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Oakey posted:And lots of scooters. It kind of amuses me that the scooter riders in the city are way more hardcore than the bikers, even if they do tend to only wear jeans and a hoodie. Second this. I've put 3000 miles on my bike since mid-September, and I've seen at least twice the amount of scooters this winter. I sometimes question if I should be riding in 37 degree weather with a downpour, and then I see a scooter in the mentioned getup come the other direction as if it were 70 degrees and sunny. Ridiculous.
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Yep, scoots seem to be the only thing on two wheels that keeps moving throughout the winter (well, unless you count the odd nutjob like me that rides year round). Still, what the gently caress. How is anything below 15*C too cold? Grow a pair. 
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Apr 2, 2009 23:55
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If I waited until it was 15C to ride, my season would be about a month long. I also ride for pleasure and see no reason to deny myself that pleasure just because it isn't 70º and sunny out. There's also the no bugs factor, and dammit I just get the urge to roll on 2 and I'm willing to scratch it all year. In fact, I'm going to gear up and take the GS for a bath. It's drat grubby after a winter of riding and it's finally warm enough for the brakes not to freeze up after a trip to the carwash. Let me tell you, when the calipers freeze up after a wash, it's a bit exciting....
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Apr 3, 2009 03:13
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I ride when I feel like riding, and I don't always feel like riding. Odds are when it's cold and miserable out I'm more likely to pass on it. Cmdr. Shepard, don't feel obligated to ride when you aren't feeling up to it. It's a good way to get turned off riding and a good way to get yourself hurt. I have a friend who always used to look down his nose at me for wearing my winter coat in October. My response was always "at least I'm warm!"
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Apr 3, 2009 09:28
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Linedance posted:I ride when I feel like riding, and I don't always feel like riding. Odds are when it's cold and miserable out I'm more likely to pass on it. Cmdr. Shepard, don't feel obligated to ride when you aren't feeling up to it. It's a good way to get turned off riding and a good way to get yourself hurt. I have a friend who always used to look down his nose at me for wearing my winter coat in October. My response was always "at least I'm warm!" I'm not trying to kill anyones buzz or anything, I understand that I'm more particular than most of you when it comes to weather. I was just commenting more so on the fact that we *should* be having high 50's and low 60's right now instead of upper 30's and a snowstorm coming on Monday... The coldest I've taken my bike out in was 44 and let me tell you, I regret that to this day. I wore long underwear, sweatpants, and my riding pants, 2 long sleeve shirts, my jacket with a liner, and a windbreaker over the jacket, socks, my regular riding gloves (big mistake). Within minutes I couldn't feel my fingers, my toes were numb because air was getting in between the bottom of my pants and the opening to my boot, my helmet was fogged and my eyes were so teared up I couldn't see. Other than switching out a pair of winter gloves (and sacrificing protection), and maybe a scarf or something, I don't know what else to do to fix the problem of cold air in my helmet. It wasn't enjoyable at all  I'm ok with the fact that my ideal riding season is roughly ~4 months long, it sucks but a lot of things in life suck.
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Apr 3, 2009 16:39
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When riding to work in December I had thin gloves under my thick bike gloves. It felt like it took 10 seconds to unclench my fist (crack, crack, crack) and pull the clutch. While really wishing for heated grips, I put my hand on the cylinder head to warm it on a red light. Didn't feel much heat coming through and was sad. Then suddenly OW! really hot! Burned a hole in the fabric patch over the leather, hand nice and toasty for 20 seconds, then cold again. I'd get heated grips for next winter, but I just got a new (loving great!) job where my commute is 7 minutes on foot. Yay!
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Apr 3, 2009 17:08
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Cmdr. Shepard posted:The coldest I've taken my bike out in was 44 Seriously? Ride when you want to ride and don't let anyone tell you otherwise but maybe you should hold onto these details next time you feel like elaborating. 44 degrees isn't that cold. At all. I'm not trying to be all macho man but your hyperbole is a little ridiculous.
