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My group of riding bros and broettes have a "I have to pee in the bushes" hand signal. It is:
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Mar 20, 2015 17:18
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Guy was sizing up "his gurrll" for a leather jacket the other day. He didn't want any of our help. "No, babe, you want it to fit loose. I usually wear a large, but I needed a 2XL in leathers. poo poo was way too tight. You want plenty of room in there." The weather this time of year is great. The idiots are not.
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Mar 24, 2015 03:17
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clutchpuck posted:My group of riding bros and broettes have a "I have to pee in the bushes" hand signal. It is: This is the universal signal for "bee in my helmet" as well. And let me tell you, it blows when you're on a shoulderless road with a few miles between turnouts.
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Mar 24, 2015 04:09
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Marv Hushman posted:This is the universal signal for "bee in my helmet" as well. And let me tell you, it blows when you're on a shoulderless road with a few miles between turnouts. Didn't Silver have a signal for that? edit: Or was that the signal? edit: Nope. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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Mar 25, 2015 16:14
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I immensely appreciate that Ixon designed a jacket that has an inside pocket on the removable rainproof liner. This means I can put my phone in my pocket and have it still work after riding through a torrential downpour. But I don't understand why they chose to make the pocket have Velcro at the mouth, when the opening points straight up and it's on the inside of the jacket. I also don't understand why they then selected Velcro that holds stronger than the threads holding the pocket itself to the liner.
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Apr 1, 2015 22:41
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Slavvy posted:I immensely appreciate that Ixon designed a jacket that has an inside pocket on the removable rainproof liner. This means I can put my phone in my pocket and have it still work after riding through a torrential downpour. But I don't understand why they chose to make the pocket have Velcro at the mouth, when the opening points straight up and it's on the inside of the jacket. I also don't understand why they then selected Velcro that holds stronger than the threads holding the pocket itself to the liner.  Nothing quite like an almost-perfect design feature that fails in the dumbest ways.
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Apr 1, 2015 22:45
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Marv Hushman posted:This is the universal signal for "bee in my helmet" as well. And let me tell you, it blows when you're on a shoulderless road with a few miles between turnouts. This is why my visor is closed 90% of the time. I only had to have it happen once.
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Apr 1, 2015 23:19
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Minkee posted:This is why my visor is closed 90% of the time. I only had to have it happen once. This was a Warren Commission Magic Bee that bounced off the edge of a slightly opened visor and lodged in my temple area. I couldn't sketch the trajectory and make it believable if I tried.
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Apr 2, 2015 01:09
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I managed to get a bee lodged pretty firmly inside one of the top vents on my helmet a couple of weeks ago. Those fucks will find whatever gap they can to get at you.
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Apr 2, 2015 01:33
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Chichevache posted:
It's made all the more baffling by the fact that the pocket on the thermal liner has a much more sensible stretchy elastic thingy instead of Velcro.
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Apr 2, 2015 03:10
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I was on my way to work and i was getting off the freeway today, and was making a left turn into the lanes. This other guy on the opposite side was getting off too, and exiting right. I'm halfway in the intersection when he decides to go and cut me off, forcing me to slow way down. We go forward and his car alone made it so I can't get into the turn lanes to make the turn down the road for my work. of course the turn signals never go for just bikes.
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Apr 2, 2015 04:35
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Ephphatha posted:I managed to get a bee lodged pretty firmly inside one of the top vents on my helmet a couple of weeks ago. Those fucks will find whatever gap they can to get at you. I had my visor open about a half in a few months back and had a bee miss the visor and my helmet and die upon impact with my cheek. I thought someone kicked up a rock or some because of how much it hurt. I will never ride with the visor open more than a crack small enough to whistle at speed.
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Apr 2, 2015 06:10
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Coming home today I had to follow behind a guy on a harley with a head hunters jacket dragging his feet doing walking pace through the cars. Eventually, after an agonising few kilometers, we get to a light. We both split up to the front and I sidle up beside him and there I am thinking 'this oval office is going to hold me up for the next ten k's because his machismo bullshit stops him from just letting me through and the hyoshit is too slow to drag one of those off, not to mention if I insult him that way ten of his mates will come to my house, kill me and rape my cat' but then the light turned green and he stalled. Best commute ever. Probably wrong thread.
