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Swapped the Tigcraft full system on my Tuono for a Arrow full system. Mostly because I noticed a small crack had formed. My ears are still ringing but I think my bike just got louder. It was nice that it only took me about 2 hours to do it.
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EvilCrayon posted:Swapped the Tigcraft full system on my Tuono for a Arrow full system. Mostly because I noticed a small crack had formed. Nice, got a clip of it?
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Jul 4, 2017 15:11
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I resprung my SV forks and rode it for a while yesterday. It's nice.
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Jul 6, 2017 19:16
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Voyaging into the maddening world of wheel building. Got the front wheel trued up last night around 12:30. Today I started on the rear wheel, realized I laced it wrong, relaced, then tightened the spokes wrong so I had threads showing when I was hitting the right torque setting. So now I'm on round..... 3 (?) of truing the rear wheel. Hopefully I'll be done before midnight. Still beats the ~$400 the local shop wanted to charge me. 
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Jul 7, 2017 01:07
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Helped herd baby ducks across the freeway!
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Jul 7, 2017 05:08
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/17/canada-ducklings-highway-fatal-court/20513845/ gently caress ducks
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  Show of hands: how many here have pinched a hole in a tube putting it back on the rim? I really should have bought proper tire spoons, a wheel stand, and probably a bike stand at some point.  Cheap eBay bar end mirrors to replace the cracked ones from my last misadventure.
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Jul 8, 2017 05:05
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Revvik posted:
Yo Even with proper spoons, I pinched the last one I did. I was careful, too.
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Jul 8, 2017 05:14
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I watched a friend change his own tires once and after that have had no problems paying the shop 20 bucks per wheel to do it for me
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Jul 8, 2017 05:31
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Fukken grease up that tube or baby powder or something don't just dry dick it
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Jul 8, 2017 05:44
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Razzled posted:I watched a friend change his own tires once and after that have had no problems paying the shop 20 bucks per wheel to do it for me 20 a wheel? That rocks. I'm not sure the shops around here would mount and balance for 20 a wheel if you buy the tires there, even the independent joints.
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Jul 8, 2017 06:45
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I've pinched tubes before. Loosely inflated and really powdered up, too. My technique must've just sucked. When I found out the Ninja 250 I was buying a couple of years ago rolls on tubeless wheels, I was so relieved.
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Jul 8, 2017 06:59
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GriszledMelkaba posted:Fukken grease up that tube or baby powder or something don't just dry dick it This. Just find the cheapest talcum powder at the store and you won't smash another tire scrotum again.
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Jul 8, 2017 07:23
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Just cross-postin some of the picture of where I'm at with the vaporwave electronic gauge cluster for the Hawk GT      Lots and lots of work but it's gradually coming together 
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Jul 8, 2017 08:41
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Goddamn that's coming along superbly
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Jul 8, 2017 09:31
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Sagebrush posted:Just cross-postin some of the picture of where I'm at with the vaporwave electronic gauge cluster for the Hawk GT Are those squares above and below going to be a rev counter/shift indicator or something? Please tell me they are.
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Jul 8, 2017 09:38
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Sagebrush posted:Just cross-postin some of the picture of where I'm at with the vaporwave electronic gauge cluster for the Hawk GT That's going to look loving rad on a zrx.
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Jul 8, 2017 09:40
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Sagebrush posted:Just cross-postin some of the picture of where I'm at with the vaporwave electronic gauge cluster for the Hawk GT You're awesome, this is awesome.
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Jul 8, 2017 10:37
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Sagebrush posted:Just cross-postin some of the picture of where I'm at with the vaporwave electronic gauge cluster for the Hawk GT This owns and is ridiculously cool looking. I can't wait to see it in action!
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Jul 8, 2017 13:54
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Revvik posted:
You rang? This https://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/p/726/20307/Tusk-17%22-Mega-Tire-Iron And this https://www.denniskirk.com/284154.sku?gclid=CNqO197h-dQCFYKEswodvYgH5g Make things a LOT easier for me. Sagebrush posted:Just cross-postin some of the picture of where I'm at with the vaporwave electronic gauge cluster for the Hawk GT This is good.
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Jul 8, 2017 14:13
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Revvik posted:
the motion pro levers have little hooks on the end that fit on the rim and make things a whole lot easier. using the big rounded end spoons is asking to ruin tubes. you can get a jug of tire lube (Ru-Glyde) from napa for 10 dollars and don't be shy with it
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Jul 8, 2017 14:38
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Sagebrush, you are a legend. I want one, and I don't even have a bike it would suit.
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Jul 8, 2017 17:32
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Revvik posted:
I pitched 2 tubes the last time I put new tires on the KLX, and 1 was after I used baby powder. I think I've got it figured out on the right way to go about it now though. That being said, my wheels are at the shop right now getting tires put on, mostly because I don't want to scratch up the shiny new Warp9 wheels I have.
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Coydog posted:Sagebrush, you are a legend. I want one, and I don't even have a bike it would suit. It suits all bike from 1970 onward.
