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please don't jay walk either... Is anyone actually checking that sort of thing? I don't think that even CA is doing so. So when you make the exhaust change, keep the old one in your garage instead of on ebay, then if your locale starts doing emissions testing/inspections on motorcycles, you...

My fiance' rides her own bike 90% of the time. But on occasion we have gone 2-up on the FJR including a SS1k last summer. She has no trouble with being 2-up on the FJR but we do have the lowered passenger pegs. Her knees were cramped with the stock pegs. Room for the rest of her is fine. We...

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Not a problem. The 07 addresses the heat issue, to what extent I do not know. It was pretty cool when I rode it. The vent holes in the fairing are much larger. I am told that the brakes are something to do with the calipers having a seal that doesnt do well at sealing out dirt. Dirt gets...

Speak of the devil. Today this arrived in Tina's email from Foothills Triumph/BMW here in Colorado. As posted on the Triumph website. "SPRINT ST 1050 & SPRINT ST 1050 ABS SAFETY RECALL In-service feedback from predominently poor road surface condition markets has identified a small...

I have no trouble getting my glasses on and off with a full face helmet. It took once or twice to figure it out with every helmet I try on but its a piece of cake after a short time. Had a big rock take a chunk out of an AGV lid years ago and would hate to think what it would have done to my...

Watch yourself Nova. My fiance' was going to buy an 07 ST right up to when we found a problem. The drag link bolt is bending and breaking causing the swing arm to detach from the frame. So far it has not caused any deaths but it has become enough of a problem that Triumph is going to issue a...

If you build a whole seat, you will have to use something like Sunmate (available from the same site) for supportive base with a layer of pudgee over the top for comfort. I learned that the hard way, or should i say the soft way. All pudgee feels great but isnt supportive. I kept the design...

I've got a Corbin that was on the bike when it was purchased. Typical Corbin- rock hard. In spring I bought some of the same materials Rick Mayer uses on his seats to redo my FZ1 seat. Rick builds great seat for the FZ and seems to be the standard for those, unlike for the FJR. After several...

I have done so as well and never thought I would. It got to the point where I am more interested in retaining my health than seeing what is around that blind corner at a high lean angle and rate of speed or seeing if I can dodge deer at high mach numbers. It happened this summer. For no...

just make sure you wait to draft until I have a chance to do the z-score evaluations and consult my dog on which goalies are going to bite.

yeah, the Triumph Sprint and Gixxer 750 in red/blk do it to her everytime. Then again she rides and there is more to her "wow"s than looks. I could not wipe the grin off her face when we got done with our side-by-side Triumph test ride a few weeks ago. She rode a Sprint and I rode the 675.

We just did a SS1k 2-up and Tina complained of some knee pain despite being used to riding a sport bike. We have the extended pegs from Motorcycle Larry- they are very nice units. Mainly Tina's trouble came from the armor in her pants putting pressure on her knee caps. She was proactive about...

Outstanding! Glad you don't have to pop a cap into that stator.

I see that too. Stopped in at a BMW/Duc dealer to look at gloves. Two people wandered over to look at the Feej. Kept turning back to look at after they had wandered off to.

Another vote for: Ninja 500. Just enough power to keep things interesting. BAD brakes though. Older SV650 naked. More power than the 500 but less plastic to replace if it falls over. Cheap insurance too. Some insurance companies consider the EX500 a sport bike and rates are very high...

The side stand is utter garbage on those things. I am going to modify Tina's one fo these days so it is more sure footed. Until then she is being real careful.

Looks real nice- a lot like a Gixxer

When you put a steel bolt in a piece of aluminum, won't you always have an issue with the bolt being stronger than the aluminum it is imbedded in? The slider should be the weak link when the force becomes great enough to twist of bend the frame. Something had to give and the steel threads...

Many of the faster sport bikes are being equipped with power limiting "safety" devices. Even the 06 FZ-1 has one that limits it to 116 hp (+/- a few) in the first three gears. ZX-10, the Gixxer and of course the Busa has one. There may be more but those or the ones I am sure of. Kits are...