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

[drummer]

Last week I installed the National Cycle VStream Sport-Tour tinted windshield and had a 300 km trip. I bought the bike on April 2015 and put 16000 km on it with the stock windshield; I should have done this before cause it's a real new bike now with more protection than expected. I'm 5'8'' and 34'' torso.
 
I ordered the Givi V47 carbon top case too and already have the V37 side cases, I'll post pics when it'll be set on.

[mhevezi]

Ohlins shock has arrived! I have no way of verifying, But David at FBI says that it's the first of its kind in the US. 

 
 
Wow, it looks awesome. And has the remote, Pre-Load adjuster. You probably are the first.
 
I was chatting with David at FBI, and we were going back & forth on the Ohlins. I was ready to plunk down my cash, but the shock kept getting delayed. I finally decided to go with the JRI, Double Adjust- because it got good reviews and was available. It has remote Compression, which I can adjust on the fly, but pre-load requires a tool. It's easy, but not as easy as yours!
 
Let us know how that shiny, gold piece works!

 

[builderbob]

Will do mhevezi. It will probably be a little while as I'm devoting my free time to finishing up my garage build project.

[cowboyrog]

joeldude,
The Lone Ranger as your pic!!! Love it, still watch it about once a week.
Hi- Ho Silver.....
RC

[henners]

Not today, but about 3 days ago I installed the stebel magnum twin horn kit.
 

 

 

[suncoaster]

Not today, but about 3 days ago I installed the stebel magnum twin horn kit.

 
You got them both to fit !
Did you make a bracket ?
 
 

[henners]

Yep, both fit in quite nicely. The bottom one went straight onto the original mount. For the top one I just bent one of the brackets that came with the horn in half and mounted that as shown below (Right Side view of horn). I made sure to use blue locktite on whatever could take locktite. I might even put another nut on each horn just to be sure.
 
 

 
 

[wordsmith]

Final words about my new [strong]Bagster seat[/strong]. Well, my bum thinks it has died and gone to heaven!

The new seat is sheer bliss. It is beautifully-crafted as only the French can (think Givenchy, Louis Vuitton, Hermes - well, maybe Italians as well, and hand-bag knock-off artists in Hong Kong). It arrived at my front door a little over four weeks after ordering. I was given a lead-time of five to six weeks, taken with a grain of salt, as one does, but the Australian distributor was spot-on. And meticulous in his communication with me from my initial enquiries, to progress, right through to e.t.a. and mode of delivery.
 
Both parts slotted readily and easily onto the bike in the higher position, the under-seat spaces – such as they are – being uncompromised, with only the relocation of the tools from clips underneath the OE pillion seat needing a move to the tool roll.
 
The appearance and quality of make and finish is first-class, but more importantly it has transformed the comfort of the bike, and therefore my enjoyment of the machine, previously seriously compromised because of the rock-like OE seat. Working in conjunction with my heavily-tweaked suspension the Tracer now gives me an excellent ride, suiting its touring pretensions. 
The overall ride comfort - combining suspension improvements and new seat - appeared even better with the ~4kg of clothing that I carried on this trip, in two x 5kg hard panniers, a total of about 14kg added weight.   I must say that I hadn't expected this and it was a surprise, so in future for the ultimate ride quality I may fit the panniers all the time and carry a 2kg bag of sugar in each one!
 
When the suspension [em]is[/em] a bit overworked – hitting some road corrugations or overly rough patches for example – I can feel myself sinking momentarily into the seat, where on the hard and unforgiving OE perch I’d have been hurled into the air.
 
My normal location on the OE seat was always with about two fingers’ width between my lower back and the front of the pillion seat: I followed this automatically on the Bagster seat and it seems ideal: moving around a bit I didn’t find any better spot to park myself.
 
By happenstance I was due to make two back-to-back medium-length rides, departing just four days after the seat arrived, with the return leg the following day. Two balmy 26ºC (79ºF) days in late autumn – [em]lovely![/em]
 
For locals – Bayside Brisbane to Yamba in the northern rivers region of NSW, and back. [em] Day 1[/em] – home to Yamba via the inland Summerland Way route, via Beaudesert, Kyogle, Casino – quick coffee-stop there – then taking the cable-operated ferry across the Clarence River at Lawrence to Maclean [em](see pic),[/em] then to Yamba, for a very varied 380km (226 miles).   At Yamba I styed in a beautiful riverside spot, in a small but well-equipped cabin - [em]see pic[/em].   I shall return - with wife and dog! 
 
[em]Day 2[/em] - return leg straight up the boring but mainly well-surfaced Pacific Hwy for 271km/ 163 miles to home.
 
