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Painted over the low side damage, unbent the gear leaver some more, went over and inspected for damage but didn't find anything else. Lucky..    
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Sold my Z1000 today. I'm moving in a month, and I really ended up hating that bike anyway. It was an impulse purchase that sort of smoothed over post-break-up woes, so I guess it did its job. I took a bath in the sale but learned my lesson. And of course the new owner knows about the starter clutch problem, which I didn't want to sink money into. This might sound really weird to those of you who don't really care about appearances, but the Z1000 had so many scratches and other "rough marks" that it sort of made me  when I would look at it up close. It wasn't the kind of bike that you could pop a beer and just marvel at the nice industrial design and gorgeous condition. I guess I like having things to oogle over, so that's partially why I ended up buying this: A 2007 zx6r with only 7000 miles on her. She has a couple small scratches (which were greatly reduced with a proper compounding, polishing, and wax job), but otherwise she's basically mint. Just gorgeous to look at. Something I can really be proud of, and she rides like a badass to boot.
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It always weirds me out a little when people refer to their vehicles (other than a boat) as female.
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Sagebrush posted:It always weirds me out a little when people refer to their vehicles (other than a boat) as female. Why? It's a pretty common practice...
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For a boat it makes sense, since you're being carried in its (her) belly. Motorcycles and cars? All right, Oedipus.
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Jul 5, 2014 22:46
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BlackMK4 posted:Very nice. Do the jumper mod Getting there! I have a LED flash relay on order and I'll jump those pins once I'm under the seat anyway. Geirskogul posted:For a boat it makes sense, since your being carried in its (her) belly. Motorcycles and cars? All right, Oedipus. Yeah I have a special relationship with my motorcycle, so what of it mate?
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Sagebrush posted:It always weirds me out a little when people refer to their vehicles (other than a boat) as female. You really should idle with us in bieks, we (mostly Rev) post the cringeworthy titles that redditors give their bike pics. /R/bikesgonewild is full of em. I'm with you, personifying bikes and especially naming them as girls is weird. My bikes are 'the ninja' or 'the fz6' or 'the blue one'.
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nsaP posted:You really should idle with us in bieks, we (mostly Rev) post the cringeworthy titles that redditors give their bike pics. I don't really understand why it's weird though. Personification, yes, but referring to vehicles as females is pretty natural from my neck of the woods. I don't get why gendered nouns get people up in arms.
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English doesn't have gendered nouns, though. I don't know. It's one thing if you look at someone's car and say "she's a beaut" and that's the extent of it. It starts to sound kind of creepy and weird to me when you say things like mguirk the jerk posted:only 7000 miles on her. You say that personification is weird, but what do you call that, exactly? It's a motor vehicle, not some teenage nymph. VVVV same here, mine is "the Honda -- uh, I mean the newer one" Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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I call my bikes "the white bike". When asked which one I remember that both are white so I specify the old one or the pile of poo poo. Genderizing machines is a little weird to me but, meh, whatever blows your hair back. EDIT: Speaking of, I pulled the head off the white bike, pile of poo poo version, and found that I didn't have a burned valve. I have three burned valves in three cylinders. Might explain the poor running. I got the replacement head on and torqued. Just need to finish reassembly and see what happens. Bugdrvr fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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Sagebrush posted:English doesn't have gendered nouns, though. Then genderizing boats should be just as creepy. For me it's more natural to call a machine a female instead of "it." That's all there is to it, there is no subliminal meaning, and you can take your bullshit psychoanalysis somewhere else. mguirk the jerk fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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Wow, you got really defensive really fast. Chill out.
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"You got really defensive really fast after half a dozen people came in to call your habit weird and creepy, chill out!" I like your bike. What is the jumper mod? And is that really the factory tail light? Looks tiny.
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My bike is affectionately called "piece of poo poo"
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Geirskogul posted:Wow, you got really defensive really fast. Chill out. I can take a joke, but trying to equate my misuse of the English language to a weird personification fetish of a "teenage nymph" is pretty juvenile and reflects poorly upon both Sagebrush and this board. Slavvy posted:"You got really defensive really fast after half a dozen people came in to call your habit weird and creepy, chill out!" The jumper mod forces the ECU to use the European fuel mapping which unlocks ~6 HP, but I'm a slow-rear end goon so I'll probably never notice. The light is not factory, it's made by some small-scale design firm. It's nice but I would definitely like something larger. The same company makes another model with about 10 more LEDs for better lateral visibility, which I'll pick up in the future. mguirk the jerk fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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M42 posted:My bike is affectionately called "piece of poo poo"
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I enjoy those wrap-around tail lights, but you're right - if it were maybe two rows "thick," or longer so it wrapped around more of the seat, it would have better visibility.
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mguirk the jerk posted:I can take a joke, but trying to equate my misuse of the English language to a weird personification fetish of a "teenage nymph" is pretty juvenile and reflects poorly upon both Sagebrush and this board. You edited both this post and your last one to make them even angrier than they were at first. I said it weirds me out a little when people talk about their motorcycles like they're women ("It was an impulse purchase that sort of smoothed over post-break-up woes") and I guess that made you hit the roof? Sorry.
