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echomadman posted:10-15 seconds is a bit too long if you're out on the road with other traffic, 2-3 seconds is plenty Feels like 15 seconds while riding. But you're right, it's probally at most 5 seconds.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:A guy I used to ride with had some sort of flamethrower map on his GSXR. Every single time he would roll off the throttle it would barf out this huge flameball. Every time. I know a guy who put an Akrapovic 4 into 1 on a Hayabusa, but didn't close off the PAIR valve, and the tuning adjustement makes it so that whenever he's in overrun, flames are popping out of the back of the can by his pillion's feet. Looks pretty awesome at night, but I wouldn't want to be repacking the muffler that often.
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Bought a low priced set of saddlebags off amazon, MotoGear something or other. I needed something that I could shove a few small items in. Putting it on was simple enough and it's surprisingly roomy inside. Rather, it has a good amount of depth but it's a little cramped width wise. The best part, I can put my work shoes, lunch, hoodie and some phone bits in em. As such, today I finally took my bike to work for the first time! It wasn't raining amazingly enough. Had a big pack of middle school kids all waving as I rolled past. My co workers gave me expressions of awe and bewilderment, they didn't think I'd ride in with things being so wet. This Asian fellow rarely speaks to me but he pulled me aside and just could not stop gushing about it. I guess his dad had a Shadow like mine once and it brought back some memories. Cannot wait for my ride home. I'm weird, I feel real comfortable night riding. Probably because there's so few people out around midnight. This is the best. Lothire fucked around with this message at 09:45 on Feb 1, 2013 |
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Feb 1, 2013 06:38
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I like riding at night because I feel I can see hidden cars easier due to their headlights.
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Feb 1, 2013 08:49
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I like riding at night because it's riding.
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Feb 1, 2013 08:55
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3AM in the middle of the week is the best time to ride, no fucker else on the road. With regards to the killswitch-backfire trick, a word of warning; Make no-one is in the line of fire when you do it. My friend nearly put the end cap of his exhaust into his buddies' face a few months back. Ripped the rivets right out of the can.
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Feb 1, 2013 12:06
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It's nice if you live in a place with no sharp turns and no deer or coyotes or dogs.
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Feb 1, 2013 13:53
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For my safety and the safety of everything around me, I should not ride at night. I'm nearly blind at night (huge glares, etc.). I will be looking into Lasik this year because this poo poo is whack.
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:It's nice if you live in a place with no sharp turns and no deer or coyotes or dogs. Or a kangaroo. Nearly 100kg, 2 metres tall(long) and often travel at 50km/h through forest, popping out of a tree line on the road edge straight across the path of a vehicle. A housemate got collected by one a few years back. He was lucky to be thrown clear, but the bike didn't look like a bike as such afterwards. They can be a problem during the day too.
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snail posted:Or a kangaroo. Nearly 100kg, 2 metres tall(long) and often travel at 50km/h through forest, popping out of a tree line on the road edge straight across the path of a vehicle. loving Australia. Their bites are venomous as well, I'm sure. It could be worse though, he could have hit one of the spiders.
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My bloody bike broke down and I had to wait in the pissing rain in a poo poo bit of Glasgow (goddamnedtwisto wind your neck in). Turns out the battery cable is just poo poo, but the breakdown guy clipped it back together. No big deal, if it hadn't been at a charity gig and a shitload of folk I knew were there. (Although watching the 19 year-old wasted wanker poo poo himself when I chased him off the bike earlier was quite funny. And I do mean poo poo himself. He managed to get the second half in a bin, at least.)
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Any recommended brushes for cleaning a chain other than the grunge brush? $20 seems a little steep to me for the convenience of having three sides.
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A regular steel bristle brush (or copper if you can find it) would be fine for the outside plates. Don't use that on the rollers obviously. Cyclegear usually closes those 3 sided brushes out for 5 bucks or something all the time. You could try that or go to HF and see what they have for brushes. I honestly just use a rag and kerosene or something on the outside plates to get off grime and then just use lube in the center. Always worked fine for me.
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hayden. posted:Any recommended brushes for cleaning a chain other than the grunge brush? $20 seems a little steep to me for the convenience of having three sides. Buy a cheap battery electric toothbrush, hold it on one side of the chain, spin the back wheel, repeat on the other 3 sides.
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I use a cheap dish brush, one with stiff nylon bristles. Works pretty well with kerosene.
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hayden. posted:Any recommended brushes for cleaning a chain other than the grunge brush? $20 seems a little steep to me for the convenience of having three sides. I use cotton rags, bought in bulk from the local auto store. Costs me about $2 for a huge bag of rags that lasts me months, and can be used for all sorts of things. Hand wipe the links, doesn't take any longer than a brush and I ended up with better results IMHO.
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A very weird thought just crossed my mind. Has anyone seen a motorbike with the kickstand on the right side? Chains and mufflers seems to go on left or right depending on the brand and model of the bike, but I can't think of any bikes that doesn't have the kickstand on the left?
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This may be total bullshit that I just made up in my head, but I imagine it's influenced by the fact that horses are traditionally mounted from the left. That itself I think was because sword scabbards were worn on the left by right-handed folks, and those would get in the way if you tried to mount from the right. Right? So basically this: 
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Feb 4, 2013 01:30
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I retire old toothbrushes to chain cleaning duty. They're a bit soft, getting some crud off takes extra elbow grease to compensate.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:A very weird thought just crossed my mind. Has anyone seen a motorbike with the kickstand on the right side? Chains and mufflers seems to go on left or right depending on the brand and model of the bike, but I can't think of any bikes that doesn't have the kickstand on the left? Time to photo whore out the GG300 again. Right side kick start, exhaust and kick stand.  Semi-common on goofy trials bikes.
