Today I changed my spark plugs, caps and rubbers. Whatever plugs that were in the motor when i picked it up is what was in there. Now, I looked at my plugs about 1000 miles ago and they were all nice and tan color, I pulled them today and #2 was black, #1 was darkening, 3,4 were still nice and tan...pictures below. I pulled my carb bowls and removed the jets, replaced the 120s with 110s, tightened my chain, took it out and Im thinking the 115s are going to be perfect. I looked at my jets today because I coulda sworn the bike was running/idling differently than it was he day before, thought maybe i goofed and put different size jets in but all were the same, the mesh cover over my tail pipe is black as well, so I was wondering if it was all just running too rich. Im going to put 100 miles on the bike and check the plugs again.
As far as my bike and the way its handling now, I lifted the front end and looked for any play front to back and there was none, I wasnt able to feel any flat spots turning side to side either. I think with this rack the case sits out a little too far, I need something a little more compact with not such a huge surface area, I only need as much as the top box mounting plate needs for its mount points. Im going to try modifying it before i spring for a rack altogether.
The stability through the turns are really weird now too, the added weight and length on the back is really throwing stuff off, gotta get it closer and lower.
Besides the fact that I need to keep my hands on the bars at all time now, the bike is awesome with this case, going 80-90mph, no problem, my entire backpack fits in this thing, Its amazing just gotta get handling sorted out and ill head to the Upper Peninsula and relax.
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I moved the mounting plate forward but not too far so the spacing for the brackets was still good. This gets the center of the box at least over the rear wheel and not behind it. The rack needs another cross member at the rear of it, that way I can really over hang the mounting plate over the lip of the seat. I'm a solo rider so this wont bother me, actually works out better for me. The other thing is removing the box and plate would take less time than it took me to unstrap my stuff on my road trip. This solves getting the box back over the actual bike and not hanging out there in limbo, May change the second bolt on position to the open prong type instead of a drilled hole so i can lift up on the rack and remove it if i want to.
any recommendations for good soft bags?
