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Old 5 May 2006
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www.bajadesigns.com has a lot of parts to upgrade your XRR. One thing I would definetly do is get their upgraded oil resevior and pump kit. It will allow you to carry more oil and circulate it better. They also have dual sport upgrade kit, however depending on the conversion it may cost you less to buy the parts seperate and use a little "backyard tech". They also carry larger IMS fuel tanks as does www.touratech.com and www.chapparel.com. Lighting kits or auxillary lights can be found at the above web sites as well. Hope this helped.
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I'm not sure why our bikes should run SO differently......... it might just be the way you ride ;-)

one radiator cracked on corrugations and had to be re-welded. thereafter, I was paranoid, but had no further trouble.

I can't vouch for the Acerbis (tank), but its probably pretty good - I'd pass on the underseat tanks as they're fiddly and fragile for hard use.

our mods were mostly about rear tanks so the subframe had to be reinforced and that bolt through the frame near the top of the shock was replaced with a stud to allow us to unbolt either rear tank
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Yup, must be my riding! I'll try to behave myself in future.
I do have one thing I'm trying to fix though, my soft luggage restricts airflow into the stupidly shaped air box. I've put some little breather holes (plastic bungs with foam inserts) into the side pannel so we'll see how that goes.

Ortlieb bags sound good, I'm in touch and trying to buy a couple. I reckon you could strap them anywhere if you were stuck.

I cracked my rads too, first one would have been rough riding but the second one was my fault for dropping the bike onto the oversize tank which supports it.

I have the Acrebis tank, it's faultless. I don't know about the underseat one though.

How did you beef the subframe up?

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as alloy can be difficult to weld and bad news for cracking, we left the alloy sub-frame alone and reinforced the steel mini-sub-frame. then the fuel tank racks bypassed the alloy sub frame in carrying the load back from the steel mini-sub-frame. the tank racks were bolted to the foot-rests and to the stud that we put through the frame where the alloy sub-frame attaches near the top of the shock. ie a nice, strong, rigid triangle which took the vertical and side-loads back to strong points on the frame without welding to the alloy frame. heavy, fiddly and expensive, but good in fatigue and strength so, in my opinion, pretty much the right answer to ultra-long-range travel on an XRR.

as for your issue with the air-box, do you know the air inlet is on the right? its above the brake and goes over the mudguard before passing under the left side panel. I wonder if your soft luggage is blocking the inlet as well as squashing the side panel/duct
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as for your issue with the air-box, do you know the air inlet is on the right? its above the brake and goes over the mudguard before passing under the left side panel. I wonder if your soft luggage is blocking the inlet as well as squashing the side panel/duct
Aha! Don't I feel like a twit. Been and had a look and I can see where I've blocked it up a little with modified wiring. My bags would also have squashed the right hand side pannel a bit too, although this has been addressed. Still, the bike and I have covered some serious miles like that, so it can't be all that bad. Thanks I'll see how I get on.
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best way is to ask who is doing it
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