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M. Night Skymall posted:Definitely could, but this is my first time messing with any of this on a bike and it was cramped enough trying to get the measurements done, just feel a lot more comfortable if I had more room to see what's going on once I start messing with my cams. I'll set aside some time to do the adjustments pretty soon then. You can usually remove the radiator, disconnect the wiring for the fan at the connector, and have enough space to work easily - only need to remove a couple of bolts and that connector and it slides out of the way without draining any coolant 
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Apr 26, 2014 21:24
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New pair of pilot powers/tubes, new front and rear brake pads, new gloves. It was a good day. Coming soon: Chain roller, truing front rim, wheel bearings maybe, valve check. Marxalot fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Apr 27, 2014 |
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Joined the Pilot Road 4 religion a couple weeks ago. They replaced my worn out Metzelers. It had been a while since I was on brand-new rubber - it was kind of disconcerting at first, with them being extra tippy for the first 50 miles or so. Within a couple miles from the shop I had to do a long highway sweeper and it was a bit scary. Now that they're scrubbed in, they just feel awesome. Highly recommended.
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Sold my XS500 project for a couple $$$ profit so I can buy my brothers naked Goldwing and thus help him out financially with going back to school. Time to start reading up on GL1100's.
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Apr 27, 2014 04:27
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McTinkerson posted:Sold my XS500 project for a couple $$$ profit so I can buy my brothers naked Goldwing and thus help him out financially with going back to school. Time to start reading up on GL1100's. From my limited experience and a friend's vast experience with GL1100 they are awesome, reliable, and fun to ride. But if you have engine issues, parts might be hard to get by (that is relevant to Israel though)
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Early GLs are pretty common and have a good support base. So if you need minor things (carb rebuild kits) or big things (used engines) they're findable. Big stuff and you may be looking at a spare parts bike but they're cheap and plentiful.
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I finally put some Leo Vince pipes on my FZ6. At speed it just sounds louder but at low rpms it really growls like an angry walrus. I almost feel bad riding through my quiet neighborhood but on the other hand I can do throttle flirts like RoyalJordanian. 
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Apr 27, 2014 17:30
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Added yet more to the amazing rats nest of wiring under my seat by installing this little black box: Ignition tweaker? Tracker? Cloaking device? No, more awesome than all three of those things:  Yep, USB charger. Obviously still need to tidy up that install a bit (going to use a bunch of velcro straps, in fact a few too many so I have spares to secure whatever wire i plug into it), but drat what a useful thing.
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Apr 27, 2014 17:58
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makka-setan posted:I finally put some Leo Vince pipes on my FZ6. At speed it just sounds louder but at low rpms it really growls like an angry walrus. I'm jealous. I have been hopelessly trying to find an all carbon (love how they look) Leo Vince slip on for my R6 to mate with the older RS header. In my opinion they sound the best of the quieter cans. I love the open header motogp exhausts, but I want to preserve my hearing and not be an obnoxious rear end in a top hat to everyone around me within a 200 meter radius.
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Apr 27, 2014 18:01
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tjones posted:I'm jealous. I have been hopelessly trying to find an all carbon (love how they look) Leo Vince slip on for my R6 to mate with the older RS header. In my opinion they sound the best of the quieter cans. I love the open header motogp exhausts, but I want to preserve my hearing and not be an obnoxious rear end in a top hat to everyone around me within a 200 meter radius. Get earplugs. That way you'll preserve your hearing, and you'll be unable to hear any complaints.
