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DJ_Ferret posted:I did this thing today. Wasn't a magical grease remover, as I probably watered it down a bit much out of fear. It did remove a hell of a lot of grime, but it didn't sluice it off the way I'd hoped. If you need to clean off a lot of caked on grease, the magic trick is hand cleaner (the paste stuff from AutoZone, etc.). Slather some without any water onto the grimy bits. Wait a minute or two. Hit the areas with a brush (like an old dish brush, bottle brush, etc.). Then rinse and be amazed. HTH
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Tamir Lenk posted:If you need to clean off a lot of caked on grease, the magic trick is hand cleaner (the paste stuff from AutoZone, etc.). Slather some without any water onto the grimy bits. Wait a minute or two. Hit the areas with a brush (like an old dish brush, bottle brush, etc.). Then rinse and be amazed. gently caress yes thank you. I've got some much grime that I need to clean out. Gojo is awesome stuff. JP Money posted:Protip: Don't buy gojo but go buy the harbor freight poo poo if you can. It's cheaper and does the same thing. Substitute HF brand with any knockoff brand if you can. I currently have the generic orange-water from O'Reilly Auto. Had no idea that Harbor Freight had their own, though. Sounds like a bargain. its all nice on rice fucked around with this message at 17:12 on Jun 18, 2013 |
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Protip: Don't buy gojo but go buy the harbor freight poo poo if you can. It's cheaper and does the same thing. Substitute HF brand with any knockoff brand if you can.
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Man, what a lovely commute today. Some fat gently caress on a Harley'd out Goldwing (seriously?) was blocking the splitting lane going like 5 mph because his fat rear end could barely keep his bike upright. He slammed on his brakes once causing me to emergency stop and smash my nuts against the tank. Great start to the day!
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I use Dawn dish soap concentrate and it does the same thing as Gojo and the knockoff brands. 
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Jun 18, 2013 17:14
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Really? Fast Orange/Gojo/etc always seems to get more grime off for me than dish soap. E: Or are you talking about for washing the bike?
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Jun 18, 2013 17:16
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For washing both the bike and greasy hands, I use Pert Plus. It's some hardcore degreaser.
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Jun 18, 2013 17:42
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Do you slather it on there with a brush or dilute it a bit?
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Jun 18, 2013 17:52
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JP Money posted:Protip: Don't buy gojo but go buy the harbor freight poo poo if you can. It's cheaper and does the same thing. Substitute HF brand with any knockoff brand if you can. Yes. No need for brand name stuff. I grabbed a couple tubes from the Dollar Store. Though the big tub at AutoZOne prices out about the same as the $1 tubes. Seriously, though, this poo poo is like loving wizardry.
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Pope Mobile posted:Do you slather it on there with a brush or dilute it a bit? Do NOT dilute the stuff, that renders it to just regular degreaser. The special results come from using a degreaser that sits in place for a while. So smear it onto the dirty bits with a chip brush, piece of cardboard, your donge, w/e. Let sit a bit and then go over the area with a scrub brush (any old nylon bristle dish brush works). Then rinse it off. By sitting on the grime, the de-grease paste eats through the caked on poo poo and breaks it up for brushing after a minute or so. Otherwise, it's just degreaser that won't damage poo poo, corrode metals, etc.
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Pope Mobile posted:Really? Fast Orange/Gojo/etc always seems to get more grime off for me than dish soap. Yes. Use in the bike (engine, etc.).
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Is regular Simple Green okay, or will it destroy my paint or something?
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MoraleHazard posted:Is regular Simple Green okay, or will it destroy my paint or something? Simple Green is fine. I used some Zepp degreaser on my bike last week that has stained the frame, rear shock, Reg/Rec, and a few other things. Pissed is not the word, eh, whatever.
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^^^ Thank you. It was raining pretty hard on the way home from work today, so the urge to actually wash my bike has dissipated.
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Jun 19, 2013 02:34
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Saw some cool stuff today      Also, I have a bit of a delay tomorrow morning: 
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That sucks and also totally justifies my irrational hatred of drives that are not chain drive.
