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N is for Nipples posted:I'm just gonna admit to myself I hosed up hard by allowing myself to be peer-pressured into getting a literbike as basically my first ride. I'm gonna go buy a GS500E. Good job. This keep the blood on the inside, and you'll become a much better rider and enjoy yourself more with a GS. Coredump posted:You guys seem really bothered by what happened to Chichevache when it has zero effect on any of you personally. I think chiche is the only one bothered by it. I don't think anyone seriously cares... right? All I saw in it was fate swapped his drz nightmare for a rad ZREX.
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It's a net loss. I was learning to wheelie the DRZ right before it was stolen. I can't practice on my poor rex until I have a spare bike.  I bought the rex before the DRZ was recovered. My dream was to have both at the same time, if I could repair the old dizzer. Then I'd never have to worry about driving a car again. 
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Coredump posted:You guys seem really bothered by what happened to Chichevache when it has zero effect on any of you personally. Anything that makes him happy or satisfied diminishes us all.
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call to action posted:The AMA has car+motorcycle roadside assistance for $49/yr. Yeah, I bought that a few months ago and I am very happy my $50 is going to fight Native American land rights instead of legalizing lane-splitting in the lesser 49.
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Chichevache posted:Yeah, I bought that a few months ago and I am very happy my $50 is going to fight Native American land rights instead of legalizing lane-splitting in the lesser 49. Maybe the Native Americans will let us lane split on their land?
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Hobolicious posted:Maybe the Native Americans will let us lane split on their land? Doesn't matter, as long as ATV and dirt bike rights are protected from the indigent indigenous. 
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Chichevache posted:Doesn't matter, as long as ATV and dirt bike rights are protected from the indigent indigenous. The AMA is so comically misguided anymore that I place them right beside "1%-ers" and liter bike bros at gas stations in the scale of legitimate motorcycle organizations. I swear if there was a sport out there that requires you to tie dogs to the back of quads and drag them behind to see who can kill their dog first, the AMA would be there defending animal abusers and ignoring the dude sweating his rear end off in traffic as each state bans motorcycles from using the HOV lanes.
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Don't forget that Evil Ethanol: Their roadside assistance has worked for me in the past, so it's still worth the $50 to me.
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Or State Farm. I've got roadside through them.
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It's almost like most "bike people" are kind of terrible and any organization that tries to cater to 1%rs, squidbros, and middle aged Harley leather daddies is going to end up doing dumb poo poo. Reminds me of the NRA. Marxalot fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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Marxalot posted:It's almost like most "bike people" are kind of terrible and any organization that tries to cater to 1%rs, squidbros, and middle aged Harley leather daddies is going to end up doing dumb poo poo. gr8 b8 m8
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Coredump posted:You guys seem really bothered by what happened to Chichevache when it has zero effect on any of you personally. You should be bothered by it too since his insurance fraud means higher premiums for the rest of us.
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Koruthaiolos posted:You should be bothered by it too since his insurance fraud means higher premiums for the rest of us. Don't buy insurance. Problem solved. For content, my mother called me to tell me a motorcycle cop in our city was dead. That was all. Apparently I'm supposed to feel bonded to this man, somehow. I guess next time I see a car accident I'll text her or something.
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I'm the last person to say something like this but she was just saying she worries about you riding and was thinking of you.
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BlackMK4 posted:I'm the last person to say something like this but she was just saying she worries about you riding and was thinking of you. Then she should probably stay under 50 mph in residential areas.
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Or quit running over motorcycle cops.
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Retarded Pimp posted:Or quit running over motorcycle cops. And with that, the original tale takes a grisly and hilarious turn.
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Retarded Pimp posted:Or quit running over motorcycle cops.  You must know a bleach-blonde woman rapidly approaching 65.
