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Apparently it's not unusual for Rex rads to crack a little and weep (hell, same), and when it happened to me I smelled antifreeze strongly at the light, and I could still catch whiffs of it at speed, but it wasn't until I smelled it again at a different light that I started to put two and two together. Like, it was unlikely that I'd be right behind two different stinky cars. And then I saw the little chalky streaks from the dried-up coolant. Being a few hundred meters back of a roofing tar truck was an entirely different experience, though.
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The rex not having a temp gauge is possibly the only flaw it has.
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Coydog posted:THAT is hilarious. Until you come to a stop and are overtaken by your own exhaust fumes lol. Bikes without a catalytic smell quite a bit. For a while i thought mine was running way too rich but the heavy smell is just normal, i guess 
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May 15, 2021 09:28
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Sagebrush posted:Yeah, that happens to me too. You're just so much more connected to the smells of the world that a minivan with cooked brakes might be half a mile ahead but it smells like it's all around you. I get at least a little worried every time I smell hot brakes/clutch or a truck burning oil or a plastic bag stuck on someone's muffler or anything like that. The idle speed of an RSV Mille and the idle speed of a London Taxi are in some sort of harmonic relationship so every time one of those rattly diesel bastards was next to me at the lights I was convinced my top end was about to explode.
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May 15, 2021 09:42
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One time riding along the highway it started smelling like burning and I thought it was my bike, once I had looped down under the overpass I was crossing before there was a car on fire there. Another time I was riding along and heard a 'spoing' sound like I had just ridden over a huge stone, odd but didn't think that much of it. Stopped a while later at an intersection and heard a huge racket like my chain had fallen off the front sprocket. Immediately got off - bike was fine but there was a center punch lying on the road. Apparently the noise before was me riding over it, at which it nestled itself between my headers; stopping made it fall out. Also, how noisy your chain sounds if you're riding past a concrete barrier.
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High Protein posted:Also, how noisy your chain sounds if you're riding past a concrete barrier. Oof, yeah. A week or two after I got my bike I installed some axle sliders and adjusted the chain tension. Went for a test ride around my apartment complex and I was quite alarmed at how noisy the chain was sounding all of a sudden.
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Scanning for tyres and noticed Michelin's new road classic model proudly advertising "50% more grip than the previous model!" Am I losing it or is this basically an admission that the pilot activ was a dogshit tyre, that there was this much room for improvement?
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The pilot activ IS a dog poo poo tyre, but there's also probably some kind of statistics/measurement shenanigans going on to arrive at such a bold and easy to digest figure.
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May 28, 2021 20:23
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Dog shittier than Continental Go!s?
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I actually had ContiGo!s on my CBF125 lol. They were definitely at least as poo poo as Activs, especially in the wet Why do I have such a knack for picking awful tyres  e/ I'm trying to find something better but there seems to be a supply issue with classic size tyres at the minute, literally all that's in stock anywhere in my size is the TT100s the bike came with, which are decent but also are £280 a pair. Probably just have to eat it, with how worn my current rubber is getting. Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 02:07 on May 29, 2021 |
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May 29, 2021 01:57
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Steakandchips posted:Dog shittier than Continental Go!s? This is the kind of benchmarking we need. What's the worst tyre? What's the slowest 250? What cruiser has the worst P:W ratio? All questions begging for answers
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May 29, 2021 04:23
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Slavvy posted:This is the kind of benchmarking we need. Slowest 250? Suzuki TU250X unless you are allowed to go vintage would be my guess. Worst cruiser P:W would probably one of the Japanese 250cc metric cruisers.
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May 29, 2021 04:43
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Carth Dookie posted:Slowest 250? Suzuki TU250X unless you are allowed to go vintage would be my guess. https://thecustommotorcycle.co.uk/ad/1988-honda-jazz-chopper-cruiser-50cc-supersport-in-black-rare-model/  Although this particular one has got a 70cc big bore kit on it.
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Carth Dookie posted:Slowest 250? Suzuki TU250X unless you are allowed to go vintage would be my guess. Tu250 doesn't get even close to the slowest you sweet summer child you. Chinese bikes exist! Worst P:W cruiser I can think of is the shadow 400, it is a shadow 750 with a missing 350.
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Slavvy posted:Tu250 doesn't get even close to the slowest you sweet summer child you. Chinese bikes exist! The slowest bike that's still worthy of being called a bike, then
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Renaissance Robot posted:I actually had ContiGo!s on my CBF125 lol. Aye. Can't believe those shitters are what Honda put on at the factory!
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tupolev tu-250 blunder
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Greg12 posted:tupolev tu-250 blunder It's not fast but the endurance and loiter time are amazing!
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Sincerely gently caress the companies who print wiring diagrams in black and white. Double gently caress the ones who label everything with random numbers, requiring you to continually check a reference sheet to be sure of what anything on the diagram actually is. The object of my rage today is Yamaha, who had a full colour diagram for the bike in question up until 2008, and thereafter went monochrome. Why 
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F Good: I found someone else online having exactly the same problem as me Bad: this is the stupidest loving problem ever quote:Final report ..... Looks like PO fixed the problem by just permanently joining the safety cutout wire from the ECU into the wire that goes to the neutral/clutch/sidestand switches, and that solution doesn't seem to have done any harm, so I can fix this straight away instead of having to order more parts, but still...
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On the bright side I didn't need to remove the top of the triple clamp to get the barrel out like I thought I was going to have to, so that's nice.
