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Covert Ops Wizard posted:It depends. Is your first child an "outdoor" child or do you let it in the house? Holy poo poo why have I never thought of this. Surely they're as independent as mere kittens. My first kid is living outside and only coming around for the food bowl when they can't get a better offer from the neighbors.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Man, you need to get a better job/boss. I took two of my staff on a two hour lunch break today because they're both interested in buying bikes and there's a couple of dealers in (extended) walking distance from the office. One of them's getting an NC700 though, I can't help but feel I've failed somehow :/ Nah, it's more of an actual bike than a scooter. If it helps, think of it as a gateway drug. Eventually he'll decide he wants something faster/better/nicer.
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I knew a Russian kid who modified scooters to go highway speeds and made some pretty sweet custom ones as well. He eventually graduated to a proper motorcycle. 
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Feb 16, 2013 02:35
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I just started riding last fall, and while I wait for spring to roll around, does anybody have any recommendations for sites/books where I can learn how my bike works and how to take care of it? I mean this as a person who figured out how a combustion engine works a week ago.
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Feb 16, 2013 04:00
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Highly recommend buying the factory service manual. It is the only correct way to do maintenance on your specific bike. If it's an older model, read up on a valve check/adjustment and do one yourself. Very rewarding and you can't actually mess up much doing a valve adjustment if you're sure to check it after you re-assemble.
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XYLOPAGUS posted:Highly recommend buying the factory service manual. It is the only correct way to do maintenance on your specific bike. If it's an older model, read up on a valve check/adjustment and do one yourself. Very rewarding and you can't actually mess up much doing a valve adjustment if you're sure to check it after you re-assemble. for the record: I did my first valve job on my 08+ Ninja 250 with shim-under-buckets. Yes, it took me forever but I did have valves out of check and I did get them fixed. The bike actually runs better and I feel great knowing that I did it myself!
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Feb 16, 2013 04:52
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I want a Ducati Sport Classic. That is all.
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I want a Moto Guzzi V7 Racer and a MV Agusta Brutale 750.
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Feb 17, 2013 00:46
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I want an Aprilia RSV-R.
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Feb 17, 2013 04:44
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I want a Daytona 675 engine in a chopped scrambler frame, keeping the high pipe and knobbies, speed triple forks and the best suspension and brakes money can buy. I want an awful mishmash of classicish and modern, my own futurebrat 
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Feb 17, 2013 05:00
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On dirt that'd be awful. Twin discs would lock up knobbies at the first hint of lever travel I'd imagine. Would look badass though.
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Feb 17, 2013 05:04
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BlackMK4 posted:I want a Ducati Sport Classic. I loved them when they came out but at the time they weren't my style. Prices for used ones now are just silly. I figure you could get something very similar starting from a Monster or even an 800SS and relaxing the ergos, for a lot less money.
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BlackMK4 posted:I want a Ducati Sport Classic. Yeeeeaaaah  (not mine, it's my dad's bike) Unrelated, my buddy got knocked off his bike today. He's fine, but his bike is hosed up. We were out for a ride and some idiot in a van merged into his lane and straight into his rear wheel. I'll post some photos when he uploads them. Ironically, his brake pedal snapped about 20 minutes before and we were heading to a dealer, so that brake pedal might result in the whole bike being written off. Edit: Damage photos      Brake fluid   Frankston fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Feb 18, 2013 |
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Feb 18, 2013 17:44
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I want to live somewhere that isn't flat and full of ruler straight roads.
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Feb 18, 2013 17:58
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thylacine posted:I want to live somewhere that isn't flat and full of ruler straight roads. You can use large parts of Illinois state road maps as graph paper. It's disgusting.
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Feb 18, 2013 19:00
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Nerobro posted:You can use large parts of Illinois state road maps as graph paper. It's disgusting. This is a fact. Other terrible part of IL is ...winter. Some of you may be tough, but Im not riding in sub 20deg weather  Spring can't come soon enough.
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Feb 18, 2013 21:35
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I don't do ice. I can accept snow. But as soon as it's been salted I won't ride in it. My bikes are huddling in the corner of my garage for most of the next month.