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KozmoNaut posted:Get earplugs. That way you'll preserve your hearing, and you'll be unable to hear any complaints. I already wear plugs for any long jaunts on the interstate. From everything I've read and heard, the open header megaphone setups are loud enough that they are painful without plugs, and loud enough with them to be uncomfortable after long periods. I'm not sure if this is true, but I can imagine it is not far from it, even if exaggerated. I've heard a handful in real life at a distance, and they are so insanely loud its baffling. It would be cool to have something that resembled the sound of the v8 F1s. This still is without consideration of not wanting to be downright loving obnoxious. Loud exhausts are one thing and I don't mind them at all, but somewhere before megaphones, I would have to draw the line. Bugdrvr posted:I like that I4 bikes are decently quiet even with drat near open exhaust until you get on them. If you have a loud can just putt around until you are clear of anyone you care about bothering, then crack a two gear minger. I do a lot of interstate commuting, and anything north of 70 mph and my R6 starts to scream. Going to and from work, you are, the majority of the time, stuck in a congo line of traffic and will have some poor soul directly next to you. I would feel bad. tjones fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Apr 27, 2014 |
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I like that I4 bikes are decently quiet even with drat near open exhaust until you get on them. If you have a loud can just putt around until you are clear of anyone you care about bothering, then crack a two gear minger. That said I did take the system off my old Suzuki since my parking spot was directly under my neighbors bedroom window and while he said it didn't bother him I still felt bad. That system was loud enough to make my ears ring at low RPM through town however.
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I was actually surprised at how quiet the Leo Vinces are at higher rpms. Of course the wind noise drowns out some of the exhaust sounds at speed but cruising at 5k rpm and up sounds pretty much like stock. Puttering about at 3k rpm, trying to be quiet, is another story. I guess the system resonates at lower revs, increasing the noise. Starting from standstill sounds like ear sex. Figuratively speaking.
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McTinkerson posted:Sold my XS500 project for a couple $$$ profit so I can buy my brothers naked Goldwing and thus help him out financially with going back to school. Time to start reading up on GL1100's. Sup soon-to-be-fellow-Goldwing owner? I just drove down to take a look at a 1978 GL1000 a good buddy of mine picked up for $500, he was going to clean it up and resell it for profit, but he's passing it on to me for what he paid for it. Other than being dirty and needing some cosmetic work (notably new side covers), the only major issues are that it needs new tires, the wiring is a rats nest of poorly bodged together hacks from the PO that I'll be tearing out and redoing much more cleanly, the clutch is starting to slip (he already has a new clutch kit included with it, ready to be installed), and the choke cable is frozen and will probably need replacing (and the carbs should probably be cleaned just as general principle). Once it's warmed up, it starts immediately and idles well, revs freely, pulls good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh0EKR0sAWI  The lovely K&Q seat and half-assed wannabe clipons are a disaster, but he's got the original seat, bars, and an extra set of low rise bars for it, so those'll go on there once I get it home and start tearing into it. Post pics once you get it from your brother!
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Apr 28, 2014 07:47
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Oil change, chain adjustment, went from a 14t front sprocket back to the stock 15. I'm on a roll~
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Last weekend, but changed the 8+ month old oil (that only had like 20 miles on it), topped off the coolant, swapped the stock dogbones in, washed and honda polished it. Only for the wind to pick up and scatter that sand-dust from winter all over the bike.  Considering going up a tooth in the front sprocket to make highway riding a little less... intense sounding.
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Apr 28, 2014 15:43
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Embrace the intensity, learn to love the little thud monster.
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Apr 28, 2014 17:21
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More like rrrrreeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! monster 
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If you ever come to your senses and move back to CA, you should take a spin on one of the small displacement (400cc or less) 4 cylinders that will probably be in my garage.
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Z3n posted:If you ever come to your senses and move back to CA, you should take a spin on one of the small displacement (400cc or less) 4 cylinders that will probably be in my garage. Don't believe him, the novelty wears off quickly and they have few redeeming qualities as a motorcycle. In other news I'm trying to get my girlfriend to have a go on a bandit 400 so as to give me casus belli to get rid of her 250 Hyosung 
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Z3n posted:If you ever come to your senses and move back to CA, you should take a spin on one of the small displacement (400cc or less) 4 cylinders that will probably be in my garage. If you somehow end up with a 250RR and don't let me buy it, I will slice you.
