DeepSix

I've never been able to get good results with a spray can but I'm also not a talented painter. Maybe I just need some practice.

I'm hundreds of miles from my bike for the next few months or I'd take pics bit I'll try to explain the best I can.

1)I had the same problem initially. I mounted the horn to the fork in a very standard place. It's nothing special at all and there are probably a few options up under there.

2)I ditched the included piece of hose and purchased a much longer piece. I routed this back through the faring, under the tank, over the battery and... (here's the slick part) I was able to mount the pump to the under side of of the metal bracket where the seat lock is.  To do this required the following steps:

• Remove the plastic cover from the pump to make it as small as possible (if I remember correctly)
• Trim the plastic below and behind that metal bracket so the pump can be slid in between the plastic and the metal bracket
• drill an appropriate size hole so you can bolt the bump to the bracket.

I hope that makes sense.

Awesome price on an Ohlins Rear shock. This shock came with the correct spring rate for my weight sag estimate already tuned. (REMARKABLY close without me and the bike.) I looked at every option including acquiring and rebuilding a GSXR shock. It's more than I wanted to spend but you can screw around putting crap on a bike and spend $500 like nothing before you even know it. No mods or farkles will transform the bike like suspension. Did I mention it came in 3 days from Italy?

Yamaha tracer 900 2017 ohlins shock absorber stx46 street ya 335

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I purchased these knock off crash bars. The caps don't fit but I couldn't care less. I would never use them anyway. I have a lot of welding and fab experience... (well, to be honest, I can evaluate it better than I can do it) and these cheap bars are absolutely fine and there's no aspect of them I would pay more to change.

Hope this helps someone.

DeepSix

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Radiator Protector Guard. Type: Engine Guard Crash Bars. Chain Guard Cover. Slider Protector. Levers Guards Protector...

I ride in an AGV Sport Modular. It's a fantastic helmet but a little louder than I'd prefer. That said, I have very sensitive ears.

betony- Thanks, I just wanted a little bit of extra detail.

Wordsmith- Your Panniers should be a reasonably easy job. I would just use the adhesion promoter/primer to make sure you didn't get any lift. Another trick is to start with a piece of vinyl that is much larger than necessary. This helps you be able to stretch the materials and move imperfections off of the part if that makes sense. My panniers have a small compound angle and stretch and they came out nearly perfect. The REALLY hard ones are the pieces around the tank.

On a side note, I ordered a custom color matched rattle can of paint one time and it worked perfectly. It never seems to have the "depth" of factory but maybe if you clear coated it a few times and wet sanded and buffed it.

EDIT- Proceed with caution. After drilling my exhaust (Read below) the bike sounded much better and ran great on the couple of short test rides I did. HOWEVER, when I actually got it out for a real ride today, it felt like it was missing something. I turned off the TCS and it will no longer do a wheelie in 2nd gear A mode. This MOD appears to have killed the torque. It still rips through the revs like normal but has just lost a lot of grunt. I'm going to weld up the holes and see if I can confirm this is what's going on.

JCG- Thanks for the idea. I didn't realize it until I'd posted a different thread tonight but your question is what got me started.

I did as much research as I could online but most examples were FZ-09. I honestly didn't care if I made a mistake and the exhaust was destroyed, It's not worth anything anyway. So why not take a stab at this before spending $600-1200 on a new exhaust?

I drilled seven 3/8" holes under the guard in the back of the muffler. Here are the results although it has a deeper, more throaty tone than my phone could capture. I'm thrilled with this ZERO $ mod and it took 20 minutes start to finish including test drives.

I wrapped my bike and I will tell you, you have to make a choice if you’re not a pro, either don’t do it or except that it will have flaws and be ok with it looking great for a short distance. 

The problem is all the compound curves and angles on this bike. The parts are small but they are an extreme pain in the butt to get wrapped and have them be perfect. I’m pretty happy with mine but closer than about 5 feet and you can see all my blunders. I’m good with that because I don’t care if it’s perfect and it didn’t cost me $500 to have a pro do it. 

