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Scottoiler injector decided to liberate itself from its mount at some point in the last week and I only just noticed. Thankfully it didn't get caught up in the chain... but only because the plastic got welded to the exhaust can  Guess I'm spending tomorrow trying to bodge it back on with zipties and wishes. Or at least tying it up out of the way until I can properly replace it.
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Slavvy posted:More likely to be chain adjustment or bad steering head bearings, your forks would have to be pretty wildly twisted to make the bike pull one way. The chain should be fine (I'm pretty neurotic about getting both sides even), I'm wondering if it was something I did when I put on heli bars. I can loosen up the bolts and play with it quick enough anyway, assuming it stops raining. In other news, I forgot when I listened to Waze last night that Baxster St in Los Angeles is one of the steepest streets in LA, with a reported 32% grade. I'm pretty comfortable on hills due to where I live, but it just started to pour as I hit this last night and I did not enjoy going down it. It doesn't even straighten out at the bottom, it's a T and you have to make an immediate left or right onto a tiny street. 
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Dec 7, 2019 20:38
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Oooooh boy it's that time again, time to get hosed off with bureaucracy. This thing came into my possession with a lapsed registration, what this means it's that it needs to be recertified for the road as if it were freshly imported, but with a lower bar to clear and less admin because it's been registered in NZ before. I have done this a number of times successfully, the bike just needs to be roadworthy, have good tyres, lights etc and not show evidence of being crashed. These inspections are done by government approved agents who don't repair vehicles, just inspect them. I drop the bike off, a day later get told it failed on two things: stop light not working and forks. I knew the stoplight switch was dicky so I went there and swapped a new one on, then asked what the problem with the forks are, and this is where the cuntyness begins. Evidently the forks are 'too soft'. I asked the inspector what this means and he said it dives too easily. I asked compared to what, he said the other bikes (bikes I could see there: gsx1000f, drz400, two scooters). I asked them to demonstrate how they test the fork; they do it by having the biggest bastard there duckwalk the bike at jogging speed then abruptly smash the brake on, which in turn hammers the forks against the stop. This, they insisted, meant the dust seals were hitting the triple clamp and that was a fail. I pointed out that that's literally impossible because the fork has a bottom out buffer inside and showed that if 3 people compress the fork gradually you can clearly see the seal never touches. Fine that's not the problem, but it's still too soft. But how? Why? And in what way is this a safety issue? At this point he mumbled something about '...but on a car...' but I didn't catch the rest because all I could think about at that point was pulverising his smug boomer face with a hammer and rejoicing in the fountain of blood and brains. He insisted that it would somehow cause someone to crash when they're braking even though I pointed out that a. forks are loving supposed to dive that's how they make grip and b. the day before, I had taken that bike on a lengthy ride and was able to get the rear wheel off the ground so braking grip or stability are not issues. Nope not good enough, he wants a CYA letter from the manufacturer. 1. Hyosung no longer have a NZ dealer 2. If they did and I asked them for that, they'd laugh and ask me for some of what I'm taking Explained the above, got told they at least need a letter from someone 'reputable'. Is there a list of reputable bike repairers to refer to? Nope just 'someone we know' and the example he gave was a guy renowned in the industry for being the absolute worst. I pointed out I'm a mechanic with a successful repair business and know wtf I'm talking about - nope. The best part? The inspector doing the inspection doesn't have a bike license or ride bikes, he makes his unqualified underling ride them! In the end I gave up and said I'd 'fix' it, came back the next day, put some 15wt in the forks in their carpark and got the pass. The handling of the bike is now completely ruined, thanks NZTA. Do the French have a word for that sensation when you're standing there insisting 2+2=4 and every other smug gently caress in the room is smirking telling you it's actually 5?
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Dec 12, 2019 00:53
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Slavvy posted:Oooooh boy it's that time again, time to get hosed off with bureaucracy. This is the sort of stupid poo poo you should take this idiot to small claims court for.
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Dec 12, 2019 01:12
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gently caress all of that. Console yourself by pretending that they think you're a Nazi and they're loving with you on purpose?
