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hoho`win posted:Any reason? I rode a newer stock one last summer and thought it was nice, like a big dirtbike but on the heavy side. I had a 2017 DCT as well, sans any suspension upgrades, and it was a really great motorcycle. Since you mentioned riding with a pillion as well, my partner (110ish) liked the stock seat and greatly enjoyed the Sargent seat. DCT is great for two up since the shifting is buttery smooth and you wont be constantly bouncing into each other. Dirt handling was great as well. I have seen good reviews about the new T7 as well also, maybe you can convince your pillion to go on test drives with you.
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I put a refundable deposit down on a Crystal White Trident. Delivery some time in early March. Hopefully I actually like it in person.
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This is how it feels when you chew Crystal White Trident gum
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Razzled posted:AT for more touring style riding, tenere for doing more bdr/offroad style riding (though the AT can do this too just not as easy). KTM 790/890 go try one and see if it catches your fancy but MEH. between all the issues, the price and the fact that the 790 is already abandoned i skipped it and bought an fe501 instead. BIG DRYWALL MAN posted:I had a 2017 DCT as well, sans any suspension upgrades, and it was a really great motorcycle. Since you mentioned riding with a pillion as well, my partner (110ish) liked the stock seat and greatly enjoyed the Sargent seat. DCT is great for two up since the shifting is buttery smooth and you wont be constantly bouncing into each other. Dirt handling was great as well. I have seen good reviews about the new T7 as well also, maybe you can convince your pillion to go on test drives with you. Thanks doods, sounds like I need to do a few more test rides with the old lady to make a decision.
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It finally happened, a pretty lady just said "Nice bike!" to me as I was parking the bike!
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Quick, buy a lottery ticket!
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I once was riding along a lonesome desert highway on the back side of the Sierra Nevada, bike covered in camping gear, and a pretty woman in an E30 BMW came up beside me, waved and made kissy faces, and took off. It was some clark griswold poo poo
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Is there even one lady who posts in here any more since Becktastic and M42 moved on
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Sagebrush posted:Is there even one lady who posts in here any more since Becktastic and M42 moved on  Every day we stray closer to ADVrider.
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Coydog posted:
Not quite. They try to deny reality with pathetic bravado and sexism; like all reactionaries they think the problem comes from the outside. We face to biek and embrace the raw gay horsepower. You don't need girls when you've got a Gladius!
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Gladius? The KTM SMC-R is the quintessential gay bike. I swear, every european gay biker seems to be getting a ktm/husqvarna supermoto, or a Duke 390 if they are power limited.
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Sagebrush posted:I once was riding along a lonesome desert highway on the back side of the Sierra Nevada, bike covered in camping gear, and a pretty woman in an E30 BMW came up beside me, waved and made kissy faces, and took off. Were you on a v-Strom? (the motorcycling equivalent of a wood paneled avocado green station wagon)
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LimaBiker posted:Gladius? why am i hearing techno music ah, ja ihr haben eine groBen heine
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Update: The dealer made good on their promise. They replaced the back wheel on my CBR250 at their expense. Only downside is that the new wheel doesn't have the slick red rim taping. They also picked it up and dropped it off (80 miles round trip). I'm impressed with them and will likely go back to them. I already replaced the bent brake lever and will replace the footpegs this weekend (they're a bit wobbly). A buddy told me my Honda reminds him of the bike from Akira and I should get the stickers for it. Now I'm just waiting on a non-freezing day and for a helmet that doesn't squish my brain. This channel is going to help me pick my next bike when I get around to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BglzNAML78M I feel bad though. I've barely put 10 miles on my first bike and I'm already thinking about my next one.
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I wouldn't listen to the regular cars guy for any advice except for how not to behave and what bikes are bad to start with. The daytona video is pretty hilarious, though. Rim tape is cheap. Buy some and apply it yourself.
