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Coydog posted:The only real problem with an SV650 sumo/scrambler is that you shouldn't wheelie it. Crazy Klaus (as seen on Suburban Delinquent) has a beater sv scrambler that he relentlessly abuses, and it's beautiful. I haven't been reading this thread so sorry for being a couple of days late on the reply. What tail plastic is it melting?! Definitely didn't ever have an issue with that, even after a 2+ hour ride on the slab in the middle of summer - I was always amazed that I never managed to melt the turn signal. I did melt a brand new pair of overpants on the header, which is why I wrapped it. The Powercore 4 that went with the bike runs cooler than the stock exhaust but as Z3n said it screws with the midrange, and it's pretty loud. Takes about 15 minutes tops to swap over, so you can give it a shot and see.
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Toss it up on ADVRider, it's crawling with dudes that have 690 enduros
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Renaissance Robot posted:I already had that song on my ride playlist (because Spotify's Discover Weekly feature owns) and now I'm doing my best to purge the video from my brain because ugh, git yer feet on them pegs you kids! I can tell I'm an old man because whenever I see dudes on 'tards or dirt bikes doing dank whoolies it's all good but guys doing highchairs on ratted out sportbikes = fuckin squids
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Oct 20, 2016 00:42
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gently caress paying $100 after labor + taxes just to get two tires mounted and balanced on wheels that are already off the bike. Several of the local shops used to charge $25/wheel, but now they're all up to $35/wheel, plus tire disposal, plus anything else they can come up with. $15 for 3oz of DynaBeads?  I should be changing them at home, but I don't trust myself not to scratch the poo poo out of a wheel since I've had rim protectors slip on me before, and I don't have the room for a tire changer that'd get used maybe twice a year.
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Nov 3, 2016 16:44
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clutchpuck posted:A fan that redirects hot air from the rear cylinder and exhaust pipe? WHAT A NOVEL IDEA and it's only $300
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The_Raven posted:What the gently caress is the problem with these bagger-waddling assholes who are suddenly putting megawatt sound systems in their shitpiles. Is it that their loving open pipes can only be heard in the next town, so they need a system playing something suitably badass like Luke Bryan or some other prissy faux-country twaddle so they can be heard in the next loving county? I wonder how many of those guys have killed the stators on their bikes trying to run bigger systemzzzzz
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Nov 21, 2016 23:15
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We're probably all on DHS watchlists for clicking that link
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Nov 23, 2016 00:49
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loved my FJR(s) but man it is going to feel like a porker compared to your VFR
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Dec 2, 2016 23:27
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Coydog, the bike is rebelling against the tool tube.
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Jan 13, 2017 00:19
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White connector was on the bike when I bought it, so  I didn't have stalling issues, but I put a stock can on the bike almost immediately after I bought it. It came with a FMF Q4 that was loud as gently caress and killed the midrange. I was told that it already had the Akro map in it, but never had that verified at a dealer. Archives access required: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3100205&pagenumber=33&perpage=40#post383539123
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Jan 15, 2017 19:22
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I'm starting to feel really loving bad, because I sold him the bike. The one time it stranded me it was my own loving fault - I accidentally pulled the key with the lights left on and killed the battery. The dash I had replaced by KTM under warranty for the same issue it's showing now. I didn't have the stalling stuff but I went back to a stock exhaust right after I bought the bike. No issues with it melting plastics except for the header burning a hole in my pants. That said, I didn't ride the piss out of it (the way it really should be ridden). If I'd known the bike was going to be this much trouble I would've just traded it in somewhere vs inflicting it on someone else.
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Jan 17, 2017 00:50
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The WR450Fs are sold as road legal enduros in the UK and elsewhere, 1000 mile oil changes seem to do just fine and they don't go through top ends like motocross bikes seem to. That said, "800 mile day on a sumo" makes my taint hurt. That's pretty goddamned hardcore.
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Jan 17, 2017 03:48
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IIRC from my '07 FJR, getting to the mirror bolts is something around 4-6 allen screws to remove the two black inner fairing panels on that side of the bike. The screws are small-ish but not too bad, just make sure you don't lose the little clips that they screw into.
