1987 XL600LM manual, advice
 

Greetings!
I cannot for the life of me find a manual for this bike. Anyone have an idea? Seaching for weeks now!
Orrin

hi

Well , I am crossing Africa with one of these XL600LMF . No single problem yet. The only thing is the drive chain which needs readjusting every few days . I am on my fourth Chain *and I am still in Cameroon*

other than that ... nothing . Not a single piston miss in 30.000 km .

If I would start the trip again I would do 3 mods to the bike>

1 install a smaller gear drive *14 teeth instead of 15 . There is no need for high speeds in Africa -most of the time in 4th- , but the bike loaded struggles sometime in deep sand . Lowering the gears would do wonders.

2 . Install a wind fairing at the front . Just a little piece of clear plastic reduces the wind noise and turbulence a lot . And given that you are *there* for long long hours every day .. It makes a hell of a lot difference

3 . Weld a bigger plate into the side stand. In sand , dunes , or simply dirt roads is very difficult to leave the bike up , as the small sidde stands sometime digs iitself in the ground with obvious consecuences . Just a square of metal of 10cm x 10cm does wonders !


and that is ... enjoy your trip .If you want to see some pictures of your bike in Africa ...
http://viajesyaventuras.mywowbb.com/forum15/756-2.html
http://viajesyaventuras.mywowbb.com/forum15/394.html
http://viajesyaventuras.mywowbb.com/forum20/279.html







The manual.. well , here is the one for the dominator which is essencially the same bike (just a bit more displacement 650 ) and different fairing .

Welcome in Mac



have a nice day

Javier

It looked new inside at 22,000 miles.

Many thanks!!
 

Thank you JavierCarrion, Thank you mollydog!! You cant beat first hand experience! Much appreciated.
orrin

XL600R Manual online
 

Hi

There is a set of pdfs for the XL600r online here

HondaXL.it

Know its not the xl600lm but it might help.

I have a clymer manual and I think it covers both models so I assume that that many parts are the same.

Peter

Oh I forgot to mention there is a pretty good group on Yahoo Groups called HondaXL they are really helpful.