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1 hour ago, texscottyd said:

I spent the weekend at the MotoGP races in Austin, yet somehow these are my favorite photos from the entire trip… 🤷‍♂️ 

 

Well it doesn't look like you got too much sun!

Nice horsey, sweet horsey.

Don't try to get on his back horsey.

Love the dumb lugs

But.

I don't do well at all when I ride them, never's been a good

 Doggy look tired

 You looked tired but content.

 So where did you stay being almost a local?

 It looked like it maybe had scattered showers. But otherwise the race was dry. How were the rides there and back?

When the circus ripped at Indy I was already very familiar with the routes to my birth state.

Went to every event. 

The year Val won I remember trying to beat the storm home.

Normally A 3.5 hour slab ride. No decent backroads between Skokie and Indy.

It rained 7 inches. Every friggin route flooded.

U.S. Minnow 3 hour tour became 12.5

I was so stupid not to stop somewhere and wait it out. But as it was the roads didn't open for as long as seven days!!!

However,  I cannot in my heart say it's my "home" state, as I know it too well.

little known fact

the KKK formally developed in the Hoosier state! The hospital I was born in was developed by the Indy brotherhood to keep AM out.

I'm sure you found some nice routes between houston and austin.

 Keep austin weird

6 hours ago, dazzler24 said:

I know what you're trying to imply Bret with your opening reply, but let's not overthink it and paint all Dutchman with the same white brush eh 🤔

While your bike fired right up I still wouldn't discount the relay, especially since you mentioned arcing noises emanating from it.  My bike would behave just like that too.  Wouldn't crank, then would normally for a week or two, then wouldn't, relay making strange noises so just maybe.....??  Just sayin.

Having said that, I guess at 8 years old the "old man" has had a good innings anyway.

Anyway, enough hijacking of the thread.  The skipper still hasn't got the reply to his original question!

As Brian had said about his battery he replaced it just because it was so old and didn't want to be let down out on the road. 

So I'm going to get a new battery a new Yuasa and see how that flies. 

As far as WP goes I really wasn't implying that they were white power extremists it was really just a joke 

As always thanks for your input!

Daryl,

Was he Dutch and white...

BTW, It was the battery not the relay. After I charged the old man over night it fired right up.

Question is will it hold enough of a charge for me to ride it until the new power cell gets here.

I can bring along I guess my Lithium Jump pack but...

I believe WP was a Dutch company and originally named White Power (yeh, did PC win out?), and was bought by KTM, whose taken off and run with it.

I took a nap after dinner (my health issues keep me exhausted ( D-Man I'll email you with an update) and was in no shape to limp out to the shop earlier, so I'll try starting it ITM.

My very sophisticated test procedure entails charging the battery on my trusty Deltran BT and then attempting to start it.

I had briefly charged it and it did fire up with hesitation.  I then charged it a little longer and it tried to kick over then failed. 

I've made no new electrical additions or changes since it started yesterday, so I can't see there being a new parasitic amperage drain. I've charged it as needed since last October (I'm no longer a believer in leaving a battery on a smart charger).

It scared me every time I tried to start it (likely 8 total attmpts and I hope it was not consequently damaged) because it makes a relatively loud sound like it's shorting out, frying. No smoke or Bakalite smell (I'm again dating myself and trying not to leave 2 spaces after a period), and it wasn't warm.

I checked voltage and the battery had dropped from near 13 to under 12.76. Maybe lower, as I was so shocked by this event, I didn't double check or can even recall if I did after the first time.

So hypothetically the proof will be in the pudding but I wish I had a inductive amp meter pick-up. Good excuse to buy the one I've been eyeing for ages...

50 minutes ago, SuperMax said:

I can ship this to you by UPS for $15, tomorrow. Please let me know your shipping details by PM if interested.

Thanks!

Great, I am watching the Austin MotoGP and finishing dinner.

Then I'll go run the start test and LYK tonight.

Thanks again.

Well, coincidentally I believe my original OEM battery gave up the ghost today after 8 years (can't complain), I have one more test to run (see if it starts without the starter relay clicking and making serious fritzing noise).

If you still have the battery, how much for shipping to 60076?

After completing most of my major service list, I just had to recalibrate the McCruise and try to go for a first (shake-down) ride of the season, and grrrr.

Thanks

After all these years which included replacing the stock clutch basket on my 15 fastest red with the 16xsr slip assist clutch I have to admit that I have maximum gronk 

In tuning the fuel injection so to speak inside my shop with the 6-ft pocket door and 3 ft man door open and three fans going, I should have put on ear protection just from the clutch noise. 🤫

You can't even hear the engine!!!

Unlikely anything will happen with it this year as I still have a backlog of maintenance to do , now I just want to get out and see if I can physically ride because I think once I'm rolling it doesn't become that pronounced that I can't ignore it as I have for the last probably 6 years.

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I'm not sure a Tracer was such a great choice for a first bike, so get some professional help (riding and psycho).

You have a huge challenge (couldn't help myself) ahead of you (and another pun).

Do searches on the forum and you should find everything you need if not want.

Handlebars and footpegs changes will always come compromises, and create side-effects that must be dealt with.

Saddles and suspension are even more important when your heavy, the latter being pricey but absolutely necessary. 

Enhancing brakes is relatively easy and inexpensive. 

Safety first, håll gummisidan nedåt

My youngest went to U of Glasgow for only one winter semester, and while many of the native students were nice enough, they didn't seem to get excited about anything.

Of course the weather was mostly miserable along with the food reportedly.

Sorry but still welcome aboard. 

PS my referenced kid then moved to San Diego, my "home" town.  Although while the weather in SD is generally what it was (but more rain and fires) the people and cost of living is/are excruciating!

