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The Bananana posted:Also sad, turns out they're discontinuing the vrods. Pretty sure the only person who ever bought them was my Dad. He's got three: a 100th anniversary model (first bike I ever rode after the Team Oregon class... first bike I ever crashed  ), a night rod, and Screaming Eagle. The 100th anniversary one was nearing 110,000 miles last I looked.
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How comfortable / rideable is a VMAX? Any year. asking for a friend.
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May 17, 2017 07:12
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Reasonably comfortable, but it's not something you really have to worry about because you'll be lucky if you get much more than 100 miles out of a tank.
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May 17, 2017 07:42
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Because the tank is tiny or because it's thirsty?
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May 17, 2017 07:45
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Thirsty? Contract a KC-130 to follow you if you intend on a road trip. I've never gotten more than 100 miles on a tank. The Gen2's might be a little better. Vmax's are all about ripping asphalt out of the road between stoplights. I'm doing a rebuild of my 1991 Gen 1 and converting the carb's to batch fire fuel injection. I doubt it will help with the range.
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May 17, 2017 08:10
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Oh boy, haha: https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles/comments/6blnug/recently_purchased_a_2008_yamaha_r6_that_appears/ It's Reddit, and r/Moto at that, but very much worth the click.
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Lol holy poo poo. It's great that someone that dumb is on a bike like an R6 When I sold my old cb750 the guy called me back same day saying 5th gear was broke citing the exact same thing. It took me a couple times of walking him through the explanation of the fact that you always shift one less time than the number of gears you have before he got it. Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 21:54 on May 17, 2017 |
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May 17, 2017 17:01
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I can understand a brain fart but if you have to explain it more than once...
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May 17, 2017 17:07
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Lol holy poo poo. It's great that someone that dumb is on a bike like an R6 Doesn't everyone know a "that guy" who buys a R6 as first bike and rides it 1000mi a year in shorts/t-shirt/running shoes hardly ever getting into the powerband out of primal fear and instead mostly taking pics of it and mentioning it on facebook... Meanwhile I wouldn't even take one around the block without a living will and DNR standing order.
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I don't know anyone personally, but I keep to myself for the most part. As for the bike, 600s aren't as gnarly as people make them out. Liter bikes? Hell yes. According to the original poster of that thread, this is their second R6. Heh.
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May 17, 2017 18:05
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A&R posted:Nicky Hayden Injured in Serious Bicycle Crash https://www.asphaltandrubber.com/wsbk/nicky-hayden-bicycle-crash/ gently caress
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Between that and McPint's off, Honda riders are having poo poo luck all around. Was anything ever said about the SP and the rumored stuck throttle that lead to the TT team pulling the bikes out of the NW?
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Yea, just saw. I do hope he had a helmet on, head trauma + serious condition = very bad  gently caress riding bicycles in the road alongside traffic by the way, rode across Boston once on a rental and it was the worst time of my life, never again. Anyways, I wanted to ask...does anybody here have a favorite piece of motorcycle or riding related prose? Please share if so. Mine would definitely have to be by Hunter S. Thompson from Hell's Angels quote:“So it was always at night, like a werewolf, that I would take the thing out for an honest run down the coast. I would start in Golden Gate Park, thinking only to run a few long curves to clear my head….but in a matter of minutes I’d be out at the beach with the sound of the engine in my ears, the surf booming up on the sea wall and a fine empty road stretching all the way down to Santa Cruz…not even a gas station in the whole seventy miles; the only public light along the way is an all-night diner down around Rockaway Beach.
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King of the Beach posted:gently caress riding bicycles in the road alongside traffic by the way, rode across Boston once on a rental and it was the worst time of my life, never again. its not that bad if you aren't slow af
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tjones posted:Oh boy, haha: https://www.reddit.com/r/bikesgonewild/comments/6bokoa/sad_to_see_her_go_new_owner_totaled_her_already/
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King of the Beach posted:Yea, just saw. I do hope he had a helmet on, head trauma + serious condition = very bad I know every one of the roads he's describing and I strongly doubt you could hit 100 miles an hour on the section of Great Highway near the zoo on the sorts of bikes he was riding 
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May 18, 2017 07:02
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May 18, 2017 12:57
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A dealership near me is having an Aprilia/Guzzi Demo Truck day in the next couple weeks. That is a thing that's surprising to me. Also the fact that there's an Aprilia dealer near where humans live is a bit surprising too. Hopefully it won't be too busy.
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This.
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Sagebrush posted:I know every one of the roads he's describing and I strongly doubt you could hit 100 miles an hour on the section of Great Highway near the zoo on the sorts of bikes he was riding Hunter S. Thompson was known for his accurate and honest storytelling.
