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Custom Unoriginal Naked Turd
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Jan 26, 2020 21:10
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I rode a pure rNineT, it’s heavy but it looks so cool. Be aware that you will reek of oil after a while. As a ride, It has pep and character and it twists left and right when you rev it. I arrived at a fancy cafe and people looked at me like I belong there (even tho I don’t ) and this is was in Brickell, Miami (rear end in a top hat central USA). A whole table of girls asked me about the “sexy bike” and it almost made me make a horrible financial mistake because it is so expensive and so not worth it unless, again, your number one priority is looks. So, in case if wasn’t clear, If you wanna look like literally the coolest person in the city, get one. It’s a horrible tourer, but an amazing looking city bike. The scrambler rNineT is worthless in the dirt and even worse in the street, if you do get one, change the tires. The racer is PURE pain on wheels unless you are a fashion model level athlete. If you must ride one, get a certified pre owned pure with spoked wheels. This is based on a weekend trial in Miami.
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Jan 26, 2020 21:35
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Moving to BC in the spring, probably get a bike in the autumn once we've figured out the roof over our heads business. Found some good advice/info on insurance there, so looks like I'll be after a sub-750cc machine. So. Svartpilen then? Will it be perpetually busted and waiting for parts? They're pretty sexy and I like sexy. Street Triple R is fun but a little cramped for longer rides, but would be high on the list. Maybe see if a used ABS Shiver or Doso comes up cheap? What else won't have me cursing my life poor choices like a 650 Versys? I haven't really looked at middleweights in a while. Don't say SV650 I hate you you're not my real dad.
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Jan 26, 2020 22:04
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Is there still a place in the world where insurance is determined by the size of the engine?
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Jan 26, 2020 23:26
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Here in manitoba the insurance is cheaper 500cc and less. Our insurance is all kinda hosed up w/r/t motorcycles tho
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Jan 26, 2020 23:29
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Nitrox posted:Is there still a place in the world where insurance is determined by the size of the engine? Practically everywhere in the world. It isn't always a statutory decision, but the actuarial tables will bear it out. Bigger bikes are more expensive and people tend to destroy them more frequently and spectacularly, so their insurance is higher. Vehicle registration is the odd one, where some jurisdictions base the fee on the engine displacement regardless of cost/power/likelihood of crashing. That's why most bikes come in a 399cc version in Japan, for instance
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Jan 26, 2020 23:35
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Nitrox posted:Is there still a place in the world where insurance is determined by the size of the engine? Last I knew, that was how State Farm in the US determined premiums
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Jan 26, 2020 23:36
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Jazzzzz posted:Last I knew, that was how State Farm in the US determined premiums There is a reason Acura Integra cost three times more to insure than the same year Corvette. In similar vain, adding a letter F to my cb1100, nearly tripled my premiums.
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Jan 27, 2020 01:40
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Nitrox posted:Is there still a place in the world where insurance is determined by the size of the engine? BC is kind of a special case, because they have a fully regulated market. ICBC is the only liability insurer and everyone in the province has to use them. So they have the actuarial data, like Sagebrush said, and from what I've read it's pretty much a straight line correlating displacement with how much it costs them. The unfortunate thing about it though, is like all monolithic organizations, they're slow to adapt to market changes. So putting a rate increase step at 750cc might have made sense a decade or two ago, but may not make as much sense now that many "middleweights" are 800cc+, putting them in the same category as 1000cc superbikes. (then again, what do I know, I just pay the money!) Finger Prince fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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Jan 27, 2020 02:06
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I am not an actual insurer, but my guess is that these days the price is magicked out of piles of data by statistical models that can't be understood by the people using them in principle. The best performing predictive models for risk data tend to be things like hierarchical logistic regression (most understandable, least good), random forest regression (baaaaarely understandable, pretty good), or genuine mystery meat like kernel-trick SVM, which is very good but has zero interpritability unless your brain works in 10000 dimensions. Depending on implementation a model like that can give you the "importance" of any given individual factor, but producing rules of thumb for what it will actually do for an arbitrary combination of inputs is impossible. (Then a bunch of extra factors get piled on top like someone mentioned earlier in the thread, like Geico just magically jacking the rates 10x for market segments they don't want to insure)
