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Old 19-05-16, 19:56
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I purchased a KLR 250 2 years ago, I had to replace the shock, clean the carb, new battery and it seems to run pretty good.

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Old 20-05-16, 06:21
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Thanks for posting Gil, I did get your email but have yet to reply.

Can you show more pictures, especially the handle bar guards, there are a couple of types.

What about the rear lights, is there the convoy blackout one?

How was the CFR plate mounted?
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Old 07-06-16, 20:28
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Here is a couple more pictures.
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Old 07-06-16, 23:42
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Gil,
That's a nice licence plate! Cleaned up well. Nice job.
Regards,Derk.
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Old 17-08-16, 17:43
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Gil,
That's a nice licence plate! Cleaned up well. Nice job.
Regards,Derk.
I need to keep my eyes open to find a plate that size for my own KLR!
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Old 10-06-16, 01:12
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They were used for minor tasks in the field, like bringing in IOR demands to service battalion and picking up small parts from service battalion and bringing it back to the first line unit. They could possibly carry messages too, but even by the 90s the army was way past that.

The advantage of a bike in the field was that it could snake ahead of a jammed up route blocked up with slow moving convoys. However, given the few tasks that remained in the military for motorcycles, they have joined honest politicians, the dodo bird, and the woolly mammoth into the history books.
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Old 12-08-16, 15:28
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Well...I had one of those like 9-10 years ago. I sold it knowing I had a special little bike. That one was used by the MP in Valcartier.
Yesterday, I bought another one. I'll be picking it up on monday. It has only 4400 km on the clock and the engine was recently rebuilt. The bike is complete with its panniers, and it was rebuilt from the frame up. They are basically regular commercial bikes taken off the assembly line and painted flat green over the original ''purple''... My new KLR had its frame sandblasted and the correct color was applied.

I'll be posting pictures sometime next week. Meanwhile, I'm mostly going to try to gather as much informations as I can with the help of FB. (Maybe some on my former army buddies can remember if they've seen it and even better: They took a picture). The bike will receive its markings and I need to do it right. It was supposedly brought to Québec from B.C.

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Old 13-08-16, 04:44
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I have some green parts in NOS condition and some spares like black out light bits, some promised out west.

I have no panniers, no rear rack, no handle bar protectors, looking for them.
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