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Last year Murphs tip over bars got installed on my Conc. Contrary to popular belief, they only handles tip-overs.

The guys who installed it said it was relatively easy.
BTW: No that is not my bike cover in the grass, it is someone else’s.

Last year I bought a greenlight trigger from Green Light Products. Installation was easy; I left it clamped overnight. Does it work? Yes, definitely. The only problem is at history has shown me, I don’t seen to actually use many intersections that utilize this approach for changing lights :).

Doug helped me change the oil this Spring:

• Change motor oil & filter
• 3L Shell Rotella T 15W40 JASO MA API SH
• Fram CH6012
• Odometer: 9987 miles

On my quest to rid my ride of rust I found the contaminants on the backrest mounts to be unacceptable. Take a look:

Sure it is not bad, but then again, it isn’t good, either.
I did replace all of the rusty bolts, however, the powdercoating seems to be eaten away and what is left remaining is a layer of rust.
Current investigating technical remediation for this that involve sandblasting and powdercoating.

It is hard to miss the rusty caps on these risers:

Continue reading “New GenMar Riser Caps”

Due to scheduling difficulties (project deadlines, semester endings, family homecomings), I put off hooking up my battery to a trickle charger (which I’d yet to purchase). After letting her sit around in the teens and single-digits (in a garage) for the last month or so I was pleasantly surprised to find that my buddy had a charger to loan me, space to leave it in his basement, and finally that the battery only needed about 2m of charging for the charger to give it the thumbs up. Awesome!

On one of the last ride-able Fall days this year, on a very beautiful day, we rode over to Madison to visit some friends. My buddy snapped this picture which shows off the new Connie and Stich pretty well. That was a really fun day.

While installing the power hookup for the Gerbings coat I managed to dislodge the battery drain hose by lifting up the battery (because I wanted to look at it).
Brooke explained that:

The battery vent/drain hose attaches on the right side (as you sit on the bike) and should go to the same place the gas tank filler neck drain hose and the fuel sender drain hose go to. There’s a bracket down near the right foot peg back in somewhere between/near the swing arm and frame. It should be easy to see with the right side panel off the bike.

He was right. Took off the one-screwed-on side panel and the bracket is right there along with the two other tubes. The drain now faces where it should… the ground.
(via C.O.G.)

Never clean your seat with Armor All; you will slip around all over on your seat.
I spent 5 hours experiencing this, and after 3 hours (ridden away from home of course) it started getting painful.
The guys on concourstech suggested 303 or F21 instead.

A couple of weeks ago I “installed” the Targa 1/2 tank bra. It installs easily; you just hook the edges around the bottom of the gas tank.