Recent content by johnnyg

Yep yep, having a blast on my trip. Finally put in a new air filter in Sedona on my way to the west coast. Now that I'm back at elevation in Montana/Wyoming/Colorado I've noticed the lower power, but not as bad as before. Also have had a few fun moments going uphill against the wind and unable...

Hey friends! So I'm a month into a two month motorcycle trip and after about 4,000 miles last month when I got into New Mexico it started getting a lot easier to stall out my trusty 2008 FZ6. Like while I'm engine breaking coming up to a light or on the highway, stuff that would I would...

So I just installed this weekend a Givi topcase rack and the PL361 sidecase racks. I'm a little worried about how visible my brake light is right now, was curious if anybody had some creative additions they made to help out with visibility. My two ideas right now are to mount some extra LEDs...

At the risk of resurrecting a zombie thread, I use a Replay XD1080 set to overwrite old files as it goes, and to turn on when there's an external power source, so I just need to plug it in when I go riding. It's got a bullet design and semi-waterproof charging cable that I run to a 12v outlet. I...

Yeah I'm no electrical engineer but I'd guess the internal resistance of the bad battery wasn't letting it get up to where it should be? Is nice when I'm sitting at a light with my blinker on not seeing my headlight alternate with the blinker, hehe. And more importantly when I'm in those spots...

It's been sitting for the last two days but still seems good: Sitting cold 12.67v Key on 12.35v Cranking 10.5v Cold idle 14.08v 2500-3000 rpm 14.10v

Finally had time tonight to put in a new Motobatt AGM MBT12B4 battery and I'm getting the expected voltages now, guess it's time for a test ride! :rockon: Thanks team!

There was a reddit thread about this yesterday with a similar gif... The consensus was that if someone gets up right away and starts running around they're probably seriously injured and hopped up on adrenaline, but if they're laying there screaming in pain it's probably not as serious an...

Haha, took the battery to OReilly and their tester said the battery was bad after about 10 seconds, so I guess my next step is to pick up a new battery!

Any tips for load testing a battery? I had it on a tender all winter that's supposed to tell me if the battery is bad, but I don't know how good that test is, maybe when I have time this weekend I'll pull the battery and see what the tender says... It's a DelTran Battery Tender Junior Also...

Yeah not sure how old the battery is, I forget if the previous owner told me. Maybe that'll be the next step :)

So the last couple of weeks I've noticed that my headlights significantly dim in time with my blinkers, it's particularly noticeable at night. Sometimes it seems like my idle revs are bouncing in time with the blinkers too. I'd expect a little dimming, but I feel like the blinkers shouldn't be...