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Russian Bear posted:Woah woah this thread is getting more controversial than the F1 finale. No, everyone here agrees f1 is trash compared to MotoGP. Slavvy posted:IDK where this idea that I'm somehow a gimmick or act of some kind comes from. This is just me, it's how I talk IRL, my personality is not a schtick. If you think I'm an rear end in a top hat you can call me an rear end in a top hat, put me on ignore or buy me a red text if tone policing me is so fucken important. Doesn't change the reality of the advice I try to give out. Machines don't care about your feelings. Uh, you mean an orange text, right? 
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Slavvy posted:Machines don't care about your feelings. Thread title?
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builds character posted:Uh, you mean an orange text, right? 
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As the person who has garnered slavvys ire over the past few pages, I can say I love and appreciate him. His advice is solid, I should take it to a mechanic. But inspite of my refusal to do that he is still helping me while trying to make it abundantly clear I will likely gently caress that up. I'd hardly call him an edgelord. He has huge dad energy and seems like a great guy imo
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As a person that also hasn’t taken his advice, I think he’s great and also (usually) objectively correct. Dad energy describes it well. Folks are like “You’re right, but I don’t want to do that.” And then he still helps anyway.
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Slavvy is the internet forum equivalent of a national treasure.
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I don't have a problem with Slaavy calling me out on it. What I said was dumb and wrong. As for Thunderdome rules, you  until you or your posting enemies are dead. Then you some more.
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Verman posted:Thread title? builds character posted:No, everyone here agrees f1 is trash compared to MotoGP.  goddamnedtwisto posted:I don't see why it's on Slavvy - who is giving the benefit of his years of professional experience completely free of charge - to ensure it's done in the most sugared and dulcet tones. He has the option of just *not* taking his own free time to help a complete stranger on the other side of the world
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Geekboy posted:Dad energy describes it well. Me, Skyarb:  Slaavy:  CA: 
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I'd like to clarify, CA isn't Thunderdome. HOWEVER, we have a pretty core group of posters here (as I'm posting this, there are 12 whole-rear end earth humans browsing CA) contributing real knowledge, snark, advice, experience, and general motorcycle chat that isn't nearly as big of a pool of people as, say GBS has, so the individual posters stand out more here and stick in your mind more. Let's try not to be outright dicks to each other, don't go after people with the express purpose of being lovely (not accusing anyone of that, just saying it out loud for posterity), but some of the Something Awful energy is to be expected, natch. What I don't have time for and don't want this forum to devolve into is ADVRIDER racist/sexist/greybeard horseshit, which, given the responses in the ADVRIDER thread, I think is a common goal here. This is one of the only motorcycle forums I've found that actively rejects that garbage.
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Can I still post my motorcycle erotic fan fiction here though
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Does it involve any of the core group of posters? If so, yes.
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Martytoof posted:Can I still post my motorcycle erotic fan fiction here though Haha, nice one Punchy
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Does it involve any of the core group of posters? If so, yes. I'm going to hire Chuck Tingle to write us a story about Slavvy, a time-traveling KTM, and a boatload of Italian motorcycle parts
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Duked in the Butt by my own KTM
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Chris Knight posted:Duked in the Butt by my own KTM Excoriated in the Butt by a Slavvy Post
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Pounded in the butt by the advice another posted refused to take regarding fuel pump repairs on their bike
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MomJeans420 posted:Pounded in the butt by the advice another posted refused to take regarding fuel pump repairs on their bike well yeah per earlier discussions EFI never ever ever breaks so clearly its something else 
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cursedshitbox posted:well yeah per earlier discussions EFI never ever ever breaks so clearly its something else My money is on something completely unrelated to the EFI system, like a kickstand or clutch switch or OP left the kill switch on, but we'll never know because by the time they've finished shotgunning parts at the their bike of Theseus, there'll be no way of knowing what actually fixed it.
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My bike can be started with the kick stand down and clutch out at long as it's in neutral and it's in neutral. Kill switch is also in the operate position. Believe me I wish it were that simple
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Skyarb posted:My bike can be started with the kick stand down and clutch out at long as it's in neutral and it's in neutral. Kill switch is also in the operate position. Believe me I wish it were that simple I forget, but you did verify that you have spark, right? Otherwise it's multimeter time. I don't know dick about motorcycles, but I know a bit about gas engines in general. Spark, fuel, compression is what you need for an engine to run. If you've verified that you actually have spark it's one of the other two, most likely fuel. I like to verify this by giving it a squirt of fuel by other means than carb/injectors. It can be a small dribble of gas down the spark plug hole or more conveniently a squirt of ether from a spray can straight into the air intake. If it'll run like that, fuel is indeed your problem. Since it's EFI this would also mean it's multimeter time. Reading a wiring diagram for the first time can seem a bit daunting but they're entirely logical. Printing them out and taking your kid's color pens or crayons to the lines that interest you the most can make them easier to read to the untrained eye. Boring anecdote: My little honda is entirely conventional and won't crank (or indeed run) unless certain electrical conditions are met - much like or exactly like your bike - kill switch, clutch switch, neutral switch and sidestand switch. I'm fixing a colleague's piece of poo poo 50cc Chinese scooter for fun. Cleaned the carb, got it to run, messed with some other things and then it wouldn't start any longer. It needs a brake lever pressed to crank, but it turns out the side stand switch only cuts the spark but doesn't prevent cranking. Took me way too long to figure that one out. Assuming things work the way you think they should work doesn't make it so is the takeaway I guess.
