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I wear the water absorbing vest as well. It really makes a difference when I put it on under my perforated jacket. For these polymer filled vests to work, the water has to evaporate into air that can hold additional water. In the humid SE USA and places like Houston, when it is 85-90-95%...

Another site full of KLR info is https://www.klr650.net/forums/ I bought my 2001 KLR 650 last year. It was already equiped with most of the accessories and changes that are required. Have you checked your doohickey? (a real change that should be made) Here is a photo of my KLR in front of...

I've done searches using various combinations of 'extend Terry pegs' and have come up with nada. I'll try 'extend highway pegs' and a few other permutations, but if someone has found the posts about how to extend the pegs, please share. I've also been at some Harley dealerships, but the 6 3/4"...

HI, Stef! I just picked up a tip about the Stebel Magnum Blasters. I had washed my bike and the horn sound that crushed bricks, sent women's skirts up to their ears, and pushed cars out of their lanes was now just a peep, like Roadrunner in the Warner Brothers cartoons. Even though I had the...

Canbus is the plant that is illegal in most of the USA. It can be smoked or even eaten to realize a level of stimulated consciousness. Just wanted to help. :D :P Ron

It is just so hard to imagine such an accident could happen to someone as motorcycle savy as Larry Grodsky. But, we all know this is a game of risk management. The risk is, indeed, managed, but not eliminated. Fatigue on a long ride? Momentary lapse in focus? Unavoidable incident? Who knows? I...

Wasp into jacket + Downshift to pull over + a fifth sting on my chest + pop clutch = highside But I was much, much more fortunate than Larry. I would go to his celebration of life (if permitted by his family), but I will be out of town that Saturday. Ron

Steve, I'm out in the Golden area. I was going to email Larry to see if he wanted to go riding this past Saturday. I hadn't met him personally yet, but did correspond with a few emails. This really did come as a shock. Of course, it always does. I regret you had to go through the trauma as...

I wonder how often the 'no witness' scenario plays out. Where I live, just outside of Denver, CO, it is the rare place you can go without having witnesses. Even in a dark alley, windowshades will rise when a shot is heard. People will notice a car leaving the area. It is a low crime area, so...

Sorry to read about your crash! Good that you weren't damaged. I totaled my ZRX and the insurance company cut me a check to buy a new one. The logistics were a pain, but all was made well in the end. I hope you have as easy a time. Regards, Ron

With the disposables, you really have to test for yourself how well they work. For me, the tapered ones don't fill my ear canal. The cylindrical plugs do. So it is a good idea to buy a few of each type and try them. I don't recommend the plugs that are tied together with a band. I found that...

I use the cylindrical foam plugs. I buy mine in bulk. They come as 200 individually wrapped pairs in a box for a bit over $20 from an industrial safety supply house. I find them to be indispensable. Riding with a full face helmet on, at 65 mph, can damage your hearing permanently in an hour or...

Thanks. I'll have to check out this Internet and WWW business. Who knows, it may even catch on. ;) :D Ron

What's the internet? Ron

Am I going to have to come out to teach him how to ride that thing? Congratulations on the new baby, G! You must give your older child enough attention to avoid jealousy. Ron

Actually, dead men do tell a lot. It's amazing what detectives can glean from the evidence. They just caught those kids who burnt the churches in Alabama by matching the tire tread marks to the tires and type of SUV. If you are involved in a shooting, leaving the scene with a dead or wounded...

If I recall correctly, motorcycles were banned on The Loop around Chicago due to loud motorcycles disturbing people on Sunday rides. It was not due to the whine of sportbikes, but to cruisers with open pipes. The AMA and ABATE and other motorcycle groups had to work overtime to get the ban...

Our freedoms stop at the next persons sensory apparati. We have freedoms as long as those freedoms don't harm those around us. It's the old freedom of speech concept that you can have your a$$ busted if you yell fire in a crowded room. If you want your freedom to have obnoxiously loud pipes...

I think that most, not all, but most of the ill will against HD comes from the image that many, not all, HD riders try to project. I serve up an example. Saturday, on a ride, I passed the Stetson Bar about 2 pm. There were 7 HD's in the lot. Not one Japanese or German or British or Italian...

All of these handgun rounds are pipsqueaks. None can deliver the energy to knock someone back or down. Aside from a direct hit to the central nervous system, if you want someone to go down, you have to count on the: person being shocked or surprised that they were hit person going down because...