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PathAsc posted:Goddamn that's coming along superbly Coydog posted:Sagebrush, you are a legend. I want one, and I don't even have a bike it would suit. builds character posted:This is good. Jim Silly-Balls posted:This owns and is ridiculously cool looking. I can't wait to see it in action! Renaissance Robot posted:You're awesome, this is awesome. Thanks! I'm pretty stoked with how it's turning out. The electronics and code are mostly working, and I'm currently fixing up some of the 3D models to make them a little more suitable for printing. Tolerancing is pretty important, especially around the screen, which is a raw chunk of glass so I am printing three-dimensional gaskets out of TPE but the material's quite squishy and doesn't hold perfect accuracy so you have to print a part and then measure what you actually got and compensate and yada yada. goddamnedtwisto posted:Are those squares above and below going to be a rev counter/shift indicator or something? Please tell me they are. Yes, of course. :P They're addressable RGB LED strips. The top one is going to be a tachometer and the bottom one shows the idiot lights (turn/neutral/oil/high beam), but since it's all software they could do anything. I'm considering having a "night mode" setting where it's very subtle and non-distracting -- the screen goes off and the LED strips turn on dim red, the top one showing RPM and the bottom one showing speed somehow. Maybe a segmented bar with each group of three LEDs representing 10mph or something. Chichevache posted:That's going to look loving rad on a zrx. Chichevache posted:It suits all bike from 1970 onward. IMO it suits bikes with the correct '80s ~aesthetic~. A ZRX would be relatively well suited cause it's got a kind of mid-90s look, but really it would slot in best on things like an early VFR, the CX turbos, a Suzuki Katana, that kind of stuff. The relatively straight-lined transitional period between round bubbly '70s bikes and blobular computer-modeled '90s fairings. The Hawk GT doesn't actually scream "1980s!" like some of those do -- it's a pretty timeless design IMO. But there are subtle things I'm doing here to make it match, like for instance the radii of curvature of the edges of the gauge housing are identical to the curvature of the sides of the Hawk's gas tank. I'm trying to make the display look like the future of motorcycling as imagined at the 1987 Tokyo motor show, so imagine what else would have been there and that's what it'll fit. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Jul 8, 2017 |
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Sagebrush posted:Yes, of course. :P They're addressable RGB LED strips. The top one is going to be a tachometer and the bottom one shows the idiot lights (turn/neutral/oil/high beam), but since it's all software they could do anything. I'm considering having a "night mode" setting where it's very subtle and non-distracting -- the screen goes off and the LED strips turn on dim red, the top one showing RPM and the bottom one showing speed somehow. Maybe a segmented bar with each group of three LEDs representing 10mph or something. Even though I'm probably older than you, is there any way we can arrange for you to adopt me? I can hand you your tools and you can ruffle my hair. Seriously though that is truly awesome and I suspect (if you can get the fabrication cost/hassle down from "labour of love") you'd be able to sell those by the boatload. Probably enough to afford to buy and restore an OG Katana, which is what that display is made for.
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i wish my bike had an oled dash, that is cool stuff.
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Sagebrush posted:Thanks! I'm pretty stoked with how it's turning out. The electronics and code are mostly working, and I'm currently fixing up some of the 3D models to make them a little more suitable for printing. Tolerancing is pretty important, especially around the screen, which is a raw chunk of glass so I am printing three-dimensional gaskets out of TPE but the material's quite squishy and doesn't hold perfect accuracy so you have to print a part and then measure what you actually got and compensate and yada yada. It would also look good on a 1st/2nd gen SV650, since those are just newer versions of the Hawk from a different manufacturer. If you ever make one for a gen 1 SV, I'll buy one.
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Not today but the past week and a half: -replaced the tiny round mirrors I had mounted on the bars with mirrors that allow me to actually see what's behind me, I think they fit the bike pretty well. Originally it had ugly round mickey mouse mirrors. -added an extra mirror mount for my RAM ball now that I'm back to using the clutch perch for a mirror -wheel striping, man this really ties the bike together -re-wrapped the first panel I did, it's actually turned out decent now. Still 5 hours of work or so. 
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Sagebrush, you wanna build one for the CBX? Happy to alpha test and fund development / do a codes in exchange 
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Jul 8, 2017 20:43
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Will it run on 6v? The gauges on my f11 are shot
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Maybe if there's sufficient interest once I get this one working I'll look into a more saleable version. :P Given that this is the prototype, there's a lot of really labor-intensive work to put it together. At the very least I'd want to make some custom PCBs -- that would vastly simplify both the electronics and the internal layout. Yes, in the currrent iteration it should run on 6v as there's a buck-boost converter to supply the 12v that the OLED requires.
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Finally found some original documentation to study on the Ner-a-car I'll hopefully be riding in the Motorcycle Cannonball next year. http://www.butchwax.com/wp-content/uploads/neracar/neracar-us-parts-list.pdf Amazing how hard it is to find info on this thing. Some Dutch guy on eBay wants $80 for an owner's manual but I dunno how I feel about the Dutch.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ882QYzr-M
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Probably enough to afford to buy and restore an OG Katana, which is what that display is made for. Yeah I was gonna say that display + Katana would be perfect.
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Jul 9, 2017 05:17
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Put some blind spot mirrors on. Truly I am machine master 
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I installed the Hotbodies MGP Growler (aka the cheapest slip-on I could find) on my CB300F. Pros: - it looks much, much nicer than the giant chrome tube that comes stock with the bike - it gives my little thumper a nice beefy sound at lower rpms Cons: - it's loving LOUD at higher rpms - there's significant torque loss at the low end, more than I expected - IT'S. SO. loving. LOUD. Like, hearing damage loud. I'm trying to track down a baffle for it, which supposedly remedies both my cons, but they're sold out everywhere.  Also I crushed the poo poo out of the pipe gasket while installing so I'll have to replace that soon.
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Jul 11, 2017 12:52
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So, would you say your bike has a growler? 
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dumb. posted:I installed the Hotbodies MGP Growler (aka the cheapest slip-on I could find) on my CB300F. This is why cheap slipons are stupid. Just put the stock muffler back on and quit worrying about your image. But if you're set on having a loud gutless bike, Delkevic sells pretty much any muffler gasket dimension you could want, and they ship quickly and are affordable. They have a store on ebay.
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Wear earplugs.
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