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Green Valley Rd, the Ben Howard Rd of the south. :) Yup, gotta watch for moss and leaves everywhere this time of year. For me, it's a great opportunity to test my ABS on my very steep private road that gets covered with leaves and/or gravel in the fall/winter. :lol:

Sorry to hear, Bryan. I know it's tough losing a family member, having had to carry my dog out of the vets office last year for burial on my property. :(

Is there a picture in this post? Damn firewall at work blocks many file/photo sharing sites so I can't be sure. Can you tell those of us that are under the "thumb" what the name of this product is?

30 degrees and clear on the ride to work this morning at 4:30am. Did I mention that heated gear is really nice to have? :)

Still original tank on my 07. Probably not leaking because we never get any sun here in Seattle. :)

Your 2010 should have the spider problem "fixed" by Yamaha from the factory. Although there have still been 2010 and later FJR's affected by spider bites, the numbers have been very small compared to us 06 to 09 owners. There's a couple pinned threads at the top of this forum section that talk...

IIRC, you can test the keypad by looking at the circuit board on the vacume module. I did a serious sealing of my control panel and it's still holding up after about 10 years of Seattle weather, but I've had other issues come up that stopped it from working. It's currently working fine on my...

Love those Smoking Gun finds.

And another option for locking a long cable to the bike is to attach some kind of hook under the seat that you can loop the cable ends around and then pop the seat back on. I've also heard riders that open a sidecase and stick the helmet strap inside and then relatch the case, which holds the...

I have the helmet lock/powerlet brackets from TownsendsFJR. They are made to attach Helmet Guardian locks to them and then you'll have helmet lock(s) in the traditional location(s). The Helmet Guardian locks can be rekeyed to fit your bike key. I wrote up a nice article on doing that years...

I've had a similar set on my 07 for most of it's 135,000 miles and love them. A guy on the forum (Leo something or other) used to make some that slipped into the slider and were held with a small screw through the bottom of the slider. The peg part was Harley Davidson branded until I carefully...

Congrats Grandpa! No need to wait to take junior for a ride with this magnetic onesie: :) https://www.aerostich.com/aerostich-magnetic-baby-onsie.html

That relay unit (that had corrosion on the connection on my 07) is accessible without removing anything. Visualize your head just above the front fender, between the fork tubes and looking forward. This relay is just above the lower edge of the nose cowling. You can actually see it without...

Nice shot on the moose. We aren't allowed to have a scope on our muzzleloaders here in WA, so 100 yds is about my limit for shooting. You da man for hitting it running at 100 yds! Did you also get to share in the bounty? I hear moose is delicious, but haven't had an opportunity to try it. I...

When the bike died, was it instant or a loss of power and then dead? Electrical stuff like a bad kickstand safety switch will usually instantly kill the bike (I know from experience), but a fuel pump failing will be a relatively slower death. I can tell you from my 07 that there's a fuel pump...

Since they stopped hound hunting many years ago, they lowered the price of a cougar tag to $5 to encourage all hunters to buy one and hopefully keep the population in check. I buy that tag along with bear every year for those rare opportunities. In my case I was fully justified in killing the...

LOL , I had a cougar 5 years my senior stalk me almost 29 years ago when I was a hot, young stud. Been miserable since then too. There's been a lot of joking in the household these days on that topic. And let's not even get started on the topic of eating *****. :)

Yikes! Sorry to hear about all the damage. Just remember, you only need to do the next step (great writeup by hppants) and eventually life will be back to normal.

Telling my story in other forums, I wonder if my situation is not as super rare as we might think. We do know that a mountain biker was killed by a cat in WA this year and there was also a person killed by a cat in OR this year. Probably not any kind of scientific study done on people stalked...

Besides riding motorcycles, I'm also an avid hunter. There's the allure of going back to our roots as hunter/gatherers and being personally involved in acquiring healthy, hormone and antibiotic free sustenance for the table. It's much easier to just go to the grocery store for steaks, but I'd...