What I've Done To My Ryker

what's going on everyone how you doing today hope you guys are doing okay on this Saturday it's nice and beautiful here in Colorado until tonight when we get snow it's like in the it's been in the seventies all week but yeah tomorrow we get snow Monday we get snow and then it's in the 40s I think all week Joey but um oh well time time will fly by just like the rest of winter did so anyhow I've remaking my video regarding everything I've done to my Riker it'll be a little bit different I'll kind of go give it a little explanation into each item instead I have this I have this I have this so maybe longer I don't know yeah so let's start this off with again region at the local airport but I could fly the other day here just fine and now on the go I don't fight high but yeah I digress again added safety of it not to mention the added carrying capacity is incredible right so we got the extra brake lights turn signals anything to make awareness a little bit better towards drawing attention to this Riker you know it's it's hard to argue against it it has the built-in backrest here which my daughter loves more than the the high backrest that I purchased how let's see again let me back up just a second I do have the stock 900 I do not have the rally just FYI and I do have the two up spring so the regular suspension with the two up spring being that I did buy the 900 I obviously had to by the max mount and the passenger seat neither of these are the comfort seats so they're just standard I just didn't want to spend the extra money on the comfort but as you can see going forward I do have this air Hawk although it's not an air Hawk it's a generic air Hawk from eBay it was 35 bucks and it's done amazing so far when it does pop maybe I will go buy a real air Hawk support support the actual brand but yeah that thing's incredible I need to get one for back here love that so if you guys have the stock farm seat whatever that is made of seriously go check out air conquer one of these generic ones like I said eBay 35 bucks and it's it's phenomenal changes everything okay going forward on the bike I have the carbon-fiber tank protector from tough skins as well as the gas cap cover and whatever this piece is leading up to the front all carbon fiber I got the raw carbon fiber I just like the look of it a lot better than the shiny and I think it fit better with the rhykker then the the gloss not shiny then the gloss carbon fiber even though my helmet is a gloss carbon fiber so those are really cool I got I mainly wanted this because my tank was getting torn up from my shoes he's getting scratches in it and whatnot and this is so far it's helped tremendously a little expensive but well worth it in my opinion save the Ryker I think it looks darn good I really do I like it a lot going down from there I do have the can-am knee pads they're a softer material obviously than just plastic but I will tell you that those are the biggest waste of money they didn't do a darn thing for me some folks say that it does help them in the twisties I didn't notice a bit of difference so I would say save your money they're not worth a hundred bucks maybe if they were thirty bucks sure but a hundred nah I wouldn't do it again that's for sure okay let's see I don't think I have anything else back here I do know I have my awesome American flag covers was a little loose caps I mean that covers for my valve stems you know I had to have that American flag so moving up to the handlebars they're a little bit busy they got things going on so I did replace the stock mirrors in their place I do have these end caps from Amazon and you know because it'll leave a hole there so have the end caps here from Amazon speaking of mirrors will go a little bit further this way as you can see I do have these mirrors on I originally bought them from a vendor that I don't support anymore but you can find the darn things on on Amazon for less than 15 bucks they're amazing they're a lot safer in my opinion and they don't they don't rattle as much you don't have to take your eyes off the road as much as you do with the stock ones highly recommend those mirrors there they're incredible yeah anyhow so I mean really mirrors don't need an explanation but those are awesome oh one thing though if you all do have like a rally or these aluminum hand guards on here then be extremely careful and you do get these mirrors be extremely careful with putting them on the handlebars because it curves where this mounts these brackets when you tighten them do not over tighten them these brackets will crack so be extremely careful if you do get these mirrors luckily mine didn't I did it you know it did it cautiously until I felt comfortable they don't move so yeah just a precaution with those I do have my mount here from my GoPro Hero 3 silver plus which as you can see is corded right here is where I put my solar charger it's in the house right now charging but I put my solar charger here and it connected to this GoPro hero3 silver plus and it just keeps it running all the time it just does not quit it's gone for several hours hasn't quit okay going back to the handlebars again I did have to pay for the aluminum hand guards because it's a regular 900 and I did buy the plastic hand cover hand guards I don't know what they're called these are probably the biggest item on the bike that I would recommend even before the bags just due to the fact that how much I mean yeah I write a lot in the cold weather here right so it blocks the wind tremendously it all they also help in blocking rocks bugs any debris or anything that could come up off the road and hit your hands before I had these that happened a couple times a man had stung so these are definitely my number one suggested product to buy if you're if you're thinking about going back further down the handlebars I have rocks risers here there are two inches there's the 7 8 handlebars rocks risers so here let's go if you can see this is the original where the handlebar was sticking here and I do have it all the way back that way the handlebars move that way as you can see the handlebars that were here are now way back here these helped me tremendously with comfort you wouldn't believe how much these help again though I'm short so if you're looking into that and instead of replacing all the handlebars or the whole handlebar setup it was so easy just to do these slide the handlebars back into it versus having to take all of the wires off the throttle control again all your hand grips etc etc this took me less than 20 minutes to install it was beautiful I'll end there they're amazing they're amazing I love them so I highly suggest those my phone mount now is a ram quick rip phone mount I love this thing I don't like the X grips but as you can see I got is this can sit anywhere so and it definitely keeps a good grip on your phone I don't have to worry about the elastic rubber band type things to hold it in place I'll fix that in a minute and yeah awesome awesome phone mount I love it let's see what else up here I do have a garage door opener here hi this is the only item I do not have list below for all the products I'm mentioning and that is only because this is specific to my garage door opener so putting it in there would be useless because it may not work and it