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My 2004 Triumph Tiger 955i left me stranded at work last night. The battery has been low enough to require a couple jumps this week, and now with a jump pack attached it will give me a click and not even try to spin the starter. My question for the thread is, which body of water should I chuck this bike into? The Great Lakes are right there…
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Revvik posted:My 2004 Triumph Tiger 955i left me stranded at work last night. The battery has been low enough to require a couple jumps this week, and now with a jump pack attached it will give me a click and not even try to spin the starter. Are the great lakes fresh water? If so that should be fine and clean things out ok. I'd avoid salt water cause that'll make the earth bridge connector even more corroded. Triumph starting issues are like cooling systems on bmw cars: you start by optimistically replacing the radiator cap and a month later you're rebuilding a cylinder head. With a triumph you start with a battery and finish with a $900 starter sprag replacement.
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Revvik posted:My 2004 Triumph Tiger 955i left me stranded at work last night. The battery has been low enough to require a couple jumps this week, and now with a jump pack attached it will give me a click and not even try to spin the starter. Does it have the stock reg/rec? Those are notorious for not putting out 14v at lower revs. There's a whole cottage industry for fixing the charging system on those bikes. My 04 Daytona did the exact same thing, the piece of poo poo.
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Slavvy posted:Triumph starting issues are like cooling systems on bmw cars: you start by optimistically replacing the radiator cap and a month later you're rebuilding a cylinder head. With a triumph you start with a battery and finish with a $900 starter sprag replacement. Optimistically, the sprag clutch looked to cost around $500, and I will be working on this side by side with a Vanos module repair / replacement on an older M3 thank you for that reminder.
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First you do the rectifier cause they suck*. Then you do the stator because an actually working RR overheats the factory one. Then you replace the starter relay because it inevitably burns out from all the successful starting you're doing. Then you clean out/replace the earth bridge connector and maybe add an extra earth cable or ten. Then, finally, the starter sprag fails and you replace the entire flywheel with the updated part. *:Revvik's current location
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…So, Lake Eerie then? That’s the one off Ohio, that already smells like a butt.
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Revvik posted:…So, Lake Eerie then? That’s the one off Ohio, that already smells like a butt. It’s the shallowest of the Great Lakes, average depth of 60 feet, so if you change your mind you can probably get it back.
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Revvik posted:Optimistically, the sprag clutch looked to cost around $500, and I will be working on this side by side with a Vanos module repair / replacement on an older M3 thank you for that reminder. AAAHHHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Slavvy posted:AAAHHHAHAHAHAHAHA The M3 is a friend’s, and it is very beautiful and fast, and I have seen it fail in fantastic ways in the less than two years he has owned it.
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I'm working out my maintenance plan for a barely-ridden vanvan 200 I just bought with 350 miles on it, and trying to figure out how old to treat this thing in terms of fluid replacements. The nearest immediate concern brake fluid, which the service manual recommends replacing every 2 years. No indication from the PO of having serviced anything beyond an oil change a few months ago. I'm not sure what to make of this in terms of its practical age: -2018 model year -Title's "Odometer Date"= 9/3/2019 (2 miles) -Title "issue date"= 12/11/2020 -PO's wife put 350 miles on it, maybe some trail riding. What probably happened here? Did the bike first get its fluids around Sept. 2019, then sit at a dealership for a year and three months? Does brake fluid pick up moisture the same regardless of whether it's being used, and I should change it this spring?
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Revvik posted:My 2004 Triumph Tiger 955i left me stranded at work last night. The battery has been low enough to require a couple jumps this week, and now with a jump pack attached it will give me a click and not even try to spin the starter.
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Yeah when the great lakes become the only source of fresh water in North America you’ll wish you hadn’t thrown an entire motorcycle in them.
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Remy Marathe posted:I'm working out my maintenance plan for a barely-ridden vanvan 200 I just bought with 350 miles on it, and trying to figure out how old to treat this thing in terms of fluid replacements. The nearest immediate concern brake fluid, which the service manual recommends replacing every 2 years. No indication from the PO of having serviced anything beyond an oil change a few months ago. That brake fluid is currently 50% water by weight, you should probably change it. I've never heard of anyone paying for a dealer service on a vanvan but anything is possible! I think any time you buy any second hand bike in any condition, assume that every fluid needs servicing.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Yeah when the great lakes become the only source of fresh water in North America you’ll wish you hadn’t thrown an entire motorcycle in them. https://www.cleveland19.com/2021/09/02/dozens-calls-made-911-about-strong-odor-along-lake-erie-shoreline/ Lake Eerie already smells so bad, people considered it an emergency. Tossing it in the ocean means it could find itself on one of the islands of garbage floating out there. Like, back to loving Britain. Revvik fucked around with this message at 11:16 on Dec 19, 2021 |
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Please sign my petition to have "Great" titles removed from all the Great Lakes except for Superior and Michigan (only applies to the section north of the 44th parallel). Huron can stay too I guess I don't know much about it, don't think anyone's ever seen the other side. I also have a petition to remove "Great" from the Plains please sign that too because it fuckin sucks. Motorcycles have batteries in them and belong in the ocean.
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anyone have any recommendations for a place that sells good wrap kits? i have a ktm duke edit: thinking about this place: https://www.kutvek-amerika.com/ any good?
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tyrelhill posted:anyone have any recommendations for a place that sells good wrap kits? i have a ktm duke I used https://cormotographics.com/ and they were good but I don’t know if they have a kit for your bike.
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