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Yep, it was an old rusty nail, just the right size to really screw up a ride.

Did you have "Ride-On" in or just regular air? Don Bonito put in Ride-On in his tires and said in balanced the tires as well.

I tend to get back in the woods like you, and for a couple reasons am thinking about adding Ride-On.

 

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Sounds good to me.



"in all my vehicles". Didn't even think about putting it in something other than a motorcycle. Good point, especially for our jeep, which is off-road a lot also. . . and gets a few flats from screws/nails and what not.

 

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Got my plate!

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Cute. Love it!

 

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^^^^ what he said. I really like the look of the rear fender so far.

 

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Today i removed the 3 little decals on the left side plastic fender. I dulled the white plastic using goo gone!
You live u learn...

I used the wife's old hairdryer. My plastics were way dull before I started though. Bushes caused the dulling! Giggle

 

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PowerMadd risers installed today. Best thing I have done to my little TW!

I too give the nod to the PowerMadd risers. Way more comfortable both sitting and standing. Wider foot pegs is a very very close second. 3rd is my larger gas tank.

 

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Hi Fred,

Just so you know. A while back, I picked up a broken Cyclerack off of craigslist for $25.00. One of the tabs that mount to the footpegs was broken. I took a few pictures and emailed Cycleracks asking if I could buy a new tab so I could get it welded back on. They responded back asking for my address so they could send me a brand new rack. A few days later it arrived in the mail. All they asked was that I return the broken rack to them at their expense.

Here is their warranty:

Warranty Returns

All of our racks carry a lifetime warranty. If the rack has a structural failure, like a broken weld, we will replace it for free with absolutely no out of pocket expense to you. Please contact us if you have a rack failure and we will send out a replacement rack immediately.

Great product, great company!

Brian

"great company!" Yes indeed!

To add, this is a small father and son team located in here in the Boise area. Don = dad, Marc = son. Yesterday, I helped an Advrider forum member re-connect with Cycleracks after he had not heard from Don or Marc for a while on a product request. Job accomplished, both Advrider and Cycleracks fella's both happy.

Glad I could help.

 

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Lesson learned? Watch out for zombies grouse and lazy lizards

Happy Trails

With dogs, fire lookout, zomie chickens, road hazard'z, low lake levels, and a lovely picnic area, sounds like a wonderful busy day!

Nice pitcher's!

 

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this happens only once in the life of a T Dub



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Gosh darn it. I was not paying attention when mine it that milestone...and not too long ago either. Good catch! Now I have to wait for 22,222.2 I guess!

 

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View attachment 7220 After 7800 miles and probably 7800 rocks impacts my oem cat food tin skidplate is beat. Before Ricochet purchase I will test bang a few rocks with this aluminum scrap bolted to another oem plate. Plus here is a better pic of valise that fits under cyclerack. It has held foul weather gear for last 98 mile ride with out any problems.

Thanks for the reminder. I should finish my "help the OEM" skidplate modification project I started a while back!

 

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Admiral,

How much does a trunk like that cost? If you provide the model number that would be great. Thinking I like the looks of that clean install "manrack" everybit as much as the cyclerack.

Tom

You may have the wrong rider. I don't have a trunk, unless you're refering to the one I sit on. Lots of twinkies when I was younger!

 

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It works great on the long trips, but during the week around town I prefer the Jimbo shield. The Viper takes all the wind pressure off your body and It is solid no flex issues at all. I think it even makes the bike a little faster, more aerodynamic at speeds 50 mph and more. It goes on and off real quick with only two thumb screws.

I have the slightly smaller Spit Fire model. Like yours, I really like how quickly and easily they go on and off. Typically, I use mine when it's cooler, then take it off for summer or trails, but it also helps keep the bugs outta my teeth on the rare occasion of a pavement ride. The Viper looks like a real good shield...when not using the Jimbo!

 

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I rode to Papa Murphy's Pizza. I thought the family size was going to hang over the edges , but the acreage on the cycle rack swallowed it right up. View attachment 7729

Outstanding. This is one of the funniest things I've seen TW related in a long time.

 

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Working on removing carb without removing air box and a little flummoxed. Fortunately found this video when it comes re-install time. Thank goodness for helpful Youtube, but still looking for removal video. My float seat nylon filter is clogged up again so time to R&R with a good cleaning and throw away filter above floatseat.

