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Asking about six gears vs five negates all the FJRs incremental improvement.  Compared to my 09, my 17 is much smoother and gets 48-52 mpg vs 42-44.  I got cruise control and a host of other electrical wizardry going on.  Front forks a nearly maintenance free.   The rear shock and ES control...

The scab lands in Eastern Washington are a result of the Ice Age Floods scouring the land of all loose soil about 13,000 - 15,000 years ago. Using Google Maps you can easily see where the water flowed. Here is an image from Google Maps. The brown area is where water flowed carving out the...

Allsport in Spokane Valley.

I had mine done at a dealer in Spokane Washington.  They even checked the shock relay arm bearings for free.  I have about 700 miles on the bike since the recall.  No problems at all.  Fluids are all up to the top levels.  Very happy with the work performed.  The transmission shifts just fine as...

And the basis for that is what?  :D

WTF, is Yamaha assigned a complex dynamics equation to some damn junior engineer who tried to stuff six gears where 5 were before.  Not that I understand Japanese culture but ya gotta wonder if he is still with the company or disgraced?  It took four darn years to be discovered.  So much for the...

Plugging my VIN to the Yamaha web page has become something like playing the game Battleship.  It was all miss until today.  Now it is hit and sunk!  The logo of the Tuning Fork is tarnished.  This is disappointing.

If the weather is nice in Western Washington go for it.  Just follow BluFJR route to John Day Oregon then follow this route to Mount Rainier.  When you get to Northwoods Washington you can decide to head west like what is shown on the route or head north on FS 25 and go on the east side of Mt...

BluFJR posted  a damn fine route.

I plugged in my VIN at MommaHa and nothing yet.  It will happen I have no doubt about it.  I predict part will arrive mid June, service schedules for mid August. 

The roads around Mt. Rainier aren't open until early July.  Not sure what your timeline is.  If it is early than that or the weather is rubbish in Western Washington head to NE Oregon instead for some of the best riding in the Pacific Northwest.  Great roads, dryer weather and zero traffic. ...

Good news is the FJR lives on.  No A model = bummer.

Urals are pretty cool but certainly not for everybody.  Hubert Kriegel road his around the world and preferred it to motorcycles.  His web site is among the best adventure web sites.  The layout is splendid and easy to read.  He road his Ural in Polar Zones many times.  If you find yourself with...

Interesting that CW is foregoing print.  I am waiting for Rider to do the same.  I missed a few issues of Rider early this year and honestly didn't miss it.  Rider has been become so plain and vanilla that it is become irrelevant.  If I want information on how a machine or gear performs I find...

Precisely. For me ES ~ Extra Sloppy.

I remember when I a 450 was a big bike. ☹️

It is a matter of how much comfort you require.  DR650 and KLR are widely used for world travel.  The bikes will go all day on a paved road.  I can ride it 300 miles in a day.  More than that becomes tiring.  I have mine set up with a Russell Day Long saddle and a Madstad windscreen.  Think of...

The tracks are posted so if an rider wants to give it a go on the FJR then by all means go for it.  Well I don't care to take my FJR on gravel roads and find the DR650 is well suited for dual sport rides.

Day 5 On the way to the restaurant last night we watch a couple of fawns cross the road in Darby Montana. One made it and the other for some inexplicable reason decided to follow at the last possible fraction of a second. The car already in evasive maneuvers had no chance to avoid the stupid...

Day 4 First let's talk about Senas. We had two 20s and a 10s. I had the owners manual on line and read up on how to get them to connect. It worked but too often after stringing out and regrouping the damn Sena's sounded like we were talking under water. Anybody know to to fix this? We had to...