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Dec 12, 2019 01:12
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Fifty Three posted:gently caress all of that. That looks an awful lot like the Ukrainian nazi Azov battalion symbol on the tank so that may be exactly whats going on
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HAMAS HATE BOAT posted:That looks an awful lot like the Ukrainian nazi Azov battalion symbol on the tank so that may be exactly whats going on
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Steakandchips posted:This is the sort of stupid poo poo you should take this idiot to small claims court for. Lol 'winning a tribunal dispute with a warrant inspector' is right up there with nice south Africans and reasonable policemen in the pantheon of poo poo that can't exist. $20 of fork oil and a few grey hairs are easier to stomach. HAMAS HATE BOAT posted:That looks an awful lot like the Ukrainian nazi Azov battalion symbol on the tank so that may be exactly whats going on The unit sigils are for the infamous SS division Totenkopf aka the death's head so yeah. I'd take them off if I could. Also nz native gang culture has a really weird relationship with Nazi symbolism that would properly destroy a few brains in DnD, there's a good chance a mongrel mob guy owned the bike and had that stuff done; the mob are traditionally an ethnic Maori gang who adopted the seig heil, swastika and other Nazi iconography purely as a way of getting under the authorities' skin - they wanted to offend rich white people and it was the most offensive thing they could think of!
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Dec 12, 2019 05:15
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A lot of punks in the 80s did the same thing, despite not being fascists / racists
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Dec 12, 2019 18:45
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Sounds a lot like when I had a dispute with the UK ski instructor body when they insisted I needed a first aid qualification I'm a loving a+e nurse
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Dec 12, 2019 19:00
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I don’t see the issue just fill the forks with cement
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Dec 13, 2019 01:13
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Razzled posted:I don’t see the issue just fill the forks with cement This reminds me of the time a guy tried talke me into fixing his forks because he did the seals but now the forks are totally jammed rigid?? To his credit, everything was put together in the right order, he just didn't know you aren't meant to fill the oil right to the brim.
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Dec 13, 2019 01:25
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Slavvy posted:This reminds me of the time a guy tried talke me into fixing his forks because he did the seals but now the forks are totally jammed rigid?? Those are some tight seals if they didn’t squirt. Also it’s surprising he didn’t wreck.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Those are some tight seals if they didn’t squirt. Also it’s surprising he didn’t wreck. Never got them on the bike, just tried pumping them once and realised he'd hosed up evidently.
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Dec 13, 2019 04:40
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Fifty Three posted:Console yourself by pretending that they think you're a Nazi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_SS_Panzer_Division_Das_Reich
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I see this has been kinda covered already but I think you guys got the division wrong Oh right so it's got das reich on the right flank and totenkopf on the left, just needs a fuhrer in the middle and we can call it Barbarossa.
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Dec 14, 2019 02:16
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I wish you could go back in time and put a big duct tape "X" over each symbol to see if they were taking the piss on you just because of them. Edit: Put the duct tape on anyway
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Dec 14, 2019 18:43
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I see this has been kinda covered already but I think you guys got the division wrong I guess I'm not up on my Nazi imagery and this is going to sound really dumb, but I just saw that and thought it must be the Hyosung logo
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Hyosung usually just print HYOSUNG on the tank, if they have a logo I've never seen it on any of their bikes.
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They have a logo, it's like a wheel combined with a Honda like wing thingy and is so low-effort I can't even be bothered googling it.
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Slavvy posted:so low-effort I can't even be bothered googling it.
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MomJeans420 posted:I guess I'm not up on my Nazi imagery and this is going to sound really dumb, but I just saw that and thought it must be the Hyosung logo If it looks Runic, there’s a good chance it’s fascist. I think the shield with the notch out of the corner is some kind of fascist/white pride thing too.
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Dec 16, 2019 05:52
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:That was my impression of the Hyosung design process, from having worked on like two of them They're getting better, in the early days they were Triumph circa 1991 levels but now they're approaching Suzuki grade.
