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Jazzzzz posted:You have to punch the pins out to replace the pads, but you definitely shouldn't have to remove the pads from the caliper to get it back over the rotor and bolted onto the carrier. Thanks for the help. I'll try to remove the chain guide next time to see if I can tip it to the side. No amount of tipping the wheel would let it clear the caliper the way I was trying, and you can't slide it forward off the guide because the brake line is too short to do so.
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Coydog posted:Thanks for the help. I'll try to remove the chain guide next time to see if I can tip it to the side. No amount of tipping the wheel would let it clear the caliper the way I was trying, and you can't slide it forward off the guide because the brake line is too short to do so. Interesting, on my 701 the brake line is just long enough. Getting the wheel out is easy enough, it's getting it back in that's a juggling act.
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Slide Hammer posted:I see... it's not that you meet the nicest people on a Honda, but that each Honda comes with a nice person instruction manual... Hahah
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Sagebrush posted:On a Hawk GT you Fz6: remove rear axle nut with tool provided by Yamaha in the underseat too kit. Push out rear axle. Uh, yeah. I guess you could call putting it up on the center stand a step, if you really wanted to.
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FJR: Loosen pinch bolt(s? I can't remember if there were two on the rear), loosen axle, disconnect the brake caliper tension bar thing that keeps it steady under load, pull the axle out, cry a little because something didn't work, wiggle it off the pumpkin, cry some more, swear a few minutes, eventually get it out. To reverse, just throw it off a cliff because what a pain in the rear end. VFR: Vwoop vwoop vwoop vwoop off go the lug nuts
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PCOS Bill posted:FJR: Loosen pinch bolt(s? I can't remember if there were two on the rear), loosen axle, disconnect the brake caliper tension bar thing that keeps it steady under load, pull the axle out, cry a little because something didn't work, wiggle it off the pumpkin, cry some more, swear a few minutes, eventually get it out. VFR lyfe. Adjust chain: loosen lug nut, crank with tool, tighten lug nut.
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Revvik posted:Rear wheel on a DRZ just pops right off. I'll trade you straight up, you'll be thanking me. 20bux says he'll take my piece of poo poo over yours. :P (p sure it's sold to a friend anyway) The DR650 is a convoluted pile of assholes to remove the rear wheel too. Every time I work on the wifes bike that rear assembly just pisses me off sooo fuuucking muuuch. (its probably from the fact it uses a 17" rear and the caliper assembly is just a bag of dicks)
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cursedshitbox posted:The DR650 is a convoluted pile of assholes to remove the rear wheel too. Every time I work on the wifes bike that rear assembly just pisses me off sooo fuuucking muuuch. (its probably from the fact it uses a 17" rear and the caliper assembly is just a bag of dicks) I would love to see the maintenance diagram.
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Carth Dookie posted:I would love to see the maintenance diagram.  
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cursedshitbox posted:20bux says he'll take my piece of poo poo over yours. :P That's a safe bet. I love your biek. What are you talking about on the DR650?! It's one of the simplest and most brilliant ways I've seen (outside of a SSA). The chain adjusters are awesome, and really easy to match up and use, and the rest of everything just slides right out in seconds. Seriously, those chain adjusters are what I've needed in my life all these years, instead of the nut/bolt type that is a real pain to get matched up.
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 I hate to sell the fucker, but ahaha it ain' comin to Europe. gently caress the prices of shipping that bastage. I did find a KDX250SR here with everything NLA. Oh I love the S cam adjusters. I just hate how you have to fight the cushdrive and everything else. Compared to a DRZ it's just 10 times the whore and makes me cranky. FWIW I can wheelswap the rear end in a top hat in approx12 minutes, including the kickstand. Fuuuck having the sm swingarm and dealing with the slider blocks. 
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Coydog posted:Thanks for the help. I'll try to remove the chain guide next time to see if I can tip it to the side. No amount of tipping the wheel would let it clear the caliper the way I was trying, and you can't slide it forward off the guide because the brake line is too short to do so. You need to remove the brake line from the stay. Rear wheel changes on the 690 SMC were some of the easiest I've ever done, so there's some sorta technique for removal you're not aware of here  I don't recall if this was the exact technique for the 690, but usually it's "slide wheel foward, lift off chain, move it forward / down a bit more to slide brake calipers free of rotor and lift off caliper and get it out of the way, slide wheel out".
