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drat that sounds like so much fun I can see why you guys do it!
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Oct 31, 2019 07:12
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builds character posted:We can finally post about how much better the CRF450L is than the FE450! Hohohohooo how's it going my poo poo bike sense started tingling, guess who's rebuilding an rc390? Guess who's not paying $LOL for the model-specific genuine KTM only flywheel puller that only works on the 390 and no other bike in existence, rendering it useless to anyone who doesn't rebuild 390's (this includes the dealer  )? And finally, guess who thought it was a loving stellar idea to put a sensitive plain bearing bottom end in a cheap learner single, shove that in a bike mostly held together with cable ties and cheese, then build it with slaves?I'm sure the 401 is like totally way better though right? It's so pretty  And now for the cold(er) water: got a Hyosung gd250 X4 kicking around as well atm. It is genuinely 100% no BS a better bike, cc discrepancy aside, than the KTM. If I had to pick one, I wouldn't hesitate.
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Nov 1, 2019 02:26
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IMO all those bikes are massively overbuilt for 90% of riders and the service intervals are worst case scenario stuff. Nobody abuses their poo poo the way a mx racer riding someone else's bike does. Unless you have a 300exc or crf250 or rmz250 in which case RIP.
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Nov 1, 2019 19:34
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This double post brought to you by HRC:
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Nov 1, 2019 20:11
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The titanium valves that last like 100hrs support that yeah.
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Nov 2, 2019 01:01
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Alpha Phoenix posted:If you grip the bars too hard you might bulk up your hand muscles, making your gloves seem smaller. Always jack off viciously before trying on new gloves so as to you replicate how pumped you are on the bike.
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Nov 13, 2019 02:20
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Strife posted:I feel like it just limits my mobility too much. This made me think of stubbies and now I have to inflict their existence on you people: 
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Dec 2, 2019 02:44
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builds character posted:It’ll be fine. CCA are a lie (you know, more or less), and you should get the biggest LiFePO battery you can for your bike as a general rule.  how is CCA a lie??And lifepo are a worthless pain in the rear end unless you're racing and really care about those extra grams. But it's true that any 12v battery that fits in the hole will work so just get the strongest that'll fit in the hole.
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Dec 15, 2019 18:24
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Anecdotally I've found higher CCA = longer lifespan in any given application, but I imagine that's more down to higher CCA = larger physical volume, so the plates and acid take longer to go bad. Also to make clear: there are only 6v and 12v bikes and if you've got a 6v you already know about it because you're posting on terriblegrampabikes.net, amp hours and physical configuration are the only important ones really. Slavvy fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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Dec 15, 2019 19:08
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Incredible. Especially in light of your Honda having more compression so it's actually harder to crank than a Harley proportionate to cc. You can bump start a well tuned evolution engine at walking speed by yourself.
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Dec 15, 2019 19:59
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I love how it has a front drum because militaries are somehow even more resistant to change than the motorcycle industry. What is that bike even for it looks like a trials machine and the tank is tiny.
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Dec 15, 2019 20:37
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I've always wanted one of those diesel KLR's just to see how asymptotically close to motionless a bike can be while still technically having 'performance'.
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Dec 15, 2019 21:30
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I vividly remember the 2015 post classic season when the front half of the grid all fell for shorai's marketing, fitted them to their total loss bikes and spent the season DNFing and dropping thousands on replacement batteries.
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Dec 15, 2019 22:11
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goddamnedtwisto posted:There are literally thousands of MZs out there just waiting for your important scientific experiment. You joke but I guarantee I could make a hilarious profit if I ever got a hold of one.
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Dec 16, 2019 18:33
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Horse Clocks posted:How much would you need to get one for to be decently profitable?  I'm not going to discuss actual numbers, but I can say that registering an imported, full-sized bike (defined as anything over 600cc for tax purposes only) is a fixed cost of around a thousand bucks, being in the industry I'm able to shave a few grams from that slab by doing certain things 'manually' instead of paying a lump sum to have someone else do the fiddly poo poo.I say imported because acquiring such a bike in rideable condition, let alone road legal, in this country would mean dealing exclusively with the small cadre of extremist enthusiasts and deranged specialists who flock to any weird bike that's perceived as exotic or ~*European*~ and paying their ridiculous prices. It's cheaper to pay the above, plus the shipping costs to get a bike here, plus the parts etc to build it up, than it is to buy one locally. I'll let you extrapolate costs for yourself.
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Dec 16, 2019 23:28
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Toe Rag posted:I like the “SPS” palm sliders things though. In a crash, your palms are one of the first things to hit the ground, right? I have short cuff gloves with the same sliders, but I want to get some gauntlets. Seems like only Knox and Racer have them? Maybe Alpinestar and Dianese have figured something else out that is a little more aesthetically pleasing. My A* have a little heel-of-the-palm slider plate but I don't know how much that stuff even matters. I've crashed in kangaroo leather gloves palm down around 100kmh, the gloves felt paper thin from new and had no plastic plates or anything, didn't get a single rip. Like yeah you crash palm down but you also aren't going a hand stand so they haven't got weight forcing them into the road like your pants and jacket do.
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Dec 25, 2019 22:50
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Chris Knight posted:Piss on bike first. Show your dominance! This exactly. Like how when you're getting mugged you should immediately strip naked and start challenging the muggers to single combat; take the initiative, put them on the back foot, you'd be amazed at the result.
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Jan 2, 2020 23:12
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Sagebrush posted:you're all somehow forgetting the lightest, easiest, most elegant solution This is sincerely one of the best ideas I've ever seen provided you have n+1 cylinders.
