I'm interested to hear more about your KLR. I've only heard the negative stuff.

They do look better than the old ones, but I've heard that Kawasaki gave up a lot of off-road ability to give it tamer street manners.

I'm the kind of guy that takes everything I own into the dirt. I'm even thinking about putting mild dual-sport tires on my 600 Ninja when I get it running again, just so I'm not so limited to pavement. I even took my wife's van over some of the neighborhood trails in an attempt to find a shortcut home (she was with me, and not extremely happy about it) <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />.

Please, educate me on the new KLR. My BIL owns an older one so I've gotten that perspective.