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If you swap R6 forks on, you can use an R6 fender, but you need a 120/60 front tire.

Wow, they got (relatively) lucky. I had one of my boss' buddies bring his work van into the shop because "the brakes were making a little noise." That's a direct quote, BTW, "a little noise." As I'm pulling it in, it makes the most awful noise ever, at 2mph, as soon as I touch the brakes...

I'd gladly but the cheaper one. The miles don't scare me if, as Townsend said, it's been taken care of... and I love me a Two Bros exhaust, but can't stomach paying 25% of what I paid for my bike on an exhaust. Plus I'm a cheap bastid, and 12k less miles is an intangible benefit, unlikely to...

I pretty much just use the clutch to shift for 1-2 and vice versa. Even then it's more like a half-pull, just to dampen the harsh shift a little. I'll do the same if I'm downshifting aggressively for engine braking. You can easily upshift with no clutch, just let off the throttle a hair, click...

Yamaha Rear Turn Signal Splitter Y-Adapter Harness 2 Wire R1 R6 FZ6 FZ6R FZ1 FZ8 ;) Who needs to cut and splice? Or worse, tap and corrode? I'm using the Motodynamic with the sequential, and stock signals with LED drop-in bulbs. Naturally, no problems with overloading since I doubt...

Do you have a multimeter? Do you know how to use one? One way or another you've got an overload on the circuit, most likely a short. I've seen short circuits caused by defective bulbs, where the broken filament bridges the + and - just right to lower resistance enough... but it's rare and I've...

Being a mechanic made me an electrical connection slob. I even use bare connectors and heatshrink under the dash, even though I'm sure other ways work just fine in a dry area like that. In my younger, dumber days, I installed a few stereos with twisted together, taped up wire on the adapter...

Gotcha. I don't think I've ever thought to use those on a bike... but the ones that plug in like a fuse and have 2 slots for the original and new fuse work great if there's room. The chintzy ones that slip over a fuse blade, notsomuch, they don't like vibration. Keep in mind if you go that...

Check the battery. Mine seems to be very grumpy about having a good battery, meaning enough depth to actually run it below 3k RPM. I'd been having an off-idle stumbling issue for a couple seasons and figured it for some kind of spark or fuel issue... when I replaced my poor 3-year-old AGM this...

*shudder* Vampire taps are the debbil. They're the debbil under the dash of a car, where theoretically they'll never see moisture, let alone on a bike where it's almost guaranteed. Screwing up the stuff you add is bad enough, but when you rot out a wire in the bike's harness because you...

Huh... never noticed that before. Why didn't they just tie that into the cutoff relay circuit? :confused: I think I cleaned mine when I put a G2 tube on it last winter, even though the most use it sees is someone flipping it to screw with me... I just use the kickstand or key. Also, why...

I had about the same issue with my '04 the last 2 seasons. I tried new plugs and that would fix it for a bit, but not permanently. Ditto for 'fixing' the plug boots on the wires. I thought I'd figured it out for good last year when I found the fuel line kinked inside its foam sleeve, and that...

I rarely use the rear brake riding around... but I should clarify that I do use rear braking. It's just from the engine most of the time. But modulating the clutch and downshifting isn't in the itenarary when you need to stop RIGHT NOW. Stopping distances definitely are shorter with rear...

I nabbed the brakes pretty good rounding a curve and seeing a deer in the road one night last year. I don't know that I actually lifted the rear, but it got squirrely and slid a bit. I think the FZ brakes are a great balance of a ton of power with reasonable pressure, and a lot of modulation...

$20 a month for that much liability and full coverage with low deductibles sounds pretty good. I've always been with Progressive for bikes. When I was in BFE, OR I was adding coverages (I only carry liability, I chose to add med pay) to get above the $75 annual floor so I was actually getting...

Try to get bulbs that throw the light around in a wide pattern, to still utilize the reflector. It's not like a headlight where you're trying to hit specific spots to make a specific beam pattern, but the incandescent is putting out light in every direction but the base, so if you get an LED...

Call me crazy... I don't see the big deal, especially that far north? It might not be common there (or much of any major population center) but it's not Armageddon. We got 3' down in MD last year for Valentine's Day. I was out plowing for 32 hours, we had about 4" on the ground at midnight when...

Right, the extra wire from the BD43 mod is the key. With that, you're electrically golden, you don't even need the stock low-beam wire from the left lamp. You've got them electrical terms all mixed up there. There's no splitting in parallel, you're just daisy-chaining in essence. The voltage...

There's no way to do it with only the wires that are there. Well, not properly. The rub is that the low beam stays on all the time, so if you just used that with H4s, the low beam filament would be on even with the high beam filament on. You could do it, but it would burn bulbs like a mofo when...

Huh, I always figured a bike would misfire pretty bad on champagne... too much water content, it'd mix with the ethanol left over in the tank. Now fine everclear, OTOH... :D