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I think I lost 20 pounds riding Sunday, and every one of the cruisers I was riding with now considers me crazy for riding with a leather jacket and gloves. I think I heard "You either ride for comfort or ride to crash!" about a dozen times. I'm not going to do without the gear... but I'm...

Hope everyone stayed out of the ditch up there this weekend... got invited on a run to Helen with some co-workers, but we turned right at Turner's Corner to go up 17/75 rather than up 129 and into Helen from the north, so never got onto that part of 60 or the loop. Lots of Troopers around; saw a...

Yeah, but in a Sheriff's office, the repercussions last for weeks. However, whenever a date's set, I'll read the tea leaves and determine availability. ...and figure out where to stuff the tent.

I'm interested, although mid july are primary elections; which is a big deal where I work... as in, who will I be working for the next four years?

Given the looks of that thing, more like a penis than a bug.

+1 on bikeeffects... I spoke with Jeff on the phone today with a question about the Starcom; he was very friendly and helpful!

Thanks for the suggestions... I did shrink tube the relay connections, then couldn't find my stash of shrink tube when I ran out of what little I had. Were the underseat trays in older FJR's different? I've seen some pics of other bluesea installs that looked like they fit a lot better; those...

Got the mounts today, so on they went. I need a better torque wrench. I'd have liked to have run the power cables behind the triple tree, but they weren't really long enough- and that iPod cable was barely long enough to reach where it did and not bind up when the bars are turned. I don't like...

If I wired it wrong, it may well become an IED! :unsure: I need to tidy up that wiring a bit and correct one big boo-boo that I didn't think about until looking at these pics... moving that in-line fuse up to the battery, rather than way back here. I'm a wee-todd. :dribble:

With GPS and iPod mounts due in Monday, I decided to go ahead and tackle the wiring. The TomTom came with it's own power cable, but I needed to find a power/audio connector for the iPod that used the dock connector. I ended up using a Griffin power/audio adapter, but it ended in a cigarette...

The guy who taught me how to ride made it a fetish to leave his feet on the pegs as long as possible, and it rubbed off on me. I start twitching when I see someone dragging their feet as they leave a stop. The FJR is so easy to balance that I've been able to completely stop at stop signs and go...

*dingding!* That's what I meant, just didn't describe it well enough. I should have room if I tap it farther back in the loom, rather than closer to the rear bulbs. Still waiting for all the bits and pieces of the Grand Plan to come in before getting started. Looks like I'm going to have to...

This is before making the tap... I mean getting enough slack in that existing wire loom to get it out far enough to make the tap in the first place. I think I'm just going to strip some of the wire shroud where it passes by the rear underseat tray and tap in there (same wire, just further up the...

If you're using the tail light lead to provide a switched power source... how the heck do you get enough slack in that wire to tap into it? Or remove the bulb to change it, for that matter...

I probably will, as I haven't bought the Starcom yet. Testing the Rider with the iPhone and Scala, I noticed that if I had headphones in the headphone jack (with the little adapter thingy iPhones need to use regular headphones with no mike), the person I'm talking to on the phone through the...

Planning my electrification of my '08, and am wondering if anyone's every connected an iPhone to a TomTom Rider 2 to a Starcom with Bluetooth module. The iPhone and TomTom work fine through bluetooth to the cardo scala rider (just got the Rider and tried it out), but what about replacing the...

That is one thing... At the motor officer's course, you'll drop the bike many, many times before it's over. Most officers wrap their crash bars with slit open garden hose to minimize the scratches during the class. Even taking the class on the County's bike, I'd hate to drop it that much...

I've put mine on the centerstand in bare feet... ...but I don't recommend it. :cry:

Got a couple of Maitso FJR models, and wondered if I convince the Sheriff to ditch the Harleys... Concept placement of decals: Waiting for the paint to cure; decals and lights go on tomorrow. This is what the cars look like: Just be glad they don't have these:

I went with the 8-8-3 and 6 in the back on an '08 and noticed an immediate difference, for the better. I'm about 220.