Pants is setting up his 2021 FJR and has Questions

[El Toro Joe]

Ordered the $28.00 Color-rite touch up pen to further hide some of the beauty marks.

Yeah - you read that right. TWENTY-EIGHT FREAKING DOLLARS.... for touch up paint.

(sigh)

This inflation shit is not for the faint at heart....

Color-rite paint prices have always been crazy expensive...

[Hppants]

Ordered the $28.00 Color-rite touch up pen to further hide some of the beauty marks.

Yeah - you read that right. TWENTY-EIGHT FREAKING DOLLARS.... for touch up paint.

(sigh)

This inflation shit is not for the faint at heart....

Color-rite paint prices have always been crazy expensive...

I looked all over and can't find another exact match for the paint.

[El Toro Joe]

Color-rite kinda has a monopoly on the factory paint codes...and they take advantage of that, through their pricing.

[mcatrophy]

...
Mr. Trophy's pastime seems to be helping Americans out of a jam!

Mr. Trophy realises that his American friends often need helping out of jams.

[wheatonFJR]

...
Mr. Trophy's pastime seems to be helping Americans out of a jam!

Mr. Trophy realises that his American friends often need helping out of jams.

Mr. Trophy has a sense of humour. For sure.

[Hppants]

I need to check and loct-tight the torx screws on my saddle bags. Someone must have borrowed my torx bit since the last time I did this.

Can anyone pls confirm which SIZE torx bit this is?

TIA

[mcatrophy]

I need to check and loct-tight the torx screws on my saddle bags. Someone must have borrowed my torx bit since the last time I did this.

Can anyone pls confirm which SIZE torx bit this is?

TIA

T10.

[Hppants]

Thank you, Joe

Also - I have not installed the 1" Bar Risers yet on any of my FJR's.

Confirming that to do this requires me to cut the wire retaining device that holds all of the wires/lines going to the bars and then remove the top part of the triple clamp? This looks a bit more involved than I expected.

Similar to this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHlYvUz962I

[fontanaman]

I am the turd who sold Pants the risers. I didn't have the installation instructions because my 17 came with the risers. I swapped the risers for a Heli Bridge.

I suggest visiting the Heli web site scroll down a bit to the installation instructions. It will give some good tips on gaining slack needed to install the risers.

[N4HHE]

I need to check and loct-tight the torx screws on my saddle bags. Someone must have borrowed my torx bit since the last time I did this.

Can anyone pls confirm which SIZE torx bit this is?

TIA

T10.

IIRC it is a "security T10" with a hole drilled up the center.

[Hppants]

I need to check and loct-tight the torx screws on my saddle bags. Someone must have borrowed my torx bit since the last time I did this.

Can anyone pls confirm which SIZE torx bit this is?

TIA

T10.

IIRC it is a "security T10" with a hole drilled up the center.

Thank you both for the reply. small T-bits ordered.

[FJRoss]

T10.

IIRC it is a "security T10" with a hole drilled up the center.

Thank you both for the reply. small T-bits ordered.

Can you grab the heads with a pair of needle-nose Vice grips or similar? If so, take the old screws out and replace them with Allen cap screws.

[Hppants]

IIRC it is a "security T10" with a hole drilled up the center.

Thank you both for the reply. small T-bits ordered.

Can you grab the heads with a pair of needle-nose Vice grips or similar? If so, take the old screws out and replace them with Allen cap screws.

I'm going to use the right tool to remove them, and then replace them. I got no problems buying tools - it does aggrevate me when someone borrows mine and doesn't return them, but that's another story.

[Hppants]

T-Rex is temporarily out of stock on these:

https://www.t-rex-racing.com/2013-2019- ... n69-13.htm

If anyone has a pair they are interested in parting with, please let me know.

(I know that the engine cages are available, and that they presumably protect better, but I want the sliders.)

Thanks in advance.

[Hppants]

My first tank full of fuel yielded 40 mpg. Given the conditions, I would have expected 43-45 mpg. Air filter and air box are clean. Neither front nor rear wheel drags.

Gonna burn a few more tanks and see what happens.

Ride more, stress less.....

[danh600]

Given the conditions,

Conditions:
Rider has dry spell on his new FJR.
Rider is happy to be riding.
Rider twists throttle, more.
Bike gets crappy MPG.

[Toter]

My 15 has alway gotten 43-45 regardless of how you ride it. That's using ethanol regular. I've used non-ethanol fuel with no change in mpg.

[bill lumberg]

Autozone sells a full set of security torx for around 5 bucks.

Installing 1” riser blocks does include removing the stock assembly and cutting the wire looms attached to them.

[Hppants]

Still playing with the stock bars to determine if I"m going with the risers or not. I have seen plenty of videos on how to install them.

Didn't fill up the fuel tank upon arrival back home, but indications are that this tank has yielded what I'd expect. Riding more, stressing less...

[fontanaman]

To keep Pants' stress level low and keep him riding more I will not post my '17's mpg.