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Jun 19, 2013 06:41
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This will take 45 minutes to fix, I brought almost everything I need.
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Jun 19, 2013 06:45
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clutchpuck posted:This will take 45 minutes to fix, I brought almost everything I need. Any idea what caused it to break? At least there's no way for a belt to take out a crankcase in the process of going.
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Z3n posted:That sucks and also totally justifies my irrational hatred of drives that are not chain drive. Shaft drive supremacy, just be sure to sell it to some sucker before it fails...
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Z3n posted:Any idea what caused it to break? At least there's no way for a belt to take out a crankcase in the process of going. Z3n posted:Any idea what caused it to break? At least there's no way for a belt to take out a crankcase in the process of going. I've never actually ridden a belt or shaft driven bike (I lie, but I don't think a flogged out cx400 running on 1 cylinder is any kind of reference). Do they feel any different in a way specific to the driveline?
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Z3n posted:Any idea what caused it to break? At least there's no way for a belt to take out a crankcase in the process of going. It probably got a rock on it. I know a few guys with belt driven bikes and that's basically the only reason they've ever had to replace them - never actually had them wear out. Slavvy posted:I've never actually ridden a belt or shaft driven bike (I lie, but I don't think a flogged out cx400 running on 1 cylinder is any kind of reference). Do they feel any different in a way specific to the driveline? As far as I know, nope.
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Slavvy posted:I've never actually ridden a belt or shaft driven bike (I lie, but I don't think a flogged out cx400 running on 1 cylinder is any kind of reference). Do they feel any different in a way specific to the driveline? Moto journalists seem to think shaft drives cause the bike to do funny things on acceleration, like stand up the rear suspension rather than squat down. The only shaft I've ever ridden  is a guzzi v11 sport though, and I can't say I noticed anything like that. I think BMWs have some sort of linkage that counteracts the effect as well.
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Linedance posted:Moto journalists seem to think shaft drives cause the bike to do funny things on acceleration, like stand up the rear suspension rather than squat down. The only shaft I've ever ridden There's a torque reaction that turns the bike left or right as you gain or lose speed - in days gone by this was exacerbated by the fact most bikes with shafts had inline cranks (i.e. the crank pointed fore-and-aft). Guzzi and BMW now both just have a reverser gear so the shaft spins in the opposite direction to the engine, which helps to counteract that quite a bit. The back rising or falling under power is only on bikes with a transverse crank/gearbox (so parallel or inline engines) because the torque reaction from the linkage from gearbox to shaft pivots the shaft - most Japanese bikes with a shaft again use a reverser to ensure that makes the suspension rise (it doesn't actually rise, it just doesn't squat as much under acceleration as you'd expect).
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We went from one of the worst nights, to one of the better days of the trip so far, camping in West Texas is a terrible idea, especially when storms are on the forecast, got so bad we had to drag the tent into the bathroom to ride out the storm, woke up at 5 in the morning, and rode hell for leather out of Texas. Oddly enough, as soon as we got to New Mexico, the weather cleared up, and the roads smoothed out. We ran down to Carlsbad Caverns, since the girl had never been there, it continues to be the most awe inspiring natural phenomena that I have ever seen. After we hiked back out of the hole in the ground, we made our way up to Roswell to get a hotel room. Probably won't make it past Santa Fe today, because the alien museum doesn't open until 10, and I have not yet fulfilled my quota of ridiculous tourist trap stuff.
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'Yall. Commuting on a bike owns so loving hard. WTF have I been doing this whole time?
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Z3n posted:Any idea what caused it to break? At least there's no way for a belt to take out a crankcase in the process of going. I came off a curb fully loaded and it just exited. Common problem with the Ulysses long swing arm and suspension travel.
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It seem the mirrors on my vstrom should be labelled with "Objects in mirror are further than they appear." When there's a car behind me at a stoplight, in my mirrors it looks like it's right on me, like I could reach back and touch their bumper. When I turn around and look, they're a good 2 yards away. I'm not complaining, it just seems the reverse of the effect in all the cars I've driven..
