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Jim Silly-Balls posted:That’s a housing issue, which is a lifestyle choice, not a carb issue Well yeah, I mean raising chickens is a housing and lifestyle issue, not a chicken issue. Not saying fresh eggs aren't worth it, but not everyone can raise chickens, ya know?
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You're all missing one big point: if you want to buy a motorcycle and don't want to buy new, it means you have to buy used. Most used bikes on the market, whether through dealers or private sales, are carbed.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:You're all missing one big point: if you want to buy a motorcycle and don't want to buy new, it means you have to buy used. Most used bikes on the market, whether through dealers or private sales, are carbed. I was gonna mention that housing is very much not a lifestyle issue for a lot of people either but that isn't a bike stuff. And if you're broke, a screwdriver and a gasket set cost less than a power commander and laptop/man with a dyno.
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Feb 28, 2020 18:36
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Finger Prince posted:Well yeah, I mean raising chickens is a housing and lifestyle issue, not a chicken issue. Not saying fresh eggs aren't worth it, but not everyone can raise chickens, ya know? I get it. I’ve rebuilt carbs on kitchen tables and floors of Unheated single stall apartment garages before. The struggle is real
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Feb 28, 2020 18:37
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:You're all missing one big point: if you want to buy a motorcycle and don't want to buy new, it means you have to buy used. Most used bikes on the market, whether through dealers or private sales, are carbed. Not to make you feel old or anything, but it's been nearly 20 years since the last carbed SV even. Unless you're specifically looking for something from the 80s or 90s, chances are it's going to be fuel injected.
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Feb 28, 2020 18:40
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You can still buy brand new DR's in several flavors that all have carbs?
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Feb 28, 2020 18:42
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Slavvy posted:You can still buy brand new motorcycles in several flavors that all have carbs?
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Finger Prince posted:Not to make you feel old or anything, but it's been nearly 20 years since the last carbed SV even. Unless you're specifically looking for something from the 80s or 90s, chances are it's going to be fuel injected. I just filtered local craigslist for private sales. Of the first 30 listings, only 12 were fuel injected and 20 were 2000+. Maybe it's a regional thing, but around me, carbs are still the most prevalent. I suppose if you got strict with your filtering, like titled street bikes above 250 cc, that balance might shift, but in terms of bikes all together, that's how it is.
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Feb 28, 2020 19:08
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Finger Prince posted:Not to make you feel old or anything, but it's been nearly 20 years since the last carbed SV even. Unless you're specifically looking for something from the 80s or 90s, chances are it's going to be fuel injected. There are still a ton of carbed bikes on the new market even. You don’t even have to get a used bike to get carbs. Fuel injection doesn’t make sense below a certain price point and retooling an existing bike to add FI doesn’t make sense by itself either.
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Feb 28, 2020 19:38
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I just filtered local craigslist for private sales. Of the first 30 listings, only 12 were fuel injected and 20 were 2000+. Maybe it's a regional thing, but around me, carbs are still the most prevalent. I suppose if you got strict with your filtering, like titled street bikes above 250 cc, that balance might shift, but in terms of bikes all together, that's how it is. Yeah it probably factors into the whole lifestyle thing. I immediately discount all the under $1k projects (actually those bikes don't even exist for that cheap up here), small displacement, and dirt bikes that you'd get as a second, third, fourth+ bike to tinker on and ride only a portion of the time. If you can only have one bike to do everything and you have to rely on it, and purchase price isn't the limiting factor, the picture changes a lot. Just a quick look on Kijiji right now and there's barely anything older than 2005, and only maybe a couple of carbed bikes among them, (not including the Harley's because I have no idea if they're typically carbed or efi and don't care to look it up) but it's also the dead of winter.
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Feb 28, 2020 19:45
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Finger Prince posted:Yeah it probably factors into the whole lifestyle thing. I immediately discount all the under $1k projects (actually those bikes don't even exist for that cheap up here), small displacement, and dirt bikes that you'd get as a second, third, fourth+ bike to tinker on and ride only a portion of the time. If you can only have one bike to do everything and you have to rely on it, and purchase price isn't the limiting factor, the picture changes a lot. My region is heavy into dirt/dual sports and cruisers, with a smattering of the newer Japanese street bikes that are ubiquitous everywhere. Lol I forgot that my default craigslist search eliminates all Harley Davidson stuff, too, I bet that changes it a little.
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Feb 28, 2020 19:55
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:my default craigslist search eliminates all Harley Davidson stuff  teach me. I live in Milwaukee, I need this. Teach me.
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Feb 28, 2020 20:43
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:
https://milwaukee.craigslist.org/search/mcy?query=-harley+-davidson+-hd+-%22h+d%22 Bookmark it.
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Feb 28, 2020 21:34
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:https://milwaukee.craigslist.org/search/mcy?query=-harley+-davidson+-hd+-%22h+d%22 Hell yes thank you
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Feb 28, 2020 21:45
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Gonna reopen Pandora's Box and link https://searchtempest.com again
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:https://milwaukee.craigslist.org/search/mcy?query=-harley+-davidson+-hd+-%22h+d%22 On related note, listing a vehicle on CL now cost $5. Notice the lack of scam posts across the board.
