Cruizin

Huge thanks @texscottyd !!

Big thanks to @rustyshackles for joining the supporting member program! Thanks for helping to fund this forum yet again! 

1 hour ago, rustyshackles said:

Should current premium members who wish to get on board join now or wait for you to reach out?

1 hour ago, texscottyd said:

Same question.   Thanks again for all you do with this forum, @Cruizin!   It’s worth every penny of paid membership for the information and entertainment... 

I honestly dont know when your one year anniversary date is. When we made the switchover from the old software to this new website last year, we lost the records we were keeping on who to bill and when. Phucking pissed me off too! I got most everything right on the switchover except for that and the links to old posts transferring over. 

This is why I switched to this new subscription system, records are stored on OUR server and the payment info is stored on stripes servers.  BTW, I do not have access to your payment info, by design. 

So, Im going with the honor system with you guys. Whenever you think is your anniversary date, go ahead and use that for when you want to sign up and buy one year of supporting membership.

If you were promised a premium for life membership for one payment when you signed up, send me a PM and Ill switch you over manually.  (That was the system back when we were on the old software and things were still cheap.) 

If you want to buy a year of supporting member now, you certainly can!  Thank you all either way!  Once you become a supporting member, you will get an invoice one year from your signup date. If you chose for us to store your payment info, we will automatically re charge your card in a year. Unless you go to subscriptions and remove yourself from the program. 

If you were one of the old premium for life members and send me a pm and I will switch you over for free, you will not get any future charges or invoices because a promise is a promise.

Thanks to all that have supported the forum! 

Just added another new perk for supporting members. GIPHY!

Supporting members and Moderators now have a "GIF" icon in the top of the tool bar when you are creating a or replying to a post. It is a little box with the word GIF in it. 

Click on that and this pops up

Now, type in the search box on the bottom what kind of GIF you want. In this case, I am typing in "That was Easy", and then I simply click on the GIF that I like the most and it pops up in your post. 

Ok, lets try another search. Say, Chris Farley. 

Ok, so we can see that these gifs can get out of hand if we load too many in a post. So, please only load one per post.    

I will add more features later. You get a lot for $50 a year !

Big thanks to @norcal616 for joining our supporting member program! Thanks yet again for supporting our community! 

10 hours ago, 1moreroad said:

How does that peak.catch the wind given the strange air movement on the FJ. I considered a dual sport helmet when I bought the Klim, but I figured that the buffeting would be terrible. 

I don't have this helmet yet, but the visor works great on my other helmets and my dirtbike helmets. It's especially handy when facing the sun. It catches the wind a little more than non visored helmets but you get used to it real fast and the sun blocking aspect totally makes it worth it!

Rebump! 

Bump

Over the years, you have probably noticed that some members have a badge under their usernames, next to their posts titled "Premium Member" .  This means that member decided to contribute to the forum and help pay for the cost of this place. 

The New Supporting Member program is replacing the premium member program, and no longer requires one to donate via "Paypal". It is all now automated, using our existing and very secure forum software. Payment is handled thru "Stripe", a very secure payment gateway. 

What is the new Supporting Member Program?

It's an "optional" annual subscription that allows members of the forum to contribute to the costs of running and keeping this forum online.  In return, you get a bunch of perks , including an "ad free" experience on the forum. 

What are the perks? 

*Supporting Member tag under your username

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*You can upload an unlimited amount of images on the forum. (regular members are limited as to how many pics we will host). 

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*You can send PM's to people that have exceeded their PM storage limits

*You can have an animated avatar!! As long as it is under 500 kb's in size. 

Why are we doing this?

 We currently have over 120 GB of your photos on the forum. Hosting this forum and all of those images costs into the upper hundreds per month now, and that comes right out of my wallet. This does not include the software license fees and unpaid hours each week managing this forum.  It's gotten expensive so having this program helps us pay for the costs of running this forum. All proceeds go right back into the forum.

Ok, How do I sign up? 

Just click on "subscriptions" at the top of the forum, or if on a phone, click those three lines at the top right of the screen and then click on subscriptions.  It is only $50 a year to subscribe.

The new supporting member program no longer requires Paypal donations. Payment is handled thru our encrypted website and handled by Stripe, a very secure payment processor. The moment that you sign up, the switch to "supporting member" will be auto and instant. 

Likewise, when your subscription hits the one year mark, if you choose to have your payment info stored, the system will auto renew after one year, but you will be warned via email one week before this and you can cancel at any time.

Or, you can choose to not store your payment info at all, when you sign up.    You can also go into subscriptions and cancel renewal at any time.  

All proceeds go right to the costs of managing, upgrading and hosting this forum and will keep this forum online! 

The forum and all of our perks are expensive to run. Pic hosting is especially expensive. We are not a large corporation, my wife and I pay for this forum out of our own pockets. So we really appreciate it anytime someone decides to become a supporting member. 

What about existing "Premium Members" ? 

