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The inner piece is aluminum and the outer is steel. You get better weight savings than a solid steel sprocket, while getting the wear and tear longevity of steel sprocket teeth. I think it looks nice as well.

I agree. It looks good and I was almost sold, but what you mentioned is exactly why I didn't click "buy." Reviewing pictures I realized it's really difficult to make out plates even 30ft in front of the camera. I don't think 1080 with a tiny sensor is going to be enough. I don't mind waiting or paying more for a better quality image. I'll keep messing with the GoPro for now. I've done some testing and if I can read it with my eyes while on the road, I can zoom in and read it on the playback. My current settings are 2.7k resolution at 60fps with a wide field of view. Protune HAS to be enabled for the additional bitrate and I leave the flat color profile as the default. This gets the most image quality out of the GoPro that can be brought out in post processing. I've seen some dashcams hitting the 1440p resolutions, so they're getting better. I really think they're taking yesteryears cell phone camera sensors when the cell phone manufacturers are no longer buying them for their product lineups. So it seems dash cam camera tech is lagging a little bit.

Thanks Chris! That information is much appreciated.

The weather was beautiful Saturday so I took the FJ up into the north GA mountains to meet some coworkers for a cabin stay. The ride up was 70 and sunny. A night of poker, beer and tequila shots had me waking up wondering "Do I feel as look as I rough?!?" Saturday night it rained and by 11am, even the yard and dirt drive was soggy soft mud. Thankfully the FJ was still upright, but the gravel and dirt hill that I skidded all the way down with ABS popping was going to be a challenge. A rav4 (2wd) and a another 2wd SUV failed to make it up and reversed/slid back to the bottom multiple times each. The Tacoma and Ford F-150 trucks with 4wd made it to the top... but if 2wd failed, how is a one wheel drive on Michelin Road 5's supposed to make it up when the ABS had the rear wheel skipping all the way down in the dry?!? Well, I decided to give it a shot before the 2wd vehicles ripped and tore up the hill and ruts any further. I even stalled at one portion and honestly thought I was going to tip into the deep mud rut, but managed to hit the starter and made it to the top! The 2wd vehicles eventually got a running start and the key for them was to NOT touch the brakes, bounce all over the place and get by the mud on momentum. Did I mention the FJ-09 TCS is awesome? It's awesome.

I use Walgreen's alchohol prep pads. They're small and individually packaged ($4.19 for a box of 200) so they're easy to toss a few in a pocket before a ride and works perfect for mid day breaks and rest stops for a quick cleaning. If rain is in the forecast and for general commuting, I use the Nikwax visor treatment and it works amazingly well.

Mine has always made noise from day one so it never felt like it was out of place to me. It's been over 17,000 miles and it's never changed.

@daboo Sorry to necro an old thread, but it's been a while since this review and I'm really considering getting this or something like it. I love my gopro, but I'd like options if I don't feel like messing with batteries or making sure I copied the SD card and formatted it, etc... How well does the lens handle rain? The flat surface of the gopro lens cover won't let go of raindrops, even when I use rainex or nikwax type products. This makes the video almost useless when reviewing rainy footage unless I actively wipe the lens on a regular basis. Edited to tag the OP

Awesome. Ever since you announced that there would be a migration to a new site and premium membership was on hold, I've been waiting for the transfer. Donation sent for a year! Thank you (and mods) for running a great forum!

From Georgia and South Carolina summers, I'm familiar with and totally understand why someone would do this. My first "premium" helmet was my Shoei RF1200 and one of the best features I use all the time is the visor-crack. I can't go back... having a visor that will click to various levels of open, and stay there at speed is so convenient.

Yes, it will wheelie in standard with TC on, but only a few inches. If you stay on the throttle you can just ride it out while the bike nods "Yes yes yes!" as the front tire repeatedly mini-wheelies.

Gadzooks. Not sure what y'all doing to your chains. 10K on mine and still measures/specs/looks like new. 16k on mine and the chain and sprockets still look new. Though... I do a light spray of lube about every 200-300 miles, after weekend day rides and after anytime I ride in the rain. I clean it when it starts to look dirty, which is rare because all the dirt and grime slings off onto my swing arm and rear wheel B-| oops.

The only difference I notice is that I feel like I get better fuel mileage / range out of a tank of gas with zero ethanol. My butt dyno doesn't notice anything else. I recently didn't ride for almost a week due to the FJ being serviced and it was a pleasant surprise in 'A' mode that this engine has plenty of power and torque.

Do you always run high-octane fuel? Do you rev it high on a regular basis? I had a BMW K75S that had valve recession. I ran 87 octane fuel, and I wonder if that was the culprit. I only run high octane in the FJ, just in case - high octane fuel is cheaper than a valve job. Yep, I run only 93 Octane (US). I do ride it hard too. I daily commute and the metered on-ramps get treated like mini-drag trees. I even did a 600 mile round trip out of state on a week day a couple weeks ago and followed a couple of sports cars cruising at low triple digits. I'm not easy on the motorcycle, but I do all services on schedule and lube the chain every couple hundred miles. Original chain and sprockets still look great at 16k miles. The good news is the valves were all in spec with no issues.

