Replaced my bike's battery.

It's been 2 years owning this Yamaha FJR1300ABS, I have already replaced my tyres and it's time to replaced my battery because it is behaving strangely lately.
The battery cranks more times to start up the bike and the digital clock and trip meter resets by itself more often and finally the battery can't start the bike when the radiator fan is "ON".
All these symptoms indicating to me that the battery's life is at the end and needs to be replace as soon as possible.

I bought a Yamaha GS battery from Auto Machinery for $170 and installed it onto my bike on 23/10/2005. This is the only battery that is suitable for this bike due to the size and it also have a special auto bleeding valve build in. No other battery is suitable.

The Birthday cake.

This is a close-up photo of his birthday cake.
It is a nice chocolate cake selected by the children themself.

My children

My children

This is a photo of my son celebrating his birthday. His birthday falls on the 10th of October.
My boy is 13 years old and he is in secondary 1.

My daughter is 11 years old and she is a class monitor. She is very independent.

Update of my new tyres.

Silly me, I really thought someone is reading my blog and writting comments about it.
Then I realise that it is all advertisement, sigh.................

Anyway, back to my own blog.

I have been using these new tyres for about a week and it is about to be fully break in.
I like the grip of these new tyres, they seems to provide more grip than my previous tyres.
I now have more confidence when riding and don't have the fear of the tyres loosing grip in corners. I tend to bank lower and faster because I begin to thrust my tyre more.

I am lowering the front tyre's pressure to 250Kpa and rear to remain at 290Kpa. This combination provides more grip and at the sametime gives me a more comfortable ride on uneven grounds.

I will stop here because I have to go to work, will continue to write more tomorrow.

I clock up 27,000km on my motorcycle today and finally replaced my set of tyres to Metzeler Z4. The tyre had worn down to the wear marker and is high time for replacement.
Paid S$450 for both front and rear and also replaced the inflator nozzle to the angle type for easier air inflating.

One thing baffles me is that for the past month and mostly the last week I have been experiencing lost of tyre air pressure. The last few days was very extreme, I lost 8psi, 14psi and finally 20psi of air pressure.
But when we check the tyre after removing it from the bike, I am very surprise that we cannot detect any leakage at all from the tyre, tyre walls, wheel rim and inflator nozzle valve. How and where did the air gone?

Anyway I am glad that I finally find time to replace my tyres and look forward to have a good ride.

Metzeler Z4 tyres was replaced at Southern Motors in Alexandra Village, Blk. 1006.
Job done by a mechanic call "Ah Heng", an elderly man who spoke Mandarin to me. Quite friendly but tried to sell me his own version of rear "Mud Guard" made from a recycled plastic from a Givi box and also tried to ask me to "cut out" my front fairing "Air Scoop" to improve the bike's cooling. I gave an excuse that I did not have the time and need to go home to rest.
On the whole, the mechanic workmanship was acceptable but not very good. Can return for follow up service next time but their cost seems a bit high. Maybe I should have check around for the best price instead of thrusting my friend's recommendation.