The existing premium member program will be going away.  It was connected to the old paypal/donate method and we had no way of knowing when your subscriptions expired. This new program is all automated. When your subscription expires, you will get a warning email 7 days in advance and then you can subscribe to the new supporting member program.  After a year, if you choose to store your payment method in when signing up, you will auto renew. You can click on subscriptions and cancel at anytime. 

Some of you , we have no idea when your subscriptions expired, so I will be reaching out to all of you one at a time. You can click on subscriptions and sign up for the new program whenever, though. 

Stuff is getting expensive, not many people bought our shirts that we had designed so Im hoping that this new program is a success. 

Thanks to all for being members of our great forum, both paid and free! 

On 10/26/2019 at 2:04 AM, Aminochelat said:

Pánové, jaké helmy používáte? Rád bych čerpal inspiraci.

I am a big fan of Schuberth helmets. I feel that they are the most comfortable, the quietest and among the most protective helmets on the market. Plush and comfy once they break in. 

Here is my next Helmet, wife is getting me one for Christmas.

Schuberth E1 Adventure Helmet

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The ADV version of the legendary C3 Pro boasts off road focused features...

1 hour ago, Wintersdark said:

Picking up the 2019 Tracer 900 GT I traded my MT07 in for today!  

Hey, happy to see you upgrade and join our forum here! Welcome!

Mods, I am ok with this group buy. Sounds like a good thing for those who want these!

Luckily, the FJ/tracer/MT09 engine is really durable. Guys are getting great miles out of these bikes. These bikes will out last most of us before we sell them. 

Also, I want to add that no cleaner is going to remove the sludge and carbon build up on old clogged up valves in one application. Such test are worthless because when some carbon is removed, it is because the tester was trying 3-4 different brands, and each one of those were actually starting to soften the carbon. When the final test comes and some carbon comes off after adding "brand x" , it isnt because brand x was any better than brand A before it, it was because Brand A, Brand B, Brand m all did their job and softened the carbon and the final test of "brand X' was just when the carbon broke off.

It takes multiple applications to remove carbon deposits. And, what do you think happens to that carbon when it comes off the valves? It goes into the engine, scars up the cylinder walls and rings and everything else. Carbon doesn't just dissipate. So keep that in mind if you have a high mileage engine. There are also instances where carbon is actually doing an old engine a favor by filling in worn out gaps and keeping compression high on a worn out engine. 

The best course of action is to use any brand of fuel additive from day one on new engines so that carbon never does build up in the first place. Any brand of PEA nitrogen fuel additive works fine. 

1 hour ago, FJ29ER said:

Someone needs to set up a injector cleaning machine and point them at a dirty carbonned up valve with different cleaners and see which valve starts to clean up first. That would be interesting.

 

I Picked up 4 of them for like $8. They are convenient because the size of them mixes with 5 gallons. So just carry one when I go to fill up and throw it away but I am sure if you got some chemical breakdown of them it would be similar .

 

I will probably start investigating better fuel anyways.

The Lucas fuel additive has amoung the highest amount of PEA. 

3 hours ago, skipperT said:

Not true. And unless you’ve pulled apart multiple engines that have used ( Medrx) / Ringfree (which I have) versus no fuel additive, I don’t believe you have enough data to back that up. 

@FJ29ER - formerly known as Ringfree, and also ringfree plus, medrx is a fuel  treatment combined with fuel stabilizer that removes carbon buildup. It does what it says it does, although if you can find Ringfree plus, it’s the old formula (renamed).
Was originally developed by Yamaha for treating carbon buildup on outboard engines, (along with combustion chamber cleaner) it works on any internal combustion engine. You can use it in 2 different doses, shock treating or constant treating. You do need to replace spark plugs and change the engine oil after a shock treatment (not constant treat) because the carbon breaks down and can affect the heat range and condition of the spark plug, and it can dump heavy carbon deposits in the engine oil (after a shock treat)
IME crossplane engine valve lash get tight. I’ve seen it on many cp3’s, and several super 10’s. Yet to do a cp2 fz07, so jury is still out on that one.

imho Carbon buildup causes valve lash to get LOOSE, not tight, because it gets between the valve seat and the valve which in turn causes the valve to be further down in the cylinder head (not tighter again IME) as opposed to sucking further INTO the cylinder head when closed, which would cause tighter valve lash.  
where the service writer lead you astray, was by stating that if you use medrx, your valve lash will be good, which IMO Is a bogus statement. There’s no guarantees for that, all engines wear differently. 
medrx will however decrease and prevent carbon buildup on piston crowns, rings, valve stems and seats, and inside the throttle bodies and intake tract. 

however, there’s also no substitute for running good quality, 91 or better name brand gas as Cruizin mentioned. It burns cleaner and leaves fewer deposits behind. 
Ethanol free fuel is generally thought to be better, but harder to find in some areas. 

