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Yerok posted:Wired in a new voltage regulator and fixed the charging system for good hopefully. Then rode it through a short, twisty nature preserve road and pissed everyone off. This is pretty sweet. Do you look like a hunched over giant riding it? Or is perspective tricking me and it is, in fact, not a very small bike?
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Yerok posted:It's a tiny bike, but I'm just barely 6" 
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Jun 10, 2013 23:16
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Xovaan posted:Replaced my Tokico 6 pot calipers with a seized piston with Nissin 4-pots from a first gen Bandit 1200! Nice. Did the factory brake line fittings bolt on? I'm getting braided lines shortly and I don't want to jump in then find the 4-pots take a different fitting.
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Jun 12, 2013 23:08
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Chris Knight posted:Finally got the Honda out from my friends' garage on Saturday, so gave 'em both a Canada Day washing & waxing. How the crikey do you actually get a bike this clean? I've always wanted to get my bike looking this way but there are dozens of nooks and crannies etc that are impossible to reach.
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Jul 2, 2013 00:14
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Supradog posted:Installed some oxford premium(right..) adventure heated grips on my transalp. Weather is real nice atm but they'll be handy come rainy fall days. I have oxford grips on my bike (sport bike ones though...the only difference seems to be the grip pattern), I too ran a wire to the battery. This was a horrible mistake on my part. The off position is definitely off, I've had my bike sitting for a week without issue. However, you will forget them in the on position and return to a bike with a flat battery. I'm just too lazy to find an ignition-on wire to hook them to but I urge you to do the same. It just isn't worth the headaches. Additionally, don't trust the lovely double-sided pad they give you to secure the switch box to the bracket; it will last about a week in bad weather. Find some other means to secure it, like some sort of epoxy or what have you. Grips work pretty well though!
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Jul 9, 2013 01:17
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Braincloud posted:Last Thursday I flipped my mirrors so they're below the bars, relocated my front turn sigs to the forks, and dropped my headlight down. Then I rode from Seattle to Bend, OR over the weekend and took a picture. I'm sure I've said this before but: I don't like Harleys at all, but that is pretty sweet. Will moving your light that far down affect your visibility at night?
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Jul 15, 2013 22:15
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Covert Ops Wizard posted:And yes, I'm a loving legend who does bike work on the sidewalk in front of the house There we go. If only I were so bold. And didn't have a garage or an enormous hillside for a driveway.
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Jul 18, 2013 10:57
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FluffyDice posted:I think I posted the damage here the other day but I have since made progress. I installed a new exhaust the other day and was pretty happy until I melted the lower fairing on my bike. I cut out the melted plastic so I could ride it to work still. That's an astonishingly good job and literally noone would notice unless they had the exact same bike as yours. Does it sound like a moto3 bike now? Yes is the only acceptable answer.
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Jul 23, 2013 10:49
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I did my steering head bearings  The old ones were so bad it was extremely notchy and difficult to turn the triples without the bars adding leverage. Also swapped in hyperpro springs and the accompanying fork oil. They supplied 15w, the factory spec is 10w. I've only briefly ridden it around the block a couple of times and it honestly does feel like a different bike. As in I can't tell if it's better or worse because it feels like a completely different model of bike, it doesn't handle remotely similarly and I'm bad at judging handling on first impression.
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Jul 28, 2013 10:48
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Got to work today feeling like the rear was really vague and wallowy. Found this: Along with about 12PSI in the tyre. Great. So this was my lunch break: 
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Jul 31, 2013 04:33
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Supradog posted:I washed the bike and took off the cover over the front sprocket before cleaning and lubing the chain. Really glad I did as there was probably some years worth of sand/dirt/oil gunk inside there. One place had a good inch deep deposit. Sprocket looked okay, worn, but not done. That goo will be back in about two months. The only clear space in there, on every bike I've owned, has been the cavity carved out by the sprocket/chain itself. Bieks 
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Aug 1, 2013 23:41
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Mcqueen posted:Tuono had a flat, small puncture but enough to drain about 10 PSI a day. Apparently motorcycle shops do not patch tires due to liability. Awesome. See above for the exact same thing happening to me. Automotive tyre shop did it no problems.
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Aug 2, 2013 03:00
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Mcqueen posted:You don't live in America, I assume? No thank christ, New Zealand. I get paid a respectable wage to do a good job, which I then spend without fear of lawsuits or corrupt police. We have a really steroidal, government-run public accident insurance corporation. I could literally walk into a k-mart parking lot and start replacing my clutch. Provided noone told me to go away or called the cops, if I had an accident and hurt myself ACC would happily pay me out and k-mart would have nothing to do with it. The tyre shop saying to me "you know this isn't as 100% safe as a brand new tyre, right?" is enough of a disclaimer, provided a future blow-out can't be proved to be the fault of their workmanship, in which case it would enter the courts under the consumer guarantees act. In that scenario, in addition to my ACC payout for my flayed skin I would probably get some sort of compensation extracted from the shop. There is a constant undercurrent of whingeing about how ACC costs 'the tax payer' x amount of money, but this is mainly by people who have no concept of what it's like to live in a country without such a system, where health insurance is completely privatised and you can get a lawsuit hurled at you over nothing. It staggers me that a vast proportion of americans actually resist the idea of a similar system over there because mah freedums or whatever.
