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from the Lewiston, Idaho newspaper ...

At my local riders' coffee, one of our FJR participants showed up with a custom fabricated armrest setup for his wife. He frequently rides 2-up and sometimes worries about whether his wife will fall asleep when on the freeway traverses going to where-ever. In this photo, he said the angled...

... so must have enrolled in Stupidity 101, absentmindedly. Did I really do this? Change the oil and filter. How can I goof that up with years of practice? So after coming back from a ride around town, put oil pan underneath the FJR, drained out the old oil, old filter off, new filter on, got...

Some people work religiously to keep up with the Yamaha scheduled maintenance. I choose which ones to do; one I let go much longer is plug replacement. Just pulled the ‘long life’ iridium plugs @ 24,000 miles vs. the scheduled 8,000 mile plug change interval. Wanted to show you how they...

1) Guys, the folks at Shell have done testing to label their truck oil Rotella 15W-40 as JASO MA wet clutch rated. I've been using it for long time, as others have, but that's not the point - the oil is now actually labelled JASO MA, which some people rely on... these bottles didn't used...

On my gen 1, 2004 model another rider (MCRider007, Steve, with a 2005 gen 1 model) and I were changing my front fork oil at 44,000 miles. It had been once done before @ ~18,000, but that's not the story. Some people, or someone, had told me that the fork springs get compressed over time -...

I've been here for a bit and haven't contributed my fair share of trip reports so I thought I post this one, although the weather won't be good up north for several months still. a short review of two bike, 5 day trip to Alberta. ... Hope you enjoy. < 8 photos w/captions and then a 2...

OK, does FJR1300 power fade away with miles, wear and how fast? Today I took mine to a local shop (Shumate, Kennewick, WA) who was offering incentive dyno testing at the season tail-end. My recollection is that Cycle-World(?) had tested these FJR's as putting out 123 HP at the rear wheel, and...

there's a local M/C rally this weekend (Sept 13-16) in the NE Oregon Mountains. Still great riding weather in a nice riding area. no rain in forecast... Enterprise, OR Thurs late to Sunday apparently rides, food, music can camp at fairgrounds, with showers; motels the city of Enterprise...

this week i used an '03 shorty windscreen (thanks, james1300, for the loan) for a 3 day multi-bike ride in hot 95+ degree weather on my '04 fjr. sometimes at a good clip. blazing sun, very interested in relative cooling & airflow. for the record, i'm 5' 9" * shorter '03 windscreen...