Recent content by rodeoclone

I took a 375 mile ride for Father’s Day and swung through the Iron Butt Rally just to look at bikes since it’s 30 miles from my home. I saw two S10’s but the KLR rider from KS gets an extra prize for toughness IMO. Holy cow. A bike from IBR Mexico. I’m fascinated and intrigued to cheer these...

Took crystallized plastic out of the wheel housing after a trip. Traveling back from Big Bend Natl Park in Texas, I experienced a West Texas wind storm. With a cross wind of 40 mph the S10 took hits from tumble weed and plastic. I didn’t realize a piece of plastic got wrapped inside the hub...

My 2015 with 50k mi has been running rough at idle to 2500 rpm. Plugs only had 2k on them. Thought it was the O2 sensor, replaced that. Nope. Thought maybe the plug gap is off. Nope, but found cracked ignition coils. Replaced coils today, now she purrs again.

Here’s a suggestion for you that I did. I went to a machine shop with the plastic piece from the fork, that the tool fits around and had them stamp a hole in a scrap piece of iron that they had. They then used a hand grinder to open up the hole and clean it up. I think the stamp was 1.25 inch...

It’s nice when New Year’s Day in Iowa has good riding weather. Was 26 degrees and fast-frozen gravel roads.

My 2015 w 50k is acting exactly the same Tenman. Rough idle up to 2500 rpm. I’ll try new plugs and fuel system cleaner. Hopefully not a coil. I’ve checked the coil resistance before and recall that it wasn’t exactly as the book said nor uniform across coils. The idle was fine back then also, so...

I’ve had some good whacks on my T-Rex guards and they have saved bike damage. Riding through rock field trails have bent the skid plate backwards and up compressing the rear mount elbows. Overall I like their products on my S10.

Thanks for the reminder holligl, I went today, the final day of opening. Sorry to see such a gem of motorcycle history move on. It amazed me.

I pick it up. I figure that if I can’t pick up a ADV bike, I’d better get a lighter one. But that’s my personal opinion.

I did the Wyoming BDR last week solo mostly. Expert section was a bit tricky in a couple places, side x sides chew it up. Beautiful scenery and much open grazing in the desert and up in the mountains. Cow pies galore, bike isn’t muddy just sh_tty. Sand caught me here, too fast and too much...

Riding some Texas hill country for a couple days, twisted sisters and some county roads on today’s ride. Only saw one ADV bike-a blue Tenere.

I’ll be there Wednesday night and leave Sunday or maybe extend to Monday if eemsreno’s rally is adventurous(sarcasm). My brother-in-law is bringing his toy hauler on Thursday.

Very nice gear @Zagato

@SkunkWorks how is your visibility to the panel with the City version and would the size be conducive for their map holder addition? I’m contemplating going with the next size up but don’t want obstructed view to the panel. Thanks

I went for a Mississippi River ride today and it unintentionally became a Lock n Dam theme.