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Hppants wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 2:52 pm Re-installed my wheels with new RS3s on them. Changed the oil and greased the pivot points.

She's ready to rip. And one week from today, the next adventure begins....

Let me guess you are riding to Palouse Falls?

fontanaman wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 10:25 pm

Hppants wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 2:52 pm Re-installed my wheels with new RS3s on them. Changed the oil and greased the pivot points.

She's ready to rip. And one week from today, the next adventure begins....

Let me guess you are riding to Palouse Falls?

Prob gonna see some waterfalls, but not quite that far north!

First change of an FJR tire with the new to me HF changer.


Can’t go to Arky with tires they look like this!




So you gotta do this.





The Road 5 came off in 5 minutes. Was totally a piece of cake. Set it out in the sun and barely needed the tire iron. Gotta get the tire in the valley!

Took me about 10 min to get the Shinko Raven on. Temps in the garage were in the low 60s, so it was super pleasant, but rubber cooled off some.


All in all I have about 1 hour in the set up. That includes putting the 15 on the lift and getting the HF changer bolted down and swapping the tires. Cleaning the rear of the bike, wiping any old grease away, and reassembling the bike. Now just have to clean up, take her off the lift and go for a ride.

Almost messed up putting the white dot away from the valve stem. Don’t have my balancer yet, so I went with beads this time.

Gonna be riding in about 45 min.


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That Road 5 looks to be barely broken in to me!

N4HHE wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 5:27 pm That Road 5 looks to be barely broken in to me!

Maybe, if you used Wheatie’s standards for replacement.

If you go to Arkansas with a tire like that, you are gonna be looking for one by day 2! That 5 was replaced in Colorado, we rode 2 up camping about 1,000 miles back to Spearfish. Then it was abused at EOM with FYB and friends. It also held up to a 5 day mission down to Arkansas with a few hooligans. Add to the total about 1500 miles around here and that tire owes me nuttin’.

That reminds me, I need to reset trip #2 and see what the actual mileage was. I use trip #1 for the front and trip #2 for the rear.

5,399.7 ~~~~ I am not gonna claim it has more than about 500 more miles before it is completely toast; depending on how I were to ride it obviously.

Rear was speed tested up to 120mph for 30 plus seconds. Balance beads either worked fine, or I got lucky and it just balances with the dot on the stem.

Cav47 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:52 pm That reminds me, I need to reset trip #2 and see what the actual mileage was. I use trip #1 for the front and trip #2 for the rear.

I use an app called Road Trip on iPhone https://apps.apple.com/us/app/road-trip-mpg/id298398207. Also record all maintenance and fuel purchases.

Trip 1 gets reset at fuel purchases. Trip 2 gets reset at start of a ride.

Rode it. First ride of Spring. Just a 30 mile little loop. 65 degrees in Michigan yesterday.
My XL butt still fits comfortably in the Russell seat, although I wouldn't want to hear the seats opinion.

N4HHE wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 1:29 am

Cav47 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:52 pm That reminds me, I need to reset trip #2 and see what the actual mileage was. I use trip #1 for the front and trip #2 for the rear.

I use an app called Road Trip on iPhone https://apps.apple.com/us/app/road-trip-mpg/id298398207. Also record all maintenance and fuel purchases.

Trip 1 gets reset at fuel purchases. Trip 2 gets reset at start of a ride.

You trying to run every tire made on your FJR?

We are polar opposites on tires. After the BT023s wore out I have only had PR4GTs. I like them, so I just keep getting another set.

danh600 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:19 am You trying to run every tire made on your FJR?

We are polar opposites on tires. After the BT023s wore out I have only had PR4GTs. I like them, so I just keep getting another set.

As a matter of fact, yes. Glad I did because I have developed a distinct preference. I don't like the PR4GT on the front, as it wears the steering degrades, pulls/falls into turns. Other tires do this too. The T31GT did not. Was one of the least expensive and current mileage champ. Wasn't as happy with T31GT on rear at the same time but that tire developed a leak I could not repair so I mounted the PR4GT I had waiting and found bliss. Now I have the opposite of my favorite, a T30 Evo rear, PR4GT front. Maybe the not-GT T30 Evo works better for me than a T31GT rear? That I like 'em flexible in the rear? PR4 even in GT is a flexible tire. Cycle Gear had T30 Evo closeout: $175/pair. Bought like an idiot forgetting my Yamaha dealer had them in stock for $150/pair.

