You see, the thing with the KLR is that it’s already slow. So it is not slowed down noticeably by overloading. It only makes around 35 horsepower at redline, but redline on a KLR is not where you will spend any part of your day unless you’d like to have your ass cheeks oscillated like you were sitting on a paint shaker. Its torque curve is not so much a curve but rather more of a table, with its major torque band starting somewhere around 2000 RPM mark and hitting its maximum shortly thereafter, but then stays there throughout its entire range until the rev limiter finally forces it to tap out.
Getting rolling on an overloaded KLR is thus no trouble whatsoever. You could probably use one to tow a bus.
Also, thank you for the thorough breakdown.
You see, the thing with the KLR is that it’s already slow. So it is not slowed down noticeably by overloading. It only makes around 35 horsepower at redline, but redline on a KLR is not where you will spend any part of your day unless you’d like to have your ass cheeks oscillated like you were sitting on a paint shaker. Its torque curve is not so much a curve but rather more of a table, with its major torque band starting somewhere around 2000 RPM mark and hitting its maximum shortly thereafter, but then stays there throughout its entire range until the rev limiter finally forces it to tap out.
Getting rolling on an overloaded KLR is thus no trouble whatsoever. You could probably use one to tow a bus.
If you don’t already you truly should apply to do moto reviews. I’m fuckin giggling away reading your descriptions, torque curve of a table is a 10