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Jan 13, 2020 22:46
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Most dual spark motors have a different spark strategy for the emissions plug and won't run if you unplug the main one; royal enfield is the only exception that immediately springs to mind but there's surely others.MetaJew posted:Post the Ducati that uses one cylinder as a supercharger. Ducati never did that afaik, they're just spring chickens and that's an idea nearly as old as ICE's themselves which fell out of favor when gp racing banned forced induction which was well before Ducati existed. You're probably thinking of the supermono, where one cylinder of a v-twin is replaced by a reciprocating weight in order to get more revs out of a big single by reducing vibration/oscillation in a similar way to a balance shaft.
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Jan 13, 2020 23:07
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Yes. Why do we need two plugs? Because the flame front emanating from the spark plug sometimes moves too slowly and can't burn every single particle of mixture in the time available. So you add a second, delayed spark event to catch these dregs as a quick and easy way of making the engine cleaner. Usually that plug is in a very poor position to make anything approaching acceptable power and has a different (sometimes sporadic) ignition map, hence my calling it the emissions plug. This isn't the same as aircraft and stuff that have two plugs in mirrored positions, which is more of a safety redundancy. I have no idea how the system on a hawk gt works, in the name of science I urge you to disconnect some poo poo and see what happens. Some old bikes genuinely do just fire both plugs simultaneously from the one coil, but if you wrap your head around the idea that combustion is a flame front traveling accross the combustion chamber volume, you can pretty quickly see that firing both plugs simultaneously will cause more harm than good without some very careful chamber design, in which case you may as well just design it so it works properly with just one plug. Developing a dual map cdi and stuffing an extra plug somewhere in the old cylinder head is less costly because you can drag an old engine's lifespan a out few more years (sv650). It's revealing that race engines never have two plugs because an optimal design doesn't need two plugs. It's an imperfect crutch for times when doing it properly is simply too expensive but you need to get a bike to market with x horsepower and y emissions. E2: the emissions plug is the one that sticks awkwardly out the side instead of down between the valves like normal. Slavvy fucked around with this message at 23:38 on Jan 13, 2020 |
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Jan 13, 2020 23:22
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MetaJew posted:This is what I was referring to. It wasn't a factory design. This is interesting, but I suspect the 'gains' he's made are just low hanging fruit left neglected by the factory for whatever reason. I think that the same amount of effort put into optimising the base engine would yield better gains; they especially call out that it revs to 10k as opposed to the original 7500. Anyone who's ever dealt with the desmodue knows it can rev a gently caress of a lot harder, that redline was a deliberate design choice rather than a natural limit. Making the original engine rev to 10k and breathe properly while doing so would be a much bigger gain, albeit probably less rideable and fuel efficient. But that's beside the point because using one piston as a blower is loving cool and that's all the reason it needs to exist.
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Jan 14, 2020 00:07
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If anything you want a second adapter that connects the spark plug to the Schrader valve. Fill the tyres with low pressure mixture, ignite to pressurise. Bonus points: any excess pressure can be routed back into the engine for a supercharging effect 
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Jan 14, 2020 00:19
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XS: yay my helmet fits in more topboxes that anyone else's! XL: yay free shopping basket! M: yay it's out of stock and there's no colour options left
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Feb 5, 2020 20:02
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He's also an absolute stickler about fogging, the second most important thing.
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Feb 7, 2020 18:50
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As Nero Danced posted:Or you do what I do at least 75% of the time: Helmet on, gloves on, realize I forgot the chin strap, gloves off. You'd think I'd learn eventually, but so far, nope. I can't use the chin vent on my rf1200 because it dries my contacts into opaque husks, take that as you will.
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May 3, 2020 20:26
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I can't remember the last time I cracked open the visor, if you have a decent helmet with a pinlock you basically never need to.
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May 3, 2020 21:29
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As Nero Danced posted:I don't have any experience with either, but the shoei seems universally loved and might be my next one. I assume you mean this version? The other versions don't show as on closeout to me. My mate has a k5, I have an rf1200, missus has a k3. No agv I've seen, not even the fancy thousand dollar Rossi bullshit kind, is anywhere near as well built as a shoei. Neither is my fancy carbon fiber suomy. It is exactly, exactly like comparing an Aprilia to a Honda.
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May 7, 2020 20:42
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Rolo posted:Holy poo poo doff is an actual word. Put helmet d'on. Take helmet d'off. I wish we still spoke old English and not the colonial peasant pidgin American media has inflicted on the world. It's car-RIB-bean not cari-BEAN you fucks 
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May 24, 2020 03:27
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Martytoof posted:Does anyone know whether an RF-1200 chin strap can be swapped for a ratchet or buckle? Mine was like this for a while but it loosened up, I could never do it in gloves for like six months. Razzled posted:ratchet straps are for people who pull their pants all the way down when they pee I think of it as Velcro instead of shoelaces.
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Jun 21, 2020 08:05
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Razzled posted:I'm starting to think dainese gear is bad now. My brother's short cuff gloves had the palm panel just de-seam itself from pulling it on. It isn't bad but it's very Italian, meaning overpriced for what you get and all the fiddly bits explode randomly one by one A* are much better despite also being Italian, they seem to degrade more slowly and evenly so by the time the leather is worn through the stitching, zips etc are also hosed. Fwiw my A* GP plus' are several years and two crashes old and they look better than that.
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Jul 6, 2020 03:46
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Horse Clocks posted:Good post. You can never be too preachy about the dumbness of retro helmets; they are the head version of cargo shorts and sneakers.
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Aug 22, 2020 00:19
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I get what you mean but I’d say retro helmets are more like some kind of gentlemen’s hat with sneakers. It only looks respectable if you go all in on the whole ensemble, otherwise you’re just a dildo playing dress up. I was meaning they're the same level of safety as shorts and shoes, but for your head.
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Renaissance Robot posted:Lmao the daft gently caress didn't even take the sticker off Rising rate fork gaiters lmfao
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