Nobody?

 

You are clearly overthinking this:

 

I would fit a peg lowering kit to your DL650.

Footpeg and Control Lowering Kit

As the name implies, this kit lowers both the foot pegs AND the controls 1" down and 1/4" forward. The result is a completely natural relationship of the lowered peg to the brake and...

www.adventuretech.biz

Perhaps Rick might be thinking of designing a footpeg lowering kit for the DL800 as well.
@richlandrick

 

Greetings from the US.

ROX makes 2 inch handlebar risers. Not sure if that will be enough for you (as you make that bike look like a 250.......said the 5 foot 8 inch guy), and you will probably need to change the brakes lines and such.

Other accessories........that all depends upon your style of riding. I just got done adding cruise control, Denali lights, GPS wiring (See the write up I posted in this forum). SRCMoto and Hepco & Becker both make headlight guards for the DL800, from what I have seen searching the web. I would be surprised if Touratech didn't have one soon.

I am waiting for someone to engineer and offer foot peg lowering kits for the DL800. My hips would appreciate it.

IndyBill

 

... I just got done adding cruise control, Denali lights, GPS wiring (See the write up I posted in this forum)...

IndyBill

What was your cruise control solution?

Also, GPS wiring? What is that exactly? I was planning on just using my phone for GPS, but having a dedicated GPS has it's own appeal.

Thanks

 

Center stand, side stand foot expander and decent foot pegs is a great start.

Beyond these, just ride the bike. It will tell
you what it needs based on your riding style.

Everything on the bike has to break in. Even seat foam.

If you intend to do g-outs…get a massive bash plate. If road and fire road, stock is fine.

Headlight protector on headlights already viewed as too small will cut down further on light projection. The lens have a fender and beak protection now.

Haven’t seen a lowering kit yet. Haven’t seen much of anything on aftermarket specific to this bike.

 

Check your sag, very doubtful you are getting claimed ground clearance. If the intention is to venture into rougher terrain you will want full suspension travel. Mine had 5” of sag with full preload and I’m 185 lbs.

 

IMO headlight protectors are unnecessary these days with acrylic, rather than the old glass headlights.
Also 5" of sag seems too much to me with only 8 3/4" total rear suspension travel.

 

Sag was corrected with 700# spring, stock is 625# the bike was becoming a low rider!

 

You can buy headlight protection film if you are worried about stone chips on your headlights. Heaps of it on eBay.

 

My 2 cents worth (worth 2 cents)
1. Protect bike skid pan, crash bars, bark busters.
2. Comfort, risers, windscreen, pegs, maybe seat, I like stock, heated grips, GPS.
3. Mirrors, tank bag, luggage.
4. Convert to tubeless tires, $20 3m, 2 tubeless valve stems, tubeless tires!
5. Fill the tank and get lost!

 

I can't help you as I don't have an 800, but I sure admire your traveling spirit. Have a great time from NL to Georgia. Worked for Shell my career and was in your beautiful country quite a bit.

 

I have an 800de and have quite a few add ons done. I got some fog lights from Cosmo in recently but haven't installed yet so I can't vouch for them. Same for my yet to be installed center stand.

Your gonna need a skid plate, crash bars, and proper hand guards for sure. I did OEM skid plate and crash bars because it was convenient. Barkbusters handguards are easy enough.

I've also put on Bumot panniers and racks. Then got the giant loop siskyou soft bags for those dirt trips.

One I consider the most clutch is the mirror extenders that Rick sells. Gives me much more clarity in my rear view and the cost is minimal.

I've WAY overdone the mods because I love tinkering and working on the bike. It's like every minute I work on it engrains it into my soul.

 

Thanks guys for the input, sorry I'm a bit late in replying, but I was in hospital for a day and the process leading up to that was quite stressful. All is wel now and we will leave this weekend for Italy and then on to Turkey. The BMW's are already in the Milan area.

 

OOOO the yellow ones are fast

 

So this is what I did in the end
Tubeless by bartubeless.it
High Seat by Suzuki
Risers PUIG 3 cm
Sidestand enlarger bit Hepco-Becker
Led auxiliary lights by Hepco-Becker
Extra 12V
Waiting for this to come to market: Outback Pannier racks They expect to have them ready by May

 

I'm looking into the tubeless route for my 800DE, so I'd appreciate if you can tell me, after one year, how is the bartubeless solution going.

Thanks.

 

Cool, thanks. I'll look into them.

I would not install a throttle lock again, it's not accurate and is in the way most of the time.

 

Not sure how much help this post is as I've only just taken delivery of my 800RE a couple weeks ago, but I've found a number of things I'm keen to upgrade (some more urgent than others):

Lights - stock ones are flat out dangerous for me. I use my bike for long daily/nightly commuting (like ~100klm each way), some of it through winding, kangaroo-infested county roads. Sorry but those standard lights are just crap, I'm flying blind every time and have had near misses four times so far.
I've got a pair of Stedi MX-25 spotlights (not sure if available outside Australia - I'm assuming they are) and mounted them on an SW Motech Light Mount under the duck bill, which turned out pretty neat. Theyre not wired up yet due to my getting messed around by my (former) dealership, but I'm booked in somewhere else end of next week. So if I live until then, I'll let you know how these lights turned out.

Luggage - I sometimes stay overnight somewhere closer to work, so I need to be able to carry 'stuff'. I love that the bike comes with a rack already, and a pretty decent one at that. Still, I'm about to get the SW Motech Adventure Rack + Extension thing. That should get me through indefintely, but I do intend to get back into a bit of touring again in the future. Plus I want to make this bike my daily ride, so side panniers are definitely on my horizon. I don't like hard panniers, and really like the Mosko Moto stuff. Currently thinking Backcountry side bags and 40Ltr Duffle on the Adventure rack. Be saving up the pennies for a whiile for all those though. From the MM website, it seems the SW Motech EVO racks work well with the Backcountry bags but I can't see anywhere on the SWM site that these racks fit the V Strom 800. Keen to see/hear from anyone who could share some illumination here.

Protection - I've bought radiator and engine/exhaust guards from Radguard (another fine Australian coy), but can't mount them yet becauise my bike doesn't come with that very expensive and stupid 'Accessory Tube Assembly' from Suzuki as standard. I know I'll have to get that first, but then I'll also to be able to fit crash bars and a skid plate. I'm not going to go offroading much on this bike, but I will likely be touring down a bunch of dirt/gravel roads so that stuff will come in handy. I'm thinking about maybe keepng all the gear from a single manufacturer (in this case SW Motech), in the hope that it should all work well with each other. I'd welcome any comments/observations here though. Anyway, I'll also be mounting a set of barkbusters.

Miscellaneous - Veridian Cruise control (I've gotten too used to CC on my last couple bikes, plus I get the numb hands after a while at high revs) / Comms-Nav Head Unit (Chigee or Carpuride?) / Heated grips (likely Oxford Integrated units - had them on last bike and they worked well)

So a fair bit for me to chew through. Hopefully something in there might've helped you/others by sparking an interest somewhere. Either way, I'll keep watching this thread for more perspective/intel myself.