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Buhbuhj posted:
This is why I'm happy with keeping the 'ugly' rear fenders on any bikes I buy, I'd rather not have mud all over my back.
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Dropped a tooth on the front sprocket, and did some chain maintenance. Working on the grom is like working on a model of a motorcycle, rather than the real thing. The trail stand works perfect on the lowest setting. It's so cute! 
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Oct 15, 2017 01:39
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 Got my heated grips on. Aprilia did not make any step of this install easy. Had to heavily modify the throttle tube, trim the left grip, find a place that I could actually route the wires through the frame without them touching the heads, mount the controller with zip ties(id prob do this on any bike). I have no idea if the "intelligent monitor" works. I had them on to test so I'll see tomorrow if my battery ends up drained or not. GabbiLB fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Oct 15, 2017 |
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Oct 15, 2017 18:53
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Had the exact same Oxfords on my Bandit. Still made sure to shut them off manually after every ride though, intelligent controller or not.
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Oct 15, 2017 22:52
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I have those as of middle of last year and forget to turn them off frequently in the winter / fall. They shut off on their own fine and have never left me stranded. Throttle grip took some, uh, "massaging," to get on. Like, hold it in place and hammer it onto the throttle tube.
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Oct 16, 2017 00:44
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Be aware that the glue they supply looses grip after a little while. I've had the left grip getting twistable when heated on 2 different bikes after like 6 months. 2-3 drops of normal superglue when it happens fixes it though.
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Oct 16, 2017 08:24
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Trip report: Bike started up fine so the shutoff works correctly. Rode to work in 50 degree weather and I had the grips cranked up. My hands we're burning and it was lovely. A+ would do again.
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Oct 16, 2017 14:39
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Not so much *to* my ride, but... Decided I need more table space for the many fairings I need to remove to do any work on the Ape, so I reused the cabinets I pulled out of my laundry room a couple months ago and built them into a workbench.
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Oct 16, 2017 23:19
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Got the front tire changed, I don't know if this was the original or what but it has a May 2000 date code, three years older than the bike itself Pounding the old axle out with 17? Year old grease was a bitch to get out. Original tire date code, this thing wasn't even down to the wear bars yet. 
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Oct 20, 2017 01:07
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Straightened out the bar end bolt on the Wee. It's about as tough as al dente spaghetti, I got it mostly into place with my bare hands and finished it off clamping the bend in a vice until it popped back straight.
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Oct 20, 2017 05:23
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Put the lock ring for my SW Motech tank bag on MY GS These things go on really nicely, the only problem I have is that the bag that fit great on the Tiger looks undersized on the GS, but I can't be hosed to spend £200 on a bigger one
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Oct 20, 2017 20:56
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  Anybody here as impatient as I am? I can’t get a machine shop to make time to hollow out the front GS500 wheel so I can make tubeless SM Wheels. So, I hunted through eBay for a front & rear stock DRZSM set and found these: $250 shipped for the front wheel with no tire, and CL got me a rear wheel with tire for $200 plus a good-as-new front tire for $60. The local Triumph / Ducati place put the tire on for me, because again gently caress the KTM dealership in the heart - and here it sits assembled. The more observant of you might notice it has no rotors and the smaller sprocket gives it a poo poo load of chain slack. I’ll leave a post-it on the bars reminding me not to ride it. Now I’m gonna check in on my Scion (had to cut 2.5” off the intake piping to fit the proper air filter, don’t ask) and then I’ll get back to putting a 3.2gal tank on the DRZ.
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Oct 20, 2017 21:29
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Slapped together budget sumos are the best sumos. That looks really good. I thought the off color wheels was bad until I noticed they match the DRZ swingarm decal. Are you running an 18 rear? Please do something about your front fender, though.
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Oct 20, 2017 21:52
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Coydog posted:Slapped together budget sumos are the best sumos. Correct. Shiny factory built poo poo misses the point of having the last word in beater bikes.
