What you did to your Tenere today??!!

Kurgan

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wtwill said:
Put a new TKC70 on the front. The old one was so cupped that it was giving a bad vibration. I know several here have had this same experience with this tire but I am trying another one since I still have plenty of tread on the rear TKC70. Plus this tire fits my riding style perfectly. (Fast riding in twisties and USFS roads) The front has 4300 miles on it. Too bad it cupped so badly, otherwise the tread was wearing very well.
I had similar cupping issues with a front Michelin Anakee 2. Living in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the bike it was mounted to was ridden 95% in the twisties, lots of hard acceleration and braking. Michelin rep said running the front at 37-38 pounds would have helped some, but with any tires that have individual deep tread blocks that distort under high cornering and braking forces, cupping is going to happen. He was right, saw the same with an SUV I owned which I ran all terrain tires on.
 

mobyfubar

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From yesterday, actually:



12,000 miles after 358 days.
 

Gigitt

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Bought a Healtech Quickshifter for shits and giggle.

Started to install it yesterday 10:30am
Panels off, Tank off, airbox off, plug injector harness in, install pressure ring, spend 1 hour cleaning house looking for zip tie mount pad to route cables over the gearbox, found them now time for lunch and some errands, 2:30pm might as well clean up the Garmin 590 GPS wiring harness while I'm at it... winglets off, upper panel off reroute cabling... good time to install the PDM60 Fuse block as well ::010:: undo the battery terminals, fix up the cascading amount of ring terminals, reroute the SEA connector and Powerlet wiring, PDM60 sits in spot for tool bag, route the PDM60 earth and power wire - perfect wire length, now it is dark put on LED headlamp and spray myself in Bushmans as I'm working in bike outside, hook up the GPS to PDM60 for power, tidy up the GPS octopus harness and stuff it up high near the relays, Test GPS works on PDM60 power-on by touching PDM60 grey ignition on wire to battery - Yerp it works. Cannot hook up Ignition-on wire as I want to get a 3-wire MT 90 connector. Finish routing the Quickshifter wiring up to the frame and fit it to controller that sits under the seat. Put on Airbox, bolt tank back on and hook up fuel... Start bike to test Quickshifter...It's ALIVE!!!!
Bolt every thing back - crap it's now 7:30pm!
 

snuffcityrider

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Picked up my bike from Jaxon's shop today. New goodies include: arrow exhaust, yoshimura can, power commander, auto tune and had my suspension properly adjusted. Totally transformed the bike, runs so much better than stock. Thanks Jaxon!
 

Davesax36

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I cut a hole in the last baffle of a stock pipe and threw it back on. Took a little fluff out of the sound, and a little deeper idle I guess. really not louder at all. I'll ride it one day this week to test it under load. The rest of the bike is so loud, I doubt I'll really notice it.
 

Kirkenstein

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Installed the Denali Auxiliary Light Mount from Revzilla on my 2012. In fact, was trying to make my own light brackets, but my work resulted in failure so I broke down and bought the mount. Great mount and very sturdy. I did not install Denali lights as I am too cheap to buy those. I installed some Auxbeam lights off Amazon on the mount and am happy with the light it provides. We will see how long they last. If not long, I am only out $20...I can live with that. Next up...Delkevic 14" oval exhaust.
 

Scoop47501

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After 37,000 plus miles I turned off the traction control and pin it from about 5mph to see if the front end would lift off. I am not a wheelie guy but had to see.
It will in both 1st and 2nd no problem. Now back to just scraping pegs in the turns ::013::
 

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Changed oil and filter. Still have a bunch of items to install (lazy me) and some to sell.
 

JimmyP

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Starting my third service, 75k miles. A bit over, but weather for this week is rain = Great time for a check / tune.
 
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