protection

I'm going to bathe the max for the 1st time today (unpredictable Florida weather permitting of course) To my horror I spotted this on my rear turn lights, argh. A buddy who rode with me yesterday suggested rubbing with Coca Cola. :ummm: My last bike (vstar 1100) suffered this same fate and...

I sold a Yamaha FJ 1200 to a friend a couple years ago. I installed some frame sliders just because I wanted a little more protection in case I went down. Well, this morning he rode to work and I noticed the right side was scuffed up. He dropped it. Seems the slider took the brunt of the fall...

I didn't know that my Drag bars were low enough to let the throttle cables hit the faux tank at full right turn before the factory stop limits the handle bar travel, left side switch housing also hit. So here's the fix. 1/4-20 stainless allen set screws and loctite, an adjustable remedy for that...

While preparing my truck to pull my toyhauler to Colorado and back this summer. I found solder bloom inside my radiator. My buddy urged me to buy a new radiator but I decided to flush it well and run 70% water and 30% antifreeze since I had read a heavier water concentration would provide the...

Seems that most of the VMax's I see have no scoop protection from keys. If you use only one key, you don't need something like this. I've got 4 keys on my bike key ring. I've got 3 sets of scoops here , My 94 already has this done to it. So, I did the right scoop of the set I got from...