It's gotta feel much lighter and the nimbleness make it seem like you're on a  bicycle in comp to the C14 !!!

3 hours ago, betoney said:

"You don't miss what you've never had"  Its funny how that happens, I said the exact same thing when I got my FJ.  I had never owned a bike with ABS or traction control let alone heated grips and cruise control.  Once I installed them it was a revelation and I was forever spoiled.  Along with a center stand they are the 3 items I will never go without on any future bike purchase.

Fortunately the base Tracer and Tracer GT are the exact same bike structurally and the add-ons can be installed relatively easily if you choose.  The bikes versatility is a main selling point, sporty riding on twisty roads or pack on the bags and comfortably ride across the country.

And don't forget putting in the slip assist clutch!

10-4!

Instant power + / -, brakes, suspension and most importantly,  LIGHTS!

I was actually wearing a Joe Rocket motorcycle jacket less the back armor, and it got shredded more than a bit.

My Bell Achera helmet PEPS bead Crush Cap was split in half right  between my eyes!

But at that time, in over 35 years of street riding, I'd never really been hurt except for my brain sloshing around in the ole skull as well, when I highsided my 61 BSA Rickman Matisse Gold Star within the first 6 months of street riding a 500 4stroke near Big Basin SP northeast of Santa Cruz in the San Bruno mountains.

As I may have previously mentioned, the sport of Judo, "the gentle way", is even worse than American football for CTE...

17 years of that makes every day Groundhog Day as SWMBO reminds me every day 

With my bad hands and wrists,  my McCruise is a life saver.

Goes at any speed and gear.

kyle J

My first street bike was an 81 cb 650 that was candy apple red , thats probably what drew me to the 15 fj09 that I was originally looking at. Nice collection by the way !

My gear would fit🫠

🤣if only 22 pounds

Oy vey, another oil thread...

Experimentation is the only Way

Tire maker and model of course play a big part though.

I have a TPMS  and the cold hot disparity front/ rear is crazy, and relative not that accurate.  You must verify with a decent digital or even a good analog Mechanical giage.

This is the best Honda (Italian) Red !

And yes, #2 is the 15 FJ red, with the 06 Mazda 3S red close behind.

Then theirs the 76 Yamaha RD400 red, 81 Kawi GPZ550D1 red, and of course my 61 Matchless G80CS red...

But the 21 T9 red will grow on you 

Def go 4 da 21  !!!

5 hours ago, piotrek said:

The stock bar on the FJ had very little sweep, and that put pressure on my hands in a way that caused my palms to go numb from vibration. I had to install grip puppies for some relief, but that made the grips fat. I installed risers and a bar with a better sweep... all is well now, and the grip puppies are gone.

I 2nd risers and Renthal Street Nakeds!

Barn doors, intermediate & halfsize

Like winter parka, spring / fall jacket & a wind breaker

My Hit-Air vest is made in Nippon.  They have equestrian models too.  Makes sense to me.

Why is this so complicated?

It's beaten to death.

I thought it was a April Fool's Day joke.

Some young Canadian YouTube wonder who rides a bike just OK thinks thinks he's extremely smart despite the fact he never knew the world before the internet let alone computers.

They didn't have no stinken puters!

They did what JFK said they would.  John Glen went up a Atlas missile liquid-fueled 10-foot or so diameter 85-foot long flying beer can with a Centaur solid-propellent 2nd stage tacked on.  They were still using them almost monthly as launch vehicles in the 70s when the same guys (who also made B-24s and PBYs 30 years prior at the Lindberg Field plant and were producing the Shuttle payload bay) made sure the original GD Convair Tomahawk cruise missile enable the 3rd gen later made their way to Sandam's party palace.

Encoding for punch cards was based on simple 0 / 1 sheets you'd get back in maybe a week.

It was faster for us boys to use slide rules, adding machines and 13 columnar pads with 0.5 mm mechanical pencils, then after spending a week in the shop developed hands-on the means and methods, had to make the machines that made the material we then tested using apparatus incorporating .0001" dial indicators along with spring and air powered pressure gauges.  For acceleration factors, we fixed actual gimbal mounted gyroscopes to determine force and it's distribution at various grab your ass intensities on a descending graph scale so we could refine the production of the material; basic Industrial Revolution design, industrial, manufacturing engineering.  Then we had to design and prototype the machines to finally produce the components, subassemblies and major assemblies with these fun new composites materials.  We called them advanced composites. 

It's called doing it analog.

Whether at the design end or user end Anything you can do to increase your odds, including redundancy, is The Way as they said recently.

Torture testing in practical ways, like dragging a pair of pants filled with a sand gypsum mix behind a pickup truck in their print advert...

For example, we just used calibrated sand bags to load a F106 incrementally while watching the mechanical dial indicators until we heard something crack.  Only later were stain gauges epoxied to the substrate and their bi-pole leads individually run back to a "peg-board" that interfaced later back in the lab to eventually digitize stress until failure printed out on graph paper.  The 101 & 106 wings were metal bonded together in the 1960s.  We recertified their air structures 3 times in the 70s...

Not rocket science but we tried to make ourselves appear like we were...

My 79 Sirocco was way ahead of its time.  Hurst shifter, Bilstein shocks & springs, sway bars big throttle body and tweaked mechanical VW CIS FI.  I loved embarrassing 914s and 16s up Mt. Palomar... On the way down my brakes glowed red.  Still was faster up on my Matchless G80 cafe.

We made ultralights in Dept. 018 and passed the subassemblies over the south 40 fence at the Kearny Mesa plant.

GL