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Sagebrush posted:You edited both this post and your last one to make them even angrier than they were at first. I said it weirds me out a little when people talk about their motorcycles like they're women ("It was an impulse purchase that sort of smoothed over post-break-up woes") and I guess that made you hit the roof? Sorry. You're still reading way too far into what I said. I don't understand why you're being a dick, you're generally an A+ goon.
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Who cares bros the important thing is that razzled got a gopro and tomorrow i'm gonna go see what the local supermoto hooligans are up to downtown!
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Razzled posted:Who cares bros the important thing is that razzled got a gopro and tomorrow i'm gonna film myself taking out the 10th mailbox I'm over the fantasy teenage nymph stuff BTW, so don't bring it up again.
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I've always wondered what a mailbox looks like from the inside.
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Slavvy posted:I've always wondered what a mailbox looks like from the inside.  It's gonna be glorious!!
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mguirk the jerk posted:I'm over the fantasy teenage nymph stuff BTW, so don't bring it up again. Think you quoted the wrong post, there. Razzled posted:
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mguirk the jerk posted:I'm over the fantasy teenage nymph stuff BTW, so don't bring it up again.  On topic, what I did to my ride today was ordered a bunch of electronic parts. I have some plans for neat stuff with the taillight and turn signals, but ugh why did Honda see fit to switch all those bulbs on the low side? Did they know how much more complicated it would make it when 25 years later I decided to try and read their status with a microcontroller? Couple of LM2940s, TVS diodes, 4N35 optoisolators, some power MOSFETs, TO-220 heat sinks, miscellaneous headers and stuff.
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Damnit, Sagebrush, you're ruining our rep!mguirk the jerk posted:I can take a joke, but trying to equate my misuse of the English language to a weird personification fetish of a "teenage nymph" is pretty juvenile and reflects poorly upon both Sagebrush and this board. I don't know whether to LOL at this or to prod further to figure out what, exactly, you're so touchy about. A buell named Belle http://www.reddit.com/r/bikesgonewild/comments/29wsmy/nee_shoes_on_belle/ "the girls" http://www.reddit.com/r/bikesgonewild/comments/29tue7/just_chilling_with_the_girls/ Faye left the state for the first time! I'm SO happy for her http://www.reddit.com/r/bikesgonewild/comments/29qlgq/first_time_faye_has_been_in_another_state_line/ "Adopted" http://www.reddit.com/r/bikesgonewild/comments/29nh2y/almost_2_years_that_i_adopted_her/ Those aren't so bad compared to normal. nsaP fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Jul 6, 2014 |
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nsaP posted:Damnit, Sagebrush, you're ruining our rep! I'm not touchy about anything. I referred to a bike as a "she" and ya'll jumped down my throat. Why can't we all place nicely?
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You aren't really helping your case.
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nsaP posted:You aren't really helping your case. Meaning?
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Oh my god goons stfu
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hot sauce posted:Oh my god goons stfu What's your little lady's name?
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mguirk the jerk posted:Meaning? We made a joke and you exploded? Not much at first, but then you edited your posts to be more aggressive, which is kind of weird. We had actually already dropped the joking, but then you came back in and went mguirk the jerk posted:I'm over the fantasy teenage nymph stuff BTW, so don't bring it up again.
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Geirskogul posted:We made a joke and you exploded? Not much at first, but then you edited your posts to be more aggressive, which is kind of weird. We had actually already dropped the joking, but then you came back in and went Well I am just so sorry.
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Somewhat on topic: I bought an EVO protaper bar and risers today. Do bikes typically have enough extra slack in the cable to support 1" of raise? I'm scared to change anything because I can't torque stuff back down to spec precisely
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Usually just call it the ninja. But seriously, let's stop the bickering itt lol
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I had some ridiculous Latin mythology name picked out for my Aprilia, but it was just to troll bieks with, so I immediately forgot it. If you're going to name a machine, go with something historic and / or metal sounding like Fraenir, not just like Susan. Ships are referred to in the feminine because they're temperamental and need constant attention, and you show them respect and give them all the attention and more because that gets you home through the storms. A bike is a rather simpler device. ~rubs salt off arms~~
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Razzled posted:Somewhat on topic: I bought an EVO protaper bar and risers today. Do bikes typically have enough extra slack in the cable to support 1" of raise? I'm scared to change anything because I can't torque stuff back down to spec precisely Depends entirely on the bike. Some have tons of slack, others just barely make it.
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hot sauce posted:Oh my god goons stfu Razzled posted:Somewhat on topic: I bought an EVO protaper bar and risers today. Do bikes typically have enough extra slack in the cable to support 1" of raise? I'm scared to change anything because I can't torque stuff back down to spec precisely Geirskogul posted:Depends entirely on the bike. Some have tons of slack, others just barely make it. The three posts in this thread since I've come back to a computer that don't make my eyes roll out my head, jesus. What did you do to your ride today? Argued about semantics like a sexually frustrated teenager in philosophy class. Razzled when I put narrower, taller bars on my ZRX I found the cables were fine but my brake line was stretched to the absolute limit. I ended up unbolting the splitter from the triple clamp and riding like that until I had a longer brake line made up. I'd be more concerned with that than the cables, an inch is nothing for the majority of bikes.
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