If you own a Yamaha T700 and have any interaction with other T700 riders you’ll have heard the loud complaints about the soft rear brake. At the moment my personal T700 is used more on road than off it but coming from a dirt-bike background I’ve always used the rear brake extensively, on-road and off. The “problem” (at least for some of us) is the distance the rear pedal needs to travel before fully engaging […]
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After lowering the Overland Rider T700 by a whole 40mm, the OEM side stand simply doesn’t support the bike correctly. The OEM stand, as you probably remember, was replaced with a Rally Raid stand but unfortunately that stand was not sufficiently short to deal with 40mm lowering links so I’m excited to be soon receiving the T-Rex Racing Adjustable Side Stand, which I’m fairly sure will solve this problem. The RR stand is 30mm (1.18 […]
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I recently took another look at the crash bar sliders that came with the Adventure Spec crash bars for my T700. Have to say they’re not great! Very thin plastic and nasty little screws, they filled me with zero confidence so I decided to replace them. After some hunting I decided on this set of four from Amazon and on arrival they looked very decent compared with the AS tat. They also felt considerably heavier […]
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A plethora of riders have done this before so give me zero credit for this modification. In fact, a member of a forum I’m part of posted something very similar just a few days ago and that post inspired me to do this. A few years ago I purchased 3 MAX PELI style cases and they were and are brilliant. I’ve owned a few actual PELI cases and these MAX cases are just as good at […]
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OK, I admit, I was very sceptical to these Cool Covers when someone told me he’d put them on his T700 oak plank seat and found the seat to now be rather comfortable. I didn’t take his advice and instead made a modified Sheepie. The Grenadier Butt Guard, as I named it, was (and is) very good, helped a lot and I was quite happy with it. Roll forward a few months and I needed […]
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I bought a little bottle of this Muc-Off Visor, Lens and Goggle Cleaner a few weeks ago whilst visiting my local Yamaha dealer. I wasn’t expecting much but it’s actually brilliant! I had a few splatted bugs bakes onto my MX-9 visor and they were right in my points of vision so as I was heading off for an extended ride after leaving the dealer I decided they needed to go. I keep a microfibre […]
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I have a few videos I’d like to get done soon and some of them, I think, are going to be better served with a helmet mount rather than my usual crash bar mount. Doing some research, there are a plethora of options but very few that I thought would work well with my Bell MX-9 MIPS helmet. I then stumbled across a Canadian company known as “Chin Mounts”.. Hmm.. sounds the part, eh? Amazingly, […]
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My final birthday gift to celebrate my own awesomeness (I really am kidding here..) was a copy of the latest Adventure Biker Rider magazine. First one I’ve purchased but after quickly flicking through it I’m pleasantly surprised. I shall enjoy browsing this at bedtime tomorrow whilst trying to block out my wife’s telephone call to her best friend. 😁 SUBSCRIBE TO THE OVERLAND RIDER BLOG Please enter your email address to subscribe to this blog […]
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A short while ago I posted about changing my stock tyres for either Avon Trail Riders or Avon Trek Riders. I umm’d and ahh’d about which one to go for but eventually settled on the Trail Riders, which will be on the bike this coming week. Why? Well, I’m now 55 years old and my enduro/motocross days are now behind me. I bought the T700 for some light off-road and probably 90% road miles, so […]
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I haven’t virtually any forward facing space left on the front of my Adventure Spec crash bars as pretty much all the real estate is taken up by the Rigid Industries Pods and Light Bar. Handlebars are never the best place for a GoPro and I didn’t want it suckered to my screen so I needed a small solution that would allow movement in all axis. That I found in the shape of the RAM […]
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