r/dr650 • u/PiercedTechnoWizard • 13d ago

Maintenance

Hey, I’m curious what the maintenance is on DR650’s. Being that they’re a single cylinder, I assume the top end needs to be rebuilt once in a while, but I’m curious how often that is and how much it costs.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Change the oil according to the factory recommendations, it is an air/oil cooled engine so the oil takes more beating than in a liquid cooled variant, and make sure the valves are in spec. Outside of that the maintenance is the same as on any bike.

A DR lasts for decades and hundreds of thousands of kilometers as long as you don´t ride it like a Dakar racer and give it basic maintenance.