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My first FJR was a 2006 that I bought used in 2011 with 9200 miles on it. It was a great bike, the prettiest of all FJRs with the Cobalt Blue paint and silver wheels. I hate black wheels on a motorcycle. It didn't have heated grips, so I added the OEM plug-n-play grip kit. The only downside to...

Those are some fantastic photos...the crossing shot was perfectly timed! Gee, that's too bad that you have to listen to some tactical jet noise for 30-40 minutes two damn days per year. How awful for you. There are many thousands of people that would disagree with you and are really looking...

I agree that moto forums seem to be dying a slow death...but a lot of it seems to depend on the type of bike and the demographic of the normal owner/rider. I was a frequent visitor of the BMW Sport Touring forum (before I sold the BMW to a scrapper), and two FJR forums...they're all fairly...

Is this bike still available? I know a guy in Redlands that is shopping for a new FJR. I don't know what his price range is or what Generation he prefers, but I'll send him a link to this thread.

Good catch on the different bolt length. When I pull any cover bolts out, I lay them out in an outline of where they're fitted. I noted the top two bolts were longer on my first valve check 30K miles ago; I marked those longer bolts with a Sharpie, along with a corresponding small Sharpie mark...

My FJR has the top two bolts on the oil pump cover mostly stripped. After the last valve adjustment, I used my Draper click-type torque wrench set to the required 10Nm. All of the bolts around the cover torqued correctly except for the top two. They just kept rotating. The threads seem to have...

Geez, my mileage total really sucked for 2019 compared to most of you guys. YZF-600R - 5969 miles FJR-1300 - 1804 miles R1100RT - 800 miles (parked from January to December because the Ohlins needed a rebuild and I was too lazy to get around to it) That's a sad total of 8573 miles...my...

I agree! I really thought it was neat to find that pic. The trees in the background are blurred just a bit so you can actually get a sense of motion. I've been a lazy ass recently; it's taking me forever to get these pics posted. I commuted back to Houston in mid-October to take the plane to...

Two weeks later, I commuted back to Houston. A buddy of mine from many years ago lives on an airpark south of Granbury TX, at Pecan Plantation. There's an Experimental Aircraft Association chapter there that has an annual fly-in and car show on the field. My buddy thought it would be really cool...

After the trip to Oshkosh, I didn't see the airplane again until mid-September. That was fine with me...like with motorcycles, I generally don't want to be outside messing with anything mechanical during the sweaty month of August. And flying the thing is more than just the sweaty manual labor...

Those were some fantastic pics in the video. You actually came down south into my stomping grounds. From Joshua Tree to Julian and south to the border is my usual area of riding. If I'd known you were coming, it would have been fun to ride with you a little.

I haven't updated this thread in quite some time. I tried adding some pics a few weeks ago, but Photobucket was having none of it that day. It seems to be working again, at least for now. I mentioned earlier about the Warbird Weekend held back in April at the West Houston Airport. I recently...

That's classic! I stopped for fuel once in Van Horn on the FJR while headed east to the Ozarks. My buddy and I were heading into the Big Bend area the next day, and I wanted to head south to Marfa to spend the night. The Marfa hotel rooms were quite expensive for such a small town in West Texas...

Recently I've been putting some miles on my YZF-600R, including a 4 day/2300 mile trip last week. That's a fun little bike to ride. Today I took the FJR out for the first time in a month, and it was surprising how big and heavy it felt. That thing is a beast! But after a few miles, it all came...