New to the Kawasaki Family

Welcome! Congrats on your new N1K. It is a very solid bike all the way around. I had looked at bunch of bikes before picking up one last week. I have several other bikes but was looking for a "commuter" bike. My commute is about 700 miles one way, each weekend (SoCal to NorCal or on up to Washington state.

I do have a question about the top trunk and rack you went with? From my understanding, there isn't anything that works with the factory bags except for one company's rack.

I am just getting started but here is my list of mods so far.

Installed
Factory bags
Disc lock
Bike mitts (removed after test install, waiting for colder weather)
Tail bag
Tank bag
Frame sliders

Ordered
LEDs (replace factory lights)
Aux LED driving lights
Hyperlites
16T countershaft
Taller windscreen
RAM mounts
USB/cigarette power socket
Fuse block
High output horn
Sidestand pad (to better support the sidestand on soft surfaces)
Mirror extenders
Speedohealer
McCuff fuel cuff (to help with the vapor recovery systems in California)
Techspec Gripster tank grips
Shifter boot sock (prevent scuffing of my shoes/butts)
Heated grips

To Order
Ivan's ECU reflash
Slipon exhaust
Heated gear connectors
Better seat (maybe gel seat cover for now)
Auto chain luber (most likely latest TUTORO)
Topbox if I can find a rack that will work with the stock luggage so I can add one of my Givi boxes
Voltage gauge

The "To Order" list might grow as I ride it more. I've only put about 600 miles on it the past week. I wanted to get a feel for the bike and see what I needed to change to make it livable for me while commuting. I do wish someone made a bigger fuel tank though. I'll have to see how many watts I have extra so that I can run some heated gear.

RC- I don't remember which sliders I got, I bought them at a local store in SoCal and I don't remember the brand. The went on pretty easily.

For the mirror extenders, those look like the ones I bought, just waiting for them to arrive. I remember reading about them before I bought them but thanks for the tip.

Thanks for the tip about a gel seat. I was thinking of going with a Corbin again. For some reason whatever they do seems to work well for me. I can do their ride-in service and have it fine tuned as well. I put close to 60k miles on a Corbin on my V-strom and it was still going great when I swapped it onto another one. Can't say the Vee was the best adventure bike I've ever owned but it was solid, reliable as the day is long and if something happened to it, I wasn't going to worry about it to much like I would a Mulitstrada or my GS.

I do hope with the Corbin I'll be back a bit more from the tank. Right now the family jewels are are pretty much wedged against the tank when I ride and the vibes at 5k+ cruise rpm tends to make them go numb. I can deal with the stock seat longer than I can deal with my nether bits going numb.

I just had a thought, maybe a gel seat with a sheepskin cover might not be a bad option for LD days. I kept one with my V-strom when I needed a bit more "ventilation" and would put it on the Corbin to mix things up a bit. It came in handy when I rode from Chicago to Albuquerque in one day. I take if off when riding aggressively but on the highway it was handy at times. Problem is with the stock seat, I don't like its shape and want it flattened out a bit more and need to be able to move back a bit. Other than that, I could probably live with it. Maybe I'l get out my turkey slicer and have a go at the stock foam.