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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I’m watching Greasy Hands Preachers and uuughhhhhh they’re all so insufferable. I like Shinya Kimura and Roland Sands ok but gaaawwwdd this movie. Guess I haven’t had a good dose of stupid hipster motorcycle bullshit in a minute. I thought Oil in the Blood was pretty good, though I would have liked more people riding bikes than just talking about them.
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I get very frustrated with bs hipster bike videos. Remember that insanely douchey “why we ride” movie that was hyped to hell and back? It bugs me that so many movies try to pin the reason for enjoying motorcycles on some transcendent higher level galaxy brain thing when that’s not it at all. People ride because they like to or have to. Quit trying to assign mysticism and lore where there isn’t any
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Some friends of mine did the Scooter Cannonball a few years ago and made a documentary about it, Slow Ride Home. It's entertaining and, like the people who made it, does not take itself too seriously.
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Bullshit hipster bike videos you say?
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I get very frustrated with bs hipster bike videos. Remember that insanely douchey “why we ride” movie that was hyped to hell and back? Yeah, this is exactly the thing at the heart of why I hate them so much. And why stuff like Long Way Round really doesn’t bother me. Ewan and Charlie are goobers but their sanctimonious spiritual poo poo about motorbikes was pretty minimal. It’s a fuckin vehicle. A very fun and rewarding one, potentially, but a vehicle, a complex tool.
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I kinda get the "mysticism" in that the difference between motorbikes and cars is like the difference between an F150 and a Miata.
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The difference between cars and bikes is: any muppet can flop into and operate a car, whereas bikes have minimum system requirements that a lot of people don't meet mentally, so they think it's some kind of magic and tell their muppet mates.
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Slavvy posted:The difference between cars and bikes is: any muppet can flop into and operate a car, whereas bikes have minimum system requirements that a lot of people don't meet mentally, so they think it's some kind of magic and tell their muppet mates.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Kind of like how every wook who makes it through their first acid trip with their brain intact thinks they’re a shaman. Yeah takes like two or three to realise that sense of understanding the whole universe at once is an illusion and THAT'S why you can never remember that plan to save the world.
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Quote: not edit. I should go back to cars.
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Slavvy posted:Quote: not edit. I should go back to cars. Every loser on this forum thinks they know how to post
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Yeah, this is exactly the thing at the heart of why I hate them so much. And why stuff like Long Way Round really doesn’t bother me. Ewan and Charlie are goobers but their sanctimonious spiritual poo poo about motorbikes was pretty minimal. It’s a fuckin vehicle. A very fun and rewarding one, potentially, but a vehicle, a complex tool. Long way round is fine because it’s more of a ride documentary than anything and skips the deeper meaning in favor of the guys loving around and dropping their bikes in Russia
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mewse posted:Every loser on this forum thinks they know how to post Granny spelling, not double spacing like he should
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Gay Nudist Dad posted:Some friends of mine did the Scooter Cannonball a few years ago and made a documentary about it, Slow Ride Home. It's entertaining and, like the people who made it, does not take itself too seriously. I just sent this to my friends that I did MKE to Chicago on scooters with to shame them into getting their poo poo together and getting their scooters back on the road
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i fuckin' love scooters but i just got that drz so they wouldn't really fill a hole
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I get very frustrated with bs hipster bike videos. Remember that insanely douchey “why we ride” movie that was hyped to hell and back? OK so here's how it is at least for me I am not good at motorcycle and maybe never will be, but when I hit a good enough chain of turns with just enough skill to not notice how fuckin awful I am, it's like the bike disappears and my body disappears and there's just a point moving along a complicated curve And like I know that's basically just flow state but it's still real exciting to have been in And then if it's slab or something and I'm bored and achy it's still nice to look around and be in the scenery, and if the sun is low enough I can look over at my shadow and dang that guy looks p cool If that's waxing mystical, I'm sorry
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Phy posted:OK so here's how it is at least for me This is ok because it only took a few seconds to read and I didn't have to pay money for it.
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Deeters posted:This is ok because it only took a few seconds to read and I didn't have to pay money for it. Lowtax giving out refunds or something? 
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I was wondering about his involvement with Cannonball, saw it on his van. It could be rad to see a doc about his Cannonball runs. Shinya here at the first stop of the rally I think. He's the one sitting with legs under the bike.  Dunno the details here but this one was happening the night before the rally started, so that's obviously not ideal.  Here's ours on day 2 trying to figure out a fueling issue that only showed up after about 60 miles of sustained riding.  One of the Henderson crew, midway through the rally I think, not sure where. I believe they were deciding how to fix a cracked oil pan or stripped drain bolt threads.  About halfway through, in South Dakota I think. A Harley? with a presumably serious issue considering that the motor is not currently in the bike.  Us discovering the case bolts were loose on day 3 after finally solving the fueling issue. It's actually only about a 30 minute job to pull the motor on this thing though.  And some good samaritans trying to figure out how to straighten our frame after I twisted it by crashing it in Indiana. 
