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Coydog posted:I had the day off so I took the sv to the mountains again. The weather couldn't have been better and the leaves were in full bloom.After riding for hours I turned to head the 1.5 hour drive back home. Rolled on the throttle a little bit and the chain snapped leaving me stranded with no cell signal at 530 when all the shops are closed. Hold on, Silver will be here in a minute to tell you about that one time he snapped a chain on a Suzuki. Was this related to the weird sound it was making? Maybe your axle adjusters were hosed?
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Coydog posted:WELL I JUST HATE THESE TWO WHEELED DEATHTRAPS. I was minding my own business, a mere TWO WEEKS into bike ownership, when THE MAIN DRIVING PART of the bike broke. I mean, if they cant even get that right what are these good for. Clearly these "motorcycles" are just a passing fad. Not to kick you while you're down, but it was a bad idea to be riding without finding out and fixing whatever made your bike act like that. Drivetrain problems are nothing to gently caress about with. Go to the pictures thread and watch the video of that guy getting off on Mulholland Drive because of a thrown chain. He was pretty fortunate. Edit: Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:New rnickeymouse! Instructional video on chain maintenance. And the discussion follows for a couple pages. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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Oct 22, 2013 15:21
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Not being able to ride gives you time to read and learn stuff about riding. My bike has been out of commission for a year and a half and I've read every drat thread here and on other bike forums with all my not riding time. Picked up some good stuff. Waiting to finally ride sucks poo poo though. Riding is objectively the best thing in the world.
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clutchpuck posted:Remind me not to buy an Italian bike.  It's a Yamaha. I'm rebuilding it.
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Coredump posted:It was my first chain install, I didn't know I had to take links out. There's some vendor on eBay that sells chain and sprocket sets with the chain already at the "ideal" length for several bikes. I did it for my XJ600 a few years back and never had a single issue throughout several thousand miles of riding. Just switched sprockets, clipped the master link on, never looked back (aside from the regular maintenance). Got help from the XJ forum for it just to make sure. I would bet there's someone on the SV forum who's figured out the exact number of links for all the usual sprocket combinations. Here it is: http://stores.ebay.com/Sledpartsguy-Super-Store/Chains-and-Sprockets-/_i.html?_fsub=7&_sid=10789423&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322 HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Oct 24, 2013 |
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Oct 24, 2013 18:47
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Change things up a bit. How's the dirt riding down there?
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So I had this dream last night that my girlfriend put her foot down and said I couldn't play with motorcycles anymore and I woke up so angry at her.
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Everybody read this it's important: http://rideapart.com/2013/10/how-to-pose-next-to-a-motorcycle/
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Hey now Wes Siler said it was the most badass helmet out there. Can we keep making GBS threads on RideApart? Some of the "articles" are so bad that even Internet commenters call them out on it. Like this one: https://rideapart.com/2013/08/16-bike-hacks-that-will-save-you-time-and-money/ Or this one, which has an alarmingly simple explanation for trail braking and a bunch of stuff everyone already knows: https://rideapart.com/2013/08/10-motorcycle-riding-tricks-you-dont-know-yet/ HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Nov 22, 2013 |
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Nov 22, 2013 15:58
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Spiffness posted:I check it about twice a week. Every time I open it, I glance at the articles, groan, close it and wonder why I can't break the habit of opening it. It's like reading articles written by a YouTube commenter but with punctuation and less nastiness.
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Nov 22, 2013 17:39
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Sagebrush posted:Also, so I was showing a friend of mine those insane hipster Wilderness Collective videos from earlier, and he located this interview with the founder. Steve Doucheldam posted:Q. What’s one thing every man should know? Nice "planning." quote:Q. What’s the worst experience you’ve had on a journey?  quote:Q. Why did you start WC?
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Dec 10, 2013 21:20
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Don't you ride a ZRX? Not that nonbiekers do this sort of arithmetic on the fly, but I'm estimating like 3x the horsepower:weight ratio? Why even bother racing bikes?
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Yeah, I don't know that that's the best way to express the futility of out-accelerating a bike in a sedan, it's just what came to mind. Every time this comes up, someone points out that basically only supercars (if we're talking about production vehicles) can out-accelerate even a tame bike. Even my wimpy little Seca II has not yet been beaten off the line (not that I ever race cars ever ever). One time I got the VROOMnudgeVROOMnudge from a supposedly tuned Asian car of some sort while I was riding a buddy's 79 CX500 and had no trouble dropping the guy. So yeah, Bieks 
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It seems like there's two types of drivers that actually want to race and expect to win when they're doing that, at least in my experience. There's the shitbox Civic with a fartcan and the late-model Camaro/Challenger/Corvette. The difference between the two that I've seen is that the Civic driver gets so angry about it that he'll drive like an utter shitlord after you beat him and become really unsafe to everyone around. Like a Youtube commenter with consequences. I'm sure it varies regionally, though. There's a lot of tuned WRXs around here, but I haven't trolled any.
