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You should always let those dudes get a little lead on you before dropping it from 4th to 2nd and riding a wheelie past them.
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I've only ever had one guy on a harley try to race me and yes, all I remember is hearing a bunch of gear changes behind me and then myself going up to second. Related: the Easy Rider bike is for sale. article posted:The customised Captain America chopper Peter Fonda rode in "Easy Rider" has come to symbolise the counterculture of the 1960s. Now it's for sale. It will be like the ultimate, purest, most synthesised stereotypical harley that is both unrideable and never gets ridden.
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Halfway through day one of California superbike school. This is loving amazing.
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Sep 23, 2014 19:58
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iwentdoodie posted:Halfway through day one of California superbike school. This is loving amazing. Can you feel your Thetan levels dropping as your lean angle increases?
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monsterzero posted:Can you feel your Thetan levels dropping as your lean angle increases? Yep. Lean in, thetans out. Think that was lesson two.
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Slavvy posted:My friend is like this. He's in the army and is somehow able to own a peugeot 106 rallye which he pays other people to work on because he has zero bills. I salute the bravest welfare queens this country has to offer!
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Radbot posted:I salute the bravest welfare queens this country has to offer! I'm guessing Slavvy's friend is also a Kiwi. I think they salute like the Brits. In business meetings in NYC yesterday, I saw a hipster chop job on a Monster. The owner just hacked the rear sub-frame right off and slapped some bar end mirrors on the thing. Now, I guess, it's a ~Cafe Racer~. It was awful. I should have taken a picture, but I was with a client.  Also, driving south on the FDR drive, there was this yupster on a flat black 883 Sportster wearing a business suit, hockey/skate helmet, and business office slippers with no socks.
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Huh? So this constitutes a terrible cafe racer now?
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Got into Reno today. Virginia city is pretty cool. It is incredibly smoky here. Going to get to the Harley dealer tomorrow and see if they have that sensor. If not I'll have Al Lighton overnight me one to Chico. Slavvy, what's your address? I figure you win my sensor as the closest guesser.
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Hey this is really off topic but I was in Reno 2 weeks ago for the races. If you're looking for a good deal, buy the coupon on costco.com for the peppermill for $100 which is a room in the Tuscany tower with a $45 credit in the resort for food or a massage or whatever. If you're going to be there for a few days it'll make it more enjoyable 
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Slim Pickens posted:Huh? So this constitutes a terrible cafe racer now? No, because that one still has the rear subframe. And as close as Ducati gets to a real seat. (And the front fender, and no one's tried to shoe-horn a Honda tank on it, etc) Honestly though old Monsters get grungy/rusty/generally worn out rapidly if the owners don't meticulously keep them up, and with as cheap and plentiful as they are it's not a huge loss if they fall to hackers. That's assuming someone didn't take a decent quality or straight-up brand new Duc and hack it up, which, that anecdote being in NYC, has pretty good odds.
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Slim Pickens posted:Huh? So this constitutes a terrible cafe racer now? I wish I had a picture. The one I saw was as if someone just hack sawed off the rear half of the sub-frame and put on some different seat the could accommodate the very short bit of sub-frame left. Your pic is a work of art compared to that thing.
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In Washington DC. I have some time to go wandering and there aren't any good shops around me, so I figure I'll go take a look at one and see if I could find a decent bluetooth speaker or maybe a good backpack. Lots of commuters around here.
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SquadronROE posted:In Washington DC. I have some time to go wandering and there aren't any good shops around me, so I figure I'll go take a look at one and see if I could find a decent bluetooth speaker or maybe a good backpack. Lots of commuters around here. Come ride with us DC goons.
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iwentdoodie posted:Halfway through day one of California superbike school. This is loving amazing. Did your class get rescheduled or something? I didn't see anything listed on their calendar for yesterday and today. Would appreciate a write up on what you think and such; my wife and I are thinking about doing a 2-day session with them next year.
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A rally where bikes aren't parked everywhere is sort of not a rally. Street vibrations, u lame.
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Angryboot posted:Did your class get rescheduled or something? I didn't see anything listed on their calendar for yesterday and today. Private classes for military, it wasn't even scheduled for sure until this past Monday. Just got back home from the end of day 2, I'll post something more substantial tomorrow. So tired I can barely even think right now. So now, it's showerbeer time.
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hot sauce posted:Come ride with us DC goons. Not gonna be here long enough and I don't have a bike or any of my gear. Otherwise I would.
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Reno to Chico today. Endured 60 miles of cold mountain rain. One of my plug wires doesn't like being wet, add that to the list of Buell stuff. Road to Lassen Peak was snowed out, that was a bummer. Hotel in walking distance from Sierra Nevada Brewing is not a bummer. CA route 32 was really fun.
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clutchpuck posted:Reno to Chico today. Endured 60 miles of cold mountain rain. One of my plug wires doesn't like being wet, add that to the list of Buell stuff. 32's a gem if you don't get stuck behind Oregonians doing 20-under. Makes a good loop with 70 or 162 for anyone looking to burn some gas in this part of California.
