mkvgti

On 5/14/2020 at 7:53 AM, SKYFLIX said:

Finally received the new Garmin motorcycle mount for my XT, so now I can quickly move it between the bikes. Also added the Engage tank bag. and a mount for the 360 camera. Finally tour ready!

I can see Insta360 oneX on handle guard... Do you have any vids uploaded on YouTube? I'm quite interested in that camera, I wonder how that thing/position would be taken.

Took my tracer to a short ride.

10 hours ago, draco_1967 said:

I like that idea. Isn't EVA foam open-cell, so it will absorb water? I might try something like that with more of a plastic material...thanks!

 

Last night I washed off all of the winter grime, and applied Mother's CMX to the paint. I reinstalled my Green Chile soft rack in preparation for a short weekend jaunt I'll be taking this weekend. I'll get some pictures later today in the sunlight -- dark garage pictures of a clean bike are hardly different than dark garage pictures of a dirt bike 😄

Thanks... uh well, I had a short ride this morning for a test. It seemed Okay for outward trip, but when I returned home... the extension was caught by a tire. 180km/h speed or air current may have caught the extension.

Maybe I extended its length too much. I'll try 2/3 extending next time.

16 hours ago, mingo said:

Can you show us what you've come up with and what materials you used? Thank you. 

OK, here's what I did today. I used EVA foam (a plastic or a cellular foam, what ever you call, its a soft foam 3mm thick) in order to fit the extension to the curve of rear fender. Costs about $2.50, took me approx 15min lol. 

1. Black square sheet is the plastic foam. (t=3mm)

2. traced rear fender edge with a pen and cut out from cardboard paper.

3. also traced and cut out from the plastic foam. 

4. attached with adhesive tape which I had for home use, it'll probably fly away in a certain speed... even if I put a weight on it to leave it for a day.

Took off my rear mud guard to see if I could extend length for reducing splash when rain. I envy the shape of MT-09 rear mud guard which shape is quite straight....

5 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

I'm curious as to the bike in the forefront.  Up right forks with well soiled blue fork spongy protector thingies (indicating an older bike) but seemingly  with a newer fender and interestinging headlight and surround.  I'm stumped.  Converted supermotard? 

That's Yamaha TT-250R Raid. It's a dirt bike TT-250R derivative,  kind of light weight tourer/adventure bike made in 1995.

Seem gasoline is very cheap in US. 138JPY=1liter, so maybe $4.8 for a gallon. I went to mountain this morning to ride, only stopped for take pics, gas and p.

2 hours ago, kilo3 said:

if you find a solid supplier let me know, in my generous free time ive yet to find anything state side. webike has them but 1/3 the cost is shipping.

Japanese sellers are mostly not adopted to international shipping due to language problem. 1/3 shipping is incredible. But recent virus issue made air freight expensive due to decreasing flights.

2 hours ago, BBB said:

You were lucky to get away with a little road rash on the left hand side there @mkvgti. Proof that they work ok 👍🏻. Any other contact points when it went down?

Yes it worked fine. I had panniers so there are some scratches on it, and handle guard also have scars on the edge... 

22 minutes ago, betoney said:

@mkvgti - I like those engine guards, they aren't obtrusive like every other brand I have seen.  What is the big rectangle piece on the bottom of each side?

It's a urethane-ish clamped slider, I think. 

Took some pics of Engine guards. 

It was lucky that I fell off the day after attached the engine guards...

"MT" symbol reminds me of "Decepticons", I wonder if Tracers will transform... 

Are you guys in Idaho, is earthquake alright? Hope you and your family, and Tracer are okay.

1 hour ago, kilo3 said:

What guard is that?

You mean manufacturer? Its "Daytona". 

https://daytona-global.com/

1 hour ago, BBB said:

That’s an unusual engine guard @mkvgti. I don’t recall seeing one that bends downwards like that. How low is it in relation to the footpegs? 

Well, I took this photo from upper angle, so you might feel odd. This is Daytona engine guard, the brand you might not see in overseas.

There's no Tracer photo on the Daytona website, borrowed photos are XSR900 and MT-09, though its the same guard so you can see how it fits and relation to the footpeg/rear brake.

Two sons helped me as a human jack stand to install long thread bolt in order to attach an engine guard to my bike.

17 minutes ago, stumpy said:

that is a nice little system ...can the info on screen be changed to read in english or other languages? 

man ...looking at the conversion of an Yen to a dollar is mind blowing.  hard to get my head around the conversion rate.

Unfortunately it seems there's no other language version.  Manual is also written in Japanese only. I wonder if they (Mitsuba) release these in overseas market... I recognize they are global company, quite famous among automotive oem industry.

Is there any drive/motorcycle recorders in your market? 

54 minutes ago, kilo3 said:

Wow that's a nice bit of kit!  Whats that convert to ~250 USD?

Yea its around 250 USD. I bought it at 26500JPY, if you convert 110JPY/USD, its 240.

Both front and rear cam view is like this. If you buy a GPS model, map will shown on the right side. 

17 hours ago, Wintersdark said:

Welcome to the forum!  

 

Mind if I ask which cameras you're getting, and where exactly they're being installed?

Thank you. It's great to communicate with people in overseas thru common interest.

Camera is Mitsuba "EDR-21", I'll post the link below. Sorry seems web page is Japanese only.

https://www.mskw.co.jp/motorcycle/edr/EDR-21

One camera is on forward direction, close to the horn. Rear view camera is on above of the license plate.

37 minutes ago, Dodgy Knees said:

I thought all the GTs came with panniers.??

For Japanese market, it’s an option. But we can’t afford painted panniers like the one you have in overseas. However GT price setting is cheaper due to w/o panniers, so it’s 1.2 mil JPY w/ tax, about 11.1k USD. 

Finally picked up my ride on Sunday, while riding back home I took a pic with my old TT-250R Raid.

Did you guys know that JDM Tracer 900 GT does not come with side panniers? I didn't even know that GT panniers are painted with same body color in overseas!!! There is no colored panniers on a option catalog...

3 hours ago, texscottyd said:

Very nice, @mkvgti!  Congratulations on the new bike.  

Thank you! Wooooow this bike is fun!!

Tandem with my son, finally picked up myGT today at Yamaha bike shop in Suzuka!!