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Any of you Australia or Japan guys have input on the Suzuki GSX250F/Across from the 90's? Guy at work is selling his cheap and other than a carb cleaning and tires it looks like it could be an odd little bike to add to the collection. Can't go wrong with 250cc inline 4 that revs to 16,500rpm right?
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Feb 20, 2013 17:31
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BlackMK4 posted:I want a Ducati Sport Classic.  I can't imagine why. 
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NitroSpazzz posted:Any of you Australia or Japan guys have input on the Suzuki GSX250F/Across from the 90's? Guy at work is selling his cheap and other than a carb cleaning and tires it looks like it could be an odd little bike to add to the collection. How the gently caress did one of those end up in the states? Goddamn. You should buy it just for the giggles of having a 4 cylinder 250.
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Revs to 16,5 in a I4 250? So that means you take it to around 9 or 10 to get rolling from a stop then? I'd love a little bike like that but I bet it would be a nightmare for anything but a backroads ride. You'd have to be riding it like it was a street race too, I know on a Ninjette that if you're a gear too high exiting the corner it doesn't pull and you lose all momentum...imagine what that must be like.
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Feb 20, 2013 18:34
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nsaP posted:it would be a nightmare for anything but a backroads ride. You'd have to be riding it like it was a street race too, I know on a Ninjette that if you're a gear too high exiting the corner it doesn't pull and you lose all momentum...imagine what that must be like. This is how my DT is on the street, and it's a goddamn riot.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Any of you Australia or Japan guys have input on the Suzuki GSX250F/Across from the 90's? Guy at work is selling his cheap and other than a carb cleaning and tires it looks like it could be an odd little bike to add to the collection. I had a GSX-R250 with the exact same engine. The carbs are a nightmare to get right and it revs at 10k at 100km/h. Other than that it was a fairly normal small bike. Be prepared for the slightest fault with a coil, lead, plug, carb etc leading to it running like absolute poo poo. They are ridiculously sensitive to the slightest changes. You also may or may not have difficulty finding decent tyres because some of them have strange wheel sizes, I'm not sure about the across. You also don't have to rev it THAT high to get it to take off, I routinely blew away ninja 250's and hyosung 250's (when it was running right). The performance isn't even close, it's more akin to a slow 400 twin power-wise.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Any of you Australia or Japan guys have input on the Suzuki GSX250F/Across from the 90's? Guy at work is selling his cheap and other than a carb cleaning and tires it looks like it could be an odd little bike to add to the collection. pretty much the same engine as my old bandit 250, great fun but carb parts may be almost impossible to get if you need them. what year is it? up until 1992 they had 45hp engines, afterwards only 40 edit: you guys have some strange notions about their "lack" of power. It'll pull away fine from idle, it just gets to be fun above 10k
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1994 so it's the downgraded 40hp which seems pretty good for a 250cc. If I can talk the guy down a bit I'll pick it up as a project to play with for a bit then commute and flip. Sounds like the plastics might be in rough shape so it'll likely be turned into a mini streetfighter if I do buy it.
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echomadman posted:edit: you guys have some strange notions about their "lack" of power. It'll pull away fine from idle, it just gets to be fun above 10k You reading this thread pretending to be ThatCGuy? No one said they lack power at all. I made a tongue in cheek comment about having to rev to 10k to get rolling and everyone else said they aren't really like that? The closest anyone came to saying that lack power is noting the characteristics of the motor...high revs at cruising speed, gotta keep the revs up on corner exits, and apparently they're finicky to get running right.
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NitroSpazzz posted:1994 so it's the downgraded 40hp which seems pretty good for a 250cc. If I can talk the guy down a bit I'll pick it up as a project to play with for a bit then commute and flip. Sounds like the plastics might be in rough shape so it'll likely be turned into a mini streetfighter if I do buy it. I think I have some parts left from mine, maybe even a carb bank. I'll have a rummage around. i have the Across service manual in pdf format too but its an awful black and white scan. edit: nsaP posted:You reading this thread pretending to be ThatCGuy? not cool man, added to ignore list echomadman fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Feb 20, 2013 |
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nsaP posted:You reading this thread pretending to be ThatCGuy? No one said they lack power at all. I made a tongue in cheek comment about having to rev to 10k to get rolling and everyone else said they aren't really like that? The closest anyone came to saying that lack power is noting the characteristics of the motor...high revs at cruising speed, gotta keep the revs up on corner exits, and apparently they're finicky to get running right. God you're the worst nsaP no one likes you and your mom told me she wished you had never been born.