-Skip

Well, I've rebuilt over 15 car engines in my life, both top and bottom ends.  Two stroke dirtbike engines, Four stroke dirtbike engines, and a few streetbike engines. MedRX is no better than the Chevron Techron, the Lucas Oil fuel additives, and most of the 10 other top shelf fuel additives. They all contain the same active ingredient, PEA and anyone who says that their "other" ingredients are superior are basically doing the old snake oil sales techniques.  Ill explain below. 

Yamalube does not manufacture MedRX or Ringfree. Like Honda, they purchase and repackage/white label their oils and additives from petroleum/chemical firms.  The active ingredient in most fuel additives that do the "cleaning" per say is Polyether-amine, or P.E.A. as it is better known. It's a nitrogen based detergent that cleans the top end of engines and fuel injectors and deals with the total crap that is in our gas here in the USA now days. Including Ethanol.  

There are only like 8 companies who actually manufacture fuel additives and oils, and then companies like gumout, royal purple, redline, Honda, Yamaha, Napa etc, etc purchase in bulk and package them under their names. Most all are about the same, with PEA Nitrogen as the active ingredient and some with other additives added in for marketing or fuel stabilization. 

Chevron even patented "Techron" for marketing purposes, but it too is just PEA with their stabilizer added. This allows them to market the superior technology and all that bull. 

PEA is what is used in all fuel additives, sometimes they call it something different but its basically a strong nitrogen formula.  It is the strongest detergent additive available, this is why all fuel additives use it as the main ingredient. 

Any top shelf fuel additive with PEA in it works fine. I premix my dirt, street and snowmobile fuels with non ethanol 93 octane fuel and Royal Purple 10722 additive in five gallon race jugs. I use top end oil for the two strokes. 

I like the Royal purple because it has a strong fuel stabilizer so it can sit over the winter and the fuel won't go bad. But really , to determine the best addiive, dont worry so much about the brand, and just read the labels and pick the one that has the highest % of PEA for the lowest cost. EVerything else is just BS marketing.

It also costs a whole hell of a lot less than anything sold at a USA bike dealership. A lot of the guys I race hare scrambles with use it as well, including the service manager at my local Yamaha Dealership.  😉

And avoid ethanol gas if you can. Gas station by my house has non ethanol 93 octane and it burns clean. 

1 hour ago, FJ29ER said:

Anybody use it? Made by yamalube. Was at the dealer the other day returning the CCT i got since I put the MCCT in. Saw a FJ out front and i liked the windscreen so found out who's it was and it was an advisers. Talked to him for a few minutes..he has 25k on his FJ and has had no issues. It is a later 2016 it looks like. Original CCT, Just about to do the valve adjust though.

So he did the sales pitch etc and showed me valves out of another FZ. The intake valve was caked with carbon and the exhaust valve was burnt looking but clean. His pitch was "something too much carbon, lean condition, hot valve=tight" etc idk..tend to kinda tune salesmen out, He says he uses this stuff every time he fuels up and has for the last 20k....

Did say something about fowling the plugs though.

I ended up buying a few bottles lol but think it would hurt to try?

Same as the fuel conditioner you can get at Autozone for half the price of a dealer product. I really try to avoid buying anything from dealers. 

Just get a flashing blue light and mount it on your helmet. Cures most traffic issues. 

1 hour ago, 2and3cylinders said:

I'm a very firm believer in headlight modulators, and have used them for at least 25 years.  My friend Andy who owns Kisan Tech asked me to help him develop a HLM for the FJ-09 but it will work on the new Tracer and most newer Yamaha with LED headlights.

Look at the link and you'll see how it installs.  My 15 FJ was the test mule.  I can ask Andy if he'll do a group buy price for the forum (I should post on the FZ forum too).  BTW, while the HLM unit itself is tiny, with its short harness, it's down in a crowded area if you've swapped to Speigler brake lines, so per my request, he'll also make one with a longer harness for those who want to tuck it up higher.

LMK

Your friend is welcome to join our supporting vendor program and I'll help him sell a ton of these via this forum, email marketing, our social media programs. This can include a group buy as well.  Either way, I need to be involved in this as I have seen group buys go south and the Forum admin always gets blamed when they do.  

2 hours ago, Supero1 said:

Can you send me some pictures of its current condition and how long did you use it for?

Its an old post from May and he hasn't logged in since back then.  

@wordsmith Im merging this with your other thread..  No need to have two duplicate threads. 

On 10/5/2019 at 6:57 PM, betoney said:

Anything goes with heavy duty springs...  😎

If that girl mega farts, they might just orbit the Earth. 

5 hours ago, rustyshackles said:

My sticker arrived.  Adhesive won’t separate from paper backing...before I assume it’s just a bad unit, anyone else experience this?

I was able to seperate mine, you should contact teespring and demand a refund. 

37 minutes ago, wordsmith said:

Cut-and-paste from WORD.

May I ask why you are typing your posts on word and then pasting them here? if you need help posting pics or anything, just ask.