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Lucky bastage - again (as usual), nice ride report there Mr. Carver. Even vaccinated, I have no confidence my buddies and I will be able to return to your fair state and enjoy similar twisties & vistas in the rational 2021 riding season.  😭 Glad we can live vicariously through you. Keep the...

I too, am soon scheduling an appointment at a local shop to get the front switch replaced under this recall.   First noticed my Criuse Control indicator flashing [as a status that CC could not engage] just after I bought my Gen3 used last year. The problem wasn't presenting a latched failure...

For my Gen3, I'm just using a set of home-brew custom metal plates I'm cutting / forming / painting out of ~ 0.125" aluminum sheet, combined with s pair of those SW-Motech mirror extender blocks. I've done a number of other custom metalwork farkles (old Gen1, and this newer Gen3) over the years...

Welcome to the party Rex!

Sorry to learn you've had some issue with broken mounts (!). In full transparency, I hesitated to buy one for my own Gen3 due to a similar concern that breakage of any of the fairing-connected points could happen eventually (under heat + vibration stress).  This was not a concern for the shelf...

Piling on here FJRay to add I'm sorry for your loss.

Just jumping in here to offer a plug for a California company I had some interaction with in 2018, then late in 2020 - on the topic of buying a dash shelf. Scott ([email protected]) offered me a link to some DropBox pics that still appears...

I too, slapped down ~$80 Canuck about 5 years ago, and purchased the K&N filter for my Gen1.  Used it for a couple years, and then after reading a few (controversial?) science-based studies, concluded that the potential benefits of the K&N [oiled design] over a conventional [paper] filter may be...

I agree with others here (earlier).  You must get some sawdust, roadgrit, kids toys, and puddles of unconfirmed fluids on that floor ASAP!

Hey, I owned a Gen1 for about 8 years, and rain or shine, she always started (with same battery over >75K miles too).  However, when I was a much younger fool riding an RD400, I was an unlucky victim of what turned out to be a bad rectifier. Don't know about your Gen1 (I now have a Gen3), so...

She's a beaut - GLWS !

Guess this is what keeps Mr. Carver off the streets at night?

Will do!

Hey Junior, -1c is about 30 degrees Fahrenheit (my estimate, but of course Google offers instant temperature conversions too.  :thumbsup:

Very nice Mr. Carver - thanks for sharing as always. My wife and I drove a rental car all over the north half of California back in Sep 2018, and ended up taking a number of coastal vista camera shots all long that stretch both north and south of Big Sur.  Really hoping to get down there with...

Sorry my friends - didn't mean to drop the ball on this thread  😭.  A little distracted here at home base in the frigid north. :cold: Will stroll through some of my own travel pics and return here soon to try and participate again. 

Hey Jimmy REB, you're in for a treat, I've come to appreciate the western third of North America offers a hell of a lot of great riding, through twisty mountain roads, high vista passes, and often, less traffic than you may experience in the east.  Well, as long as you schedule your outta town...

I was guesssing at a spot somewhere on Alberta's Icefields Parkway, between Banff and Jasper.

Geez, I used to ride a Gen1 (2004) of that same colour.   Please gift us with a pic or three, as some of us are curious what a Gen2 looked like in that hue.

I concur with Art - I have done exactly that (a high-current fused pigtail off the battery terminal) for both my old Gen1, and now my Gen3 FJRs.  In both cases, I took advantage of the investment in labour to use a larger gauge cable (8 AWG) with custom break-away connectors which I can use to...