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Totally agree with this.* A real name, even if it doesn't make any sense, has a *snaps fingers* certain something, a presence to it that even legendary alphabet soups like GSX-R x or CBRxRR or RxGS can't match. I don't think the Germans or Austrians have ever done anything but engineering codes. Cars are the same. Oh this BMW 318 is an E46 you say, how fascinating. I think I'd rather have a Jaguar Invincible Empress Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister Edition, thanks. Kudos to Japan then for dropping this MT-09 or FJ-09 stupidity from 2017 and calling it the Tracer 700 and 900 in both markets - or so I understand. Who knows, maybe it's the Ginger Daffodil Philosophy 900 in Japan. * I agree with the sentiment, but the Fireblade, Hurricance and Blackbird are all CBR alphabet soup flavours. But they do have names. Jim Silly-Balls posted:There are bikes, the sohc cb750 is one I believe, where you can put an oil cooler inline with an oil return line since some of the oil lines are external Just because it's external doesn't make it a good place, although I know it's a common mod on that bike - perhaps mostly because the DOHC has one? But also because 1970s. There are external lines on my bike as well, one runs between the pump and the head, so if I tap oil off it, I am draining precious blood pressure away from my cams. With a SOHC CB750 my initial point stands, sorta - better to love it for what it is, or get another bike.
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Sagebrush posted:I'm fine with whatever names bikes have, as long as they have names. In America my bike is a Hawk GT; in Japan it's a Bros 650 (because they made a 400 and a 650, you see, and those bikes were like "brothers", so And yet nobody prefers the Gladius to the SV650. Also the worst offenders re: alphabet soup names aren't the Germans, it's Harley. What the gently caress is an FLDXQPRSTUV? Why do Harley owners use those dumb 20 letter long trim codes? Militant Lesbian fucked around with this message at 01:48 on May 6, 2016 |
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) but either one is better than "NT650".
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Sagebrush posted:I'm fine with whatever names bikes have, as long as they have names. In America my bike is a Hawk GT; in Japan it's a Bros 650 (because they made a 400 and a 650, you see, and those bikes were like "brothers", so Agreed completely. I'm glad the zrx at least has the memorable "Z-Rex" moniker that I can pretend is a name.
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This is fun to discuss because inevitably all bike manufacturers are alphabet soup nazis AND have cool names which are ALSO stupid. And it depends on the receiver. I hate marketing but I love its effects.HotCanadianChick posted:And yet nobody prefers the Gladius to the SV650. Is it because of the name though? The name which of course belongs to the single greatest weapon known to history, the famous short stabbing sword of the Roman army, which nature of utility and ease of production came to a million sharp points behind which the immense weight of strategic genius and tactical engineering could penetrate the deepest markets of the east and west? Or was it...? 
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May 6, 2016 02:13
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Z3n posted:Don't run engine ice it is garbage for your engine passages if you don't change it. Antifreeze for street temperatures, straight water for track. Building on this, its also hard on water pump seals, as is high-silica coolants. (in asian bikes, anyway)
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May 6, 2016 02:20
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Dont forget the underrated Thundercat, which nobody remembers because R6
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The Car Stuff podcast has a mildly interesting episode about car names. I default to XJ600 because The Seca name was also used in the 80s and those bikes are extremely forgettable. Not that the 90s ones aren't, but they're better. Using a sandwich plate for a cooler always struck me as poor engineering at some level. With one in place, the downward pointing filter is now a good 1.5" or so lower, and becomes the lowest point in the bike aside from the axles. With the wet noodle suspension, goodbye oil filter if you go over a curb or hit a speed bump at speed.
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Ola posted:Is it because of the name though? The name which of course belongs to the single greatest weapon known to history, the famous short stabbing sword of the Roman army Lol chode I mean everyone already jokes that bikes are dick extensions primarily bought by directionless middle aged men, naming one after any sword would seem silly and pretentious, that sword in particular just adds an extra layer of immature giggles.
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Renaissance Robot posted:I mean everyone already jokes that bikes are dick extensions primarily bought by directionless middle aged men, naming one after any sword would seem silly and pretentious, that sword in particular just adds an extra layer of immature giggles.  
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May 6, 2016 07:31
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I think this might be my fetish, the most beautifully ugly bike around. It looks like Paul Verhoeven designed a utilitarian kid's pocket bike.
