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I think the rules say that the bike you rode on has to be in your tag photos.

I figured I’d disconnect the connector to the APS and hook up a ohmmeter while twisting the throttle. If it shows up in the APS that has to be the cause. If it doesn’t, I should be able to manually operate the throttle shaft to see if it’s the TPS the same way. Never tried to manually turn...

Dredging this old thread up because I seem to finally be affected by the throttle position herky jerky. I’m sitting at 65k miles on the 2014 (miles are being split with three other trusty steeds). My present symptoms are slightly different from those previously shown. For one thing, the herky...

I remember that my first gen used to have a louder whine while cruising along in 4th gear. My ‘14 doesn’t seem to display that trait, or else my hearing has gotten that much worse. I agree with Ross, the few times I’ve ridden mine without earplugs, like moving it across a parking lot, I was...

I’m still running my zumo 550 on the FJR. Still able to update the maps loading them on my SD cards, as I described in the thread linked to above. Still using a Starcom wired headset. It still works, so why mess with it? I still also have a zumo 660 too, which I use on my Africa Twin and...

As a follow-up, don’t make the mistake I did. Don’t use a cast iron dutch oven for your chili. Tomatoes totally stripped the seasoning out of the bottom, so I’m having to reseason it this morning. Next time either stainless or a ceramic lined dutch oven. Better to have a little red stain in...

Too cold out for BBQ. -18F is morning. -21F down at the barn where we keep the chickens and my wife’s horse. Good day for indoor cookin’. Baked a loaf of sourdough this morning to help warm up the house. Pellet stove running full blast was only getting us to 63 inside. Once the sun...

I fear we all look just a bit older.

Just found out that my beloved Lumberjack brand, as well as Bear Mountain brand pellet, have sold out to “Lignetics”. They are a big player in the heating pellet fuel market, and I have been happy with a couple of their products in that realm. But it does mean that the formulae are likely to...

I’d be honored to have you, Don.

Wintertime BBQ in Vermont… Was surfing YouTube shorts and someone posted a recipe for cheese stuffed, bacon wrapped smoked bratwurst. As luck would have it, I happened to have all of the required ingredients in my pantry and fridge, so at 2PM I jumped in on preparations. The jist of it is you...

That sounds good. I’ll have to try that next time. Might use chuck if I can’t find brisket flat at a reasonable price. Chuck roast goes on sale all the time around here for pot roast.

@Knifemaker - it looks like you are using smoked brisket in your chili recipe. It looks to be fully cooked. How do you use it? Put it in at the end of the beans cooking? Or earlier? How much beef flavor do you get vs. smoke flavor? The recipe I linked to has you brown the cubed raw brisket...

Funny you should mention using brisket in chili. I found a great recipe online for “Texas Brisket Chili” and I had a 3 lb. brisket flat that had been sitting in the chest freezer for over a year. I had scored a bunch of points and flats for $3 lb. And stashed it away. No beans in Texas chili...

Weird. I thought the insufferable owners all drove Priuses and Teslas. I’ve owned many different motorcycle brands over the years, including a few BMWs. The old ones weren’t all that hard to work on. Certainly not at the Ducati level, but even those could be worked on if you were...

Hey gang. Glad the Lumberjack pellets are giving good results after my recco. I snagged a couple bags of their apple wood pellets last time I was in town, so I’ll let you know how those work out. We lost power on December 23rd. Had some extremely high winds, over 75 mph in gusts, that took...

The beef jerky smoking went really well yesterday. I had marinated the trimmed sliced beef strips overnight in a jumbo ziplock bag in the fridge, roughly following Alton Brown’s recipe. Laid the strips out on paper toweling for an hour to absorb most the surface moisture, then arranged them on...

That maple, cherry, hickory blend is what Lumberjack calls their “competition blend”. It’s not bad, but not as flavorful as their straight hickory, or if you can find them their “charred hickory”. Do you have “Runnings” stores out that way? That’s where I get mine. Bear Mountain is one I’ve...

Hah, yeah. One thing I’d like to do is cook my pork butts for pulled pork overnight. I could easily fit six, but four is likely all I’d ever need to cook. People are saying they “don’t trust to leave it” for some reason. I’ll give it a number of cooks to see how she runs, but my other Pit...

First cook went well. It was just a small pork loin. I took out all of the racks except one at about 1/3 from the top. Put water in the water pan, as instructed in the user manual (they say that you HAVE to use water or risk a fire!) We shall see about that in the future. Cooked the roast...