probably won't work with your garage door so anyhow I put it there I just velcroed it on and it helps it helps it helps by opening the garage door but anyhow it doesn't get rain on it if it does it doesn't matter it's 20 bucks something like that no big deal just replace it as you can see I do have the kam windshield here which I really like there would be other ones I would like but they connect to the handlebars which obviously you can see they're busy enough hold on just singing ok sorry guys someone stopped by to ask me about the Riker this thing gets a lot of attention it really does ok ok let's see I think that's it for all of this and everything back let me see yep that's it that's it I think so if I remember I'll go back to it one thing I keep forgetting to mention on here is the LED lights I did get the LED lights from sling mods I got the ones that are like sixty some dollars not the ones that are over 100 incredible improvement they're so bright I've ridden with another Ryker writer and he just tells me that they're they're incredibly bright so I like that they're no longer that yellow color that comes on the stock just base right cool any wrecker so yeah I would highly suggest those as well I did take the glovebox out and instead of the insulation that they have on sling mods I just got some of the gold heat reflective tape that they use on cars and line the whole bottom of that with it I keep forgetting to check the temperature but if I recall correctly the last couple times I've ridden and gone in there to get my GoPro batteries or what else I don't I didn't remember it being hot like it used to be so I think it's working I don't know it'll be a better test once the weather gets or so moving forward from there I do have these carbon fiber tough skins here as well all through that thing in these two hood pieces those there's just a aesthetic but I really like them a lot I do have the grills intake grilles from Spyder pops which I absolutely love they're a little pricey there I think there are 50 bucks maybe 70 and I think 50 if any how you could make those yourself if you really wanted to but I love those plus I wanted to support a smaller vendor for Spyder and Riker so I got those from him inside here I do have the K&N air filter and I will tell you that I didn't notice a darn bit of difference with performance so when it does come time to it I honestly think kan is kind of a pain in the ass to clean and riyal so I'll probably just go back to a stock air filter but um so yeah let's see what else I do need to get or make a grill protector for my radiator it's already got some dings in it that will come soon you can't see them now but I do have the LED trick LED lights on here on the fenders just for safety they're they're white in the front red in the back absolutely phenomenal they're very very bright I think and adding visibility again safety just like the breaker bags on the back let's see I did add the lock it's a little janky but hey it is what it is I got the lock there I colored it with a sharpie marker so it's black it doesn't stick out with that shining silver anymore so that's good what else what else do I have on this thing because I always forget something always I cannot recall what it is you know just so you guys if you do charge devices I just got this little USB hub from Amazon I don't think I have yeah I think I have this on my list if not I'll add it to the list so I could charge my GoPro hero3 batteries as my GoPro Hero 7 batteries and then this wire here is also connected to the USB and that's to always have hooked up to my phone when I'm writing just because I use GPS a lot and stuff up in the mountains plus I'm always listening to music so I always keep a hat with me here's my I do have I do have this guy the cramp buster I just took it off because I really don't use it maybe next time I go on a long trip I'll put it back on I just have a Leatherman multi-tool a microfiber cloth for cleaning my helmet whatnot and blah Tigers for my paperwork let's see I think that's about it like I said I do have the two up spring going back to the bags I did adjust this up two notches as you can see want to well that's the base 1/2 so that's the 2 up spring I would highly suggest that if you plan on getting these bags that is for sure let's see let's see I think that's about it y'all I think that's it that for me is about it I'm pretty much done with it buying anything for the for the Ryker I don't think I will be buying anything else maybe just the aluminum hand brake item thing for locking it because the stock ones obviously plastic and anyone could bust that so I may get the aluminum one and I may get the tough skins now that they have it carbon fiber franck a top piece just to have it flow and go throughout the bike but I'm not sure that one's a hundred bucks and I'm saving for other things right now which would actually a thing right now and that is a new Corvette so that is kind of taken priority for spending money savings money etc for me so yeah that's all I've done to this sucker trying to think there's always something I miss always something I miss I don't know I don't know if you guys can see this or not but going back in my old Instagram pictures this thing's been dented it's probably since I picked it up it's been months that thing's been dented and I just noticed it like last month so I don't know I may just get a set of replacements for those I'll just get the black again since they're 100 bucks yeah that's it y'all that's it so everything you see here everything that I talked about I have linked down below in this in the description of the video so please click down there if you want to see where I got the items I haven't specifically linked if it's on RevZilla amazon sling mods etc it's all there - the garage door opener and like I said there's probably some items that I may have missed that are on there what I did not talk about is my vlog setup helmet and vlog setup I believe I've covered that in another video but anyhow I have a scorpion EXO 1,400 st carbon with a senate smh10 I do have an anchor battery on the side to keep that smh10 powered up for long long rides because I do listen to music constantly what else what else I have a motor Radz chin mount for the GoPro on it for hopefully what I can get going in the future I do have a DJI spark it's I came down here to film it the other day it let me fly but it was too windy and yeah now it says it's in an airfield zone so I can't fly it but I'm looking forward to getting footage on that I hope to make an intro with it and yeah I think that's about it if not again like I said everything down below is mentioned down below with links to where you can buy those items so if you guys have any questions seriously please feel free to ask I'm always answering questions in the comments either here on youtube or on instagram so let me know alright you know I hope your take do it okay in this crazy crazy quarantine hopefully it's over sooner than later and we will hopefully talk to you soon all right take care

Channel: Midlife Ryker

Views: 65,147

Keywords: CanAm, Canam, CanAm Ryker, Ryker, Can-Am, Can-Am Ryker, Colorado, Slingmods, CanAm On Road, Can-Am On Road, Freedom

Id: 6OOZDF-zzZE

Length: 18min 1sec (1081 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 12 2020