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I also changed my route through Idaho, Bailed on going to Ketchum, and am now riding up to Lolo, MT and over to Lewiston -> Richland, WA the day after, side stepping some of the bigger fires and biggest smoke... hopefully....

Did a 4 hour close to 180mi ride today to shake down the bike before heading out on an estimated 2800mi trip over 7 days. I loaded up the cases with bottles of water to simulate the weight I am planning on in all the cases. Rode all day in 40-55F rain in the front range around Denver/Boulder/FoCo. I love riding in the rain so much. Only thing that I need to tweak is my Shoei Neotec 2 leaking a bit at the upper seal. well... that and my bike is dirty as sin now. Going to clean the chain, but that's it... the bike is going to get dirty on the ride in a few days anyway

I'll let you know what I see, but I am canceling my night in Ketchum, and may figure out a different place to stay and still be able to do Grimes pass... its supposed to rain this weekend and cool down a bit so hopefully these fires back off a tad.

So it seems mother nature had some other plans... The road to Stanley is closed due to wild fire, and it seems most of Idaho is on fire now... so thats fun.

That thing looks plush! I dig it!

I have a set of those as well, I couldnt get them to stop rotating on the Givi bars, so I binned them. They are nice for the price. In the end I like the ones I picked up a while ago, but the only work on vertical bars which... isn't great for the Givi bars. But I made it work.

Did a mod in prep of the WA/Hanford trip next month. I have Givi crash bars on my Tracer but didnt like where the highway pegs I bought mounted. So ... Went into CAD and designed up a new mount that let me move them more forward, kept the look nice and clean, and made minimal modifications to the bars. Only modification to the bars was a 6mm hole drilled into the bottom both bars. There is a 3mm bolt through the center of the bottom cap with a lock nut on the top of it, with washers top and bottom to act as a indexing stud into the 6mm hole. This stops the very heavy-duty CF Nylon mount blocks from rotating on the shafts. In the end it's a nice neutral forward position for my legs and when I don't want to use them they are easily tucked away. There are some quirks to the design that I will need to work on at some point, but it works and will work fine for the trip coming up.

After Hanford, I need to go down to Boise, that day, and then SLC after (I have a new job and limited vacation or I would take a few more days in WA. I'll likely be back!) So I only get one of those routes to do.

Thanks! and yeah Grimes Pass is high on my list for the ride! The other route looks fun as well! I really only have time for one of them. Its a long ride to Richland/Kennewick, which would you recommend more?

I didn't do anything to the bike today, but I did just plan a week long ride up to WA from Denver. Should be around 2600mi round trip. The trip is a check box on a bunch of places I wanted to see in ID and WA. Going to see some sights around Idaho Falls (EBR-1 Tour, INL), Then the Lava fields outside that area, Going to stay at Sun Valley/Ketchum ID. Then Ride up to the Tri Cities area in WA, and go to the Hanford B-Reactor tour. Then head back to Boise, then SLC through Nevada/Wendover/Bonneville, then home. The bike is in fine condition but I need to go through it a bit just to be sure. I am trying to figure out a better highway peg setup, the setup I used last year worked, but presented some danger to hitting my left shin...

Great to know! Thanks Maverick!

Great review, I have been curious myself about the 6 vs 2, initially I heard people liking the 6 more. I've been pondering dropping the 6+2 sku just to simplify things. and could you clarify "Loosened all the mounting bolts"? (as I keep trying to troubleshoot for this one customer), like the 4 bottom bracket bolts or are there others you loosened? Thanks Ned!

Thanks folks, I appreciate it! Given the close to 200 of these kits I've sold all over the world, I assume there isn't a big issue I missed

Not to bump this thread too much from the past - But I have a customer who is saying they cant raise the rear of the tank the 3-4mm needed to get into the offset bushings for the seat slope mod I sell for the 2021+ Tracer. Since I don't own a 2021, I wanted to ask anyone in here who installed the kit, is there anything different or holding down the tank so it cant be lifted up much once the rear bolts are removed? Trying to figure out why this one customer is having issues? From the service manual and such I cant see anything holding it back.

So... I replaced the front brake switch because the recall switch was broken and wouldn't let me use cruise control. And I got tired of waiting on the dealer so I just ordered the switch from PartZilla and it worked... BUT... I somehow knocked the cruise control button off the left-hand controls... the button to activate cruse is gone. Mother F&*(!er ... So since I doubt Yamaha would sell just that part... I now need to source a replacement left hand control cluster just to get the button for the cruise control. I could potentially 3D print a replacement, but I don't have the source one to pattern it after and I don't want to risk breaking the mounting tabs for the button.

Huh, so this just started on my 900GT... I haven't tried using cruise since having the recall on the front switch done... and now it has issues. Not great...

I did multiple 2000mi trips on the stock seat, and one 1800mi on the comfort seat on my 900GT before working to adjust some comfort issues that were minor I thought. Once I corrected the slope the stock seat may be better than the comfort seat! I think the bike works either way, and depending on your arms, riding position, leg length on the pegs, etc... can all alter this. For me it went from me having some arm pains and junk pains at the end of the day, every day... to really no issues to speak of 10 hours into a ride! its all YMMV, that's the perk of a $20-30 part to try

Hope so! And yeah shipping has been jumping in price the last 2 months unfortunately. I’ve been able to keep my costs relatively in check, so my parts haven’t jumped. But USPS is getting more expensive, I wish there were reliable alternatives to get to Aus!

Yeah the tracer FB groups are a hot mess in many ways, and the people who seem dismayed at other peoples riding styles are hilarious. And yeah I've found the higher end bikes, especially European bikes, the owners do NOT do farkles... they pay others to do the farkles and don't know what they are or how they were installed. Only outlier is Triumph owners... those guys will fab farkles out of a dozen parts from other bikes

I was back in town between a week flying around Alaska, and another trip, so I was able to get all the orders from the last week shipped. (pic from 300 miles above the arctic circle just a short walk from Point Barrow. )

Sadly the kit does result in reality/gravity being reversed as you can see in the picture above. Its OK once you get used to it

I rolled back a software package that has a known bug in it, you should be good to go now. Let me know if you have issues and I DMed you.

I just tested and was able to process an order fine, I will look at the logs to see if anything was up. There was a update that happened mid day, but nothing recently. Feel free to email (shop@jk3d.us) or DM me here if you have any more details on where it was erroring out. The system has been pretty good the last few months so I am concerned if issues are cropping up! Any screen shots would be handy as well.

Yeah its 100% available... I am traveling right now so shipping is on hold until May 24th. But... I have a couple dozen orders to ship out when I get home! The Tracer 9GT and the 900 GT versions are selling pretty heavily!

I went with an Antigravity Lithium battery. I've had it for 2 years now and its perfect. Works well in cold weather too. just make sure you have a battery tender that can do lithium batteries.