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    What boots do you ride in?

    in Gear Reviews

    Posted

    32 minutes ago, rlambke19 said:

    I also have Puma boots - the Gore Tex version and they have been great.

    Sadly, they are no longer available.

    I originally bought the gore tex ones from Hein Gericke and a second non gore tex pair eventually from J&S accessories, the non gore tex ones i wear the most so as to keep my original ones for longer journeys

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    I broke the left mirror screw :(

    in FJ-09 Tracer 900 General Discussions

    Posted

    6 hours ago, TheBigG said:

    Sure! 

    As you can see the bolt i'm holding in my hand is one piece and it is broken at the top. The top is M6 and the bottom is M10. The M6 part was grinded than I drilled a 5mm hole in the lower part of the bolt (the M10 one) and used a M6 tap to create thread into the hole. Now I can use whatever screw I want (M6) to keep things together. The head of the screw will press down the bits as the nut did before.

    It is not difficult to do it, the alloy of the bolt is fairly soft.

    Nice simple job, excellent repair

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    raising the fj-09 for offroad travel?

    in FJ-09 Tracer 900 General Discussions

    Posted

    22 hours ago, trevinator said:

    i dont know, why not just buy your dream house. why not just go ahead and buy a Lamborghini. why not just go build a $100,000 bike that can suit my every whim...... i love it when somebody says "why not just do..........." like they think the person they are talking about has an infinite amount of money or can simply make the debt they have disappear in the f***ing wind! if i wanted to have a bike for each specific purpose, i would have about 5 or 6 of them, but im not made of money! in fact, i lost a great paying job due to this damn virus BS and had a huge reduction in pay at a new job and it will barely pays my bills as it is! so the next time you say "why dont you just........" , maybe take a second to think that some people live paycheck to paycheck just trying to survive!

    besides, i already have the fj and i love it, it just needs a little more ground clearance to be able to tackle the occasional trail i might want to take it down.

    Why waste money you dont have trying to jack the suspension up, just accept the tracer for what it is...A ROAD BIKE

    Radiator Guard / Grill

    in Tracer 900 GT Discussions

    Posted

    59 minutes ago, Heli ATP said:

    R&G Radiator Guard install. First mod for my brand new left over zero miles 2017 FJ-09.

    Looks like this one may  have been discontinued? Good quality but connected on bottom with tie-wrap...ugg.

    1.Remove the two top radiator bolts with an allen wrench, discard the right hand one with the longer supplied bolt.

    2.Reinstall the bolts while threading them through the top two loops on the rad guard.

    3.Zip tie the bottom of the rad guard in place at its center point.

    Some sticky back foam was supplied to stick on the edges of the guard. I wasn't going to use this but after install I feared the guard might rattle as it only had the center attachment point on the bottom, and both bottom corners were hanging. I strategically placed a few pieces of the sticky backed foam here and there to eliminate rattles.

    Instructions called for removing panels etc, but I fat fingered it with a couple of short allen wrenches and was done in about 30 minutes.

    Depending on how this holds up it may be replaced with one that has at least four attachment points. 

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    I have one of these fitted to my 2017 Tracer since buying the bike from new and its still ok

    Are people happy w AKRO full exhaust?

    in Tracer 900 GT Discussions

    Posted

    21 minutes ago, mingo said:

    It's unfortunate to hear about these road closures for bikes in EU. 

    The Akrapovic is a quality exhaust and is not loud or obnoxious unless you remove the db killer. 

    I'm currently in London, UK and there are certainly riders here with very loud and very obnoxious exhausts which end up ruining it for all of us and giving all riders a bad reputation. 

    Where i live in SE London it's mainly idiots with performance pipes on their cars that gurgle and pop when they race up to speed humps

    Are people happy w AKRO full exhaust?

    in Tracer 900 GT Discussions

    Posted

    8 hours ago, Michiel900GT said:

    I don’t want to hack the thread but I am a bit worried about these aftermarket exhausts.

    In Europe, starting this year, we are confronted with the closure of roads for bikes that create too much sound. Some countries (like the Netherlands) close popular biker roads for all bikes. This is partially done because of the fact that some popular roads are getting too busy on sunny says and the number of bikers is starting to become too dangerous for other people (pedestrians, cyclists). But a big reason to close these roads is because of the noise bikers create. Other road users or people who live near these roads have been complaining.

    Another, more worrying, thing is that Austria has closed some very nice alpine roads for bikes that create too much sound. And the issue here is that it doesn’t just effect bikes with aftermarket pipes. Due to the many complaints the Austrian (Tirol) government decided to close a few roads for every bike that creates more than 95 decibels when measured statically. To give you some background: European bikes are approved for use on the road if they don’t create more than 80 decibels when measured dynamically. Although static measurements are also registered, there used to be no real legal rule.

    That is until now, thanks to the Austrian government. By closing roads for bikes that create more than 95 decibels statically there are now bikes that are road legal (so no aftermarket exhaust) but are no longer allowed to drive on these roads. To give you an example: BMW S1000 RR and HD Dyna Street Bob are amongst the legal bikes that are no longer allowed (but there are many more).

    Now, this might look as a stupid action by a single government, but there are other European governments that are contemplating similar actions. They tend to listen to the complaints of non-bikers.

    Although I believe that most of the bikers don’t have aftermarket or don’t cause nuisance for other people, there is at least in Europe a small group of bikers that seems to be such a nuisance to others that complaints are getting louder and louder. And governments act upon those complaints.

    Let’s make sure that we don’t destroy the thing we love to do. Keep the noise down, at least within legal limits. Loud pipes save lifes is not really an good argument. Loud pipes seem to kill our passion if we are not careful.

    What about the rich prick arseholes who have performance exhausts on their sports cars, are they affected as well ????

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    What did you do to your FJ-tracer-gt today?

    in FJ-09 Tracer 900 General Discussions

    Posted

    12 minutes ago, betoney said:

    I don't want to preach or criticize but brake service is extremely straight forward, watch a Youtube video and DIY!!  Save yourself $150.

    This $10 tool should be all you need to routinely flush and bleed your brake system.

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    6554b6be8c0d829a8bf63ae0c82cf121_link.pn Tusk Hydraulic Brake Bleeder | Parts & Accessories | Rocky Mountain ATV/MC

    *Aids in the servicing and bleeding of hydraulic brakes. *Check valve allows...

     

    Why not just buy speeder bleeder nipples

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