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Not sure how a DR650 is set up, but on the DR350, the whole caliper sits on a rail on the swingarm. The brake line is juuuust long enough to slide the caliper backward off it as soon as the axle bolt is out of the caliper. Balls easy to remove and replace because of it, but a complete PITA to attempt while the caliper is on.
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Barnsy posted:VFR lyfe. One thing I miss about my VFR was both the center stand and the ease of rear wheel/chain maintenance. I still have the chain adjustment tool, any DFW goons need one?
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I miss my VFR, too. But then when I miss it I remember I have an FJR now which is pretty cool too.
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My rant is about the traffic staging lights in the HOV lanes. Now that my commute is a ton of freeway, I take the HOV lanes when possible on onramps, and they're often staggered with lights. Well neither the SV or the Elite will make the light sense I'm there, so if I sit and wait I piss everyone off behind me, and if I blow through the light or even stop, wait and go on red, I get  reactions from other drivers I can't win in the HOV.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:My rant is about the traffic staging lights in the HOV lanes. Now that my commute is a ton of freeway, I take the HOV lanes when possible on onramps, and they're often staggered with lights. Why what you need is one of them there super magnets that set off the sensors on the light! They totally work and are not snake oil at all no sir!
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its all nice on rice posted:Why what you need is one of them there super magnets that set off the sensors on the light! They totally work and are not snake oil at all no sir! Just clamp a big old I-beam to the bottom of your bike. Cruiser owners always tell you how a low centre of gravity improves things so it's a win-win!
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:My rant is about the traffic staging lights in the HOV lanes. Now that my commute is a ton of freeway, I take the HOV lanes when possible on onramps, and they're often staggered with lights.
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Yeah here in WI the HOV lanes just let you get to the light easier, you don't get to skip it.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:My rant is about the traffic staging lights in the HOV lanes. Now that my commute is a ton of freeway, I take the HOV lanes when possible on onramps, and they're often staggered with lights. I never stop at lights for onramps in my car and I only recently got honked at for the first time, yolo.
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its all nice on rice posted:Why what you need is one of them there super magnets that set off the sensors on the light! They totally work and are not snake oil at all no sir! Wait is this really snake oil because I've been insisting for years that I cannot understand how a small magnet 1ft off the ground can do more to trip a sensor than an entire motorbike. People tell me it actually works, though. My DR is the worst at tripping sensors, and I've just gotten used to running reds. Z3n posted:You need to remove the brake line from the stay. Rear wheel changes on the 690 SMC were some of the easiest I've ever done, so there's some sorta technique for removal you're not aware of here I swear I tried all this, and there wasn't enough clearance to move it forward all the way and pull off, nor enough slack to slide it all the way off the back. It really seemed to me that they designed it for the Enduro model and didn't realize the smaller and fatter wheel of the SMC wouldn't let it clear. KTM Problems.
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Coydog posted:Wait is this really snake oil because I've been insisting for years that I cannot understand how a small magnet 1ft off the ground can do more to trip a sensor than an entire motorbike. People tell me it actually works, though. My DR is the worst at tripping sensors, and I've just gotten used to running reds. The only people I've seen recommend them are folks who ride bikes that are definitely large enough to trip sensors. Then again YMMV. I've found that sitting diagonally in the lane has a high successes rate of tripping the sensor.
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Most light sensors are inductive, right? They're looking for a closed loop of metal, not a certain weight. I always just line up directly over one side of the sensor, they're usually exposed a little. There's only a couple lights around me that it doesn't seem to work on, but it's really rare to be alone at an intersection unless it's at night in which case I just run the light.
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its all nice on rice posted:The only people I've seen recommend them are folks who ride bikes that are definitely large enough to trip sensors. Then again YMMV. Two lights on my commute completely ignore my little bike, but they're the kind with two coils side-by-side like [][] and if I stop at a ~20% angle with one wheel in each loop they sense me just fine. 