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monsterzero posted:32's a gem if you don't get stuck behind Oregonians doing 20-under. Makes a good loop with 70 or 162 for anyone looking to burn some gas in this part of California. We do that as retribution for all you Californians who move up here and proceed to do 20 under the second a single raindrop hits their windshield. 
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HotCanadianChick posted:We do that as retribution for all you Californians who move up here and proceed to do 20 under the second a single raindrop hits their windshield. I would be happy to trade some of those Cali ex-pats back for the folks that stay and continue to speed and tailgate in torrential rain and fog.
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In Bend Oregon now. US 97 north of Klamath Falls is hell, paved. It is absolute bedlam. I'm glad that part is behind me. This McMenamins hotel is cool.
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Holy poo poo SoCal is SV650 land. I think Every third bike is an sv
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Making some slow and steady progress on my poor bike which has been neglected for holy poo poo two years. Head is back on, in a condition which I think will run for a few years but I won't sell it for fear of being THAT PO. Ordered a new valve cover gasket from wemoto.com, instead of coming flat on a cardboard it was bunched up inside some bubble wrap. I guess that's how they do it? Fine with me. Spent an hour scraping gasket goo off the valve cover, settled on good enough and unwrapped the new gasket...   Somewhere there is a Honda rider who has to wave a valve cover gasket when he wants to turn left.
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I knew my muffler wouldn't survive the trip. I threw some wire around it to keep the end cap on from Yakima, home. I'll replace it with a stock muffler. I saw more motorcycles in the last 50 miles of western Washington than at the rally we checked out in Reno. Not a great rally, but I love riding in Idaho and Nevada. The casino paid for my gas home, so that was cool too.
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Came home today from visiting my parents over the weekend, and my bike is gone. It was locked to a street sign and covered, but it's just gone. Not even a trace of the lock or even signs of someone cutting it, the only thing left was the cover, lying on the ground. I checked my apartment, all the keys are where they should be. So either they cut the lock/chain, which was one of the strongest lock+chain combinations ABUS makes, or they lifted everything almost 3 meters into the air to slip the chain over the street sign, bike and all. They obviously didn't just cut through the frame, because then the chain would still be there. gently caress this bullshit. This is why we can't have nice things. Battery-powered angle grinders have ruined everything.
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KozmoNaut posted:Came home today from visiting my parents over the weekend, and my bike is gone. It was locked to a street sign and covered, but it's just gone. Not even a trace of the lock or even signs of someone cutting it, the only thing left was the cover, lying on the ground. I checked my apartment, all the keys are where they should be. Jesus. Are you insured for theft at least?
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I am. I was actually going to drop the theft coverage in a year or so, since the payout on bikes older than 6 years starts to drop off sharply. I have no idea how much i can get from the insurance, actually.
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KozmoNaut posted:I am. I don't know how it works where you are, but start pulling ads for similar year/mileage bikes to yours, so when the adjuster eventually gets in touch with their below-market-value quote, you can tell them no based on the ads you've got. They should amend their quote and give you market value, minus your deductible. (Unless they have some kind of fixed value policy or something, which I don't even know if that's a thing).
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Unfortunately, there are very few XT660Xs for sale in the entire country. There's only one 2008 like mine, and it's got zero kilometers on it, so it doesn't count. Deductible is 20% for theft.
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Fuuuuck that sucks dude.
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That really blows. But let's not malign battery-powered angle grinders, now -- those are wonderful tools. Get mad instead at the people in the area who undoubtedly saw or heard an angle grinder running for a couple of minutes and did nothing.
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Fackin' battery powered angle grinders, tha cunts.
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gently caress dude, that's awful 
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Motorcycle thieves are the same as horse thieves, and I would be first in line to sign a petition for reinstating sentencing guidelines from the 19th century and prior.
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KozmoNaut posted:Unfortunately, there are very few XT660Xs for sale in the entire country. There's only one 2008 like mine, and it's got zero kilometers on it, so it doesn't count. Holy poo poo that's a crazy high deductible! If I'm deemed to be negligent (described in the policy as not using a lock), I get a 25% deductible. If it's locked, my deductible is 1500 kr (about 200USD), no matter the value of the bike.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:Holy poo poo that's a crazy high deductible! If I'm deemed to be negligent (described in the policy as not using a lock), I get a 25% deductible. If it's locked, my deductible is 1500 kr (about 200USD), no matter the value of the bike. Actually, it's for "theft damage" according to the policy. I don't know how that applies to outright theft.
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Theft damage is not theft. Theft damage is when you get it back and they've rattlecanned it blue and rashed up the fairings. There are videos on the Youtubes of security guys going through those chains in a matter of seconds with a big enough pair of bolt cutters. If they've got hydraulic ones, forget it. You don't need a screaming angle grinder to get through them. Although why someone would steal an XT660X or how they plan to offload it - even parting it out seems troublesome - is a mystery and might mean you'll see it again.
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