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War Horse True-X #4 Complete! 51,800miles - Pitstop @ Traxxion Dynamics with Max McAllister
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2021
- AM/FM Antenna Parts used on War Horse:
Special Adapter:
amzn.to/3AhcnNg
Antenna:
amzn.to/3iBMeme
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I always look forward to these updates, Max. I appreciate you taking the time to post them. Chuck is impressive for sure. Huge respect for what he is accomplishing. My new hero!!
Glad you like them!
Great report Max. Chuck thank you for the memories and allowing us to experience your truly amazing adventure. Not too many of us will ever get close to what you have and are doing. One solder to another, well done Sir.
More to come!
You are SOOO Lucky to have him has a test bed for your excellent engineering work !!
Yes, he surely is putting everything to the ultimate test! All weather, any conditions, he pretty much never stops. Snow will be what finally stops him.
Awesome update Max! 💪 Good luck Chuck!!💥👏👏👏🏍
Thanks!
I’m glad everything is going well and I’m still gonna try to catch up and ride/ get coffee with him. Good luck Chuck !
Fingers crossed!
Chuck an Warhorse are awesome
No doubt!
Thanks for the update, Max! I'd ride down for a "WAR HORSE" party!
Cool!
Great update Max!
Thanks!
Wow, that is amazing. My 2002 has 41,000 miles.
Max, you have a "Penny Farthing"! That is WAY cool! Hope you get to ride it from time to time! :)
I have 2, in different sizes. These are made by a guy in South Korea... they have a special design with a freehub and a hand brake to make them more "modern"!!!
Wow chuck....52k...that’s awesome! I have 70k on my 2008 and rode another iron butt last weekend. 1275 miles in 24hrs and I nearly dozed off 3 times at the end. Man that scarred the crap out of me. I’m doing another iron butt Saturday on my yamaha zuma 125. It’s going to be insane! This one I’m pulling over and sleeping on the concrete if I get that tired again.
Safety first!!!!
Great job Max on helping him keep on task. Chuck again much respect and thanks for taking us along on your journey. Max any chance you can add the link for the FM antenna?? Thanks Chuck buy some fisherman's friend cough drops and some Buckleys it is the cure all and the fishermen's friends will keep you awake when you eat them!
Yes I'll post some links in the comments section to the antenna parts.
There is also a lense that protect headlights that pop on and off easy I highly suggest getin that.
He has Paint Protective Film on all leading surfaces. It has held up incredibly, and looks 100X better than those plastic lenses.
Here is the Antenna and Special Adapter for Do-It-Yourselfers:
Antenna:
amzn.to/3iBMeme
Special Adapter:
amzn.to/3AhcnNg
Max
Which adapter, I see the antenna in the link But not any adapter. Maybe I'm blind?
Greg
@@ibhandlebar Yes, you are blind! Actually, it drops down, you click "Read More".... but I am going to condense it so you don't have to do that.
Would love to meet up next time through Las Vegas.
Thanks Max for keeping all of us up to date w/ the War Horse. It's always interesting to hear what issues he has with the big as he torture tests the Gold Wing mile after mile.
Has American Honda expressed any interest in this project?
I suppose the final result with how far he gets etc might have some interest to them. I am hoping he completes 6 Xs before weather stops him. So far, nothing else has stopped him... he has been slowed down a few times, or stopped briefly for repairs, but nothing has knocked him out of his quest.
It's too bad he got a late start, or I think he might have stuck with it longer. But he's around already through Lebanon so he has around 53K miles in just 90 days.
Maybe Barber Museum, or maybe we call up Jay Leno!
I’d be curious to see alternator output vs charging system load. While these newer bikes have increased charging capacity (not sure about the little wing vs the previous generation) the battery reserve available really isn’t all that impressive, obviously with idle time being nonexistent (non-issue) it would be interesting your findings on all accessories and lights on @ rpm to see if the alternator matches or exceeds the load. Exciting to hear of Chucks accomplishments, take a lot of dedication.
I have a voltmeter on the bike now so at least we can "see" a bit of what's going on as he goes down the road, or what the reading is if it won't start.
For the record I blame him. We took him to dinner Friday night and Saturday morning my wife's brand new 2021 Cadillac had a dead battery! Something is WRONG with Chuck!!!
