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My apologies @Uncle Punk ..I deleted your last post by accident...sorry about that

We just went in January. One of the most humbling places I've ever visited. We took this picture and neither one of us even thought about our face gestures till we looked at the pictures later on.

My TL had 45k the original chain and sprockets. I changed them proactively not because they were worn that bad.

EK chain with Driven steel sprockets is a great combo. And yes change your sprockets, I would never put a new chain on old sprockets.

There are two of them correct? One on each side. Too lazy to go look at my bike

I have a Givi E55 my wife hated the back rest pad. She prefers the extra room she has without the pad. I would never mount a heavy box on the shit factory rack it will crack. I have the Givi 410 mono key mount with reinforcement arm its pretty stout. Check out www.tourandride.com for the best prices on Givi stuff.

If your not ready to spend money dont look at mine or ride it. Just ask @Dre. Riding mine cost him a lot of dinero on farkles.

If thats a lower link I'd yank that thing off. You probably don't have the original one though. 2 reasons. One if you value your oil drain plug. And two lowering these things totally takes away from the handling so ive heard. What do you have your rebound set at? I running 2 clicks out. 1 line showing on front preload. Tires at 42 F and R. Want to say 10 clicks out on rear preload and 3 or 4 out on rebound(id have to check those) I run my stuff tight. Can't say I notice any bouncing. Then again ridden her for 70k miles and 7 years I can't compare to much.

The inside of the cap gets corroded, there is a how too some where on how to disasemble and clean it up. I will get worse and to the point it wont open. I did mine twice before I said screw it and put on a Vortex cap. I have mine cranked down tight too, always have. There aren't any stiffer springs for these I've checked high and low. The stockers are 1100kg. These are cartiage forks and you can change the valveing in them but most say it's not that good of an improvement for the money spent. Some guys put 10wt oil in them I stuck with the 5wt. Just a fluid change to new clean fluid made mine feel much better. Fork bushings are not changeable. Once you get used to the weight you'll be almost as fast as the CBR with twice the comfort.

How you liking the old girl?

@Casper got us all fixed up after I text him about it last night.

Actually remembered I still owned a bike and took her out to smash some bugs.

Watching it on the dark web. Not impressed so far. Kinda hard to be impressed when the have a big ass flat bed truck with diesel generator on it following them around for when the get in a pinch.

This is true. I'm working nights now on a new job title at work and can't just hang out on my work station computer all day anymore. Plus been kinda bust at home with family and haven't rode much since July. Things should be back to normal in about a month.

Your new toy matches mine...

This will also probably be my next two wheeled purchase but will be a few more years since I just bough another new toy.

Tinker less ride more would be my recommendation. People always seem to try to squeeze "moar powa" out of bikes and usually just make them unreliable and give them problems. Just seems like a rabbit hole I never want to go down, but thats just me. These machines are engineered for long term reliability why mess with that?

I would have glued that crack up as a temp fix while waiting for the new one. Hell who am I kidding, I would have glued it and if it didn't leak ran it forever.

yup show rooms are empty and dealers can't get stock. Used market is HOT HOT HOT.

it's just a road with curves...good ol' Hiro over thinking things again.

Not sure what's my problem lately but even though I've got about 7000 miles on my bike so far this year I haven't touched it in over 6 weeks.

Part 4...first 50 seconds or so were me explaining how I was having issues this day and not many camera angles....

Part 3 "the good stuff"...

Revisit it, treated wood is hard to find right now and prices of it are skyrocketing. Concrete is almost zero maint.