Recent content by jtkirk

hoping you heal up quickly

Not in Arkansas!

Since I am not too thin skinned to laugh at myself: Did the same thing twice - left my key in the RH saddlebag, the one above the exhaust can, and forgot it was there. Came out, jumped on the bike, swung my leg over the seat, caught the key with my boot and bent it at a 90 degree angle...

Already did that.

May the Great Bird of the Galaxy bless you!

Through my own stupidity, three years apart, I have screwed up both keys to my 2012 X. One is bent so badly - the one I just messed up - that it is no longer usable. My other one from three years ago is usable but I really have to work it to get it out of the ignition. Are these "smart" keys I...

I do like that bike. Congrats

Not that there's anything wrong with that

Heated grips are not wired in with a relay to ON circuit that I know of. The control box does sense if the battery voltage drops below 12v and automatically shuts off. I know it works because several times the first year I had the bike I forgot to shut off the power and came out nine hours later...

'12 model purchased in May of '13. OEM battery lasted until January of this year. Replaced with a Scorpion from batterystuff.com Had a Scorpion in my FZ6 that was still going strong after four years. Replaced my OEM battery in that bike after three years in that bike also. Rode every day I was...

I bought the X so I would slow down. I was starting to go to fast too often on my FZ6. When I met a certain car with blue lights on a curve doing triple digits ( and got away with it because there was no quick place for the driver to turn around) I knew I'd used up a good deal of karma. It's...

Had that slow motion feeling 23 years ago this month. The only time I ever acted like an *** on my bike, others may beg to differ, I pissed a guy off who chased me for twenty miles. Once we got into town and I thought he'd settle down he drove up alongside me on the shoulder and then drove...

You must take some of the roads in N. Central Arkansas and South Central Missouri and I am not referring to those around Harrison like Hwy 7. I live 80 miles west of there and there are great roads in my area that will get East and North on your way to Canada.

digging that new op panel as well

Greetings and congrats from the Arkansas Ozarks