Waldo Jeffers
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Hey everyone, haven’t been around for a bit. I hope everyone is doing well.
I have pilot road 5’s and was checking my pressure and noticed some funky wear that I don’t ever recall seeing with other tires. Can anyone tell me if this is normal? It’s consistent throughout the side and also is present on both sides.
PS, don’t laugh at my chicken strips, it’s a road bike.
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16 hours ago, Salish900 said:
You know it's a holiday weekend when you wake up thinking you are doing one thing with the family, and find out that has fallen through, and everyone just goes off and does their own thing with a sense of leisure knowing you've got a WHOLE NOTHER DAY TOMORROW to play!
My thoughts turned to a full day motorcycle ride around 9am when other wonderful plans got moved to Monday. I felt the urge to go somewhere further afield, and so decided to head over the newly opened Chinook Pass.
The entire loop was about 316 miles, took me about 5 hours total with stops, and was absolutely heaven.
From Olympia I went up 5 to the turn off that puts you eventually onto 410. You pass through some boring and scenic towns before hitting the foothills and mountains on the northern flanks of Mt. Rainier. Once you leave syphilization, it gets really pretty. On the way up you get some stunning views of Rainier, and winding your way up and up to the pass is delightful. Once at the pass, which opened this week, I found a whole mob of people in every pullout enjoying the lingering snow and even skiing down the slopes after hiking up them. It was quite festive. The views are incredible near the top. It tops out at 5,400 feet. High for WA, and a foothill in CA.
On the back side of Chinook you drop into a truly majestic glacier carved valley that reminds me of Hwy 20 up north, or countless others in the Sierra. It's just a lovely, lovely ride all the way down to where the rivers converge from the two canyons. You follow the very large Naches River down to just above Naches where the smaller Tieton River comes down from White Pass. Headed up Hwy 12 along the Tieton is quite nice, though I don't find it as scenic as the 410 canyon.
Up and over White Pass, which is only 4,400 and had no snow, and I then found myself in the largest Memorial Day extravaganza I've ever seen any town hold. Packwood was packed beyond overflowing with humanity, booths, and mayhem. The road was backed up for miles. It took FOREVER to get through the town. Although there are more scenic and enjoyable rides off of 12 back to Olympia, I stuck with 12 to 5 to make it fast as my butt was getting tired of sitting.
I can't begin to count the number of cars I passed along this loop, taking full advantage of the 900's ability to spin up quickly. Not quite my FJR or Connie, but not bad. I do find a downshift the 900 if I really need to accelerate quickly and am only going 60 or so. 4th does nicely at that speed. I've also found the bike has a real kick as you get up near 7,000 rpm. I need to look up the dyno numbers. You can feel it strongly.
A lovely full day ride. Amazing scenery, volcanoes, snow and wet, dry and pines, rivers and fields, rubber and fuel.
Superb report. How was the tarmac?
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I need advice from the hive mind. I bought these super nice highway pegs from R&G https://assets2.rg-racing.com/Images/files/Fitting-Instructions/Highway Pegs/HWP0002-FITTING-INSTRUCTIONS.pdf
I have SW-Motech bars that I’ve attached them to. I thought they would be a perfect fit but they are not. The bars are roughly.05” to big in diameter. So I ended up buying some longer bolts so I could “clamp” them on and they seem stout enough but they are cutting into the bars some.
Any worries or suggestions that you might have?
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@maximo I pass the honors to you. I have 0 imagination.
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Does this work?
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7 hours ago, CRFan250 said:
What mirrors do you have on your bike? I think the stock mirrors are a potential wind noise source and was thinking of putting some bar end mirrors or something else on....
@roy826 Do you have the PN for that SW Motech rack, by chance?
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I need more hints 🤔
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@betoney without saying who you saw, where did you drive, 1000 miles to see them in concert?
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@betoney - definitely planning something along those lines.
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Road up to Diablo damn on SR-20. Perfect ride.
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Trust me! I’m on the cusp of being “old”
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It was a joke, albeit poor. Par for the course.
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I’m talking about the electronics. Why is everyone talking about windscreens?
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Damn!!!
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Am I the only one that finds our bikes a little buggy at times?
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Such a lovely place. Everything is so grand in size. Great motorbike road if there isn’t too much traffic.
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I once road my 97 gixxer from Kirkland to Winthrop and back only stopping for gas and having a red bull in Winthrop. There is ABSOLUTELY no way I could do that now.
This summer I’ll do it in a couple/few days.
Today I road 150 miles. Up highway 9 to the Skagit river and then over to Rockport and then 530 along the Sauk and Stilliguamish back to Arlington and then some nice twisties home.
Pic: Whitehorse Mountain.
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Ok folks, I’ve now got a few hundred miles on the Corbin and can say it’s not a panacea, but it’s pretty good for my boney a$$. I’m all gut and no butt. It’s better feeling than the Bagster and leaps better than stock. I also expect Corbin to break in more after more miles. Of course it’s gonna be different for everyone. I’ve decided to keep the Bagster for when it’s raining on my commute.
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It’s been 4ish years since I was on that road. Maybe they’ve improved it. My guess is probably not.
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2 hours ago, Warchild said:
That is excellent, Waldo - these would have been a big help last night! 😕
Do they fit around the existing handguards, or...???
Yes they fit perfectly and they’re relatively cheap.
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FYI, I use these when it’s cold and have been relatively pleased.
https://obradvgear.com/enduro-grip-mitt/
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^^what he said^^
Weird tire wear
in Tracer 900 GT Discussions
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41 psi in the rear