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JP Money posted:A regular steel bristle brush (or copper if you can find it) would be fine for the outside plates. Don't use that on the rollers obviously. start with a nylon stiff bristle brush (you can get them at any hardware store) and finish with a toothbrush and some compressed air to get poo poo out from in-between the o-rings. luckily I use standard chains so I don't really have to worry about o-rings. soak in acetone, blowdry with compressed air. clean as a whistle. you can use wd-40 or kerosene to clean o-ring chains, it just takes a little more work to get them spotless.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Time to photo whore out the GG300 again. Right side kick start, exhaust and kick stand. I want a trials bike so bad. I've gotten to ride a couple of them and am completely hooked.
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Feb 4, 2013 17:15
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The first bike I ever rode was a trials bike because my friends are dicks.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:luckily I use standard chains so I don't really have to worry about o-rings. You left out "replace chain every 3 times you do this!".  I haven't clean a chain in years but they're all spotless. Stop using sticky poo poo to lube your chain and all of the sudden you don't need to clean them anymore.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:start with a nylon stiff bristle brush (you can get them at any hardware store) and finish with a toothbrush and some compressed air to get poo poo out from in-between the o-rings. This just sounds like a pile of bad advice. Poking, and proding the o-rings on a sealed chain is asking for the o-rings to disintegrate. Don't. Just don't. Brushes, even nylon, should never touch your o-rings. Soaking the chain in acetone is going to wash out any lubricants, and likely not remove any of the contimants as well. I don't like that plan, even on plain chains. How the hell do you run plain chains? WD-40 damages o-rings. That's not a good material to use to clean an o-ring chain. (while it takes some time for the damage to happen, it will eventually eat the urathane o-rings used on sealed chains) Kerosene is ok. I've found chain lube cleans the chain very well.
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I've been using SAE-50 motor oil through the 2012 season, seems to work pretty well. Kroon makes a decently cheap SAE-50 oil (for old Harleys, I think) and it's got the perfect viscosity for one of those cheap little red lube cans. I lay down a bead on top of the chain, both sides, run the wheel by hand for a minute or so to work it in, then I wipe off the chain with an old rag.
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So just clean with lube and a rag and also sacrifice a goat.
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I use roller chains. Easy peasy - flush with WD40 to get the gravel and pine needle puree out, spray/dab/pour on whatever lubricant's hanging around closest, wipe up excess, set slack. Replace $25 chain once a year. Don't do this with an o-ring or x-ring chain.
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I'm escaping to Las Vegas from the freezing wasteland that is Canada. I have one day to rent and ride a motorcycle. Guess which day.  
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I don't understand that chart. What does the C stand for? Canadian?  Communists?  What does the forecast say in AMERICAN?  Seriously, gently caress converting temperatures from C to F, that leads to madness.
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Only one thing to do: layer-up!
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Tamir Lenk posted:Seriously, gently caress converting temperatures from C to F, that leads to madness. Thirty is hot Twenty is nice Ten can be chilly and Zero is ice 
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Tamir Lenk posted:I don't understand that chart. Double the number and add 30 if you're feeling like it's impossible / too inconvenient to do the math.
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JP Money posted:Double the number and add 30 if you're feeling like it's impossible / too inconvenient to do the math. Nah, gently caress that. Learn to think in approximates, and real world equivalencies. Exempli frigging Gratia: 500 ml? How the gently caress much is 500 ml? Well, a bottle of wine is 750 ml, so you're looking at what's left after your mom has her first glass of the morning.
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Safety Dance posted:Nah, gently caress that. Learn to think in approximates, and real world equivalencies. 250 ml is when you get hit in the head with a slipper then.
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That's way too small a glass for any alcoholic mom. She'd be drinking a full 12oz or ~350mL 
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JP Money posted:That's way too small a glass for any alcoholic mom. She'd be drinking a full 12oz or ~350mL Moms these days they love their pain pills almost as much as they love their liquid medicine.
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JP Money posted:Double the number and add 30 if you're feeling like it's impossible / too inconvenient to do the math. So Saturday's high is in the 50's but rainy? Not a total loss. Actually converting from metric doesn't actually bother me, except for temperature. Linear measurements work with 25mm = inch, 1.6km = mile, and 1m = around a yard. Weights are ok with 2.2kg = lb Volume never seems to need conversion for me, since I don't bake. Even then 1 liter = about a quart. But having to multiply AND add? Hell no!
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I can't imagine Las Vegas will be that bad at 50 degrees. That's also a pretty generic forecast, look up a more concrete one and see if it's really going to pour ( I can't image it'll be that bad). Buy some cheap frog toggs and have some fun driving flat-out into the desert or whatever else people on motorcycles do in a desert.
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JP Money posted:I can't imagine Las Vegas will be that bad at 50 degrees. That's also a pretty generic forecast, look up a more concrete one and see if it's really going to pour ( I can't image it'll be that bad). 50 isn't bad in Vegas, it's weird how the rain rolls in over the strip though. Also, don't try to do wheelies in LV, I don't know what the gently caress they do to the street but you'll just spin the rear tire.
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