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Gonna do this to all the revbombers I see now :popcorn: https://i.imgur.com/RDmwooN.mp4 Beach Bum fucked around with this message at 12:02 on Dec 23, 2019 |
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:I wish I had better pictures from the event but here's a few I got of the desperate 2am repairs (some mine) done every night. This is awesome and I would read the poo poo out of an effort thread if you had time to put one together.
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Is that orange one a ner-a-car?
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I went to wash the bike, clean the chain etc and my chain guard is gone, wtf
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i wish that my goddamned landlords would let me run a goddamned extension cord from the goddamned garage so i could plug in my goddamned bike over the goddamned winter break so that i don't come back and find the goddamned battery is shot yet another goddamned time
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Sagebrush posted:i wish that my goddamned landlords would let me run a goddamned extension cord from the goddamned garage so i could plug in my goddamned bike over the goddamned winter break so that i don't come back and find the goddamned battery is shot yet another goddamned time That sucks. From the cold or parasitic drain?
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Makes me glad I decided to bring both bikes’ batteries in this winter rather than futz dragging power out to my shed. I keep swapping them on the battery tender every few weeks but they instantly show full charge so I’m guessing a moderately temperate basement was the right choice.
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just the cold and lack of use. it was already a little hard-starting last fall and then i was away for a while and didn't ride for about six weeks total so now it's just dead. oh well, i pulled it out to charge it and we'll see it's become a lot harder to diagnose a dying battery since i swapped to all-LED lighting, because the lamps still come on at full brightness even when the starter won't even turn. Martytoof posted:Makes me glad I decided to bring both bikes’ batteries in this winter rather than futz dragging power out to my shed. I keep swapping them on the battery tender every few weeks but they instantly show full charge so I’m guessing a moderately temperate basement was the right choice. yeah, cold and lack of use will kill batteries quickly and motorcycle batteries are already more susceptible because they're small. if you aren't riding at least a couple of times a week year-round, you'll be lucky to get two years without a tender.
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I just ride year round. never owned a battery tender 
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Sagebrush posted:just the cold and lack of use. it was already a little hard-starting last fall and then i was away for a while and didn't ride for about six weeks total so now it's just dead. oh well, i pulled it out to charge it and we'll see Hello friend and welcome to the singular use case for the LiFePO battery.
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right arm posted:I just ride year round. never owned a battery tender I ride year round too but I also travel and idk  builds character posted:Hello friend and welcome to the singular use case for the LiFePO battery. no, i'm cheap. gonna top it up and see if i can get at least another six months
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Sagebrush posted:i wish that my goddamned landlords would let me run a goddamned extension cord from the goddamned garage so i could plug in my goddamned bike over the goddamned winter break so that i don't come back and find the goddamned battery is shot yet another goddamned time It'll still die. Bring it inside and put it on a tender.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:It'll still die. Bring it inside and put it on a tender. If you're cold, they're cold, etc
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Lithium batteries solved that for me. I don't actually charge or maintain them at all, if they sit long enough to run out of juice I just jumpstart the bike and go for a ten minute ride and it's fine.
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Is it the EarthX ones that auto-sense when you're running them down too low and turn off, letting you start your bike and charge them again without having to worry about it?
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MomJeans420 posted:Is it the EarthX ones that auto-sense when you're running them down too low and turn off, letting you start your bike and charge them again without having to worry about it? Earthx and antigravity (but earthx is better because it has a real warranty not a prorated standard battery garbage warranty like antigravity). They are a solution to this problem but definitely won’t work given the parameter “I don’t want to spend money.”
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builds character posted:Earthx and antigravity (but earthx is better because it has a real warranty not a prorated standard battery garbage warranty like antigravity). Have antigravity changed their stuff? Because my friends have definitely killed AG batteries via drain before, but that might have been a previous firmware or whatever.
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Mirconium posted:Have antigravity changed their stuff? Because my friends have definitely killed AG batteries via drain before, but that might have been a previous firmware or whatever. At least on some of their batteries. https://antigravitybatteries.com/restart-technology/ EarthX, because they're terrible at marketing, does it on all their batteries as of last year and doesn't have a shiny new lineup related to it and doesn't tell you that you can just restart and keep going and instead tells you to charge it (see the first FAQ) https://earthxbatteries.com/faqs
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Coydog posted:If you're cold, they're cold, etc oh my god this is perfect. Bring your bikes inside people.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:oh my god this is perfect. 
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