Recent content by DavidEBSmith

1500 miles in 24 hours, that's impossible. It's dangerous to do that on public roads. I did that but I never sent in the paperwork. Somebody always says this :poop: so might as well get it over with. 😈

My big issue with the AE is that when I switch between my FJR and my BMW, I sometimes downshift when I mean to signal a left turn and vice versa.

Haters gonna hate . . .

I'm still touched by the nearly book-length essay Mr. Owen wrote about Eddie James and Butt Lite IX (oh and incidentally how he won the rally): https://www.teamstrange.com/2018/butt_lite/RedemptionBLIX.pdf

Funny, I have no Yamaha dealer within 25 miles and none of them are easy accessible for me. The local BMW dealer, I can drop off the bike, and there's a train 1/2 block away to take me to work or home. If I go to the other local dealer, there's a train that stops 1 block from them. So for me...

Also a link to the daily rally reports.

The HERE WeGo app is free & allows you to download maps & use it offline, or online. I've tried OSMAnd but HERE works better for me (and they have a service facility for their camera cars at the end of my block so they're local).

"after a hard rain" would suggest water in the starter button?

I’m new to FJR ownership, but not entirely new to the FJR world. I know many of you from the LD riding community. I’ve logged over 250K miles on BMW R1100RTs, including 3 Iron Butt Rallies (2 finishes, 1 DNF), 2 Butt Lites as a rider, 4 Butt Lites as co-rallymaster, and more recently rallymaster...