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why can't it do long highway trips? I can do them on my FZ alright
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A 650 that can't do longish highway trips is a shameful 650.
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Sep 2, 2017 23:53
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A MIRACLE posted:why can't it do long highway trips? I can do them on my FZ alright My highway trip is 60km each way, morning and night, plus a 20kmish city commute. A fairing makes a world of difference. It's not an engine or bike problem, it's a wind and a me getting tired problem.
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Sep 2, 2017 23:55
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That sounds like a bike problem to me. You are faultless, barnsy.
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Sep 3, 2017 00:16
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Barnsy posted:My highway trip is 60km each way, morning and night, plus a 20kmish city commute. A fairing makes a world of difference. It's not an engine or bike problem, it's a wind and a me getting tired problem. You know what has a real good fairing? A car.
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Sep 3, 2017 01:17
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A couple weeks ago was the ImSoNice Crew's annual Ferry2Ferry ride. These guys were early into the Ruckus scene, and later Zuma 125s, before the club slowly disbanded. A couple guys still put the work in to make the ride happen, though. It's the biggest scooter ride in Seattle (this year excepted, since we hosted AmeriVespa), and possibly the NW, though I don't know what kind of turnout Vancouver and Portland events see. This year there was a huge turnout of rad as hell '80s Japanese 50cc 2-strokes. A lot of these guys (and some of the vintage bikes below) are from ScooterSwapShop in Portland.  Early Zumas   This Zuma II was rolling wheelies at 40+ mph. Not bad for starting at 50cc (though it's a 72 or 74cc now)  Elites/Dios  Also modified.     I have never seen one of these Dio XR Bajas before. I'm assuming they were not sold in the US.   (not the same bike) "The Purpatrator" was also doing power wheelies past 35mph. Probably helped that the rider was Pedrosa sized, but even still.   Unusual Sprees.  Factory perfect Aero 80.   Honda Gyro S. Weird loving bike. Seating position like a lay-z-boy. Look at the weird rear end light arrangement, the tiny little rear shoick ahead of the motor. The swingarm rotates like a driveshaft to allow the two parts to tilt separately. Watching this guy hang off it into corners (he had to work hard to keep up) and seeing the motor unit bounce and twist over bumps and curbs while he stayed upright was bizarre. And hilarious.    Slammed and stretched Ruckuses are still a thing. One of them (not pictured, he hadn't caught back up yet) had a fuel line spring a leak mid-ride and spray fuel all over his back tire      Something that sets this ride apart from other Seattle-area rides is that they welcome Italian bikes, which really isn't reciprocated. Old school Vespa/Lambretta people are, at least around here, elitist fucks.  Few other rides get such different bikes, and that's dumb. And then there were   GROMS (and Grom-likes)               The ride leaves from north Seattle, crosses the Edmonds-Kingston ferry, goes through Poulsbo, stops in Seabeck, and returns to Seattle via the Bremerton ferry. It's a pretty full day at 45mph. It's a good time. I really want a ripper 50cc now.
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Sep 3, 2017 02:40
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I wonder how many of those Groms will end up on craiglist for $3k over MSRP 5 years from now
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Sep 3, 2017 02:49
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Jazzzzz posted:I wonder how many of those Groms will end up on craiglist for $3k over MSRP 5 years from now You meant months, right?
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Sep 3, 2017 03:14
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Jazzzzz posted:I wonder how many of those Groms will end up on craiglist for $3k over MSRP 5 years from now Probably the same percentage as any other bike with an aftermarket.
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Sep 3, 2017 03:48
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Good to finally have it settled that Groms are in fact scooters
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Sep 3, 2017 04:27
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Good to finally have it settled that Groms are in fact scooters Anyone who's ridden both a grom and a manual scooter already knew this, everyone else just needs to catch the gently caress up.
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Sep 3, 2017 04:39
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Chichevache posted:You know what has a real good fairing? A car. A car isn't much fun on this bit of road that I go through every day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwEnB02DSpo
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Good to finally have it settled that Groms are in fact scooters Slavvy posted:Anyone who's ridden both a grom and a manual scooter already knew this, everyone else just needs to catch the gently caress up. I bought my Zuma 125 like a month before the first Groms arrived at dealerships and came very, very close to waiting for one. And then I realized: wait, I have a Stella. I already have a 125-150cc range 4-speed manual shift without much storage. So I bought the Zuma. With flat floorboards and storage and a CVT. I have no regrets. But a Grom is not a scooter in any way 
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Sep 3, 2017 05:07
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The first production motor-2-wheeler was a step-through with floorboards, so I don't know what y'all are referring to with all this "motorcycle" business. All of them are scooters, some of them are just nutpunch-frame scooters.
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Sep 4, 2017 17:24
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That's pretty big air for an xr!
