Hydration Systems Installed

[Ignacio]

Best viewed in full detail here.

One gratuitous picture though...

 

[madmike2]

Good job, Matt. The bike looks good with all the blackness on various protrusions.

I read that you intend to have different beverages in each container. Does that mean you ran 2 lines? Or did you run a "T" with a shut-off valve? BTW, I couldn't get the straps to hold wither. "The Flying Welshman" came over and had them tight in about 30 seconds. There has to be some secret trick!

 

[TheAxeman]

Tanqueray in one and Tonic in the other? :yahoo:

 

[skyway]

Skyway is a fellow FJR owner and LD Rider that I had the priveledge of first meeting in a gas station in Tonopah, NV while riding the White Pine Fever event last August.

For the record I was never in Nevada. White Pine who?

 

[twowheelnut]

Jebus! A computer in the garage?! :blink: Damn. Bachelors have all the cool shit.

As for the hydration jugs: Gin and Juice comes to mind; Matt's long lost separated at birth twin.

 

[Ignacio]

I've got them separate for now, because riding long distance you're at serious risk for scurvy and malaria. The quinine in the tonic in system helps the first and a lime in my tank bag cures the other. The other....well I prefer Boodles.

I'm going to try running two separate to start with. The theory being water in one and gatorade in another. I could always change that fairly easily later if needed.

I still need to secure the bite valve magnet bases to my tank bag and that will probably be when I do a first long ride in April or so. The commute to work doesn't get me that parched quite yet.

Jebus! A computer in the garage?! :blink: Damn. Bachelors have all the cool shit.

Good porn and The West Wing are important while working on FJRs.

For the record I was never in Nevada. White Pine who?

Must have been some other young Welshman on an FJR that was riding all over Nevada multiple times that day. My bad

 

[kaitsdad]

Skyway is a fellow FJR owner and LD Rider that I had the priveledge of first meeting in a gas station in Tonopah, NV while riding the White Pine Fever event last August.

For the record I was never in Nevada. White Pine who?

White Pine.

(blatantly plagiarized from the internet)

* Pinus, from the Greek, pitus (pitys), "pine or fir tree"

* strobus, from the Latin for a tree from Carmania with a smelly gum, hence, "gum yielding"

* Common Name, from ??

* Other common names include: Eastern White Pine, Northern White Pine, Northern Pine, Soft Pine, Weymouth Pine, pin blanc (Qué), Weymounthtall (Swe), Weymouths Kiefer (Ger)

Taxonomy:

* Kingdom Plantae, the Plants

o Division Coniferophyta, the Conifers

+ Class Pinopsida

# Order Pinales

* Family Pinaceae, the Pines, Spruce, and Firs

o Genus Pinus, the Pines

* Taxonomic Serial Number: 183385

* Also known as Strobus strobus (Linnaeus)

# Used in cabinetmaking, furniture, interior finishes, woodenware, matches and lumber. The white pine produces the most valuable softwood lumber in eastern North America and is used extensively for interior trim, window sashes, door frames and for intricate carpentry. Excellent carving material. Lightweight, soft, even-textured, and easily worked, Eastern White Pine is probably the least resinous of all pines. It does not swell or shrink greatly with moisture content changes and displays remarkable durability as shown by the large number of houses built of Eastern White Pine in New England 200 and more years ago. Because of these desirable characteristics, Eastern White Pine uses include millwork, knotty pine paneling, siding and boards for boxes, crates, coffins, boats, woodenware, and novelties.

# Grown extensively as Christmas trees.

 

[skyway]

As for the hydration jugs: Gin and Juice comes to mind; Matt's long lost separated at birth twin.

Thats messed up. :blink:

 

[vectervp1]

Must have been some other young Welshman on an FJR that was riding all over Nevada multiple times that day. My bad

You know, them Welshman all look alike to me too....