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HNasty posted:God you're the worst nsaP no one likes you and your mom told me she wished you had never been born. I'm choosing to read this as you being the best of friends 
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Z3n posted:I'm choosing to read this as you being the best of friends I consider you all my friends it's not your fault you're bad at bieks, bad at lifes, and get no play from da ladiez
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NitroSpazzz posted:Can't go wrong with 250cc inline 4 that revs to 16,500rpm right? Well, one major way that it's wrong is that you could be getting a 250cc inline 4 that revs to 20,000 RPM instead.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN2hag8J1rY
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Sagebrush posted:Well, one major way that it's wrong is that you could be getting a 250cc inline 4 that revs to 20,000 RPM instead. I love coming up behind guys lane-splitting on these. -mraaaaaaaWOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHTWAAAAAAAAAAAAHTWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHT-*is doing 60km/h. One of them tried to race me on an empty stretch of motorway when I had a 919; he changed gear three times while I rolled half throttle in fourth. Sounded awesome with a hollowed out can though.
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Sagebrush posted:Well, one major way that it's wrong is that you could be getting a 250cc inline 4 that revs to 20,000 RPM instead. Never seen one of those for sale even remotely near me but if I did I'd be really tempted to pick it up. Almost had a Aprilia RS250 but a friend beat me too it. poo poo no one post awesome bikes in my area, this one is already eating into my welder budget a little bit. \/\/Wow that music is amazing I love the 80's\/\/ NitroSpazzz fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Feb 20, 2013 |
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here's the whole gang of 250cc race reps back in 1989 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGhDlAFn5S8
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Somewhat related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OifcVw97hK8
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Slavvy posted:-mraaaaaaaWOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHTWAAAAAAAAAAAAHTWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHT-*is doing 60km/h. One of them tried to race me on an empty stretch of motorway when I had a 919; he changed gear three times while I rolled half throttle in fourth. Sounded awesome with a hollowed out can though. My first bike was a CBR250RR MC22, and yeah, it was rev happy. Needed 6k to ride around town at all, and would buzz at 11 or so on the highway. An hour of that and my hand was totally numb. Using high octane fuel also doubled the range out of the tank.
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snail posted:Using high octane fuel also doubled the range out of the tank. That means you had other things wrong with the bike.
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Nerobro posted:That means you had other things wrong with the bike. Not necessarily, mine ran like dogshit on regular octane too. Remember the pistons are half the size of a salt shaker and the plugs not much bigger and the coils are tiny. Everything is tiny and sensitive.
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Nerobro posted:That means you had other things wrong with the bike. It has a compression ratio of 11.5:1 and spins 20,000 RPM. The bike was probably just designed exclusively for high-octane fuel, which also explains why it was running like poo poo whenever he filled it up with regular.
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Sagebrush posted:It has a compression ratio of 11.5:1 and spins 20,000 RPM. The bike was probably just designed exclusively for high-octane fuel, which also explains why it was running like poo poo whenever he filled it up with regular. The manual claims normal unleaded was fine, but who knows, it could have been a grey import tuning thing. Given the price difference for a tank of fuel was a dollar or two, it was going to cost more to figure out why my MC22 and those of my friends all got significantly more range on premium, than it cost in fuel. The bike still ran fine on normal unleaded meaning my cheap brother would buy it. I'd have to switch to reserve at 110km/h on the highway as it started spluttering as the tank ran dry. A quick Googling says people get 180km - 200km on a tank of normal unleaded. Putting premium in, I'd get 270 or so. Around 130-150 on a tank of normal unleaded. In hindsight, I may have been more of a hamfisted squid than I recall
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