Same thing I do every day, I rode it. I also hacked on the windscreen a little bit and thought some more about heated grips. I just can't decide if the Oxford heated grips will work with the turn signal switches on my 1100gs.
Homebrew. I looked around and the ones available that I found were either "tape to oil cooler", blocked too much flow, had some gay ass GS or GSA logo cut into them and/or required beak removal. Why??? There are a couple of perfectly good mount points. An hour or so of metal forming and welding and two screws later I had an oil screen guard. Here is a pic of the frame before I added the screen and before painting.
I need to do a full service on my old Adventure so I pulled it out of the corner and fired it up...:huh <iframe src="https://api.smugmug.com/services/embed/2220556195_56cBSLj?albumId=9922038&albumKey=vFwp9m&width=640&height=360" frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" width="640"></iframe> I'm thinking maybe a pushrod on the left intake. Very loose sounding. After talking to a friend, we think it's more likely the front cam chain and rail. I'll delay messing with that until I have actual time at home other than almost enough time to do laundry and sync my phone and iPad.
I need to install my oil cooler but I just installed my SW Motech upper crash bars and realized you have to take the side panels off to get to the oil cooler! But I wired my Montana power cradle to the GPS input behind the oil cooler!
Took the beast into Iron Horse here in Tucson. Hard starting and cylinder missing for a couple of secs. John thinks it's an injector. Unfortunately will be closed tomorrow and I hopefully can get her sprung on Friday. Speaking of which, I started and rode my RT for the first time since buying the GSA in late Oct. WOW what a difference. Steering was so slow I thought my front tire was flat! Checked the air pressure and was fine.....verrrrry different feel. RT's look big in the showroom but after tooling around on a GSA, they feel absolutely puny!!:eek1 YMMV
rode almost 300mi over the holiday period, reached 600+ miles today, and performed the first service (used BMW and Guard Dog lubricant). enough can't be said as to how easy it is to work on these bikes.
True! It freed up some area in the pannier where it sat for the first 2 months. Well it got it's first use two days later and worked very well.
Big Dave, you need to get out and enjoy that new GSA a little more! Seriously, I've enjoyed your photos and excitement about "your new best friend." Mike