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Dec 11, 2013 19:56
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hot sauce posted:http://themotolady.com/post/69748200430/10-reasons-why-you-should-date-a-motorcyclist It's a response to this irritating poo poo: http://rideapart.com/2013/12/date-a-motorcyclist/ edit: herp derp It even says it in the intro. I guess I should read before posting.
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Covert Ops Wizard posted:I like that he's trying to make a braod-appeal motorcycling site thats a lot less dry and more interesting than all the others, This is partly why I keep going back. There's a couple decent writers on there (Sean MacDonald?) and the concepts behind some of the articles are good. The bike reviews are easier to read than any of the ones in popular magazines, too. I like reading articles about technique and theory that come from a good writer as opposed to someone on a forum regurgitating Twist of the Wrist or Sportriding Techniques, but there's very little of it out there. I really like CanyonChasers.net, but it's infrequently updated. So much of Jon Langston's and Wes Siler's tips and tricks and lists of the day are really uninformed and flat-out inaccurate. At worst, it's irritating to an experienced and serious rider, at worst it could cause an inexperienced rider to crash or cause someone else to. But that motorcycle lifestyle poo poo climbs up my rear end.
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Spiffness posted:All Ride Apart articles are terrible, but not as terrible as their 'reviews'. Thanks for this. I don't like VisorDown, but I've never seen Asphalt and Rubber till today. This is the sort of thing I'm looking for. Like this: http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/lifestyle/use-your-rear-brake-motorcycle/ You can actually read the comments section without coming unglued and punching the monitor. It's pretty well written and actually useful information. And this, I like this: http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/oped/market-motorcycles-to-women/#more-50044 HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Dec 14, 2013 |
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 My girlfriend's dad and I went for a Christmas ride. I rode his DRZ/KLX most of the time, first time on one and holy shitballs is that a fun loving bike. He let me ride his TR650 for a while too, and that's a whole different kind of bike. Street geometry, gearing, and only mildly off-road suspension. I think I could get used to it, but I was too nervous to wring it out. Pulls like a raped ape when you find the powerband.
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Pfffft just get a spring from a wrecked one and put a PVC spacer in there. I'd recommend like an inch or so. Or tap it for a schrader valve.
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Jan 21, 2014 22:13
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Lisa Simspon rocks one.
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BlackLaser posted:So sad. I finally traded in my S2000 for a Ford Ranger yesterday. Great car, but not exciting at all after riding motorcycles. Now to find a cheap 600 I can toss in the back and head up to Jennings GP. Check the loving ball joints and swaybar/stabilizers RIGHT NOW. loving Rangers.
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I've got a 98 with the 4.0 and 4wd. Bought it at 79K. Fuel pump went first. Then the clutch at about 120k. Then the ball joints, timing cover, and rear main seal at about 135k. Then the intake plenum gaskets at 140k. It's a good little truck, but drat does it have a set of predictable problems that ain't cheap.
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:After doing valves & carb sync the bike is running better than it ever has, and it's so nice out I had to pull the rain and thermal liners out of my jacket. BIKES FOR LIFE. No poo poo man, I just synched my carbs and no more bogging down at 4k, just BWAAAAAAAaaaaaaa...... down the road into the sunset. Feels good man.
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$135/year for comprehensive, collision, and well above the minimum on injury/un-/underinsured amounts on my 96 Seca. 
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I've got $250,000/person and $500,000/accident bodily injury and $100,000/accident property damage liability. That includes legal defense in the event that I'm sued. Oh and roadside assistance. hot sauce posted:We have insane rates even on my little Ninja. A friend of mine got a Ninja 500 and good coverage (comprehensive, BI, etc) was well over $1000/year for him. He's only 23, which also works against him, but still. I ran all his same coverages against my bike and it was more like $400/year. It's stupid, the EX500 is smaller, slower, and less powerful than my bike with similar ergos, yet because of the Ninja name and lots of body plastic the insurance companies consider it a sport bike. Boom, double the price. I don't know if 250s are the same, but drat, the 500 is a pretty standard learner bike. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Feb 27, 2014 |
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Feb 27, 2014 20:06
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The god of motorcycle insurance has got to be Loki or Puck or Coyote or Kokopelli or one of those assholes.
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NTM you can affordably get a crow's foot wrench at autozone, advance, oreilly, napa, pretty much anywhere that sells o2 sensors.
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Monkey Wrangler posted:Got it on the center stand and pulled the back wheel around. No movement independent of the swingarm, which did a good job of pulling the bike around on the stand. Pretty sure it's in my head, especially when I noticed the same shaky feeling going over the newly painted letters on the road just by my house they paved a few months back. Woops. How worn are your tires? Sometimes tires on which the tread is starting to cup will give you nasty shakes in turns. At low speeds, anyway.
