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Welcome to our group IMRG SPARTAN Group! A space for us to connect and share with each other. Start by posting your thoughts, sharing media, or creating a poll.
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Tornado party
On a trip in Georgia, we were ready to stop for gas and lunch. We were going to make a left, coming down a hill, that was a bit quicker than planned. As we were slowing, we heard very loud exhaust behind us. When we realized it was a tandom tractor trailer that probably couldn't stop in time, we continued straight. The next town was good enough, anyhow.
I saw a tree trimming truck... And another... And then three more, as we pulled into the gas station. We pulled up to the pumps, and realized there was no building... There used to be, there was a spot for one... And we realized this was where the tornadoes had just gone through. (I don't know if you recall a few years ago, when the pecan trees were decimated.)
We looked, and in the strip mall next to the station, was a…
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Michigan to San Diego
I have a motorcycle story. We took a really long ride, but I'll make the story short.
A few years ago Brenda and I set out for San Diego. We only had 19 days to make the trip, and we had a few lay overs to visit the kids in Colorado, and also to visit Brenda's aunt and uncle. But the rest of the time we would be on our bikes. Average ride distance per day was about 500 miles, but at least three of them we put in over 720 miles.
The one thing that we found out is that if you ride for only 100 miles at a time, then take a short break, it's not that hard to rack up those 500 mile days. This was our route: MI to Denver, then to Zion National park, then Las Vegas, then San Diego, then north to San Francisco…
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Sound systems
So I went down the rabbit hole a few times, looking for better music (without a headset). Thought I'd discuss some options, here, although it pertains to any model in general, there's a LOT of solutions I found that are specific to the model I was long to improve.
First, the different years have different factory hardware. I believe it was starting in 2020, they went to 'power band' systems. BTW, if I say radio, I mean infotainment system, I'm just old school. Those stock systems sound much better than the earlier ones, and are generally not plug and play compatible with earlier systems. (You can make anything work with enough fiddling, but different physical size and mounting, electric specs, software) I do not have much experience with power band, other than to say a lot of the annoying quirks I've discovered, have been addressed by Indian.
Second, a lot…
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Once upon a time...
Well, I thought Matt and Beth's idea about sharing stories was a good one. I guess someone has to start.... Please, everyone post a story so I'm not so lonely! :)
I grew up in Warren. I'm third generation skilled trades working for GM. My Dad was a tool maker for GM. My grandfather was a toolmaker for GM. I think I'll tell a story about my grandfather.
He was born on a ship, arriving from Poland, to Canada. I believe it was Windsor, so a lot of the people were heading to the USA, even though it docked in another country. He had dual Polish/ Canadian citizenship, and spoke French, English, and Polish as native languages. He grew up in Canada, and later moved to the US, and got married, had children, and became a naturalized citizen. My dad, born before that date, was a citizen before my grandpa…
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5-11-2024 meeting
Amazing pancake breakfast and blessing of the bikes! Thank you to everyone that was involved! Wishing everyone a great season 🏍
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Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride
We would like to know if you are planning to go on the DGR, and will you be joining us at Detroit Triumph in Shelby Twp. for a group ride to the event? Please respond to this thread.
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rickmette
May 12, 2024
Due to the low interest in starting a group ride from Spartan, it is now changed to Detroit Triumph in Shelby Twp.. Location information and timing is found on the main page of this website.
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Bikes on the Bricks 2024
For folks interested in this yearly event in downtown Flint, which features a cool LARGE group ride, here’s a link:
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Jeff Praski
May 12, 2024
That's a great ride! And by LARGE, he means around 1,000 bikes! The one year, the front arrived around the same time the back left the staging area. Completely surrounding Flint with a police escort that was illegal to break through..
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Have you signed up for the Landmark Challenge
You will get one more chance to sign up, and that will be at our next meeting May 11th.
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Satellite radio:
I know. I told you I went down a deep rabbit hole...
I decided I needed satellite radio. I was done losing signal, I didn't have enough room for a ton of CDs, and I really didn't have much of a digital collection.
There are a few ways to hook this up. 1) run the satellite radio app on your phone, and BT direct to the Head unit. This was unacceptable, I probably lost cell signal almost as much as radio. This isn't a bad idea for local riding, though. 2) use the satellite receiver unit, and broadcast on an FM channel, for the head unit to pick up. I didn't want to lose sound quality, though. And it wasn't worth buying the only receiver that broadcast BT, especially since I already decided I didn't want to lose sound quality. (See below, though.) 3) hard wire the signal to the Head unit. I bought the adapter that plugs in between the antenna leads, and plays on an FM channel. It is now hard wired and works well.
Now looking into things for the sidecar bike... I discovered they have a new product. I would need a new cradle to mount the reciever, I'd just swap it from bike to bike. They now make a BT cradle that's something like $2 more than a plain one. A little research, and I discovered I was way off about sound quality. BT actually can broadcast, about 3x more sound quality than satellite radio does. (Yes they have a lot of bandwidth, but they use it for 200 channels, not quality.) I also discovered they have a USB power converter. Using the USB plug I was going to install anyway, and ordering the right cradle I was going to anyway... I could have satellite radio into those 45 mm headset speakers Rick likes, for less than $10. I also found a waterproof case for the reciever for $5. Now all I need to do is get the new handlebars on, so I can mount everything! And maybe later, an amp and a pair of JL Audio speaker pods...