@@Traxxion I hope you guys can get to the bottom of it, the voltmeter will definitely show what’s up while riding, could have been a bad battery but definitely suspicious with more than one failure. Maybe he is jinx’d! Lol
We will try and meet
Chuck when he rolls through South Florida again.
That would be cool! If I convince him to finish 6, that would be his finishing miles.
Max, if you want, you can have SCMG send the Pathfinder cowl light to me. Can swap out in 15 minutes when he gets here to San Ysidro.
I'm sorta "saving up" the warranty parts, for the very last time he's here, I'll replace everything I can. That way if he has another tip over or anything like that, we have new parts after the "big adventure" is over.
Have you ever installed the Baja Squadron Pro lights in the same general location as the Super Savina lights?
No, I am not familiar with that brand.
Nice to see you still on the road Chuck. Just wondering if you are having any trouble opening the truck with your extra gas tank on the seat? I am living in Canada and ride most of the year. I know you are on Elite4 tires, they wear great and will get you 26000 miles. If the weather gets wet I find they have little to no traction. Be careful, have fun, and see you at Tim Hortons.
The aux tank was designed and specially mounted to allow the trunk lid to open 100% with no restriction.
Reason his bike not starting sometimes is same thing that happen to.me on last tour cross country... the key for has a button that disengage all function on bike till it.press or u mess.with Startin nobb few.time
His battery is being drawn down for some reason. We can't find it.
Max .....Question on the antenna mounting. Did you run the wire on the inside of the trunk liner separating them or just drill right through to the inside of the trunk?
On 18-20s we have run the wire inside the trunk as there's no gap in the wall. On 21+ we can hide the cable in between the 2 pieces.
Did you change the air filter?
After his whole ride, 76,000 miles.
I couldn't catch the FB page he is posting to. Can someone provide his page name???
"Chuck Marble"
Max and Chuck I just did a 15 day 4700 mile, 7state ride in my 2021 Goldwing DCT and was on the lookout for Chuck, but no luck, safe travels brother and maybe see you on the road sometime.
That would be great!
I adjusted my parking brake at least three or four times in the first 10k miles. I'm at 36k now and haven't touched it at all since. It works perfectly.
Is he driving off with it locked???
Not possible. He has the DCT Parking Brake Interlock from Electrical Connection.
Max on one of the videos you mentioned some outrageous mileage he was getting on his tires. What air pressure does he run them. Understanding he carrys more weight than most of us.
As low as possible to keep the sensor from going off. Traction and safety are more important than mileage... but in this case he's been getting both! I have video about "Goldwing Tire School" or something like that... just search my channel for tires.
@@Traxxion I saw that video but if I remember you were recommending OEM pressures and not getting the same high mileage that the war horse was getting on his tires.
@@ostbob4108 That' because at the time of the tire pressure video, the Dunlop E4 didn't exist.
With everything you did on the War Horse, not sure if you added the Electrical Connection Parking Brake Interlock Harness. Might be the best $70 I spent as I was driving off with the parking brake on way too often. That would mean I had to adjust the parking brake in order to hold the bike. Can no longer do that with the parking brake harness installed.
It has that kit. I recommend it to everyone. That was actually my idea, but electronics aren't my business, so I handed it off to Lewis for him to make.
It's been great fun following Chuck and his adventure. How did the air filter look after 50,000 miles? A thought about the battery, too...with him always being close to the bike while sleeping in the lawn chair, do you think the key fob being ON and close to the bike keeps a small circuit on and creates a small parasitic loss? Does he turn the key fob off at night? Other New Goldwingers have talked about leaving the fob on and in the cubby and some of them are having battery problems.
That's interesting... but I don't think it's a problem. I never move my key, it's always on, and my bike is 4 years old and only has 1400 miles on it! Battery has never died.
@@Traxxion well, that answers that. I just thought there may be a "Standby" mode activated with the Fob close.
On a different topic, I put the Electrical Connections Cubby fan on my 2019 DCT Tour and for the first few months all the connections were fine but as age and vibrations and bumps would come along, my Android Auto would stop when I hit a bump. Sometimes it came back on and sometimes not. Some of the usb connections seemed to be getting loose, so I took some 3M VHB tape and stuck all the connections to the wall of the cubby next to the rider so that they no longer move. I also used VHB on the bottom of the EC phone cradle too. I now plug in the EC right angle connector to my phone and secure it with a rubber band that keeps pressure on the connection and into the phone. Now it takes a Really large bump to interrupt my AA. I have a picture if you're interested.
