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#1
Yes, and you get the resident rate if you are a military member or veteran so I got to pay that.  Lots of places to stay too.  We stayed in a beautiful one bedroom cabin with a fully equipped kitchen for less than $140 per night.
#2
CForce 600 , X6 / Re: Moving brake master cylinder
September 18, 2022, 11:10:10 PM
I take it none of the "wrong side" people have ever ridden or intend to ride a motorcycle.
#3
Speedometer reading high by 5 to 10 percent is pretty common across motorcycle brands.  I have had Honda's, Kawasaki's, Suzuki's, A Triumph, Yamaha.,  all read high.  My friend has an NC700X that reads correctly.   Kind of a surprise.
#4
CForce 600 , X6 / My take on turn signals.
September 17, 2022, 06:12:26 PM
After nearly getting sideswiped by a driver who thought an arm signal for a left turn was waving them by to pass, I decided to add turn signals to my ATV.     I did a bit of reading.  Federal law requires rear turn signals for a motorcycle to have at least 22 square centimeters of illuminated area per side.  It takes over 8 of those ubiquitous little 3/4" LED lights to meet that standard.   I decided to buy individual parts and make my own kit.   2 maintaining and one momentary rubber booted subminiature switches (one for a horn while I was at it), an electronic flasher from Ebay, two turn signals from Amazon, and a piece of 1/4" black Starboard (marine grad HDPE) to fashion mounting brackets for the turn signals.  I also got some 4 conductor cable to run down from the handlebar to the front opening and some two conductor cable to run back to the rear lights.

I carefully fitted the switches to the existing left hand switch module.  They just fit.  I had to remove a little post in the bottom to make some clearance and carefully measure and drilled the holes.  If I screwed up here, I'm buying a new switch assembly for real money.

On my 2022 the wiring for the front turn signals and the dash indicators did not stop at the first connector.  It went through and must have stopped somewhere else in the harness.  This let me tap in on the harness side of the connector so if I ever had to replace the dash or a light assembly, I won't have to do any resoldering.

Push on the left button, get left flashing, push it again for off.  Same on the right.  Push both and you get 4 way flashers.






Video of rear lights flashing.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sQR9N17wRaANaUAr9kJIpiIVW9S2Y3Sm/view?usp=sharing



#5
Got in a motorcycle wreck 10 months ago when a semi pulled out across both lanes into my path last November.  Still not walking all that well so I though if I wanted to go hunting for enjoying the back country I might try an ATV.  I can ride my motorcycles fine but hiking in the woods is out of the question.  The closest ATV dealer to me sells CFMoto exclusively.  I picked a CForce 600 touring.  Took it up to the HMT and now it has West Virginia mud in every nook and cranny.