Hello, still internet shopping for a Wee from Afghanistan but since we are down to 65 days till return I am starting to get serious. One problem I am having is that a lot of dealer adds just copy and past the general description from the Suzuki press material and don't have much info about the actual bike for sale. If I read "If you're looking for adventure, here's the machine to help you find it" one more time I may lose my mind.

Is there a way to tell from looking at the front wheel photos or anything if a bike is equipped with ABS if it's one of the years that it was optional

-CMF

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Wee Strom shopping....
'95 Kawasaki Vulcan 500 (sold)
'82 Honda Nighthawk (sold)
'79 Honda CX500 Custom (RIP)

Look for the ABS reluctor ring in the middle of the disc. Unfortunately, you probably won't see it from a pic taken from the LHS.

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2007 Suzuki DL650 K7 (With a few farkles)

RIP Bucko - Riding on forever

I think most years the ABS model came with an "ABS" sticker on each side of the front fender. Of course you shouldn't count on a sticker as a true indicator that the bike does have ABS, but it's a pretty good bet.

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DL650AK9
"I am enthusiastic over humanity's extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think we are clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday's fortuitous contrivings as constituting the only means for solving a given problem." - R. Buckminster Fuller

Thank You!

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Wee Strom shopping....
'95 Kawasaki Vulcan 500 (sold)
'82 Honda Nighthawk (sold)
'79 Honda CX500 Custom (RIP)

The VIN sticker lists the model as DL650A. Tell them that you want that model and not a DL650.

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2007 DL650A Whee! (SV cam transplant)

Manage the unavoidable.
Avoid the unmanageable.

ABS stickers were not on my 2012 bike and if they were, I probably would have removed them by now. Look for the reluctor ring (slotted ring closest to hubs), right side of bike, front and rear wheels.

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1972 CB350 (gold)
1983 CB750 Nighthawk (black)
2012 DL650/EXP (orange)

All 2011 and 2012 650s had ABS. 2007-2009 models with ABS had decals on the front fender. No 2010 Stroms were sent to the USA.

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Pat- 2007 DL650A was ridden to all 48 contiguous states. 2012 DL650A is just getting started.
Nicknames for posting ease on my part, Vee = all DL1000s. Wee = 2004-2011 DL650s. Glee = 2012+ DL650s

[quote=greywolf;885655]All 2011 and 2012 650s had ABS. 2007-2009 models with ABS had decals on the front fender. No 2010 Stroms were sent to the USA.


The Canadian models, at least in Ontario did not have these decals

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1972 CB350 (gold)
1983 CB750 Nighthawk (black)
2012 DL650/EXP (orange)

No Glee has ABS decals. Canadian Wees did have ABS decals. Suzuki Cycles - Product Lines - Cycles - Products - V-Strom 650 - 2011 - DL650A

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Pat- 2007 DL650A was ridden to all 48 contiguous states. 2012 DL650A is just getting started.
Nicknames for posting ease on my part, Vee = all DL1000s. Wee = 2004-2011 DL650s. Glee = 2012+ DL650s