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What percentage of bikes are Harleys in your areas? Here in the Bay Area they are definitely in the minority. It’s fairly evenly split between Japanese, Italian, and German, with maybe like 10% Harleys and choppers. That’s what I’ve seen anyway. I forget that in a lot of the US Harleys are super prevalent.
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Feb 29, 2020 04:29
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Well I’m a bad stat because MKE is HD headquarters.
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Feb 29, 2020 04:39
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I saw a Griso V8 and fell hopelessly in love. How much pain awaits me?  Oh no ABS? Oh well we can't have that. I guess no Guzzi for me 
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Feb 29, 2020 15:27
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Lmao as if any guzzi has abs that actually works
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Feb 29, 2020 16:19
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Lmao as if any guzzi has abs that actually works Perfect yes, keep saying stuff like that, help me avoid the pain.
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Feb 29, 2020 17:23
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mulligan posted:I saw a Griso V8 and fell hopelessly in love. How much pain awaits me? Are you shaped like an orangutan (arms longer than your legs)? Can you cope with the existential pain of once again letting your rational side cockblock your passione, effectively resigning yourself to the fact that you were in fact never cool enough to pull it off anyway? If no, lots.
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Feb 29, 2020 18:15
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Lmao as if any guzzi
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Finger Prince posted:Are you shaped like an orangutan (arms longer than your legs)? Can you cope with the existential pain of once again letting your rational side cockblock your passione, effectively resigning yourself to the fact that you were in fact never cool enough to pull it off anyway? Sighs.. I’ll ... I’ll keep looking at DR650’s and Goldwings. 
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In your backwards country maybe, but I don't think a single European-spec >125cc road-legal bike has had carbs since Euro3 came into force (2006).
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At least in this backwards colony the only carb bikes left after the models that have been around for ages and are allowed to have them because they haven't had any substantial updates - so the tu250x is efi, but the gn250 still has a carb.
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mulligan posted:Sighs.. Just think of all those extra moving parts in those additional cylinders that could one day Guzzi themselves.
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mulligan posted:Sighs.. We like to get pedantic about goodbieks(tm) here, but you certainly don't have to consider only the good safe buys. Someone here has a bike that won't start at the freezing point of water. Someone else has visiting rights to a Royal Enfield sometimes. I'm sure there is even someone here with a 1290SAR (but I don't know who because they never post about it). Point is, get whatever insanely crazy motorcycle that stirs your fancy. Ergos can be fixed, and if you end up hating it you can just sell it down the line for a loss. I loathed my monster 620ie/klr250/690smc/Grom, but I'm glad I took the chance on them.
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Coydog posted:We like to get pedantic about goodbieks(tm) here, but you certainly don't have to consider only the good safe buys. 
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Coydog posted:Point is, get whatever insanely crazy motorcycle that stirs your fancy. Ergos can be fixed, and if you end up hating it you can just sell it down the line for a loss. This. Find what stirs your fancy and select the problems you can live with.
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Coydog posted:Someone here has a bike that won't start at the freezing point of water. Lol I sold the (as it turns out appropriately-named) Shiver almost 5 years ago and they'd patched out that issue the year before, update your goonbieks.xlsx at some point. e: I replaced it with a Ducati so it's not like I'm cured or anything.
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Coydog posted:I loathed my monster 620ie/klr250/690smc/Grom, but I'm glad I took the chance on them. I remember you repeatedly posting how the 690 and grom were the best bike ever.
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High Protein posted:I remember you repeatedly posting how the 690 and grom were the best bike ever. The heart wants what the heart wants. Briefly.
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High Protein posted:I remember you repeatedly posting how the 690 and grom were the best bike ever. I have emerged from these experiences a wiser and more discerning man.
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Hawk GT is still the best bike ever, idk why everyone keeps arguing about second place They could just dust off the tooling from 1988 and make the exact same bike with the following changes - fuel injection - ABS - modern suspension - 10mm wider wheels - LED lighting and it would be the perfect motorcycle even today.
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Sagebrush posted:Hawk GT is still the best bike ever, idk why everyone keeps arguing about second place
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Sagebrush posted:Hawk GT is still the best bike ever, idk why everyone keeps arguing about second place Spoke wheels and I'm there.
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Sagebrush posted:Hawk GT is still the best bike ever, idk why everyone keeps arguing about second place It doesn't need modern suspension, it's got suspension identical to a brand new SV650 or ER6.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Spoke wheels and I'm there. mmm nah. tubes suck and the 80s fidget spinner wheels are rad. you can always steal some wheels from a bonneville or something if you want. Slavvy posted:It doesn't need modern suspension, it's got suspension identical to a brand new SV650 or ER6. i mean that is true but man what a difference after I put in a decent rear shock and especially cartridge emulators. whole new bike.
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yeah my buddy had a CBR front end on his hawk that also had a supertrapp on it and it was fantastic also tubless spoked rims are the best thing
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