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Remy Marathe posted:I'm the thick orange bar spanning all gears, and I'm fuckin' with your mind The first gear upshift point?
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For just about any activity, training pays off infinitely better than equipment upgrades.
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If you're in the US a number of places have an online accident reporting setup for calling in minor accidents where everyone could drive away and nobody was severely injured. You can probably also open a police report over the phone with the information you have.
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Jul 19, 2022 01:59
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Slavvy posted:Oh and make sure your pressures are right. Every day before you get on, and multiple times if you're doing a long ride in a single day.
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metallicaeg posted:Well I've hit a year of riding now. Time to upgrade from my 100hp beginner 600 to something bigger. Should have known I was going to outgrow this bike so quickly. You should get this to sate your desires.
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I managed to get out on what may be the last good day in the DC area. This season I didn't ride as much as last only about 300 miles the whole summer due to some conflicts that ate my weekends and bad luck on weather. Last year I did about the same but it was all August through early November. I'll have one more short ride to a shop next month to get the annual inspection renewed and then fluids change and onto the stands and battery tender it goes.
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Glad you're doing better.
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I was hoping for some more unseasonably warm days but it looks like that well has run dry so it's time to hibernate. We'll get back out in the spring.
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opengl posted:Love that color. Almost bought one but it was a total mess. Was that the one from a few weeks ago that had all the locks drilled out and gave every indication of being stolen yet somehow the seller had a title?
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Geekboy posted:Check your tire pressure. Someone advised me to do it every time I'd been off the bike more than a half hour and while I don't go to that length, every time I leave the house has been a good interval so far.
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My cb300r does not. 
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I had my first drop today. I was leaving a parking lot, cut the corner sharp enough for the back tire to hit the curb, and didn't get my right foot down quickly enough. Bike didn't fall on me and didn't take any serious damage; the fall guards got scuffed a bit and the backside of the right mirror has some scratches. I didn't get hurt either besides pride.
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May 7, 2023 03:47
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Remy Marathe posted:Did the curb itself lever the rear tire off the ground or something, or was it more a case of the jarring event causing you to panic brake mid-turn which you could've maybe rode out? I was going slowly enough at the pullout that it completely stopped the bike and I didn't realize what was happening quickly enough to do anything effective. Going wider or more power would both have probably kept me up.
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Vino posted:*rode my new bike Harder to see potholes and gravel in poor light plus you have to get there and back in darkness.
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Slipping the clutch on bikes is much more of a thing you do regularly than it is in a manual transmission car.
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Yes you should not be rolling around on a shut throttle at any point, it makes the bike handle like rear end.
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Slavvy posted:Why would you slow down for the dog first Taunt it so it's good and angry when the mailman shows up later, I guess. 
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Vino posted:I PASSED 
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Slavvy posted:Do not, repeat DO NOT ride a SEA shitbike where fourth/fifth loops back around to first Someone actually makes that? Geez.
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Vino posted:mI just want confirmation/validation that it's a motorcycle thing. It's not solely a Motorcycle Thing, drivers pull out in front of other cars all the time. But it has more dire consequences for bikers so you have to be more ready for it.
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I haven't washed my textiles since I got them in summer 2021 but I do air them out generously between uses and they don't smell bad.
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I got a set of paddock stands and put it up on the rear one for oil changes and chain maintenance.
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Toe Rag posted:Yeah I guess what I call front you call rear; either way, I want someone to see my bike before they turn into the spot. Parking stalls in SF are pretty narrow. If another bike wants to squeeze in, they are more than welcome, but yeah, thunderdome. On the street though yeah wheel touching the curb. That privilege is not universal at all.
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IronDoge posted:Passed the BRC today and got my license!
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Aug 28, 2023 03:06
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Got out for the first time in a couple of weeks today, in the near 100 degree heat. This is the first time I've really sweated up my gear.
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Learn how to pay attention without needing to be shocked into doing it, I guess.
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If you're in the newbie thread and contemplating carbs, isn't the right answer typically "factory setup"?
