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dietcokefiend posted:Getting an automatic transmission on a bike would basically make me give up on riding. Might have to tour some dealers and take some bikes on test drives. The Zero electric bikes are clutchless. It's a weird change but it didn't bother me that much. Obviously an electric bike wont go the distances you referred to. I want to go test ride bikes just because I've been without mine all month and the next couple weeks 
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May 28, 2016 19:29
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dietcokefiend posted:Oh and FYI these are old injuries from childhood, not recent. They are just catching up to me now. Seems like raising kids made things worse (holding them in my arm or holding a pumpkin seat). I'm probably fitting a rekluse to my spouses dr650 (gone 790) after the docs terminator his left arm back together. P much every body I've known that put one in loves it.
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May 28, 2016 19:32
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Getting hardcore buyers remorse on my chosen zzr. The bike is great, but pearl burnish beige is the worst loving colour under the sun. Everybody else's bike is cooler than mine Making this worse is the fact that later model years manage to incorporate the colour in a visually interesting way by juxtaposing it with gloss black: 
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May 28, 2016 19:45
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Buy some vinyl and wrap it?
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May 28, 2016 19:52
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PaintVagrant posted:Buy some vinyl and wrap it? Repsol livery.
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May 28, 2016 20:42
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predictive posted:Maybe poorly worded; I just meant I prefer the single sided swingarm. I'm so tempted to take one for a test ride because it's such a good-looking bike and allegedly the move to RBW has meant they've managed to put a bit more character into the engine - previously it'd been really seriously neutered to keep it learner-friendly, it was easily the biggest disappointment of my biking life - and I've owned a Laverda.
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May 28, 2016 20:53
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dietcokefiend posted:Getting an automatic transmission on a bike would basically make me give up on riding. This is a preconceived notion which won't survive a few test rides. It used to be that cool cars had to be manual because the automatics where useless slushboxes, then suddenly (after a decade of Top Gear complaining about useless flappy paddle gearboxes) dual clutch gearboxes could out-shift and out-launch anything else. The same development has caught up to bikes. I've tried Hondas dual clutch and Yamahas clutchless, both are excellent. On the Honda, it feels like a manual box but with someone else is doing the clutching and shifting. Low speed handling takes about 45 seconds in a parking lot to get used to. It's never slushy, the eco/sport modes do what they say and you can button shift manually if you want to - although you quickly realize there is no point because the bike shifts when you want to anyway. Yamaha has an autoclutch, but is manual shifted. So you do the shifting but it feels like someone else is doing the clutching. At low speed it behaves pretty much like the Honda. At speed you either press up and down on the pedal or move a lever on the left handlebar with your thumb or index finger (the lever has two arms). I found I preferred pushing and pulling with my index finger. Shifts as fast as a car DSG, rev matches perfectly on downshifts, great to use. Then there's the aforementioned Zero, which you don't shift but it shifts you with futuristic zoom. Very well worth a test ride. I think of it like the Tesla Roadster. It's for EV enthusiasts at the moment, I hope the company lives long enough to release their Model S-equivalent. Perhaps there are more good autoboxes, I can't think of any but scooter slushboxes at the moment. They are obviously useless.
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May 28, 2016 21:41
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loving around with templates for fun stuff to put on my all black boring helmet,laser printer vinylpaper. On each side, mirrored forwards for maximum prancing:  Middle back: 
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May 28, 2016 22:15
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Woah woah who approved the use of 'bieks'???
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May 28, 2016 22:51
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Gimme other spellings or non black armpits if you find em. Vector if possible, 1 sheet of paper is 5$
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May 28, 2016 23:01
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PaintVagrant posted:Buy some vinyl and wrap it? Are you even seeing those compound curves? There's no way to not make a hash of it. If it doesn't explode over summer then there's a good chance I'll end up running it into the ground rather than trying to sell it on and get something else in the next year; I'll see what needs replacing when but if I do end up keeping it long term I could see shelling a couple hundred or so on a respray, if I can find a place within driving distance.
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May 28, 2016 23:10
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Renaissance Robot posted:Getting hardcore buyers remorse on my chosen zzr. The bike is great, but pearl burnish beige is the worst loving colour under the sun. Everybody else's bike is cooler than mine Own it. Seriously, unusual or ugly colours on older bikes are simply a product of their time and make them interesting and different from all the universal black bikes out there.
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May 29, 2016 01:35
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I really want an older purple fzr600 like this one. Really any  90's sport bike would be dope as hell, especially a purple one.
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May 29, 2016 16:38
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Took a trip today. (can we embed maps? I have no idea how, if so) Absolutely gorgeous twisties, but for whatever reason there are exactly zero good photos online (everyone seems to be taking their pictures when it's overcast) that show them off. God only knows why but my camera is compressing the poo poo out of (or rather, in to  ) all the video it captures lately, so what should be 1080p is a load of hot artifacted garbage. I'm trying to stitch them together and run them through hyperlapse anyway, because it's still enough to show off the curves and I'd really like you to see them.
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May 29, 2016 17:45
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dietcokefiend posted:Googled it and those look pretty interesting. I see some comments though that the clutch pull after conversion is much harder than normal. How long do those things last? It is MUCH heavier if you're using the EXP 3.0. MUCH MUCH heavier. With that said, you literally never need to pull it in. Not to start, not to stop, not to change gears, nothing.
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Top 10 Hipster Motorcycles For those of you who hate clicking through to each page: #10- Grandpa's Old Wing #9- Old Mopeds #8- Ural #7- Motorized Bicycles #6- Royal Enfield #5- Triumph Bonneville #4- Honda Ruckus #3- Vintage Vespas #2- H-D Sportster 72 #1- Any 70's era CB Bonus: BMW R series Living in Portland and having lived in Seattle, I'd have to call this list fairly accurate. Who didn't see the CB being #1?
