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That's one of the typical mistakes I've never made but I make sure to kick the stand again, after I put it out, to make sure it's fully extended.
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Snowdens Secret posted:Y'all may think Sagebrush's casual response appropriate, but just a few more seconds or a few more feet and she could've squashed him flat. I hope her parents at least made it very clear how dangerous her inattentive driving was. I do too. Let's be honest about making a claim though: there was almost no damage to the bike (I bent the shifter back to make sure the transmission was okay, so now it doesn't even look like it was damaged) and I wasn't injured. Yes, I could have been and the damage could have been worse, but insurance doesn't deal with "what could have been" and the insurance company wouldn't send a policeman to give her a stern lecture or something if I did make a claim. Having to pay more for insurance is an abstract thing for a 15-year-old girl. Getting yelled at by your parents isn't, and that seems to be the situation, so I'm good. I dunno. I'm really not a vengeful person. The few times in my life I've gotten real "revenge" on someone who wronged me, I just felt bad because I did something equally nasty to them. I got the money to fix the pieces and she's hopefully learned a scary lesson before she actually hurts someone on the road badly. Works for me.
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Pope Mobile posted:How is that result even possible? You can see the plier/vice grip teeth marks on the weights
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May 23, 2014 18:45
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Yeah. Real, proper spoke weights are installed with a special hammer, not with a goddamn pipe wrench.
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KozmoNaut posted:Yeah. Real, proper spoke weights are installed with a special hammer, not with a goddamn pipe wrench. Spent all day doing calculations and analysis, those weights are now off by 0.0025g +/- .0001g each. That bike is completely unsafe and should not be ridden until this horrifying error is corrected.
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So what I got so far is that Sagebrush needs a free MRAP to park on the street and work on his bike inside of it. After that sprinkle frozen, grated feces around his neighbors house.
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May 23, 2014 23:19
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FUUUUUUUCK. Screw in my rear tire. Pilot Road 2 with only 8.7k miles. Shop only has a pilot power which obviously isn't going to last as long. Fuckin poo poo ruined my weekend.
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May 24, 2014 00:21
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2CT's are still pretty cheap http://www.motorcycle-superstore.com/2194/i/michelin-pilot-power-2ct-rear-tire
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Yerok posted:2CT's are still pretty cheap I took the pilot power, I don't have any other transportation. $160 installed isn't horrible I guess.
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Re: MRAP chat Not quite the same thing, but once again, deal extreme delivers Ninja edit: I think this deserves a kickstarter Catatron Prime fucked around with this message at 04:43 on May 24, 2014 |
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Product capacity: "200 units/month." A toy manufacturer told me that having product made in China was easy, she just set up a cot at the factory for the month or so her line was in production to make sure they didn't swap paints, ship garbage or spin production off to another factory. She sold wooden alphabet toy blocks, what could go wrong with an armoured vehicle?
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Schroeder91 posted:FUUUUUUUCK. Screw in my rear tire. Pilot Road 2 with only 8.7k miles. Shop only has a pilot power which obviously isn't going to last as long. Fuckin poo poo ruined my weekend. Put a plug in it.
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apatite posted:Spent all day doing calculations and analysis, those weights are now off by 0.0025g +/- .0001g each. That bike is completely unsafe and should not be ridden until this horrifying error is corrected. It's more a question of how unprofessional it looks and the fact that those weights may not be tight on the nipples, so they could potentially move around.
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I hate when my weights are loose on my nipples
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Ozmiander posted:Remember to check that your spring loaded kick stand is down all the way before you hop off the bike.