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Guilty pleasure: I think rim tape looks cool, especially when it has some breaks in it like this:
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T Zero posted:I feel bad though. I've barely put 10 miles on my first bike and I'm already thinking about my next one. Plus insurance is cheap, gas is cheap, maintenance is cheap, and small light bikes can be so much more fun tooling around banging through the gears and tossing around corners.
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Yeah that big surge of 'omg I know what I'm doing! I'm INVINCIBLE!' is you just discovering the tiniest tip of the iceberg of not-poo poo riding. You've figured out how to ride correct enough that the bike starts to respond correctly and some kind of positive feedback loop can start to form. It is literally a signal that boot camp is over and the real battle has begun, but most people interpret it as a sign of mastery and find themselves in a tree a few months later.
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Don’t go to regular car review for bike advice. He sort of halfway knows what he’s talking about.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Don’t go to regular car review for bike advice. He sort of halfway knows what he’s talking about. he's learning to fly planes now too and it's fairly ughhhhh because he sort of a quarter of the way knows what he's talking about.
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Zack Courts and Ari Henning are the GOAT of motorcycle youtube just watch all of Zack's MC Commute / Daily Rider videos
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FBS posted:Zack Courts and Ari Henning are the GOAT of motorcycle youtube Counterpoint Zack thinks that Dave the Gixxer isn't cool
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Don’t go to regular car review for bike advice. He sort of halfway knows what he’s talking about. I watched his video on a CM450 out of nostalgia for my first bike. He went on for way too long (he always does, but I digress) about the buckhorn bars, complaining about how hard they were to use to get leverage against at low speed. I still can't figure out what he was whining about, that bike was so light and easy to maneuver. If he's trying to lift the bike off the front wheel then yeah, but if he can't move the handlebars in a parking lot I don't know how to help him.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Don’t go to regular car review for bike advice. He sort of halfway knows what he’s talking about. The first 20 seconds of his dr650 was pretty great.
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There is for sure some good bike content from him and he generally has the right idea. It’s the details that get lost on him usually. He comes off as someone who has been riding for a while but isn’t really “into it”
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As Nero Danced posted:I watched his video on a CM450 out of nostalgia for my first bike. He went on for way too long (he always does, but I digress) about the buckhorn bars, complaining about how hard they were to use to get leverage against at low speed. I still can't figure out what he was whining about, that bike was so light and easy to maneuver. If he's trying to lift the bike off the front wheel then yeah, but if he can't move the handlebars in a parking lot I don't know how to help him. I watched that review too and was confused, never had an issue with buckhorns. They're ugly and not really meant for spirited (there's a 70's word) riding. For long distance couch riding there's nothing better.
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Buckhorn bars are something that needs to be appropriately applied per bike. Goldwing: buckhorn bars all day SV650: never ever The Goldwing would suck with straight bars, and so would the SV with buckhorn bars. One is not automatically better than the other, they just have different applications.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Buckhorn bars are something that needs to be appropriately applied per bike. Truth. I rode my friends CX500 with buckhorns a handful of times and it was very comfortable and chill.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:There is for sure some good bike content from him and he generally has the right idea. It’s the details that get lost on him usually. All these criticisms are totally valid, but then the whole point of his channel is average dude reviews ordinary stuff because he's interested in it (obviously that's become extended as his access to cars grew with his popularity). He reviews stuff from a cultural, not a technical perspective, specifically that of growing up in the 90s in small town/bedroom community nowhere, where the car "scene" consisted of Mullet Dave wrenching on a Fox body mustang or Monte Carlo in his yard while all the cool stuff is happening far far away. I didn't grow up in Pennsylvania, but I identify with a lot of what he goes on about. I haven't watched any of the plane stuff, but his bike stuff definitely comes from the "I like bikes, bikes are cool, and also extremely dangerous." layman's world where a Ducati monster is the height of exotica you're ever likely to see, and he probably knew of at least a couple of guys who killed themselves on bikes from his high school.
