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lezyne makes wonderfully high-quality bicycle pumps, both floor and portable. i already had them from years of cycling and they've been enough that i haven't bothered buying anything electric
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one thing thats kind of a curveball for me is carburetors, i have literally never owned a car with a carb and carbs are a whole rear end category of maintainance and tune-up that essentially doesn't exist for anything fuel injected
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Oct 9, 2023 07:20
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builds character posted:I’ve always found this quite helpful when dealing with carbs. great newbie thread content right here now if i can only find the trapezoids on my carb
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Oct 12, 2023 02:25
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one thing we can all count our blessings about is that motorcycles never got those absolutely hosed malaise era emissions carbs with o2 sensors and poo poo
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Oct 15, 2023 03:11
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statist liberals telling me i cant buttchug electrons
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Oct 15, 2023 20:20
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if nothing else you can buy it for like $24/quart at the hardware store
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Oct 17, 2023 09:12
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get on my level, my first drop was when i thought i was in neutral at a red light and when i let go of the clutch the motorcycle shook loose the bonds of my crotch and went off to be free e: wait, no, that was drop two. drop one was trying to climb a steep rutted dry wash, stalling, and eating poo poo. three was taking a 15mph turn at the posted limit but it was covered in pea gravel so i lowsided despite my diligent speed. thats all so far i think. falls in mud or trying to learn to wheelie don't count imo, even if they do contribute to my shift lever and plastics being all hosed up Cactus Ghost fucked around with this message at 10:15 on Oct 22, 2023 |
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Oct 22, 2023 10:12
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having a bike that's under 300lb wet certainly has made me more cavalier about dropping it, for better or worse
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Oct 22, 2023 15:47
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Nerobro posted:solenoids and vacuum tube arrays freakin yikes blessings overcounted; statement retracted
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Oct 28, 2023 06:42
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TotalLossBrain posted:And then I'd look at adjacent parking spaces with much larger trucks, lifted 18 inches. Lol. What does anyone use these for??? want to look cool, not actually cool enough to ride a motorcycle
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Nov 1, 2023 20:11
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i mean, there's a reason nearly every pickup available now is a sedan with an automatic. putting poo poo in the bed isn't the goal
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Nov 1, 2023 20:31
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i really need to get mirrors good for more than satisfying a legal technicality
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Nov 8, 2023 17:34
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TotalLossBrain posted:but lawdy, SxS are 10x worse than regular cars this old dude i know who does a lot of volunteer trail work told me once he only clears treefalls wide enough to let motorcycles through lol
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Nov 29, 2023 17:54
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yeah people learn on big fat cruisers all the time. you could do a lot worse. ill bet it makes grasping countersteering a little more intuitive, given that you aren't doing much turning without it
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Dec 28, 2023 09:45
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went to start my bike for the first time after sitting in the winter monsoon weather, and not only is the battery stone-dead, the starter switch stuck in and i can't get it out! i guess time to take it apart and clean it? dielectric grease maybe?
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Mar 11, 2024 22:30
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cleaned the starter button and it stopped binding. jumped the battery and it fired up. i'm going to change the oil before i let myself off the leash but im stoked
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Mar 26, 2024 16:17
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one of us! one of us!
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replaced the battery and air filter, changed the oil, tightened the chain to the specified amount of slack, then completely forgot to use the chain lube i bought rode 25 miles of winding mountain gravel roads anyway. first ride this spring. fuckin rules. hope my chain is ok
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fixing a broken bolt beats the hell out of fixing stripped threads. i'd bet the soft bolts are them being like "nobody is ever going to torque this to spec, and the case is aluminum, so make the bolt of spun sugar"
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