Recent content by tmonroe

As I read the story, I am impressed by how you kept your head about you. Even as the crash evolves, you go from one evasive action to the next. From what you've said, you saved yourself not by simply one action, but by a string of actions. I am just curious if you give credit anywhere for this...

I've been riding since 2002, but have never even been pulled over for a roadside sermon until last summer. My ticket was on my FJR. On the way to work one morning, I got stuck behind some jerk in an old pickup truck that was running very rich, and the fumes were starting to make my eyes sting...

I had this crazy idea that seems to be working, and I'm just finalizing it now. I put the audio output from my escort detector into an FM transmitter, which I then pick up on my scala rider. I tried a couple of different FM transmitters before I found one that I could reliably and clearly hear...

Since my original post, my back feels 100% now, and I've been able to put both my and my wife's FJR on the center stand (at home in the driveway) with no problems at all. I still think it takes a little more effort than my GL1800 did... but not so much that its a problem. The parking spot I was...

Really? Are you trying to get me to hurt my back again ;) I guess my understanding of trying to lift something heavy is not as good as I'd hoped it was. Here's what I understand: Whenever you lift anything as heavy as a motorcycle (even if you're only lifting a fraction of the weight), you...

Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't realize what was going on sooner. The front and rear crashguards were one of the first farkles I put on there. I got them for both my bike, and Martine's. I guess I sort of forgot those weren't part of the stock bike. Its easy enough to take the left one off... but...

I should have noticed this before - I have the 905 racing rear crashguard installed on my FJR. I think its interfering with my foot and leg placement, and causing me to have to lift with my back/twist as I lift the bike. I finally realized it when I was watching the video and trying to figure...

hmmm... I don't see how that would be possible for me - at least not on my FJR. (ugh, put me back on the injured list :( ) If I stand straight up and put my full weight on the tang, the bike does rise up a little, but not nearly enough to be able to push back onto the stand. So here's...

I was stiff this morning, but I walked around for a while, and it gradually got better. I felt good enough to head to the gym at lunch (which I've been doing for the last year). I did pretty much my normal workout, but I was very careful with the first set of each excercise to use light weight...

Nope - standing next to it. Maybe that's how I hurt my back... I guess to step down with the left foot, you have to stretch a bit to reach the handlebars. I know I was trying to use my left foot, because its my back on the left side. When it first happened, every time I stepped down with my...

hmmm... I used to laugh at people who would complain about the Goldwing, because with the right technique, its easy (on that bike). I dunno... bike in neutral, level (both sides of stand touching the ground). STAND on the tang... put my other foot out back behind me, and the only thing left is...

this happened about 30 minutes ago. I'm at work, and I'm sitting here with a hot water bottle heating up my back, and letting Ibuprofin take a little bit of the edge off. I've always thought this bike was unusually difficult to put on the center stand. My Goldwing (which weighs what? Like 300...

So what do you tie to a website to keep silly posts away?

I like the concept, but somehow I doubt it would be cost effective. As I understand FLIR, it is very different than a camcorder's "Night vision". FLIR is sensitive to the types of heat put out by an animal's body. The "night vision" effect you get from camcorders is much closer to the spectrum...

After hearing all of the problems with the ignition switch on the FJR1300, I'm suprised I haven't seen someone mention this before in this forum. In at least one thread here someone actually mentions jiggling the ignition switch to clean the contacts. The contacts get "dirty" possibly because...