While I didn't find this to be the most technically helpful video, it was funny!

 

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Been occupied with state basketball tournaments, but I've gotten the offending leaking fork seal replaced, but not fully completed. Forgot fork oil, so it's still sitting on the operating table till I'm able to get it done. Picked up the oil, but now gotta find the time. High School basketball tournament in the morning, BSU vs. Nevada (Reno) in the afternoon, and grandson's birthday party on Sunday. Of course the wife and I block out all late spring to early fall weekends for riding, so our time will come!

Couldn't find my old homemade damper rod removal tool and remembered seeing some better homemade tools on the forum. Copied this design from elime I believe. Because I didn't have a 19mm or 3/4" deepwell socket, I used a few extra nuts at one end of a 19mm bolt to take up the space so a standard sized socket would fit. Worked way better than my previous missing damper rod removal tool.

and the TW will be getting freshened up before heading to Moab (touch up paint, leaky kick start seal replacement, & other maintenance as required)

 

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What, no hammers?

Busted, sort of! I did have a picture, but wanted to zero in on the homemade damper rod and forgot to post it. I did realize later what I had omitted, but thought it would fly under the radar!

And where did you source replacement fork seal(s)?
My left side seal was starting to weep a bit so I used a recommended trick of running a hook-shaped piece of credit card stock between fork tube and seal . This seems to have removed some debris which was causing the leak. Successful for now, time will tell if this was an effective Lazy Guy solution.

Wife gets a kitchen and I get a vacation. If I recall Admiral had to promise his darling a new floor and some painting before he could come play with us in Verdi last summer. Never mind we were installing a new engine for Kris, the women somehow seem to get the better deal.

Well, I really do enjoy our new floor! Wife is a way better home decorator than I.

This time I ordered my supplies (fork seals included) from Rocky Mtn ATV/MC. As usual, all the parts I had ordered were at my door the next day when I got home from work. 99% of the time I have next day delivery, normally with the standard shipping. I spent over $100 on this order and shipping was free! Local Yamaha doesn't have most of the parts I need in stock. I do go there for my oil and other things, so I still support them in a small way.

The Lazy Guy credit card wasn't gonna work on this one. It wasn't just a minor leak, it looked like I struck oil in a Texas oil field. I had fork oil pumped all over the TW. I got some extra stuff to bring to Moab for the "just-in-case" scenarios!

 

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I actually use a floor jack and some straps to compress the spring and it worked fine. I lock the bottom down on the jack, wrap the straps around the top of the spring down to the base, and jack it up slightly until I can release the collar. Works well and does it quickly. You will need to hold the top to keep it from flopping over but it does work.

I did about the same. It's strapped down pretty good so I don't think there's any danger. It did flop over once as you mention, but just holding it up straight while slowly jacking solved this just fine.

 

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My left side seal was starting to weep a bit so I used a recommended trick of running a hook-shaped piece of credit card stock between fork tube and seal . This seems to have removed some debris which was causing the leak. Successful for now, time will tell if this was an effective Lazy Guy solution.

Fred,

I was reading about a couple Finnish guys riding across Russia, Mongolia and so forth. One of the fella's performed some fork seal debris removal with this KTM tool. Is this what you were talking about with a hook-shaped piece of credit card stock?

 

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Mike, I added about 2" of foam , closed cell below stock foam, high density open cell foam above stock foam all crudely shaped with a belt sander. I added this to my bike's seat since my fanny lacks enough of it's own padding. Covered it all with stretchy neoprene from the fabric store and then with paint roller added the gripper top using RTV Silicone to keep me from sliding into to low front. I wanted to sit a little taller in the saddle so transitioning from sitting to standing entails a few less degrees of creaky knee bending.
Sand foot was a handle from a 2" gate valve I secured with a bolt should I wish to remove it. I have gotten tired of having to remember to park next to some stick or rock in soft terrain. Should you wish to remove it for a "souvineer" bring a #2 Phillips and a 10mm box wrench when I am not looking.

The seat. More picture's of this please. ...and if you have any photo's while you were belt sanding it, that would be swell too!

 

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As my sister is here on vacation, we did the usual

Nice!