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After 20 years the only thing wrong with it is that the high/low beam button gets stuck in the high position and I have to press it repeatedly to get it back into the low position. I was using my phone to take audio of the MV's engine sounds by keeping it in an open pocket and of course it flipped out of my pocket at 35 mph. Boring short video since it's mostly audio but it does show the phone exiting my pocket. https://i.imgur.com/tydFBQ8.mp4 Yuns fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Nov 10, 2020 |
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Slavvy posted:Parts are terrible to get but not aprilia terrible. Just how hard to get is hard to get? My Scrambler is the first non-American vehicle I've had that I'd be inclined to work on, and near as I can tell from the few orders I've made, there's one place in the US that can get the parts from Italy. And if it's not something they stock, it has to be shipped overseas. Is that bad, or is bad more like "it might be easier if I made this myself"? Also updated Ducati photo since this is the pics thread and I just got a new phone specifically to take better photos of cars and motorcycles and such. 
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Slavvy's experience may be different, but my one experience with getting an Aprilia part = call AF1 Racing in Austin, place order, ETA of 4 weeks for delivery b/c part was coming from Italy, part shows up three months later. I ordered a new tail piece for an SXV for a friend's xmas present to replace the one he shattered. Meanwhile, when I ordered a second set of plastics for a KTM 690, they showed up in a week. That order was for every piece of body plastic on the bike except the headlight shroud. I've ordered one Ducati part so far that was also shipped from Italy, and it got here in a week.
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I just assume that all smaller manufacturers are operating on the Norton "wait until a customer bike with the parts you need comes in, strip those, and use them to fulfill existing orders" method of supply management.
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MV Agusta is actually Italian for 'Feed me starter sprags'
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Jazzzzz posted:Slavvy's experience may be different, but my one experience with getting an Aprilia part = call AF1 Racing in Austin, place order, ETA of 4 weeks for delivery b/c part was coming from Italy, part shows up three months later. I ordered a new tail piece for an SXV for a friend's xmas present to replace the one he shattered. I had one guy with a tuono v4 who, at last contact, was on month ten of his waiting for a warranty repair to get done. I haven't heard from him in a while, he might be dead.
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Martytoof posted:I just assume that all smaller manufacturers are operating on the Norton "wait until a customer bike with the parts you need comes in, strip those, and use them to fulfill existing orders" method of supply management. Piaggio / Aprilia is not a small manufacturer by any means, they just can't do logistics for poo poo
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Did you know Italian factories close down in August? Do you know how I know? MV ownership since so many parts have to come straight from the factory in Italy.
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I was thinking of both Italian manufacturer part logistics and MV's history with changing ownership. Looks like they've been stable since 2016-ish though?
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Yuns posted:Did you know Italian factories close down in August? Do you know how I know? MV ownership since so many parts have to come straight from the factory in Italy.
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Elvisxat post your weed dealer gixxer while we're still on the right page.
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Hello, I return from Korea on the weed page to announce the best decision ever. Buddy moved across country as the base in Seoul started to shut down, and in the process he lost the keys to his Dyna and his 2005 Goldwing. So the bike set at his apartment for the last three years non-running, not maintained. Instead of getting the keys fixed he decided to buy a new Harley and he's been riding that for the past 3 years. This guy is pushing 70 so I didn't expect him to work on the bikes that much but instead of working on getting them fixed last week he bought a new 2016 GSXR 750. So because we're here in Korea working for the government we are limited to how many vehicles were allowed to have and he decided to sell the Goldwing to me for $1. So I guess I have a Goldwing? Plans are to get it working again get it painted blue and then either bye a Hannigan sidecar so we can take our three dogs on trips or engineer one since we got some buddies who designed trailers out here it'll be a slow project cuz money is not exactly flowing in but I'll try and update as I remember. Battery's dead, all fluids and filters are suspect, it was burning oil on the left side of the engine before it got sidelined, and I'm sure there's plenty of electrical gremlins I'll have to chase down as well. First Adventure will be trying to file some keys as I have key blanks and a new file set coming in this week. Here's some pictures!  My wife Melody is the intended rider, if we don't sidecar it, we will be lowering it and maybe getting the landing gears.  And now, my MT-10 SP, Melody's Grom, and the Goldwing. nullscan fucked around with this message at 09:39 on Nov 11, 2020 |
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V nice. Can't beat a free Goldwing.
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I am clearly damaged by ADVRider.txt because I totally expected a reply like in their cancer thread with pictures of wifes and gfs.
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That. Is. Awesome! I’m not super familiar with the fuel injected wings but I know on the carbureted ones, if you park them on the kickstand, oil seeps into the left side cylinders and it smokes for a bit when you start it. Keeping it on the center stand avoids this. Maybe they solved this with some sort of internal baffle by the fuel injected times  Either way nice score, you’ll love it
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Amazing. I really love the sunshine yellow on a bike that big, too. Great buy! edit: What are those silver things inside the engine guards in front of the cylinders? Fog lights?
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Of course i haven't ridden it yet, but for a nearly 700lb bike it seems decently balanced. I am pretty surprised. I've only ever had sport bikes so this is quite a step up. Thanks for the tip about the burning of oil, I'll definitely be pulling everything apart as kord knows what 3 Korean summers and winters have done to it, and it only had a soft cover... And yeah, those are fogs. There's all kinds of weird mods on this thing. He owned it since new, and cant remember everything hes done to it, so that's also going to be fun to unravel. nullscan fucked around with this message at 14:39 on Nov 11, 2020 |
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nullscan posted:Of course i haven't ridden it yet, but for a nearly 700lb bike it seems decently balanced. I am pretty surprised. I've only ever had sport bikes so this is quite a step up. I doubt if there's even such a thing as a stock Goldwing that's over a year old.