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Apr 3, 2009 19:46
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Whoa. Wife Turds posted:Seriously? Ride when you want to ride and don't let anyone tell you otherwise but maybe you should hold onto these details next time you feel like elaborating. 44 degrees isn't that cold. At all. I'm not trying to be all macho man but your hyperbole is a little ridiculous. it's cold enough, it's below freezing at highway speeds. Sure on a bright sunny day down country lanes it might be fine, but on a damp drizzly morning 6C is lovely and cold and not even remotely fun to be out riding in. If you're touring or cruising and just enjoying the scenery it's not going to factor really, but if you're on a sport bike and looking to attack some twisty roads it can be dangerous at those temps because you never know when you're going to run into a frost patch in some shady low-lying spot, and your tires are never going to get any heat into them.
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Apr 3, 2009 21:05
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Whoa. Wife Turds posted:Seriously? Ride when you want to ride and don't let anyone tell you otherwise but maybe you should hold onto these details next time you feel like elaborating. 44 degrees isn't that cold. At all. I'm not trying to be all macho man but your hyperbole is a little ridiculous. How does it feel to have such a big penis? There's no hyperbole here, just relaying my experience.
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Apr 3, 2009 21:08
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Linedance posted:If you're touring or cruising and just enjoying the scenery it's not going to factor really, but if you're on a sport bike and looking to attack some twisty roads it can be dangerous at those temps because you never know when you're going to run into a frost patch in some shady low-lying spot, and your tires are never going to get any heat into them. This is pretty obvious. I was merely pointing out how exaggerated it all sounded. Not being able to tear up the twisties and being frozen solid under 12 layers of clothing are different things. I probably fired that off too quickly and perhaps not tempered enough, but I really wasn't trying to dickwave. I also don't get as cold as most people (though I am more sensitive to heat) so experiences certainly vary.
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Apr 3, 2009 21:15
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Cmdr. Shepard posted:How does it feel to have such a big penis? No point when it's frozen and shrunk like a frightened turtle.
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Apr 4, 2009 11:41
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so i got my ktm 440 running today and it was pretty fun as long as i never opened the throttle at all. but then i was riding up a dirt road and the chain flew off. how the hell does a chain fly off?
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Apr 4, 2009 22:35
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Master link let go?
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Apr 4, 2009 22:45
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Have any of you got helmet cameras or something similar? A lad I know is after getting one, but he's quite unsure about which one to buy since there's loads and they're all quite expensive. Any tips?
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Apr 4, 2009 23:39
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kcer posted:Have any of you got helmet cameras or something similar? A lad I know is after getting one, but he's quite unsure about which one to buy since there's loads and they're all quite expensive. What price range is he looking at?
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Apr 5, 2009 01:33
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:so i got my ktm 440 running today and it was pretty fun as long as i never opened the throttle at all. but then i was riding up a dirt road and the chain flew off. how the hell does a chain fly off? It yielded under the power of the 440. EDIT: It must be noted it took about 2 hours to start the drat thing for the first time.
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Apr 5, 2009 01:54
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Z3n posted:What price range is he looking at? He mentioned one he liked for £140 ($210) I think, so somewhere around that mark probably.
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Apr 5, 2009 02:16
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VTNewb posted:It yielded under the power of the 440. Do the coil mod, it makes things much easier to start. I'm doing a write up on the process for my project thread soon.
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Apr 5, 2009 02:26
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The bike has CDI, not battery powered coils. If the coil mod is what I think you're talking about, it would not be possible on a dirtbike such as the 440.
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Nerobro posted:The bike has CDI, not battery powered coils. If the coil mod is what I think you're talking about, it would not be possible on a dirtbike such as the 440. Whoops, read that as KZ440 and figured he was dealing with old wiring like I am.
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Apr 5, 2009 06:29
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:so i got my ktm 440 running today and it was pretty fun as long as i never opened the throttle at all. but then i was riding up a dirt road and the chain flew off. how the hell does a chain fly off? If it's still connected through all links then loose adjustment + long suspension travel is your answer.
