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Never paid any attention to the spec in manual. Just adjust so all are even. Pretty easy to do. No reason for the fudge factor.

Then he would be buying a new tpms cap too;)

Couple things - Doesn't take much effort to pull a rubber valve stem all the way through the wheel - done it a few times. Really easy if you have put any sort of lube on it. Decent metal valve stems have rubber on the inside and sometimes out, so it wouldn't be tough to get it to seal if nut...

You grease them up and pull them a little too far and they will definitely blow out. Although it should have happened when they aired up the tire. (Rubber ones) If it was a steel/aluminum valvestem that has the nut on the inside then maybe did not tighten it up and it fell off.

Alternately - I sometimes just hang bikes from the trolley hoist. You do need to be careful not to lift it off the center stand, but in an emergency situation - leaning on the up button can just pick the whole thing up rather than dropping it. How to deal with the stupid Vstrom rear brake...

If it were me. Rather than some sort of double ended threaded spacer - I would emulate the R-gaza hardware. Longer bolt - stepped washer that hits the outside of the tube that your current bolt slides through and some sort of a puck, which doubles/triples as a slider and place to rest your feet.

I will say that the pucks on the R-Gaza bars are a great place for jackstands

For a Gen 2 - do yourself a favor and go LED. It is amazing how much light you get.

They should both be on, both bulbs are hi-low. They must be thinking of an R1

I have never used a torque wrench on a tapered bearing in my life. Grease it up, torque it down until you are sure the grease is not making it float and adjust it by feel.

FWIW - when I did mine, I removed the tank. Not because you have to, just because it is worth the extra 5 minutes to not worry about banging anything into it while you are pulling and installing bearing races.

I wonder what that type of coolant is? Both my FZ1 and FJR had some weird smelling brown coolant in them when I bought them - soy sauce sounds about right. Always figured that it was one of those oddball things like water wetter or some other overpriced thing since both PO's were people who...

Looks to me like your oil filter is leaking.

Sounds fun, but seems like a lot of work for a bike that is pretty happy at 100mph for hours.

Ok - why?

IF it were me - I would junk the "tape measure" retractor and just mount a static cable like every other brand of luggage has. The Yamaha retractor stuff is unnecessarily complex.

Better off with a car place. Most custom motorcycle paint is Harley stuff. Auto shop will have more experience with flexible plastics.

I agree. Not a fan of black or blue, which really reduces the options with an FJR.

Swing arm hitch only works for single wheel, unless there is some magic I am unaware of 3rd wheel hitch is a good example of a single wheel trailer hitch. That is what is on my bike. Fwiw, prices must have gone up. I didn't pay anything near $1000

4 years ago I bought a 2007 for 4K with 16K miles on it. Prices have gone up a bit since then. Understand that 1300 miles on a 16 year old bike is not really a selling point.