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I've have my bike a 2016 FJ09 since 2018 and never until recently experienced the heat of which you speak of. did a Iron Butt Bun Burner Gold ride 1500 miles in less than 24 hours and rode through 105 temps. During this time I actually burned my left calk severely through my R3 Aerostich Roadcrafter riding suit. I just wrapped the catalytic convertor with a heatshield product. The link below has enough to cut in half and partially wrap the side and top. https://www.summitracing.com/parts/HSP-177101 It is designed for the intense heat from a cat. I only have about a 30% wrap. I have yet to take the bike out for an extended ride to see the results. But I will report back. It's by no means the ideal solution, but it may be a stop gap. A new aftermarket exhaust will cost you upwards of a grand to reduce the heat you are experiencing. I'll also post a couple fo pictures with my "prototype idea". It's ugly, but if it works then I can live with it. I never look at the cat when riding anyway! HA!

Just added new foot pegs to my highway bars. The Denali S4's are relatively new and the 10watt DRL's have been on the bike since 2018. The pegs are from Amazon, $32.00 cheapies. The Denali's aren't cheap, but extremely bright for their size. The two lower LED's are wide beam fixed and the two top LED's on each unit are long range spot. You have to adjust them to find the sweet spot. For another $300.00 the next Denali light allows you to adjust all of the four LED's independently. I can live the the already high price of about $300.00 for the pair, not including the mounts. Or you can swing for the seven LED versions and light up a football field! But they're running about $700.00 a pair and are huge! The cheap pegs fold up and out of the way. Although they are pretty small to begin with so I don't think they'll be in the way down all the time. They're only for leg position relief on long trips. Not necessarily to proping up for huge lengths of road, but we'll see on that too!

I did the same but with a 17 front and 43 rear to gain better MPG's, lower Highway RPM's. Easier on the bike and me while cruising at or near 70'ish all day long. I believe the chain is the same length to go back to the 16/45 stock set up if I decide the bike is too "frumpy".

The roads to and from Mary's Peak are fantastic too! Nice pictures!

Love the Lava Tubes! But Damn! you'd better rent the damn hard hats! Ouch!

The funny thing is my Aerostich R3 is fine and no burns or heat damage to my boots. No issues with the bike running hot as the temp gauge ran no hotter than 195 and ambient air temps no higher than 105. It was like a blast of hot air directed straight and sustained at the middle of my inner calf as my riding suit was pressed tight against my calf with zero air flow between the inner suit liner and my bare skin. I didn't have long pants on under the suit. Opting to wear bike shorts for comfort on this long ride. Yes this is very unusual as I now have over 21,000 on the bike and no issues like this before the ride. I tired holding my left foot out and away as much as possible, but my highway lights are mounted exactly where I tried resting my foot and that just didn't work very well. I just ordered a set of highway pegs to mount on the engine guards to see if they will allow me to hold a different position during long rides.

2016 Stock exhaust FJ-09. Brutal left side heat issues coming from the catalytic convertor. Enough that I have 2nd degree burns on my left calf. Any solutions? Shields? Guards? Replace the exhaust? I don't want to lose my center stand though. Any thoughts, Ideas. solutions? Thanks.

I just finished a IBA (Iron Butt Association) Oregon In State Bun Burner Gold. This is 1500 or more miles in less than 24 hours, on my 2016 FJ-09. I set the bike up with a 1 gallon RTIC water jug with an insulated tube attached to my tank bag with a retractor the right side of the bike. I attached this to a 1" square tube bolted to the rightsize Shad side bag mount and used a couple of 6" pipe clamps to hold the SS bottle in place. I already have my GPS, Cell phone mount. Then added my Go-Pro to document the stop gas receipts and a timer to stay focused on the clock, all Ram Ball mounted. Custom saddle by Don's Moto in Albany, OR done a year ago. Madstad shield. Denali S4 lights for night riding. Planned stops no greater than 155 miles apart as I was worried about higher sustained MPG. I also swapped out the sprockets with 17/43 combination and new DID 525 x ring chain, which lowered the highway RPM's considerably. 22 hours 45 minutes and GPS mileage of 1538 and a speedo indicated 1574. Done. Waiting on the documentation to arrive at the IBA for their scrutiny and of course certification. Did this with a experienced buddy on his Kawasaki Concours 14. This is not my first IBA ride either, but first on this bike. No road issues, no critters, no cops, no imbeciles in cars or trucks, no rain, little to no wind. Fast gas stops and ate and drank on the bike. The only issue (a big one) was a tremendous amount of heat coming up on the left side burning my left calf. Like 2nd degree burn with blisters and severely red skin. I don't have highway pegs so I was limited as to where I could place my left foot. I wore my R3 stich with bike shorts for comfort so my legs didn't have pants as protection. Air temperatures during the really hot time was up to 105 degrees. Bike never ran hotter that 195 degrees, but the heat was brutal coming up from the catalytic converter on the stock system. Beside the benefits of increased HP and lighter weight my question is would a after market exhaust reduce the heat output? Next time I wear some calf protection! The only other add on I should have had was cruise control. But it was too late to add for this trip. However its coming before winter! Picture 1 is the final stop and 2 of me and the bike. You can see the RTIC bottle. I'll post more detailed pictures of the hydration system if anyone is interested. So if anyone can attest to any heat reduction with a aftermarket exhaust chime in. Thanks!

