VFRBulldawg

Browsing the Michelin PR3 facebook page I noticed one person requested a recommended tire pressure for a 2007 FZ6. Michelin responded with 33.5 psi front and 42 psi rear, so he was pretty low on the rear if he kept it at 36 psi. I also think his claim of just under 10k on the tires is BS. There is alot of tread left in those pics for there to be 10k on them. I don't recall hear very many peopl break the 10k mark on the PR2's and I can't imagine the PR3's life is going to that much greater than the PR2. The most I've ever heard anyone get on a sport touring rear tire is 14k that my buddy got on a Metzler Z6 rear tire. The fact that the guy admits to a 130mph crash in a Mustang on the highway tells me he's probably not very bright and a risk taker.

We had an off duty police officer die here a week ago. He was riding a harley sportster on a busy road with two lanes each direction and a turn lane in the middle. He was in the right lane and passing a car in the left lane as he approached an intersection that had a green light. A lady at the intersection did not see him because he was behind the car from her point of view. The police said she had plenty of time and clearance to turn left in front of the car but since the bike was moving faster not in front of the bike. The police said she never knew the bike was there until it hit her. The bike hit the rear fender of the SUV. The passenger was pretty banged up but survived. I hate to second guess a dead man, but as I see it, the lane to the left of him was clear and a quick swerve prevents a fatal crash. Almost all the fatalities around here seem to come from harley/cruiser riders on busy roads. I'm not sure if that's because there seem to be more harleys out there than other bikes. But you almost never see a harley rider with a full face helmet. From what I can gather about the fatalities of people I don't know and several near fatalities (one case in ICU for over a month and other with a severed spinal cord) of people I know that go to my church (again all harley riders) the main issue seems not choosing to swerve and just hitting the brakes. This is compounded by the harley riders not knowing how hard they can hit the brakes or how to stop fast. In almost every case it seems to me that there was time and space to swerve into the adjacent lane or turn lane, or at least split the lane for a short distance before doing so. In all fatality and bad crash cases the rider never attempted to swerve and only hit the brakes. In some cases it seemed to me like there should have been enough room to slow or stop unless the rider was really hauling butt if the rider knows how to stop quickly. In other cases there was not enough room to stop, so attempting to do so when an avenue of escape existed was the wrong choice. In all cases there was severe trauma to the face and front of the skull because they were not wearing full face helmets. I have been trying to talk to my harley riding friends at church about practicing emergency riding maneuvers and wearing more protective gear. I swear most of them have been riding alot longer than me but their skills at maneuving their bikes suck. We have nothing but straight, flat, country roads around here (which is what they prefer) I can't seem to get them to want to try to learn or practice anything. I was able to convince a few of them to give up their open face helmets for full face helmets right after two of our church members were almost killed, but a year later they are all back to wearing open face helmets. One of them told me he after he went back to open face that he spent $240 on a top of the line skid lid since it offered the most protection. I told him to let me know how that works for him the next time he crashes and lands and slides on the top of his head. As for other gear, it's hot down here and at best they wear jeans, leather vests, and gloves with open fingers. Often it's just shorts and a Tshirt. The only time they wear any leather (no armor) is when it gets cold in the mornings in the fall and spring. But they take it off and put it in their saddle bags as soon as it starts to warm up some. I just shake my head. I swear these people are businessmen, cops, firefighters, mechanics, etc. They are generally smart seemly competent and normal people and not some bike gang wannabe's. What is it about harley riders that makes them not actually want to learn how to ride skillfully or wear any serious protective gear????

I don't have pics but I used to have a matte black icon airframe, icon calls it rubatone. It was a great helmet, but there were no graphic. My buddy has a KBC helmet that is matte black. I think it's a VR1X. But the KBC matte black helmet came with several really good looking graphics options that were all matte black and matte dark grey. I'd go look at those if I were you.

Nope, I've been tracking this thread the whole time.

I sent MOTY and email this morning. Brian Harris got back to me real quick. They are going to send me a replacement battery. I've gotten nothing but good customer service with MOTY in all my dealings with them. Hopefully I just had a dud battery and the problems go away with the new one.

