|
Slavvy posted:In all three cases, not knowing how a sight glass works. Don't you just paste the .mp4 link and the forums just sort it all out? https://i.imgur.com/11BM4Uf.mp4 Anyway, how the hell are these bikes even loving running? Isn't that a Ducati? How hasn't it just completely obliterated the front cylinder? e: On closer inspection may be an SV, but same question - surely with that degree of overfilling there's a load of standing oil sitting on the bottom of the front cylinder. Also yeah, for future ref, right click the video, "Copy video address", paste it. Previewing doesn't work though, THANKS TEAM BARRY. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Feb 10, 2019 |
#
?
Feb 10, 2019 20:18
|
|
' It's the vehicular equivalent of your computer freezing so you start spamming mouse clicks and mashing the keyboard.
|
|
| # ? Jun 6, 2024 01:05 |
|
|
Ok, checking the sight glass with the bike on a side stand is a mistake that makes sense to me, but the others 
|
|
#
?
Feb 10, 2019 20:19
|
|
|
Stupidity double post! Someone on the internet told me it had Too Much Air:     goddamnedtwisto posted:Don't you just paste the .mp4 link and the forums just sort it all out? Ok thanks for this! My main problem was I was trying to phone post and upload the video direct from my phone, imgur app is seemingly loving terrible and has half the features of the desktop site. The bike is a hyosung GD250 X4, it's my fault I didn't take a video while cranking it with the plug out, it oiled up the ceiling light. The ninja 250 didn't run at all, the VL800 with 7 liters of oil ran just fine. VVVVVVVVVVVV yes Slavvy fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Feb 10, 2019 |
|
#
?
Feb 10, 2019 20:20
|
|
|
Hahaha is that a scouring pad??
|
|
#
?
Feb 10, 2019 20:22
|
|
|
I have to say I'm impressed by the effort though. They didn't just do something halfassed out of laziness, they really put some thought into it. I'm also impressed by the number of Suzukis that will run with double the correct amount of oil in them. We had one in the shop once that wouldn't run right, an old GS550 or something, and it turns out the guy had hooked up the fuel lines to the vent lines on the carbs. Mind-blowingly, it still ran more or less and even rode in to the shop. Japanese engineering is difficult to defeat.
|
|
#
?
Feb 10, 2019 22:57
|
|
|
Wow, I am on the opposite end of the spectrum to those over oilers, I got so paranoid it would damage my bike to have overfilled it by maybe 200mL that I sucked the excess out through the fill hole with a loving 15mL syringe and a piece of tubing, having to finagle the tubing around the clutch plates to find the oil. It was not at all tedious. When I moved the bike to another part of the (apparently flat) garage floor to check my work, it was down the fill line of the dipstick.  That’s how I learned that parts of my building’s garage floor were not as level as they appeared to the eye.
|
|
#
?
Feb 10, 2019 22:59
|
|
|
Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I have to say I'm impressed by the effort though. They didn't just do something halfassed out of laziness, they really put some thought into it. I'm also impressed by the number of Suzukis that will run with double the correct amount of oil in them. We had one in the shop once that wouldn't run right, an old GS550 or something, and it turns out the guy had hooked up the fuel lines to the vent lines on the carbs. Mind-blowingly, it still ran more or less and even rode in to the shop. Japanese engineering is difficult to defeat. Just BTW all those vent pipes are covered with fingers cut out of gardening gloves, that wasn't my doing. Oh and if it wasn't clear, he also cut up some plastic cups and wound them into the filters on the basis that blocking off basically all the air to the carbs would make it work. Then once that didn't work, instead of reversing it and trying something else he just left them in there and shoved the scouring pads in as well. Oh and the starter cable was routed through the middle of the carbs right by the throttle linkage  Here4DaGangBang posted:Wow, I am on the opposite end of the spectrum to those over oilers, I got so paranoid it would damage my bike to have overfilled it by maybe 200mL that I sucked the excess out through the fill hole with a loving 15mL syringe and a piece of tubing, having to finagle the tubing around the clutch plates to find the oil. Dipsticks on bikes are a stupid and pointless idea in general IMO, we have sight glasses now it isn't hard. Why the gently caress do 600's people would want to race have dipsticks, it's retarded.
|
|
#
?
Feb 10, 2019 23:50
|
|
|
I thought only Toners did that? British engineering
|
|
#
?
Feb 11, 2019 02:07
|
|
|
Cbr 600, 1000 and r6 all have dipsticks off the top of my head.
|
|
#
?
Feb 11, 2019 02:25
|
|
|
Slavvy posted:Dipsticks on bikes are a stupid and pointless idea in general IMO, we have sight glasses now it isn't hard. Why the gently caress do 600's people would want to race have dipsticks, it's retarded. I'd love a sight glass, but I guess Triumph hasn't got the memo.
|
|
#
?
Feb 11, 2019 04:11
|
|
|
Where does the sight *bed posting Finger Prince fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Feb 11, 2019 |
|
#
?
