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Ziploc posted:Naked bikes are great for this. I get to lean forward and fondle my cylinder heads. With the end-baffles removed on my 919, the holes are perfectly sized for my four gloved fingers. Every day at work I see cars with heated steering wheels and shake my head.
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Philanthropy! posted:This is CA Porn, functionally modding something which should have been allowed to die decades ago. Having something old and lovely with no horsepower or grip is much, much safer in the long term because it teaches you to ride properly. By this reasoning everyone should have a literbike because they by far have the best brakes, most HP and tech? Safety on a bike is a mind-set, not a design feature.
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Dec 18, 2012 10:09
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Ponies ate my Bagel posted:I either blew both rear blinkers or have a failing relay. They are both flashing rapidly up front with no lights in back. Both have been working fine. Any bets as to what I broke this time? They are all broadly similar, if you know even a little bit about wiring you should be able to make a relay with the same general design work just fine. You shouldn't have any problems with LED rear blinkers provided you use ballast resistors. I've seen one blown bulb cause another to fail in the same system, but never on blinkers. Just check the bulbs and see, stranger things have happened.
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Dec 29, 2012 04:16
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Geirskogul posted:Sometimes you have to get creative when all you have is a two-arm steering wheel puller. This deserves an applause. Not visible in the picture is the hours of sweat, tears and consternation.
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Jan 8, 2013 07:06
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TEASE MY NECKBEARD posted:I've been spending a lot of time at a coffee shop studying for the CPA exams. I've become THAT guy that rides his bike to and from a coffee shop. My poor, poor b-king deserves better. I just felt like I needed to express my self loathing somewhere. You're right, it does deserve better. Have you considered a ducati? 
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Jan 17, 2013 09:18
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nsaP posted:You seem to be trying to construct a motorcycle from welds. Nonsense. It's patently obvious upon the slightest learned examination that this gentleman is attempting to fashion an enormous weld out of spare motorcycle parts.
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Jan 24, 2013 01:12
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the walkin dude posted:Is the fist furiously windmilling underneath me at 15,000 RPM, five-cylindered? 4 cylinder: windmill V-twin: washing machine filled with rocks
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Feb 1, 2013 07:19
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clutchpuck posted:When in doubt, "it's supposed to make that noise." I nearly shat my pants the other day thinking my bike had developed a new and disturbing gearbox noise. Turns out it always makes that noise and my leg just muffles it. You can hear the change when you move your leg away from the tank. 
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Feb 2, 2013 01:05
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Feb 7, 2013 00:51
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theperminator posted:On the weekend I was mucking around on a dirt track with my F700GS and stacked it, didn't scratch the bike but smacked my head pretty hard. Done this before. The rage it fills you with is just completely disproportionate.
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Feb 13, 2013 20:45
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Sagebrush posted:More "for" my ride than "to" it: Don't get me wrong, I think this is great, but what for? Is your bike so electrically unreliable that you need something like this?
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Feb 16, 2013 20:24
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theperminator posted:Is there a bike in the world that doesn't have potential charging issues? I don't know anybody who hasn't had to at least replace a reg/rec. I had to do it twice already. I've owned six bikes and I've never had to do them. Their ages were 87, 89, 93, 98, 02, 03. The only electrical thing I did was that my second bike had it's stator die. Never had a reg/rec issue, nor have I known anyone to have one. Maybe I'm statistically lucky somehow?
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Feb 17, 2013 05:56
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Safety Dance posted:Today I discovered that plastic coffee cup lids will not hold up to carb cleaner. Try styrofoam 
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Feb 18, 2013 00:41
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BlackMK4 posted:I think I blew it the gently caress up today at a trackday. Sounds like a piston's picked up if it's proportionate to temperature. Condolances.
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Feb 18, 2013 04:46
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Zool posted:Maybe this is just a regional dialect issue, but... what did the piston pick up? Geirskogul posted:I read it as as misspelling of packed up 'Picked up' means it half-seized; got so hot and un-lubricated that the bore grabbed around the piston and bad things happened. So when you pull the piston out it'll have massive melty gouges along the side and corresponding bore damage. Basically just means a mostly-seized engine.
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Feb 18, 2013 20:56
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Hahahaaaa triple lathe at the bottom of the engine.
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Feb 19, 2013 08:38
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Xovaan posted:I was an idiot and pressed the brake while changing my pads and a piston popped out so I had the bleed the entire line. This was, of course, before leaving for a midterm. I have done this on a car. At work. Belonging to my boss. The agony is insurmountable. For content, I managed to scrape a peg for the first time ever screwing around with my mate after work today! Hooray! I will treasure that small graze on the steel feeler forever; I'm strongly considering unbolting and keeping it.