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Oct 20, 2017 23:16
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Coydog posted:Slapped together budget sumos are the best sumos. That looks really good. I thought the off color wheels was bad until I noticed they match the DRZ swingarm decal. Are you running an 18 rear? Nah it’s 17”. What’s wrong with the front fender?? It’s appropriately trashy. I still have the banana fender somewhere, I just don’t care for it I guess. Rear tire does rub the chain a little. I can see if I have a bigger spacer lying around, or just cut a new one. 3.2 gallon tank is on but I can’t fill it. I swapped the peacock over, naively thinking I could just reuse it and all the original gaskets. Nope.
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Oct 20, 2017 23:22
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Revvik posted:Nah it’s 17”. What’s wrong with the front fender?? Ok it just looked bigger. I have dreams of maybe a 19" sumo set on the dr some day. The fender just doesnt curve down enough and it looks totally weird pointing up and straight. Proportions are all wrong. Today I've done the most DIY ADVrider hackjob thing in a while. PROBLEM: Corbin seat is now slicker than snot on a marble with my a'stitch pants. It's practically frictionless, especially since the weather has gone cold. I have a long trip this weekend, and don't have time to think of a better solution before morning. SOLUTION: Cut up and clean an old inner tube, zip tie the ends, tuck each end under the side covers so that the bulge wont let it slide out. I'll have to see how it works, but for now has 9001x more friction than the uncovered parts.  
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Oct 21, 2017 00:14
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I think I can adjust the angle on it so it doesn’t point straight up like that. Matched the 21” front better. Nice wrap job, it doesn’t look out of place!
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Oct 21, 2017 00:28
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If by wrap job you mean the procycle stickers, I can't take credit for that, though I love it. If you mean my weirdo friction pad, thanks!
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Oct 21, 2017 03:03
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No the seat rubber. There’s a gap between the front of my seat now and the upgraded 3.2gal tank 😐
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Oct 21, 2017 06:00
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 Here’s what I mean. The tank doesn’t have the bracket to hold the seat down, but there’s at least a spot to mount it. Waiting on petcock gaskets to arrive so it stops flooding my garage with gas 😑  Bridgestone Trail Wing 150/70/17. I don’t think these will fit. Is it reasonable to put spacers between the sprocket and hub, or suicidal?
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Oct 22, 2017 22:00
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Spacers to do what exactly?
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Oct 22, 2017 22:06
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why is a 150 rubbing? did you gently caress up your swingarm?
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Oct 22, 2017 22:11
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Spacers to bring the sprocket away from the hub. If it’s hosed up it’s not me. I haven’t messed with wheel spacers too much yet fwiw. It’s just REALLY rubbing.
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Oct 22, 2017 22:25
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If the problem is the chain rubbing on the tyre, putting spacers on the rear sprocket will just deflect the chain at an angle and risk it slipping off. I've found with motard stuff that not all tyres are created equal and two different tyres with identical profiles on paper can have vastly different clearance when they're actually on the bike. A small amount of clipping of the chain against the tyre is relatively normal and just motard life but if you're using factory DRZ SM rims on a factory swinger then something is wrong, I'd suggest taking the wheel off and having a really good look at the spacers to make sure they aren't back to front or some such nonsense.
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Oct 22, 2017 22:53
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Good advice, thanks. I’ve got a bit of on and off work to do with it anyways since the sprocket I want and the rotors are still in the mail. It’s definitely not a stock rim, but the seller used it as a spare for his DRZ. Excel Takasago rim. Might be 5” and not 4.5”.
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Oct 22, 2017 23:25
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Took advantage of a beautiful day to go down to Stratford to visit an old friend having a sculpture exhibit. Very cool. One thing i don't like about the new bike is that you can't have both the clock and odometer going at the same time, unlike the Bandit. Which is pretty lame IMO. I am liking the gear indicator.