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Aug 2, 2013 07:22
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infraboy posted:Also Kawasaki must've employed a gorilla on steroids to torque down the front sprocket nut, holy hell. This is apparently pretty normal. The first time I discovered this I needed the bike for work the next day and had already snipped the old chain. The only person who could help me was my mother. Trying to teach a fifty five year-old woman how to simultaneously stand on the brakes and hold the bike upright while I whaled on the nut with a breaker bar+jack handle was interesting.
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Aug 7, 2013 09:14
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Did the front tyre, stator cover, instrument cluster fascia and handlebar realignment on the 2010 street triple some lunatic traded in for a decrepit audi TT at work. I never new sliding 2-piston calipers could stop so bloody hard! Feels like a psychopathic scooter compared to my bike.
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Aug 13, 2013 11:58
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Currently balls-deep in valve clearances. gently caress you Kawasaki making me drain the coolant to do it. Turns out my bike has a 'moto-fab' 4 degree ignition advancer fitted. Neat!
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Aug 18, 2013 03:30
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Last night I decided to be a lazy oval office and just rest my tank on top of my bike instead of removing it completely because I didn't want to deal with the ragged-rear end fuel line. The tank lost balance while I was across the garage and tumbled off the side of the bike, hitting every protrusion on it's way to the ground. gently caress. MY. LIFE.
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Sep 3, 2013 20:53
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Halo_4am posted:Too little too late I know, but for future lazy rear end reference just grab a couple of bungee cords to prevent such an oops. It may still slide around depending on what you find for strap points, but it shouldn't slide totally off. The thing is, I've had this happen on my lovely first bike so I already knew not to do that and do it properly instead but I'm a dumbass. It's like when you smash your head on something and you only have yourself to blame but you just need to externalise your rage somehow.
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Sep 3, 2013 23:25
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Geirskogul posted:I had to replace my signals because when I moved to Phoenix the bendy stalks literally melted enough to let the signals point towards the ground. I always knew that no bike manufacturer ever does environmental endurance tests on prototypes the way car makers do.
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Sep 5, 2013 23:14
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Xovaan posted:Why not swap an GSXR1100 motor into the chassis when it explodes? You get a GSXR steel basket clutch, GSXR intake and exhaust cams, and can opt for bore and jet kits and just wheelie forever This is the correct course of action.
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Sep 27, 2013 06:11
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Do I get fuel injection? I'm done with carbs forever. No 
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Sep 27, 2013 22:08
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Xovaan posted:At least seven at this rate But carbs, you see, are just as reliable as EFI and if you just maintain the bike conscientiously like xovaan does then...wait... I have carbs ohgodkillme.
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Oct 2, 2013 05:54
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They quoted me at 2.5 hours to install and tune the bike with a wideband. They did say that's a pretty high estimate and should be less than that but it still comes out to a decent coin. I'm just trying to do as much preventative maintenance as possible since I wanna start commuting via bike again and don't wanna have to go back into my carbs if something else is already on the verge of needing replacement.
She said it was puttering and it died on her and the tank *looked* like it had gas but I guess it didn't so I put gas in it and there you go, fixed bike. I'm a loving expert over here
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:So, how about an aircraft carb? Those things get stuck at constant throttle forever and don't wear out particularly. Is there a reason not to use updraft carbs on a bike (besides having to set the mixture by hand all the time)? Carbs: letting people down since the battle of Britain.
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Part of the reason I got my ninja relatively cheaply is because, in addition to his general ignorance, the PO had attempted to resolve the notorious wheelie nose problem and failed. He seemed to think it was basically unfixable without buying a new ram air duct. He was wrong. This is my ugly, temporary but extremely effective fix. I'll make up some proper brackets eventually but for now I'm enjoying having working mirrors, a readable instrument cluster and a bike that doesn't do a flipper impersonation on every bump. Droopy droop nose    Fixed with a 20 dollar trip to the hardware store and an hour of time. You can just see the PO's failed attempt at a fix where he used 1.5mm alloy and just put the stress back in the exact same place. Surprise, surprise; the alloy tore like paper just like the plastic does on a factory bike.
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I wish I could afford a second bike. I'd buy an sv650 or something even smaller and shittier and commute every day on it. Commuting in a car sucks balls but doing it on a litersport isn't much better. I'm still taking the bike to work every other day but I know it's really bad for my wallet and the bike. I didn't think about this enough. What I'm saying is I want a vtr250.
