Latest Updates for Manta Montage latest updates for Geo Metro XFiHere is how I have set up my bike for the trip out west. I have set it up to fit me well so what I did might not work for everyone but from my experience with the bike it should be a pretty good setup.
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Well I think the bike is pretty much ready, I have lots of time off, and nothing better to do. So it is time to make a big trip on my bike. Me and Sarah are planning on making it from West Virginia to California and back on our bikes.
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The air cushion seat cover I had kept getting holes it in easily and I got tired of patching it. I have already modified the seat previously. The seat was sized and fit me well but without the air pad it would get to me after a few hours especially with D606 tires adding to the vibrations. I used the seat controls from a Ford Explorer to make it much nicer.
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The Turbo City Touring Windscreen is a pretty nice addition to a DR650 but it has two issues that bothered me. It is not adjustable and it locks the handlebars to the forks so the rubber vibration isolators no longer work. This is a simple change I did to fix both problems at once. Update: I also modified it so the screen is now height adjustable
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The regular Scottoiler kit works well and is easy to mount on a DR650. I didn’t want to have to fill the tank every 400-800 miles since I ride that much weekly sometimes. So the touring kit seemed like the best idea.
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After a bit of work putting a site together we are now announcing the launch of LoganCountyLive.com a new site to help everyone in the county to keep up to date on current events and communicate with each other. It is a pretty good messageboard with a local events section as well as a for sale/wanted section. If you are in or near Logan county come check it out.
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A stock CJ7 doesn’t track on the road well. It wanders and takes bumps badly. Most of this can be attributed to the way the leaf springs are mounted. With the shackles on the front and the solid mount on the rear of the front end it makes the front take bumps badly on the highway. The easiest thing to do about it is flip the direction of the leaf springs.
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I have done a lot of experiments and have found some things that consistently work and some things that actually hurt your mileage. I am going to describe here what I have found that works and what doesn’t work. This is all based on experiments I have performed on my Geo Metro XFi.
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I have been riding my DR650 for awhile now and I decided it was time to do something about making it more comfortable. There are very few options for highway pegs on the bike so I decided to try making my own.
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For anyone interested in Mobile Blogging I have found one program that works pretty well from a Windows Mobile based phone. Diarist is a very nice app that lets you write a post on your device and it will automatically post to your WordPress site. This is useful for anyone wanting to be able to write a post on their Windows Mobile Phone or PDA then post it without having to use the web based forms to edit and add your posts.
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