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I think the timing belt cover fog lights are an OEM Honda thing
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I think the timing belt cover fog lights are an OEM Honda thing they are
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Slavvy posted:Elvisxat post your weed dealer gixxer while we're still on the right page. The weed dealer gixxer was my weed dealer, but I don't have any pics as that was ~2006. And my gixxer is the meth'd out one, which I guess means they spent more time on it than a weed dealer's gixxer, but also means somehow even the fork tubes got rattle canned black *edit* but I'm on page 420 still at least
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ITT, as IRL, I get my rundown drug affiliated gixxers mixed up.
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MomJeans420 posted:somehow even the fork tubes got rattle canned black 
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MomJeans420 posted:somehow even the fork tubes got rattle canned black "Murdered Out" styling isn't supposed to be literal. Is it on the actual part that slides in and out?!
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Coydog posted:"Murdered Out" styling isn't supposed to be literal. Is it on the actual part that slides in and out?! Lol if this is the first time you've encountered that little mod. I've even had people whine at me that fixing their blown fork seals, induced by the paint, caused the paint to disappear.
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Do you tell them that they can buy black anodised sliders or just let them gently caress poo poo up with a rattlecan again?
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Maybe I used the wrong term, I call them inner and outer tubes for lack of a better term, only the outer tubes are painted as far as I can tell. Although the fork seals do leak, don't worry about that. And the lack of taping off is evident when you really get in there.
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Galaxy brain: painting the fork stanchions will solve the leaky fork seal problem
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if everything's black then you can't see when oil leaks the nasty stains are the only reason leaking oil is bad, so this is fine
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Renaissance Robot posted:Do you tell them that they can buy black anodised sliders or just let them gently caress poo poo up with a rattlecan again? It's usually on GN250 "cafe" ""racer"" or similar masterpieces, never seen it on an USD fork but I've no doubt they're out there!
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Just picked this up today for $750- ‘94 XR100R. My son and I have been looking for an XR for a while and this was the first one under $1k that wasn’t a total basket case. It’s got a fresh top end, new coil and CDI, new carb, sprockets, chain, grips, throttle tubes, plus it came with a parts bike and some other extras. It needed the clutch cover gasket replaced but the guy included that as well so the boy and I tackled it. I’ve done them a few times before but this one was the worst. My gasket-scraping razor fell behind the clutch so I had to take the clutch off, and then for some reason it wouldn’t line up easily when I was reassembling, plus a host of other small trivial issues along with my bad hip cramping non-stop that built up and led me to massive frustration. But now it’s all good and doesn’t leak anymore, plus I readjusted the clutch so in the end it was worth it. 
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This is my 1998 Triumph Daytona that I bought new in 2000. It's currently dressed like a Speed Triple with '09 Speed Triple forks (loaded with Racetech goodies) and wheels, Works rear shock, Hindle high-mount, etc. This pic is from a 2700-mile trip that I took with my brother that shows what it used to look like:  My other bike is this turd. 1991 EX500 with 2008 EX250 swingarm, forks (also loaded with Racetech goodies) and wheels. Oh, and some homemade high-mounts that a student of mine welded up for me.  It looked like this from '08-'18 and sometimes I miss this setup with dual sport tires. I was a little squirrelly with the 16" wheels, but was a blast on hardpack dirt roads and gravel:  It looked like this when I bought it in 2007. It had been bought new, dropped sometime during the summer of '91 and shoved into a shed for 16 years with 1050 miles on the odometer.  I no longer have these, but the Suzuki S50 and Kawasaki Versys on either side of my Triumph I kept for a while after my brother passed. The Kawasaki had some electrical gremlins and I sold it in 2012 and sold the Suzuki in 2018 to purchase the old Jeep in the background of the pic at the top. 
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Yeah, I like the Triumph. But..I came here to ask if anyone had experience with aftermarket heated grips?.
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I maintain that the Ninja 500 is the worst possible bike to streetfighter in all of history. But somehow, in yellow, with dual sport tires, it almost works
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Sir Not Appearing posted:This is my 1998 Triumph Daytona that I bought new in 2000. It's currently dressed like a Speed Triple with '09 Speed Triple forks (loaded with Racetech goodies) and wheels, Works rear shock, Hindle high-mount, etc. Salute. Did the newer rear wheel just bolt on or was there hub fuckery involved?
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Slavvy posted:Salute. Did the newer rear wheel just bolt on or was there hub fuckery involved? Yeah, the wheel bolts straight on. That's the great part with Triumph using the same basic frame and swingarm from 1997-2010. Lots of easy mixing and matching.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Yeah, I like the Triumph. My EX500 has a set of Koso heated grips. They run about $50 last time I looked. They're easy to install and work well. I originally wanted the kind that uses elements that go inside the bars, but the Protaper bars I have are thick walled with a small I.D. and I couldn't use them.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Yeah, I like the Triumph. Oxfords hotgrips premium series works good. They got a good bit of cable length since they're universal, but no big hassle to trim and rejoin. Their included glue is crap, use anything else. My clutch hand grip started to wear down to the heated elements a bit after 40k miles on my transalp.
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