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Was riding to work this morning, second time out with the new exhaust. Hear a loud pop (a fair bit louder than an exhaust popping off), and then see and hear some metal skit across the road. Pull over, check what got spat out into the road... just a bent locker key, not even mine. Checked the bike (well, the exhaust) to see if anything had gone wrong at a coincidental time but looks fine. Oddly, had me more panicked than the two close calls earlier on my way into work.
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I'd double check your tires when you leave, but a loud pop would be a pretty apparent puncture.
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Slavvy posted:They're getting better, in the early days they were Triumph circa 1991 levels but now they're approaching Suzuki grade. That’s a big jump to go from making the worst bikes on the planet to the best, but I haven’t personally seen a hyosung bike so 
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Dec 17, 2019 18:39
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Slavvy posted:Suzuki Jim Silly-Balls posted:the best Come on now
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suzuki didnt make my fastest bike, my best guitar and my stereo amps tho im trying to think of more ways that i can get additional Yamaha logos in my household, trust
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Dec 18, 2019 04:19
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Dec 18, 2019 05:02
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Or pianos, start a piano collection.
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Dec 18, 2019 05:24
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They got those really nice and quiet inverter generators now, too. been thinkin.
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I’m watching Greasy Hands Preachers and uuughhhhhh they’re all so insufferable. I like Shinya Kimura and Roland Sands ok but gaaawwwdd this movie. Guess I haven’t had a good dose of stupid hipster motorcycle bullshit in a minute. Why aren’t there any more good motorcycle documentaries?
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I’m watching Greasy Hands Preachers and uuughhhhhh they’re all so insufferable. I like Shinya Kimura and Roland Sands ok but gaaawwwdd this movie. Guess I haven’t had a good dose of stupid hipster motorcycle bullshit in a minute. have you seen long way round? <ducks>
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Dec 18, 2019 07:10
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What was that find yourself bullshit trip with ready made camp sites and artisan cheese? Fake edit: ah found it https://vimeo.com/55420992 thanks http://hipsterbikevideos.com/collective-douche-chills/
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I saw Long Way Round and mostly enjoyed it except for Charlie being a baby about everything and Ewan crying about missing his wife all the time. I’ve seen all of Poskitt’s stuff, subscribe to his Patreon, can’t get enough of it fast enough. He’s assembled a team to do the Africa Eco Race and plans to upload 20 minute videos every day, so that should be cool when it starts. Lol the fuckin Wilderness Collective. I think about that thing kind of often and chuckle every time. I wish I’d counted the number of soft focus slow motion shots of a fountain of sparks from an angle grinder in Greasy Hands Preachers. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Dec 18, 2019 |
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Dec 18, 2019 15:49
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Psychomania? I'd say we're about 3 years early to it being a documentary.
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I'm still obscurely delighted that they made it almost all the way around the world and then their only motorcycle accidents were in Calgary
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I’m watching Greasy Hands Preachers and uuughhhhhh they’re all so insufferable. I like Shinya Kimura and Roland Sands ok but gaaawwwdd this movie. Guess I haven’t had a good dose of stupid hipster motorcycle bullshit in a minute.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I don't like Shinya's bikes as bikes although they are kind of amazing as metal sculptures or something... but I saw him and his dudes and dudettes on the Cannonball and I have to say he is doing some of the most pro- level cosplay I've seen. Like wearing 1915 clothes while riding his 1915 Indian and doing 1915 repairs in every parking lot he stops at. And I think he's been in every cannonball they've run so far. As a bike dude I'm very impressed. One of his dudes even crashed and went to the hospital last time because they were wearing a half helmet (not period appropriate but more than a full face?) And riding on clincher tires that went flat. Simultaneously awful ideas but impressive for their dedication. I was wondering about his involvement with Cannonball, saw it on his van. It could be rad to see a doc about his Cannonball runs. Speaking of which, I also just watched White Knuckle, the movie about a few guys doing the Cannonball. It was interesting but needed so much more. All the talk about the engines was awesome and just left me wanting more. Especially about the dude who scored a tractor rod off some random farmer and drilled it out so he could finish.
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