Hey yall what chain lenght should I get to run both 15/49 an 14/49, not sure why the previous owner went with 49 but it's in good shape and want to run it out. Would a 112 or 114 be best. Thank you

Used the air trick to keep valves up. Works well and didn’t take too long. Just waiting on RTV to cure overnight before I fill with oil and start her up.

After months of scouring the web at work I finally found this brand new 2024 within two hours of me and snapped it up as quick as I could. Now to wait 4 months until riding weather.

I bought a older xrl and I came with pro circuit pipe on it. Is there anything not as loud but still less restricted then stock?

I got a new battery and starter solenoid installed but I still only get one solid click when trying to start my bike. The starter turns over when battery is attached directly. What else am I missing? I'm about to throw in the towel on this thing

Recently installed new tusk D sport tires and wheel bearings, new bars/ 1” 1/8 adapters. Reinstalled everything and bounced front end multiple times to set everything as normal, torqued everything to spec and test rode, found bars were slightly crooked. Loosened everything again including lower triple pinch bolts and upper stem nut, bounced front end multiple times again and re torqued everything, test rode again and found little to no change. Even tried the method of hitting the front wheel against a tree multiple times with no results. Looking over bike tonight and found that front pads are unevenly worn and the caliper appears to be dragging, has anyone ever had this issue cause problems with alignment of the front end? (Bike does not pull one way or the other with hands off bars) Possible the wheel bearings are not seated correctly? Appreciate any and all input.

I just got my bike back together and I got to start it and all I hear is one solid click coming from the battery box area when I hit the starter. I checked all the connectors, the ground, and tried again after charging up the battery. Other than the solenoid what else should I be looking at?

I need help finding parts for my carb. I need the choke for it. But i can’t seem to find parts for this exact carb. Any help is greatly appreciated. i have a good cable, just need the choke, but i’ll buy anything that’ll work at this point, including choke plungers

‘07 Bike sat for about a year without riding but occasionally started up every few months. Never had smoke during this time. Just replaced cam chain, chain tensioner, spark plug, oil and filter. It had been burping/choking/stalling for the longest time. Finally took carb completely apart and had to replace mixture screw spring and o ring. Got it all back together and now for the first few minutes of being on it has a whitish/bluish/grayish smoke. If I rev hard during this time I get dark grey smoke. The bike sounds and revs better than it had but have not taken it for a real ride due to this smoke. It didn’t smoke before the work and I didn’t touch the actual valves as they all looked pretty good. What should I be looking for? The more I leaned out the mixture screw the less it smoked until I bottomed it out. Is it possibly just running really rich after actually going through the carb? Should I try jetting it? Not sure what’s on there right now, I should’ve made note of it. It has a butt load of holes in the airbox and an exhaust but I have no clue the brand. After 5 minutes the smoke is gone. Valve seals all of a sudden?

Put those chain guard tabs to use.

just added a fender /plate eliminator kit and a lowering link!

Home Depot and hard or freight have you covered. HF sells an o ring set that includes the correct size for $5. HD sell a spring kit that includes a close enough spring $5, you have the choice of using a weaker one and cutting it to size or using a stronger one that’s the right size. Needed to replace both but didn’t want to wait for another screw to be shipped out. Also grabbed a hitch carrier for the XR while at HF.

While replacing the cam chain and tensioner I discovered I bought a box of 10 oil filters, magnetic drain plug, and new spark plug, lucked out that I use Rotella for my XJ so had oil on hand. I must’ve bought the parts when I first bought the bike cause the only thing i I remember buying is the ignitech CDI.

My battery finally died on me. It was a Shorai LFXL9, standard underseat battery. Looking at all options and this battery keeps popping up. Does anyone know if it actually would work for the pig? If not anyone running a different battery with the box removal? I don’t like how they don’t list CCA and instead PCA but their website says it works for the XR.

Just wanted to throw this out there because I spent a while looking for this and didn’t see it mentioned on the sub. I have no affiliation with the company, but found a jet kit with most of the common sizes here: https://hondajetkits.com/honda-jet-kits/2003/2003-honda-xr650l-pro-jet-kit/ It also comes with needle shims so that’s nice. Hopefully it saves the next guy some money instead of buying all those sizes separately or some time searching to find a kit with multiple jets. Whole reason I was looking for this is because I’m gonna be riding between 6000’ and 9000’ and wasn’t able to find much info on what jet sizes to use, so I’m just gonna test out the different sizes and report back what works for me.

Also if anyone has other recommendations for jets kits throw em in the comments.

Hello,

I'm strongly considering picking up a new XR soon.

I've read a bit about several mods that seem more or less "essential" for the longevity of the bike.

If I want to leave the bike as stock as possible, only doing the most important mods to keep the bike as reliable as possible for as long as possible, what would I need to do?

Fritz front sprocket?

Cush drive?

Oil cooler?

My intended use for the bike is to be off-road as much as possible. I already have a bigger ADV that I can use for longer road trips. This bike would likely get trailered to BDRs and would probably be a commuter around town a bit. I'd want to be on the highway/interstate as little as possible.

Main plan would be to add handguards and maybe a skid plate. Delete the sidestand safety switch.

Aside from that I'd like to leave it alone. But I keep hearing horror stories about what happens if you don't do the new countershaft sprocket or the cush hub, etc.

So, what would you consider to be the "must-do" mods to keep the bike running for as long as possible?

Thanks!

Just finished up some of the winter projects on my XR, and figured I’d show the (somewhat) finished project.

Added a windshield, and swapped my blinkers to the zeta hand guard flashers, then mounted up led aux light pods to where the oem blinkers go. You can’t see it here but I designed and 3d printed a mount for the switch for the aux lights and mounted it to the windshield bar right below my phone holder.

The led pods and wiring harness I picked up from harbor freight for 70$ all said and done, and it works pretty well, one fog light one spot beam. Only issue was the wiring harness had way too much slack, so I wound up cutting some of it out and splicing it back together to be shorter. The led pods touch the tank at nearly full steering lock, but still cut it a bit short, so I may wind up fabbing up some brackets to push them a bit more forward,

I changed the rear blinkers to leds too, and not sure exactly which relay I have in right now, the led specific one I bought didn’t work, but the only way to make them all flash correctly was removing the blinker bulb from in the dash.

Gonna be doing the jns engineering led headlight eventually too, should really make the lighting way better, as well as a crf230 fender to complete the front end look of the bike.u

Brand new bike smell. Feels so much better than the KLR. Settling up suspension tonight.

Alright folks I had to pull my engine to get some broken bolts removed. I want to black out the frame while I have it out. What matte black paint should I use? Is undercoat a bad idea?