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I would pay good money to be allowed to sit off to one side and quietly watch Odot and Bustanut at one of those tech days. I am convinced that nothing on television would be as interesting as the spectacle of those two unique personalities.

A damned emu. Why? Odot, why are you raising an emu? Do they make good pets?

 
Gave the big girl a bath. After my trip last weekend, she was more dusty than anything else. Bugs are not a problem these days.

Also ordered a set of PR2s. $245 shipped from Jake Wilson. I've got another 1500 miles left on my BT023s, but I want new rubber in waiting when it's time.

 
Checked my battery tender, started her up for a few minutes. Checked the air pressure in the tires.

 
Checked my battery tender, started her up for a few minutes. Checked the air pressure in the tires.
Hope you let her warm up thoroughly, at least to normal idle speed,

if only to prevent the dreaded flooding that FJRs have been known to suffer from.

 
I rode the filthy thing to work. Then, this afternoon I rode it home again. I did not lean it very far, I did not accelerate or stop very hard. In fact, I did not do anything that was exciting at all. But I did ride it and that was exciting enough.

 
"Redfish Hunter"

I would pay good money to be allowed to sit off to one side and quietly watch Odot and Bustanut at one of those tech days. I am convinced that nothing on television would be as interesting as the spectacle of those two unique personalities.

A damned emu. Why? Odot, why are you raising an emu? Do they make good pets?

I read on a forum that:

"Incest is best, but, Bestiality is Reality"

Based upon some of the crap I've seen here this may be true! JSNS. - Bahhhhh!

 
I read on a forum that:"Incest is best, but, Bestiality is Reality"

Based upon some of the crap I've seen here this may be true! JSNS. - Bahhhhh!
John, I thought you were told to stay off that forum? :rofl:
Riding it to work today, 52 degrees now...70 on the way home. 😎

 
I was tidying up my already tidy garage and pulled out my Yamaha touring shield. I held it up to the Cee Bailey and thought, heck, they're not that much different in size. I'll pull off the larger-than-life Cee Bailey and revisit my summer touring shield. Next morning wasn't even really cold. Around 29F. And I arrived at planet ohhellno. At highway speed, the difference in wind and cold was huge. Shoulders and arms that usually never feel cold felt cold. Or at least cool. So at least in my heli-bar'd winter world, the barn door was money well spent. I look forward to decent weather when cooling is a goal rather than a problem.

 
Rode it to work and back in 50F weather -- only a few days after our intimidating 2016 Atlanta blizzard. A scarf under the Big Banana Aerostich makes a micro-climate that's hard to beat.

 
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Put the right side mirror (passenger side if you read that post) on that I got from a forum member. The install was really easy but one of the push rivets broke. I'll have to get one this week. It looks great but now I'm destined to drop it again since it looks like new again. At least the rest of it is still dirty.

Similar to Uncle Hud, we had a blizzard with 8 inches of snow last week, but it was beautiful today and we rode about 60 miles around the countryside in upper 60's temps, but many shady areas still had lots of snow on the sides of the road. I really enjoy riding like that.

 
Rode her a couple hundred miles in 55 degree sunny weather to check out the condition of our "flat straight boring" Southern Indiana roads and to scrub in my new rear tire. All is good and I'm ready for our next nice day to haul some ass.

 
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Did a clutch soak, didn't take out the last set, as that had oil on it, pretty straight forward , seems a bit better. Will need to test ride it now to see for sure. Also replaced ,whilst I had it off to get the fairing off, the right side oes slider that got damaged when it fell in the carpark after I'd had it 2 weeks.

 
I rode her a couple of weeks ago and thought I would connect her up to the Battery Minder I've used for years. The FJR I'm talking about here, not the wife. She was fully charged in seconds. The FJR, not the wife. I'm going to ride to work tomorrow morning. Should start out at 40 degrees. Almost like Spring! Gotta love riding in SW PA in January. Looking forward to it.

 
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I pushed it out of the garage and let it run for 15 minutes. Then I pushed it back into the garage. She got an oil change and a new filter. I put 10-30 in this time. Yeh I know the engine will blow to smitherines now. I will change it again in the spring before it gets to hot. The way it's looking I should be riding it all next week. That's if my back cooperates.

Dave

 
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