high clearance DL650

[travelHK]

I have this dl650 for 3 years now after travelling 45000 miles with I can say the bike is pretty much what I am looking for but the ground clearance sucks , I ripped my center stand in Canyon del Pato last year and while desert riding between chile and Argentina the skid plate suffered a lot of injury ( but didn't break) I am now running a smaller dog bone and lower the tube to the max ( longer spacer in tube ) now the bike have over 71/2 inch clearance . I will be testing two up loaded for the next few month and will tell you how is the handling (mostly sand riding and normal road in my area) I am also planning to buy DR650 fork tube to put inside the DL bottom ( already seen it on the web), I may also put a longer shock . I was going to reroute the exhaust but it seems really costly to just get so little. I will also do a naked version of the DL650 ( no fairing and single headlight.