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Feb 21, 2013 06:56
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Thanks Z3n for the quick assistance though! Fluid looked pretty gross so it was a safe idea to do it anyway. 
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nsaP posted:That SV feeling more stable in the turns now, or is it still weird but you're leaning it over anyway? It still feels like crap, I'm just forcing myself to lean it over more. It certainly feels like I can't go any faster because the nose just wants to push toward the outside constantly. The chicken strip on the rear tyre is down to about 1cm all the way around, whereas the front is worn right to the edge which I suspect is because the front tyre is sledging slightly whenever I'm fully leaned over. My friend said that I was getting to have my knee about 20cm off the ground; I don't stick my leg out dramatically at all, nor do I do that journalist-on-a-photo-op thing people do where they're bolt upright but their lower body is contorted stupidly off the side of the bike. At one point I went over a strip of pavement which was very slightly sunken in compared to the rest of the road (it is a horizontal strip running across, like they've dug it up to run a power line or something then filled it in again) at what felt like quite a lot of lean, and the whole bike got extremely unsettled and squirelly, as if it had a flexible hinge in the middle and either end was flapping around.
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Feb 21, 2013 07:14
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Nidhg00670000 posted:It's true. I die at least once a week on my SV. I've just never experienced a 'modern' bike with handling this wobbly I guess. I should probably stop procrastinating and get some fork oil at least. edit: and I should, in the name of honesty, say that I managed to comprehensively out-ride a squid on a 636 coming home yesterday, which was pretty satisfying. The bike you're on doesn't matter worth a drat if you ride around in cargo shorts bolt-upright, as always. Slavvy fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Feb 21, 2013 |
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Sagebrush posted:I think you should leave this part out for fun and experience what an unbalanced 3-cylinder feels like! If an unbalanced two stroke single was enough to rattle my fillings out when I managed to time the balance shaft incorrectly, that would probably be totally unrideable.
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Feb 22, 2013 02:50
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NitroSpazzz posted:Made some progress on the GSX250F today after work. Drained tank, drained oil, cleaned carbs, started tested, fuel pump tested. Tomorrow it gets new oil and filter, plugs, new battery cables (PO HAHAHAHAAAA what? I'm genuinely amazed that this is possible. I once had a festiva with a goldwing/big BMW battery in it surrounded by blocks of wood and the wires were bolted to the terminals.
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Feb 23, 2013 07:31
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Nidhg00670000 posted:The only engines I would hesitate to use starter fluid on is diesels.
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Feb 25, 2013 05:49
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Today I bought this stuff: And I used it! I had to improvise a drain pan because I just moved house DON'T JUDGE ME  World's greatest funnel, that tip extends a further three inches or so into the engine.  Took the wheel off to find this:  Which explains why my speedo has only been working sporadically. You were right Silver...right all along!  Old fork oil had the thickness of water. I went to 20W but after riding it I realise this may have been a mistake. The bump damping is certainly there, and there's none of that squirelly wobble taking corners at speed, but now it understeers somewhat when you get on the power. I assume it's because I've effectively just increased both the compression and rebound damping at the same time and now it has too much rebound.  Caught this one mid-transform. Then did the plugs while it wasn't watching.  Now I just need to convince myself to go on the teeth-pulling adventure which is doing the tappet clearances. And buy a new radiator because it's pretty severely bent from the PO dropping it on grass; thankfully functionality isn't affected. And buy another speedo drive magnet thing 
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Today I decided to fix my broken speedo pickup. The little tabs on the magnetic sleeve which fit into the slots on the wheel and impart motion had broken off due to unknown reasons. So I quite literally just superglued the magnetic sleeve to the wheel bearing seal. It works now, hopefully for long enough to sell the bike. It's next to impossible to find a replacement because they don't seem to fail very often.
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Sock Weasel posted:Switched out the gas tank and fairing for black ones, also cleaned the shocks because they were nasty. All I need to do now is sand and spray the crash bars and the mudguard... but that involves removing the front wheel and I don't own a stand. Your garage appears to be an 18th century cremation furnace. Also, spending 20 bucks on a rattlecan of paint for the exhaust would improve the look of the bike immensely, seeing as everything else is already shiny.
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slidebite posted:Neighbor chick is about 19 years old... No comment.
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XYLOPAGUS posted:The correct speedsensor magnet thingy shipped for my SV650 today. This will be my first bike job without a garage Did yours break too? Noone mentioned anything when I posted pics of my one. Did it just sort of fall apart when you took the wheel off or what?