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Revvik posted:Bridgestone Trail Wing 150/70/17. I don’t think these will fit. Is it reasonable to put spacers between the sprocket and hub, or suicidal? Don't do that. SM people trim the tire on that side. Edit: Is your dish set correctly? You might need to adjust it. I ran a 150 PP 2ct on an oem sm rear without rubbage unless the chain or slider was worn.  #Just PO things. PO overtorqued the steerer like woah on brand-new bearings  . Proper tools made this easy as piss though.  I also built a jack stand using an old crutch... partially for my bike, and well:  AT lost the front tube at highway speeds. (It seems to me the dealer is making a pretty good PO for this honda... Oil filter was on dry too, had to chisel that fucker off at the 600mi service)  Irony cursedshitbox fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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cursedshitbox posted:AT lost the front tube at highway speeds.  Slavvy is surprisingly quiet on the continual honda fuckery/bad luck, and the continual orange reliability. Also LOL you got rid of your DRZ that gave you problems and got a reliable ktm, he got rid of the reliable DR, and got a bad luck honda. Also don't stop posting your beautiful KTM I just love that color scheme. Coydog fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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Coydog posted:
Actually the DR was the worse of the two, it's still here if you want it though  DR-Z was a huge fun fast pile...but you'd be a huge pile too if you saw up to 4000 miles a month while getting standard DS/SM treatments. I've put almost 3 thousand mi on the ktm already, spouse has done a little over 1200mi on the AT. We've both been PO'd so over the course of the next week we're gonna open the bikes up and shake the last gremlins out.
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Oct 23, 2017 02:44
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cursedshitbox posted:Don't do that. SM people trim the tire on that side. Edit: Is your dish set correctly? You might need to adjust it. ...dish?
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Revvik posted:...dish? The alignment of the hub relative to the rim of the wheel. In a zero-dish wheel, if you look at the wheel from the edge, the hub is perfectly centered left/right with the rim, and the spokes form symmetrical triangles. Sometimes you need a little more space on one side of the wheel, though -- for the sprocket, for instance, or the brake. In that case you make the spokes on one side a little shorter, which pulls the hub a bit to one side, and gives you more room on the opposite side. It reduces the wheel strength a little bit but not hugely, and it lets you get away with a narrower rear. Here is an example from a bicycle forum -- it's more common in that field because you really want a narrow frame but still need space for the cassette of gears:  On the left, a dished wheel with a symmetric frame; on the right, a non-dished wheel with an asymmetrical frame. Some bikes have zero-dish wheels and some have dished wheels. Specs will be in the manual.
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I see. So I have options here. Thanks for the info!
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Coydog posted:
He hasn't had the KTM long enough for any statements on reliability. What else has gone wrong with the honda? Did I miss something? Tyre BS doesn't count.
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Oct 23, 2017 03:17
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Spent like a good hour and a half replacing the clip master link on the Wee with a rivet. Cause I suck and am bad at things. But I got it. And I'll get the next one when I do the Rex's chain this week.
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Oct 23, 2017 04:13
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Slavvy posted:He hasn't had the KTM long enough for any statements on reliability. What else has gone wrong with the honda? Did I miss something? Tyre BS doesn't count. Yeah it's still early as I'm dealing with a couple PO things, but I'll do a full comparison when I reach 10,000mi/16,000km. The AT has personality mostly from the dildo that assembled/prepped the bike....
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Replaced the tires on the ttr, greased up the axles, hosed down caliper, reinstalled. Carb is still being a stupid rear end in a top hat. Pretty sure the float is too high. Needs tuning like crazy and drips out the overflow. A gear tooth came out with the oil change but the bike runs fine so I’mma just ignore it
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Oct 23, 2017 14:47
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Brought home the winter project
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Oct 23, 2017 19:39
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Amazing. Is the engine only usable in a straight line?
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Oct 23, 2017 19:43
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That flat spot on the front tire is majestic.
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Fievel Goes Bi posted:Brought home the winter project As someone who has owned a tire friction drive moped, all I can say is "Why would you do this to yourself?!".
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