This diversity of roads on this 650km/ 390 miles round trip was the ideal way to check-out the new seat, and it did not disappoint in any way. The route covered third-world goat-track [em](sorry, goats!),[/em] mostly-smooth interstate freeway, well-surfaced country roads, choppy outer-suburban streets, and everything in between.
 
(The goat-track – deliberately chosen - will be known to locals, being the stretch of the Mt Lindesay Hwy [em](huh?)[/em] as it twists and turns around Mt Barney in the Border Ranges, between Rathdowney and Woodenbong. A truly disgraceful piece of tarmac…)
 
Back to the seat – I imagine that some settling-in will take place as my backside and the seat become better acquainted, but as of right now I could not be more pleased.   The dreadful digging-in to my upper/ inner thighs has completely gone, and it feels supportive without being too soft.  It’s everything I’d hoped for.  
To be as objective as possible, I feel that my seat comfort level now approaches say 85 to 90% of that of my BMW Roadster with its plush optional [em]‘komfortsitz’[/em], and it’s somewhat better than with the Seat Concepts kit on my previous Tracer.   I cannot ask for more, and will now leave these things well alone... 
 
Well done Bagster.
[em]Wordsmith ('39 model)   [/em]
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[wessie]

Good news. So far, after I pioneered using the Bagster seat, there are no bad reports to my knowledge. I find I get off the bike and then remember that I haven't been fretting about the seat on the journey. It's usually some other age related part of my body such as knees or finger joints that moan first. Or my bladder.

[beanburnham]

Installed my Shad semi rigid bags. Looks like high quality for the price. Haven't loaded them up for a ride yet though

[wordsmith]

Picking-up on some very recent comments/ suggestions about ways to reduce that dreaded [strong]engine ‘whine’[/strong], I took the bike into the local dealer today, with a wish to have chain slack increased from near zero to 30mm, as suggested.
 
The pleasant young mech there raised his eyebrows at that figure, and suggested that at most 25mm, or one inch, should be aimed for. Since he was the one wielding the big spanner – and with an even bigger fellow-mech alongside to help him – I agreed.
 
A few minutes later the job was done, with 25mm play in the chain with the bike on its main stand. No charge.
 
The brief 12km or so ride home in traffic was not helpful in determining the degree of improvement, but I can objectively say that the annoying, distracting, intrusive whine was reduced quite drastically. Certainly, if it stays at this level, I’ll be very happy, but a final determination must await a longer more varied outing at differing speeds.
 
The mech also gave me a contact locally who can re-jig the side-stand lowering peg, to accommodate the longer foot-pegs I recently installed. I’ll see him next week.
 
And the dealer is also going to quote me for supplying and fitting a smaller 43T rear sprocket to bring cruising revs down somewhat – like so many here I find myself at freeway speeds looking for that seventh gear!
 
[em]Wordsmith (’39 model)[/em]
 

[wessie]

At legal cruising speeds, or just above, so 70-85mph I often leave the bike in 5th gear as the transmission has a more pleasing note. At those speeds in 6th the transmission spins at a lower repm, obviously, and the note is not so nice. In Germany where speeds can be higher for long periods on the unrestricted autobahn then I use 6th as at 100mph cruising, the transmission note is more pleasing.

[deadstiff]

Finally got around to installing my LEDRider LR4 lights on the AdventureTech light bar and Skene Design IQ-175 dimmer.
Dimmed to 10%

 
 
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[Guest bruinfj09guy]

At legal cruising speeds, or just above, so 70-85mph I often leave the bike in 5th gear as the transmission has a more pleasing note. At those speeds in 6th the transmission spins at a lower repm, obviously, and the note is not so nice. In Germany where speeds can be higher for long periods on the unrestricted autobahn then I use 6th as at 100mph cruising, the transmission note is more pleasing.

Can't quite open it up to 160km/k in Toronto, Canada without risking getting pinched by cops, but I also tend to use 4-5th gear more often than the 6th...up to some 130km/h. We can do 140km/h on the toll road 'safely', where the police are somewhat more forgiving if you travel with a pack...and overall vehicle density reasonable. I like the bike to be at 6,000 RPM or better.

Biggest ticket I ever got was on the 407 near North York. Guy was hiding out under an overpass at the bottom of the big dip. 160km he said. I think it unlikely. I had left Ontario by the time of the court date and had a friend try to argue it for me. He was not successful. lol

[fanowater]

Finally got around to installing my LEDRider LR4 lights on the AdventureTech light bar and Skene Design IQ-175 dimmer. Dimmed to 10%

 
 
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Nice!  Any chance you  could post some side or angled views to see how they look?    Was it easy to use the Adventure Tech bracket with these?Cheers