Sprocket center. I just changed my stock (after 20k!) with a 525 DID X ring and a 17/43 combo for extra mileage and lower highway RPM's. Just yesterday/today completed a BBG1500 with my 2016 FJ09using this combo. If you are on the highway a lot this is a great combo. Certainly more sluggish than the stock 16/45. But not too bad if you're an old guy who doesn't mind the bike being much more pleasant living at 4500-5500 RPM's all day long.

Madstad is not on the list. I've owned two on two different bikes. Well worth the cost.

Where is the Espresso maker?

I installed a new DID chain 17 tooth counter sprocket and 43 tooth rear sprocket. The bike appears to be significantly less rough in all gear changes and the RPMS are 5000 flat at 82 mph. That was the primary goal to lower the highway RPMS's. 4000 flat at 62 mph. Sprocket center was the vendor. removal and install easy enough. Although I did break my DID chain setting pin. Those bastards cost $22.00 each! Damn!

BETTER TASTE! HA!

What that guy said.

Michelins all the way! I've put over 400K on bikes since the early 80's and every single Michelin I've ever had met or exceeded my expectations. I've used Dunlops, Pirelli's, Avons, Shinko's, Continentals, Kendra, IRC, Yokohama's (yes I'm that old) and some odd korean brand I can't even remember its name. Michelins never ever let me down. and I always seemed to come back to them. And yes I commented from Everett to Seattle, then Bonney Lake to Kent everyday, rain or shine (mostly rain!) and the michelins are sure footed and long lasting.

Cool, Just ride through the perimeter cones slow tight to the southside of the parking lot. I should be at the bike sheds about 11:30 am at the latest. Black FJ09

Yes. It starts at 12:15 pm Ends about 5pm. There is a morning class there until 11:45 am I'll be on site about 11:30 am. Do you know where the training range is?

Its a nice loop. I should have gone for a ride today. Sorry to see the destruction. We’ll have to talk about your aux tank someday. I’m just down in Eugene. Ill be teaching a PM MC class at LBCC with Team Oregon next weekend. Maybe you could show it off then?

That's a great dealership to support! I too have (overtime) learned to love Michelins way over Dunlops and I too cannot wait till the dunlop's wear out. In fact I just talked myself into getting a new Michelins PR front because I truly hate the way the Dunlop feels.

Check the cheap things first! 1) Pull the Schrader valve, (Not the stem) clean the inside of the valve stem with a Schrader valve tool and replace with a brand new Schrader valve (easily purchased at a auto parts store). 2) Over inflate the tire (50 psi) and do the partial submerge test. You can do this with the tie mounted, bike on the center stand. 3) Pull the tire and use a very high intensity light to examine both the inside and outside including the bead. Make sure there are zero foreign objects and check the nature of the build of the tie. If there are any irregularities its manufacture. Replace the entire valve stem with a new metal one with rubber gaskets-fittings. 4) Clean the inside of the rim bead seat with a scrubbing pad and hand check for any abnormalities including any out of round condition. IF you have perform a run out test, both radially and axial. Tolerance shouldn't be out more the a couple thousands at worst. The manual may have specs on this. 5) With that same light check the rim for any abnormalities. There could be a hair line crack that potentially is causing this 6) Purchase a can of Ride-on tire sealant if everything else fails. 7) AND! if the Ride-on fails. it's time for a a new tire. IF it fails again, its time for a new rim If it fails again Buy a brass bell, you have gremlins due.

Hang a brass bell on the bike. You have gremlins dude! :)!

I've done that with other bikes. I'm happy with the set up at the moment. Spieglers will be the next step But for my casual "old man riding style " R1 320's and matching master aren't really necessary. But then again, I've say that before and did the changes anyway. I converted My old 2001 Concous to 17" wheels front and rear added 300mm rotors with six pot tokico's and Spengler SS lines. The big bike stopped sooo much better and was transformed into the machine Kawasaki should have made. Then the C14 came along.... As I got older it become just too heavy for my short commute and in town traffic, so the FJ09 came along. So far love the bike. I little under powered but I'm not going exotic or R1 so it'll do for now.

Yeah I knew they where the GG pads. and yes I just got back from about 50 miles of quick stops to bed them in. No surprises. Thanks!

New EBC HH brake pads front and rear. Easiest bike to change pads on that I've ever owned! With only 17,000 miles on the bike I still had stock pads and probably another 3-5,000 left on them. But they felt just a little off on a very hard stop today, so off to Cycle Gear and she stops on a very thin dime now!