Does anyone have a non-farkled bike and happy?

[True Grip]

I WAS gonna speak FOR you Ron, if you didn't show up soon. ::013::

Ron is the posterchild for non-farkling. And he isn't pretending. He really is wired that way.

However, I rode with some inmates today, and one of them just took delivery of his 14 Standard this morning.
So, technically, he has the only bone stock Tenere that I know of. (no GPS even. Sorry Ron. He has you beat)

However, Fred, that's his name, won't get a moments peace riding with this crew on a bike like that. We will torture him if he tried.

He won't though. So no worries.
And thanks Fred for loaning me some wheels today.
You're a true gent!

(My Tenere is unavailable. It's getting some rather extensive farkling done. )

Let me guess

 

[snakebitten]

LOL.

Tempting, ain't it?

Nope. That Moby1 is nice, I admit. But that specific unit is pretty bare bones, for obvious reasons.
I'm spoiled now with the all the amenities that came with the little Camp-Inn.

You can keep guessing if you like, my friend. But just let it suffice to say I'm going in the opposite direction of OEM.
Decided that since I'm keeping the 12, instead of swapping for a new one, I may as well throw some of the financial hit I DIDN'T take, at it.

It's gonna be tbbadbitw. (added a couple of letters)

 

[True Grip]

I'm just messing with you. It must be performance everything else is already there. Farkling is an addiction my 86 year old stepfather bought a new truck and the first thing he did is go buy new wheels for it. Mr. Percy has the disease too.

 

[Ramseybella]

Mine came used with 90% of what I have on it, I just installed side bags, rear pack tray and lights..
Does that count? ::26::

 

[Tremor38]

This S10 is such a farkle magnet that it's hard to resist. I've had bikes that I had to search high and low for bolt-on farkles, so I kind of went nuts when I got this bike.

 

[HHH]

You can keep guessing if you like, my friend. But just let it suffice to say I'm going in the opposite direction of OEM.

It's gonna be tbbadbitw. (added a couple of letters)

T-The
B-Big
B-Bad
A-A$$
D-Dirt
B-Bike
I-In
T-The
W-World

Now, what's the reward?! ;D

 

[snakebitten]

Change Big to BIGGEST and you nailed it!
Im glad it weighs a few pounds more on paper than the other 2.
That allows for the boast of BIGGEST!

I embrace it.
The reward for guessing it right is to NEVER ever ever having to feel inferior about the size-weight of your Beast again.

Cheers

 

[trikepilot]

I too subscribe to Snake's ethos on the Tenere - it is the biggest dirt bike in the world.

But I diverge on the idea of farkles. I put no performance farkles on her. She's got more than enough chops to get way outta my skill level in the dirt when setup as OEM.

I put on a GPS, crash bars, and many versions of knobbies (e09s right now) and that is all. She's simple and perfect!!

 

[JRE]

 

[TXTenere]

My bike is pretty much bone stock. The only things I've added are OEM bags and mounts, and a RAM mount for a GPS that I just attach to it, and power with a cable to the power outlet provided with the bike, as needed.

About the only addition that I'd like to make to the bike sometime soon is a modified seat to add comfort.

 

[Sckill]

^^^ bags / mounts and a RAM mount count as farkles.

I don't think it's possible to keep this bike bone stock when the target audience is for med - long distance on/off road touring riders.

 

[adventurelounger]

Ya know Squarebore, I was thinking about your comment about bikes back in the day, but one reason they went unfarkled was because there wasn't that much to fark with.

There WAS no GPS or SPOT or other techie toys. So not only no added electronics, but no obsessive compulsive threads about mounting options, etc. Wind protection was resolved with a helmet visor, which you closed. The seat on the bike was, well, the seat it came with. Crash bars were what bent if you crashed, and the handlebars went all goofy. And all the pannier/topcase business was an outgrowth of the whole ADV category, which wasn't much of a category (or an industry) twenty or thirty years ago,

Back in the day, the major farkle contemplation was what sticker you were gonna put on the bike, and where.

Come to think of it, maybe the main reason bikes back in the day went unfarkled was because there was no internets...no message boards...no micro-social-ecosystems of two-wheeled motorized obsessiveness.

I'm not saying that critically (I obsessed over my own minor farkling here!). Just as an observation.

FWIW, when I read the OP, I thought to myself, "hey, mine's kinda bone stock!"

