Hello from Texas!

[JoelTheMole]

Hello from the boring flat plains of South Texas!

I got my first 2014 FJR1300ES in December 2023 and was wiped out by a truck swerving into me in June, and I got my second 2014 FJR1300A in October. It needed quite a bit of love as it had been sitting outside not running for something like 7 years.

I am more about function than looks with my bikes, especially as I daily my FJR, so it is definitely not to the taste of some, and also still very much a work in progress.





Beat up Shad 58X top box that survived my previous FJR

Double darkside tires - Mutant rear up front and Crossclimate2 rear

Virago 250 handlebars

Kury mini floorboards

RDL seat

R7 Brake master cylinder

ES front end, oddly enough my forks were still straight from the ES bike, although I have no fender and one of my fender mount tabs broke off the fork

And other stuff


This was my previous 2014 ES after the accident:

 

[Old Michael]

Welcome, Joel.
Virago handlebars?!
How difficult was that?

 

[JoelTheMole]

Thanks, nice to be here!

And the Virago handlebars were not that hard really, I have a somewhat gouged up ABM handlebar conversion from my wrecked bike, so just took a brake line extension and throttle cable reroute:


You can do the same thing pretty cheap with the stock top plate though:

 

[SkooterG]

Oh ****. Who let you in?

 

[fastpappy]

Many of the same characters here so you're already well known but good to see you here also.

 

[JoelTheMole]

Lol, well I figured this would increase my chances to annoy Whoooshka and take flack from SkooterG!

 

[tschutter]

Welcome Joel
How far is your daily commute?
I was doing that (summer only - here in Michigan) till a cager decided to hit my rear left bag. After rehabing, my wife put the xneigh on daily commuting. Now I work from home and my commute is a trip downstairs.

 

[JoelTheMole]

Welcome Joel
How far is your daily commute?
I was doing that (summer only - here in Michigan) till a cager decided to hit my rear left bag. After rehabing, my wife put the xneigh on daily commuting. Now I work from home and my commute is a trip downstairs.

I work from home currently, but I am kind of the house husband who runs all the errands, and that all happens on my bike. I spent a week in a trauma ward this summer myself after I was hit, I lost something like 15% of my skin, broke a lot of bones, and had to have surgery to reassemble my right wrist and elbow with plates and screws. Burn unit shower scrubs: 0/10 do not recommend.

Also, don't be an idiot like me and put out your hand to try to catch yourself when flying, just full body eating it is definitely a better choice. I knew that already, but apparently hard for me to remember it in the moment when everything is happening so fast.

 

[Whooshka]

Lol, well I figured this would increase my chances to annoy Whoooshka and take flack from SkooterG!

Oh That's OK. I'm not sure you could annoy me any more than you already do.

 

[Trailrider57]

Welcome from another Texan on a 2014 A model. Love the red bikes. Not sure I'd be as enthusiastic as you though if I'd had the accident you described.

 

[JoelTheMole]

Welcome from another Texan on a 2014 A model. Love the red bikes. Not sure I'd be as enthusiastic as you though if I'd had the accident you described.

Thanks!

And it wasn't pleasant, but my whole family seems genetically predisposed to heal pretty well and have fairly low pain reception.

They thought they were going to have to do skin grafting and keep me several weeks, but a week after the accident I was home and limping around even with a broken right leg bone and a lot of broken right foot bones. A week after that they removed my surgery cast and I was able to gently use my very broken right hand and arm.

So definitely not something I would recommend for funsies, and I am still not back 100% yet, but it definitely could have been a whole lot worse considering I got ejected hard off a bike going freeway speeds.