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My Rex with the aftermarket (catless, but it was catless stock too, sorry chief) exhaust is quieter - for me - than the Weestrom was It may be different for people behind me. But it's also obviously not an open pipe or anything dumb like that. My brother's first bike was a z750 with a farmer-rear end slipon with the baffles removed and it was loving obnoxious for both me and him.
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K&N filter, bruh! Gotta keep it oiled!
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Drain it of its fluids first, and turn them in at your nearest fire hall, along with the battery, lest you contaminate the soil or water table, Jesus Christ
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nsaP posted:Craigslist is old hat get on fb marketplace or I used to love newenough but can’t remember what they rebranded too. Sorry I’m a fraud I paddle more than I ride now If you google "newenough" like an old, the first link is whatever they call themselves now E: but I'm not sure if they still sell used stuff
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I'm still obscurely delighted that they made it almost all the way around the world and then their only motorcycle accidents were in Calgary
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I get very frustrated with bs hipster bike videos. Remember that insanely douchey “why we ride” movie that was hyped to hell and back? OK so here's how it is at least for me I am not good at motorcycle and maybe never will be, but when I hit a good enough chain of turns with just enough skill to not notice how fuckin awful I am, it's like the bike disappears and my body disappears and there's just a point moving along a complicated curve And like I know that's basically just flow state but it's still real exciting to have been in And then if it's slab or something and I'm bored and achy it's still nice to look around and be in the scenery, and if the sun is low enough I can look over at my shadow and dang that guy looks p cool If that's waxing mystical, I'm sorry
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Apr 8, 2020 02:45
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If you're serious, the last time I heard about it, scientists were starting to think the virus could travel in airborne aerosols and not just the heavier droplets. Helmets will keep the bulk of your disease-filled spit droplets inside, but some will exit out the bottom, and so will aerosols. They will not stop you from inhaling other people's disease-filled droplets. At best they might make the droplet path more tortuous and less likely to find its way to your mucosa. And if the aerosol thing is true they won't help a bit.
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Hit a patch of dust in a corner on my way to work this morning (I'm guessing it was dust, since all it registered as, was a lighter patch on the pavement as I went over it) and felt the front kick out to the left. I got real wobbly for a second and I felt my right foot drop to "save it". No foot contact, and the bike stayed up, but between this and the ladder incident I'm having a real sloppy year and I'm kinda mad at myself about it. Gotta start getting more sleep, and maybe reread Proficient Motorcycling and do some practicing. Really, really wish we had a track yet that I didn't have to drive four hours to get to. e: took that corner really gingerly this morning, too Phy fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jul 31, 2020 |
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Jul 30, 2020 16:15
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When I did the Rex's carbs there was a little gunk in the bowls but nothing like that, jesus christ my days of filling up with shell premium cause it's non-ethanol are certainly coming to a middle
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1. If anyone ever asks about it, I tell them my Rex is named Yoshi, because it's green, fast, and a dinosaur. (Would be even better if it had a Yosh can instead of the Over Racing one but I'm not buying a new exhaust for a joke) 2. A dude in a truck gave me a thumbs up in traffic today, and then the ok sign. I had my sunvisor down so it's p unlikely he meant it as a white supremacy thing unless he saw the tiny little crescent of honkey flesh, but it still gave me pause
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Aug 30, 2020 00:26
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Roo leather is supposed to have higher abrasion/tearing resistance than cow, for a given thickness of leather. I suppose if you had stuff made of roo at the same thickness as cow, you could slide a lot farther before sanding through it. But I think it's used more to provide equivalent performance in a lighter more flexible garment. Think of it like the difference between aluminum or titanium and steel. (Without the drawbacks of those, like aluminum's lack of a fatigue limit or how hard Ti is to work.)
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Aug 30, 2020 05:54
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I assume the existential terror of being either on or below the Gardiner has to add to the thrill factor Is this the year the road collapses out from under me? Will I have a chunk of spalled concrete drill me in the cranium? Who knows! Life is cheap, hail Satan!
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Strife posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RDfJXAhs_4 I know, I know, normal people don't get into fistfights on motorcycles, but when someone passes me in my lane, there's a part of me that's thinking 
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Today in Phy Learns: Birds doing weird things on the sidewalk are not a valid reason to pay less attention to the road. Grabbed too much brake to avoid pasting myself on the back of a box truck that was slowing down more than I expected, and I felt the tires going in directions I'd rather they not. Ultimately, the bike stayed upright and unpasted, but it was a near miss to be sure. This is maybe the first time I've really felt a desire to have ABS. Despite doing the occasional set of panic-brake practice runs, I still get grabby when I'm genuinely startled.