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oh, sure, owning one of the motorcycles with the highest sales figures in American history makes you a hipster
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Higher sales figures == more authentic. e: "grandpa's old wing". Shows a picture of a GL1800. 
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HotCanadianChick posted:Higher sales figures == more authentic. You go for the ones with no reverse gear or A/C. That makes it hipster.
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May 29, 2016 22:00
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But I really want an Aspencade
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May 30, 2016 03:57
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In a local set of twisty roads (there arent many around here, but I found some!) I was entering a slow corner, maybe 30mph. As my line took me to the apex, my front wheel hit something HARD. Not sure if it was a large rock that I didnt see, or some sort of crack in the pavement. The bars jerked in my hands, maybe about an inch of travel, but the bike went where it was pointed and it was a non-event. Other than the event in my pants 
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May 30, 2016 14:25
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Great Success.
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May 30, 2016 14:55
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PaintVagrant posted:In a local set of twisty roads (there arent many around here, but I found some!) I was entering a slow corner, maybe 30mph. As my line took me to the apex, my front wheel hit something HARD. Not sure if it was a large rock that I didnt see, or some sort of crack in the pavement. The bars jerked in my hands, maybe about an inch of travel, but the bike went where it was pointed and it was a non-event. Other than the event in my pants I've had the same thing happen last night in the pouring rain. It was a tight unlit offramp, with a long deep pothole in the middle. Luckily I was doing 20mph and everything worked out. But gently caress, what a scare
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Don't fight the bike and you'll be fine. From what I've experienced, if you've got time to process then you're fine unless something weird happens - when you are tumbling feet over head before you know what's up... well. You can generally save a front push by getting on the throttle and standing the bike up a little. Best learned on a dirtybike. Don't let off the gas or stiffen up on the bars. BlackMK4 fucked around with this message at 20:26 on May 30, 2016 |
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May 30, 2016 20:22
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I might have incrementally reduced throttle but I didn't chop it or make any drastic inputs, thankfully. Good learning experience for sure.
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May 30, 2016 21:54
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Honestly, at 30mph on a Ninja 300, even chopping the throttle in a turn or giving a sudden jerk on the bars isn't super likely to cause an actual crash. You'll get a nasty lurch or wobble, and certainly it's a situation to avoid, but it's not a guaranteed accident. That's precisely why you start out on a bike like a Ninja 300. Try the same thing for the first time on a supersport at 60mph and you're gonna have a bad day.
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Sagebrush posted:Honestly, at 30mph on a Ninja 300, even chopping the throttle in a turn or giving a sudden jerk on the bars isn't super likely to cause an actual crash. You'll get a nasty lurch or wobble, and certainly it's a situation to avoid, but it's not a guaranteed accident. That's precisely why you start out on a bike like a Ninja 300. Try the same thing for the first time on a supersport at 60mph and you're gonna have a bad day. I am sure that is true. I am happy my instincts werent to do something drastic though, that means I am learning correctly I guess. I had another situation the other day where a truck suddenly entered my line of sight (potentially pulling out in front of me) and before I even really registered seeing it, I had fully rolled off the throttle and had two fingers on the front brake. My subconscious seems to be on the ball while I ride, thankfully.
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That's good, but if you've had a situation where you've had to rely on reflexes rather than a plan, you should think about whether there was anything you could have done to avoid having to rely on reflex responses in the first place (I've never had a situation where I couldn't have done more to avoid having to rely on my reflexes to get me out of, or keep me out of trouble).
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My fingernail finally fell off, and I went for a ride for the first time in weeks now that I can put a glove on. Riding is good and fun people should do it. That is all.
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May 31, 2016 04:28
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I want to be in a medically induced coma until the shop calls to tell me my bike is ready to ride again.
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May 31, 2016 04:48
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Put in a decent 600 mile ride this weekend on the Triumph sprint. I think the bike is growing on me even though the more aggressive position isn't the best(I'm still not in the habit of using knees/back). I still need to take it on a more spirited ride, and trying to accomplish that on memorial day weekend is an exercise in frustration.
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Carth Dookie posted:That's good, but if you've had a situation where you've had to rely on reflexes rather than a plan, you should think about whether there was anything you could have done to avoid having to rely on reflex responses in the first place (I've never had a situation where I couldn't have done more to avoid having to rely on my reflexes to get me out of, or keep me out of trouble). Exactly! To borrow a phrase from aviation, superior riders use their superior judgement to stay out of situations that requires their superior skill.
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Schroeder91 posted:I want to be in a medically induced coma until the shop calls to tell me my bike is ready to ride again. Me too. New tank on the way from honda due here in a month 
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May 31, 2016 09:15
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Pope Mobile posted:Top 10 Hipster Motorcycles gently caress.  Bonus points if you can find the most hipster item in the picture. Whatever, you do... don't click the link in my title.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:gently caress. Kamikaze bubble helmet, gotta be.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:gently caress. Why have you photoshopped out all the angle grinder sparks?
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Pope Mobile posted:Top 10 Hipster Motorcycles Minneapolis Hipster scene checking in. Can confirm this is accurate. I own number 5. In my defense, it has not been subjected to a half hearted cafe job. Although I would like to lower the headlight and bring in the turn signals just a pinch.....
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No vintage enduros on there, I'm safe for now.
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Slim Pickens posted:No vintage enduros on there, I'm safe for now. Isn't turning everything into a scrambler the next thing? I think your time is limited.
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