What you did to your Tenere today??!!

[Spaggy]

Sent my seat to Russell to be Day-Longed. Best thing I did to my last bike. I was going to go with the back rest too, but you have to send both seats and it bumps up the cost considerably. With the crappy Canadian $, and extra shipping, it would have cost me another $500. So I think I'm going to build my own along with a proper luggage rack. The passenger seat will be left off permanently as i don't go 2-up usually. Merry Christmas to me.

 

[BUGKILLER]

All those '14 replacement parts on a '14? Were you having trouble at 30,000?
Ah, maybe a typo. I found your bike's birthday notice, May 2012. The bike's gonna feel like a new one now. ::008::

Yes sorry bike is 2012 That's what happens when you have a 1960 Brain.

 

[Jackal]

I put the chinese levers on to, do you have trouble with the clutch engagement? even at "six" it engages right off the bar.

I also had chinese levers on but removed it on the first day, no freeplay on clutch so the the clutch slipped on exelaration.

 

[AVGeek]

2014 Clutch Basket and new plates- 2014 Cam chain tensioner- Valve adjustment- New spark plugs- Air filter- Throttle body sink- Changed ALL Fluids- New Mita E-07 rear Tire
30,000 miles 2014 Raven. ::012::

Want to come up and help me with mine? I'm getting ready to do the clutch basket, oil change, valve check, TB synch and clean the air filter (got the BMC at the Colorado rally, and haven't looked at it since I put it in!).

 

[fredz43]

I also had chinese levers on but removed it on the first day, no freeplay on clutch so the the clutch slipped on exelaration.

Mine did that one the first day, also. Then I removed it and installed again with the plunger in the slot correctly. The first time I did it, I had it wrong and it was exerting slight pressure on the master cylinder. Ridden about 40,000 miles with them after that with no problem.

 

[bnschroder]

Finished my $10 throttle bottle sync tool (had some issues with bubbles initially) and am now ready to do the job

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[Dirt_Dad]

Dang, that thing is huge. I have the same type of thing but it's only about 3 feet long. Not sure if I should have mullet meter envy or not.

 

[bnschroder]

The scale is actually only 3 ft, but it does look big in the picture indeed

 

[rush2112]

Finished my $10 throttle bottle sync tool (had some issues with bubbles initially) and am now ready to do the job

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Looks like we need a tech day at Shroder's house.......LOL....

 

[bnschroder]

What do you need done? I love practicing on someone else's bike

 

[Ramseybella]

Mine did that one the first day, also. Then I removed it and installed again with the plunger in the slot correctly. The first time I did it, I had it wrong and it was exerting slight pressure on the master cylinder. Ridden about 40,000 miles with them after that with no problem.

Have had mine for over 30k miles now the only thing wrong is they are turning purple.
Have the shorty levers I will never use long levers again.

Other than that the No to high idle is a pest, still no remedy other that re routing and shielding the harness under the tank seems to be working for one member.
I have no other issues, it's a fantastic mule of a bike.

 

[racer1735]

I tried to go for a ride....but my disc lock wouldn't unlock! So now I'm trying to figure out how to get it off (I have a thread in the wheels, brakes section).

 

[Defekticon]

Rode into work this morning. It was 31 when I left the house, 37 now. Heavy frost out, but was a beautiful sunny cold morning to ride in. Put the liner in my olympia jacket, motoquest pants and rukka thermal underwear, rukka imatra gloves and cranked the grip heaters up to three (they were too hot, had to kick it back down to 2 after about 10 minutes. Was very comfortable the whole ride in which about 20 miles of backroads. My pinlock still fogged, had to crack the shield slightly to see after about 10 minutes of riding.

I'm in maryland now, I'm moving back to florida in a few years, and I can't wait to ride all winter. Even if it's flat and straight.

