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Found a wild motorcycle xing. Apparently this is where herds of wild motorcycles cross the road.

No trail, just field on both sides and main road across the top of the photo.

Welcome. Running the chain a little loser than factory helps with the vibration. I also run foam grips. The shifting gets much smoother after about 3K-4K. I think you will find or have found the bike works very well in the N. GA mountains.

top of Blood Mountain today. Had a lot of sand/dirt so I took it easy going up.

7 hours ago, Cruizin said:

Guys we have the fireside chat board, and I wish more of you would use it. Come joke around with me, post off topic stuff. Im even loosening up the rules in there a lil bit. 

I had no idea we had a "Jo Mamma" section. I'll check it out.

Foam Grips, Mesh seat cover, swing-arm sliders, 2nd 12v accessory outlet, tank grip pads like @betoney has(sharp looking bike), speed bleeders, shorty levers, tinted headlight film (lamin-x) tinted windscreen ( I had the idea to use spray tint but never did ) I do have the tinted headlight film.

I had the same issue until I shaved the rubber bump stop for the centerstand. Stock it's 1/2"inch ish and mine is now about 1/8"inch thick. Peg's always touch first now.

been off the bike for a few weeks while recovering from some carpal tunnel surgery. While I was not riding I did a major upgrade and had some AK-20 cartridges from traxxion dynamics installed.  Had my first ride on them today and all I can say is WOW what a difference. Went down some local roads bumpy roads that gave the bike fit's with the stock suspension. So much better and no brake dive. It really highlights how bad the stock rear shock is. Now that I have tasted the koolaid I can't stand the stock rear shock and will be ordering a Penske rear Tuesday when the local shop opens.

intended to take a short ride of 5 to 10 miles and ended up searching out bad roads and speed bumps, 80 miles later I had  to turn on the GPS to get home !!

A few threads on here about that but basically, it's normal. When moving the bike will run about 100F over ambient. That is if it's 50F outside the bike will be at about 150F, when is 70F the bike will be about 170F. Thermostat is fully open at 180F so it should not get much warmer than that unless it really hot or when running the bike very hard.  When stopped the fan kicks on at 220F off at 200F

Put some barkbusters on for the cold weather riding. Have the storm barkbuster plastics on another bike and the storm have a much larger dead air area. I may swap as it gets a little colder.

Probably because there’s little in the automotive world to indicate what the actual operating or coolant temp of your car/truck is...  so it’s difficult to compare the 220F number to anything familiar and operating normal. 
-Skip

I'm a bit of gauge geek so I do have digital gauges in my 4 wheel vehicles.  But even with a simple gauge this no number scale .. cold-hot .. as long as you pay attention the gauge will go to the same spot and stay close to that. You can even see the thermostat open on most as the needle will drop slightly. If you have ever removed a failed thermostat and run without one then you will see a much wider range in temps .. much like my FJ and that was really my point. 

I have been wondering about this myself. All other water cooled vehicles ( bike or car )I have owned , have a thermostat that opens at a much higher temp .. 180F or 190F so the engine will go to that temp and stays close to that temp. My bike runs like it has no thermostat. If it's 40F the motor is at 140F .. 60F it's 160F up to about 180F motor temp (while moving). I had always suspected that the thermostat was stuck open from the factory or this motor runs a lot of bypass to keep the water moving. I do plan to do a flash of the ECU mostly to have the fan kick in sooner when not moving. 220F just bugs me and I'm not even 100% sure why.

Also having the same odd cold startup on my 2017 w/OEM batt.  I'll check the voltage when I get home.

Thanks for the reply, assumed that's what it would be but worth looking into. It would be nice but still not sure it's worth the effort at this point.

Now that the 2019 GT has cruse control, has this opened up any options for the older models? I was sure hoping that it would be an add on option like the quick shifter but I somehow doubt it. Anyone know if the tuners have been able to clone the code from the new ECU ? I know there are a few aftermarket options but a search here did not bring up any new info. that I could find.

Just hit 32,000

I looked a a pic I took of the old PR5 .. markings are there .. just never noticed.

Put on a new PR5 but I've only achieved level 2 fun so far. Never noticed the lines before this post.

Sunday I finally got to ride it  - the Hills were empty. Today I had the valves done. I did not intend it this way but as I put it back in the Garage it was exactly at 25000 miles. Some of the valves were tight.