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Jan 27, 2020 05:17
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Edit: ignore me I'm dumb
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Jan 27, 2020 10:23
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I read it, it wasn't dumb Get a mini ninja
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Jan 27, 2020 18:50
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I'm thinking of buying a 2nd bike. Specifically, a supermoto. Primarily for rides through back roads and some day to day commuting. A friend also wants to do a bit of greenlaneing, so that might be a thing. From what I can tell, my options are:
I've found a '16 CRF250M, with <1000 miles on it. Pictures show a wonky indicator, https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201908191313812?advertising-location=at_bikes There's also a '06 WR450 with 7k miles nearby. https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classi...from=200&page=1 Is there anything else I should consider? Any reason to not to buy one? Anything to look for when buying one? Horse Clocks fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Jan 29, 2020 |
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Jan 29, 2020 14:53
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Any of those will be a hoot. If you go greenlaning you want something you don't mind getting scratched up, ditto for being a supermoto hooligan 250l l/m is probably the cheapest, worry free fun you can have but you might outgrow it in a summer if you're already comfortable on bikes I'd take the XT because a) they're great and b) bigger bikes turn easy lanes into more of a challenge
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Jan 29, 2020 15:50
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Please get my unobtainable dream supermoto, the xt660r, so that I can live vicariously through you. Alternatively, the wr250x/r is the only viable option on your list that fits your needs while being abundantly rad. You should put the effort into finding one if you can. They are rare over here too. Wish I had never sold mine.
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Jan 29, 2020 15:52
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Horse Clocks posted:Is there anything else I should consider? https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classi...odel=RXV&page=1 Thank me later. (Also be careful with autotrader links as they do include your postcode in them, you can just edit it out of the link or use your local head office postcode (take out the last 3 characters and sub in 1AA or 2AA) when you do the search just to gently caress with their metrics) e: Also, no matter what security you already have, double it if you buy a supermoto because they will attract scrotes like a children's home attracts Tories.
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Jan 29, 2020 16:17
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goddamnedtwisto posted:e: Also, no matter what security you already have, double it if you buy a supermoto because they will attract scrotes like a children's home attracts Tories. Same with my gated parking garage in the southeast US. My garage has some nice unattended Harleys, Yamahas and Kawis but the guy who keeps a little dual sport locked up has had it stolen twice.
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Jan 29, 2020 17:55
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Yup. My DRZ was stolen from my gated and locked yard in DC. It was an 8-foot fence and gate. But I didn’t lock the bike to something and I didn’t have a disc brake. Fortunately the dipshit also didn’t know what he was doing. He pushed it a couple blocks and a neighbor called the cops after he spent a while trying to figure out how to start it in an alley.
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Jan 29, 2020 18:29
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Coydog posted:Please get my unobtainable dream supermoto, the xt660r, so that I can live vicariously through you. Don't meet your heroes is all I can say here.
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Jan 29, 2020 19:26
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Get a baghira 
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Jan 29, 2020 19:45
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How much do you want to spend? 701sm is a nice bike.
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Jan 29, 2020 19:49
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Razzled posted:Get a baghira I had one it was sweet.
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Update Went and looked at a '07 DRZ-400SM with 15k miles on the clock today. Also got a peek at the paperwork and contrary to the Governments website, it shouldn't incur a daily tax. They had a few issues starting it. Looks like the battery is shot, and the clutch switch is causing issues. Otherwise it looked fine. If I go back to look at it again, is there anything I should pay extra attention to? Otherwise... I might buy it.
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Jan 30, 2020 15:30
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don't buy a bike with problems unless it's for a song
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Jan 30, 2020 15:50
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Any self respecting dealer will fix those issues without thinking twice, that they haven't makes me wonder if they're covering up something else? Also the TFL website is what decides whether you get the fine, not some piece of paper, so go by that
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Jan 30, 2020 18:42
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Horse Clocks posted:Update Have them put in a new battery and fix the clutch switch and then see what happens. Or unplug the clutch switch entirely and try to start it.
