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I know it may sound unlikely but my ignition switch failed on my '04. I could turn the key, but absolutely nothing would work.

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Years ago, I took my youngest son up the Mt. Washington Auto Road, as it is called, as a pillion and it was pretty scary for him. He was in middle school back then and didn't really talk about it until a while later, but he confessed that he was scared, especially on the way down.

Had a chance to take a ride to the top of Mt. Washington, NH with my oldest son. I am riding a '04 FJR while he is on a '08 Super Tenere. The weather was beautiful and we had a great weekend riding together. Hope you enjoy the video.

I am going to go against the grain - I like the decal with the top box. I use a Shad top case which looks a little like the Givi. The profile of the decal looks pretty similar to mine. I would buy one!

That would be a good idea. I know what you mean about Rt. 1 in the summer - painfully slow. There are a number of ways to get there from I-95. I usually take Rt. 27 south from Gardiner. You have to wrestle with a short stretch of Rt. 1 through Wiscasset (I talk about that on the video), but...

This past weekend I took a short ride to Fort Edgecomb a the mouth of the Kennebec River in Edgecomb, Maine. It is a favorite destination of mine when I want a quick, quiet get away. I took the opportunity to play with the Insta360 X3 camera and Movo Mini wireless microphone some more. I...

Thanks for the correction on the Northumberland Strait. My mistake. I can post some Google map views later today when I get back to my computer. I agree that some of the distorted fish eye effects from the Insta360 can be a little distracting. Sometimes I think they add to the shot and...

My son is getting married in the fall, which means that he will have less time than usual to take off from work for extended motorcycle rides this year. Just before Memorial Day Weekend, he hatched the idea of riding to P.E.I. - a place we had not visited in about 10 years - and back then, he...

I was a happy Laminar Lip customer on my '04. Unfortunately, during a trip last year that may or may not have included some stretches of high air velocities (ahem....) it flew off on the interstate and I had no easy way to retrieve it. I thought about buying another, but my original stock...

Thanks all for you thoughts. I did end up pulling the trigger on the 20.5" V-Stream and my experiences so far mirror above observations. I am kind of wishing for a bit more airflow, but we are living through the warmest part of the year here in Maine with temps in the high 80's and low 90's...

Well, after ~18 years of riding with a Laminar Lip on my Gen1, a stiff gust of wind (and perhaps exuberant traveling velocity) ripped it off my windscreen yesterday on the highway. I searched for a place to double back, but in the northern reaches of I-95 in Northern Maine, those opportunities...

Yea, it was dark when I was installing it and photos during that process wouldn't have come out very good.  I will try to add some additional photos this weekend.

It is has been a while since I have posted, but I thought I would share this new farkle.  Last night I installed a new "dash cam" - a Vsysto E2F motorcycle dash cam.  Picked it up on Amazon along with a 128 GB micro SD all for around $200 USD.  The dash cam comes with two 1080p cameras - one...

Yes, as well as 26 and 119. I went to college in upstate NY and traveled those roads so many times I could do it blindfolded, but I actually really enjoy the ride and scenery - so I keep my eyes open. If you are riding up in this neck of the woods, I would also consider going further north on...

Yea, I had a similar issue once. Mice can be pretty determined and I park my bike outdoors under a car port during the summer as it is my daily driver. Still, those little buggers find time to climb up into all sorts of places and make them selves at home. One day at work, one of the ladies...

Yup, and there are different ways to handle it from there. The "humane" method - leave the bucket empty so the mice survive when they fall in and then you can "relocate" them to a new home. Most people, however, put water or anti-freeze (just a few inches) in the bottom and they drown. The...

I just got my '04 back from the shop with an ignition switch failure, but in my case, I got *nothing* when I turned the key - no dash lights, no fuel rail charging sounds, nothing. I also noticed that the switch felt "crunchy" for lack of a better term - just not a single definitive 'click'...

A friend of mine suggested this solution and it has worked great. Caught 3 so far. Much better than any single use trap. mousetrap8 by Robert Michaud, on Flickr

My '04 was originally the same "Cerulean Silver" as all others sold in '04, but I had it painted black several years ago after an "unscheduled get-off". Long story, but but short version is that I came upon a small rural bridge that had been replaced, but not yet re-paved and the gravel had...