I just got a 2013 Suzuki dr650s why won’t it really I can’t make it. A 2013 Suzuki dr650s how do you make a quote dirtbike cruise on the highway. Without over-revving floating valves and overheating and how do you make the most unexciting at 70 miles an hour. Well, you use engine displacement gearing and vehicle weight. The Suzuki dr650 is a dual-sport motorcycle using a single cylinder 644 cubic centimeter twin sparkplug engine with nine and a half to one compression. It makes 46 horsepower and the single cylinder is fed by 140-millimeter mikuni.
The fuel tank is metal as opposed to plastic like most dedicated off-road bikes. The dr has turn signals mirrors do T required reflectors silenced exhausts. With a spark arrestor room for a passenger and supplied passenger footpegs. It has a high beam a speedometer and a horn and this example has a windshield and luggage racks. The result minus the windshield and metal racks is a bike that weighs 324 pounds dry. Now that’s at least 24 pounds too much for a bike that’s expected to wrap around out in the wild. Making an off-road bike work on the highway Suzuki made an off-road bike. Not really work off-road because when you’re slogging through mud and hold up right here even wet soggy grass. You feel the dr’s weight rolling and wobbling like a grand seal undulating on the shore while a National Geographic reporter in an oversized parka faces.
The camera and lays a bummer monologue on you trying to turn your road trip into a guilt trip. While the heavy DR plows through the mildest of off-road wet conditions. It starts losing traction because the stock tire treads will fill up with earth great. Now you have slicks and you have 200 yards to go before you’re on dry ground tires. I understand what Suzuki was doing here what they wanted was to have customers by this bike. The dealership and not immediately returned it because it was too rough. They packaged this bike to be able to be ridden away from the dealership and feel smooth. The only way you’re gonna do that is to have tires that don’t have much tread on them. The knobs on the tires if they put on here and what do is the minimum amount of tread.
Necessary to be road legal they are off-road tires that still remain street-legal. It’s kind of a false promise because they’re the least capable of all. The dedicated off-road tires and they’re also terrible on the road but they fill a gap for people. Who wants to have an off-road bike legally have it street-legal you know air-quote street-legal. To handle realistic off-road conditions you would use do but it feels terrible and they’re loud. They’re loud like snow tires when you ride them on the pavement. So they would never have a new motorcycle with legit off-road tires be able to sell to someone who is getting their feet wet. With off-road bikes, they get out of the dealership and made off. The road there goes this is terrible and immediately tries to return it or give bad reviews to the dealership. These Bridgestone’s are really 75% Street 25% trail. Another thing Suzuki I love bikes and I’ll continue to own them.
Suzuki does one thing consistently and they will always cheap. One component of every single bike they would make I had a GS 500 and they cheaped out on the fork brace. I own a dr 350 and they cheaped out on the fenders or mudguards. The Suzuki dr650 they cheaped out on the neutral sending unit. Anybody has dr 650s knows about the NSU fix and is the neutral sending unit is this switch within the gearbox. It tells you when the bikes in neutral it also sends the little signal to the neutral indicator light. Now, this switch has to sit in the oil and also be able to handle the high and low temperatures. The engine comes up with the temperature and then off temperature. The bikes it’s what Suzuki did was make this switch out of plastic not metal. They didn’t properly torque the fasteners that hold it into the crankcase. The neutral sending unit is located behind the clutch so what can happen and there are documented cases. This happening is the bolts or fasteners that hold the NSU in the neutral sending units start backing out.
Over the years and there is a lot of vibration because even though it is a counterbalance single cylinder. There is a lot of thumping going on those fasteners will back. Eventually, one will drop into your spinning clutch and granade your gearbox. It is recommended that every single dr650 you remove those bolts and replace them. With fasteners that have a little hole in them so that you can wire them together. They will never back out and since this is my dr650 I did that Suzuki dr650. The motorcycle equivalent of a jeep wrangler the jeep wrangler will roll-off the lot a streetcar. Honestly a streetcar with some off-road capability but not much higher than a Toyota rav4. A Wrangler is a blank canvas on which you create the vehicle you want and it’s the same deal with the Suzuki dr650. Suzuki is giving you a motorcycle that will do a little bit of everything.
