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Your Resi blasting experience is not really a good comparison. The only difference between leafs and bags is the friction in the leafs requires less low speed damping that say a 4 link with bags. Since you are using the bags in conjunction with the leafs, low speed damping increase along with...

what the? Coast side looks to deep and the drive side looks shallow.

I make My own top mount and would use the Daystar bottoms now. I used to make floating mounts for the bottoms but the Daystars work just as well and are a lot less work.

LOL, You will appreciate this then. 2000 Baja 1K just south of Visciano. I ripped a bag on the Dodge chase truck I was driving. Spent another week and 1800 miles going down and back. Best and worst trip ever. Fixing that truck is when I started making My own mounts with floating bottoms.

I can confirm that the Generals are better in ice/snow than the BFG's. I run the 30X9.5's on my GF's Colorado.

You would think that, but you would not be correct. All the bag set-ups I have seen have serious compromises. When you make something easy to install for a reasonable price, things get prioritized. A lot of them use the bag for the bumpstop. This is VERY hard on the bag, none of the bag manf...

Not really, try making some for less. Also cheaper than ripping a bag in half because your suspension drops out more than the bag will take.

This is incorrect. The spring rate dictates the amount of rebound needed, not the type of spring. When you combine the rate of the leafs with the bags you will need a higher rate. It will always be a compromise as your required damping rate changes with how much air you are running. Running...

The axle moves in an arc. It really doesn't move back all that much compared to it's vertical movement. As the axle goes up the shock leans over more giving it a decreasing ratio or falling rate. If you cycled that set-up you would see that at full bump the shock would be doing almost nothing...

The motion ratio on this shock is bordering on useless. Some thoughts, The unit bearings are held together buy the outer CV. You will need to cut the cup off and leave the stub in. Rubber torsion axles suck when they get real cold. The rubber gets hard and they have almost zero movement...

The galling isn't an issue unless you loose oil pressure. At that point your bearings are going also so it really isn't a big deal if the crank bearing surfaces gall too. Nitriding the crank would stop this, but would make it just that much more expensive.

Get a solid pinion spacer, crush sleeves suck balls.

No doubt. The sock pipes on them are horrible. A good pipe will save 10 pounds and make for much better sounds.

I did weigh it for real. It got sold about 5 years ago so no putting on the scales now. Green was the best color. With some suspension mods and minor engine work, they are heaps better. That bike had, DRZ front end KTM PDS shock Newer style head pipe KTM muffler desnorkled (Freebee, gotta...

True, the KLR does nothing well, but does everything OK. Also at a price point that can't be beat. And if it falls over, who cares, it's a KLR.

Funny, mine tipped the scales at 387 no fuel. Where did you get the extra 50#'s from? The only lightening was a different muffler.

What Beemer is lighter? The 650? Any other one is a tank. Any GS is a liability off road if you lay it down. When I move back to AZ in a couple months, the first thing to purchase is another KLR. Set-up like the last one, it will run through the whoops at speed if your brave enough to man...

Tubing has that much runout.

The dually argument is not accurate or viable. They use them in combination with the high off-set dually wheel so that the contact patch is in the right spot. They maintain scrub radius which is very important to road feel and stress on steering and suspension components.

My father was stationed in France after WW2, His job was to load Jeeps and other stuff on to a barge and dump it a couple miles off shore.