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I'm trying to nurse this baby Hawk back to health and just noticed that the Kreem liner some DPO applied is failing and it's going to be a huge loving pain to clean up. I loving hate Kreem. This is the "I'm trying to unfuck this bike" equivalent of this scene (replace "Karen" with "Previous Owner"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voDqfVthTpA&t=33s
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Gorson posted:I'm trying to nurse this baby Hawk back to health and just noticed that the Kreem liner some DPO applied is failing and it's going to be a huge loving pain to clean up. I loving hate Kreem. This is the "I'm trying to unfuck this bike" equivalent of this scene (replace "Karen" with "Previous Owner"): Ask me about a wiring harness enclosed entirely by one huge length of jumbo sized heat shrink 
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Slavvy posted:Ask me about a wiring harness enclosed entirely by one huge length of jumbo sized heat shrink That sounds nice. Ask me about wiring harnesses wrapped in three different types of electrical tape.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:That sounds nice. Ask me about wiring harnesses wrapped in three different types of electrical tape. Was it a Harley? Red/white/blue? 
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Anti-rant: seeing an old dude at set of traffic lights jump out of his car to stop everyone going on green so they wouldn't accidentally squash a bunch of baby ducks that were crossing the junction. 
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If your bike has an output shaft bearing that falls out in little pieces when you take the front sprocket off, what's the next step? My PO decided the next step was to take the cam chain tensioner out and run the engine for reasons he couldn't quite explain. He even volunteered to start the thing up with the tensioner out so I could hear it running.
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Slavvy posted:If your bike has an output shaft bearing that falls out in little pieces when you take the front sprocket off, what's the next step? What the.... 
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Further learnings: the donor bike with the black frame has a black frame because it was painted using a brush. Indiscriminately. On basically everything including fasteners, fork lowers, calipers, handlebars etc. Also, lost your fork pinch bolts? No problem, just go to the hardware store and get some similar looking ones with an imperial thread and just make them fit! Also red sealer fixes everything. Exhaust leaks, oil leaks, wiring harness brackets, fairings, lack of thread locker, ignition leads. Everything. The current list of what's good on the donor bike is: Engine Shock Switchgear Instrument cluster against all odds Everything else is only worth scrap value.
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Slavvy posted:Further learnings: the donor bike with the black frame has a black frame because it was painted using a brush. Indiscriminately. On basically everything including fasteners, fork lowers, calipers, handlebars etc. I- wh- but... 
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Slavvy posted:Further learnings: the donor bike with the black frame has a black frame because it was painted using a brush. Indiscriminately. On basically everything including fasteners, fork lowers, calipers, handlebars etc. Sounds like it was stolen.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Sounds like it was stolen. This was my thought as well but the vin number is completely dead and not wanted by the cops, so stolen and recovered maybe? No matter, the nice shiny A2 frame is the one getting put back on the road anyway.
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Cool, I thought a bit of contact cleaner made my sensor work properly again, but today it was at its worst. So I'm going to have to buy a second hand sensor and install it before going on vacation in two weeks. And probably have someone do my valves. And I broke my toe by standing up. gently caress me.
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Edit: ^^^ what? How?Slavvy posted:This was my thought as well but the vin number is completely dead and not wanted by the cops, so stolen and recovered maybe? No matter, the nice shiny A2 frame is the one getting put back on the road anyway. Your PO is hilarious. Can't you just sandblast the old frame (and some other stuff) and then powder coat it? As terrible as it may look, some paint doesn't seem like a reason to scrap it. Instead it's an opportunity to finally test out that day-glo powder coat.
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builds character posted:Your PO is hilarious. Can't you just sandblast the old frame (and some other stuff) and then powder coat it? As terrible as it may look, some paint doesn't seem like a reason to scrap it. Instead it's an opportunity to finally test out that day-glo powder coat. Not scrapping the bike, but they owe me money and the intent is to sell one of them as a profiteering excercise. So the engine and all the other good bits will go on the good frame which is a $40 inspection away from being road legal and sold. The problem with the black frame is that it's completely deregistered, the number plate is dead. If I want to get it road legal again I have to jump through a couple of expensive, time consuming hoops, which I've successfully done before with other bikes. My plan is to keep the frame and busted engine and do a proper rebuild and resto when I have the chance, then register it and keep it as a novelty toy.
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Chichevache posted:You can't just drop that here and walk away. Well I was sitting on the floor and then I got up. That's it. That's the whole loving story. I sat, I stood, I snapped. I have no clue how this happened. I did not roll my foot awkwardly, bumped it against something other than the floor apparently. I guess the floor hates my foot now. Listen, folks: always ATGATT because you never know what can happen. If I was wearing my boots I would've been spared this ordeal.
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