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Certainly not a turnip!

lololol um... problem? What problem? lololol Love you, and your alter, too. XXX:)OOO Excuse me, but I'll just be riding on. On dirty, dirty, dirty roads and having a ferkin' dirty, gravelly ball Plenty here , tons to go 'round! We don't even care if you're bike has :) car tires lololollo...

I must admit, with lower tire pressures, and softened-up suspension, it's not TOO bad. I've racked-up well over a thousand off-road K's on some of the shjttiest roads you'll ever see (not mention the higher distance I've done on mucked-up once tar roads) since getting it a few weeks ago. We've...

Do you reckon that may have been due to a lower centre-of-gravity?

Will check the legal implications here in Oz - probably not an issue. But steering input through the bars (in corners) indicates an unhappy (potentially unstable) bike. Might be OK for racking up miles, but possibly not for doing it on mountain roads. Still, it obviously works for a lot of folks!

Yeah, that's my experience with the FJR, so far. Pretty much the same as any big roadie, but the wheelbase, high centre-of-gravity and lovely paintwork all conspire to amplify percieved instability. Will get another electric tire pump and try out various pressures. Till then might just lower my...

lolol Yeah, we like a challenge!

Pity to see this obviously restoed beauty smacked today.

lololol :-) good point, but hacking can be fun too - especially when the alternative is turning around and riding OUTRAGEOUS distances for a better root. Having said that, sometimes riding OUTRAGEOUS distances for a better root is WELL WORTH IT!

:-) That's a great video! Looks a lot like Nagano prefecture, where I lived for twenty years - but could be lots of places in mountain areas of Japanland. I was driving a wild track there one time and a GIANT SIZED mountain deer jumped clean over the front of the car! Wife and daughter were...

Are you serious? Got pics?

lololololololololol Great post!!!!! Love the 'should you?' bit lolololololol Came to a few dirty flooded causeways lately and usually rocked over 'em, but there was one yesterday where I just got off, went over and pissed in it, waded it over (even my boots were sinking) and turned around. If I...

Yeah. Great riding music! I read the other day that Stevie usually tuned guitars a half note lower. Guess he just stretched the notes up! Been playing around with some "Rev Willy's Mexican Lottery' strings lately. Great fun!

lolololololol Inches deep gravel and severely off-camber corners with lashings of mud and potholes that take you all the way to China! Seriously, just really neglected dirt roads. But come to think of it all that other stuff does apply - except the bit about China.

lolol :) The guys that disagree were music to my ears! Yeah, I was out of bikes for a period of 20 years. Then about four years ago got back into 'em. Had a few bikes over the last four years and the one I rode most was a 650 DR variant. Got a bit spoilt on dirt - it handled it really well...

Tricky to get a pic of the broken bit. It's a piece that gets pushed/pulled by the lever. It's right up the back of the lever. If you shine a torch under the lever you can just see it. When the lever is raised it pulls that piece. Two pins moulded into the piece fit into holes in the lever. The...

A mate and fellow owner of an FJR advised me that they do not like dirt. Took a while for me to satisfy myself that he was right. Antone got any strategies on making soft roads easier? In the meantime MAKE SURE AUTOPLAY IS OFF then enjoy this

Yeah. That's the plan. Moulding stamps on the insides of the gizzards seem to indicate the cases have nothing at all to do with Yamaha -except being made to fit their dimensions and reqs. Too hard! Will look for another case. Thanks for the link :-)

Bugger! Broke the mechanism that releases the lid from the pannier case. Took a while to work out how to get it open again to retrieve some valuables inside. Started by drilling out the rivets that hold the hinges on the bottom. Then, gently separating the cover from the lid. Then drilling out...

Thanks for the link. I'll check it now.