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Jan 30, 2020 19:16
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Shelvocke posted:Any self respecting dealer will fix those issues without thinking twice, that they haven't makes me wonder if they're covering up something else? No. Dealers will happily sell you a completely broken bike without thinking twice because fixing issues costs time and money. It's much better to leave everything broken and only fix the poo poo people come back and complain about. There is no such thing as a self respecting or competent dealer, if you think otherwise you've been had by a skilled salesman or friendly counter staff. No it doesn't make sense. Yes any money you spend on customer service you get back double, especially in the bike world. I know this from firsthand experience. But dealers are exclusively run by insane sociopaths or boomers (redundant) who are simply incapable of thinking that way. The brand of bike, size of the dealer etc has no bearing on it.
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Jan 30, 2020 19:16
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Shelvocke posted:Any self respecting dealer will fix those issues without thinking twice, that they haven't makes me wonder if they're covering up something else? Yeah, they said they’d replace the battery and clutch switch. Not a huge deal, once it was on a jump starter and the switch fiddled with, it started fine. You can submit a vehicle that’s not Euro3 (that’s all the database is, a Euro3 vehicle DB) for ULEZ compliance if the NOx emissions are <=0.15 on the V5C. Which the DRZ’s says 0.15.
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Jan 30, 2020 19:20
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Re. The above, I stand corrected but I'd rather not stick my hand into TFL if I can avoid itSlavvy posted:dealers suck diiiick Are we talking dealers or shop owners because my local guy is an absolute bro and does work on bike (one I didn't buy from him) for free if I'm too dumb to do it
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Jan 30, 2020 20:02
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Shelvocke posted:Re. The above, I stand corrected but I'd rather not stick my hand into TFL if I can avoid it Dealers. Good shop mechanics that are not also dealers are getting harder to find, so if you get a good one, treat them right and give them good Yelp reviews or whatever. edit: In the US, anyway. You're in Australia, right? Dunno how it is there.
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Jan 30, 2020 20:06
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Yeah dealers. Independent shops operate on directly the opposite paradigm: they don't sweat the small stuff because the most important thing is convincing the punter that you're bike gandalf/Yoda (circle one). You don't give a poo poo about a generic $10 clutch switch or the ten minutes of your life it takes to replace, because the owner can't wait to tell all his mates about the good oval office that sorted his bike out. And one of his mates will have a KTM or Harley. One of the best forms of marketing in existence is people wandering in with minor issues expecting to pay like a minimum fee or whatever and just getting charged just the cost of the part instead; it seriously blows people's minds that anyone would do a trivial job just to be nice and not tabulate every minute. $5 of profit vs every rider that person knows thinking you're a wizard, what's better? Usually, smart dealer technicians do a few cash jobs for friends of friends, do the above equation and promptly go into business for themselves.
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There's a guy at college who is a Kawasaki apprentice for the local dealer who treats him well and I was going to hold him up proof that not all dealers are sociopaths... But then I remembered he makes like £2.50 an hour
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Jan 30, 2020 21:03
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talk me off the ledge here (or push me off it)
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Jan 31, 2020 17:14
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Do you want to gently caress the headlight? Y: Buy it N: Do not buy
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Jan 31, 2020 17:39
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what if you want someone else to trib the headlight while u watch
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Jan 31, 2020 17:44
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Do you want right arm to post?! Because this is how you get right arm to post.
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Jan 31, 2020 18:25
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Razzled posted:talk me off the ledge here (or push me off it) Are you a boring rear end in a top hat boomer who wades into every thread on ADVRider looking for an excuse to post a picture of your bike? Buy it.
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Jan 31, 2020 18:30
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Horse Clocks posted:Update If you're talking about the ULEZ it doesn't matter if the paperwork is signed by God himself, if the TfL website says it has to pay then it has to pay. There's an appeals process, but it's a huge pain in the arse and even with manufacturer's docs *and* a certified emissions test you'll still probably have to wait a couple of months - and you don't get a refund on the charge paid in that time. Pass and find another bike, IMO.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Do you want to gently caress the headlight? and that's why I went 950. Jesus new ktms are fuckugly. (that and it exceeds 500lb wet) HenryJLittlefinger posted:Are you a boring rear end in a top hat boomer who wades into every thread on ADVRider looking for an excuse to post a picture of your bike? Buy it. lolllll right.
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