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Slavvy posted:At the same time you didn't crash so you did something right. It sounds like one of those situations where you wouldn't have needed to use your skill if you had used more judgement, but you can't always depend on judgement keeping you out of the poo poo no matter how careful you are so it's best to have some skill too. This was essentially my takeaway overall and why I opened with "birds are not a reason to divert your attention". Yes, it's not great that my muscle memory says "GRAB BREAK LIKE IT OWS U MONEY", but the chief failure today was allowing myself to get into a situation where I needed to test that. ABS makes it harder to lock the brake in a panic situation, but it can't watch the road for you. But it does help with locking the brake. Which is why, if my next bike isn't an imported DAEG, it'll have ABS. But hopefully that's a lot of years in the future. e: I will allow that the same muscle memory that went "GRAB BREAK" also noticed what was happening and got the wheels to recover in a reasonably controlled fashion. My body isn't a total idiot, but as always, it needs work. Ok that I recovered it and didn't ride myself into a lowside, better if I hadn't locked any brakes, best if I hadn't needed to brake hard at all. Phy fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Oct 1, 2020 |
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I mainly posted about this to try and shame myself into being better about that lol. This year's been not great for me in terms of keeping my brain ahead of my wheels and it's led to other near misses as well. But it's funny what you can pick up. I never got into the habit of watching drivers' heads - kind of pointless when so many cars have window tint now, I feel - but I can often tell when someone is about to change lanes just by how close they're edging to the line. This is entirely divorced from when/if they signal.
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I've been saying this for years, great to know that people in history were just as stupid as I am
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Renaissance Robot posted:They were too short Die grinder the hole
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Renaissance Robot posted:How the gently caress do you hear your brake going clunk and not just, y'know, stick your head down and look to see there's an entire bolt missing One afternoon I noticed my brakes were clunking a bunch. Like, every time I closed or released the brake lever. Couldn't find any fasteners loose, but I could move the pads around with my finger. I thought maybe they had sort of false-brinelled themselves loose somehow, so I got in a new set, only to find my old pads were still plenty meaty and the new pads had the exact same slop. It turns out the 6-pot Tokicos that are stock on the ZRX just kinda do that. They're built so that you can remove a pin and a clip and yank the pads right out the top of the caliper without unbolting it, but one tradeoff is, the pads rattle around on the retainer pin.
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Toe Rag posted:Barber shops have to adapt since white supremacists have moved on from shaved heads. I'm grateful for the existence of the fashy haircut because otherwise I'd have to grow my hair out and look exactly like my dad did back in the 90s E: which is to say, male pattern baldness as gently caress
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Plus you can pretend you’re not quite as bald as you are for a couple more years. This is exactly why i started buzzing my hair in the first place, which is what I meant to imply earlier but somehow managed not even that simple task I don't have nearly enough hair on top for a high and tight or whatever even if I wanted to and even if it wasn't the haircut du jour for white supremacists.
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Jan 16, 2021 21:45
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Steakandchips posted:Man, New Zeroland's trip over Christmas to South Island really really makes me want to ride NZ. gently caress if it doesn't look like the awesome bits of BC without having to drive halfway across Berta or the Interior to get to it
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I was gonna say NZ is continuing to sound like an island version of BC but there are places in BC where a house is still affordable, so long as you don't mind living in a dying mining town that's an hour's drive on gravel road away from the next dying logging town I hear if you even think the word "Vancouver" at your purchase negotiation they tack a half mil onto the price
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Right, a 500cc V2 2-stroke road bike, that's sensible frantically googling bimota e: oh okay the V-Due is gorgeous but had a tendency for Rapid Unplanned Disassembly cool cool cool Also oh hey apparently Kawi bought a 49% stake in the company?? Phy fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Feb 3, 2021 |
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Megabook posted:I was after those two as well. Is there any chance use people who rely on our bookmarked threads could get tags? oh nards I missed it too, I was gonna ask for an Excitebike one
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Feb 11, 2021 20:36
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MomJeans420 posted:Sweet thanks for the gang tags JSB oh hey yeah thank you Slavvy posted:Well holy gently caress I asked for something punishing but this is absolutely next level. harsh
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:un-stuck the throttle (tube and switch block full of some kind of insect casings) Ah, the Admiral Grace Hopper sense of the word "debugging"
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:His line breaks keep loving me up and making me try to read it like verse. Musha-ring dum-a-doo dum-a-da Wack fol my daddy-o, etc.