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Behold, the latest suzuki katana: ("The" Katana only gets away with it because everybody's busy arguing over its appearance) Chichevache posted:I think this might be my fetish, the most beautifully ugly bike around. It looks like Paul Verhoeven designed a utilitarian kid's pocket bike. It was designed by a German firm, so you're close. Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 07:47 on May 6, 2016 |
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Z3n posted:Don't run engine ice it is garbage for your engine passages if you don't change it. Antifreeze for street temperatures, straight water for track. I run engine ice on my VFR in the summer because I do a lot of sitting in traffic and it gets hot as gently caress. But I also switch back to 50/50 sometime around September, sooo... Jim Silly-Balls posted:There are bikes, the sohc cb750 is one I believe, where you can put an oil cooler inline with an oil return line since some of the oil lines are external The CB750 is one of the few bikes that actually benefits from an oil cooler, particularly if you do a lot of slow or stop and go riding in traffic. The external oil tank already acts as a heatsink, so you could also get away with just leaving the sidecover off, or getting a finned tank to dissipate heat faster. I would say that I'd worry about an oil cooler (connected using the external oil tank lines) on that bike in the winter because it could cool the oil TOO much, but honestly, it'll be fine. That Honda has an oil pump built like a Sherman tank and could pump concrete up a mountain. I'd still recommend just getting an adapter plate and connecting the oil cooler to where the oil filter goes. It'll keep oil temps more consistent across the whole loop.
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I posted in discussion about my Vstrom getting the oil pressure light coming on while on the freeway. Pulled over and stopped and got a tow home. Last night I drained my oil to check for metal and other than 3 or 4 sand grain size pieces there wasn't any metal in the oil. There's some metal on the magnetic oil pan bolt but I don't know how long that's been accumulating, this is only the second time I've done the oil on this bike and it has 49k miles. My oil looks like chocolate milk though.      The much darker oil is old oil I hadn't disposed of yet. I THINK its from my CBR500R which means its the same oil, Rotella T Triple 15W-40I've never seen oil this color before, could something be wrong making it this color and making my oil pressure light come one? The bike has been running warm lately but I thought it was coolant running low, so I was gonna replace it today. Now that I have the fairing off, the coolant reservoir looks filled (but it looks like there's dirt accumulated on the bottom of it) and it looks like there is coolant on the other side of my engine, which I neglected to take a picture of. I'm probably gonna come have the shop get it today to look at it but any input would be great.
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May 6, 2016 15:24
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huh... that's a weird color. no mayonnaise though? Does the oil smell HEAVILY of gasoline?
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May 6, 2016 15:28
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I did notice a strong smell last night when I was pouring it between containers. I'll go give a whif and see if it's still there.
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May 6, 2016 15:41
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Could it be coolant? Head gasket leak perhaps?
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May 6, 2016 16:11
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A quick Google search suggests chocolate milk oil = head gasket issues and it's coolant. The oil from last night was mixed with the old oil and doesn't really stink bad, a mild maybe gassy smell. I smelled my other old oil, one I think from the cbr500r that smelled about the same, and the other I think from the Vstrom, and it was really gassy smelling. It's the oil from the PO. TBH the bike would smell gassy sometimes.
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May 6, 2016 16:17
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Schroeder91 posted:A quick Google search suggests chocolate milk oil = head gasket issues and it's coolant. Then probably a light coolant leak. Looks like you're gonna have to pull the head.
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May 6, 2016 16:23
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Could that be why my oil pressure light came on? Or is my bike failing in multiple ways at once
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Schroeder91 posted:Could that be why my oil pressure light came on? Or is my bike failing in multiple ways at once Maybe, I suppose there are oil pipes going through there as well. A leak would bleed off the pressure. I think it's probably fixable.
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Schroeder91 posted:Could that be why my oil pressure light came on? Or is my bike failing in multiple ways at once Maybe, but it's doubtful unless there's a bunch of oil all over the bike, in the cylinders (you would have been putting a shitton of dark / blue smoke out of the tailpipe), or in the coolant system.
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No smoke AFAIK, and no oil outside the engine. No leaks except what I believe is coolant on the engine case.
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May 6, 2016 16:46
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Looks like when my old SV popped a water plug.