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Renaissance Robot posted:Sincerely gently caress the companies who print wiring diagrams in black and white. If you’ve got a semi decent digital copy, you can spend a few hours in Inkscape/Illustrator and trace over the diagram pretty easily. It wouldn’t surprise me if someone on fiverr would do it for next to nothing.
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It’s 2021, why can’t I drop a GPX file into Waze, Google Maps, or Apple Maps and get them to turn-by-turn me to each waypoint  I have a 260km round trip that I want to do but it’s pretty littered with farm country roads so I definitely appreciate the “in 1km make a right” guidance. The last time I did this ride I used some janky GPX route app that crashed on me twice and was consistently horrible handling GPS causing me to have to backtrack a few times.
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I took my Jeep to dinner with some friends tonight and on the way there was this bumpy/hilly/curvy road that goes over some train tracks. Coming from the opposite side there was a girl in no gear riding a CBR about two feet over the yellow line in my lane, coming at me. I honked, because I wanted her to not die, and she gave me the finger after getting back behind the vehicle in front of her. After I passed her she went back to riding on the wrong side of the road. Stay in your loving lane you squid idiot.
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I had two ridiculous squid experiences today too and I would say they're all coming out for summer but this is LA so it was nice weather months ago and today was actually a little too hot. Guy on a sport bike apparently felt his manhood was insulted when I passed him on the freeway in my soccer mom SUV that does 0 to 60 in 8 seconds and changed multiple lanes so he could go full throttle next to me for a few seconds, then slow down again. I will be spending the next year adding turbos to my truck so this never happens again. Then I witnessed a Harley with a very bright front headlight make a left turn RIGHT in front of two oncoming cars who had no one behind them. It was close enough they had to brake, I was pretty sure I was about to see someone get pretty messed up. I figure he had to be on something but that's hard to square with the boomer adventure bike headlight.
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Martytoof posted:It’s 2021, why can’t I drop a GPX file into Waze, Google Maps, or Apple Maps and get them to turn-by-turn me to each waypoint More importantly why can't we do that in 2021 when we *could* do it in 2012 with both Google Maps and Nokia Maps? Osmand lets you do that but is extremely open-source (might even be the janky app you're complaining about).
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Martytoof posted:It’s 2021, why can’t I drop a GPX file into Waze, Google Maps, or Apple Maps and get them to turn-by-turn me to each waypoint This, plus other issues with mounting a phone, is why I recently upgraded from my ancient Garmin GPS to their latest model. It's still overpriced, but not as egregious as the older models. Dragging around the map still feels slower than my $200 phone from 3 years ago but it's a huge improvement over their older units.
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Martytoof posted:It’s 2021, why can’t I drop a GPX file into Waze, Google Maps, or Apple Maps and get them to turn-by-turn me to each waypoint Haven't tried either yet, but Calimoto looks promising, but the route planning is all in-app. Scenic has GPX import. Wonder how much the subscription/"premium" options are lol
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Chris Knight posted:When we were out riding on Sunday my Z400 buddy was trying to find the same thing lol. Yeh, I’m doing Hamilton down through no man’s land down to Erie lakeshore, over to peace bridge, then up to Niagara on the Lake. In theory I can just ride south until I hit water, then east until I hit MURICA then north until I hit wineries. Still stinks that the big three don’t let you just set waypoints for turn by turn. It’s doubly stupid because I can import a GPX to view in Google MAps on my PC, it’s not like it’s not possible, there’s just no way to get it to route you through those waypoints :| d u m b
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fuckin' military convoys breh I know you're getting paid min wage to haul MREs to some rear end-end training camp and are probably mandated to stay 10mph below the speed limit but could you refrain from doing it in convoys thirty vehicles long
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tokenbrownguy posted:fuckin' military convoys They are probably heading to training, and if they are anything like every Joe I ever met while I was in, they have that poo poo pegged as fast as it will go for the entire convoy (when they aren't accordioning back and forth because you didn't have to have a civilian drivers license to drive a military vehicle)
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Carteret posted:They are probably heading to training, and if they are anything like every Joe I ever met while I was in, they have that poo poo pegged as fast as it will go for the entire convoy (when they aren't accordioning back and forth because you didn't have to have a civilian drivers license to drive a military vehicle) I can't decide if this is more or less American than being able to ride a busa on a paper learner's.
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More because you can do waaaaaay more damage with a slow but insanely heavy military truck than an insanely fast but light Busa
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Slavvy posted:I can't decide if this is more or less American than being able to ride a busa on a paper learner's. There's probably hundreds of lorry drivers in Britain who managed to get their military permits converted to civilian HGV licenses because all you needed to get the "heavy transporter" check on your permit was to drive a tank transporter a hundred yards down an autobahn that the police closed for you. The withdrawal of the British Army On The Rhine - while catastrophic for the economies of pubs and brothels from Hamburg to Cologne - will undoubtedly save lives on British roads over time.
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Seriously. Sitting in "drivers training" at Fort Bragg in the early 00's with three 18 yo female soldiers from NYC who had never driven suddenly being behind the wheel of a 5 Ton MTV was harrowing. TAX DOLLARS AT WORK
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Really emphasizes that nobody wins wars, one side just steps on fewer rakes than the other.
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I got my truck driver's license in the military here. The training was set up so that we had a civilian driving instructor teaching us the full legally mandated amount of theoretical lessons and driving lessons, ending with the same theoretical and driving exam that you would have outside of the military lol.
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My ct110 passed its roadworthy check today, and I was super stoked about that. But I've just been told by the roads authority that not only does it also need them to inspect it as well, but they're not currently doing inspections because covid. The roadworthy certificate is only valid for 2 weeks. Their guy can't do both.
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