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Marv Hushman posted:Consider yourself bit. Great news, and what up CT homeboy?  Middlesex County represent. As for what's up, mostly people riding in Bermuda shorts and boat shoes around here  . I live on a 45 mph road (which everyone does around 60 on) so my first road experience was me taking a deep breath, edging to my driveway, and launching out with all of my 500s awkward fury! Awesome.
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I'm over in Fairfield County CT myself. Here's my bike loaded up about halfway through the 1600 mile ride I did over 4th of July vacation. 
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Snowdens Secret posted:I'm over in Fairfield County CT myself. Chain slack man! How's the Kriega stuff? I've allready managed to scuff up my back shiny panels with my luggage packing skills 
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Jul 11, 2012 17:23
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The Triumph clearcoat has the endurance of warm butter. I've managed to mostly preserve it on mine but the crotchal part of the tank is disappointing. The Kriega tankpad doesn't appear to have left any lasting marks, but I haven't taken it off and cleaned up enough to really tell. I like the Kriega pieces but 20+20+10L meant some compromises packing for about a 10 day trip. I was going to bring my R35 backpack as well but I'm pretty sure putting much weight on my shoulders over that much mileage would've killed me, and there really wasn't much room between my back and the tailpack. I'm not really sure I could get much more on the bike without going to those frames that go around the mufflers or just getting a low-mount. As it was, having that stack on the back meant getting on/off the bike with my bum knees was a big hassle.
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Jul 11, 2012 17:56
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Snowdens Secret posted:The Triumph clearcoat has the endurance of warm butter. I've managed to mostly preserve it on mine but the crotchal part of the tank is disappointing. The Kriega tankpad doesn't appear to have left any lasting marks, but I haven't taken it off and cleaned up enough to really tell. Yeah my tank has that hazy 'washed with sand' kinda look to it, dissapointing. I got one of those ventura racks and have it pointed backwards so that I can have a little bag to hold my chain, wetgear and cover and bungee by 60l rolltop bag onto the seat using the little swing out hooks under the seat. I've managed to melt various parts of both bags somehow allready, those are the joys of the highmounts I guess. I'm planning on doing my tour this year without a tankbag, but only because I'm not solo this time so can shove my day-trippy type stuff on their bike.. 
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Jul 11, 2012 19:02
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Snowdens Secret posted:The Triumph clearcoat has the endurance of warm butter. I've managed to mostly preserve it on mine but the crotchal part of the tank is disappointing. The Kriega tankpad doesn't appear to have left any lasting marks, but I haven't taken it off and cleaned up enough to really tell. A properly adjusted R35 should put nearly all the weight of the backpack on your chest rather than your shoulders. I totally forgot about mine on my 3 day ride from Seattle to Santa Barbara on a supermoto.
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Jul 11, 2012 21:45
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This Is now joined by this  2007 xb12ss Not wholly dissimilar bikes I guess. The XB's the Long model, so not as aggressive as the standard one but even so, it's so much more comfortable than the SRX. My butt actually fits on the seat. Also, speeds above 50 don't feel like you're trying to win the GP anymore; might miss that in recreational riding but certainly not on my commute. It's weird being able to push a button and the bike starts just like that.
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Jul 11, 2012 22:44
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Nice XB. Is the frame polished or something? I am not used to seeing reflections there. The black wheels are hot. I love my XB12X. Done any unintentional wheelies yet?
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Jul 11, 2012 22:52
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clutchpuck posted:Nice XB. Is the frame polished or something? I am not used to seeing reflections there. The black wheels are hot. Carbon frame protectors; to hide something the stock puck didn't manage to prevent, I'm betting. I've only driven it very gingerly thus far, still getting used to something that weights more than a moped.
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Jul 11, 2012 23:03
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Whenever I see most of the non-firebolt Buells I think I just want to have one, even if it's my only bike 
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Jul 12, 2012 02:18
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Accidental power wheelies are one of the most fun things about a Buell (or any v-twin really). Take it out into some real twisties and you'll see where that chassis really shines.
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Jul 12, 2012 02:51
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lancemantis posted:Whenever I see most of the non-firebolt Buells I think I just want to have one, even if it's my only bike I hit the twisties and dirt roads (thought I had a Harley moment yesterday and didn't because I'd just washed it) with my Ulysses, and I can carry my life around in the panniers. Its pretty much the only bike I need.
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Jul 12, 2012 08:06
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I peeled off all the stickers installed by the PO and took this with my phone while waiting for some friends to arrive. 
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Jul 13, 2012 03:57
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stevobob posted:I peeled off all the stickers installed by the PO and took this with my phone while waiting for some friends to arrive. Nice! Make sure not to lug it in 5th gear, keep it above 4000rpm for fear of stripping the cogs.
