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I finally got to see one of these today   Click here for the full 1024x768 image. I also got to meet Larry Pegram, got an autograph and got to ask a question  Click here for the full 1024x768 image.
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Trintintin posted:
This is the poo poo that really loving gets under my skin. As if that makes it ok. loving college douchebags.
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May 23, 2009 20:22
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: "Oh poo poo, sorry man, I'm really sorry, I didn't think the guy who owned it was around!"
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I'm sorting out my summer plans and I'm debating doing a Eurotour in August. I live in England, my girlfriend's family are in Finland. Could get the ferry to Holland, ride through Holland, Denmark, Sweden (drop in on some relatives) and then get the ferry to Finland. It's around 2500km/1300 miles in all, which would be okay spread over 5-7 days. Any Euro riders in here with experience in those countries? I know I've seen photos from someone in Denmark in here somewhere. Mainly looking for advice on riding conditions, any good riding roads and general touring advice.
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May 23, 2009 20:42
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lancemantis posted:I finally got to see one of these today A guy on a Norwegian forum I use bought one not long ago, then managed to lose his license for speeding a day or two ago and now have to sell it. I feel so sorry for him...
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May 23, 2009 22:41
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Simkin posted:
I live in the middle of the city and park my bike outside. Our constitution day is on the 17th of May, so the 16th of May is known as national get your suburban rear end into town and get shitfaced day. Some rear end in a top hat hosed up our mailbox that night, but my bike was amazingly untouched. I attribute this to my cover, out of sight out of mind. Only thing that has happened for 6 months is somebody putting a burger wrapper into my rear wheel.
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May 24, 2009 12:18
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ranathari posted:Any Euro riders in here with experience in those countries? I know I've seen photos from someone in Denmark in here somewhere. Mainly looking for advice on riding conditions, any good riding roads and general touring advice. That would probably be me. And yes, I've ridden though all those countries, but what exactly do you mean by "riding conditions"? I can't predict the weather for you  If it is prices then yea, with your pound being in the shitter, like it is, and with Scandinavia being moderately expensive you need a fair amount on your credit card. But buy a cheap gps navigator and sleep on cheap motels you find along the way and I'm sure it will all work out Just give yourself plenty of time, being in a rush ruins a trip like that.
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May 24, 2009 13:33
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lancemantis posted:I finally got to see one of these today I was at the Event Saturday as well, going again today with my camera this time for the reason listed above.
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May 24, 2009 13:59
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Yeah, it was a pretty good event. I didn't really like the way they were doing the demo rides this time though 
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May 24, 2009 16:40
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Rnr posted:That would probably be me. And yes, I've ridden though all those countries, but what exactly do you mean by "riding conditions"? I can't predict the weather for you Hah, I meant the general nature of riding in those countries. Like how strictly the speed limit's enforced, attitude of the police to riders getting their knee down, filtering, all those kind of things. Mind if I email you to get some ideas of specific routes that are good?
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May 24, 2009 16:43
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Simkin posted:
This is something I worry about all the time, so much that I just try to expect that it's gonna happen at some point just so I don't stress over it. Otherwise I won't ride my bike anywhere. I've had a interesting experience over past week with the Husky. After the super awesome hydraulic clutch with no feel decided to stop working and leave me walking my bike home, I called the dealer. Since it was the first ride I had taken after I got it back, I figured they either did something to the clutch (which they denied) or ripped on it test riding until it started to go, then gave it back to me (which they did not answer when asked about). I go there and describe the situation, to which the mechanic tells me it might be my slave cylinder, which costs $400 plus labor. I say I'll leave it here and call me when you know what is wrong and I'll decide what to do. A week goes by and no call. Finally I call them friday twice and no answer, so I leave a message saying I'm picking up my bike tomorrow. The next morning I walk in and say I'm here to pick up my bike, to which they respond "you should've let us know" and "it's not fixed yet." The mechanic said they tried bleeding it a few times to no avail, but were nice about it and gave me back my bike without trying to charge me and even helped me load it up into my truck. However they still suck because I called Hall's Cycles and found out slave cylinders only cost $130. I go home, basically disassemble the whole clutch system to see what I'm looking at and can't find anything wrong except some wear on the clutch lever that prevents it from touching the ignition switch, some misadjustment and low fluid. I take the ignition switch out so I can just touch it to turn the bike on and fill the line and reservoir with mineral oil I got from shoprite for $2.69 instead of the $20 "Magura Blood" SAE 10 mineral oil that I would have to order, put it all back together, bled and adjusted it and it has been running great all drat week. Whoo Hoo! I used to think that it's a good idea to take a just-bought used bike to the dealer once just to have it looked over, now I'm thinking of abandoning that practice.