@@NRALifeMbr One of my Mega-Bolt up customers, has this exact problem with his Android! I will share your experience. Please send max@traxxion.com your photos.
Curious, what is your opinion on Honda stating that the front caliper bolts need to be changed every time? Also, did he have the valves checked during any of the services.
Changing the front bolts is absolutely absurd. There's no such thing as a single use caliper bolt. They want you to have fresh loctite each time, that's all.
I have NEVER put any locking agent on a brake caliper bolt and never would. It just damages the fork leg over time, and serves no purpose. Do you know anyone who's ever had the caliper fall off of their Goldwing?
If you are concerned about valves, you might have them inspected at 25K, and then just forget about them until 100K+.
We did not have time to do valve inspections, Chuck just kept rolling and we did what was necessary for him to stay on the road. We didn't even change the air filter until he was done. It was nasty, but it did it's job!
@@Traxxion I was thinking the same thing on the bolts, however, I did change them this time around, just so I can go into work with them and check them for run out on the Zoller. Also, want to take some measurements and see what is what, I suspect I will see nothing, still interested in checking lol. Don't see any reason for the hole in them either, other than weight, but they look to be aluminum, so, can't see any reason that they would worry about weight of such and insignificant amount.
By the way, installed the new engine guard. Looks great, very well made as usual.
@@moose3971 Any professional racing team pulls the caliper bolts in an out of the bike thousands of times over the life of it, in a season.
Why is there no crash bars from the factory on these bikes that work
The factory ones actually work pretty good for a tip-over if someone in on or near the bike and trying to slow it from falling. If the wind just pushes the bike over, then it will get more damage. I am working on products to limit the cost of repairs in a tip-over.
What I have found out on my POS 2021 Goldwing DCT Tour that has left me stranded too many times. When you turn off the ignition switch the engine will stop but the head light will remain on, this will run down the battery quickly. Solution: when turning the bike off: I have found if you hold the ignition switch in the off position for one or two seconds it will solve the problem of the head light running your battery down. I now also carry a small jump starter in this unreliable POS motorcycle, can’t believe Honda put their name on this big red plastic pile of poop.
That's interesting, we just put a voltmeter on Chuck's bike, I'll have him watch it closely for that.
Should we expect to see Antenna modification kit from Traxxion Dynamics for tour and non-tour?
For Tour yes, but I am posting links to the parts in the Comments on this thread, so you can get them from Amazon as well.
Just curious. That front tire looks bigger than my 2018 tour front tire . What size is that?
It's the stock size.
Thanks. I know you mentioned the Warhorse running Dunlop’s. Is it a Dunlop or Bridgetone?
@@samdomingue8113 Dunlop Elite 4
I'd love to catch him for a coffee and a days ride. How big is the Aux tank, and how is it plumbed into the system. Curious as I fabricated my own, and I'm always looking for ideas.
It was supposed to be 6 gallons, but it turns out it is like 5.1... Chuck is pretty upset about that, as he paid extra to be certain it would be 6 gallons. It is a Firecreek Accessories tank.
Appreciate the reply. I'm really enjoying following Chuck's journey. Thanks for your efforts.
I curious on how you plugged in antenna
Special adapter. Link will be posted in comments above. We are going to make a kit to sell if people just want to get it in one place.
Max, Are you going to be selling the Farkle Shelves. Had one on my K1200 and loved it but not sure where I could mount it, on the 2021 goldwing DCT.
thanks Da ol Turtle.
That one was kinda "one off". I suppose I could repeat it.
@@Traxxion Great give me a price and a time frame
I have enjoyed Capt Markle's ride a lot thanks for all the info you have giving regarding his bike.
@@michaelcadiz1004 this would be something I would take up over the winter when things slow down. max@traxxion.com
@@Traxxion That could work for me as well just let me know when you have the time and I will buy one...also have two friends one with and one still in the planning stages but he will spring for the 22 I am sure...
How does chuck say the backrest is working for him?
He has never mentioned it, so I assume he is happy! Still on the stock seat too! But he uses a bead mat with it.
