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Pulled it out of storage. Pulled the battery off the charger. Checked fluids, chain, tires. Full tank of gas with a can of seafoam. Then I rode 400 miles in the rain. Feels good to be back on a bike again.
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What I did to my ride today was pay 700 euros  to get it fixed up. Had the Buell shop check all the bearings and do the fork oil; steering head bearings were completely hosed, so bad that once they were out the bottom bearing was completely impossible to turn by hand. He also noticed that my belt wasn't in the best shape so I had that replaced too, going on a 3000mi trip soon after all. 14000 miles on the bike, I sure hope the new bearings and belt last longer than that.
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Jul 23, 2014 17:02
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I subscribe to the "bring a spare" belt philosophy, it's easy enough to swap in a parking lot. But then again I have room to stow one. Steering head bearings are a common fail point on XBs not because of engineering or parts quality, but because people like to wheelie them. Mine are also not good, which I may have contributed to.
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Jul 23, 2014 17:23
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So some idiot somehow squeezed the front brake with it off the rotor. What's the easiest way to get them apart so I can mount them again? I really don't want to open the whole system so I may just see if I can slide a putty knife in between. Any magical fixes?
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Jul 24, 2014 20:02
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Putty knife works. Whatever you can get in there to spread the pistons and not mar the surface is fine.
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Jul 24, 2014 20:16
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advion posted:So some idiot somehow squeezed the front brake with it off the rotor. What's the easiest way to get them apart so I can mount them again? I used a nylon bread scraper. A hard nylon putty knife (2 for $1 at harbor freight) also works great. Those hard nylon putty knives are also wonderful for general scraping-of-stuff without damaging paint or scratching chrome.
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Jul 24, 2014 21:02
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High Protein posted:What I did to my ride today was pay 700 euros Is there more to this story? How old is that bike? I don't think I've ever seen a bike younger than like 1993 with hosed steering bearings.
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Jul 25, 2014 00:06
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I saw your bike on Facebook, High Protein.
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Jul 25, 2014 00:09
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:I used a nylon bread scraper. A hard nylon putty knife (2 for $1 at harbor freight) also works great. Those hard nylon putty knives are also wonderful for general scraping-of-stuff without damaging paint or scratching chrome. Thanks gents. I'll get the bike rebuilt tomorrow.
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Jul 25, 2014 00:25
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Is there more to this story? How old is that bike? I don't think I've ever seen a bike younger than like 1993 with hosed steering bearings. I've owned three. It happens with mileage and being outdoors; bigger, heavier bikes seem to destroy theirs faster.
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Jul 25, 2014 01:16
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It also happens when you wheelie the poo poo out of it all the time. My ex had a Tuono that she tracked and hooned like a goof and head bearings were a 1-1.5 year maintenance item on that thing. vvv I'm well aware of this Bugdrvr fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jul 25, 2014 |
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Jul 25, 2014 03:52
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Bugdrvr posted:My ex had a Tuono that she tracked and hooned like a goof Shoulda kept that one
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Jul 25, 2014 05:02
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Is there more to this story? How old is that bike? I don't think I've ever seen a bike younger than like 1993 with hosed steering bearings. 7 years old. I don't know, it could be that one of the two PO's wheelied it to bits. Or maybe it's because I tend to take speed bumps at full speed while standing on the pegs but I doubt that. There was some corrosion on the steering head stem so the weather's played a role too, however since I got it at 5000 miles at least it's not seen that much rain.
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Jul 25, 2014 18:01
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If they get loose and you don't tighten them up (most people don't) they self destruct pretty quickly.
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Jul 25, 2014 18:36
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gently caress me sometimes I feel like a moron. Last night I went to replace the plugs on my bike. I found I could do all of them excet #3 because it's directly under the frame, and my lovely around-the-house tools couldn't get in there (Honda  ). I resolved to go to a second-hand tool shop this morning and buy the appropriate extension, which I did. Just now I stuck all the plugs in, ran the bike and it had a crazy misfire and sounded like a triple.After an hour of fault finding I realised that when I reassembled the bike last night, I was in a hurry to watch game of thrones and stuck #1 and #2 leads around the wrong way  It doesn't sound like a really lovely parallel twin, all of a sudden!
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Jul 26, 2014 05:10
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Slavvy posted:gently caress me sometimes I feel like a moron. Last night I went to replace the plugs on my bike. I found I could do all of them excet #3 because it's directly under the frame, and my lovely around-the-house tools couldn't get in there (Honda Joffrey does that to people.
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Jul 26, 2014 05:48
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Installed Givi rack and plate on the back of my BMW, took a couple hours to figure out how to mount them because the instructions were pretty basic with only photos and some numbers saying what hardware to use where. Luckily I found a decent online guide to installing it all. Yeah the garage is a mess.
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Jul 26, 2014 07:08
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Jesus at least stack poo poo instead of just piling. Did you have a tetris when you were a kid?
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Jul 26, 2014 08:33
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Like, a tetris block? Or a tetris game? Or even a single game of tetris? Or do you also talk through a bluetooth and post on the internet using your CPU?
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Jul 26, 2014 08:47
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I'm trying to capture the old-person-speaking feel. I always remember it being called 'the tetris' by everyone over 30. "I'm using 'the email'."
