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Slavvy posted:Yeah it's pretty much what revvik says. The lifespan difference is negligible, the wet grip difference is negligible, but the turning and at-lean behavior is light-years better, they feel almost like sportbike tyres and have none of that nasty fighting-you sensation PR's give. Good to have you back Slavvy  Never had to "fight" my PR4s on the Bandit but good to hear there's an alternative choice when I go shopping next.
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Is it like the PR4 thing where the previous tire is better than the new model or is the Angel GT II the tire to get?
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Slavvy posted:"Someone from the internet is worried about you..." and thus she explains to me that one of you breathless lunatics has successfully managed to find me IRL. I never post here, but I'm glad you're not dead, idiot.
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later and here I am. Still alive (by the slimmest of margins), still poo poo posting. If you want to know what happened PM me, I'm not making GBS threads this one out in public.
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Chris Knight posted:Good to have you back Slavvy I wouldn't call it fighting, but you do need noticeably more steering input to get the bike to lean.
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Chichevache posted:I just think it would be tragic if Razzled wasn't the first to go. If I’m not dead by forty I haven’t been doing anything right
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Razzled posted:If I’m not dead by forty I haven’t been doing anything right Made it past 40, not worth it IMO
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Slavvy posted:I've got PM now thanks to this guy: Good job not dying.  Razzled posted:If I’m not dead by forty I haven’t been doing anything right You're going to live to be like 90. When was the last time you crashed into an anything?
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Where's the comparo writeup on Angels vs PRs? As someone who mounts tires on rims, basically all tires are shittier than Michelin Pilots. Everything feels like wood and requires unreasonable force to mount, except Michelin pilots. I haven't seen how they all feel on the road though. Only thing I've spent lots of time on is Conti Motions and PP2CT/PR3/PR4.
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Yea I’m ready to fight someone over Michelin’s. I’ve never come across a better feeling more confidence inspiring tire than the Pilots and Powers
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Where's the comparo writeup on Angels vs PRs? As someone who mounts tires on rims, basically all tires are shittier than Michelin Pilots. Everything feels like wood and requires unreasonable force to mount, except Michelin pilots. I haven't seen how they all feel on the road though. Only thing I've spent lots of time on is Conti Motions and PP2CT/PR3/PR4. I find pirellis the easiest to fit, followed by Michelins. Dunlop are the worst, Bridgestone the second worst. Conti road/sport attack are milder than pirellis but sharper than Michelins. I went from angels to sa3's on my bandit, they're definitely more grippy feeling, which makes sense cause they're a sport tyre, but the bike ended up feeling noticeably blunter. I've been able to dial some of it out by playing with the adjusters but it'll never have that super sweet turn-in feel like it did on angels. Slavvy fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Oct 4, 2019 |
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Strangely enough the guy who fitted my fjr's AGT2s yesterday wanted feedback in 10kkm as he hasn't known anyone put high mileage on them yet. Since I've only ridden them home from the shop so far I can only say they feel tall and round.
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Slavvy posted:I find pirellis the easiest to fit, followed by Michelins. I tried to put a Sedona desert tire on a 19 and popped two tubes. I gave up, gave it to the local powersports guy in northen Idaho with one side mounted so he could slip a tube in and finish it. He popped two tubes and gave it back to me with the third in and the bead not even seated.
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That's why you put the tube in the tyre partially inflated before you stick the tyre on the rim. Never once popped a tube since I started doing that.
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Yup, that's a key factor. Other points is a actual good tire stand to work on, enough lube when applicable, good flat wide tire levers that moves mass, not pinching holes in a accidentally trapped inner tube.
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I always pre inflate the tube a bit. It's the only tire I've ever pinched a tube mounting. I blame the narrow rear end 19" and myself for not being very good at mounting tires. I've also since got got much flatter spoons that don't stick as far past the bead of the tire. e: what spoons do you guys like best
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Yerok posted:I always pre inflate the tube a bit. It's the only tire I've ever pinched a tube mounting. I blame the narrow rear end 19" and myself for not being very good at mounting tires. I've also since got got much flatter spoons that don't stick as far past the bead of the tire. https://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/parts/tusk-17%22-mega-tire-iron-p
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Usually only having a tinted visor is fine if I get stuck late at work, I just ride home with it flipped up. Turns out doing that during the Santa Ana winds means every single piece of dust/dirt available will get in your eyes. I was only on the freeway for 7 miles but was having serious issues by the time I got home, actually had to wash my eyes out with water. Of course today I remembered I wanted to pack my clear visor once I had just started the bike and was out of the house, but I'm just going to leave before it's too dark and finish work from home if needed.