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SaNChEzZ posted:If you somehow end up with a 250RR and don't let me buy it, I will slice you. not if I kill you first!  seriously something that sounds like a Formula 1 car when it's going like 40 miles an hour I imagine to be both awesomely cool and awesomely annoying.
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I just bought a small displacement 4 cylinder. Another one. gently caress, I was trying to downsize but it's such a good deal...
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Sagebrush posted:seriously something that sounds like a Formula 1 car when it's going like 40 miles an hour I imagine to be both awesomely cool and awesomely annoying. The latter, especially if you're an arsehole like this guy and ride it around with only the headers on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlodhTxftk8&hd=1
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Z3n posted:I just bought a small displacement 4 cylinder. Another one. gently caress, I was trying to downsize but it's such a good deal... As I said above... Cut you!
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Just bought some new tires for the ninja, now I have to figure out how to get them over to the shop. Currently trying to come up with a way to strap them to the back so I don't have to wear them like an inner tube on the way over.
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You should ask MK4 (?) about that. I think it worked pretty well. For my money, I'd spend a few bucks on a taxi or a friend with a car.
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Do you have a car? Cheaper to bring wheels and the new tires than it is to bring a bike in and have them remove the wheels for you. Sometimes even taking a taxi is cheaper, due to the lowered costs.
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 That's one of the options. I did a test ride around the block that way and found it very uncomfortable, so I just got someone with a car to bring it over to the shop for me while I rode there. You could probably swing the former if you're not as small as me.
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hot sauce posted:Just bought some new tires for the ninja, now I have to figure out how to get them over to the shop. Currently trying to come up with a way to strap them to the back so I don't have to wear them like an inner tube on the way over. I just strap em to the triple tail. What, you don't have a triple tail?
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No car, but I can probably find a friend with one who will drive them over for me. When I get home today I'm still going to try strapping them to something first.
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Tried to ride the Honda in to work today, battery almost dead = no start. Oh well.
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In my continuing adventures of loving up basic maintenance I changed the oil in the drz last week. I realised after filling the bike up that I dropped the washer from the frame drain plug and put the bolt back in without it. Figured it'd be good enough and ignored it but found I was slowly leaking oil from around that plug. So I got to drain the oil, put a new washer on the bolt and refit it, then put the oil that I managed to catch in clean containers back into the bike. I then got to spend an hour scrubbing up all the oil I spilt all over the garage floor because I tried to use two 700ml containers to hold 1.7L of oil. It's held for two days without leaking at all, so I think that actually worked.
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We've all lived that day. You'll get better with time.
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Leaked oil = profit. Refilling = reinvesting in a low market.
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My method is to pull the plug out quickly, slip your finger over the hole without leaking much. Put the washer on and then quickly switch finger for bolt.* *What actually happens is I pull the bolt out and get a handful of oil as I shove my finger in the hole. I then try to slip the washer over the bolt using one oily hand (that is if I haven't forgotten the washer over there, you know where I can't go because I have my finger over this hole holding in oil. Which is pretty hot and starting to burn). Once getting the washer on the bolt I'll quickly remove my finger and stick the bolt in the hole. The threads won't catch of course and I'll keep turning it until it slips and goes flying off into a corner. Some oil will gush out, sure, but I stuck my finger in there pretty quickly so it's not too bad. Now, how do I get the bolt that's three feet out of reach to my right back onto the washer that's under the other bike I think?
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Swapped out my rearsets for some Danmoto ones I bought. They seemed solid to me but I don't have anything to compare them to other than my somewhat bent and poorly adjusted stock rearsets. I'm happy with them for what I paid, everything works and they feel solid, and I prefer the new position of the pegs to the stock position. Installation was lengthy but that's mostly because I'm still new to this whole working on bikes thing. Went for a test ride afterwards to a comic store for free comic book day, was complimented on my awesome costume while I was waiting to check out with all my gear on. 
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