!
Did the two people really tell you that story?!?!?
Yes, and their beat-up bikes in the courtyard of their little back-street hotel in Oaxaca made me envious as all get-out. I had flown in like ordinary folk.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
