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If you put Givi monokey racks on your bike, then you can put a huge variety of cases on there with little effort. Their Canyon soft bags also are locked down, so they are a lot harder for someone to walk away with (though those soft bags don't quite clip onto the monokey racks, they will mount...

I would try adding 5 lbs. of air to a flat tire with a hand pump and consider whether you'll live long enough to fill a flat tire to 40 PSI with a hand pump.

I can't understand how in 2024 we can get a new bike with throttle by wire that doesn't have cruise control. This is a swing and a miss by Honda as far as I can tell.

No, a riding buddy has been lusting after one for a few years now and needed some help loading. He made it 3 days into ownership and there's a warning light, though I think maybe it's for the key fob battery.

Yeah I didn't buy it, but I went along to help my riding buddy load it up.

Lousy headlights aren't exactly a "it's broken and it doesn't work" situation. The hard starting also has a solution that doesn't involve a repair and it's rare enough that getting a bike to the dealership that will actually do this on demand is difficult. For the 50,000-ish miles I've put on...

Well I couldn't stop him, we'll see how this one goes. For anyone looking at one of these, Triumph decided to copy Harley with a damped trunk mounting plate, but it seems to rattle around on its mounts, so maybe go with the setup directly from Givi.

I cannot ever remember reading a thread on any Yamaha bike where problems persisted that the dealership couldn't sort out. I do remember a few FJR members who had to print out Yamaha tech service bulletins to provide to their dealers, but not much beyond that. I have also noticed that the...

I have a local riding buddy who has been hunting down a Tiger 1200 for a while and I may be going a state away this weekend to grab one. I have gone with him to look at a few of the big and little Tigers as lightly used bikes, and all but one of them (out of five samples) had at least one dash...

So you had the brake switch recall done?

Assuming you haven't had the brake switch recall done, you're unhappy with reliability because of a fork seal that leaked (you can run a seal mate around them usually to fix this on the road) and throttle response in 6th gear? Really I wouldn't be disappointed in fork seals lasting about 20,000...

Another option worth considering is a ruggedized android phone. Oukitel makes some waterproof phones with very, very large batteries. The last one I had could run a nav app for 12+ hours without being recharged. They also have some waterproof ruggedized tablets.

I mean you can get whatever spring you want,. There is no company making proprietary KTM springs; they all come out of a catalog of sorts. https://www.summitracing.com/parts/hyc-188a1200 There's a 1200 lb. that looks to have the correct dims. https://www.summitracing.com/parts/hyc-188a1100...

A ridiculous amount of improvement can be had by respringing the rear shock. This is the route I took before I found a used Ohlins. Racetech has the bits you need to go on either end of the spring. I went with Eibach 08002251000 as the spring...

The Model 3 battery is 1200 lbs and a out the size of a small dining room table. Shipping something like that 1000 miles is $4000, a used battery is $5000+, then you're paying for installation and disposal of the old one. Currently you're also likely going to need to ship your car to one of the...

I calculated that my annual fuel expenses in my truck are about equal to the insurance price increase for four months if I switched to a Tesla.

EVs definitely have high mileage concerns. When a new battery is $20,000+, the used market for those vehicles will be nearly non existent as they approach the end of battery life.

We are here kicking around but it's chilly right now.

If you put a Givi mounting plate on the tail, you can mount all sorts of different options back there and you can order up a lock set so they are all keyed to the same key.