They are pretty easy bikes to work on.
One reason I bought mine (in 2000) was that 1996 whilst in Morocco (on my KLR650) I swopped bikes (due to one guy dropping a borrowed XT600 and snapping gear change peddle). So basically I was riding an XT600 3AJ along Atlas mountain dirt tracks on a bike with NO gear peddle, so stuck in 3rd gear, this bike had also previously done a London-Kenya trip so was kinda 'worn'. Much slipping of the clutch and slow progress, but it never gave in. Sure the clutch was rather cooked but a bodged repair was made and it contiuned to run. I'm sure that on my KLR or on just about any other bike such abuse would have been 'terminal' but the XT just plodded along.
They just don't make them like that no more.
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