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Jul 26, 2014 08:54
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Put back on the handguards after spending an hour at the diy store trying to find right-ish allen bolts. Put on the mapping that was originally on the bike to give that a try again; this map has worse MPG due to not running closed-loop ever and being richer all around, but dang the bike is so much more well behaved with it. Ordered a PR4 front, old PR3's got about 7000 miles on it has plenty of thread left for puttering around, but not enough for a 3000+mi trip. So I'm going to replace it at the very last minute. Futzed around with figuring out how to mount a bit of luggage; glad I never sprang for a fender eliminator kit as there's a hole behind the indicator stalk that's perfect for hooking a bungee into. Thanks Erik! 
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Jul 26, 2014 17:03
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High Protein posted:a 3000+mi trip How much load is that bungee going to be carrying, exactly? Do you think that's strong enough to support a fully loaded set of bags (in whatever direction it ends up being) for 3000 miles?
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Jul 26, 2014 18:46
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Sagebrush posted:How much load is that bungee going to be carrying, exactly? Do you think that's strong enough to support a fully loaded set of bags (in whatever direction it ends up being) for 3000 miles? I'll mostly be underwear, maybe a bottle of oil. A bag small enough that I can still comfortably sit.
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Jul 26, 2014 19:23
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Careful with altitude and open loop. I found my ceiling on a rich OL map to be about 7000ft.
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Jul 26, 2014 19:59
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Wired up the brake lights in the Givi top case. I also put in the correct passenger peg bolts that came with the SW-Motech Alu-Rack kit. Now the side bag mounts are held on by more than 4 threads!! http://youtu.be/VRwcPxtHjgM
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Jul 27, 2014 19:59
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Did 98.000 km maintainance(oil, oil-filter, plugs, air-filter refresh) and replaced the stator. But, when I error checked the electrical system for errors trying to find why it didnt't charge the battery I stopped when I found one error. So I missed that the R/R is also faulty.. Back to waiting for parts. 
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Jul 27, 2014 21:16
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Reattached the rear fender that rattled off at some point over the 100km trip I took that day. Thankfully the two side screws and the wiring held it on and the load bearing bolts didn't back out fully. That makes the list of poo poo that's rattled loose on my bike: my license plate, camera (mounting bracket snapped), camera (adhesive pad tore), fairing panel, fender and about a million learner/provisional plates. Yay thumpers.
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Jul 27, 2014 23:54
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I changed the oil on my klr for the first time. Dropped about half a quart of oil in it before I realized I had not put the drain plug back in yet. Oops. Then I did my wife's scooter. Then the lawn mower.
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Jul 28, 2014 01:54
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Changed out my front brake pads. Took 15 minutes; God bless America and Erik. It took me longer to get screws off the dogbone so I could tighten down the steering head cap nut. The nut moved a bit before the torque wrench clicked and the steering doesn't seem to drag or be notchy. Hopefully that sorts out the "pop" when coming to a stop. Also,  I crashed my friend's dad's garage where they were busy installing a new clutch cable, changing gearbox oil, and installing some aluminum swing arm mount doodads (because Harley swing arms are rubber mounted for some insane reason) on his gorgeous '98 Road King. That bike is great, it has ported heads, PM brakes, a bagger brace, rear shocks off a '07 Ultra Classic, and a low and wide beach bar. It did a 6000 mile trip last summer on a day's notice without much drama (flat tire, needed brakes bled once at high altitude). clutchpuck fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Jul 28, 2014 |
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Jul 28, 2014 16:55
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Changed out the OEM torture rack grips with a pair of OURYs. Trimming sticky rubber is a bitch.
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M42 posted:Changed out the OEM torture rack grips with a pair of OURYs. Trimming sticky rubber is a bitch. Protip for the future: a big set of tin snips will work on more than tin 
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Got some longer screws and added spacers to the Windstrom screen, gonna go for a ride to check the buffeting now.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:19
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It's a bummer the Strom doesn't do shieldless. That's how I get no buffeting at all on the Uly. Bonus: the flyscreen pops right off and goes back on almost as fast, maybe even faster since I don't have to be as careful when pushing it on.
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clutchpuck posted:It's a bummer the Strom doesn't do shieldless. That's how I get no buffeting at all on the Uly. Bonus: the flyscreen pops right off and goes back on almost as fast, maybe even faster since I don't have to be as careful when pushing it on. Anyway, the spacers seem to work. There's enough flow under the screen to negate any vacuum the screen creates and it's quiet enough to not need earplugs all the time.
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SaNChEzZ posted:Protip for the future: a big set of tin snips will work on more than tin That would help with straight cuts, but I needed to trim a circle out of the closed end of the grip since my bike has bar ends.
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Jul 29, 2014 00:58
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Gave Al at American Sport Bike some dollars today. Ordered all new control cables to replace my 60,000 mile originals, and new intake seals. I hear the OEM seals are better than the Genuine James ones, so I got OEM. Need the Ugly to be in shape for a 2500 mile trip in September.
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Jul 29, 2014 19:05
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 This motherfucker right here cost me three hours of my life. Spent way too loving long trying to break the bead and get the tyre off so I could get the old leaky tube out and get rid of this loving piece of wood that crumbled into dust as soon as I so much as looked at it. After picking pieces out of the tyre as best I could I was well and truly pissed off and managed to pinch the new tube while spooning the loving tyre back on. I'm taking the wheel down to the local dealer tomorrow, they can deal with the loving thing.
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Jul 30, 2014 14:34
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Changing dirt tires sucks until you've done enough of them to get the hang of it. In the time I owned a dirtbike I never really got the hang of it because I mostly rode DOONZ. Watching an experienced mechanic do it makes them look so easy.
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Jul 30, 2014 16:34
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I can do rear tires, still haven't gotten the hang of front tires.
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Put the new Beadrider on today.
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