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Apr 2, 2015 06:44
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Haha, best (kinda surprising/not surprising) ending ever. I went past a DeLorean done up as Back to the Future time machine (twice) on my commute home today. Today was a good day.
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Apr 2, 2015 08:48
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I wonder if it's possible to own a DeLorean and not be a huge BTTF nerd. On second thought that's probably the only reason anyone would want a DeLorean.
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Apr 2, 2015 12:40
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Pretty much. A stock DeLorean is a pretty terrible car.
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Apr 2, 2015 14:30
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I love DeLoreans but hate BTTF conversions and want a stock looking one (but with a not lovely engine and the suspension lowered back down to the height of the Euro version of the car). BTTF nerds annoy me because they're always making GBS threads up a nice looking Giugiaro-designed sports car.
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Apr 2, 2015 18:59
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El Jebus posted:I had my visor open about a half in a few months back and had a bee miss the visor and my helmet and die upon impact with my cheek. I thought someone kicked up a rock or some because of how much it hurt. I will never ride with the visor open more than a crack small enough to whistle at speed. I managed to hit a whole swarm of bees on a freeway in middle-of-nowhere Texas. I thought it was a huge clump of dirt at first (truck had just darted across the freeway in front of me) but then I noticed my visor was really...uh...gooey. I probably hit ~100 bees. Covered head to toe in guts and shells, and I was fishing carcasses out of bike crevices for weeks. For months afterward I'd be sitting at a light and a single bee would happen to fly by and I *swear* they could tell I had murdered their kin en masse.
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Apr 2, 2015 19:17
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The yellow jackets especially love bug guts. Every trip I take, by halfway through the first day they are swarming me until I get my gut-smeared jacket and pants off. I've caught a few licking up remnants from my headlight.
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Apr 2, 2015 20:02
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HotCanadianChick posted:I love DeLoreans but hate BTTF conversions and want a stock looking one (but with a not lovely engine and the suspension lowered back down to the height of the Euro version of the car). BTTF nerds annoy me because they're always making GBS threads up a nice looking Giugiaro-designed sports car. I'm this but with falcon coupes and mad max conversions.
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Apr 2, 2015 20:53
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Whelp, I finally injured myself with the bike! Like a complete moron, I decided it would be a genius loving idea to adjust my clutch cable after starting the bike to make sure it was working correctly. While fiddling around where the cable secures near the clutch arm, two of my fingers straightened up underneath the exhaust heat shield and came to rest on the exhaust header. Stupid stupid stupid 
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Apr 3, 2015 03:51
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FIRE HOT! I've done that. At least I didn't do it when I tried to save the clutch cable from melting all over the red hot header.
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Apr 3, 2015 07:02
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When I was a wee lad my father and his buddy were out in the woods cutting and splitting firewood for the winter. We had rented one of those fancy hydraulic splitters and the solemn duty of taking care of the machine and operating the piston was assigned to me by my father, who made it very clear he wanted to keep all of his fingers. Anyway, being 5 years old, and having such an awesomely powerful machine entrusted to me, I made sure to learn everything I could about it. My father cautioned me not to touch anything but the control devices because everything else was hot or liable to hurt me. Well, ever inquisitive, during a break (machine off) I started touching things with my hand, saying "That's not hot, that's not hot, that's not hot <touches muffler> OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW  " Once it was ascertained that I had not suffered crippling injury I was berated by a muttering father and instructed to keep my hand in his icewater cup until he and his buddy finished filling the truck bed.Since then my "burn reflex" reaction time has been nothing short of precognitive.
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Apr 3, 2015 07:53
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Beach Bum posted:Since then my "burn reflex" reaction time has been nothing short of precognitive. What are you some sort of Savant? I have to burn myself a least once a season to get back in the swing of things.
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Apr 3, 2015 16:25
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OSU_Matthew posted:Stupid stupid stupid Bright side of life: irrefutable evidence that this cylinder is firing...
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Apr 3, 2015 17:16
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My husband came out to greet me after I got home one day. I was off my bike and he was wearing shorts, and basiscally backed into my exhaust. He still has a scar (a big one) and it's been about a year. That poo poo be hot, yo.
