Most Annoying Thing On Your Bike?

Most annoying things on my bike.

Flapper valve goes insane at 3000-ish rpms. Bike sounds like a geiger counter, freaked me out for a while after I bought it.

The radiator fan: My bike generates some serious heat. It's overheating threshold is 122C, but at 106C the rad fan comes on and blows air into the left rad, and it comes out the right rad, right onto my right leg.
 
On my Yamaha FJR-1300, which is a sport tourer, the thing most owners complain about the most about is the seat. It's not the mot comfortable long distance seat in the world, and it is one of the first thing most long distance riders change out.
 
Panotaker said:
On my Yamaha FJR-1300, which is a sport tourer, the thing most owners complain about the most about is the seat. It's not the mot comfortable long distance seat in the world, and it is one of the first thing most long distance riders change out.
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That's a common complaint with the VFR as well is the seat.

The Sargent seat is 400$ though, and it's something I plan on getting, but I will wait until I experience 400$ worth of pain before doing it. Wife may be a bit quicker to want it though.
 
I haven't upgraded my seat either since I normally just go on 3 or 4 hour rides around here. But if I ever decide to go cross country, I'll probably will change out the seat. I added a McCruise control to my bike which I absolutely love. My old bike was a Goldwing, and I got spoiled with the cruise control, so I had to have it on the new bike.
 
Well, that's what Yamaha calls it. A sports tourer is a motorcycle that combines the performance of a sports bike, with the long distance capabilities and comfort of a touring bike. But you're right, it is heavy. It's basically a big sports bike that you sit upright on.
 
Humm. Sprint is a sports tourer, so is a VFR, as they combine the position and the luggage.

The FJR has a relatively lazy engine for 1300cc, a sports bike has much more power and a significant increase in power to weight.

Not a sports tourer at all.
 
Bad dashboard layout as my handlebars sometimes block the view of the speedometer. Wish the seat lifted higher when I open it up, but that's on me for not removing the telescopic arm. Also wish my windshield was just a little lower as it's nearly at my eye level, but gets annoying when spotting ahead.

- Wuf
 
Lurch said:
Humm. Sprint is a sports tourer, so is a VFR, as they combine the position and the luggage.

The FJR has a relatively lazy engine for 1300cc, a sports bike has much more power and a significant increase in power to weight.

Not a sports tourer at all.
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If you Wikipedia "FJR-1300", the first sentence says is a sport tourer. If you Wikipedia "Sport Tourer", they tell you what a sport tourer is, and FJR ticks all the boxes, they even show a picture of 4 sport tourers, and the FJR is one of them. If you go to Yamaha's web site looking for an FJR, you have to look in the Sport Tourer section to find it, so I'm sticking with Sport Tourer. Either way, the seat sucks.
 
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