I have a pair of Sena SMH10's and I love them. Audio quality is amazing and the speakers are loud enough to use with earplugs, those I use custom molded earbuds with mine. I have tested the range out to about 1/4 mile on open ground. Controls are minimal and easy.to find and use with gloved hands. The only drawback to the Sena that I can see is there is no real group talk feature. You can mate up to 4 headsets but you can only talk to one other person at a time. Though this could be a nice feature say if you wanted to have private conversations, say with a passenger most of the time, but still be able to communicate with other riders when you need to. I have not tried it since I only have two, but I suspect you can work around this and create a group talk if you need to buy using bluetooth paired cell phones and conference calling the others.

I am having similar problems with my MOTY battery. It started right up when I first installed it. Then the bike had to sit for a while due to knee surgery. On two different occasions where the bike sat for 2-3 weeks without being started the battery was totally dead and I had to jump start it. The first morning at TMAC the battery was too weak to start the motor but there was some power I had to get a push to roll start it. Then last week I was giving short rides to some of my cousins up and down the street. I had been riding fairly slowly 25-35 mph with frequent stops for about 30 minutes when I shut the bike down. I triedvto start it again 5 minutes later and had to roll start it again. I was excited about this battery, but it's not working well. Far too unreliable. I intend to email MOTY about it next week. I hope they replace it. They seem like a new company and perhaps their quality control needs some work. Even though I got a discount on that limited number VFRD group buy I expect the battery to work for the $130 something I paid for it. If they don't replace it or the replacement has the same problems I'm going with a Shorai. I haven't seen anything but good reviews on those so far.

Alright I know a few of y'all have been waiting on my pictures from Saturday afternoon on the Cherohala Skyway. Well, here are the best ones (I've posted at least one picture of every VFR I saw that afternoon) along with a few shots from the Awards Banquet on Saturday night. Unfortunately when most of the groups went past me they were stuck behind a slow car or were in the process of moving themselves through a group of slow harleys, so not much opportunity for lots of lean angle. Pretty much all of these images are crops from larger pictures maintaining a standard 4x6 DSLR aspect ratio. If you like one of yourself PM me with your email address and I'll email you the full size image file. I can send you the original jpeg or RAW file so you can crop it to your liking or you can tell me what aspect ratio you would like (3x4 or 9x16 for digital picture frames or 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, 11x14, or 20x30 for prints) and I'll crop it for you. All of these pictures, even heavily cropped ones, can be printed at 8x10, most of them can be printed larger. I hope you like! BFH 0355 Cherohala Skyway 1 BFH 0356 Cherohala Skyway 2 BFH 0362 Cherohala Skyway 3 BFH 0382 3 VFR's on the Cherohala Skyway BFH 0384 3 VFR's on the Cherohala Skyway 2 BFH 0384 single crop Cherohala Skyway 4 BFH 0387 Cherohala Skyway 5 BFH 0388 Cherohala Skyway 6 BFH 0389 Cherohala Skyway 7 BFH 0391 Cherohala Skyway 8 BFH 0392 Cherohala Skyway 9 BFH 0393 Mr and Mrs Stormtrooper 1 (rufrydersc2up) BFH 0394 Mr and Mrs Stormtrooper 2 (rufrydersc2up) BFH 0441 Cherohala Skyway 10 BFH 0442 Cherohala Skyway 11 BFH 0507 Cherohala Skyway 12 BFH 0533 Purvis in the lead on the Cherohala Skyway BFH 0535 Purvis on the Cherohala Skyway BFH 0538 Cherohala Skyway 13 BFH 0541 Cherohala Skyway 14 BFH 0542 Cherohala Skyway 15 BFH 0546 Cherohala Skyway 16 BFH 0555 Oyama on the Cherohala Skyway 1 BFH 0558 Oyama on the Cherohala Skyway 2 BFH 0563 Nicole on the Cherohala Skyway BFH 0568 Cherohala Skyway 17 BFH 0571 Cherohala Skyway 18 BFH 0670 Cherohala Skyway 19 BFH 0702 Cherohala Skyway 20 BFH 0751 Cherohala Skyway 21 BFH 0774 Cherohala Skyway 22 BFH 0805 Smile Burns BFH 0807 HS introduces the new Faux Flaf BFH 0816 Nicole, our lovely raffle ticket drawer BFH 0819 BaileyRock showing Wrestler how his newly won bag is supposed to be used. BFH 0823 Timmy the Cop hyping up the wares. BFH 0834 Honey Badger Juice! BFH 0851 Timmy must be making more outlandish comments or rubbing something on his butt.