My bike had the 80grit shift peg, (and the 80grit foot pegs ), on it when I bought it. All have been removed and the originals have been put back on. Too uncomfortable for me. Boots catch in the pegs and the shifter tears the top of your foot up. Can't ride with anything other than heavy boots, not even touring boots.

 

Installed Denali T3 lights on the rear.

 

Not really a nightmare, but certainly a little tedious and fiddly. Cutting tie wraps, removing the electrical connectors etc. were more time consuming than getting the tank off (only had 1/4 tank of fuel so that helped). Took my time and didn't force anything and everything worked as desired when done. Would have been nice to have the factory service manual, though.

 

Need to wash mine tomorrow and futz with the clutch cable. My friction point is way the hell out there, and I prefer it close to the grip.

 

Mine was the same, so much so I thought there was something wrong with the bike when I test rode it. I had to just about completely take my fingers of the lever for the clutch to start engaging. Zero free play. Easy adjustment at the lever.

 

I had a real nice 300mi ride today on the PA and when I got home, went to lube the chain and found what looks like a finishing nail in my rear tire. The tire unfortunately has a slow leak and needs to be plugged, so what brand are you all using that seems to work?

 

If you want to ride it to tread life end, take it off and use a mushroom plug like this
or one of these

 

That's the one thing that bugs me about the hydraulic clutch on my Ultra. I hate the engagement point on the clutch. Added a Muller Hydro Clutch and that helped a little.

 

Go to this company's website. They offer all types of plugs. I have the mushroom plugs and the gun to install. No tire removal necessary. Patchboy.com

 

I did an "Advanced Motorcyclists Full Control Machine Handling Skills Day" on mine at a nearby disused airfield. This was put on by local Advanced motorcycling group.

Lots of exercises from the "Full Control" document I have posted a link to before. Lots of very tight slow manoeuvring to start, normal and positive steering exercises, building up to more complex exercises at higher and higher speeds and culminating in high speed emergency braking drills.

A great day, if a little hot and mentally tiring. At least now I know that the PanAm can stop on a relative dime from 70mph and the linked braking and ABS works extremely well. It also handles like a dream at low speeds.

Many of the other attendees were the "BMW GS advanced riding gods" crowd and the PanAm drew nothing but praise from them.

Here's another link to "Full Control" for anyone that is interested: Full Control