F6B Quick Tips

[WingStuff]

What are any and all of your “quick tips” when it comes to riding and caring for your F6B? Let’s pass on our knowledge and experience that we’ve gained from years of riding to other riders.

It can be anything from how you stay comfortable on a long ride to waterproofing your speakers and anything in between.

I’ll go first: Slipping your riding boots into waterproof overshoes can be a pain. Next time, try placing plastic grocery bags over your boots first and pulling on the overshoes will be a breeze!

[Fla_rider]

Ok- I'll go a long.

1. I use dryer sheets to remove the bugs on the front of the bike, I keep extra sheets in the saddlebags to make the bags smell fresh. Of course anything I throw in the saddlebags will smell fresh also.

[terrydj]

Just make sure that the stuff you put on your bike works
The Farkle shelf works.
The only things that should be on your handlebars are the switches
Autocom works
Bluetooth Intercom is only for day-trippers

[BIGLRY]

I spray Lemon Pledge on all my chrome & paint just before going on a long distance ride, sure helps with bug guts removal after the trip as I don't clean my scoot while on a ride.
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[bobbyf6b]

Don't watch videos for mods on a 1st generation wing and expect the 2nd generation wing to be the same.

[Cheesyryder]

The pegs scraping is like 90% of your lean angle. Take the noise as a warning, not a challenge

[53driver]

Lube every boss and grommet.

[blackmetoc]

I spray Lemon Pledge on all my chrome & paint just before going on a long distance ride, sure helps with bug guts removal after the trip as I don't clean my scoot while on a ride.
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I wonder if that works well w/ the love bugs in FL. Those rat bastards will damned near ruin a ride and a bike.

[Old Ryder]

When chrome parts don't fit in with your B (such as the Egro pegs and other chrome items) a coat of PlastiDip will make them match the black power coat look for about $6 a can. If you don't like it peel it off---if you do like it and want it more permanant, spray a coat of paint primer first--then PD and it is there to stay.

[BIGLRY]

I wonder if that works well w/ the love bugs in FL. Those rat bastards will damned near ruin a ride and a bike.

Yep it will, nothing will stick with a coat of Lemon Pledge protecting the chrome, paint & plastic.
I've had swarms of June Bugs, Cicadas, Bumble Bees and other big, fat, juicy, gut spewing, Kamikaze crazed bug commit hara-kiri on my scoot, I have let them age for weeks at a time(I don't clean during a ride), only to remove them very easy when I got home with a wet cloth (old T-shirts) during my normal "wash the scoot after a long ride" routine after doing a pre-ride spray with Lemon Pledge.