 

[78YZ]

Here is a trick a friend taught me. He is a vascular surgeon so he knows these things. Most of the blood in your fingers passes through those veins on the top of your hands. If you apply a small amount of heat directly on the top of your hand, your fingers stay warm. Initially, I placed a small hand warmer inside the top of my glove. It worked better than my heated grips.

After making this discovery, I found these glove liners with a built-in pocket for the hand warmers. Apparently, someone had already thought this through.
http://m.rei.com/product/661608/seirus-therma-lux-heat-pocket-liner-gloves

Rode into work this morning. It was 31 when I left the house, 37 now. Heavy frost out, but was a beautiful sunny cold morning to ride in. Put the liner in my olympia jacket, motoquest pants and rukka thermal underwear, rukka imatra gloves and cranked the grip heaters up to three (they were too hot, had to kick it back down to 2 after about 10 minutes. Was very comfortable the whole ride in which about 20 miles of backroads. My pinlock still fogged, had to crack the shield slightly to see after about 10 minutes of riding.

I'm in maryland now, I'm moving back to florida in a few years, and I can't wait to ride all winter. Even if it's flat and straight.

 

[Defekticon]

That's an excellent point, and it's also why heated gloves are much warmer than heated grips, but for my purposes, it works fine. The outlast material in the Rukka gloves is quite frankly the most impressive liner material I've ever felt. It's essentially paraffin cloth that regulate temperature as it melts due to warmth and reforms as it cools. If your hot it feels cool, if your cold it feels kinda cool too, but not cold. If I'm going for a cold ride, I'll make sure I do a couple sets of pushups/pullups and drink a cup of coffee right before I leave so that I'm near sweating in my gear, then as soon as I'm on the bike I feel like I'm at a regulated comfortable temperature. If I could afford a Rukka Armas jacket and pants without putting them on a credit card I'd buy them in a heartbeat. It'd be the last piece of motorcycle apparel I ever buy. The Gloves and thermal underwear ran me about 350. It's one of the few things I've bought in my life (aside from my S10) where I feel it was worth every last cent.

Here is a trick a friend taught me. He is a vascular surgeon so he knows these things. Most of the blood in your fingers passes through those veins on the top of your hands. If you apply a small amount of heat directly on the top of your hand, your fingers stay warm. Initially, I placed a small hand warmer inside the top of my glove. It worked better than my heated grips.

After making this discovery, I found these glove liners with a built-in pocket for the hand warmers. Apparently, someone had already thought this through.
http://m.rei.com/product/661608/seirus-therma-lux-heat-pocket-liner-gloves

 

[Stridey]

::026:: on Outlast liners in bike clothing! Works so well with heated grips.

 

[Dogdaze]

::026:: on Outlast liners in bike clothing!

::026:: ::026:: My Halvarssons gear has it.

 

[78YZ]

If I could afford a Rukka Armas jacket and pants without putting them on a credit card I'd buy them in a heartbeat. It'd be the last piece of motorcycle apparel I ever buy.

That is the way I feel about my Rev'it Everest GTX 2-piece suit <link>. If you watch the video, check-out the patented Gore Closures in-place of zippers... very cool technology. It should last a long time.

Ultimately, trying to be frugal cost me a lot more money. : I have two barely used "waterproof" jackets in addition to the Rev'It. One is a Teknic Monsoon jacket with the Goretex liner. That was the most waterproof of the two but the shell still absorbed water and it felt wet and heavy in a downpour.

 

[Hungry Tiger]

Had them for a month, but finally got to removing the old thrashed crash bars, and install same (new) factory lowers with Rumbux add-on uppers. Instructions say it's a 2-man job, but some short bungees over the handle bars to suspend the uppers does the trick ... and don't be in a hurry. Nice to have place to mount drink holders again for the Starbucks.

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[racer1735]

Doesn't seem like a major deal, but I put the front wheel back on! And the front wheel is MUCH easier to remove and install than the back is. (read reply 9451 for the issue I was dealing with).