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What I did to my ride: Put new chain adjusters on the xr100 What my ride did to me:  I pinched the tip of it between the swing arm and the wheel while pulling the axle and my finger split right where it meets the finger nail.
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OUCH I'm sorry about your finger but I'm also amused (and relieved) to see someone else doing the improvised bandage thing with a paper towel and a zip tie, if that's what it looks like. I've had to do that a bunch of times and my wife has given me poo poo about it for years. It works though, faster and less messily than bleeding all over the floor in the house while fumbling around looking for gauze and first aid tape.
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Sep 11, 2014 18:22
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Usually it would be paper towel and tape but there happened to be a partially zipped zip strip on the floor that fit perfectly
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Sep 11, 2014 18:29
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I've used duct tape and a clean shop rag before, when I nearly took the tip of my index finger off. Kept me from dripping everywhere while I drove to the store to get some gauze and antiseptics so I could properly bandage it.
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Sep 11, 2014 18:49
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 So I should probably change it then?
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Sep 11, 2014 18:55
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EX250 Type R posted:
Yeah. Use electrical tape, though. It's somewhat stretchy so it won't constrict the wound as badly. Electrical tape (even alone) is about the best improvised bandage out there. Stretchy in case you need some compression, easy to get off, glue doesn't dissolve in blood like duct tape or packing tape glue does, and comes in many attractive colors.
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Sep 11, 2014 19:51
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EX250 Type R posted:What I did to my ride: Put new chain adjusters on the xr100 I'm just going to assume there's vodka in that dew.
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Sep 12, 2014 00:44
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Would that taste good?
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Sep 12, 2014 01:16
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EX250 Type R posted:Would that taste good? No. Think vodka +monster, but worse.
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Sep 12, 2014 02:09
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I often forget many of you are several years older than me and didn't grow up with such sweet things. The point of the vodka is that you can't taste it over the dew.
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Sep 12, 2014 02:19
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When you aren't 20 anymore you drink things that taste good as opposed to not tasting bad.
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Sep 12, 2014 02:22
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I drink whiskey (bourbon or scotch) these days, my debilitating alcoholism almost feels classy.
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Sep 12, 2014 02:29
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bourbon is for plebes and scotch is for plebes trying to pretend they aren't. rye is the top of the whiskey pyramid.
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Sep 12, 2014 02:39
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Someone's never tried Blanton's.
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Sep 12, 2014 03:20
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Ignore, phone etc.
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Sep 12, 2014 03:49
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Whiskey is disgusting in all it's forms HTH.
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Sep 12, 2014 04:12
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Most of your posts are annoying but that one just made me physically mad. And also sad for your kiwi palette.
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Sep 12, 2014 04:14
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Slavvy posted:Whiskey is disgusting in all it's forms HTH. This guy speaks the troof.
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Sep 12, 2014 04:54
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nsaP posted:Most of your posts are annoying but that one just made me physically mad. And also sad for your kiwi palette. He's of Eastern European descent, the only flavours he finds acceptable are the oily taste of cheap vodka and bleak bitterness of oppression.
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Sep 12, 2014 05:36
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HotCanadianChick posted:He's of Eastern European descent, the only flavours he finds acceptable are the oily taste of cheap vodka and bleak bitterness of oppression. Got it in one. Also lol at being sad for my kiwi palette; I've tasted what Americans refer to as 'beer'.
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Sep 12, 2014 08:46
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Slavvy posted:Got it in one. Also lol at being sad for my kiwi palette; I've tasted what Americans refer to as 'beer'. Anchor Steam?
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Sep 12, 2014 08:57
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Slavvy posted:I've tasted what Americans refer to as 'beer'. Watered down piss, more like.
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Sep 12, 2014 09:26
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Chichevache posted:Anchor Steam? Budweiser tastes very watery and cloyingly sweet. The yellow stuff with the black italic logo tastes like: Odette posted:Watered down piss, more like.
