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Post the terrible things you do to your bikes, your lovely behavior in traffic, the bad clothes you wear, and other motorcycle-related evidence of you generally being a sloppy piece of poo poo. My first bike was a 1979 XS400, which I rode for about 2 years. I never checked the tire pressure or changed the oil once. I may have topped it up a couple times. On my current street bike, my vacuum fuel pump started leaking around the seals, so I bought a tube of RTV and globbed it on there until it stopped dripping gas. That was thousands of miles ago, and a new replacement would have been like $50.
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Jul 23, 2018 19:06
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I have never serviced a single bearing on any motorcycle I've owned, other than cleaning my steerer bearings the one time I had the front end apart.
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Jul 24, 2018 18:14
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Minkee posted:I have one bike that needs me to put a T joint in the carb to run. I have the part, the carb is already pulled, all I have to do is undo two screws and put it back on the bike. I haven't bothered since I have another motorcycle. Ha, the t joint on my carb rack is broken, so I just heated up the gas line a bit and slipped it past the broken section as far as I could and put a hose clamp on it.
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Jul 25, 2018 04:00
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Collateral Damage posted:I torque the oil sump plug to a medium grunt. Same on bieks and cars. I know what it'll take to get it back off and I know what it takes to smash a copper washer, that not a bolt I'm likely to overtorque.
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Jul 30, 2018 04:32
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Yerok posted:I put clip master links on everything & have never had a chain failure What is this, some kind of humble brag? It's what master links are made for. Anyone insisting riveted links are the only acceptable chain is an elitist prick who will tell you you're jerking off the wrong way.
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Jul 31, 2018 04:02
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Wobbly Python posted:I'm using an oil filter intended for cars on my motorcycle and it hasn't hurt a thing yet. There's a reason most motorcycle oil filters cross reference to car oil filters.
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Aug 20, 2018 16:14
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Dammit I got myself this time. Apparently the last time I flushed my brakes I rounded off a couple nipples and said "Eh, gently caress it, I'll deal with it later."
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Oct 8, 2018 21:54
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GriszledMelkaba posted:Ok you're the first one I'm concerned about you might want to address some of those things Replace your tire, those things have a shelf life. And fix your chain and do your brakes. You probably need new lines too. And if you don't know how old your fluid is, it's already the color of lovely beer.
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Oct 16, 2018 00:51
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Fifty Three posted:I thought this was a safe space t It's a SAFETY space.
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Oct 16, 2018 19:49
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cursedshitbox posted:put a lil' weld on the countershaft sprocket to the countershaft nut cause I didn't know about the hosed up splines when I bought the 950. got tired of babysitting the sprocket every few weeks. Somebody else was doing this recently. Supradog?
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Oct 17, 2018 00:42
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:When I fix wires, I replace all the wires with whatever I have lying around. Since I work in aviation, this is usually M22759/16 unadorned white wire. So yeah, all the wires might be factory-colored in the middle of the harness, but the last foot or two after the environmental splice is white. gently caress you man.
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Nov 19, 2018 02:35
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Skreemer posted:Always carry spare vise-grips? Always use a cotter pin? How in the hell did that happen in the first place?
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Jan 19, 2019 18:32
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Ducati what the gently caress.
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Jan 20, 2019 02:39
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I just glued a new gasket to the clutch cover with rtv.
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Jun 13, 2019 04:57
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ought ten posted:This is so idiotic I'm almost too embarrassed to post. New (old) bike, new torque wrench, first oil change. Not my first time doing an oil change. Pulled out the old oil filter, made sure not to lose the stupid spring, checked the o-ring, wiped everything down, popped the new one in. Checked the torque specs, set my wrench, double checked the specs, went to town. Seemed like I was putting a lot of force on these little bolts but what do I know. Suddenly, no resistance. That's funny, never had a torque wrench that worked like that before. Bolt head felt secure to my fingers, so I moved to the other bolt. Tighten, tighten, no resistance. Job well done, I thought. I did this a while back except adjusted to in-lbs instead of ft-lbs and was confused by the oil cover bolts barely being finger tight on a 650 thumper.
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Dec 13, 2019 17:49
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Dagen H posted:*strips out M6 thread* This sounds like Suzuki Things
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Oct 10, 2020 04:07
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I haven’t had a sprocket off in a while, but isn’t that a relatively low torque fitting?
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Dec 6, 2020 16:57
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moxieman posted:Something like 60 lb-ft on my FZ6 if I recall correctly. Yeah, that’s about what I was thinking. I remember the hassle on my XJ600 was finding a socket big enough to get on it, but it took no effort with a breaker bar to get it loose.
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Dec 6, 2020 17:53
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No, ffs, enduro riders have been using condom type catheters for a long time now. It's not one you insert. I mean I don't know about your acquaintance, but non-medical catheters are a pretty common thing for sports like distance sea kayaking, hang gliding/parasailing, flying, etc where you can't just stop for a minute and take a leak in the bushes.
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Dec 14, 2020 22:56
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Now I'm just thinking about the "when I cath" cowboy from Last Week Tonight.
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Dec 15, 2020 00:40
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There was a real brief clip in a Dakar interview a year or two back where the interviewer saw the catheter poking out next to the rider's boot and reached down and flipped it around with his finger and says something like "Your water tube slipped, huh?" and the rider doesn't acknowledge it at all.
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Dec 15, 2020 05:17
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