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Sep 4, 2017 18:31
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  I really like jumping this bike heh
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a cute sea otter posted:The first production motor-2-wheeler was a step-through with floorboards, so I don't know what y'all are referring to with all this "motorcycle" business. All of them are scooters, some of them are just nutpunch-frame scooters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaux-Perreaux_steam_velocipede  (or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roper_steam_velocipede or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_Reitwagen if you insist on internal combustion). Not a floorboard between them and step-throughs remain the poor idiot child of the family.
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Sep 4, 2017 21:39
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I realise that could only do jogging pace but gat daym that geometry frightens.
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Sep 4, 2017 21:45
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EX250 Type R posted:
EX250 Type R posted:
You're gonna break the motor!  Nice jumps.
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Sep 4, 2017 21:49
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builds character posted:You're gonna break the motor! I added aaron on facebook awhile back, I should tag him in one of these pictures
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goddamnedtwisto posted:
Look! a word! maybe it means something! a cute sea otter posted:production Also, the 60's has never, ever lied to me about anything before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtOTy_khKUI&t=728s ahem. excuse me, I also had a drizzly south coast weekend; writing things on a screen instead of riding my nutpuncher.
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Did you get Seabeck pizza? It's been forever since I had Seabeck pizza. How many rednecks did you anger with your scooters?
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its all nice on rice posted:Did you get Seabeck pizza? It's been forever since I had Seabeck pizza. I did not. I never have. Whether the ride organizers call ahead or not, that pizza place is never, ever ready for 100+ scooter people to descend on it and I don't wanna wait an hour to eat when I get there. Is it good? We got coal rolled at a gas stop, so we made at least 1 redneck angry.
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Sep 5, 2017 06:12
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Slavvy posted:I realise that could only do jogging pace but gat daym that geometry frightens. When you've got a steam boiler directly under your genitals it tends to sharpen the brain to the point you don't need forgiving geometry.
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Sep 5, 2017 06:16
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Gay Nudist Dad posted:I did not. I never have. Whether the ride organizers call ahead or not, that pizza place is never, ever ready for 100+ scooter people to descend on it and I don't wanna wait an hour to eat when I get there. Is it good? It's good. Not the best pizza ever, but solid, and a Seabeck staple. Some folks might consider it a bit more doughy. Camp Union pizza is essentially the same thing. Next time you're in Bremerton get some pupussa from El Balcon because holy poo poo they are amazing.
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Sep 5, 2017 06:30
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Previous page got my 599-sense tingling. My '04 sounds like garbage with a Micron slip-on, I went back to the stock exhaust even though it's a hojillion pounds. Recently got full cartridge internal forks and with the Ohlins shock it's  . Got back yesterday from a week long trip through some of the best roads of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana where I could finally get the forks through their paces. Even got to hit up Rattlesnake Grade where my poor-quality avatar photo was taken.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaux-Perreaux_steam_velocipede Better have your coattails in order before you get on that
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Skier posted:Previous page got my 599-sense tingling. I had a Leo Vince on mine and it sounded great. Unfortunately it was never tuned correctly and smelled like poo poo if you were riding behind me.
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No Prisoners 2012 got 'remastered' and reuploaded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EmFwDes1Hs
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Sep 5, 2017 18:25
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What is this, a bike for a mouse?!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0mXmld5in8
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Sep 6, 2017 18:49
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It didn't break down on his ride, so that's good.
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Sep 7, 2017 22:35
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Slim Pickens posted:It didn't break down on his ride, so that's good. You didn't watch it long enough.
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Sep 7, 2017 23:29
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Fly, ridiculously powered enduro! I'd love to know how this came to be.
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Sep 8, 2017 06:01
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Methamphetamine or just plain stupidity? So often it's impossible to tell.
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Sep 8, 2017 06:05
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Slavvy posted:You didn't watch it long enough. Running it out of gas was alright, but I was hoping a cylinder would pop off.
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Sep 8, 2017 07:14
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That's only if you exceed 70mph. Realtalk I've worked/ridden briefly one enfield ('16 350 with the unit engine) and I honestly liked it. Never even seen a ural. Has anyone here had contact with both and which one is better/worse, and how crap are they compared to the usual notoriously bad/flammable bikes? If we treat chinese bikes as the terribleness benchmark and honda/yamaha as peak not-poo poo, where do they lay?
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Slavvy posted:That's only if you exceed 70mph. I've not had contact with a Ural but a friend of mine who was briefly their importer into the UK* says the best that can be said about them is they tend to break in ways that are easy to fix. *This happened pretty much by accident - he ran a garage and had one come in needing a part, after ringing around a bit he managed to get in contact with the factory who sent the part out to him for free if he agreed to be their importer for a year. He suspects he was the first person from the UK to have bothered to contact them since the Berlin Wall fell...
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Coydog posted:Fly, ridiculously powered enduro! I'd love to know how this came to be. i'm crying right now when did space whale get a 701sm
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