If you do it yourself:

1) Don’t by cheap wrap. I used Vivid wood grain vinyl on on some cabinet doors. Just flat surfaces and it was a bastard to work with. It also had questionable adhesion at times. I used 3M perfect Blue vinyl with a diamond white stripe down the middle (seamed together, not one piece) on my bike and it was AMAZING to work with. 

2)use primer adhesive on any inside radius to prevent lifting. I use a lot of it to avoid one spot ruining a whole job. 

Hope that helps. 

The wrap is just a vinyl material that has a lot of stretch to it when heated. Everything I know about it, I learned on Youtube watching others and their tutorials. The biggest trick I've found for any of this is cutting your starting piece much larger than you actually need. It's wasteful but it allows you to move the "stretch" around more easily and get imperfections off of the piece and onto the discarded material.

Panniers would be a very good place to start. Most shouldn't be that complicated.

Sorry for background, I have a CX500 build going on and my garage is rough at the moment.

My bike is actually the grey/black color scheme which is a little too plain for my taste. I wrapped it in 3M "Perfect Blue" with a "Diamond White" stripe down the middle. I know it's probably not for everyone but I love it.

Wrapping is an EXTREME PITA on this bike with all the pieces so this is really a crap job if you look closely. However, I'm liking the bike so much (Originally I was just going to ride it while I looked for the right BMW S1000XR) I may have the same wrap done by a pro.

Here's the crazy thing that was totally unintentional... when I ride on the freeway, 4 out of 5 cars will pull over and let me by thinking I'm a police officer.  IT"S AMAZING!

Hope you like it,

DeepSix

I'm here in Vancouver WA. I know I'm late to the party for the April ride but always looking for people to ride with.

I do have day time running lights and ride during the day with high beam on. I was reading a thing about how people are looking for cars and their brains sometimes just don't recognize motorcycles... sounds strange but I can see how it could be true. I'm not sure how she didn't see me as I was as visible as I could be.

DeepSix

Today was my second ride with a Denali Sound Bomb installed on my bike. (I'll have to do a post on the install because it worked out pretty slick. The pump is mounted to the under side of the metal bracket with the seat lock.) Anyway, I was plugging along a really nice country road and out in front of me about 40 or 50 yards, a woman started to pull out of her driveway. She just flat didn't see me. I blasted my horn, she slammed on her brakes and stopped and I was able to go around her. It wasn't that close a call but if she'd pulled out all the way and crossed into the oncoming lane like so many do, I wouldn't have had much place to go. It definitely got my heart racing though.

Anyway, It's crazy embarrassing when I accidentally bump the horn trying to turn off my blinkers but it's totally worth it. (I'm just recently back on street bikes after a 20 year layoff.)

I'm not shilling for this brand, I just think stock horns are so damn insufficient and I was super happy with being able to put part of the horn under the seat. Even happier with having a massive horn blast when I needed it.

Hope that helps someone,

DeepSix

Thank you!

...I feel like an idiot.

Please forgive this if it's been posted before but I did search... A LOT.

I'm a new FJ09 owner. It's a like new 2015 with about 1.5k on it. I had the ECU reflashed by one of the guys on here everyone talks about and the bike runs good. I had it done so early that I can't really tell the difference though to be honest. I rode maybe 100 miles before leaving for two weeks on a work thingso that was the perfect time to send it off.

Here's where I run into a problem. The bike is pretty fast. Nothing crazy but it has enough punch I should be able to do a wheelie... I CAN'T DO A DAMN WHEELIE. (This shouldn't upset me but somehow it does.) Yes, I'm fat... well I more big than fat but still tip the scales at 280lbs though much of my weight is up high in my chest and shoulders so wouldn't that be better? Even in first, it will not power up a wheelie as the nannies kick in (I think) , even in A mode. (Which I thought had no nannies) I see all these people talking about how this bike is a beast and a wheelie machine and I'm worried mine is screwed up or something.

Can someone sort me out? I swear I spent an hour or more looking for advise on youtube and this forum.

Thanks,

DeepSix