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My 2006 DRZ had a bald rear tire, and the original front tire (8 years old). Between riding it home and to the shop, I went through about a tank of gas. Had to flip to reserve at 147km. After putting on fresh tires, I hit reserve at 166km! Quite a difference in mileage..
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I realize I'm a bit late to the party, but just recently watched Long Way Down. It was pretty cool so I plan on watching Long Way Round soon. Does anyone else have any other motorcycle movies, TV shows, or books they'd recommend?
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Oct 9, 2013 00:35
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hot sauce posted:I realize I'm a bit late to the party, but just recently watched Long Way Down. It was pretty cool so I plan on watching Long Way Round soon. Does anyone else have any other motorcycle movies, TV shows, or books they'd recommend? Have you seen "On Any Sunday"? Probably the holy grail of motorcycle movies. Make sure you are not watching "Any Given Sunday" because that will confuse the poo poo out of you.
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Oct 9, 2013 00:47
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hot sauce posted:I realize I'm a bit late to the party, but just recently watched Long Way Down. It was pretty cool so I plan on watching Long Way Round soon. Does anyone else have any other motorcycle movies, TV shows, or books they'd recommend? TT3D
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Oct 9, 2013 00:49
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hot sauce posted:I realize I'm a bit late to the party, but just recently watched Long Way Down. It was pretty cool so I plan on watching Long Way Round soon. Does anyone else have any other motorcycle movies, TV shows, or books they'd recommend? Faster.
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Oct 9, 2013 00:57
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hot sauce posted:I realize I'm a bit late to the party, but just recently watched Long Way Down. It was pretty cool so I plan on watching Long Way Round soon. Does anyone else have any other motorcycle movies, TV shows, or books they'd recommend? Long way down is awful so you can only do better. Faster, Fastest, The Doctor the Tornado and the Kentucky Kid are all motogp related and worth watching, Mondo enduro and Terra Circa are about a bunch of english guys that do long way round type trips without a bunch of support vehicles. Riding solo to the top of the world is about an Indian guy riding an old Enfield around the Himalayas. On Any Sunday is a classic american documentary from the 70s, with Steve McQueen. TT3D is about the isle of man races and Guy Martins sideburns. There are loads of others, those are just the first ones i could think of edit: gently caress you one word reply assholes echomadman fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Oct 9, 2013 |
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Oct 9, 2013 00:58
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A cool non-bike doco is Senna if you want to branch out.
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Oct 9, 2013 01:03
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epalm posted:My 2006 DRZ had a bald rear tire, and the original front tire (8 years old). Between riding it home and to the shop, I went through about a tank of gas. Had to flip to reserve at 147km. I thought I was being bad about putting off changing my front tire, holy poo poo  That is pretty cool about your mileage going up... I'm really grateful to whichever PO of my bike swapped on a bigger tank; the stock one on the XLR is pretty small and I'd reckon I'd have a similar range... I've never ridden down to reserve but normally fill it up at around 350kms.I was originally gonna go into the shop to order a new front tire Monday, but we had a typhoon hitting that night, so decided I'd wait and make sure my bike was still around afterwards to need a new front tire  (Fortunately the storm mostly missed us, although I did get all my classes cancelled yesterday out of it). I've had my bike get knocked over once or twice by strong winds (to be fair, it's a 250, but I've seen it happen to a neighbor's V-Max), so I lifted/scooted it over and braced it against a wall, then used a ratchet strap on the opposite side of the frame to secure it to a pillar. I wouldn't say it was the strongest winds I've seen here, but I feel pretty good about it and think it ought to hold up if there's another storm I've got to prepare for. 
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Oct 9, 2013 01:07
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echomadman posted:Long way down is awful so you can only do better. Faster, Fastest, The Doctor the Tornado and the Kentucky Kid are all motogp related and worth watching, I will be adding all of these on Netflix to my queue, esp the adventure ones. Thanks!
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Oct 9, 2013 03:11
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Don't miss On Any Sunday. It's hilarious and was on Netflix Instant last I checked.
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Oct 9, 2013 03:16
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ought ten posted:Don't miss On Any Sunday. It's hilarious and was on Netflix Instant last I checked. Since so many folks have suggested it I'm going to put it right after Long Way Round. I still have no Internet, so no instant for me 
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Oct 9, 2013 03:23
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Obv.
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Oct 9, 2013 03:28
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Also BikerBoyz
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Oct 9, 2013 03:43
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Torque is legitimately great / hilarious, Biker Boyz is just bad.
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Oct 9, 2013 04:16
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ought ten posted:Don't miss On Any Sunday. It's hilarious and was on Netflix Instant last I checked. I'm watching it now and it's a lot of fun.
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Oct 9, 2013 05:53
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Z3n posted:Faster. And Fastest and The Doctor, The Tornado, and the Kentucky Kid. I'd watch them in chronological (Faster, The Doctor, Fastest) just because.
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Oct 9, 2013 07:15
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echomadman posted:edit: gently caress you one word reply assholes
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Oct 9, 2013 07:19
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Z3n posted:Torque is legitimately great / hilarious, You are a horrible person take that back immediately.