Feb 11, 2019 04:43
|
|
|
Finger Prince posted:Where does the sight gauge go in the frame? The swingarm.
|
|
#
?
Feb 11, 2019 05:41
|
|
|
Here4DaGangBang posted:I'd love a sight glass, but I guess Triumph hasn't got the memo. The best Triumph dipstick story is the Daytonas were having oil starvation issues at the track and in 2009 Triumph increased the oil capacity. How did they increase the capacity? Make a new dipstick that's a half inch shorter, now the minimum fill line on the new dipstick is the max of the old. 
|
|
#
?
Feb 11, 2019 18:59
|
|
|
And you just know that isn't because Triumph misjudged the oil capacity, it'll be because dipsticks are so inaccurate to use that most people would've got it wrong despite their best intentions. Like it's so simple. Engine has a bunch of oil sitting at the bottom and you want that oil to be a particular level in relation to the crankshaft and gear shafts. That's it that's the only criteria. So you put a sight glass right where that level is and it lets you directly see where the oil is. As long as it's mostly upright you get a good reading, front to rear tilting (like you get with a PADDOCK STAND you use in the PADDOCK) is easily compensated for because you can see the angle of the oil through the glass. But no let's put in a finely calculated diagonal dipstick that gives massively distorted readings if the bike isn't laser-level in every axis and gets soaked with oil every time you try to use it, obfuscating the actual reading.
|
|
#
?
Feb 11, 2019 19:10
|
|
|
just drain all the oil into a bucket, measure the volume, and put it back into the bike whenever you wanna check the quantity jfc this isn't hard
|
|
#
?
Feb 11, 2019 20:19
|
|
|
I like ktm's gearbox oil method of just having a hole it drools out of when it's at the right level, like a car diff. Except that hole isn't the fill hole so you always end up overfilling and wasting oil.
|
|
#
?
Feb 11, 2019 20:26
|
|
|
Sagebrush posted:just drain all the oil into a bucket, measure the volume, and put it back into the bike whenever you wanna check the quantity jfc this isn't hard Nah just remove the filler cap and blow across the hole, you'll be able to calculate the oil level from the frequency of the tone produced
|
|
#
?
Feb 11, 2019 20:31
|
|
|
Renaissance Robot posted:Nah just remove the filler cap and blow across the hole, you'll be able to calculate the oil level from the frequency of the tone produced Hm, oil sounds a little flat today...
|
|
#
?
Feb 11, 2019 21:01
|
|
|
I'm having flashbacks to that long-arse argument about how bikes don't need fuel gauges or lights when you can just look in the tank.
|
|
#
?
Feb 11, 2019 21:43
|
|
|
Look at Mr Sophisticated here with his advanced technology like abs, and fuel gauges, and mirrors. What's wrong with just spinning your head completely backwards like a regular joe huh??? I bet you grease your chain with a can of spray lube instead of spare engine oil too, you loving posh twat
|
|
#
?
Feb 11, 2019 22:00
|
|
|
Renaissance Robot posted:Nah just remove the filler cap and blow across the hole, you'll be able to calculate the oil level from the frequency of the tone produced Literally ducati's method for cam belts.
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 05:46
|
|
|
Renaissance Robot posted:I bet you grease your chain with a can of spray lube instead of spare engine oil too, you loving posh twat
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 00:47
|
|
|
Chris Knight posted:All the UK manuals I've seen say to clean your chain with paraffin (aka kerosene), you know, that you just happen to have sitting around. Is that so strange? I happen to have kerosene sitting around. I bought it because it's really great at cleaning bike chains.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 01:43
|
|
|
Do you have Bunnings/Walmart or similar where you live?
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 02:41
|
|
|
Here4DaGangBang posted:Is that so strange? I happen to have kerosene sitting around. I bought it because it's really great at cleaning bike chains. I bought it specifically for this reason. It's weird that the manual specifies that you only use kerosene you already own.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 18:33
|
|
|
captainOrbital posted:I bought it specifically for this reason. It's weird that the manual specifies that you only use kerosene you already own.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 21:41
|
|
|
Mongols biker gang shoot at sportbike riders Doesn't sound like it'd be gang related, I'd really like to know if it was one of those stupid things where the sportbikes passed the Harleys without the Harleys "letting" them by and it hurt their manhood.
|
|
#
?
Feb 25, 2019 19:04
|
|
|
MomJeans420 posted:Mongols biker gang shoot at sportbike riders It is known around here that motorcycle gangs will use sport bikes as couriers since they draw little to no attention from the police compared to full dress parades of gang bangers on Harleys. So I wouldn't rule out it being gang related, or at least mistaken identity gang related.
|
|
#
?
Feb 25, 2019 19:15
|
|
|
I don’t know anything about motorcycle gangs beyond what I learned from the documentary “sons of anarchy”, but I was confused by a Bandidos’ members Facebook page. This person is a friend of a high school friend, and their Facebook is filled with things I would expect, like digital flyers for benefit party at bars, #freejeffpike and SYLB memes- the usual outlaw biker fare. But then there is also a bunch of pro-Trump, anti-illegal immigration, build the wall stuff. Like what the hell? “I may be a one percenter, but I believe in increased law enforcement!” Take out the red and gold, and it’s my suburban parents, who are (probably) not one percenters .
|
|
#
?