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clutchpuck posted:How do you make the logical leap from "makes it easier" to "is required"? I've never had a problem with one I put on (friends and dealers, another story) but I guess planning to make it convenient for myself means I suck at it? Some of guys will jump all over any little spergy detail without taking the time to understand what you read. Keep the high quality content coming. Wait, so do you guys try to take the filter off by hand or something? I don't understand. Regardless of whether I put the filter on or someone else I always just get the oil filter wrench and go for gold. Is this seriously a contentious issue for people here? Or is it a slow news day or something.
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Is that clutch extremely large, or is the barrel relatively small? I haven't really dicked around with classic bikes and the proportions look weird to my modernised eyes.
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Apr 9, 2013 20:29
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the walkin dude posted:Is that 1/4'' turn, like the R6 throttle tube? Are you a giant or is that just perspective? It looks like if you lean forward your head will end up ahead of the bars!
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Apr 17, 2013 13:10
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Apr 27, 2013 00:15
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Xovaan posted:Replaced clutch fluid and oil that both looked like stoners' lungs. Thanks Z3n and MotoMind for the help. This inspired me to investigate my clutch fluid rather than being lazy and assuming my bike had an impossible clutch to learn. Turns out the fluid was black! Rides a great deal better now, the clutch take-up isn't just at the last 10mm of lever travel. Hooray!
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AncientTV posted:Had a butt-clenching 10 mile ride home from work yesterday. Everything was fine on the way there, but on the way back, my front wheel seemed to be shuddering, and it only got worse as I got closer to home. I eventually stopped two miles from my house because the shuddering had gotten so violent and noticeable (relatively, the bike wasnt trying to buck me off or anything) that I was legitimately worried about my front end falling apart, so I had my dad give me a lift back. The axle and all the fork pinchers are still tight, and now I'm not sure what to check. Check to see if you still have balance weights on your rim.
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May 1, 2013 04:04
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Sagebrush posted:Do these have FAG stamped on them anywhere? I would like to purchase FAG bearings at all opportunities. FAG also make brake cylinders, clutch cylinders, clutch release bearings and so on. I chuckle Every. Goddamn. Time.
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May 2, 2013 08:09
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slidebite posted:You want this I've had the opportunity to briefly ride one of these and they are exactly what the appearance makes you think it'll be like. Quicker than I expected though.
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slidebite posted:
Yes, in the most ///VISION OF THE FUTURE/// way you can imagine. Also just a baffling number of little compartments and things but that may be because I've never ridden a touring bike ever.
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Tamir Lenk posted:Finished the paint work, saddle and grips. I'll get better pics in daylight (the reflective checker precludes using a flash), but here she is: It's from another timeline where the Burgundians beat Joan d'arc in battle and went on to global motorcycle supremacy.
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Dropped my bikini fairing at the panel shop. $380 to fix and paint  stupid kawasaki and their unicorn paint. The guy seemed like an absolute grand-master-sage though, he had three near-new ducatis and an MV f4 just chilling out in his workshop from morons with more money than sense having dropped them in their driveway.I took the bike to work to spite fate. Coming home I decided to overtake a bunch of crawling cars using a painted median (which for some reason also has cats-eyes) and aimed for a certain gap. I knew it would be damp on the median and I knew I was taking a deliberate, calculated, needless risk. Sure enough I hit a cats-eye and the bike slipped, then got pretty dramatically out of shape on the white paint before recovering traction and slotting me neatly into the exact gap I had aimed for. Must have gotten a few people tut-tutting but I felt like a master.
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Just re-fitted my fixed up bikini fairing and put on new, higher bars. They're renthals designed for an ATV but are the absolute perfect size and shape so I put them on. My god, what a mission! I had to rearrange everything, so the throttle cables, brake hoses, wiring etc didn't get pinched or stretched or crimped. It's only a 2-3 inch difference in height but it took me 3 hours including fitting new heated grips as my ones were hosed. First test ride will be the 30km commute to work. 
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Took it for the first proper ride since getting it 95% repaired, gave the hosed old PR2's a send-off before I get new tyres next week and made the bike do things it really wasn't designed for in the process.  It's amazing how a lovely ride where nothing seems to mesh somehow just instantly clicks after riding for half an hour down a gravel road. I guess the sheer terror of it focused my attention and made me stop thinking too much; after that I ended up burning 14L of petrol to 130km which is roughly half the mileage I get compared to non-dong riding. Best $30 I ever spent.
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