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Feb 10, 2017 03:51
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Coydog posted:Also Unrelated- KTM can't design on their first try a gas cap that doesn't leak gas so now I get to make a viton rubber gasket of my own to fix their design problems. At least it's cheap, and the bike is well documented. I've seen people replace that cap entirely with vented screw on caps a la your standard dirt bike. I'm sure there's an anodized aluminum one out there in KTM orange somewhere. You'll lose the locking functionality though.
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Feb 16, 2017 01:13
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Chichevache posted:Heart, soul, personality, character, heritage, Diesel StyleTM, sorry, he rides a KTM. that Diesel style is for Ducati poseurs like me
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Feb 18, 2017 22:10
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Those absolutely appeal to a different kind of buyer. My guess is sport bikes, especially rashed up track bikes, will attract low-balling dumbasses. I've sold two bikes on Craigslist, my FJR and my FZ1. With the FJR I had less than 5 people contact me about the bike, two of which came to check it out; the second one bought it. Took ~3 weeks. I figured the FZ1 would take forever to sell and get a ton of idiot tire kickers, but it actually took less than a week. I only got one hit on it. Guy showed up to look at it, offered $4200 on my $4500 OBO listing, and rolled out with the bike. He didn't even ride it first.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:05
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City commute? The SMC was awesome. Highway commute? I loved my FJR. They didn't meet in the middle particularly well - you can do both on either but the SMC wasn't a rocket couch on the slab, and the FJR wasn't going to jump curbs and make detours over railroad tracks very well. There's a WR250X that's been all adventured up on CL near me that might kinda make a happy medium, but holy Christ it is ugly as gently caress. 
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Mar 7, 2017 07:38
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Is that "say goodbye to your license" territory in GA? Anything 30 and over in Ohio is 6 points and you'll probably get slapped with a misdemeanor for reckless op
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Mar 7, 2017 19:24
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Ripoff posted:AFAIK GA charges you an extra $200 fee on top of the standard fine that, if not paid, will result in your license being suspended. Otherwise it's the normal points stuff. I remember driving from Athens to somewhere on the west side of Atlanta 15-odd years ago, doing 85 two lanes over from the HOV lane and getting my doors blown off by a minivan with 3 kids in the back. I guess mommy had somewhere to be and she wasn't loving around
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Mar 7, 2017 20:23
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Yerok posted:I've been thinking I'm overdue for some more mushrooms/LSD but I don't know anyone here yet. Wondering if maybe it's time for good ol' DMT. I mean I know that the real answer to my problems is roughly a dozen more motorcycles. DMT and shrooms are a totally different trip, but have fun either way
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Mar 10, 2017 22:11
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Everyone has at least one family member that makes you question if someone pissed in your gene pool. Some of us have several. Side note on the "at least he wears a helmet" thing: had a brief discussion about bikes at lunch with a customer this week, when I noticed he wore an HD-branded jacket into the restaurant . Mentioned I was looking for a new summer jacket, and he mentioned he wore a vest and chaps in the summer, but not wearing a helmet kept him cool. Leathers + no helmet? "Yeah, the leathers will at least make sure my wife can have an open casket at the funeral" I guess the motor company has invented a leather vest that will automatically deploy itself over your face if you ever get in an accident.
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Mar 16, 2017 02:58
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Coydog posted:What is this bizarro garbage design?! Apparently they won't put in an internal sun visor because it keeps them from getting Snell certification quick change of subject: you guys in ATL are screwed, part of I-85 collapsed: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-atlanta-highway-idUSKBN1713CT "Man, Atlanta traffic can't get any worse" "Oh, really?" 
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Mar 31, 2017 02:23
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I got my eyes lasered about 8 years ago for around $3500. I was blind as a bat and had/have a slight astigmatism. Best money I've ever spent. You can take money out of your paycheck pre-tax to put it in a flex spending healthcare account and use that to pay for lasik. That may make it a bit more affordable.
