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I rode it off of my own street for the first time after I paid $29 to get a tiny "3" on my license.
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clutchpuck posted:Washington? Looks pretty Salish Sea-y and the weather matches Yep! It stopped raining and the sun even came out a little bit just long enough for a short little ride after I got home from the DOL. Then it started raining again and even a little bit of hail
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Mar 2, 2016 02:55
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Finished putting new tires on it.
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Mar 9, 2016 00:21
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Slide Hammer posted:Do you have a garage? What year is that GN125? How is it not being devoured by rust scale... It's an '82. I don't have a garage, but I keep it covered in a mostly-enclosed shed. The center stand and battery tray are pretty rusty I guess  EDIT: Today I put the valve stem cap that I left on the porch when I replaced the tires back on.
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Mar 11, 2016 23:50
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N is for Nipples posted:I almost feel a twinge of guilt for this. But in my heart, I know this is what I want. 
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Apr 12, 2016 02:23
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I rode it to work with tiny new blinkers and didn't get run over by anybody who couldn't see them.
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Apr 22, 2016 02:51
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Today I replaced the cush-drive rubber. I also pulled the chain off and cleaned that and cleaned up all of the caked on gunk around the sprocket since the wheel was apart anyway.
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May 3, 2016 22:54
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Old cush drives feel so terrible and alarming when they are near death. Everything feels so smooth now. The old one was probably original so only 34 years old
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May 4, 2016 00:54
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 Now the screws that hold the little oil filter mesh in are stuck too. How does something that spends its' whole life soaked in oil get stuck 
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May 16, 2016 21:13
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Last night I got to ride home in the dark with the brake light switch adjusted to be constant on because the tail light had gone out. Today I fixed the tail light by pulling the seat off and looking at the connector. I didn't actually DO anything to it, I just LOOKED at it. EDIT: And here's a picture from the other day when I replaced the chain, sprockets and the bearing in the sprocket carrier. 
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Jul 14, 2016 20:45
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Replaced the two missing screws that hold the coil onto the frame instead of letting it rattle around loose under the tank. Whoops
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Jul 25, 2016 04:20
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Today I finally tracked down and fixed what I worried was something going wrong in the top end. Turns out it was an electrical connector rattling against the underside of the tank.
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Aug 25, 2016 00:37
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I put my luggage rack back on.
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Sep 11, 2016 02:32
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Today I used the rack that I put back on. Also it looks like it's time to do the fork seals and oil Chichevache posted:Nice bike. 
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Sep 11, 2016 23:34
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I only use the rear brake because the front is only for if you have no other option but to throw yourself over the bars. Layer Dan Lever, for emergency use only. I wish my front brake did anything, hooray drums. At least I never have to bleed anything
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Sep 20, 2016 18:01
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:"Had to Endo-down" just doesn't have the same ring to it. Idiot pulled right out in front of me, so I did the only thing I could, I endo'd right over the car to safety.
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Sep 20, 2016 18:17
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I swapped out the 14T front sprocket for a 15T to make cruising at highway speeds a little easier. Check out my sweet garage
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Oct 10, 2016 00:06
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Stuffed the renewed registration in the toolbox and put a new sticker on the plate. Took the dealer plate frame off so my girlfriend will stop complaining about it even though it's period correct from a dealer that doesn't exist anymore
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Jan 29, 2017 00:44
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Where can I get one of these helmets? Does Biltwell make it? 
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Mar 31, 2017 19:43
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A bunch of bullshit. Next time I'll pay the extra $40 for one that's already filled and charged. The best part was the leaky cap on the bottle of acid
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Apr 7, 2018 22:52
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Maybe this is the hipster authenticity I get for buying my battery from an old dude in a grungy battery shop
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Apr 7, 2018 23:24
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How much bigger/deeper are LEDs on the back side compared to a sealed beam? I want to get one of the knockoff 5 3/4" daymakers for my tiny Suzuki but all of the connections to the wiring harness are stuffed up in the bucket and I don't think one would fit if it's much deeper.
