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Ooh, Rapturee, Oregon Coast! Done probably near 100 trips down it car camping and hiking and stuff. Lots of photos on my flickr. If you get mostly non-rain days like we have it should be a great motorcycle trip. Roads wind up and down and all around, great vistas, interesting towns/villages, great variety of beaches and camping and inns – and hopefully not too many mind-numbed cage drivers.So i had an opportunity to take the new pillion rider with me for a ride yesterday and only made it 12 miles out to the gas station and the bike would not start. Interestingly enough, i had just installed a new GEL battery earlier this spring and only have a few rides on it. It has always worked as expected when i rode before so i had no idea what the problem was with it now. I got a $10 jump start from another customer with a jump pack which i gladly paid and rode off with my new passenger right back to the garage.
i pulled the battery, everything checked out fine, i recharged it and placed it back in the bike(she went home). :{p
Now to see if it will hold up while i ride into town tomorrow morning and for the day riding around. Maybe i'll get one of those little battery amp led displays and wire that in and keep an eye out on the system. I dunno, weird deal. So many variables and yet everything looked fine, tight, clean etc. We're going to be taking a long trip together at the end of this month to the Oregon Coast so i'd sure like to make sure everything is good and clean, tight and running excellent before we leave for our 1k trip!! :{P
Beautiful area and nice photos. I am waiting for COVID to lift, if ever, so my wife can go visit her family in Panama and I can get on the bike and ride west. However it's now late in the summer, Panama is still closed and a Level-4 hotspot, so me thinks I am out of luck this year.Looks kind purty doesn't it? But millions and millions of bucks have been spent cleaning toxins and heavy metals out of Idaho's Ninemile Creek drainage from mining starting over a hundred years ago. This drainage has dumped many kilotons of bad stuff into the Coeur d’Alene River and thus Lake Coeur d’Alene, killing and stunting fish populations among other things. I think the yellow things in the background are for monitoring groundwater and creek water quality.
...A lot of times upon riding through an area I end up going down the rabbit hole learning more about it.
2020-08-10 15;48;08 by greenboy, on Flickr
Snagged one of these sidestand/kickstand foot enlargers (duck foot) for $8.99 shipped, took ten days to arrive from China. Precisely made, good materials and finish, nice fit. Fits foot pad of ~ 45mm x 50mm.
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Yeah, but I want more. Honda's kickstand sucks with a taller tire especially. At least this foot wasn't priced like the alternatives and has 2 to 3 times the surface area the stock foot has with most of that on the outside, and making it unlikely the bike will tip in that direction ; }Hmmm. Like some other X-Adv owners I am finding that mine tends to lean a little further than I am comfortable with as the pivot area wears with use. That is further exacerbated as I tend to have my spring preloads well ramped up for rough road riding.
My question. Does fitting that foot raise the bike a little when leaning on the side stand ?
Dang, I need a bike lift....getting too old to crawl around on the concrete floor to check the valves on the bike....muscle soreness this morning....LOL.... checked the valves on the bike yesterday, good to go as is....were they perfect (.17 and .28), no, but within specs: cylinder 1 both intakes were .16 and both exhausts were .27 while cylinder 2 were .18 and .29 respectively....same as they were 16,000 miles ago....matter of fact, these are the same settings it bike has had since the first valve check at 8,000 miles after purchase (bike now 58,000) miles...only had to adjust 1 valve once, and that was at the very first check; my buddy was showing me how to adjust the valves (for the very first time), engine was still warm but we adjusted one of the valves (to get the hang of it),,,spent the night at his house and the next day, checked and had to readjust the one valve I had adjusted on the warm engine....other valves were good.
That is correct....So in essence the valves didn't need adjustment from new to 58,000 miles ?
That is correct....