Feb 25, 2019 19:45
|
|
|
Speaking of SOA, having never watched it am I right in blaming it for the recent flood of morons who seem to walk into a shop and walk out with a biker cosplay kit consisting of an all black VROD with real t-bars, a sweatshirt with dumb poo poo on it and red sneakers? Like not exaggerating I've had five unrelated people get me to work on their bikes who were all first time riders with black tbar vrods and red shoes.
|
|
#
?
Feb 25, 2019 23:27
|
|
|
Slavvy posted:Speaking of SOA, having never watched it am I right in blaming it for the recent flood of morons who seem to walk into a shop and walk out with a biker cosplay kit consisting of an all black VROD with real t-bars, a sweatshirt with dumb poo poo on it and red sneakers? When I worked at Cyclegear, that show was still huge. Lots of people looking for all the badass SOA style biker poo poo. Literally had someone say "I need some cool riding glasses. A little more Jax Teller, and a little less Dale Earnhardt." Also a rider wanted the three patch look to go with his new 50cc scoot. Tried to tell him that was not a great idea since there were various MCs in the area that might not like him. He came back a few days later to exchange his vest because "some angry guys on Harleys tried to run me off the road."
|
|
#
?
Feb 25, 2019 23:43
|
|
|
Alamoduh posted:But then there is also a bunch of pro-Trump, anti-illegal immigration, build the wall stuff. Like what the hell? “I may be a one percenter, but I believe in increased law enforcement!” I also saw the aforementioned documentary, and it doesn’t seem surprising to me that 1%ers would hold all sorts of negative views about non-whites?
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2019 00:05
|
|
|
Here4DaGangBang posted:I also saw the aforementioned documentary, and it doesn’t seem surprising to me that 1%ers would hold all sorts of negative views about non-whites? The original 1% clubs were pretty mixed, racially (by 1960s American standards anyway). So were other street and prison gangs, for that matter. Not the time or place for hardcore  but the theories about what happened in prison gangs post-Attica would seem to transfer pretty naturally to other too, IMO.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2019 00:17
|
|
|
goddamnedtwisto posted:The original 1% clubs were pretty mixed, racially (by 1960s American standards anyway). So were other street and prison gangs, for that matter. Not the time or place for hardcore I just did some reading on the Attica riot, but I don't know enough to understand what you're getting at here. Engineered gangs which ended up being made up of single races so that the gangs spend energy fighting each other or something?
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2019 02:19
|
|
|
I spent the weekend at a bike show where they had no less than 4 different gangs (I assume they were "gangs" because they all wore what I believe was the "three piece patch") with booths. Two separate chapters of the Hell's Angels with two separate booths, too. They all appeared to be just selling t-shirts.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2019 06:01
|
|
|
Here4DaGangBang posted:I just did some reading on the Attica riot, but I don't know enough to understand what you're getting at here. Engineered gangs which ended up being made up of single races so that the gangs spend energy fighting each other or something? Pretty much, yeah. I mean it's a demonstrable fact that pre-Attica gangs tended to follow the geographic and social lines they did outside but with a number of (mostly black-led) heavily political gangs. Afterwards openly white-supremacist gangs quickly rose to prominence, and violence between prisoners skyrocketed. How much of that was part of natural reaction amongst "dormant" white supremacists, how much "accidental" outcome of the post-Attica crackdown on "disruptive" (i.e. politically active) prisoners, and how much deliberate policy to either not discourage or even actively encourage the white supremacist gangs is up for debate.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2019 10:25
|
|
|
goddamnedtwisto posted:Pretty much, yeah. I mean it's a demonstrable fact that pre-Attica gangs tended to follow the geographic and social lines they did outside but with a number of (mostly black-led) heavily political gangs. Afterwards openly white-supremacist gangs quickly rose to prominence, and violence between prisoners skyrocketed. Gotcha.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2019 12:36
|
|
|
Lock securing my Grom is frozen, and I was late to work so I finally gave up on it and took the DR. Didn't get far because the front tire got a flat. At least I got to take the hawk in on a sunny morning  but otherwise it's not been a great day so far.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2019 15:44
|
|
|
Coydog posted:Lock securing my Grom is frozen, and I was late to work so I finally gave up on it and took the DR. Didn't get far because the front tire got a flat. It's 20 degrees (celsius) in London, and I have the week off, so of course I'm spending it all indoors painting.
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2019 16:03
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 6, 2024 01:05 |
|
|
Feeling supremely smug about getting to dob off work for four hours this morning to take a nice long ride out to a training centre. If I'd known the weather would be this good I'd have gone to the one up in the hills instead
|
|
#
?
Feb 26, 2019 17:25
|
|