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Transition visits are The one true way
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I like the gold mirrored look, but I forgot I've been meaning to buy a transition visor for exactly this kind of situation. Just purchased it! I can stick with gold in the summer and transition in the winter.
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I had a helmet with a flip down sun visor, which was pretty cool, but sunglasses are fine so...
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Tinted visor + $3 pair of safety glasses just in case. (I roll with a flip down visor because I actually ride my bikes and am not an idiot (in this case)).
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I've had a flipdown visor for the last few years and I won't go back Heads up to any Canadians shopping Revzilla, I did not realize their flat rate shipping to Canada was by UPS, and it's one of those ones where UPS charge you fifty goddamn dollars for "import fees" over and above the shipping cost. For the gloves I was buying, their USPS shipping would have been eight bucks more than the flat rate price listed, and I expect customs fees at the post office would have been around $15. And CBSA doesn't always charge you, either. Wonder what'll happen if I refuse to accept the shipment.
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Yeah it's a hard row to hoe when comparing US places with FortNine. I've managed to get some good bargains from NewEnough/whatevertheyrecallednow even with shipping & customs, but anything remotely new you have to dig into the full costs.
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Phy posted:Wonder what'll happen if I refuse to accept the shipment. They'll still charge you the import fee. I learned this when buying a corbin seat for my sv650, UPS tried to deliver at the same time three days in a row, claiming I refused delivery the third day. I had afternoon shifts every day that week. First I heard of the package was a bill for import fees in my mailbox.
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Look I'm not saying we should just go around shooting people all the time... but there's a line somewhere.  https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles/comments/dgktp3/welcome_to_new_york_because_screw_you_thats_why/Tow Truck "Operator" drags a Duc up onto the flatbed on its side Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Oct 14, 2019 |
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imagine how good punching him in the face would feel
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The loving noises that thing makes as it gets dragged up the ramp... That Duc's totalled, and this does nothing to change my mind that tow-truck drivers are literal criminals who are legally tolerated.
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Razzled posted:imagine how good punching him in the face would feel
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I mean that's a free bike once you sit through the paperwork and insurance response times, right?
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Don't think of it as a street bike dying but as a track bike being born
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I think I'm a more cautious rider than most, maybe even in CA, but this ride report is totally insane to me. Oil leaking onto the tires? Probably good to ride it from DC to NY. Gets dark and starts raining? Better keep going.quote:The good news is, the bike and I made it home, somehow. I’ll probably take it to the dealership soon for the service, and I hope that I haven’t done any terrible damage to the rear drive box after doing such a long trip with it leaking its gear oil.  https://jalopnik.com/somehow-i-didnt-die-on-this-stupid-motorcycle-trip-1839031055
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ought ten posted:I think I'm a more cautious rider than most, maybe even in CA, but this ride report is totally insane to me. Oil leaking onto the tires? Probably good to ride it from DC to NY. Gets dark and starts raining? Better keep going. jalopnik death wish posted:At that point, I had ridden my 2013 Moto Guzzi V7 Coydog posted:I'm really sorry man. You couldn't have predicted this.
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That says up at the top that this is a Ranting Echo Chamber so I'm gonna put this here instead of in its own thread: Suppose you see some guy in a lifted truck on a highway onramp. He mashes his pedal and you realize he is "rolling coal". You can see plumes of inky soot owning the libs. You feel so owned your lungs cramp a little. Then the truck's rear promptly steps out under load because duh and it goes off the ramp and into a ravine. I'm sure the STRENGTH of the sentiment varies, but I personally would think 10 times before calling an ambulance to pry his bleeding body out of the wreck. I'd do it. But I'd REALLY doubt the decision. I'd be on my deathbed like "maybe I should've left that guy there, I don't really think I did the right thing" Most in the audience should probably agree that rolling coal is incredibly idiotic. Then you go on your merry way to your buddy's garage. He shows you his shiny new full exhaust system on his R1. That new exhaust system is on a similar scale of terribleness for the environment to rolling coal. STOP DECATTING YOUR EXHAUSTS YOU DUMB SHITS The common refrain for this is usually "It's only a 600 CC engine, it's fine, stop being such a prius driver." a) wrong b) gently caress you c) you piece of poo poo Good published research from the US on motorcycle emissions that is not sitting in a filing cabinet somewhere in the EPA isn't that easy to find, but like most motorcycle research, we can usually find helpful analogues from Taiwan and other east asian countries. So, how bad are the emissions from a decatted 125 CC Sym made in 1992? Chan, Chang-Chuan, Chiu-Kuei Nien, Cheng-Yuan Tsai, and Guor-Rong Her. "Comparison of tail-pipe emissions from motorcycles and passenger cars." Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 45, no. 2 (1995): 116-124. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10473289.1995.10467347  (Cars 1, 2, and 3 are various 90ies vintage engines I4s, 1.6-1L in size, study was from 1995 so the cars and bikes are both newish and in good working order) Headline numbers? An uncatalyzed 125 CC 4 stroke scooter produces ~double the NOx, 3-6 times the carbon monoxide, and 6-20 times the unburned hydrocarbons. The only metric where motorcycles are better is CO2, and here it is not by as much as you'd figure. (California numbers btw, and California is a state with unusually onerous motorcycle regulations, show that motorcycles drive 1% of the vehicle miles and produce about 10% of the smog-generating chemicals https://www.latimes.com/news/la-hy-throttle11-2008jun11-story.html, so this isn't some weird asian problem, this is YOUR problem) Keep in mind this is a comparison of 90ies car tech to 90ies motorcycle tech. Catalytic converters have gotten MUCH BETTER SINCE THEN. Euro 4-5 will make these numbers drastically worse in terms of a pound-for-pound comparison both of a decatted vs catted motorcycle and of a decatted motorcycle vs car. Keep in mind also, a 125 sym from 1992 is going to be one of the least noxious types of engine in terms of nitrous oxide emissions because it's tiny and compression is low. The higher the compression of an engine, the more NOx you should be expecting. And everybody who puts a full exhaust system on a motorcycle obviously also does a power commander to richen the fuel-air mix, skyrocketing the unburned hydrocarbons. Plus consider the engine size, 5 x for a 600, 8x for a 1000. A liter bike with a full exhaust system and a power commander is something nobody has researched, as far as emissions go. But let's be honest with ourselves and say that it producing more than 20 times the emissions of a car in terms of NOx, 200+ times the unburned hydrocarbons, and 50+ times the monoxide is not an unreasonable estimate. 200 times. God loving forbid you take the cat off a two stroke. The more contrarian among you in the audience may be saying: wull... wull... the 2 stroke still sucks poo poo even if has the cat on! Yeah. No poo poo. Stop riding two strokes, they're really bad for the environment. But also, yeah, no poo poo. That's why euro 5 is A THING. All those bigass catalytic converters that you're so happy calling ugly and heavy ARE MORE EFFECTIVE THAN THE ONES FROM THE 90IES. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT. THAT'S WHY THEY ARE HUGE. So the next time some BikeBandit cautionary tale swaggers up to you with his noise-violation-mobile and takes another 5 years off the lifespan of your eardrums, here's a helpful visual: This man stands in a football field. Parked on the football field are 200 mid-range American sedans. He bought them, parked them, put them in neutral, and turned them on. They're idling. When he walks over to his bike he explains to you that he's rigged up a clever system. Every time he revs his engine, the engines on all 200 cars also rev. IT GOT HIM A WHOLE 10 HORSEPOWER. EVERYWHERE IN THE REV RANGE! He's going to leave them parked here, and go for a nice ride. See you later breh. Get hosed Edit/PS: I would only think twice, not 10 times, about calling an ambulance for a full exhaust bro though. Full exhausts are callous child-like indifference to the welfare of yourself and others. Rolling coal on the other hand is malice aforethought. DearSirXNORMadam fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Oct 15, 2019 |
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It's America dude, calling him an ambulance is a bigger curse than letting him bleed to death. Bury that fucker in medical debt.
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Wait... did they really drug test a car?  Yes I know THC means total hydro carbons
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Renaissance Robot posted:It's America dude, calling him an ambulance is a bigger curse than letting him bleed to death. Bury that fucker in medical debt.
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While a decat is bad for everyone, in an environmental sense, concentrated diesel soot is highly, specifically bad for you. So it's like, yeah it's upsetting that someone doesn't get it that they're killing us all by a thousand tiny cuts by removing their catalytic converter, rolling coal is more on the level of bringing peanut butter sandwiches to work and taunting you to use your epi pen. Everyone is guilty in some way of destroying the earth in the name of cost, convenience, ignorance, or greed, but nobody's cutting down rainforests or buying palm oil products just to deliberately harm the orangutans. That would take a sick gently caress indeed.
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Mirconium posted:That says up at the top that this is a Ranting Echo Chamber so I'm gonna put this here instead of in its own thread: Yeah this sort of environmental guilt is partly why my Zuma 125 and Ninja 650 will both keep their stock exhausts. That and the fact that, for one, neither sound great with aftermarket systems, and two, I'm cheap.
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