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bigbillystyle posted:Oh poo poo, thanks for the tip. I hadn't thought of that flex spending stuff to save up for it. just remember that you have to use whatever you put in that flex spending account in that year or you get taxed on it
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Apr 1, 2017 02:14
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So like, Hard Gay but muddy?
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If you're looking for a tip, just to see how it feels, you'll never get a real power bottom (end). Gotta make sure you're getting the full stroke. Pays to get a full flush through the system first if you're really going to be digging around in there, too.
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Chichevache posted:Real men don't ride Ducatis. What's that? I can't hear you over the music in this Starbucks
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Took a four hour round trip on the slab up to the Iron Pony this afternoon to go try on some new gear. On the way up, a lovely young lady decided that, oh poo poo, she needed to get off at THIS EXIT (where 71 kicks right and merges with 70 just south of downtown Columbus for anyone who knows that area) and swung over from the far left lane, across the no-man's land between the continuing highway and the offramp and into my lane, and then jammed on her brakes so she didn't rear end the guy two car lengths in front of me. No signal, of course. I was already on the brakes, but had visions of being rear ended and thrown from the bike again. Flashed my high beams at her, got the "yeah yeah sorry-not-sorry" wave in the rearview. I CANNOT loving WAIT for self-driving cars to be the norm.
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TETSUOOOOOOOOOOO
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Posted in the other thread: don't buy this, don't even bother to go looking at it unless you really like having your time wastedBeach Bum posted:Posted in wrong thread initially
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Who's more entitled, Harley guy for taking up a whole parking space, or you for deciding you need to park there too and taking it upon yourself to move his bike so you can? Do you check cars to see if they're unlocked so you can pop them into neutral and move them out of spaces you want, too?
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Sagebrush posted:yeah see the problem is that a person who is skilled and careful, who would move your bike without damage, is also the kind of considerate person who wouldn't gently caress with your bike in the first place. maybe if Dr. Chopper is an actual doctor with the income and insurance to match
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Those are people who want to like bikes because they want to be cool, so when they don't like bikes they think maybe they're not cool because obviously cool people ride bikes. They're the same kind of people endlessly posting selfies on social media and looking for validation from their circle of acquaintances.
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PCOS Bill posted:Wow, I follow every traffic law religiously, you should try it. PCOS Bill posted:I'm the guy doing 110 on the highway zig-zagging, I know the pass, the pass has become me. 
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May 15, 2017 00:54
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Ask her if he unplugged the airbags and cut the seat belts out of his car too.
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May 15, 2017 18:41
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Get some strong-assed magnets and put them on the bottom of the bike so they line up perpendicular to the sensor loop under the pavement. I used a couple from an old dead hard drive I had. I did this to trip a traffic light sensor by my old house when I couldn't get the city government to adjust it. Assuming that parking gate uses the same kind of sensor it should work. edit: or just crash it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eQZLd6AABE
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It causes plastic gas tanks to swell too, whether the bike is sitting or not. The entire ethanol situation is retarded from every angle, but there are plenty of more useful things the AMA could be lobbying for/against instead of tilting at that windmill.
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revmoo posted:Everyone should be carrying at least 100/300 and uninsured/underinsured coverage. Yep, and you might want to look into an umbrella policy too, especially if you have a decent net worth. Speaking of insurance: I'm in no way putting any blame for that accident on the Porsche driver, but I am a little surprised that he was driving a financed P-car without either gap insurance or under/uninsured motorist coverage that would at least have the bank off his back about the note on the car. "I'm a responsible person, I'm not going to wreck" might sound good in your head but it doesn't do poo poo to protect you from loving morons like YN.
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rdb posted:Did someone screenshot that Reddit post? It's deleted and I can't quite figure out who did or didn't do what. Who's your insurer? I'm paying like $550/year through Allstate on my Multi for 100/300/100 with 500/100 deductibles and no umbrella, and that's with homeowners/auto multi policy discounts and excellent credit and driving records.
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MomJeans420 posted:It sounds like I'm paying too much in insurance, here's my current bike insurance: As said earlier your age and location factor in, and mid-weight sport bikes are commonly stolen and/or wrecked so they're not cheap to insure.
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