Had 16,000 mile service done at the dealer. They checked the valves while they were in there because I mentioned people on the forums getting tight exhaust valves before the 24k mile maintenance and everything was in spec.

After 14,283 miles I finally replaced my clutch cable. During my weekly inspection I'd listen for crunchy feels or noises coming from the "kinked" area of the old part number and last weekend for the first time I heard it. Ordered a new cable and lubed and installed the updated part number today. It took about an hour and I carefully cut open the old cable to see how bad it was:

Interesting Review Chris / Daboo. Except for the mention of the Sena ... it appears to be worse for word the same detailed review as Diana Rypkema on Amazon who also had a blue car race up behind and cur in front of her. What's the connection? I snipped out a bunch to reduce size/formatting, but he stated screen captures and that he hadn't tested it yet. I'm guessing he clipped the screen captures from the website since they used the footage to obtain the example images. I doubt there's a connection, just people using the stock images from the site to show examples for a review.

I'd like to see the quality as well. I was previously using a Go Pro hero 4 that captured my accident in 2016, and since then I've upgraded to the Hero 6. I use the Hero 6 on the helmet chin and I toss the Hero 4 on the back as a rear facing camera. If I put the Hero 6 on 2.7k @ 60 fps, I can zoom in on license plates in my editing software and it's clear enough that if I can read a plate with my eyes on the road, I can make it out on the video. It's just a bit of a pain to sync two cameras and Bluetooth audio from the Sena. I use them like a dash-cam setup while commuting and would love something easier and mounted to the motorcycle. This looks perfect. Does it have any GPS overlay options? I know that's pretty common in dash cams now as well. Edit: I clicked the link to Amazon and it does indeed have GPS for route tracking. Awesome!

Sorry, you are correct. OEM style heated grips. The head of the service department argued AGAINST OEM and said to go with Oxford. Don't know why as everyone here sounds happy with theirs. I probably won't install mine once they come for a couple months. Just want them on hand so if i do find the time.... *installed grip heaters on another bike couple years ago. They worked awesome. As long as the grips themselves last i think the OEM should be even better then what i used long ago. Wow, that's really odd. I'm wondering why he argued against them because I also have the OEM ones and they've been fantastic. As a former service manager, I wonder if he was "selling from his pocket". It's when a salesperson operated from the perspective of their own wallet and maybe he just thought it was expensive. I like the clean install without adding anything to the handlebar. Also... because of the thread: I also re-attached my center stand. Putting it back on was MUCH more of a pain than the removal (which was a breeze).

Abso-dang-lutely! I lost the windshield and the funky hand guards and LOVE it. Added some air deflectors made out of flashing between the windshield mount and the headlight housing and (again just a seat-of-the-pants observation) it made a noticable difference in turbulence and noise. [em]***Snip for size***[/em] Just cut out of some color-matched aluminum flashing I happened to have laying around and mounted with 3M double-sided foam tape. This is the second season with them and they've (ahem...allegedly...) survived 3 digit blasts. Wow! I've been riding without windshield or hand guards for almost 2 years and love it. I even put the hand guards back on this winter for a single day, when I realized they really don't do anything beneficial. I love the way the flashing you attached ties that area together and it's also beneficial? Now I'm going to have to go play with it. Great idea!

Fitted a Michelin Road 5 front tire and some Shogun bar end sliders. I also neglected to reinstall those silly amber reflectors over the front forks. The new front tire is amazing, and I'm sure a lot of it is coming from a worn out front. The amount of front end feel is awesome and the way it effortlessly tracks a turn now is eye opening. I was having to maintain a lot of bar pressure to track a curve with a stock front tire at 12k miles. It was definitely overdue.

Installed Yamaha heated grips which should help my fingers arrive at work with me and the Higdonian Urban Cage =)

I had the 8,000 mile service done. The nice thing is the small amount of handlebar shake I'd get when engine braking under 40 mph if I took my hands off the bars is gone. I complained about it at the 4k mile service and they said it was likely the front tire. For the 8k mile service, they did check and re-torque the head/neck bearings and assembly. They also did a chain adjustment and alignment. It's running as smooth as ever! I'm still running on the same stock front tire.

I added some reflective tape to the wheels and had enough left over for the trim-lines on both sides. I also mounted the new Cortech 2.0 tail bag (18L expandable to 24) and I find it perfect for my daily commute items to work.

Wow... this means I adjusted it a half turn in the wrong direction! I didn't take the time to stop and think about what "too fast" meant. Unfortunately, the owners manual is vague with the harden/soften terminology.

Thanks for the answers, everyone. Thank you Pattonme for the additional reading and the spring explanation, which makes perfect sense. I was thinking in terms of my old eibach springs from my car-guy days, which were not constant rate. @norcal616 - Thanks! I'm a bit heavier and certainly more than the stock spring was set for at 230 all suited up. I'm running 36 front and rear. For most of the year I was running 36/42 and I'm hearing a lot of people run lower pressures. Dropping from 42 to 36 on the rear made a huge difference, but I've been hesitant to try less. @Koth442 - I was able to set my front sag a while back with the zip tie method. I'll have to revisit the rear since I messed with it. Thank you.