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Went to my local Honda dealer this morning to organise a 60k service and new tyres for my VTR250. Was a little bit annoyed after being told that I could bring it in "any day in the next two weeks", but not, apparently, next Thusday, and then the guy drops this on me when I ask about tyres: (me) I've been hearing really good things about the Michelin Pilot Streets, so it'd be great if you could get a set of those, but otherwise Pilot Activs are okay because I've got those on it a-- (him) Look, those probably aren't even being made any more. Tyre manufacturers change their models so often we can't even keep up. They... they're... literally brand new. Oh, you looked them up on "the internet", did you? It's really down to what the importer's bought in. Um, yes? Can you just find out what's available and let me know before I bring the bike in? Nah, I'm not even going to bother ordering them until I've got the bike here. You can just leave it with us overnight, whatever.Oh, cool. I'll just inconvenience myself because you can't be bothered doing your job properly. That's perfectly okay. I get this sort of poo poo from them every time I go in to get the bike serviced that it's now sort of gotten to the point where I'm hoping that either KTM releases the RC390 or I can get my open-class license before I need the bike serviced again just so I can stop having to deal with them.
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I get off work, standing next to the bike finishing a smoke and putting my gear on, letting the bike warm up a bit. Co-worker (age 20ish) walks out and ambles over. "Man I bet you think you're so cool don't you?" I just ignored it and started talking about the upcoming weekend, I just thought it was a weird thing to say. Maybe it was the gear, some people around here seem to think wearing gear is wierd, tank tops and shorts are the norm. No reason to wear jacket/gloves/helmet when it's hot right? 
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Tanbo posted:I get off work, standing next to the bike finishing a smoke and putting my gear on, letting the bike warm up a bit. Co-worker (age 20ish) walks out and ambles over.
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Tanbo posted:I get off work, standing next to the bike finishing a smoke and putting my gear on, letting the bike warm up a bit. Co-worker (age 20ish) walks out and ambles over. No that was just straight up burning jealousy, brother.
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"Think? Brother, it's been conclusively proven."
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Shouting Melon posted:Went to my local Honda dealer this morning to organise a 60k service and new tyres for my VTR250. Was a little bit annoyed after being told that I could bring it in "any day in the next two weeks", but not, apparently, next Thusday, and then the guy drops this on me when I ask about tyres: Buy your tires on  the internet and take them to a small private shop to install them.
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Snowdens Secret posted:"Think? Brother, it's been conclusively proven." *flicks cig in your face, wheelies away* Backov posted:No that was just straight up burning jealousy, brother. Yeah that's what I was thinking, but didn't want to say it. Tanbo fucked around with this message at 17:10 on May 24, 2014 |
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Shouting Melon posted:Went to my local Honda dealer this morning to organise a 60k service and new tyres for my VTR250. Was a little bit annoyed after being told that I could bring it in "any day in the next two weeks", but not, apparently, next Thusday, and then the guy drops this on me when I ask about tyres: I have a honda dealership who are exactly like this near my work, are you sure you don't live in NZ? Tanbo posted:*flicks cig in your face, wheelies away* I once rode to the shops with my girlfriend on her bike following me. We stop and hop off and some random guy nearby goes: "I could smell the rice burning a mile away!" And my witty retort was: "Shut the gently caress up." And he just walked off 
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The universal comeback is "And what do you ride?", 9 times out of 10 they don't even have a bike.
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Tanbo posted:I get off work, standing next to the bike finishing a smoke and putting my gear on, letting the bike warm up a bit. Co-worker (age 20ish) walks out and ambles over. Some non-riders seem to like to give Riders poo poo, especially for their gear. I've had a co-worker who kept making fun of my "tiny jacket" and when I tried to explain why you want your jacket to be tight so it doesn't ride up in a crash, he started talking about how when he used to ride it was in shorts and flip-flops, of course he hadn't ridden in ~8 years. I also got the pleasure of dating a girl, who, upon finding out that I wear a full-face on my cruiser told me "you can't do that, that's just stupid, no one does that" yeah, didn't last, I enjoy having skin on my loving face. I just moved to CT, and the  great abundance of freedom here makes me uncomfortable, especially the Harley guys going bar-to-bar... It's also pretty funny because it's a Navy-heavy area, and Navy riders tend to be pretty ATGATT, so it's either A: shorts, a-shirt, nothing else or B: full face with armored clothing, there's doesn't seem to be a middle ground.
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Elviscat posted:I just moved to CT You poor bastard quote:It's also pretty funny because it's a Navy-heavy area Oh god are you near Groton? You poor bastard x10
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Snowdens Secret posted:You poor bastard Yes I am, and I know  And both my bikes are stuck in a storage unit, possibly for the entire riding season, after spending three weeks in the PNW putting well over 2000 miles on two wheels. 