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May 24, 2009 17:34
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Gnaghi posted:I used to think that it's a good idea to take a just-bought used bike to the dealer once just to have it looked over, now I'm thinking of abandoning that practice. There's very little that a keen eye and a test ride won't reveal.
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May 24, 2009 17:47
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Well, I just took a Guzzi V7 Classic for a test ride, and I'm kind of conflicted. I probably don't have the broadness of experience under my belt to be able to judge it objectively. It was fun, but I don't think it was as fun as I was hoping. See, it's pretty nimble, and it's got a friendly, approachable powerband, pulls pretty strongly through the portion of the rev range I was able to access. It's just that to me, my KLR feels pretty similar. The V7 looks and sounds a hell of a lot better, of course, and it does pull stronger, but not much stronger, and it actually vibrates through the pegs a lot more in the upper reaches. Also, I guess I've been pretty spoiled for ergos. I'm sorta tall, and in my bulky overpants my legs felt tucked up a good deal more than I'd felt just sitting on it in the showroom. Getting back on the Kawi was like riding a goddamn bar stool. Gonna have to doublecheck position on anything else I'm looking at. I did find out one interesting thing - either the longitudinal twin produces a lot of torque steer, or my rev matching sucks rear end, because every time I let off the clutch too fast the bike kind of twitched to the left. Actually glad I wasn't on something with more power. Honestly, I think I can take it off my short list for bikes-in-the-future - for me I believe it'd be too much of a crossgrade for more money. That's not to say it's not a great bike; I think it is. It's just not one I need. Phy fucked around with this message at 04:08 on May 26, 2009 |
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May 26, 2009 04:06
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 Yet another screw in my tire. Just 3,000 miles ago I had to replace a rear tire due to a nail and today, 100 miles from home, I see a loving lag bolt in my front tire that looks to have been in there for a while. 
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May 26, 2009 04:27
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ranathari posted:Hah, I meant the general nature of riding in those countries. Like how strictly the speed limit's enforced, attitude of the police to riders getting their knee down, filtering, all those kind of things. Sure, e-mail away.
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May 26, 2009 07:12
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Phy posted:
Yeah, bikes with longitudinal cranks have that effect. I've noticed it on BMWs, not really at speed but if you gun it a little at a red light for instance.
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May 26, 2009 09:18
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Ola posted:Yeah, bikes with longitudinal cranks have that effect. I've noticed it on BMWs, not really at speed but if you gun it a little at a red light for instance. That's what made the Sopwith Camel dangerous to the enemy and pilots. Well, it was a rotary engine, the whole engine block rotated and it turned to the left quick as all getout, but to the right slowly. It also had a tendency to roll over on takeoff as soon as the wheels left the ground. http://www.animatedengines.com/gnome.shtml Derail over.
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May 26, 2009 21:59
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Retarded Pimp posted:That's what made the Sopwith Camel dangerous to the enemy and pilots. Well, it was a rotary engine, the whole engine block rotated and it turned to the left quick as all getout, but to the right slowly. It also had a tendency to roll over on takeoff as soon as the wheels left the ground. I was about to call bullshit on your naming it a rotary engine, and then I clicked the link.  Who the gently caress ever thought that having the whole engine rotate around the crank would be a wise design choice?  It's not like a radial engine was ridiculous (and awesome) enough already, they had to make the whole loving thing spin along with the prop.   
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May 27, 2009 07:36
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Simkin posted:It's not like a radial engine was ridiculous (and awesome) enough already, they had to make the whole loving thing spin along with the prop. This is why I get picky on the "radial" versus "rotary" and ask if they mean wankel or rotary ;-) The differences are astounding. Rotary engines have two principal advantages. First, they're stupidly simple to build. Second they area always well cooled. Obviously we've overcome those advantages elsewhere. I can't think of a single production rotary. There were a couple production bikes with rotaries though. I'll need to dig up the names. Velocipide sounds right, but I can't be sure.
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May 27, 2009 09:01
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Nerobro posted:This is why I get picky on the "radial" versus "rotary" and ask if they mean wankel or rotary ;-) The differences are astounding. Another advantage was in an era where engine rpms were low the block and jugs were the heavy flywheel to keep it running when conditions weren't optimal, keeping overall engine weight down. The disadvantages were it was either full throttle or off, to adjust speed, they'd flick the ignition on/off and the drat thing would spew the castor oil lube off into a mist covering the pilots.
