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I think half-faired bikes are fundamentally hideous compared to their naked counterparts and have said so in the past. But taking the fairing off to make a bike look more 'authentic' is loving retarded.
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Not to mention that bikes that come with fairings generally look like complete dogshit with them removed.
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Speaking of which, I just discovered this past weekend that I can remove my fizzer's half-fairing and leave the headlights and mirrors still attached to the bike normally. I just need to get a pair of fork-mount front blinkers and I can make my bike fully naked and still have two good headlights, and not spend $600 on an FZ1N conversion kit.  
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Sep 17, 2014 08:16
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HotCanadianChick posted:Speaking of which, I just discovered this past weekend that I can remove my fizzer's half-fairing and leave the headlights and mirrors still attached to the bike normally. I just need to get a pair of fork-mount front blinkers and I can make my bike fully naked and still have two good headlights, and not spend $600 on an FZ1N conversion kit. You need to get some of those awful plastic eyelashes to mount over each headlight.
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Sep 17, 2014 08:46
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HotCanadianChick posted:Speaking of which, I just discovered this past weekend that I can remove my fizzer's half-fairing and leave the headlights and mirrors still attached to the bike normally. I just need to get a pair of fork-mount front blinkers and I can make my bike fully naked and still have two good headlights, and not spend $600 on an FZ1N conversion kit. Looks lovely FYI.
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Sep 17, 2014 15:23
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HotCanadianChick posted:Speaking of which, I just discovered this past weekend that I can remove my fizzer's half-fairing and leave the headlights and mirrors still attached to the bike normally. I just need to get a pair of fork-mount front blinkers and I can make my bike fully naked and still have two good headlights, and not spend $600 on an FZ1N conversion kit. Man if you put a little windscreen above those lights it might almost look like the Street Triple you appear to think this maybe resembles.
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Sep 17, 2014 16:03
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n8r posted:Looks lovely FYI. Looks like a Triumph Triple. In other words, lovely.
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Sep 17, 2014 18:49
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Road repairs aren't quite as bad here in Merrie Olde England In Manchester I ride on the A5103 everyday to and from work, there are loooong stretches of cracks and massive holes which are conveniently between lanes. I've gotten used to it now, but filtering through dead traffic everyday is a fun challenge to hold your balance on a precariously thin bit of level road between vehicles and a 1 inch drop. Even when getting near home the road is strangely lumpy, so the front wheel will start to have a mind of it's own about where to go. I'm not sure about retiring the bike if it gets snowy on that shite A-road. 
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Sep 17, 2014 21:40
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Super Slash posted:In Manchester I ride on the A5103 everyday to and from work, there are loooong stretches of cracks and massive holes which are conveniently between lanes. I've gotten used to it now, but filtering through dead traffic everyday is a fun challenge to hold your balance on a precariously thin bit of level road between vehicles and a 1 inch drop. Even when getting near home the road is strangely lumpy, so the front wheel will start to have a mind of it's own about where to go. Yeah but that's a non-repaired road, eventually that'll get resurfaced with something nice. Even our most temporary repairs aren't anything like as bad as chipseal (although Shellgrip, when it isn't maintained properly, can turn into something similar which can be a nasty nasty surprise if you're expecting maximum grip). I mean on my commute home there's two bits of road that are literally 100% repairs, and they suck, but they're due for resurfacing next spring. Our transatlantic brethren have to cope with what's basically a gravel road, sometimes for miles at a time, and almost always on the kind of roads that are generally the most fun on a bike. (Also they have a *lot* more concrete roads than we do and they really, really, really loving suck after a few years) As for riding in snow - last time we had a big snowfall in London I was walking down the road thinking "Yeah I can ride in this - there's a nice big dry strip in the road and if I keep calm I can make it home" just as three cars slid into each other. It's not me I worry about, it's all the other dickheads who think that ABS means they can drive as fast on snow as they can on dry tarmac.