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Schroeder91 posted:Could that be why my oil pressure light came on? Or is my bike failing in multiple ways at once Oil doesn't work so gud when it's had a bunch of coolant mixed with it.
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May 6, 2016 22:07
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Sagebrush posted:I'm fine with whatever names bikes have, as long as they have names. In America my bike is a Hawk GT; in Japan it's a Bros 650 (because they made a 400 and a 650, you see, and those bikes were like "brothers", so God, yes. This. Boring names are boring. I hate having to barf out some long alphanumeric code to identify a specific motorcycle. Give it an actual name.
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May 6, 2016 23:27
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I started preferring model numbers to names when I was a teenager, after I realized that numbers indicated engine size more often than not.
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Hey so my GN125 has started bogging down a little bit when I go to accelerate after stopping, or if I rev it while sitting at a stop. But a quick rev until it winds up past the bogging and it will be fine again up until I stop at the next light. Could it have anything to do with the weather being warmer than the 50s that it's been most of the time that I've had the thing?
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captainOrbital posted:I started preferring model numbers to names when I was a teenager, after I realized that numbers indicated engine size more often than not. That makes it even worse. If the number in the model code is the engine displacement, then the rest of it must be the name of the bike/style. "Hey, what model of BMW is that?" "R" Boooooooooooooring. Personally, I think the displacement is a dumb figure to put in the name of the vehicle, and you should just look it up from the data sheet like you do the tire size or the weight. But if you've got to have it, at least preface it with a memorable name.
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captainOrbital posted:I started preferring model numbers to names when I was a teenager, after I realized that numbers indicated engine size more often than not. But my ZRX isn't even a 1200. 
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Chichevache posted:But my ZRX isn't even a 1200. Yeah cause it turns out the engineers have this pesky habit of making the engine whatever size is convenient to them, not marketable sizes, so almost all the badge displacements are inaccurate, some by hilarious margins (looking at you KTM).
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Something has been bothering me about motorcyclist culture and road manners. It's been bothering me for quite some time and I really hope to settle it: Do you point one finger down at the ground? Two? Give a full on wave? Heil Hitler? What do I do with my hand to greet other motorcyclists?!
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May 7, 2016 04:04
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Wave if you can, nod if you can't, give a thumbs up if you're australian. Don't know anything about this finger pointing business.
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May 7, 2016 04:06
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I switch it up. Usually I give a low-down peace sign to people on cruisers, and the horns to people on sportbikes. If the guy is riding something really cool and I want to let him know, I do the Elvis point and if there's a line of bikes going by, I sometimes do a finger-gun and "shoot" them one by one. I don't attempt to wave if I'm in a turn or whatever and it would be unsafe. I nod at people at stoplights if I'm holding in the clutch, but it's not really noticeable at speed so I don't bother. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 04:23 on May 7, 2016 |
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May 7, 2016 04:20
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I do the ocelot point myself.
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Sagebrush posted:I switch it up. Usually I give a low-down peace sign to people on cruisers, and the horns to people on sportbikes. If the guy is riding something really cool and I want to let him know, I do the Elvis point Low down peace sign to everyone except goofy sumo guys and cruisers. Sumo guys get waves, devil horns, whatever feels good. Cruisers get no acknowledgement most of the time, the middle finger occasionally, and the real bad rear end macho harley alpha males with 10' long dragging dicks get a double handed wave like I'm a
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Chichevache posted:Low down peace sign to everyone except goofy sumo guys and cruisers. Sumo guys get waves, devil horns, whatever feels good. Cruisers get no acknowledgement most of the time, the middle finger occasionally, and the real bad rear end macho harley alpha males with 10' long dragging dicks get a double handed wave like I'm a Wait, you aren't mildly retarded??
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Only by brunette standards
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I'm a big fan of an exaggerated goofy wave that makes it look like I'm probably shouting "HAAAYYYYY!" inside my helmet. Especially in response to cruiser pirates pointing at the ground. I gave one guy the antlers last year, but that's because an elk had just run out into the road in front of me a few seconds earlier.
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The only proper greeting for another motorcyclist is a wheelie. This includes motocops.
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I throw the horns down unless I see a scooter, then it's a big goofy wave. Unless I'm using the clutch, obv
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