New Member from Texas

[LifeLongRider2022]

A member was recently looking for a screw-on/off gas cap to replace the locking gas cap. Is your cap a Stant or other name brand, w/a part #?

Get your wheels vapor-blasted to rid your wheels of oxidation, and to give them a nice satin finish. You could also use baking soda as a blasting media, if you cannot locate someone close-by doing the vapor blasting. Either way will give you a satin finish, without the texturing that sandblasting does. Then you can either polish the wheels, or have them powdercoated. You may choose to leave them as they come-back to you, cleaned of oxidation, and just keep them waxed and clean.

HH compound front brake caliper pads and woven stainless steel brake lines will give you a better stopping performance than organic pads, which may be what are on there now. Those (organics) tend to deposit a lot of brake dust on the wheels. Look on the back of the pads and there probably is a brake pad compound inking on the steel plate. Any name-brand HH rated pad should work well for you. Among a complete fluid flush, changing to stainless brake lines, and the HH pads, you will be getting maximum benefit from the stock 298mm rotors and 2-pair opposed piston front calipers.

my current gas cap: see attachments. My locking gas cap should arrive sometime between next week and my 56th birthday! LOL

 

[Fire-medic]

Looks to me like the filler tube slot for the stationary 'bump' on the OEM gas cap's underside has been widened. Is there one notch, or two?

 

[LifeLongRider2022]

A member was recently looking for a screw-on/off gas cap to replace the locking gas cap. Is your cap a Stant or other name brand, w/a part #?

Get your wheels vapor-blasted to rid your wheels of oxidation, and to give them a nice satin finish. You could also use baking soda as a blasting media, if you cannot locate someone close-by doing the vapor blasting. Either way will give you a satin finish, without the texturing that sandblasting does. Then you can either polish the wheels, or have them powdercoated. You may choose to leave them as they come-back to you, cleaned of oxidation, and just keep them waxed and clean.

HH compound front brake caliper pads and woven stainless steel brake lines will give you a better stopping performance than organic pads, which may be what are on there now. Those (organics) tend to deposit a lot of brake dust on the wheels. Look on the back of the pads and there probably is a brake pad compound inking on the steel plate. Any name-brand HH rated pad should work well for you. Among a complete fluid flush, changing to stainless brake lines, and the HH pads, you will be getting maximum benefit from the stock 298mm rotors and 2-pair opposed piston front calipers.

Is this the picture you were asking about?

 

[VMAXer]

Welcome to the forum. Enjoy!

 

[Fire-medic]

Yeah someone cut that one good! Not stock! I'd want to be standing outside the garage where that was being butchered!

A rusty old stock filler neck:

 

[Jack Hammer]

I'm moving to San Antonio in about a month. Will crate up my bike and take it with me. Maybe I'll see you guys.

 

[Dkid]

Welcome to the Classroom

 

[D Larson]

I'm moving to San Antonio in about a month. Will crate up my bike and take it with me. Maybe I'll see you guys.

That is one hell of a move.

 

[Fire-medic]

The wife & I just spent 5 days in Austin & San Antonio. In San Antonio we stayed at the Omni Hotel next to the Riverwalk. The morning we left (early evening flight) we walked a couple blocks to the Alamo. We did the self-run tour, where you get a recorded personal narration by the numbers, as you walk through the mission. We also bought the museum passes, which I think was worth it. I didn't know that Phil Collins, yes of Genesis, was a kid fascinated with the Old West and the Alamo. When he became a multi-millionaire, he bought all sorts of Alamo era things, and he later donated his collection to the trust for care of the Alamo.

I like Austin, been there a couple of times. That was my first time to San Antonio, I like it as-much as Austin. maybe more, as it seems less crowded. The TX Hill Country seems like a great place to ride, just stay hydrated, and cover-up your skin in the summer & use sun-block.

We also did the San Antonio area Mission Tour, starting to the south and working our way north to San Antonio. I think we hit 5 or 6 Missions, and those people were brave to be living in that area. Our San Antonio Missions Tour | National Historical Park