Then I thought, "well, except for the panniers. And heated grips. And the GPS Tech Mount. And the Garmin GPS. Hardwired with an Eastern Beaver 3-Circuit Solution. And the X-screen windshield extender. And the tail bag..."

And dude, we haven't even gotten to the HUMAN farkling. Think of all the hardware you're encrusted with when you ride!

Such is modern life. I love it.

 

[Random ride]

I have always upgraded (I don't use the "f" word) my motorcycles. Whether it be the suspension, engine, seat, lights, etc... I've been doing this for over 30 years. What wasn't available, I just made. Sometimes it was crude, but did the trick.

With the S10, I just upgraded and changed what I felt it needed to make me happy. The list is long and distinguished

MRA Vario Touring windscreen
Yamaha wind wings
Rigid SR 6" Combo aux light
Eastern Beaver PC8 fuse box
SW Motech engine guards
SW Motech Skid plate
Yamaha heated grips
Seat Concepts seat kit front and rear
avc8130 reflash (Enhanced T light and Enhanced S)
SW Motech rear rack
Shad 45 liter top box w/ backrest pad
Jesse 10" Odyssey II panniers and mounts
Fastway adventure pegs
Motorcycle Larry passenger peg extensions (FJR ones work if you enlarge the mounting hole)
Metzeler Karoo 3 tires
X-Grab phone mount
Garmin Nuvi GPS
Joe Rocket Manta XL tank bag
Rox Setback risers

Am I done yet? Nope! I still need to set up for heated gear, upgrade the suspension, get a rack to replace the rear seat (when I'm riding solo), and a few other small things. I'm not going to mod the engine any other than the already done reflash. This bike is a keeper for a long time to come, so I don't mind spending $$ on it to make it just a bit better.

 

[Clevermonkey]

Other than boxes mine is stock. I had designs on farkling but my wife decided we need more land for the kids.

Oh and my oldest son bought a bike so my moto budget such as it was went to him: new tires, good helmet, etc. I would rather risk trashing my bike without crash bars than my son trashing his had on a cheapo helmet.

 

[GrahamD]

Most on the forum have a long list of farkles including engine mods, clutch baskets, new CCTs, flash, etc etc etc. Just wondering who has a bog standard bike and is happy? I farkled mine but reckon I could have lived with it off the showroom floor.

Mine has been reduced from standard at the moment.

I added boxes. If I don't intend to run off road I usually take off by big ACD skid plate. At the moment it's sitting there with less than it came with except the racks for the panniers. Since the last two trips were cancelled all it has done is gone to work and back really. So I didn't bother putting the RH exhaust shield and plastic dead weight back on.

 

[cjct21]

I have zero upgrades. I want to make the side panniers.

 

[shrekonwheels]

My Bike came with crash bars, which IMO are a must have, it also came with the akropovic exhaust and PC, I doubt I ever would have spent the money on the Akropovic otherwise.

The only thing I have added on was a yami Skid plate to keep rocks from smacking the important parts, although in retrospect the half assed stock plastic one was probably good enough in that regard.

Luggage was also necessary, are the truly necessary things considered farkles?

I may do the clutch if the Vibration comes back, only because I believe in preventative maintenance and I do not feel like buying a new case. Probably a rear shock spring eventually as loaded down two up the rear is seriously lacking.

Otherwise the bike will stay as it is, I have better things to spend my money on over trying to impress other people, that never has been my thing.

 

[snakebitten]

My disease, constant farkling of something, is not, primarily, to impress others. It IS to impress me. I love that! Been loving it since I was a kid. Putting Koni shocks on my 81 GS1000E impressed ME. It was a marvelous upgrade, to ME.

If, however, someone else is impressed with something I have done to one of my bikes, that is cool too. It opens a dialogue, right then and there, with perhaps a total stranger.....leading to all kinds of exchanges.

I'm hopeless to stop from doing it. I do it to everything and anything. You should see all the crazy stuff I can setup when camping.

 

[shrekonwheels]

You would hate Camping with me, talk about the basics, although I have an air mattress now, and I am slowly starting to incorporate more shit into my camp sack uhgg.

I used to always bitch at dad when we went hunting, camping etc for all the crap he brought but like he said "You sure like to belly up when I bring out all that good food" He even had one of those little food heaters that plugged into your AC outlet, I gotta admit that was nice stopping for wheeling and having warm beans and hotdogs

As for Farkles, do as you please someone has to keep the economy going, it sure as hell is not me