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Jul 13, 2012 18:46
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High Protein posted:Nice! Make sure not to lug it in 5th gear, keep it above 4000rpm for fear of stripping the cogs. This can happen?  I never lug it though... Even though it's a little 225 I ride it pretty good. Downshifting is fun!
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Jul 13, 2012 19:12
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stevobob posted:I peeled off all the stickers installed by the PO and took this with my phone while waiting for some friends to arrive. Ooo nice bike! I'm only a few weeks into riding (and then not as much as I'd like thanks to a grumpy clutch issue) and I already want a dual-sport as my next ride. Well that or a Ural which is kind of like a dual-sport I suppose.
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Jul 13, 2012 19:17
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stevobob posted:This can happen? Oh it's the 250? Never mind then, sorry. I thought it was the xt600, that engine looks exactly the same.
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Jul 13, 2012 21:11
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Here's my Aprilia Shiver living up to its name in the snow back in Feb: I'd love to post a better picture but we've had literally two nice weekends since then in London and I was on call on both of them so couldn't ride (or take sexy-time pictures of us having fun in the countryside). Also lost all my older pictures of it (and my older bikes) in a HD crash last year Still it gets used every day, no matter the weather (well admittedly not with settled snow - if it was a little lighter and I had even the slightest faith in other road users I'd probably still ride it then). So to answer the first question anyone asks when I say i have an Italian bike - it's never outright broken down in three years of, as I say, daily use but has had a couple of extended stays in hospital thanks to a burnt-out cooling fan, broken clutch spring (both fixed with better components under warranty) and a broken rear brake light switch. Its only real vices are that it seems to burn out the front low beam headlight remarkably quickly (6-9 months) and the lovely third-party immobiliser (Datatool Veto Evo, had to fit it to even consider getting insurance where I live even though the bike has its own perfectly good immobiliser) can flatten the battery and every once in a while just randomly stops the bike starting - a trickle charge takes care of the former and, strangely, deliberately setting off and then resetting the alarm fixes the latter, but thankfully I have very tolerant neighbours. Oh, and the fly-by-wire throttle is unexpectedly (given that it was the first time it had ever been done on a bike, and it was done by Italians) fantastic, letting me choose between a mellow cruise for traffic and long distances and a rip-snorting, almost small-capacity 4, instant power map for the twisties and showing off. It's completely stock - I sort of want to put a belly-pan on it to fill the gap between the front wheel and the sump and also keep road muck off the oil filter but the third-party ones I've seen are a bit shoddy and the Aprilia official part is way too expensive. Doesn't really need modding because I've only seen 4 or 5 others on the road, anyway.
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Jul 14, 2012 01:23
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Shivers own. Front bulb will be because they're a bit stiffly sprung, and that rattles bulbs to death (my streetfighter Gixxer eats headlights rather regularly). For the love of good stick some Leo Vince cans on it. That motor sounds in-credible with some pipes.
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2ndclasscitizen posted:Shivers own. Front bulb will be because they're a bit stiffly sprung, and that rattles bulbs to death (my streetfighter Gixxer eats headlights rather regularly). The guys I get my tyres from do tuning (including custom exhausts) and keep trying to sell me some pipes for it, but I'm reluctant for two reasons - first, the seat is hot enough as it is, christ knows how hot it'll be without the heat shielding around it and two, I'm a bit leary of loud pipes because the police have been really cracking down in the last few years and i don't have a tame MOT mechanic to sign off on them being legal like I did when i had my Mille or my Laverda.
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If you get the mid-pipe and/or get it dyno tuned you'll more than likely get less heat. The cat will be a major source of heat + it's probably mapped quite lean for emissions purposes.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The guys I get my tyres from do tuning (including custom exhausts) and keep trying to sell me some pipes for it, but I'm reluctant for two reasons - first, the seat is hot enough as it is, christ knows how hot it'll be without the heat shielding around it and two, I'm a bit leary of loud pipes because the police have been really cracking down in the last few years and i don't have a tame MOT mechanic to sign off on them being legal like I did when i had my Mille or my Laverda. Burwin's are my go-to MOTist, they're sensible to the extent that they may be a litte lenient
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2ndclasscitizen posted:If you get the mid-pipe and/or get it dyno tuned you'll more than likely get less heat. The cat will be a major source of heat + it's probably mapped quite lean for emissions purposes. Actually you could be on to something there - the cat is pretty much directly under the seat (it's just behind the rear shock in that photo) and doesn't have any kind of shielding, and is probably the hottest part of the whole bike. The seat itself doesn't get particularly hot, so yeah the cat is probably a pretty big source of the heat I feel. Hmm, now you've got me thinking, especially as I've got a shitload of overtime coming up in the next few months... _Dav posted:Burwin's are my go-to MOTist, they're sensible to the extent that they may be a litte lenient They're quite near my work, and I'm due for my first MOT this month, so I might take it up there and have a chat with them - thanks for the tip.
