Maxpedition Four-by-Six

Received this Competition Accessories email with a link to a Shoei GT-Air model for $400 inc. shipping, very good price, almost tempted to buy a 2nd one I like mine so much!
http://www.compacc.com/p/shoei-gt-air-re...mailvision

I went for a short ride yesterday and took a few pictures. I posted them in "Let's see your CB1100 Out On The Road". Other folks who went for rides yesterday posted their pictures in "What Did You Do On or To Your CB Today?" Still others posted about their day's ride in "Today's Weather".

I certainly do not want to cross-post to 2 or more threads nor do I want to look at 2 or 3 different threads for these daily "check ins". I don't think they should be "Seat Time" reports as those seem to be for longer, more detailed, ride reports.

Would the powers that be consider consolidating these threads or creating a new topic that would be THE spot to post a few photos from your day's ride, maybe a short report about the ride, and/or things you did to your bike, along with any weather discussion? Not sure what the title would be, but something that conveyed that this is the spot to post a quick note about your motorcycling day.

Feel free to delete this if'n you think it's not worthy of further discussion.

MTC

Seem comfy looking, reliable, upright riding position, etc. What are some things to look out for on them, known issues, strengths or weaknesses? thanks.

So I was able to grab a hooky day from work, and it correlated with one of the finest days of weather in the last decade here on the Jersey Shore. 70 degrees, crystal clear, light breeze...perfect. I've neglected the old bikes a bit this summer, so I rolled out the '68 Norton P11, went over her, tickled the carbs, and bang, one kick start.

She rattled, vibrated, smoked and barked in the glorious colors on the backroads, but never missed a beat, and we ended up at the beach an hour later. Hissing, pinging and marking her spot, I swear she enjoyed the view of the ocean, the gleaming warm sun, and the conversations with passers by as much as I did.

Yeah, I know, character and soul are anthropomorphic devices we attach to inanimate objects. But I swear the old Ranger was smiling when I cleaned her, put her 'bedpan' under the primary to collect her droppings, and tucked her away, likely for the winter, at the end of a glorious ride.

I love building plastic and resin model cars and over the years have stayed with the hobby. MPC is releasing for the first time in many years a 1/8 scale plastic 1969 Honda CB750. I remember as a kid building the Kawasaki 500 Mach II and the Then came Bronson Sportster. This gives us model builders a reasonable priced kit and I think I might pick up one and build it. I think the price is just under $40.00.

Ok, so I have already researched around and found where to get a tank...my question is this. If I replace the stock fuel tank on my 2014 Standard (3.9 Gallons) and fit it with the tank from a DLX (4.7~ gallons), will it mess with the fuel gauge, as in inaccurate readings? Will I have to make any other modifications?

I did a search on this site and I don't think this was directly addressed...anyone done such a modification?

"This bike is so good looking as it comes that it needs no farkling" I thought when I decided that I was trading my NC for a CB. Although my plan was to buy a brand new one, the best deal was the used one I traded for. When I picked it up it already had a Dart Flyscreen and the tank's lawyer stickers were gone. "Good", I said, that's all that it needs.

Then I got home and noticed the over the top license plate bracket with bicycle reflectors I gotta do something about that... So, before I discovered metalmaven's license plate kit, I found a thread here on how to DIY it and with a piece of 0.25" thick kydex I fabricated my own, transplanted an old faux carbon fiber license plate frame and nice allen head stainless bolts. BOOM! DONE! That's all it's going to need...

The second day, at laundry time, my wife found in my riding jeans pocket the chrome valve caps I took off the NC when traded it in. At the dealer I had taken the ugly plastic ones that were on the CB and put them on the NC, put the chrome ones in my pocket and forgot to transplant them to the new bike. Well, now they are there.

Installing the tire valve caps it hit me: it still has reflectors on the forks I found another thread here that said those were on there by 2-sided tape. 2 minutes later, fork reflectors were gone. Ahhh... Clean

At some point during that first crazy week of ownership I found the forum's monster thread about RLETs and thought "if I'm going to be a bona-fide CeeBeer I gotta get me some of those thingies". So I did...

Meanwhile, I've acquired two tail bags, the Nelson-Rigg Sport my friend gave me I use for short leisure rides, and the Ogio replaces the failed tank bag experiment for commuting to work.

BUT WAIT!! Now the CB has no reflectivity; that is not safe. So yesterday I installed reflective tape on its wheels. It is black reflective tape so it doesn't detract from the bike's look during the daytime.

Then today I swapped the oil cap by ZRF's knurled aluminum one.

I need and will get new grips (just need to figure out which ones) and while at it may change the bar end sliders. At some point I'll add engine guards. I would like to have a custom seat (Sargent's is here in town) and a nice slip-on muffler. Finally, for my spring trip to the mountains I'll add saddle bags.


Morale of the story: This place is not a good influence on my weak soul.

Have a good night, guys.

From 2015 Tokyo Motorshow.

LED light, shorter exhaust, revised fuel tank, seat and other small details.

One accessory I would like is finned header clamps like early air cooled four's had and like the new Bonnie comes with OEM.

http://www.motorcycle.com/manufacturer/t...aust_clamp

They just look right.