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ReverendCode posted:We went from one of the worst nights, to one of the better days of the trip so far, camping in West Texas is a terrible idea, especially when storms are on the forecast, got so bad we had to drag the tent into the bathroom to ride out the storm, woke up at 5 in the morning, and rode hell for leather out of Texas. Oddly enough, as soon as we got to New Mexico, the weather cleared up, and the roads smoothed out. I wonder if you're staying at the same hotel I stayed at when I was there. Was doing a roadtrip (by car) with a German buddy of mine there two summers ago, also a bunch of ADV-type BMW riders staying there at the same time. We decided to do a night on the town, so we walked over to the Roswell version of a TGI Friday's across the road for dinner and asked the waitress for the lowdown on the town. The Applebees was apparently the best bet, but I'd have none of that, so we went to the dive bar she mentioned. We had only gotten to Miller Lite #2 when a girl came up to us and said she normally knew everyone in there, and didn't recognize us. Second thing out of her mouth was "ya'll ain't married yet, are you?" Oh, small town America. There was some goony-looking kid getting slowly arrested for underage drinking in the corner that kind of harshed our mellow, so we bailed. This was followed by going to the bowling-alley-by-day-nightclub-by-night, where I got hit on by the (male) owner, and said German buddy had to come to the rescue. We wound up walking like 5 miles back home because the German insisted that two white guys walking down the road at 3am in Roswell, NM should have no problem hitching a ride. The Germans are a trusting people.
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Bruiser posted:'Yall. Sure beats a street sweeper eh? I have the biggest mancrush on you from that thread. I still hold it up as an example to friends as a reason for 
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Bruiser posted:'Yall. It. You've been doing it wrong.
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Halo_4am posted:a street sweeper A whatnow?
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epalm posted:A whatnow? Hint: Bruisers avatar is a depiction of actual events. EDIT: can't find the thread (poo poo, was it that long ago?), just google "bruiser street sweeper". ReelBigLizard fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Jun 19, 2013 |
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Bruiser posted:'Yall. I get anxious as hell driving a car. You just can't see everything around you like on a bike.
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thylacine posted:I get anxious as hell driving a car. You just can't see everything around you like on a bike. That, and when you step on the gas, nothing really happens. In any car. 
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epalm posted:That, and when you step on the gas, nothing really happens. In any car.  
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thylacine posted:I get anxious as hell driving a car. You just can't see everything around you like on a bike. Are you me? This is exactly why I hate driving. Fuckin' pillars 
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M42 posted:Are you me? This is exactly why I hate driving. Fuckin' pillars That's some deal with newer cars I guess, I never had such a problem driving my old Volvo 240. New cars just put the drat A pillars right where you want to look - I think it started with that "cab forward" poo poo Chrysler came up with. Lately I've driven: a newer Ford Ranger, a Nissan Rogue and a 90s XJ (Cherokee.) XJ is fine, other ones suck. Demo days at the Triumph/Victory dealer this weekend, hurrah. Gonna finally ride a sport bike, haven't done that yet.
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epalm posted:That, and when you step on the gas, nothing really happens. In any car. Heh I had this realization this morning while riding into work for the first time in forever. Though its broken me for life I think, buddy bought a subaru wrx sti and was showing off the performance and I almost wanted to ask him if he could show me again, at WOT this time...
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thylacine posted:That's some deal with newer cars I guess, I never had such a problem driving my old Volvo 240. New cars just put the drat A pillars right where you want to look - I think it started with that "cab forward" poo poo Chrysler came up with. Lately I've driven: a newer Ford Ranger, a Nissan Rogue and a 90s XJ (Cherokee.) XJ is fine, other ones suck. It's because of the latest trends in car designs, brought on by cars like the Audi TT, Mercedes CLS, and Chrysler 300m. Basically the side windows are like gun slits, and you feel like you're sitting way down low like in a bathtub.
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Slavvy posted:I've never actually ridden a belt or shaft driven bike (I lie, but I don't think a flogged out cx400 running on 1 cylinder is any kind of reference). Do they feel any different in a way specific to the driveline? Well belts are always under tension so you should have less of a reaction when you get on/off the throttle. Buell belts have an idler for this, however its bearing can wear out which will result in decreased belt life.
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