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ExSkiBum emailed me yesterday about our mutual friend Andrew's passing. I just read ALL the posts about OrangevaleFJR on the FJR Forum, and then checked my forum PM. On July 4th Andrew sent me a email, because he was remembering our ride from Cameron Park to Lassen and back…a 16 hour...

Everytime I stumble back to this site, It makes me wish I had never wrecked. O'vale & I did this ride about a year or so ago, he wasn't scraping pegs on every curve, but it was a nice pace. I learned a lot riding that day, everything except don't pass cars that haven't waved you on... BB III

I spent the first 40 years of my life down there. I get to go down there on business a few times a year and just love to drive with other cagers that know we all have to get there first, or die trying :D No, I'm sticking to my cage only policy, I do admire lots of bikes around here this...

1. You must first learn to pronounce the cities name - it is L. A. 2. The morning rush hour is from 5:00 am to noon .. The evening rush hour is from noon to 7:00 pm . Friday's rush hour starts on Thursday morning. 3. The minimum acceptable speed on most freeways is 85 mph. On the 105 or 110...

Hi Roger, The answer is I don't know anymore, things have changed. Folsom Cycle Service is managed by a guy named Lou. They have a mechanic that loves the FJR and knows what he is doing, but you have to ask for him to work on it and it will take 2-3 weeks to get on the waiting list. The...

Cheese? That won't work. The MC Gods are 80% Harley Custom Riders. They want Booze during pit stops and ugly skin defacment (tatoo's) to make them happy. The other 20% of those gods want blood - thus the R1 and # of MC accidents that are really bad or fatal :assassin:

Do NOT get suckered into buy one of those gray bikes - those are primer gray for the do it yourself people and they never seem to get around to painting their bikes - kind of a white trash thing :P - and a unpainted bike is slow due to the drag caused by the unfinished paint job :D The...

"What if" is why I will not EVER ride again - what if I didn't just stop behind those stupid cagers that pulled to the right - I would still have my farkled out FJR with the Holeshot system that O'vale loves. In fact, O'vale helped me so much after my crash, that I'm thinking that during the...

+1 And my mistake on that ride was trying to keep up with Rich in the twisty peg scraping sections. Rich is a much better rider than I was, I needed to set my own pace and just slow down. Toecutter has posted a few times that if you are dragging pegs on the street you are going too fast, keep...

All of you have some good advice, but I think someone said ride for the crash, not the ride. I just scanned the 9 pages of this stuff and I think Radman and maybe 2 other people mentioned this, it saved me from massive facial reconstruction and a broken knee and I was only going 25 MPH. All...

I had the same problem at first, spent 1/2 a day installing a powerlet and connections for the radar and GPS, the wiring was easy, the plastic was a PITA. Then I took my wife to the Stealer at the 600 mile first service and she made friends with the service manager's wife Courtney, who worked...

Bruce Yeah, someone on this site had some heated gear for sale a while ago, I guess it wasn't the right size :P Just go to the local BMW store and buy a Gerbing's jacket & controller & powerlet stuff to connect it to your battery. You really need to try the jacket on before you buy, they are...

I agree with checking the wiring first. Then here is the procedure: https://www.fjrtech.com/getdbitem.cfm?item=39 BB III

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Yep, I'm done. Just in the last few months my boss crashed his FJR (Tilly) and was really shaken up for a while, but he's a lifetime biker so he bought a cool BMW. Also a younger friend was seriously injured while riding his new Kawi and a SUV cut him off...he was in the hospital for 1 week...