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Went out for about four hours today. Temperature was mid/upper 50s, which is a bit cooler than I usually do but I put on long johns underneath my perfed textiles and stayed warm enough even with some strong breezes and not much sun. I had a balaclava in the bag if the wind was too much but chapstick was all I needed with the helmet vents closed. Looks like I'm right at 1200 miles since I started riding in August 2021. I'll probably get one or two more good riding days before I get the annual inspection in November and hang it up for the winter.
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I have a stabilized gas can I've been using to fill it up with for the last few rides and put it on paddock stands and a battery tender under a cover when I think I"m done. I take the cover off on nice days to let it air out.
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Vino posted:I’m currently wondering about your life choices that you’ve had multiple cars catch fire on you and I’ve had none. No judgment. Just … wonder. Usually they just light up when they detect something but most of them sound a tone if the turn signal in that direction engages and there's something in the detection volume. A few will beep if the steering wheel deflects more than a few degrees towards something it detects even with no signal activation.
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Still posting in the newbie thread after three years because I'm still new. Looks like the temperature is going to stay down so I'm calling it for my third summer of riding. I'm up to about 1400 lifetime miles, 400 of them this summer. I didn't get out quite as much as I'd hoped to due to illness, travel, and rainy weekends but still made it out a bit more than last year. I still don't feel confident enough to go out on the 55mph highways in my area yet (seeing a pallet fly off a truck and crash onto the road on two separate occasions while in my car really does a number on my feeling of safety on the bike) but I'm doing the 50mph roads with stoplights. I still prefer the 35-45 mph limit roads through the wooded areas in my suburban area. I think I finally internalized countersteering this summer. It clicked for me late last year but I backslid in the off season and it took a few rides to get back to where I was, but I hope I had enough time in the seat this year to make it stick. Gear is still in good shape. Helmet is three years old and has some scuffs but still sound, gloves are still holding together, boots still look brand new. I sweated up my pants and jacket a few times this year and will take them to the cleaner in the coming weeks. I think next year I'd like to ride in more built up areas a bit - staying off highways means it takes forever to get into DC itself but Arlington and Alexandria are both a little easier to get to and I have some other smaller downtowns I've been riding around as well. I feel like the little 300 still has a lot to teach me; a lot of riders would have probably traded in for something bigger by now. Cold weather gear would probably let me squeeze out another month or so of riding every year but the early sundowns of late autumn limit how much benefit I'd really see from it. Rest easy, friend. We'll be back out in four or five months! 
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It's getting close to warm enough to begin my fourth riding season soon.
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Today would have been an excellent start to the season but this weekend was already packed and next weekend is rain, then I'm out of town. April is when I'll get started again.
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MSPain posted:i need to see this thing http://motogem.us
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I was going to bring the bike out of hibernation today but while changing the oil I broke off one of the oil filter cover bolts after draining the oil and replacing the filter and gasket. Part #20 in the bottom left corner of this diagram, one of the lower two bolts of the four holding it on: https://www.partzilla.com/catalog/honda/motorcycle/2020/cb300ra/right-crankcase-cover The bolt is broken off just about flush with the crankcase cover after I remove the filter cover - it sticks up about half a thread, not enough to grab with anything I have so I'm going to have to get some help to remove it given my consistent failure to remove similar breaks bolts without damaging everything. While I figure that out and run down a replacement bolt, is it going to cause any issues as long as I don't start it up?
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Slavvy posted:It'll be fine if you don't start it yeah, just don't fill it with oil until you've fixed it Awesome, thanks.
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T Zero posted:I broke the same bolt on my CBR last year. I'd swear those things are made of Play-Doh. Fortunately they're easy enough to drill out without damaging the threads. It seems pretty common from looking at the internet.
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Slavvy posted:It'll be fine if you don't start it yeah, just don't fill it with oil until you've fixed it Fixed and filled with oil, we're back up and running though it's too late in the day to even start riding. Weather is trash but next Sunday should be good to begin riding about a month later than I'd hoped to this year.
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