Kawasaki KLR650

Adventure Rider Issue #3

• Checkout
• Reader’s Bike: Steve Evans’ HP2
• 10 Minutes With: Sam Sunderland
• 20 Things You Should Know About: KTM’s 950/990
• Reader’s Ride: The Flinders Ranges, SA
• Rules To Ride By with John Hudson
• How To Ride with Miles Davis
• Suspension with Nick Dole
• Packing For Adventure with Robin Box
• Girl’s Talk with Karen Ramsay
• Wish You Were Here
• KTM 700RR
• Triumph 1200 Explorer
• Kawasaki KLR650
• Ol’ Mate
• Motohansa R1200GS
• Reader’s Pic
• Gear With A Story
• VSM DRZ400S
• Industry Players: Andy Strapz
• Mongolia
• The Adventure Challenge
• Cape York
• It’s What We Do

Don’t think. Just ride.

What’s it all about? High-performance technology and a laptop? Or watching the sun set as you wind your way through a mountain pass, the dust thick on your visor and the thought of the day’s first cold beer making you grin with satisfaction at the distance you’ve covered and the things you’ve seen? If it’s all about the journey, the KLR650 is ready, willing and very able.

Kawasaki’s KLR is one of those bikes that’s been around, one way or the other, for a long time. It kicked off in the late 1980s and didn’t come in for any major updates until 2008. In a familiar story with bikes like this one, the long model run means costs are very low, and problems are very few.