Recent content by BttrThnWrk

I put some of my NC700 salvaged farkles on the FJ-09 after the day warmed up a little, had some lunch and then went for a 70 mile ride northwest of Tucson this afternoon. I started out in the STD map, and the fueling seemed fine. It was more sensitive than the NC's, but it didn't strike me as...

The NC700X was basically a fill-in bike for me. I somehow totaled my Buell Ulysses in February, 2012, and finally got the okay to begin riding again in late September of the same year. I'd been drooling over the Tiger 800's, but when the NC700X was announced, it looked like something I'd like...

I'd been waiting patiently for EBR to announce their AX model last year, but instead they put off the announcement for this year, and maybe next, too. Sigh. I'd been looking at the Tiger 800's off and on for several years (even before I got the NC700), but kept putting it off. Finally, I...

My Shoei Neotec is an XL, and it fits in the trunk. HOWEVER, I did have to completely remove the little hatch in the bottom and also take out the owner's manual from the bottom cavity to make it fit. It IS a snug fit, even then, but it's doable. If you have any bluetooth comm gear or camera...

If you decide to break down on the road and you don't have a cell phone (or cell service right where you are) do it within walking distance of a Call Box so you can call for help.

I decided it was about cotton pickin' time I rode through Marana, the farming/ranching community northwest of Tucson. Mostly long straight flat roads (par for the course for US farming areas, mostly). Got a couple of shots extracted from the riding videos I take, featuring of the folks forming...

Today, my wife, her sister, and I rode up into Madera Canyon, about 25 miles south of Tucson. My wife and her sister went in our car, and I rode my NCX. We hiked along Madera Creek aways, and then had a little picnic lunch of soup, cold cut subs from Subway, chips, mocha, tea, and water. We all...

If the pictures you're asking about are through the windscreen, then they were taken as movies (and the pictures are screen shots from the D/L'd movies) shot by my GoPro Hero 3 (Silver), which was mounted on the left hand side of my handlebars. I usually keep the GoPro camera shooting the entire...

I tend to get bored with the straight roads. It's still riding, but it can be hard to tell this mile from the last one, especially on roads through the desert. I usually just drone along somewhere real close to the speed limit on mostly straight roads. Mountain roads, now, are a whole 'nother...

Same for me - almost as soon as it happens to me, I figure it out. Unfortunately, even after I realize I'm experiencing "target fixation", it seems to take a considerable effort of will on my part to tear my attention away from the "target" that's worrying me and move it to the way out of...

Fuzzy, I've got a fender extender already in place. Bbrrr. I'd hate to think I'd of had dozens of flats if it hadn't been there, instead of the two I have had.

I finished putting 3 gummy worm tire plugs in my nearly new rear PR3 after I took the really wide screw out. Even with 3 worms in the hole, it's still leaking about 1 psi every 5 or so hours. I've already got my new PR3 rear on order. That's the second time I've had a flat rear tire on this bike...

I use a beaded seat cover from mid-February through the end of October (I hardly ever have to worry about the airflow getting too cold in southern Arizona during that period), and combine it with standing up every now and then for a few moments at speeds under 50 mph. Standing some seems to help...

Ouch! Sorry you got hurt - hand surgery isn't much fun. Good luck on the rehab you'll be doing, either formal with docs and techs or just on your own by flexing and such. Good point about the gear. Familiarity does sometimes breed contempt - especially in our Arizona summers, when any excuse...

Hah! I deliberately positioned mine on the handlebars to AVOID getting the speedometer reading in the frame. Of course, I never speed, anyway...