Did you note the serial numbers of the Batteries and report them to the Manufacturer ?
ugh.. darn you non-weather sealed critical fuses?? possibly causing batterie degration.. very good !! :-)
NEVER update IPADs or iPHONEs while ON the road !!! Always Backup to a PC before updating.. else.. Good Luck :-(
NO !!! tipped over the Bike :-(
AM/FM Antenna what? where? WTF are they thinking? Jeepers.
I hope to be so able to se 1 TRUE-X .. I want to do it on my '88 1500 :-)
Go for it! That's what Wings are for!
I have the same bike with just under 4K miles and my parking brake has never worked. I’ll have it checked at the first service.
It takes just a few seconds to adjust it. I should do a video on that.
@@Traxxion I would appreciate it. Thanks
Yep it’s not hard …..I had to adjust mine too after buying my 2021
Could not find Chuck’s Face Book page. :-(
"Chuck Marble" on Facebook
Chuck have any comments on using a car tire?
It is lasting great, but then again, so were round tires. He has a few on his Harleys for the Hoka Hey rides.
The one thing that has happened is the car tire really damages the front tires and wears the sides of the crown badly about an inch on each side. I rode it, and it just ruins the bike. But he's just trying to avoid tire changes, and since there is a tire shortage presently, it's prudent.
Really tire shortage? His bike can run what ever he wants. I my self just can't go on the dark side. I believe MC Rider did a video on this subject
@@michaelboater3545 Goldwing tires have been on backorder for several months at all the major distributors.
How did the Goldstrike highway pegs hold up?
I have the gold strike hwy peg. All I can say is make sure you use blue lock tight when installing. I didn't and bolts loosen up., On a ride had to pull over and remove
@@michaelboater3545 Good to know, thank you! Are you happy with them otherwise?
Yes
He has had the bike tip over onto both sides and the pegs have taken the hit fine. He is very happy with them. They did loosen up from having the bike drop on them, but there was no damage.
@@Traxxion Thank you!
Max, at which point do I bring my bike to you as opposed to going to one of your recommended installers...
Just depends on if you want to take a ride! If you have a long list of accessory stuff you want, I stock lots of it, and we can do suspension and accessories all in one trip.
@@Traxxion I think having you do everything is the best move Max. I'll be in touch when I'm ready to roll and we'll plan it. Thank you for your reply.
Eric
@@ericpurdy5704 We'll be ready!
War Horse. Sponsered by Traxxion Dynamics !!!
Great vid as usual. Forgive me for being an A-Hole, but is that an oil slick under the Warhorse? Guess Honda is starting to mark their spot...
Goldwings don't leak. That spot is where a lot of delivery trucks pull up each day.
Snow reported on I-90 in Montana10/11
Noooo!!!
Yep, sadly,....it has begun. Maybe a weather window will open for Chuck, in his quest. West of St Louis, at the moment
@@mhilde7744 He has 3 different routes he can take to each corner. He'll find a way.
let us know when it gets close to the time he finishes and everyone can have a meetup.
I'm trying to talk him into 6, which will have him finishing in KeyWest. We'll have a finish party at Traxxion one way or the other.
Awesome darkside car tire lol. But is that a double darkside goldwing? (Rear tire on the front?)
No. I think the car tire is stupid. It handles like crap and it destroys front tires. But since it there is a shortage of tires, and you need 30 days notice at any of the big dealers to get a tire changed, Chuck is just going for the minimum amount of times he has to change the tires. He has car tires on some of his Hoka Hey bikes just so he can do a complete ride without stopping.
With the new Elite 4 tires, there's no reason to use a car tire ever again.
All those scratches from the tip overs is just more proof someone needs to come up with better tip over protection since Honda did such a terrible job on the newer models
We are going to do a belly pan and engine case protector to stop all of the broken engines that are happening first.
I got a 2006 with 131K and I have never had any issue. Why are you having this many issues?
I'm certain you've never lived on your motorcycle for months on end, driving in every possible weather condition, and slept in a chair next to your bike for months on end, or driven a thousand miles a day over and over and over. So yes, your bike may not have had the same experience as his has.
Because i"m from Germany, i can't join you. But if you send me a PayPal link, i spend you a coffee, my friend!
I would love to ride a view miles with you.......
HAHAHA! That's very generous! Safe travels Jurgen!