Thank you members / vendors --- we have progress

[Shovelhead]

Thanks to all who provide input to this Forum. I am old tech at best and this new machine is quite the different beast from any of my past and current motorcycles.
So I've learned and am still learning a lot about the high tech gizmos and functions of my 2015 Tenere ES. I am really starting to like this machine.

A big thanks to a couple forum members / vendors.....
Jaxon at Ride On Adv & Jason at ADV Motorrad for their customer service and willing ways to take the time and explain their products to me. Both are very knowledgeable about their products and were very easy to talk to and answered all of my many questions.

I been around bikes all my life and after a few conversations with Jaxon, when it comes to putting a wrench to it, there's no doubt in my mind he knows his way around a Tenere.

Thought I'd share some Tenere porn of a few upgrades from these guys.

Bumot side cases from ADV Motorrad - these are the new Defender series, stainless locking latch, flip the lever, off they come. The fit and finish is superb.
HIGH quality pieces. ::008:: ::008::

Ride On Adv - skid, no hell no it ain't a skid plate, it's a BASH plate!! This is one fine piece of work Jaxon. Hand made to order in Texas, USA -- don't git no better. My old has been motocrossin ass will never test it true ability, but I got it. ::013::
AltRider crash bars powder coated to match the bash plate, AltRider rear rack, Arrow header pipe.

Cheers

 

[thork]

Looks (and I bet sounds!) amazing! Plenty of function added, and some bonus form to boot, well done!

Quick question, though... Did one of those fine gents suggest the arrow headers with the factory muffler left on? Maybe the topic's been beaten to death but I was thinking of doing the same with my 2013. Any insight there would be swell.

I'm really liking what you've done so far, congrats!

 

[Checkswrecks]

That looks great!

 

[klunsford]

That just looks to pretty to ride off road.... ::025::

 

[Andylaser]

That looks good.

 

[Shovelhead]

Did one of those fine gents suggest the arrow headers with the factory muffler left on? Maybe the topic's been beaten to death but I was thinking of doing the same with my 2013. Any insight there would be swell.

I don't want to speak for anyone else but from my research I felt adding the header and syncing the throttle bodies per the 3/4 turn out method should do no harm considering performance. That's what I did and my bike has yet to stall since. I was experiencing it stalling while rolling to a stop, first gear, little blip of the throttle, release the clutch and it would die. Too lean from the factory as most motorcycles are these days.
I'm getting a bit of bubbling out the exhaust on hard decel or downshifts, something that I'm not surprised at and does not hurt a thing. There's room for more tuning and performance in the future, but my billfold needs to recover from round 1 before I go that route, if I even choose to. I had Jaxon weld a bung on the header to accommodate any future tuning mods. ::26::

I'm headed towards electrical goodies next, lights, GPS, and, and, and........sheeesh :

That just looks to pretty to ride off road.... ::025::

::013::

I have to agree. Yesterday rode to see my grand kids and my sons neighborhood is expanding. There's some construction that kids are riding dirt bikes, 4 wheelers, 4WD trucks, and Jeeps on. So when I left, my son pointed towards that area and said, I dare ya, you ain't taking that beast off road. So, you know I had to.

Well the trails are rutted to hell from the bigger machines and I quickly found out 3 things that really I already knew, but......
1) some knobby type tires would have helped in those ruts
2) hard bags had no place where I was, front end felt light and ass end was following and wallowing in the foot and a half deep side by side ruts.
3) never have I rode trails with saddlebags, and won't ever again - do not put your foot down. For someone who has only rode off road with saddlebags I suppose it's ok, but for those of us raised on 2 strokes and enduros that are accustomed to always putting a foot down, ,,,,,, bags suck.

 

[stomp347]

Nice job Shovelhead! Tastefully done !

 

[Goldwing]

Did u buy the 40/36 or 45/41 liter bags?

 

[Checkswrecks]

Take the hard boxes off when off pavement. There is a thread around here about the box coming forward and breaking people's legs.

 

[escapefjrtist]

Sweet looking '15...nice job!

--G

 

[Brick]

Looks great!

 

[Shovelhead]

Appreciate the kind words guys.

Did u buy the 40/36 or 45/41 liter bags?

40/36

 

[WilliamMunny]

That bash plate is a work of art and it has the best coverage I have seen. Very nice set up.

 

[shrekonwheels]

Love the red.

I have a set of Soft bags for use if I plan on doing much riding on dirt roads. I do not ride aggressive but I do realize how quickly a bike can kick out, and yes I grew up on dirtbikes so I am very apt to put my foot out still.