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Holy loving poo poo. Riding to work today I was splitting between two lanes of traffic (not a motorway). I came up behind a guy on a pedal bike. His pace was decent and his bike could slip through the tiniest gaps so he wasn't particularly irritating. But then we both come up behind a guy on a KTM 390 who was splitting so slowly that half the time the guy on the push bike was dragging his feet. Eventually the guy on the bicycle overtook KTM guy and then gestured wildly and shouted at him to either speed up or move the gently caress over. gently caress me. Sell your bike and burn your license.
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Sep 17, 2014 23:18
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Looks like a Triumph Triple. In other words, lovely. Please dont let people mistake a good looking bike like the FZ for a trumpet triple
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Please dont let people mistake a good looking bike like a triumph triple for an FZ
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Sep 18, 2014 09:18
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Slavvy posted:Please everybody buy bimota
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Sep 18, 2014 15:41
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"Oy guvna we found a palette of spare forklift lights in the back of the warehouse. What you want we should do with em?" "gently caress it mate, blag em on to the bikes we can't find headlights for" And that's how the street triple was born.....
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Sep 18, 2014 16:15
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Bikes that look like insects own. I want a Street Triple.
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Sep 18, 2014 16:54
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Chichevache posted:Bikes that look like insects own. I want a Street Triple. Well This, but a speed triple instead. It needs to be something as insane as the ZRX.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:03
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I have slowly frittered away my bike savings away in personal loans. These people need to loving pay me.
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Sep 18, 2014 18:24
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ElMaligno posted:Well This, but a speed triple instead. It needs to be something as insane as the ZRX. Z1000. Hell, the entire bike looks like a bug. The fairing looks like a space invader. ZRX isn't insane, it's just goofy. Every day it reminds me of like a goofy dog. Happy to just laze and walk, but sometimes it just wants to awkwardly run faster than gently caress for no reason and against all the laws of physics and decency.
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Beach Bum posted:I have slowly frittered away my bike savings away in personal loans. These people need to loving pay me. Mine went, in one fell swoop, towards getting a splenic mass removed from my dog. Turned out to be a nasty malignant tumor and he doesn't have long anyways. 
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Sep 18, 2014 19:35
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Beach Bum posted:I have slowly frittered away my bike savings away in personal loans. These people need to loving pay me. Don't loan money unless it's your job, and even then you should probably find a different job. Look at what they did to Shylock.
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iwentdoodie posted:Z1000. Mine was just Hodor. Hodor hodor hodor hodor HODORHODORHODORHODOR *starts flailing wildly*. It was like a fat colonial woman hiking up her skirts and bounding down the street like Usain Bolt. I miss that goddamn bike Sagebrush posted:Don't loan money unless it's your job, and even then you should probably find a different job. Look at what they did to Shylock. A pound of flesh is some pretty brutal collateral bro.
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yeah all the duke enacted was basically proto-predatory lending regulation.
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Slavvy posted:Mine was just Hodor. Hodor hodor hodor hodor HODORHODORHODORHODOR *starts flailing wildly*. It was like a fat colonial woman hiking up her skirts and bounding down the street like Usain Bolt. That's pretty perfect also.
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Sep 18, 2014 22:27
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:"Oy guvna we found a palette of spare forklift lights in the back of the warehouse. What you want we should do with em?" Racist.
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Fucks sake, three things tonight (Aftermath of a nasty crash, loving lunatic in a VW thinking he could race me, and a bloke in a suit falling over) seen on my way home tonight and my camera's battery was flat. How as I supposed to become a Youtube superstar when poo poo like this happens?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Fucks sake, three things tonight (Aftermath of a nasty crash, loving lunatic in a VW thinking he could race me, and a bloke in a suit falling over) seen on my way home tonight and my camera's battery was flat. How as I supposed to become a Youtube superstar when poo poo like this happens? Just like everyone else. Stage it 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Fucks sake, three things tonight (Aftermath of a nasty crash, loving lunatic in a VW thinking he could race me, and a bloke in a suit falling over) seen on my way home tonight and my camera's battery was flat. How as I supposed to become a Youtube superstar when poo poo like this happens? I always keep a charged spare in my jacket pocket.
