Rick Thompson ⁽²²⁵⁾

This is my 2007 Suzuki DR650SE. I have it set up for adventure touring. My plans are to use this bike for vacationing and having adventures. I have no intentions of modifying the engine for more power, it has plenty of power and can go…

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.

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.

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.

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.