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I tried wearing my smallest mechanical watch under my gear once. It was a no-go. Just uncomfortable. I can't find dimensions for that thing on the site except that they say the strap is 26mm, which is loving gigantic as watch poo poo goes. I could get out my calipers and estimate it based on that, but, imma go out on a limb and say that it is not intended to be worn under a protective jacket or gloves. So I suppose if you layer dan make sure you go down on your left side so you can ride that thing to a stop like you're Legolas the elf doing a shield surf
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Apropos of nothing, our province has been on slowly-easing-lockdown since November. We're trying to be very good about not going over to see my parents, since my wife works in a public-facing job and I work in a shop with more than a few people who don't get the whole "communicable disease" idea, and my mom is p vulnerable to such as respiratory viruses. But my bike is parked at their garage for the winter and i haven't seen it in four goddamned months I miss my friggin bike At least I can do zoom meetings with my folks
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I’m an IT guy AND I eschew torque wrenches No, because my thin noodly arms are great for not overtorquing bolts but terrible for fisticuffs If I was working on vehicles every single day I'd probably get to where Slavvy's mindset is, but for how often I do it, gently caress it I'll break out the torque wrenches for piddly poo poo like the engine side covers. They're Princess Auto so it's probably about the same accuracy as if I did it by feel anyway
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Renaissance Robot posted:Why a nail ffs
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Skunks can deffo smell pretty weedy, but, like, in a bad way. To my nose there's a strong sausage/sweat undertone. Like, imagine a roofer working out in the hot sun all day with a joint stashed in his armpit, his lunch is like three big grilled bratwursts, and then at the end of the day he lights the armpit joint.
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LodeRunner posted:Skunks only smell like weed from a distance. A gentle whiff of skunk isn't so bad and sometimes you think, "I don't see what all the fuss is about." I got lucky last week actually, it's late evening and my wife and I hear this weird grumbling coming from somewhere close to the house. I go stand out on my front porch, and it quickly becomes obvious it's coming from underneath. The grumbling stops when I stomp on the porch. I have one of those cheap precast concrete set of steps, and I notice there's open spots along the side where something could climb underneath. I go back inside, and I've got a hunch so I check out "what do skunks sound like" and it was exactly this sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb5mcha2Qts&t=8s I tossed some mothball packets under the porch the next morning, I haven't heard the little devil since. I wish it no harm, but I also don't want to meet it. Or have it turn my steps into a nest.
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Late for skunkchat, but I have many skunk stories and this is my favorite: Yeah, if I said it once I said it a thousand times, we don't need no stinkin' badgers 
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builds character posted:NYPD
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Sagebrush posted:Gasoline is an incredible fuel. If it didn't already exist under our feet all over the world, we would have invented it independently. There's almost nothing else with that combination of energy density, relative non-toxicity* and convenience. You can carry 600 megajoules (165 kWh) in a 5-gallon bucket weighing 30 pounds. It never loses potency and it can be moved around with a funnel and a hose. As long as you keep the bucket covered it's safe enough to leave in the corner of your garage. Between fossil fuels, asbestos, and cfcs, I feel like the history of industrial materials in the 19th and 20th century is one of incredibly useful substances that our species was in no way responsible enough to be allowed near.
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Carth Dookie posted:The guy who came up with CFCs was the same guy who recommended adding lead to gasoline. Kind of amazing how much of an impact one guy had on planetary health. Then he managed to kill himself accidentally by munching himself in a contraption of his own design to help him get around his house when he got old and less mobile (I've always suspected it was really auto erotic asphyxiation but either people didn't recognise it for what it was or chose a different interpretation to sanitize the cause of death). Oh yeah no gently caress Thomas Midgely though the way science and engineering work some other bright spark (or group thereof) would have discovered both cfcs and tetraethyl lead. And it's not like he was some evil overlord forcing them on the world, corporations chose to foist them on us at the cost of our health and sanity and downplay the negative effects once they were aware, because it made money faster
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Ryan Fortnine did a video on airbags a few months ago and that was one of the reasons he promoted the least expensive one that's just tethered to the bike Klim lists the vest at $400 US and then I'm guessing the subscription fee (or the $400 gently caress-your-subscription fee) is an adder on top of that? If it was $400 alone it'd be by far the cheapest airbag vest, so that's unlikely to be the case.
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