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Oct 9, 2013 08:44
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echomadman posted:Riding solo to the top of the world is about an Indian guy riding an old Enfield around the Himalayas. There's also One Crazy Ride by the same people. Five people on old motorcycles in the Himalayas, with no support or camera crews. Serious adventure riding trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkb4558ym5w
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Oct 9, 2013 09:11
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Slavvy posted:You are a horrible person take that back immediately. You know id take it back, but my keyboard got jacked up
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Oct 9, 2013 12:32
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Cycles South Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8-l7ufP-I4 The subtext, I think, is "dodge the draft". e: Mondo Enduro is also really good.
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Oct 9, 2013 15:20
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Torque and Biker Boyz are my favorite motorcycle movies. 
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Oct 9, 2013 19:55
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7gfbVpraWw
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Oct 9, 2013 20:07
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The craziest part of that is she actually goes out with him after he bunny hops his gixxer and nearly kills her. It's still a loving fantastic movie.
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Oct 9, 2013 20:47
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ought ten posted:Don't miss On Any Sunday. It's hilarious and was on Netflix Instant last I checked. http://www.malcolmsmith.com/malcolmstory.htm As a kid, my motorcycle idols were my father and that guy. Most people would be tickled to score a single gold in the international 6-day trials and the guy had 8 of the things by the time he stopped going to do other things.
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Oct 10, 2013 06:18
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Seeing On Any Sunday 3 years ago reminded me of having fun when I was a kid on a motorcycle, so I took the MSF and got a motorcycle.
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Oct 10, 2013 06:26
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clutchpuck posted:Cycles South I was racking my brain trying to remember the name of this one. Great movie and some of you California guys should do a remake with some adv type bikes and go pros.
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Oct 10, 2013 17:55
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EvilSlug posted:If for no other reason, watch the movie to see this guy in action: Malcolm Smith was great in the movie, seemed like he was always popping up, "Hey guys guess I'll try this kind of motorcycle race... oh shucks I placed third in the hillclimb with my stock bike, wasn't that fun?"
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Oct 10, 2013 18:01
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Last night I bought a Zuma 125 on impulse, what have I done?
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Oct 11, 2013 01:01
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A good thing? Scooters own
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Oct 11, 2013 01:33
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We made a srs post about a thing http://hipsterbikevideos.tumblr.com/post/63704172865/srs-post-this-time-we-here-as-dudes-enjoy http://hipsterbikevideos.tumblr.com/post/63704694664/this-is-what-empowering-female-riders-looks-like Usually we just make jokes but this got us worked up.
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Oct 11, 2013 05:19
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HNasty posted:We made a srs post about a thing So that's what you were talking about at the meetup on sun in DC. Nice hashtags btw.
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Oct 11, 2013 05:46
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:A good thing? Scooters own We got my girlfriends scooter running last night (it had sat for some months) so her little sister can borrow it while her car is fixed. "I'll take it for a spin tomorrow to make sure it's safe for her to ride." I just want a loving go on it.
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Oct 11, 2013 09:36
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HNasty posted:We made a srs post about a thing  This had me rolling, and I cafe'd my bike.
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Oct 11, 2013 17:55
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I wish more people understood paragraphs.
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eddiewalker posted:I wish more people understood paragraphs. I'm pretty sure that part of the beauty is that it has no line breaks.
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Oct 11, 2013 18:32
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If you can't enjoy a story about banging a fat chick then walking in on some dude gargling a skinhead's balls because of improper formatting, then I feel bad for you man
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My neighbor (Harley, ridden 1-2 times a week) and his son (Ninja 250, ridden daily) ride and I've always been amused by how long they let their bikes warm up and cool down after a ride. Talked to the son about it today and he outlined it for me. Keep in mind this is how they do this anytime the bike has sat or will sit for more than four hours. Starting -Full choke, turn gas to 'reserve' -Start bike and let idle at full choke for 45-60 seconds -Turn gas to 'on', half choke for 30 seconds -No choke, ready to ride Shutdown -Full choke, gas to 'off' until bike quits Nothing inherently wrong with it, just odd to me I guess. Keep in mind this is SOP whether it's 100+ degrees or freezing cold and they do this regardless of what time they leave/arrive.
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Oct 11, 2013 19:52
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That seems pretty OCD. I ran out of gas a couple times because I forgot to switch my petcock to ON (once in traffic with my daughter riding behind me), so now I just leave it on ON permanently. Is this bad? Most of the time I don't even think about my petcock, whether starting up or shutting down at the end of the day. I ride to work daily, and my bike doesn't normally sit in the garage for more than 1 or 2 days.
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captainOrbital posted:That seems pretty OCD. If it's a gravity fed petcock, leaving it ON will eventually overload the float needles and dump fuel through the overflow drains. That may also gunk up your float needles, causing you to run rich. Vacuum petcock supremacy. I would not leave a gravity fed petcock ON habitually. Forgetting to close it now and then probably hurts nothing, but you shouldn't rely solely on your float needles.
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