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Looks VERY good!

And some of the Blokes are a bit ordinary-looking too, dazz.

It's been years since I had a firm front lever...

Exactly right! That could almost be my story too, even down to the moving-on from the BMW GS LC.

Not that I practice it, but I have more than once read that a mobike rider should make a full-on both-brakes emergency stop once in a while as a means of keeping one's skills up to scratch, and ensuring the ABS is still functioning. It make sense...

This will not be believed, but in all my years of riding (since 1997, and discounting my early teen years in England long before ABS) I have only once felt the ABS engage - and that was on my wife's BMW F650 when I hit the rear brake pretty hard to avoid an errant taxi-driver. Colour me fortunate!

Was the scoop to remove the poop in your riding pants...🤢

How could you, Dazz! Put the fear of Dog into me. I'd never do such a thing (still trembling!). 🤥

I have just taken out a new comprehensive policy with added Roadside Assist (itself valued at $140) with SWANN - total 12 months premium being $564.18 for an agreed vale of $16,000 and $500 excess. I have devalued the bike a little from its previously insured sum of $18,000 as I'm sure that all values will be similarly affected for the foreseeable future. Happy now that I can get out as from Saturday next.Also - Q'ld's Dept of Main Roads emailed me today after I prodded them - they are not able to offer any 'freezing' or whatever of rego costs because of the lock-down, which happily only lasted several weeks and not several months. They say they cannot, which really means WILL not. Bustuds!

But first - I wanna come and watch you re-engage that ABS! Have video-camera, will travel!

Bugger and shite - but glad you are OK. Repairable? - if not, GT??

Noice job, Dazz - just completed in time for Saturday's midnight Le Mans start from almost every garage holding a mobike in Q'ld!

Rapid Bike EASY Lawrence of Suburbia I've been reading on another Forum some extensive posts about this piece of kit, supposedly an alternative - among many - for the well-known Booster Plug, which smooths-out low-throttle running and eradicates jerkiness and 'stuttering'.. Does anyone here have any knowledge of or experience with the Rapid Easy product on a Tracer/ GT? Early model Tracers were notorious for very snatchy and jerky throttle-responses, partially but not wholly cured as production went on and refinements were introduced. Certainly my 900 GT was not too bad. I assume in the pic below the key is just for scale! TIA... ► Show Full Signature Lawrence of Suburbia ('39 model) - living blissfully by the sea in Redland Bay, near Brisbane, SE Queensland, Australia. Riding my 2017-build 2018-model BMW R9T Roadster with Option 719 upgrades, finished in Blueplanet metallic paintwork with brushed aluminium tank and gold pinstriping, as from late January 2020.

Lookin' very good, Dazz!

Just be careful to remove the weight and the cable-tie before heading-off to test the ABS. Stranger things have happened!

On ANOther Forum that I infest occasionally, there has been much debate about screens of this kind, though I hasten to add an important pint the the csreens in question are to be fitted to an oil-cooler/ rdiator, not a water-cooling radiatore: the bikes in qustion being air/ oil-cooled BMW boxer twins. Looks mint, Nate!

I'm entirely with you on this, betoney. I regard the tucked-away style and location of the Yam's zorst to be an appealing visual feature. This is said after very many years with BMWs with their h-u-g-e, exposed, and very expensive canisters, often referred to by BMWers as 'water heaters'! The zorst on the new XR 900 is a case in point...

"I've also taken the opportunity to install a hydraulic rear brake switch as part of this install". Que??. But well done, dazz - I think we have all sweated with you through this.

Y're more than welcome, metallion. Chromeburner gets excellent reviews here, as do the Bagster products, so you should be happy. Only thing is the current lengthy delays in shipping: I ordered yesterday a side-stand enlarger pad for my bike - it's gonna take up to seven (7) weeks to arrive. But I guess we can only be patient! Please let us all know your impressions once you've received and tried the new perch.

Don't worry, Dazz - I have it on very good authority that today (Friday) is the day some restrictions affecting we bikers will be lifted...

Very good! Three Weetbix for brekkie today no doubt!!

Colour me ignorant on this topic - but what does 5-lines and 7-lines mean? Of cocaine? - surely not, Dazz!

Glad it helped. if anything, there are maybe too many options from the BAGSTER configerateur - I think I counted about 74 possible choices once! In earlier times - referring to your water-absorption query - there were minor issues about the seat not being water-proof in event of rain or hosing-down: Bagster now, and for quite some time past, has put a thin plastic membrane between the seat cover and inner foam, thus keeping it quite waterproof. I've had three Bagsters seats, including for the GT, and never experienced any water-logging!

I'll try to find some side-on pix and if lucky will post them here. LATER EDIT: success! Side-on pic below, seat in higher position. No forward slope evident. For more of my ramblings and pix on this subject, go to the Tracer 900 General Forums, then to the Tracer GT discussions, where from Nov 2019 you'll find plenty under the heading "Love at first sit....". Hopefully you'll find it both useful and interesting... good luck!

Thinking more about this topic, I have a view that one of the reasons why buyers - at least here in Oz - shunned the bike from day one was the ghastly North Atlantic Shipping Container Grey paintwork on the first editions of the Tracer. Worse, it was a matte finish, and looked so drab and - well - grey that it tended to induce suicidal thoughts in onlookers! The later iterations and GTs have moved ahead considerably in this regard, but first impressions tend to linger...