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Oct 30, 2013 20:48
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Halo_4am posted:Psssh, big bikes are still not comparable to a car for commuting. The V-Max is my daily commuter which is <10 miles of bumper to bumper traffic in an area where lane splitting is illegal. Ironically the mpg's go down for me in the Summer because the engine warms up fast enough for me to launch between lights without a care in the world. My worst tank of gas is still 26 mpg. Mileage isn't my problem, it's the fact that I'm doing 60km a day, most of it in a straight line, which just obliterates sporty tyres. On top of which it's a huge amount of not-fun mileage on my bike, giving me wear and tear and ageing for no return at all. I'd rather have something common and cheap that I can beat on while still reaping the benefits of good mileage and drastically reduced commute times, with my nice bike saved for outside rush-hour donging. I'd sell my car and buy a 250 if my car were worth anything, but I'd struggle to get $500 for it  edit: to clarify, the reason I can't afford owning two bikes is because the registration fee for my zx10 is about $650 a year; a sub-600cc is still around $550/year. My car, on the other hand, has the rego 'on hold' which I theoretically can't legally drive on, but no cop has ever ticketed me for it. This costs me nothing. Slavvy fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Oct 31, 2013 |
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Sagebrush posted:...until you meet the pissy cop who does ticket you for it, and you have to pay more than your car's worth in fines. It's a $200 dollar fine. I would have to get three fines for it per year to make it more expensive than paying the $450 registration fee.
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BlackMK4 posted:Buy some Pilot Road 3s, realize that they are every bit as capable as a hypersport tire until you start pushing them on the track, laugh at people running Q2s to commute. I've heard this theory before but I'm really reluctant to shell out the $600 and find out it isn't true. Not to mention, as I said earlier, there are other reasons for not wanting to commute on the zx10.
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Oct 31, 2013 00:58
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Coredump posted:Get a scooter if another bike is too much. I'm honestly thinking about it, but because traffic is hit-and-miss I don't relish the thought of trying to do 120km/h on a scooter when there's a good day. I'm going to start scouring my local craigslist equivalent for a lovely 250.
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I can't imagine living in a hellhole where splitting is illegal. My car ride home takes 90 minutes on a good day. My bike ride home takes 25 minutes.
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Odette posted:Ha, yeah. Bus/car takes about 45 minutes to get over the bridge, my bike takes 15. gently caress the center lanes on a bike though. They're so narrow and people have no perception of the volume their car takes up so they drive over a meter from the barriers. Xovaan posted:California (New Zealand?) supremacy.  now if only our speed limits weren't so laughably low.
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Living out west supremacy  the upper harbour highway is basically completely unmonitored and appears to be designed with everyone driving McLaren f1's in mind.
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Xovaan posted:I ordered a new petcock. $120 later. Hopeful that this fixes my disappearing fuel issues. New as in new Suzuki? Or new as in new aftermarket? n8r posted:Man you've thrown a lot of good money after a rather crap bike. Shouldn't you be off ruining some kid's Christmas or something? Content:  Still waiting for the suspension guy to finish my forks. drat showa and their special tools bullshit, but it was free so I'm not complaining. I'm just hoping he screws all the settings back to how I had them, I had it set up so well but forgot to write anything down, because I am a dumbass. Fairings have since been put back on after polishing. Results are average; better than before but not brilliant. edit: the ammo box isn't holding the bike up, it just happens to be there
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Xovaan posted:Nice bike $1200 bucks for a b12. Kill me, a completely hosed one here costs $2500 minimum. Also it occurs to me that you could have tried just blocking off the vacuum line to the petcock and running the bike on PRI for a while to see if it fixed the problem.
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BlackMK4 posted:Settings will need to change with new fork oil / internals anyway. No new internals, just seals and fluid. Despite this, you're more right than you could possibly know. The guy said the old fluid was 'like treacle' and chucked in 2.5w which is apparently close to the unicorn semen Kawi recommend. Guess this weekend is testing time  Xovaan posted:D'oh. Should have tried that, yeah. Oh well-- I'm fine just throwing money at it at this point since there isn't much else to go wrong. Sadly I don't live anywhere near 'murica. Z3n will forever be an ephemeral internet hero to me 
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Z3n posted:Well...now you can be the guinea pig - do a compression test in some miles and let's see how it compares given that you didn't pull the head. The guy seemed pretty insistent. It seems light to me too but it's almost impossible to find anything on the net for the first gen so I can't confirm. edit: found a factory workshop manual, it's meant to be 10w. gently caress's sake I don't need this poo poo. Slavvy fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Nov 9, 2013 |
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Mazda3 AND a KTM AND an expensive looking pushbike? You're like an AI/CA grand master
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Sagebrush posted:Finally finished a project I've been working on for some time.  My god. Most heroic thing I've seen in quite some time. Also probably the most disproportionate effort:bike ratio I've ever seen but whatever floats your boat 
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Petcock. So now it runs ok? No more dumping fuel into the engine with wild abandon? Petcock.
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I found myself wanting a DRZ after riding my ZRX down a bunch of gravel roads, too.
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