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Sep 12, 2014 09:58
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LOL We export the big brewery poo poo beer, all the good stuff stays domestic. The days of crap pale lagers defining "American Beer" and well over and I probably have more microbrew choices in the average corner market than you have on your whole Island. Here is an extremely incomplete list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_microbreweries edit: Here you go, much more complete: http://www.bcca.com/services/brewery_listing.asp
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Sep 12, 2014 12:48
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American Macro brews taste like freedom, it is no wonder that only Americans really enjoy them
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Sep 12, 2014 12:57
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Budweiser? I don't know a single person who drinks that honestly, besides the guys who just pick up a 6 pack of whatever from the gas station, either cause they're broke, don't care, or don't know any better.
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Sep 12, 2014 14:23
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Sagebrush posted:bourbon is for plebes and scotch is for plebes trying to pretend they aren't. rye is the top of the whiskey pyramid. You're missing Irish whiskey in your list.
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Sep 12, 2014 17:03
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Chris Knight posted:You're missing Irish whiskey in your list. That is for cleaning the toilet.
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Sep 12, 2014 17:44
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clutchpuck posted:That is for cleaning the toilet. What? I want to make sure things go down, not come back up. 
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Sep 12, 2014 18:05
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Alcohol is bad for you, fyi. Also disgusting.
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Sep 12, 2014 19:04
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Slavvy posted:I've tasted what Americans refer to as 'beer'. http://www.beeradvocate.com/place/city/16/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewing_in_Oregon http://www.travelportland.com/article/portland-breweries/ http://oregoncraftbeer.org/breweries/portland-area/ We have more breweries here than any other city on earth (we eclipsed Munich years ago), and also the largest craft brewing festival on the continent, and our beers win more gold medals at international beer competitions than any other place on the planet. Notable is local brewer Hair Of The Dog, many of whose beers range from 10% alcohol to 29% alcohol. Sorry you aren't man enough for American beer*  *(sorry none of the good beers get exported, the only American beers that ever get exported overseas are the garbage even we don't like.  )
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Next up for the FZ6 was a new air filter. Really quick and easy job, it literally took five minutes. The old filter was really black and dirty. Maybe it's just placebo but I think the engine feels a bit more powerful and more willing to rev.
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Sep 12, 2014 19:44
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Probably not a placebo at all. An air filter is p fuckin important
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Sep 12, 2014 21:12
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drat I should check my fz6 filter - I bet it's the original and I have ~17k miles
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Sep 12, 2014 21:41
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You don't even have to replace them, you can just pull it out and knock out the stuff/put a vacuum on it.
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Sep 12, 2014 21:42
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nsaP posted:You don't even have to replace them, you can just pull it out and knock out the stuff/put a vacuum on it. That's what I did after learning it's $60-70 for a new one. It seems clean enough.
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Sep 12, 2014 21:48
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For street bikes I just clean and re-install or switch to a reusable cleanable filter. Though you can do more harm than good by cleaning and gooping a filter wrong and re-installing it, so its worth taking some care. For my dirt bikes I used to do the reusable filters and now I just buy notoils and replace them every 10 hours or so. Engines are too high strung and the environment to harsh to do anything else I feel.
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That's not a bad idea, but it felt appropriate to replace the filter after seven years and 40000 km. I'll definitely take a vacuum to it next 10000 km service though. Next up is replacing spark plugs, coolant, brake fluid and checking valve clearance. I also need to check and lubricate the steering bearings but checking the bearings (and other things) that I'll need a good triple tree stand. BikeTek ones seems reasonably cheap while still having bracing struts to keep structural integrity. The Fz6 wants a 21mm adapter pin so not all manufacturers are compatible. I'd love to get some Pit Bull stands but shipping and import taxes would make it ridiculously expensive. 
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makka-setan posted:I'll need a good triple tree stand Fast forward 7 years of multiple street bike, track bike and dirt bike ownership and you'll go loving mad trying to find a home for all your stands.
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KARMA! posted:Alcohol is bad for you, fyi. Also disgusting. So is literally every other pleasurable thing on Earth. Spiffness posted:Fast forward 7 years of multiple street bike, track bike and dirt bike ownership and you'll go loving mad trying to find a home for all your stands. Or just buy an Abba stand and chuck the relevant adaptor in it as needed.
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