I swear by the Healtech Thunderbox.

It's fused, it automatically senses the switched load to trigger itself on, it's programmable and it's literally idiot-proof. Makes rigging up your DVR & aux spotlights super easy - fuck the wire splicing, relays and tapping into a switched circuit to trigger the relay etc coz all you hv to do is just plug the +ve & -ve into this baby, while it does all the rest.

When you have an electronic-everything bike and you're scared you're just one bad wire tap away from a total electronic breakdown, this thing is worth its weight in gold.

Yup, you just hook it up to the battery and that's it. It just works and you get a total of 16 amps to play around with instantly. The power is clean as it is sourced directly from the batt without a relay, totally separated from the bike's circuits.

New bikes equipped with CANBUS scare me. Since they also use the same wiring loom to send electronic signals everywhere, one wrong tap and you'll start getting glitches in the electronics.

My wife & I swear by drop-leg packs.

Never liked waist pouches, coz they're either inaccessible (when at the back) or uncomfortable (when at the front squeezing against the tank).

Funny my wife asked the same thing last week because she rides her 700 CLX to work these days.

I told her no such thing exists coz the only surefire way for your hands to stay completely dry in our torrential rain is if you wear a pair of dishwashing rubber gloves. Everything else has caveats.

She's better off rotating between the 3 pairs of gloves that she has.

I carry Komine fabric gloves for wet weather riding, coz gloves will get wet no matter what anyway. Just squeeze out all the water and place them on the hot exhaust when you stop to dry them quickly.

If the gloves are of all-leather construction, some mink oil will make them water repellent... up to a point.

This post has been edited by ZZR-Pilot: Jul 22 2023, 03:16 PM

Found the Held Cattleman boots to be had for RM275 with coupons on Shoppee.

Thick double-stitched cowhide upper, just begging to be mink-oiled. Zipped side (something I look for in all my lace-up Derby dress boots & bike boots). The usual toe, heel and ankle protection although not as heavily protected as racing & off-road boots, but that's fine as they retain the comfort & mobility I absolutely need to wear them all day at the office and when touring.

At this price, I couldn't say no.

However the welt is not sewn - this is the weakest area in all leather shoes coz while the animal leather is bomb-proof, the soles and their glue tend to somehow perish all on their own in our weather. Glued soles tend to detach after 2 years, dunno why. My fave Blundstones just went out this way and the soles also started to crumble apart... can't be saved, what a fucking pity...

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Wear arm socks bro. My wife has the same problem with her RS Taichi jacket that she rides to work in, this is what she does.

Interesting! Which shoemaker stitches boots?

Which reminds me, I left my Rockport dress shoes with San Lee in Tmn Midah to see what they can do to reattach the soles last month. They never even got back to me....

Yeah... RM275 so I bought a pair to replace my Blundstones that self-destructed after 2+ years. They list for RM299 currently but even that's still bloody cheap for a sturdy pair of genuine leather boots. So if anybody's in the market for a more traditional Derby style of motorcycle boots, maybe it's something worth taking a look at.

https://shopee.com.my/MOTORCYCLE-BOOTS-MEN-...635.22372255456

This post has been edited by ZZR-Pilot: Jul 28 2023, 05:50 PM

Mine? Dun think so, but I mink-oiled them anyway so they're much darker & whatever blemishes are covered over.

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Cheap & decent. For the price, they're better than my Stylmartin Jack boots (CE: 1122) which cost me RM765.

Buggered my bike going downhill from Genting once before learning my lesson:

You can only go 70%-80% max on public roads because these are not controlled environments. Something is just bound to surprise you when you least expect it. Konar cun-cun ala Valentino Rossi, textbook knee-down... sekali tiba2 monyet melintas pulak... dusyummmm.... eNtah siAPa yANg saLaHhh ku tAK taHUuuuu....

Anything above 70%-80% should be done on the racetrack.

Sekarang dah tua, dah takde lagi dah asah-asah konar ni.... I ride to live, coz already got way too many other ways to die once past 50...

Ahh same time as my wife albeit a few weeks back.

Still at the 250km mark, now it's at Rawtech for the next 1 month for some custom work.

Rear bracket plus some other minor stuff. Need a custom one coz she carries a huge tailpack & need to accommodate the rear dashcam.

Still got it, she's still riding it.

She's 160cm tall. She discovered the same thing - she's used to the upright riding position of her 700 CLX and while the 2 test rides she did on the Trident went fine, her short ownership quickly revealed the same thing u discovered. She's getting Rawtech to look into adding bar risers to address this slight issue.

Paid Rawtech a visit today to finalize with En. Azis the design of her custom rear rack. On the topic of the bar riser, he did note that the cables might start to tug at full lock and cause all sorts of problems. So he advised my wife against it.

Her 700 CLX died again Thursday night while riding home with me after dinner in Ara Damansara. 3rd lane in fast-moving traffic on the NKVE at 9pm, ignition cut out and lost power all of a sudden while cruising at highway speeds. Power was on but it refused to start. It was a harrowing experience coz she didn't not have the power to safely cut across 3 lanes of traffic into the emergency lane and the bike came to a stop in the middle of the friggin highway. Fortunately, the large truck behind her managed to stop in time and block the traffic for us to push the bike to the side of the highway. Called a tow truck and dumped the motherfucker at Mforce immediately afterward.

She was supposed to ride it to Satun with me next week. Looks like she'll have to make the trip on the back of my bike as a passenger.

Enough is enough, that bike is DONE. We'll cut our losses and flog it off immediately when it comes out of Mforce. Damn near killed both of us that nite.

We were at Oasis Square, meeting up with her old friend from grad school back in Guangzhou.


Kalau Satun tu, pi Pakbara la where else. Also we want to recce the ro-ro ferry service to Ko Lipe & Ko Lanta. The trip was supposed to give my wife her first experience riding her own bike across the border, but alas... tenggek kat belakang je la...

The Trident is ride-by-wire, I don't know if anyone custom-makes the wiring harness for that. At any rate, we wouldn't want to void the new bike's warranty so I guess that will have to wait.


Ya that was us.

Not the case. Coz 1.5 hours later when we arrived at Mforce, the bike could start again. But out there in the middle of the highway and by the side of the road, no joy.

Nothing. Mforce ni sikit-sikit hantar ke Penang. So the bike is currently waiting for the lorry to Penang. Again. Penat sial.

No, we haven't even gotten around to putting up an ad yet.