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At least his videos are telling people don't buy a Daytona or R6 for your first bike, but I still find modern youtube personalities annoying with how zany they feel they have to be
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Finger Prince posted:All these criticisms are totally valid, but then the whole point of his channel is average dude reviews ordinary stuff because he's interested in it (obviously that's become extended as his access to cars grew with his popularity). He reviews stuff from a cultural, not a technical perspective, specifically that of growing up in the 90s in small town/bedroom community nowhere, where the car "scene" consisted of Mullet Dave wrenching on a Fox body mustang or Monte Carlo in his yard while all the cool stuff is happening far far away. I didn't grow up in Pennsylvania, but I identify with a lot of what he goes on about. He's a stupid child that thinks fart jokes are cool and... that's where it ends. He'd have something if he had someone else enforce the stupid words that come out of his idiot mouth. I legitimately love the "regular car drives up and I say words about it" angle, but then he is all "UNNNGNGGGGGGGG *real fart*" for 90% of every single video. He's better than cupholder guy but that's a low bar. I guess I'm not an "average dude" but I think we need more people like marlon and regularcarreviews guy can get trapped in a hole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsczZvazfzo
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Coydog posted:He's a stupid child that thinks fart jokes are cool and... that's where it ends. He'd have something if he had someone else enforce the stupid words that come out of his idiot mouth. I legitimately love the "regular car drives up and I say words about it" angle, but then he is all "UNNNGNGGGGGGGG *real fart*" for 90% of every single video. He's better than cupholder guy but that's a low bar. It's like a kid trying to be funny without knowing how to be entertaining. If he would stop the straining-to-take-a-poo poo noise followed by an obnoxious voice with random words at least 3 times a video I would watch the channel, but that's been his gimmick since he started and it's only funny maybe once, but then you get out of 8th grade and it gets really old really quick. Just checked one of the more recent videos and he's toned it down a bit, but it's still there. I remember when Marlon only had the original bonneville review up, glad to see he's made a couple more since then. As Nero Danced fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Feb 24, 2021 |
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Finger Prince posted:All these criticisms are totally valid, but then the whole point of his channel is average dude reviews ordinary stuff because he's interested in it (obviously that's become extended as his access to cars grew with his popularity). He reviews stuff from a cultural, not a technical perspective, specifically that of growing up in the 90s in small town/bedroom community nowhere, where the car "scene" consisted of Mullet Dave wrenching on a Fox body mustang or Monte Carlo in his yard while all the cool stuff is happening far far away. I didn't grow up in Pennsylvania, but I identify with a lot of what he goes on about. He doesn’t have the depth with bikes to review them from a cultural standpoint, honestly. Cars? Sure
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:He doesn’t have the depth with bikes to review them from a cultural standpoint, honestly. Cars? Sure Yeah, that's true. I guess that's what makes the bike stuff more sort of "these are my feelings about this bike" which is not particularly useful as a review.
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FBS posted:Zack Courts and Ari Henning are the GOAT of motorcycle youtube they're better than most, but at times they definitely dip into a bit of the "this bike that isnt a sportbike isn't enough of a sportbike" thing that motorcycle reviewers habitually do
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Bike YouTube channels that I think are good and I enjoy: 44 Teeth Missenden Flyer Mr Darcy and the Old Man Royal Jordanian Delboy’s Garage Tatro Machine New Zeroland Allan Milyard FortNine
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Fiiiinnnneeee I won't let a youtuber dictate my next vehicle purchase and will learn to appreciate what I currently have I want a T100Steakandchips posted:Bike YouTube channels that I think are good and I enjoy: I'll check some of these out. Thank you
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Steakandchips posted:Bike YouTube channels that I think are good and I enjoy: Half of these it sounds like you made up. "FortNine"? come on, son I like certain reviews that Mr. Regular has done, in particular the PT Cruiser one is really fascinating. He goes on this whole disseration about PoMo and also about poverty and the way that we react when we face it. Also the Model T video has a lot of interesting information. But yeah
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captainOrbital posted:Half of these it sounds like you made up. "FortNine"? come on, son https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSAR0b-0w8k
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