Search results

Greetings fellow Forum members: I have been making my monthly payments to Retail Services, as I'm sure some of you have as well. Anyway, on my next payment I'm going to pay it off, write payment-in-full on the check i.e. Has anyone had any troubles or unnecessary delays in having the pink...

I'm just now attempting my first valve clearance check. ['05, 32K miles] Anyway, I'm stuck at the thermostat housing/ water distribution pipes to the head part. There is/was an excellent step-by-step, detailed article somewhere in here and I can't seem to find it. I want to say it was on...

I just got back from Mission Motorsports in the Irvine Spectrum area. On the floor: '07 silver AE marked down to $9,999. I shit you not. [disclaimer: beware the "plus costs"; surely they will try to recoup some of it through shipping and handling, dealer prep and set-up, etc.] Also, a purple...

Anyone in Flagstaff, 2 nights ago? Saw a ready for a round the globe ride in a motel parking lot. It had a personalized Oregon plate that was very to the point. I stood there looking at it for a while hoping the owner would come out; no dice.

August 11, about 10:45 A.M., I was running single squad heading west out of Eureka on my '05 and on my way to Reno, and no less than 5 FJRs were heading east, distanced apart by a few miles. The first 2 were paired up Cerulians, looked like '04s, then maybe 3 more scattered at a distance...

So I'm getting my '05 ABS ready for WFO, and then a week later, a week-long road trip to New Mexico. Besides a TBS and a new air filter, I'm also changing the coolant for the first time [at 14.5K]. I thought I would try some Prestone Dex-Cool so I bought a gallon. After draining out the green...

Happened again today! Does bad luck run in threes, or am I just unlucky? About 2 months ago, I pulled a nail out of my '05 rear tire, plugged it, the plug failed on the freeway going to work [i mentioned this earlier here] so after work I went to Del Amo Motorsports and had a new tire put on...

Negotiating a price for the '05 during PDP timeframe: Me: "Here's what I'll pay, OTD" Dealer: "Oh, we can't do that. Besides, this is a hot selling bike". I say the Yamaha FJR1300 is by definition a cold selling bike, in that Yamaha doesn't want to risk overbuilding them and then end up...

A lot of those old genre movies they show on Speed Channel are classics. My favorite is The Wild One. Some great quotes come outta that one. Here's another quote: "We wanna be free! We wanna be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man! And we wanna get loaded!" I think it's...

Anybody have a generic National Cycle Plexistar 2 or Plexifairing 3? I need something for my beater commuter, a 1986 Suzuki Intruder. Or any old used aftermarket fairing. Thanks.

According to the book, spark plugs to be replaced at 8,000 miles. So I did this today, at the 13K mark and damned if the ND plugs that came out didn't look new, or almost new <_< . I went ahead and put new ones in, NGK, just to have some documented service record on this. The next time...