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May 5, 2018 20:10
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I opened up the carb on my GN to make sure it didn't have some weird jetting when I was diagnosing its' weird idle and stalling problems and despite being corroded and rusty on the outside it looked brand new on the inside. It turns out that it was almost entirely related to the arcing spark plug cap. Now I'm convinced that 90% of "carbs are hard, I can't figure this out, black magic voodoo etc" is just something completely unrelated to fueling
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May 22, 2021 20:34
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The white Versys sure looks a lot better than the black/silver/red graphics on the current version
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Jun 2, 2021 19:39
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I mounted a random waterproof plastic box as a top case. Guess it's time to get a KLR
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Jun 10, 2021 00:34
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I added a windshield to further transform it into a dorky commutercycle It reduces the amount of wind but also somehow feels like the wind is worse because what hits the top of my helmet is louder (but still less)
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Jun 19, 2021 16:22
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Slavvy posted:Huh, I have literally never seen a GN with a front drum. The bottom of the barrel is lower than I thought! Haha. 82 was the first year they made them and the only year they had a drum on the front
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Jun 19, 2021 18:40
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I can get it up to 60mph fairly easily, 65 on flat ground with no headwind, and just under 75 if I lay down on the tank and have a lot of flat ground That's all indicated, so it's really probably around 5mph less
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Jun 19, 2021 21:26
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:My friend…… Now you need to top it with one of the smaller single clamp ones
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Jun 19, 2021 21:29
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I switched from using spray wax chain lube to gear oil and the chain already seems to just look cleaner. It also has an appropriate greasy old motorcycle smell
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Jul 28, 2021 22:40
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I "dropped" my brand new bike just the other day when I parked on some apparently uneven dirt and it rolled and folded the stand as I was just starting to grab the bars. It suddenly became heavier than I expected sooner than I expected and resulted in a slow, embarrassing battle against gravity as I awkwardly set it on its side while collapsing next to it
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Sep 27, 2021 02:19
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Martytoof posted:Apropos of nothing, but can I just say how I loving love having a bike that is easy to work on? I just did mine today! It's nice doing it on a new bike where the crank cover isn't seized in place and you have to find TDC by rolling it back and forth in gear  I hope if I ever have to make a warranty claim they don't accuse me of falsifying service records because the 500 mile break in valve check was at exactly 500 miles 
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Sep 28, 2021 20:59
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Slavvy posted:And what appears to be an 80's xr150 engine I think. I think the whole thing is a mishmash of different cloned parts. The engine is supposed to be an upscaled clone of the cg125 engine with an added balance shaft.
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Sep 28, 2021 22:45
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My new china bike has a switch on the clutch but it doesn't do anything? One of the electrical repair tutorials points out a plug tucked in with all of the turn signal connectors that you can short if you want the neutral light to come on when you pull the clutch for reasons??
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Oct 5, 2021 04:29
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I guess tire wear like that makes a little bit of sense if you don't have enough tires to be able to rotate them
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Oct 15, 2021 18:37
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Mounted a can. Now I can get farther into the woods to have a breakdown/get eaten by a bear
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Oct 16, 2021 00:46
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Slavvy posted:Are you sure the subframe can take that kind of load?? Yeah the mounts for the rack go through the fender/underseat-tray/whatever directly to the same part of the frame that would support a pillion. It's also only 1.75 gallons so it weighs like 15lbs max.
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Oct 16, 2021 01:09
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Slide Hammer posted:I had an old BMW 320i with around 200,000 miles on it once upon a time. It also needed valve guides. The smoke from worn valve guides only appears as you ride it, under certain engine loading conditions. You can't see it under idle. You might be able to see it if you rev the engine, and as the engine slows down from the peak of its rev. Yeah on cars it's usually apparent on startup and when pulling away from a stop after some amount of time running at speed.
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Oct 24, 2021 04:23
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Can you please make a video of honking the horn as you ride past the camera. Preferably in some sort of pastoral setting with a hedgerow
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Slide Hammer posted:It refused to start one day, so I ordered a new carburetor. Cheap Chinese Mikuni copies @ $26 each... irresistible. I'd done this before and the one I got worked right out of the box. Not this time! The jets in carbs are matched to the application, you can't just buy the same model and assume the default jets are right for everything it could potentially be used in Edit: Here's stock specs so long as they never used a different carb 
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