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Apr 4, 2015 02:31
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My front tire is leaking  Filled up this morning and checked the tire pressures while I was at it. 1.4 bar in the front. Fill it up to 2.2. Ride on. Coming back the bike feels a bit squirrely so I check the pressure again and it's fallen to 1.5.
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Apr 4, 2015 12:49
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Lynza posted:My husband came out to greet me after I got home one day. I was off my bike and he was wearing shorts, and basiscally backed into my exhaust. The one thing that took me forever to understand is that motorcycles have short length exhausts and that means they get extra, extra loving hot in the places you can physically run into the exhaust pipe. It's the same level of heat production as your car's engine except the exhaust ends at the equivalent of the driver's seat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ZYxLdR5bo Also if you don't tune your 848 correctly when swapping to your Termignoni exhaust you can also shoot flames out of it's rear end!  Edit: Collateral Damage posted:My front tire is leaking See if you can find someone who can dismount and remount the tire for you after giving the wheel rim a decent cleaning. Sometimes dirt can cause a poor seal between the tire and the wheel. Also, valve stems are cheap so you might not have the worst case scenario!
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Apr 4, 2015 13:58
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Ripoff posted:See if you can find someone who can dismount and remount the tire for you after giving the wheel rim a decent cleaning. Sometimes dirt can cause a poor seal between the tire and the wheel. Also, valve stems are cheap so you might not have the worst case scenario!
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Apr 4, 2015 14:26
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There might also be something stuck in the thread of the tire, or there's a crack in the valve (wiggle the valve a bit to see). Can't hurt to look.
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Apr 4, 2015 15:42
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Collateral Damage posted:Hm, I've been riding some dirt roads recently so it's very possible that there's crud stuck between tire and rim. Gonna paint the edge of the rim and the valve with soapy water and see if I can find the leak. I had an inconsistent slow leak on a front tire recently - on a new tire, even - and the soap spray trick revealed nothing. A new valve core fixed it.
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Apr 4, 2015 20:19
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Ripoff posted:The one thing that took me forever to understand is that motorcycles have short length exhausts and that means they get extra, extra loving hot in the places you can physically run into the exhaust pipe. It's the same level of heat production as your car's engine except the exhaust ends at the equivalent of the driver's seat. We got one of those IR thermometer thingies. Turns out my header sits at about 430F, with my exhaust pipe at about 250.
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Apr 4, 2015 22:03
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Ripoff posted:
I don't see anything incorrect about this at all
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Apr 5, 2015 03:05
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Check your valve core before anything else.
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Apr 5, 2015 05:08
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gently caress. One of the exhaust valves on our 250 is stuck open. Was doing a valve check when I noticed this valve had zero clearance; tossed on the smallest shim I had and still no clearance at all. Then I noticed a piece of the the lip on the camshaft cracked off (probably due to the cams not being able to push the valve down). Last valve adjustment was supposedly done by the dealer 5k miles ago. Judging by how everything was out of spec I'm guessing they didn't actually do it. Bleh.
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Apr 5, 2015 20:41
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Got pulled over this morning for standing on my pegs while riding. What annoys me most is that this is the second time that a cop has literally pulled a 180 in the middle of the road to change direction and pull me over on the bike. Though, in all fairness, last time was slightly more understandable as I was doing twice the posted speed limit Thankfully he just let me off with a warning about how unsafe that kind of behavior is, though he made me late for work in the process
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Apr 6, 2015 13:25
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OSU_Matthew posted:Got pulled over this morning for standing on my pegs while riding. Because it's safer to not have blood flow to your limbs?
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Apr 6, 2015 13:45
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Wow, I am a habitual peg stander, because my knees get sore quickly, never even thought about getting stopped for it. Some people do give you a wide berth when you stand, presumably because they think I'm going to do a big standup wheelie? I ride a versys, so lmao at the thought of freeway standup wheelies.
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Apr 6, 2015 16:02
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Standing up is a great way to suddenly and unexpectedly terrify every single person driving a car within viewing distance of you. I do it whenever people are driving around me like assholes and they almost always back off, slow down, or try to get away from me. I think they just don't know what you're planning and have no idea that needing to stretch is a thing.
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