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Wasted several hours changing tires. Went very fast (for me), took an hour and a half to get the wheels off, old tires off, new tires on. And the loving bead wouldn't set. Tried all kinds of stuff but after a couple more hours it got late and now I have 2 rims with the sidewalls stuck on an inner lip of the rim, haven't had this happen before. Now I get to find somewhere that will set them before track day on Sat. Ironically this was going to be my only DIY tire change of the season.
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I had a G1 Tuono and once you mucked around with the electrics it was well sorted enough. It needed a lot of juice to crank. As big a batt that fit under the seat, solder some of the prone-to-fail wire connectors, beefier starter solenoid, and then lower the draw on the battery. I put in LED tail bulbs and gained over 1 volt measured at the gauges (the voltage drop with standard bulbs when you triggered the brake light was hilarious), battery was always strong after that and no reliability issues.
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Aug 14, 2015 16:46
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Downgrade
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Aug 16, 2015 04:35
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I have the circulation of a corpse, I pretty much needed my heated gloves for sustained riding under 40F. Heated grips would give me warm palms and ice cold fingers/thumbs, and lead to death-gripping the bars to extract more heat from them. This is with a heated vest too, without that forget it (but vest and no gloves won't work for me either, hands would probably just ice up and break off T1000-style). Also drat a tshirt-thin heated vest w/arms would be amazing, and heated moto gear in general is pretty clunky especially when you have to ghetto wire older bikes w/ a relay system and connectors and stuff.
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Aug 18, 2015 20:55
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Voltage posted:Had my R1 stolen right out of my parking garage on Friday while I was at work. Worst part was I just got my new helmet in the mail the same day. Wow, that sucks. There should be footage, at least? (No, you'll never see it again)
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I always used a pair of oil filter pliers, kindof a big wide set of pliers with a couple kinks in it that give you the leverage to slightly crush the filter and turn it. I used to religiously follow the manual directions that were like "filter makes contact plus one quarter turn" and they end up welded on so I just screw them on like a bottle cap.
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