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:Mine went, in one fell swoop, towards getting a splenic mass removed from my dog. Turned out to be a nasty malignant tumor and he doesn't have long anyways. Ugh, that sucks man. My wife and I lost our dog to cancer a few months back, it really is a poo poo situation. Just enjoy the time you have with him.
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gently caress cabbies.
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Chris Knight posted:gently caress cabbies. One the way home today a taxi carved right across me into my lane to get in front, then did the "Thank you" flash of hazard lights; what the gently caress bro that wasn't an invitation 
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If you want to sell your bike, try giving more contact info than the number for a landline phone you never pick up or check the messages on, jesus christ
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wesley snypes posted:If you want to sell your bike, try giving more contact info than the number for a landline phone you never pick up or check the messages on, jesus christ Why would you do that? The 'buyers' are just going to call/text you a poo poo ton and flake at the last minute. 
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monsterzero posted:Why would you do that? The 'buyers' are just going to call/text you a poo poo ton and flake at the last minute. That's why I sell all my poo poo at my convenience, on CL at least. You're meeting me at a place a quarter mile away from my house, when it's convenient for me. If you miss an appointment, you're blocked.
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Nine years driving, over a dozen cars owned, countless thousand miles covered on four big fat tyres. Never had a puncture. Four years riding, two tiny narrow tyres, 3 punctures. And today, a fourth. On a brand new PR4, the rear one this time. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGHHHHHH 
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Stop riding through spike strips and surrender at once.
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You didn't happen to buy my brother's cursed EX500? His wheels must have been made of rare-earth magnets, it's the only way I can explain how many nails he picked up.
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I'm going to be a shill for CycleGear for the moment, so feel free to skip over this: If any of you live near one and run tubeless tires, I'd suggest getting motoguard. It's $20-25 bucks (depending on the tire's cost) or $30 for front and rear. If you pick up a puncture (or the tire shits out on you or whatever) within the first 25% of tread life, you get 100% of your purchase price of the tire towards a replacement. If the tread's below 75%, it's pro-rated based on the depth of a new tire of the type you have based on your current depth. After you get the new tire, all you pay is any related state fees (in WA it's $1 for every motorcycle tire sold) and for motoguard on the new tire. Regardless of CG's lovely house-brand gear, it's actually really good insurance for something that can cost a poo poo load of money.
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I keep a plug kit and small tire pump under my seat. I feel like being prepared for a flat should decrease the odds of me getting one. I didn't know about the cycle gear deal. Will have to look into that next time around.
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Slavvy posted:Nine years driving, over a dozen cars owned, countless thousand miles covered on four big fat tyres. Never had a puncture. Someone once told me bikes are more susceptible to punctures because a) they aren't riding in the wheel tracks of cars, which sweep the road clean and b) bike tyres tend to be softer so sharp objects have more chance of sticking in place and then get ground in. I know I've had more than a couple of screws so perfectly embedded I've needed a screwdriver to get them out. Having said that (and I know I'm painting a bit fat KICK ME sign for the gods on my back) I've gone from a puncture almost every two months to none in two years since the local council cracked down on local building sites (and where I live there are *always* local building sites), forcing them to sweep the roads outside their entrances every hour when they're active.
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Marv Hushman posted:Stop riding through spike strips and surrender at once.  as a matter of fact, instead of being a nail or what have you, it was a half-inch sliver of aluminium stuff. I'm hoping the actual hole is small enough to repair; I've successfully repaired a rear PR3 before.goddamnedtwisto posted:Someone once told me bikes are more susceptible to punctures because a) they aren't riding in the wheel tracks of cars, which sweep the road clean and b) bike tyres tend to be softer so sharp objects have more chance of sticking in place and then get ground in. I know I've had more than a couple of screws so perfectly embedded I've needed a screwdriver to get them out. Yeah I think it's the fact that we tend to ride in the unswept debris field. Interestingly, I know exactly where it happened because the hole is closer to the right edge than to the center of the tyre. On that stretch of my commute, there's only one right-hand corner. That is a fantastic law by the way. The best part was, after I pumped up the tyre at a gas station and started limping it home: I went past a loving street sweeper truck.
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