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Story-Time / Heading to West Virginia

« on: April 17, 2014, 04:55:56 pm »

Going to the laurel fork rally next week check it out on Adv rider,2014 Spring Laurel Fork "Back To Its Roots" or "Rampfestapalooza"
don't know who all is going?
i see Seebeegt is not far away it would be a good ride out from the coast.
I plan to be at the park by wednesday or thursday of next week.
I'll get some pix of the trip!

Sweet Mods and Accessories / Added a hella (bmw)type accessory plug with cover

« on: April 17, 2014, 02:57:38 pm »

I have found in the past its very handy to have a 12v accessory plug on your motorcycle. I use it to charge the phone, run the gps, plug in the heated vest. and when back home put the battery tender on it. when I had the headlight bezel off to wire the heated grips I looked around to find some free real-estate to locate a receptacle , there was a spot on the left side of the bezel just above the directional light, drilled a hole, and I wired it into the always on spare wire back there. I've since used it on a few trips and it works great. By the way they make many adapters for these Hella plugs including USB charger, I have a LED drop light attachment for camping setup, or night time repairs. Got them all on Amazon.
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A LITTLE FURTHER BACK WITH BATTERY TENDER PLUGGED IN

Sweet Mods and Accessories / save the side cover

« on: April 11, 2014, 01:35:16 pm »

since Rusty's story of side cover damage i've noticed some grooves worn into my clutch cover, turns out the brake foot pedal is real sharp on the edges. so i bent the rear ears over and sanded them smooth.

the ears are formed to match the cover profile, so when they do engage the force is dispersed and wont cut into the magnesium cover

So until i can get some side cover guards, this is a quick cheap insurance policy

Sweet Mods and Accessories / fixaflat/oil chain?

« on: April 11, 2014, 01:20:32 pm »

whats mike up to trying to lighten that skidplate?

no just making some handy spots to put the endurostar products trail stand,
roofing shingle is there because i just oiled the chain while up on the stand.

been thinking about those flats on the trail so bought one of these endurostar rail stand

oh ya can lift up the front wheel too

all in all pretty easy to use, comes with a velcro stap to hold front brake on when lifting rear

For Sale / Wanted / 690 people like nice seats

« on: February 11, 2014, 05:00:50 pm »

I like many have upgraded my ktm690r seat, but I was concerned about how fast and easy it is to remove.
So I came up with these handy seat locks, made from high strength spring steel and then dipped in rubber to prevent chaffing. They attach to the underside of the fuel cap and utilize the locking cap. Making it impossible to lift or slide seat rearward. Plus you can lock some things under the seat, like that Starbucks gift card

For Sale / Wanted / Gila 2.0 tank and burro top rack

« on: February 07, 2014, 01:08:07 pm »

Well to add some more fodder to this site, let me introduce a rack tank system developed to transform the already great 690 enduro into a off road touring machine. Here's the web site www.tumbleweedadv.com. The product has been developed over a year long effort, and is specifically aimed at increasing range by about 110 miles and to enable soft luggage to be easily mounted and stay off the plastics, it's constructed of tig welded 304 stainless very durable and has been tested in the mountains of Colorado, deserts of Oregon and forest of New Hampshire. The weight of the system is roughly the same as the stock muffler 18 lbs so if exchanged with a wings slip on its a wash. When the top rack "burro" is used in conjunction with the side racks "Gila" the cargo toting level is over 35 lbs. the left side rack is designed to mount a Rotopak to carry that gallon of water for desert riding or just that overnite camping. We at tumbleweedadv will offer a 10% group discount (3 or more) to members of this site if interested. I developed this product as a personal endeavor to make my 690 usable for lightweight backcountry touring, my daughter came home from college ( marketing major ) asked what I was up to, said lets make it available for other 690 owners, so here we are! Currently working on two more products (protos developed) now working mfg and testing stay tuned

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Racks & Luggage / Backcountry tank/rack

« on: January 29, 2014, 08:37:21 am »

Per request from Rusty, I'll try to put together a synopsis of how my tank rack came to be, after a years worth of development!
First a little background, the last ride I did was "The Great Divide" from Montana to Arizona, this was on my 1150 GSA with two others on KTM 9's. That 1150 was one heavy pig, those KTM's were fast and sweet but they were always looking for gas, kinda like my dog always searching for scraps. Next KTM has a rally in my town, I test ride a 990 and a 690 WOW! Loved them both only difference was 990 you still need to steer, 690 you just need to point your head, result purchased the KTM690 R.
Challenge how do I get back some of the GSA touring qualities, added heated grips, large hand guards, large wind screen,Ktm skid plate, pivot pegs, roks anti vibe risers,wings exhaust, k&n filter ,remapped ecu. All this really smoothed out the bike but couldn't go anywhere on just 3 gallons of gas. Looked around and didn't find any solution I liked determined I need to build a tank/rack system that will change the nature of my 690 to back country touring purpose. Now that I've totally bored you I'll bring you through the development steps.

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