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Apr 5, 2009 10:08
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It's also worth saying that I almost died when It decided to start.
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VTNewb posted:It's also worth saying that I almost died when It decided to start. i don't think i ever opened up more than a third of its power and it still scared me.
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Apr 5, 2009 23:50
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:440 2t + coasting downhill at a decent speed + 1st gear + throttle open + no clutch If you had started riding on a literbike you wouldn't be having this problem, pussy.
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Apr 5, 2009 23:55
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Now that I've had it back for a few months I decided to take the Thruxton out for a mellow day of tooling around in perfect Southern California weather. I brought the DSLR, and captured it's post-mod, post-repair goodness.   Then I went on the still publicly available portions of the LBGP track. I had British Customs' Predator exhaust, iridium plugs and airbox removal kit put on while they did the insurance repairs. There's a very noticeable boost in power.
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kcer posted:He mentioned one he liked for £140 ($210) I think, so somewhere around that mark probably. I picked up a complete system from CEdigital.com. You can use the discount code racer to get 25$ off, I don't know if shipping is going to be bad for your location... Quality: http://www.vimeo.com/2411322 It's survived a number of crashes too. Not a bad little setup. It's the cheapest one that I could find about a year back that didn't have the weird ripple effect. It stores to SD cards, which is handy...no skips from vibration or anything like that.
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Z3n posted:I picked up a complete system from CEdigital.com. Thanks  I'll pass that on and see what he says.
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Whoever decided to design my bike with a circuit breaker was a smart man. I accidentally put my new battery in backwards this weekend, realized my mistake, and looked for a blown fuse. Surprise, surprise, no blown fuses, but the bike wasn't working - one quick search later and I find there's a circuit breaker. Is this a common feature on bikes?
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Apr 7, 2009 01:21
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I don't know much at all about cars or motorcycles in general, but I have never ever heard of a circuit breaker on either a car or motorcycle.
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OrangeFurious posted:Just gotta say, that is one sexy looking bike.
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Trintintin posted:I don't know much at all about cars or motorcycles in general, but I have never ever heard of a circuit breaker on either a car or motorcycle. Actually you do see them on cars sometimes. My Ranger has one for the wipers which came in handy when you turned them on while they were frozen to the windshield. I've never seen one on a bike before though.
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laymil posted:Whoever decided to design my bike with a circuit breaker was a smart man. I accidentally put my new battery in backwards this weekend, realized my mistake, and looked for a blown fuse. Surprise, surprise, no blown fuses, but the bike wasn't working - one quick search later and I find there's a circuit breaker.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:never heard of it. what kinda bike? are you sure it's not some custom addon? Absolutely sure; I found the reference to it on a model specific forum. It's an '89 GSX600F.
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Apr 7, 2009 11:56
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I managed to blow a fuse on my bike when I was replacing the tacho, oil temp and headlight bulbs. Quite lucky then that I'd just found where they were. Must have done with when checking with the tester screwdriver that everything was working. There was a definite heart sinking moment when I plugged everything back in and turned the key on, and nothing lit up. Then I pressed the horn and, lo and behold, it didnae work, so I knew instantly that it was the fuse (the horn, instrument lights and the tail lights are all on the same fuse).
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Apr 7, 2009 12:25
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Yay my bike is starting to look like a bike again! (This is how it looked about a week ago) Now I just have to mount the rear light (just zip-tied right now) and change oil, then hit the roads (if it doesn't start raining...)!
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http://www.motorcycledaily.com/06april09_supermono.htm Oh yes. Only 52000$, but still...what a work of art.  
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It's really just cool knowing that thing exists.
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That is so stereotypical Ducati. *makes a bike that tons of people would want and appreciate* *prices it so only really wealthy people will buy it and then never ride it*
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Have we ever discussed this crazy cool thing?: http://www.motoczysz.com/main.php?area=home .jpg) The Moto Czysz C1
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