Recent content by marauder

My first street crash was in a left turn lane too. That has been 46 years ago but I learned that left turn lanes gather oil and fluid and nobody drives over it when it is in the center of the left turn lane. Therefore it sits and waits for a motorcycle to come hot to catch the light. I never...

Did she break her right thumb? I crashed in July '09 when I hit a deer and broke my collarbone, shoulder blade on my left side and my right thumb from two finger braking and holding onto the handlebar with my right thumb. What I received is called a "Bennett Fracture" which is common with...

Yes the mechanic torqued all of the engine motor mounts but did not do them from left side first to right. He thinks that idea is silly. He wanted to lube the spline but the service manager told him no. I agree with that because the vibration is being generated by the engine, not the drive...

When I pull in the clutch and let the engine go to idle, the vibration goes away. With the clutch still disengaged and I rev the engine, the problem comes back. The vibration is being generated by the engine. The mechanic was adament that my problem was my drive line splines not being...

The service manager and I also thought #2 and the top mechanic is looking at it today. My '03 had vibrations also at a higher rpm and I learned to live with it but I was hoping that my new '09 was free of vibration. What is odd about it is it didn't vibrate for the first 400 miles. Then I...

I really looked hard before posting this. My new (500 miles) '09 FJR has a vibration at 3800 upward. It is the engine because if I pull in the clutch I can make the vibration go away with a RPM change. But the funny thing about it is when I go through a dip in the highway, the vibration...

Who was the guy on fjrowners.com/forum that was from Australia who wrote like 5 articles a day? His handle was unique like "wizard" or "wombat" or something like that. All of a sudden, he got fed up in 2003 and quit the forum in a huff because we were talking about problems too much. He was...

In '02 I owned a Yahama Road Star that I kinda liked because it was comfortable to ride but it did not 1)stop 2)handle 3) turn 4)accelerate 5)have any ground clearance. So I started researching bikes. I read about the European Yamaha FJR 1300 being only available in Europe and decided that I...

Thanks Gordon for a great write-up. You provide clear, easily understood text with good pictures...a basic for "how to" technical writing. Ironically I started installing my Audiovox CC100 this past weekend working with a previous model install write up by Amain in 2003. But my '09 with ABS...

I too just got a new, black Christmas present. An '09 to replace my deer smashed '03. :blink: I rode it home 90 miles from Moses Lake Experience Power Sports in Eastern Washington to Wenatchee. 90 miles in 28 degrees. :cold: I too had to tip toe to touch the ground and I'm 6 foot tall...

That's cool how you came out...touching but not breaking. I am still healing from my July 10th encounter that broke several bones including the most nagging one, my right thumb. Seems that since I was two finger braking at the point of impact my thumb could not support the impact and ripped...

Wow did I step into it! :yahoo: Maybe I didn't explain myself correctly. Normally when I make a turn to the left I push the left hand forward causing the front wheel to go to the right allowing me to start falling left. Then I follow with steering. Hence the turn. My example for...

I too suffer from the same thing. I found that while riding, my head is looking "up" more than say when I am standing talking or relaxing watching TV. I occassionally let go of my left handlebar and reach back to the luggage rack for a stretch which seems to help somewhat. In the twisties...

I was the one who hit a deer in July of this year and I'm still recovering. Unfortunately my sweet '03 was toast and the deer was killed. It sprinted across from my left right into me. I had about 1 second to react and hit it quite hard. My reply is mainly about honking your horn at the...

Glad to hear you went over the rock and stayed up. When I hit the mule deer in July I hit it in the ribs at my headlight. No amount of "Yamaha Engineering" was going to get me "over" that sucker. :blink: Hindsight is always perfect but when I see that I am about to hit something like your...