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Retarded Pimp posted:
I dare say the biggest disadvantage was the massive gyroscopic forces (which all propeller aircraft have to some extent) which caused the plane to behave like a dreidel spun by a gentile. Since the rest of the plane was light and the low airspeed meant little aerodynamic control authority, you really had to make this stuff work for you. Right rudder could mean nose down etc.
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May 27, 2009 11:00
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For trip planning, has anyone ever found a site that you plug in say two zipcodes, and it gives the 5-10 day forecast for the start and destination and maybe a midpoint between?
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May 27, 2009 17:06
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A cursory googling discovered this: http://www.weatherbonk.com/weather/routeWeather.jsp
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May 27, 2009 17:15
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Bucephalus posted:A cursory googling discovered this: wow, that works for the UK too! Cool! (not that I'd trust any sort of UK weather forcast to be accurate)
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May 27, 2009 17:57
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Ola posted:massive gyroscopic forces
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May 27, 2009 21:36
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Retarded Pimp posted:Lol That's what got us started on this in the first place. The discussion is precessing about its axis in a stationary plane.
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May 27, 2009 21:43
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Last night I realized that I wanted to do the 1500miles in 36hour iron butt challenge, and that Brooklyn was almost exactly 1500 miles from my apartment. Do I get extra points if I listen to no sleep till Brooklyn on loop the entire trip?
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May 28, 2009 16:22
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blugu64 posted:Last night I realized that I wanted to do the 1500miles in 36hour iron butt challenge, and that Brooklyn was almost exactly 1500 miles from my apartment. Do I get extra points if I listen to no sleep till Brooklyn on loop the entire trip? Depends on if your sanity is intact when you arrive.
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May 28, 2009 16:32
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Z3n posted:Depends on if your sanity is intact when you arrive. Where would the fun be in that? EDIT: The best part of touring is the mental process that goes on when you wake up and sudden realization that you're a thousand miles from home, and the follow up what the hell are you doing here moment, then you get up and find a twisty road. blugu64 fucked around with this message at 16:40 on May 28, 2009 |
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May 28, 2009 16:35
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Z3n posted:Depends on if your sanity is intact when you arrive. You're assuming it will be before he departs. His idea suggests otherwise.
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edit: This is so not the question thread.
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May 28, 2009 18:37
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Whoa. Wife Turds posted:edit: This is so not the question thread. Then why the gently caress would you post that?! Because all that picture does is raise questions.
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May 28, 2009 19:32
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Gr3y posted:Then why the gently caress would you post that?! Yeah, like is that helmet really DOT (or ECE) approved?
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May 28, 2009 19:41
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Whoa. Wife Turds posted:edit: This is so not the question thread. It's not the cops & gear thread, either. 
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May 29, 2009 00:07
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Linedance posted:wow, that works for the UK too! Cool! (not that I'd trust any sort of UK weather forcast to be accurate) What's so hard to figure out? Rain, rain, rain, rain...
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May 30, 2009 19:02
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I'm all for experimenting with alternative fuels, but why not use a disposable UJM as your guinea pig? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Othe...SQ5fmotorcycles Granted, it's made up of parts sourced from all over the place, but still... E: He could've at least used a Lister. 
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May 31, 2009 05:30
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Bucephalus posted:I'm all for experimenting with alternative fuels, but why not use a disposable UJM as your guinea pig? What a freaking odd project. I wonder if he had all those parts lying around or what.
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Bucephalus posted:I'm all for experimenting with alternative fuels, but why not use a disposable UJM as your guinea pig? Wow, that is really absurd. Cool, though.
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gave the bike a general visual inspection yesterday along with a chain lube. Noticed my rear tire is squaring up nicely, and that I make more left turns than right. Something like a Michelin Pilot Road dual compound will be my next tire I think.
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Well, I finished a motorcycling project tonight. An ex coworker picked up a Yamaha U7E. It's a 75cc 2 stroke competitor to the honda passport. I got new tires on it, a new rear tube, and took it for a ride tonight. This video is from a week or two ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPlQgin2BJ8 I didn't ride it then because the rear tire had a blown bead. Now it doesn't. Now it just needs an airbox to solve the "can't run more than 1/4 throttle" problem.
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pff just tape over half of the carb intake.
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