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Elviscat posted:It's also pretty funny because it's a Navy-heavy area, and Navy riders tend to be pretty ATGATT, so it's either A: shorts, a-shirt, nothing else or B: full face with armored clothing, there's doesn't seem to be a middle ground. All the Navy guys I see only have the minimum of what they're required, so usually a helmet, gloves, and whatever they call the blue camo uniform.
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Most of the navy people at the CT base are submarine dudes. Submarine dudes are crazy about safety in my experience.
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Colorado is also a "Freedom" state. I go to bike night at the local HD dealer (I mean, free food and $1 beers. How can I say no?) and I look like captain safety in my jeans, boots and armored jacket with a full face helmet compared to most of those guys.
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M42 posted:Most of the navy people at the CT base are submarine dudes. Submarine dudes are crazy about safety in my experience. Submarine commands tend to be crazy about scaring sailors that they'll lose their health insurance or otherwise get in deep poo poo if they're hurt off base and it can be found to be due to their negligence. This relates to submarine manning being so tight that losing a body to a minor injury that puts him temporarily unfit for sea duty can put a command scrambling to cover. Losing your health insurance is a myth, but going to mast and potentially losing rank or pay because the command thought you were taking undue risks isn't. I think I've told some submarine biker stories before, I wouldn't assume they're any safer or better riders than any other able-bodied males at that age.
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Akion posted:Colorado is also a "Freedom" state. I go to bike night at the local HD dealer (I mean, free food and $1 beers. How can I say no?) and I look like captain safety in my jeans, boots and armored jacket with a full face helmet compared to most of those guys. No poo poo. I just ran a bunch of errands on my bike in Ft Collins, and there's a biker fest going on in town. I saw a thousand cruiserchopperbillybadasses mean mugging all over town and I was the only one wearing more than a helmet.
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Deeters posted:All the Navy guys I see only have the minimum of what they're required, so usually a helmet, gloves, and whatever they call the blue camo uniform. If the navy (and the other branches) are like the Coast Guard then the minimun is a DOT certified helmet (Full, Quarter or Half), long sleeves, long pants, over the ankle footware and gloves. Notice I didnt specify anything for the last 4, so anything from yoga pants to armored leather pants are fair game for the military. People gave me poo poo about wearing my leathers, so I gave the standard military response that I love being a leather daddy (or that I dont want to end up being a hamburger). I have ridden in my uniform before but it was mainly to do short mail runs for my boat. Something about handling mail and riding bikes makes me feel good. 
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When I was in Groton, we were required to wear hi-viz vests to get on base, and there was debate about whether we were technically required them off-base. Of course, once companies like Icon started actually naking the vests and biker-appropriate hi-viz jackets, I think the requirement went away.
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Collateral Damage posted:The universal comeback is "And what do you ride?", 9 times out of 10 they don't even have a bike. Reminds me of my friend, he said he was telling his girlfriend about my Ninja, and she said that sportbikes are for sissies, men ride Harleys. He was telling me about it, and I asked if she rides. He said no, I said "Oh that explains it, she'd fit right in with the Harley crew then, they don't ride either except to the bar and back on weekends."
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 sissy Bet he wishes he was on a Harley so he could be a real man
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Tanbo posted:Reminds me of my friend, he said he was telling his girlfriend about my Ninja, and she said that sportbikes are for sissies, men ride Harleys. He was telling me about it, and I asked if she rides. He said no, I said "Oh that explains it, she'd fit right in with the Harley crew then, they don't ride either except to the bar and back on weekends."  I ride the poo poo out of my Harley. But it's a Sportster, so it's not *really* a Harley.
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slidebite posted:Buy your tires on Pretty much what I'm going to do. My local bike shop is really great about ordering and fitting tyres, but I wouldn't normally go to them because they're in kind of a remote area and it's a 25min walk from them to somewhere I can catch a bus, while the Honda dealer is a five minute walk to the train station so I can just drop off the bike in the morning and head to work.
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