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Does the Shiver have separate muffler and cat? Or is it one big unit styled to look like a pair of cans? If the former, a de-cat pipe but with the stock mufflers shouldn't make it that much louder. You should definitely get a Powercommander and dyno tune if you do though. You'll notice the heat difference though.
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Please don't remove cats from vehicles equipped with them, they're there for a reason.
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2ndclasscitizen posted:Does the Shiver have separate muffler and cat? Or is it one big unit styled to look like a pair of cans? If the former, a de-cat pipe but with the stock mufflers shouldn't make it that much louder. You should definitely get a Powercommander and dyno tune if you do though. You'll notice the heat difference though. It's a bit of a weird design. The cat is down between the swingarm mounts, then there's a big muffler sort of shaped like a tail tidy under the front seat, then it splits into two smaller mufflers under the rear seat - it's noticeable that all of the aftermarket cans are either much fatter than the original or stick out further from the back, apart from the very loudest ones. Here4DaGangBang posted:Please don't remove cats from vehicles equipped with them, they're there for a reason.  Well they're really there on bikes and small-capacity cars because of lobbying by platinum and rhodium mining concerns to make them a mandatory part of the Euro3 emissions regulations even though better technologies - exhaust air injection (Honda and BMW), stratified-charge direct petrol injection (Aprilia/Rotax), ultra-lean-burn with water injection (known since before the war, but revived by multiple manufacturers in the early 2000s) - exist that can reduce emissions *and* improve power/economy without needing a grands worth of precious metals stuffed into your exhaust. (Actually partially true, certainly for very small capacity engines, and Euro3 effectively killed most of those technologies by specifically mandating cats no matter how clean the engine is - there's no real evidence that it was the mining companies that caused it, it was probably just legislative laziness)
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i bought another honda... 1990 honda cb-1 with about 28k on it. picked it up today for $1700. it feels really familiar to ride and during the test ride, i was winding her up all the way to redline up redwood road. sup z3n.
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Goddamn that's a good deal on a CB1. Especially out here, in the land of absurdly overpriced bikes. I live right near the end of Redwood...someday we should go for a ride.
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Mcqueen posted:Whats the real world gas millage on the FZ8 like? I was looking at the FZ1 when I was shopping for a larger standard to replace my FZ6 but everyone said the FZ1 had poo poo millage. If they fixed that the FZ8 would make for an absolutely awesome commuter. I've been pulling about 45 MPG average. I got 50 MPG putting around Big Bear Lake/Lake Arrowhead on my last fill-up (100 miles even in 2.00x gallons). I haven't seen anything less than roughly 45 MPG with my average riding (80% street/canyons, 20% freeway). I'm definitely happy with the mileage.
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Silvah posted:I've been pulling about 45 MPG average. I got 50 MPG putting around Big Bear Lake/Lake Arrowhead on my last fill-up (100 miles even in 2.00x gallons). I haven't seen anything less than roughly 45 MPG with my average riding (80% street/canyons, 20% freeway). I'm definitely happy with the mileage. Thanks for the input! That Shiver should be in orange, btw. It's still awesome
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Mcqueen posted:Thanks for the input! Black is the only acceptable colour for a motorcycle. It's like, the law or something.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Black is the only acceptable colour for a motorcycle. It's like, the law or something. Sorry, its black with neon green accents. Cyberbike.exe I've been looking into one of those green drive chains they have, maybe even a neon green windscreen for my 250ex. Really just go nuts with it edit: yellow is also acceptable, especially if you match it with bruce lee yellow racing leathers ADINSX fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Jul 17, 2012 |
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High Protein posted:This I think you posted the SRX before? When I had my TRX I bought a few things from KEDO, and they do a huge amount of stuff for those singles: http://www.kedo.com/ Probably posted this at you before and forgotten of course. Deeters posted:Accidental power wheelies are one of the most fun things about a Buell (or any v-twin really). Shortly thereafter followed by non-accidental power wheelies, followed by non-accidental power wheelies all the time. 
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Saga posted:I think you posted the SRX before? When I had my TRX I bought a few things from KEDO, and they do a huge amount of stuff for those singles: Let's just say I've received many a package with the trademark liquorice roll included.
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   '89 Honda CBR 600 Just picked it up on Saturday, first bike. The fairings were put on like poo poo when I got it and the bike wasn't the cleanest so I pulled everything off and got them cleaned up and lined up a lot better.
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Jul 20, 2012 05:36
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That sure looks like a Ninja
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Frankston posted:Paint the mirrors the same as the Reston the bike, please. Yeah right now my to-do list is new mirrors, flush mounted rear signals/cutting off the signal mounting bars, exhaust, and whenever I get the tires changed I'm probably going to get the wheels powdercoated black.
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blue squares posted:That sure looks like a Ninja That's definitely not a Ninja
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Finally got my new SV to start looking close to how I want it.
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