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I might add: the Missus' '12 700X vibrated enough to make her hands go numb on longer days (a professional chef, she has hand issues to start with, common to the craft). I swiped the extra-heavy Throttlemeister bar ends from my GL1800 and put them on her bars, along with adding a layer of...

In this case, it appears the previous/original owner did the installation himself. The remaining nuts on the port side are not Nylocks, so a dose of Blue gets in there.

A popup reminder: check your factory sidecase mount nuts for tightness. The other night, the Missus and I were out on the forest roads after (her) loong day at work. Unusually, I was leading, on a 250 Ninja (for heavens' sake). Her right saddlebag, mount and all, detached itself after the...

Middle of January in northeastern Illinois? May as well ride.

I'm not opposed to bar weights, but filling those aluminum things with #7 1/2 lead birdshot might well do wonders. I've seen it work in the past.

Geez, wiseguy, I missed your request. My apologies. This is what I used for the lighting: Link

I installed an Admore trunk lighting kit in the NC's Honda OEM trunk. It's not clear from Admore's information that this is actually intended for this particular Givi, but it hardly matters. In terms of fitting, it's fine. The installation wasn't difficult. However, there were a couple of...

I submit categorically there is no such thing as a "heavy wife".

The little glowing red pilot light of the Missus' Aerostich Kanetsu power cord, left in the frunk connected and in the "ON" condition after a cold snap, drained the battery to the point it would not turn the engine over. It didn't even take long, maybe just three or four days. The cord was...

I like that treatment. Now the mental gears are grinding. Not a pretty sound.

In retrospect, I regret cutting down the tallish shield on the Missus' Madstand (first-gen also) to suit her instead of drilling new holes. What was I thinking? Now the shield is limited to such-and-such a height, without the option of going higher if desired. It was about 20" as I recall and...

Honda 08M71-KZL-840 One Key Cylinder Amazon link to the kit I purchased: Link

I went ahead and following the excellent advice of Beemerphile and more, I re-keyed the Missus' OEM trunk to match the key of the ignition/frunk/sidebags. The Honda re-key kit had me caught short for a minute until I uncovered the adapter plug-tangy thing that the e-clip clips to. Thing is, the...

Heh. The older Madstad shield on TD's NC has no frosting and the upper edge "fiber optic" effect was so strong she declined to ride in the dark until the lower edge got a layer of 3M Tartan electrical tape, which completely fixed the issue. Trying to figure out how to paint black spray-can...

Well, since I have no direct experience there- Her bike came with the Two Brothers rattlecan- I hesitate to say, but I believe it should work. That's a good question.