What did you do with your ST1100/ST1300 today?

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Would others use this for $16.00? It does not say silica free anywhere on the bottle?

Found this one. States it's silica free. This is what I will use, and it's BLUE like my bike. Now that's getting picky!!!!!!
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The Honda dealer says you can only get 50/50 mix. After you figure on about $1.00 for half distilled water, the coolant is actually double the cost. I'd say we're getting hosed everywhere you can't buy concentrate. I just did a flush and refill and I had to look high and low to get concentrate, but I did find some... $20 for a gallon of straight antifreeze and then $2.30 for a gallon of distilled water
 
Yesterday, I was finally able to use my new No-Mar tire changer. The front tire of the 2010 :bl13: has been running with a wormy plug in it since I picked it up from Brett's three months ago. I didn't want to ride up to WeSTOC with that plug in it. I changed out the rear tire today.

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So, I have a little clean up to do on the :bl13:, before heading up to WeSTOC, but on the most part, it is ready for the trip! :)
 
Had a smell of coolant for about a year. Finally bought thermostat and o ring. Read a bunch on this forum, spoke with igofar and tracked it. Popped in the new Honda stat. Cleaned all hose ends, tightened the 5 hose clamps lightly as suggested.
Cleaned and flushed the rad. While I was at it I flushed all brakes as well along with flushed the rear preload. Like alot of others my rear preload only had a table spoon of oil.
Took my baby for a 6 hour ride today. No more smell of coolant!!!!!! Rides better too.
I think it takes longer to get up to 3 bars now. 10 mins of driving. Is that normal?
 
I find ten minutes of riding time to get to three bars is long. Takes a little longer when just idling stationary, but when riding it should get there fairly quickly at warm ambient temperatures that I presume you are experiencing at this time of year. At this time of year I hit one bar after about one minute. I would say less than five minutes of riding time I am at three bars.
 
Went for a loop ride along Angeles Crest to beat the heat. Stopped at the defunct Newcombs Ranch to stretch the legs. Happened a film crew was shooting a commercial for the new Lucid Air Dream edition electric car. Spoke to some of the Lucid team, very nice people (very nice car, 0-60 2.5 seconds) willing to talk, especially a 30? year old 'kid' from the UK just arrived in the States. Our bikes were filmed in part of the shooting. Most likely, they are already on the editing room floor. :rolleyes:
Also met and talked at some length with a CHP Officer providing traffic control. (Not really necessary during the week as only a handful of vehicles on the road.) Nice guy, he rides a Harley! ;)IMG_5569.JPGIMG_5570.JPG
 
Rode about 145 miles today to visit a friend and help him with his Sena 50S communications. Then we rode to a hotdog place and had chilidogs for lunch. Nice uneventful day but was topping 91 degrees by the time I got home.

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Rode about 30 miles round trip to the closest Dunkin Donuts for a dozen!

First low humidity morning we've had for a couple weeks here in Oklahoma, America.

Rural back roads on the way there, and I-40 on the way home.

These bikes sure are smooth at 70+ mph.
 
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