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The Kawasaki KLR650 is Back

The Kawasaki KLR650 was reintroduced in January as a 2022 model, and it hasn’t changed all that much. That’s good.

If you’re old enough to remember the events that unfolded in 1987, you’ll recall that the year wasn’t a particularly outstanding one. Among a few other notable milestones, Chrysler bought American Motors and made it disappear; 93,000 wrestling fans attended WrestleMania III, making it the largest indoor event up to that time; and the stock market crashed for the first time since the Great Wall Street Crash of 1929. However, an even greater thing happened that year: Kawasaki introduced the KLR650.

The KLR650 wasn’t a complex machine, even by 1987

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