The Z6 wasn't too bad but for being paper thin. Bicycle tire thin. The rear wore faster than the front (unusual for me). Punctured by what was probably a staple on what was to be one of its last rides. Pinprick holes tore when I pushed sticky strings in. Ended up doubling the string for 4 through each hole. Still had to stop once in the 35 mile beeline home to inflate the tire.

Anyway, can't know what you like if you haven't ridden it.

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I installed the speedbleeders today. Wish I had done that years ago! They make brake fluid flush so much easier. And get the silicone hose and bag. I've fought with a vacuum pump and rubber hose and yes that is a fight! Cycled the abs and flushed the clutch system good to go.
If you do your own and don't have speedbleeders you are working too hard.

Full House wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:50 pm I installed the speedbleeders today. Wish I had done that years ago! They make brake fluid flush so much easier. And get the silicone hose and bag. I've fought with a vacuum pump and rubber hose and yes that is a fight! Cycled the abs and flushed the clutch system good to go.
If you do your own and don't have speedbleeders you are working too hard.

What's really cool, is that I think it's the rear one that's a different size than the rest. Maybe, anyway, since you order them in pairs, you'll end up with an extra bleeder at the end. If you are like several of us here that also own a DRZ400, that extra bleeder is a fit for the front brake on the DRZ.

Rear shock returned from service and installed.

Forks pulled and disassembled for fluid flush and fill.


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Now them's some good suspenders.

Hack wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 12:42 am 'Put my 2021 license plate (tax) sticker on my.... You guessed it, license plate.

Rut Roh! Thought I did this already...... I looked today, oops. Situation remedied.

gixxerjasen wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 6:26 pm

Full House wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:50 pm I installed the speedbleeders today. Wish I had done that years ago! They make brake fluid flush so much easier. And get the silicone hose and bag. I've fought with a vacuum pump and rubber hose and yes that is a fight! Cycled the abs and flushed the clutch system good to go.
If you do your own and don't have speedbleeders you are working too hard.

What's really cool, is that I think it's the rear one that's a different size than the rest. Maybe, anyway, since you order them in pairs, you'll end up with an extra bleeder at the end. If you are like several of us here that also own a DRZ400, that extra bleeder is a fit for the front brake on the DRZ.

Revzilla sells them separately and You are correct , the rear is a different size.

raYzerman wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 7:33 pm Now them's some good suspenders.

Yeah, he's really not that good. He just has fancy 'spenders.

Wayne, I think you are using old bath rugs for a work surface. I have been using them for years now in the workbench. Anytime the wife wants to buy new ones, I act like I don’t want to, then talk her into washing the old ones. I go back to the store and buy them for her and take the clean/kinda worn out ones to the garage. She thinks I am so sweet!! I am winning that deal for sure! Once they get nasty, I flip them over until they are gone.

Cav47 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:30 pm Wayne, I think you are using old bath rugs for a work surface. I have been using them for years now in the workbench. Anytime the wife wants to buy new ones, I act like I don’t want to, then talk her into washing the old ones. I go back to the store and buy them for her and take the clean/kinda worn out ones to the garage. She thinks I am so sweet!! I am winning that deal for sure! Once they get nasty, I flip them over until they are gone.

I'll bet that Frau extrememarine had no idea the matt was ever out of the bathroom, and is still wondering how one man could get it so damn dirty just taking a shower.

Pterodactyl wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 10:14 am wondering how one man could get it so damn dirty just taking a shower.

She married a Marine, she does not wonder these things.

We practice a very stringent recycle / re-use program in this house when it comes to anything that can be deployed in the workshop.

Although I did not post pictures, rest assured that the fork legs were no subjected to any level of "gixxerjasenage". Final flush at lunch and reassembly this evening.

gixxerjasen wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 10:39 am

Pterodactyl wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 10:14 am wondering how one man could get it so damn dirty just taking a shower.

She married a Marine, she does not wonder these things.

“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”

― Eleanor Roosevelt