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King of the Beach posted:Anyways, I wanted to ask...does anybody here have a favorite piece of motorcycle or riding related prose? Please share if so. Obligatory: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. But I suppose that's more of a metaphor for self discovery than actual motorcycle maintenance. Also, I have mixed feelings on the book. It wasn't bad, but it left with a disingenuous feeling. Like I had been strung along under some false pretense to go somewhere that I would have happily gone anyway. 'Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals' was probably better if only because it's boats, not motorcycles. I think at this less-confused and rebellious, more concretely domesticated stage of my life I'd rather sit down and read 'A River Runs Through It' or re-read 'Mme Bovary', now that my french is a little better. Hunter S. Thompson is always good. So is Aldous Huxley.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:This. There may or may not be a set of nunchaku packed under my seat right now... I miss the Road Rash games dearly and really wish a decent reboot was done that wasn't garbage (though I still play the N64 version on an emulator a few times a year and is still highly entertaining). Actually looking back the originals were probably the first time I realized that motorcycles were in fact cool as poo poo and something that I wanted in my life someday (either with or without the beating the gently caress out of each other at speed with weapons aspect - although I certainly do recall attempting a scaled down version of this with friends on BMXs a number of times). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvD8NydSA4I GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Obligatory: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Given his recent death + my recent purchase + it being about 10 years since I read it originally I think it's time for a casual re-reading (it's perfect for that). Agreed though, it really isn't about what the title implies, but if I recall that's literally the foreword - hell it's my childhood friend's favorite book of all time who cites it as a huge inspiration - and he's an immunologist with an Ivy League PhD who can't drive worth a drat, is lucky if they can untangle a seatbelt, and would most definitely cause me to lose sleep if they were to ever decide to buy a motorcycle and take up riding. Impkins Patootie fucked around with this message at 22:14 on May 18, 2017 |
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King of the Beach posted:There may or may not be a set of nunchaku packed under my seat right now... Road Rash 3D probably had the best music but the original Road Rash on 3DO was definitely the best game. I had RR and RR II for the Sega Genesis. I'm pretty sure it was responsible for a lot of whiffle ball bats through the spokes.
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The PSX version was infinitely better because the graphics were better and it introduced me to bands like Soundgarden because gently caress cartridges. RIP Chris Cornell
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nsaP posted:The PSX version was infinitely better because the graphics were better and it introduced me to bands like Soundgarden because gently caress cartridges. Tony Hawk 4 is significant to my musical taste for the same reasons.
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King of the Beach posted:Agreed though, it really isn't about what the title implies, but if I recall that's literally the foreword - hell it's my childhood friend's favorite book of all time who cites it as a huge inspiration - and he's an immunologist with an Ivy League PhD who can't drive worth a drat, is lucky if they can untangle a seatbelt, and would most definitely cause me to lose sleep if they were to ever decide to buy a motorcycle and take up riding. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is really a philosophy book that just happens to have the word "motorcycle" in the title and uses a motorcycle trip as a framing device. It's not about motorcycles.
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Sagebrush posted:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is really a philosophy book that just happens to have the word "motorcycle" in the title and uses a motorcycle trip as a framing device. It's not about motorcycles. I prefer to think of it as a really complicated motorcycle book because the philosophy aspect of it is fairly terrible.
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May 19, 2017 03:01
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Song of the Sausage Creature.
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King of the Beach posted:There may or may not be a set of nunchaku packed under my seat right now... C-up, C-left, C-left, C-right, L, R, C down, Z. The only cheat code I ever committed to memory. Don't you dare mess with the mean machine. Also I wish a decent controller would come out with six face buttons, some games really don't work right with the c buttons on a stick. This game definitely got me and my brother into riding, though with considerably less hitting eachother with bananas.
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Z3n posted:Song of the Sausage Creature. I owned a 900ss cr. It was pretty great aside from PO fuckery
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I prefer to think of it as a really complicated motorcycle book because the philosophy aspect of it is fairly terrible. I'm re-reading this to my GF at the moment as a way of explaining that not all Americans are crazy. Some of them are schizophrenic.
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As Nero Danced posted:C-up, C-left, C-left, C-right, L, R, C down, Z. The only cheat code I ever committed to memory. Don't you dare mess with the mean machine. Hahaha I forgot that Road Rash unleashed Sugar Ray upon the world while they were still an OC thrashy punky band secretly seeking their 15 minutes of fame... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yitbm_DFj7g I had a lovely motorcycle moment last nite when making a dash home from downtown Boston as a storm rapidly approached, listening to Badmotorfinger on I-93 until the earbuds fell out as lightning flashed all around me as the wind suddenly intensified blowing sand everywhere like I was in goddamn Mauritania...only to make it home just about 2 minutes before the skies opened up - good stuff~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDKdoJA0RBA ^ sincerest apologies if that gets stuck in your head all weekend... 
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Razzled posted:pls pray for hayden Update on Hayden's crash - https://www.todocircuito.com/noticias/14652-atropello-nicky-hayden-italia.html Sounds like he rolled through a stop sign.
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In this scheme you can see the place of the attack I hope his brain is able to recover. That is some hosed-up poo poo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHjY6GRxVRM HA Apparently there's currently a bike theft epidemic in the UK, and now things have apparently escalated to literal Katanas.
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Good thing most goons already own multiple ninja weapons. We can protect ourselves
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Again huh? They were popular for robberies some years ago, to the extent that katanas (specifically any curved sword over 50cm long) got slapped with an import ban in 2008. Don't know if it's straight black market stuff now or if they're getting around it with slightly shorter swords. Either way I'll take it as proof that moral panic legislation solves exactly nothing. e/ related, probably by the same gang, this happened last month (helmet cam footage of a biker getting mobbed by 4 mopeds) Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 20:44 on May 19, 2017 |
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