Nice compressed RR, thanks Robopie.
I have a personal interest in 1000 V-Strom since I just bought a new one this past April.
You had me stumped first with "HONDO capital Taligulapia " (sic).At first I thought you might be referring to some small obscure municipal seat
Then it dawned on me you meant TEGUCIGALPA - the national capital.
The rear cylinder intake rubber blowing off seems to be a common complaint, I was told. I actually experienced that myself last August on my visit to the Indy MotoGP as I was idling down the street past the Speedway. POP and SNORRRRRT !.An easy enough fix, and I really cranked down the retaining strap.
Parking on the Speedway backstraight another identical VStrom stops beside me and we get to talking. I tell him about the intake and he right away sez- you were idling along at about 2500rpm in a low gear and it back-fired?
Amazing diagnostic power, I thought. Then he explains that it is a common event on the DL 1000, due to an idle speed lean mixture setup in the FI computer program, to pass emissions regs.
Sure enough I noticed frequent muffled backpops at that speed/rpm combo. Solution was simply to keep it in a gear/rev range to work around that.
The rider said his solution was to install a Powercommander which also fixes the problem at higher cost.
How about it DL 1000 riders - is this such a common event?
As for the DL being only a pavement and well groomed gravel road bike, that is not a problem for me , no way would I want to take it onto dirt trails and rock jumping. I dont' want to hurt myself or the bike$$$$ So far I like it, makes nice sounds and goes awful fast in a hurry.This year I have seen 200km/h on the speedo surprisingly often.

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Hi Robopie.
That was a really good summary of your trip, I enjoyed reading it.
A cheaper fix to curing the lean fuel mixture/backfiring/throttle body popping off is to have te bike set up on a "Yoshi box".
Most Suzuki dealers use these box's in the workshop, this should only take a few mins and works really well if done properly.
I havent seen many DL1000's with a faulty charging system, looks like you really were unlucky with that one.
Would you consider using a DL650 for the same trip?
Much lighter and easier to manage on the dirt.
Take care.

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My trip to Millau (France) and back 2009.http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...u-france-43474

I didn't like the low speed characteristics of the bike .
So I changed the gearing ,one tooth smaller on the countershaft sprocket and 4 teeth more on the rear wheel .

It transformed the bike , now sixth gear is so much more usable and first gear allows you to travel at something near to a walking pace .
I probably overdid it on the rear end and two more teeth than standard would have been better for most people.

Anyway the mods to the gearing meant that I was able to run at higher rpm in the lower gears and avoid the snatchiness that you experience at lower revs in "the lean zone".
Which maybe explains why I haven't had the throttle body rubbers blow off .

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"When you come to a fork in the road ,take it ! When you come to a spoon in the road ,take that also ."

Nice story. I think you'll find the breakdown/repair rate on GSs is much higher then the V-Strom. They have way more electrical issues, to say nothing of gearbox/shaft drive problems.

Cheers bloke

Nigel in NZ

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I think you were unlucky with the stator problem, I covered many thousands of miles of corrugations on the 650 and never had an issue.

As for the throttle body boot coming off, I guess a lip would have been handy, but I am thinking that it is better to have that actually come loose, than to rip or tear a hole in it?

Anyway, I still reckon the Suzuki is better than beemers, the number of failures I saw while on the road of those bikes sure made me smile, with a half priced bike under me

Cheers
TS

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