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Just run it if there's no traffic
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A MIRACLE posted:Just run it if there's no traffic I do this.
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In Oregon it's legal for a motorcyclist or bicyclist to run a light if it fails to turn green for one full cycle. Something similar is in effect in Washington I believe.
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A MIRACLE posted:Just run it Ran into an old acquaintance at a corner store on my break. Who just tells a currently alive motorcyclist that motorcycles are death traps? Also, in an unrelated incident, I know filtering isn't legal here, but neither is attempted vehicular manslaughter. Sorry you just had to be first in line, friend. I was on the DRZ too, I should have just let him clip me. I'd be fine (<10mph), the bike would clearly be fine, his paint would suffer a lot worse.
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Revvik posted:Ran into an old acquaintance at a corner store on my break. Who just tells a currently alive motorcyclist that motorcycles are death traps? they're like christians, they think they're 'saving' you
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Coydog posted:I swear I tried all this, and there wasn't enough clearance to move it forward all the way and pull off, nor enough slack to slide it all the way off the back. It really seemed to me that they designed it for the Enduro model and didn't realize the smaller and fatter wheel of the SMC wouldn't let it clear. KTM Problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybyk5fYxdd0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phBSOvslOAQ&t=74s I've owned 2 of them and the rear wheel change shouldn't be anywhere near as difficult as you're describing. I forgot that the 690 has the caliper mounted forward, so it should be just "push forward, remove chain, drop wheel straight out of the back".
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big money big clit posted:In Oregon it's legal for a motorcyclist or bicyclist to run a light if it fails to turn green for one full cycle. Something similar is in effect in Washington I believe. I learned about dealing with this BS years ago when my daily driver was a tiny car that would not trigger the left turn lane to turn into the apartments I lived in at the time. At the time, that law hadn't been passed (was only passed 2 years ago), but even if it had been passed those ten years ago or so, it still wouldn't have worked for me since it was my car (only bikes I was riding then were dirt bikes, off road) that was failing to trigger the light - about 9 times out of ten that I was the first/only car in the turn lane, it would fail to trigger and I could be stuck through multiple cycles for 10+ minutes until a larger car came behind me to trigger the sensor so I could finally go. Since it was the turn to get into my apartments and I had to use it to get to my home, I ran that red light a lot.
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big money big clit posted:In Oregon it's legal for a motorcyclist or bicyclist to run a light if it fails to turn green for one full cycle. Something similar is in effect in Washington I believe. We have that rule in WI too, I just run 4-ways after I give it long enough to figure out it can't sense me and traffic is clear.
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So are timed lights just not a thing in the states?
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Renaissance Robot posted:So are timed lights just not a thing in the states? There's a couple of things in play here. Some lights are only triggered on demand, some have two timed cycles, long & short, with long being the default.
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Chris Knight posted:There's a couple of things in play here. Some lights are only triggered on demand, some have two timed cycles, long & short, with long being the default. Some change from timed to on demand depending on time of day/day of week, too. I have a light on my way home from work that is, no poo poo, six minutes long for my side of traffic. It drives me insane.
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Yeah I have the same thing it sucks. I come from a business park onto a very busy street and I sit long enough for the fan to kick in on both the SV and the Elite, both of which rarely happen in normal driving.
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Rojo_Sombrero posted:They are a blight upon the canine world. And should be held in the same regard as rats. Except that they bark in that yappy annoying bark. They are weird, I've known some that were Satan incarnate, and others that wanted nothing more in the world than to cuddle with you right now this instant, and were ridiculously adorable.
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Correlation doesnt equal causation but I decided to record a video with my phone while its on the RAM mount and I had 5 separate people pull out infront of me on the way home instead of the usual 2  .
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I was in a turn lane last week that was not sensing me, so I turned and beckoned the soccer mom behind me to close the gap while I made space forward. She look at me, and refused. I made more hand signals, and pointed at where she should be, and she shook her head, refusing. I pointed to the light, pointed to her car, pointed to the empty space, and then after a few more seconds, she very slowly, very cautiously crept forward, even though she was more than a car length behind. Some people...
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