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It's a practice thing. I already knew how to track-stand a bicycle due to using clipless pedals and shoes. Balancing a big bike is the same, tbh. If you've got your legs locked to the tank like Savvy here is saying, you use your entire body to balance the bike. Being connected to the bike is really important though, because otherwise you're just trying to noodle it around with the handlebars and maybe by moving your knees out?
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It will become second nature to where you don't have to consciously think about it.* In my opinion, this isn't really about being able to balance for x seconds at a stop, but rather having that level of control of and feedback from the bike, which benefits you everywhere, at every speed. *you'll have to adjust a bit going to a new and unfamiliar bike, but the principle remains the same.
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May 25, 2023 05:36
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Is that bike available on the US market?
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Yep. Pushed the Vee out of the garage today, got ready to head in to work. Then I get a call from a manager to discuss some technical problem and so I sit in the garage in full gear while this is taking place. When the call was finally over 25 minutes later I said gently caress IT, pushed the bike back in the garage, and peeled out of my gear. Sometimes you gotta know when not to ride in to work. took a nap instead
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May 27, 2023 06:16
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For me, it's loudness control on the Monkey with a Yoshi pipe and non OEM air intake system. 2nd gear in town - loud, lots of deceleration pops. 3rd gear - you probably won't hear me.
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May 31, 2023 19:39
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I took my test on my Monkey. I had excellent maneuverability and control, the instructor had a chuckle, and I passed. I'm now licensed for any bike lol
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Jun 7, 2023 01:40
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At lights that I know will take a while, yeah
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Jun 7, 2023 20:10
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All this gear/neutral talk and no mention of electric bikes? What I remember from my LiveWire demo ride is no neutral, no gears, which I suppose makes sense in an EV
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Jun 7, 2023 21:07
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Slavvy posted:Try pushing a large, cold bike around with just the clutch pulled in and get back to me Or kickstart it like that lol
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It can be a small, light bike. My old KTM250 was almost impossible to kick start cold, in gear
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Jun 7, 2023 21:55
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Get a go pro
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Jun 9, 2023 01:44
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War stories, I like to call them
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Jun 10, 2023 04:15
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Slavvy posted:Check mirrors, mash cancel, shift up needlessly, repeat
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Jun 19, 2023 01:18
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Spiggy posted:If I try hard enough I'm going to hit seventh eventually. Me finding nothing but emptiness past 4th 
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Jun 19, 2023 02:45
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You need to expect that on every ride, at every intersection or more frequently.
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Jun 29, 2023 03:02
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MSPain posted:i took my first long-ish ride this past weekend The old highway/canyon route between Yakima and Ellensburg is amazing. Yakima, not so much, but it also does have it's nice spots with great food if you know where to look. I lived in Richland for 20 years and my oldest went to trade school in Yakima just a couple years ago.
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What is this "parking" bullshit. I simply ride wherever I go, into the store, and dump things into the top box. Stop being silly squids
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Aug 21, 2023 14:59
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Spot on, that's what I do. I'll add that on my dune bikes, the first step is to use high pressure air to blow sand off the chain. And everything else, really
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Once you do that enough times you remember to cover what's behind the chain you're spraying, as much as possible. A sheet of paper works but there are also products you can buy. I don't remember exactly what I'm using for lube. It's whatever the local shop has as generic o-ring chain lube, and generic regular chain lube. Both in spray bottles. TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Aug 25, 2023 |
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Aug 25, 2023 19:49
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There's no need to filter down at all, if it's a motorized vehicle on the same road as you then it is trying to kill you
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Geekboy posted:It’s finally raining here in Portland and I’m actually kind of looking forward to putting on my rain gear and turning on my heater grips. Yeah, first time in months I took the car to work.
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Aug 31, 2023 19:37
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I drag my heels for low to medium speed slowdowns.
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Love my Vee precisely because it's like a Camry. Zero personality, all utility. It's a commuting appliance for me to get to and from work. Predictable, reliable, always the same. If that bike got stolen or burned down tomorrow, I'd give zero fucks and get something else. It's not always necessary to own a special, temperamental, interesting, whatever bike. I put 5400 miles on it in one year of ownership. 95% of that was commuting. If I'm going somewhere else, it's the Monkey or the dirtbikes for real fun TotalLossBrain fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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I had a 20 year old KTM 250 for a couple of years and while that bike had plenty of problems, the carb always worked great. It was rare to not have it start on the 3rd kick at most when cold, even in winter
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The only bike I've never dropped is the Monkey
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I like fueling up my car from the back seat with the window down. Don't have to get out! I live in Oregon and do personally know people in their 40's who've never pumped their own gas.
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Toe Rag posted:They're only safer for the people inside. It boggles my mind how high the hoods are on modern 1-ton trucks. I can only imagine the difference in injury and/or death getting hit by this versus a "normal" passenger car, eg a Camry. I rode around in a rented uhaul pickup this weekend. Standard cab, short bed, Chevrolet half ton. Should not be a big truck. It was still a pain in the rear end to park anywhere, partially because it's giant and mostly because you can't see over the 6ft tall brick hood. And then I'd look at adjacent parking spaces with much larger trucks, lifted 18 inches. Lol. What does anyone use these for???
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I mean... You can't really haul stuff in the bed because it's too tall. Can't really tow with it until you get a giant drop hitch so your trailer is level. Getting up into the cabin also seems like a tremendous pain in the rear end. What the gently caress
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My FIL burned down his 1962ish C10 while working on it. I've set a jetski on fire that I was working on at the time, but it got extinguished quickly. It can happen. (I also learned in the following days just how hosed everything in contact with the dry extinguisher powder was and that it includes the carb throats.)
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Slavvy posted:A general rule is to not be anywhere near the cars as much as possible This is one big reason why dirt bikes are cool and good. but lawdy, SxS are 10x worse than regular cars
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Nov 29, 2023 15:26
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And you get to toot not just your own horn!
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I keep having a problem with this scenario: two lanes reduce down to a single lane. Homey behind me tries to pull up alongside me AFTER the painted lane divider markers have already disappeared, i.e trying to pass me in my own lane. WTF? I've started to just put on turn signals and take the middle of the now combined lane. Ppl get mad, I do not give a gently caress. As soon as the painted lines are gone, it's a single lane.
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Dec 13, 2023 23:27
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Slavvy posted:
That's not usually an option because traffic is slow and piled up in front of me. Americans do not understand zipper merges.
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unimportantguy posted:This is one thing I love about California. I took two weeks off for the major storms but other than that I've been riding the whole year round. Same here near Portland
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Took a ride to Cycle Gear with my kid today. He rode the monkey one way and the VStrom back home. I got myself some new gloves, he got a new visor and pin lock insert
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