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Slavvy posted:"Character" is great when some other poor oval office has to work on the thing. I would love to have an old bike. I started with a 1979 XS400 and dinked around with it a bunch and blat-blatted around town with my Dunstall mufflers and and homemade drag bars and learned to work on carbs and things. I got rid of it because it stranded me a bunch and I was sick of fixing it more than riding it, not making 70 mph, a sore spine, a stupid amount of vibration, and generally having an old bike as my only bike. But I'll still have an old CL or something one day in the future to dick around with and ride on sunny days when I have that kind of income. Old bikes are the poo poo in terms of character, but not in terms of performance and reliability and things that really count.
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Rime posted:I feel like we'd hear a lot less poo poo talking about new stuff if companies hadn't stopped importing loving standards in the 1980's. I mean goddamn, I don't want a cruiser, I don't want a sci-fi crotch rocket, and I don't want a dirtbike. That leaves me with few options unless I want to pay out the rear end for a lovely Triumph, or even more for an admittedly awesome Moto Guzzi V7. It's only in the past couple of years that Enfield has started exporting to North America and they're still hella rare. Seca, Bandit 600 or 400, GS500, Ninja 500R/EX500. They're not UJM, but they're simple inexpensive standards that are pretty well road-proven with decent aftermarket support and fanbases. Bugdrvr posted:people I hear talking poo poo about how new stuff has no soul or whatever bullshit they come up with Soul=character=personality usually, which means "poo poo consistently goes wrong with this bike."
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Rime posted:I ride my 1980 CB lying on the tank in a full tuck half the time, if all we care about is seating position does that mean I own a super sport? Yeah, none of those bikes I listed are sportbikes, hence me listing them specifically. They aren't geared for racing, and the ergonomics, suspension, exhaust, body, etc are all designed for them to be a basic first bike/commuter/short tripper/middle-of-the-road motorcycle. They are the very embodiment of what most people consider a standard, with some wiggle room for semantics. You won't trail ride with them, but there's a whole lot of people that take those models and put knobbies on for very capable gravel riding. poo poo, I've ridden my Seca fully-laden on many miles of rutted-up Forest Service road on street tires without incident. No, "retro-standard" UJMs were not stupidly versatile. It's just that there weren't nearly as many styles of bike available when they were in highest production. No UJM anywhere went from track ripping monster to a total mud thrasher just by changing tires, exhaust, and suspension. If you wanted a track ripping monster and had a UJM, you tuned the poo poo out of the engine, carbs, intake system, exhaust, suspension, and stripped weight off. If you wanted a total mud thrasher, you bought an enduro or dirt bike, because otherwise you'd have a street bike that was mediocre off-road.
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If you think Wikipedia saying it puts those two bikes in the same performance class as say a ZX6R or an R6, there's not much point in reasoning.
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Slavvy posted:Old bikes are weird and shoehorning them into modern classes is meaningless. It's a case of retroactive rose-tinted glasses and half-ignorant pseudo-intellectualism trying to make them follow the same patterns as modern bikes, then creating a 'hole' that manufacturers just don't fill because reasons. Old bikes were crap at everything and not popular enough to delineate into real classes like we have today. Nowadays there's enough of a market to justify engineering specialised models that do one or two things really well and don't bother with the rest. That's pretty much my point. I was gonna post that panigale. I know a guy what runs those TKC80s on his SV with good results. HenryJLittlefinger fucked around with this message at 01:57 on Mar 13, 2014 |
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Z3n posted:The only real standard is a supermoto. It has one of the downsides of a UJM (being a vibey, uncomfortable piece of poo poo on the freeway), but it makes up for it by being loving awesome at literally everything else. As a result it is just flawed enough to have character but without all the hipster staring into the distance breathing soft breathes through your gardening gloves irony. I like to think that Steve would have ridden everything.
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KozmoNaut posted:So, if Suzuki Bandits are the clogs of the motorcycling world, a straight trade for a boat doesn't sound too bad, does it? Boats are loving awesome. That one looks severely undertrailered. I've spent a lot of work time in flat-bottomed aluminum and semi-v boats, and their simplicity is very nice. I don't know much about boat-for-the-sake-of-boating types, but that one is probably worth more than a Bandit 600. You could clean it up and trade up. They say the two happiest days in a man's life are the day he gets a boat and the day he sells it.
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Snowdens Secret posted:Do you work in a marina? I'd imagine you've seen a ton of them, then, flat-bottom boats make the docking world go round. Fish biologist from the south. When you haul around lots of nets and buckets and poo poo, you don't get many nice things like decks or seats. Also you spend a lot of time banging into stumps and gravel bars.
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dictionar.com posted:So with a full gear setup there's a 152% boost to EV? Do the bonuses stack or is it just applied to base defense before each encounter? Each body group injury data set is analyzed independently of the others. So no, they don't add to 100% for the whole body.
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M. Night Skymall posted:Motorcycle boots with hard plastic armor fitted did clearly provide better impact protection at least. I think the "Body Armor Fitted" category is not in reference to boots with hard armor, but rather boots worn when other body armor is worn, i.e. ATGATT. I read through the results and discussion a couple times before I figured that out. I thought it was kind of an odd classification at first, but when you think about the number of riders that wear some armored parts but not the others, it makes sense. Like squids with helmets and spine protectors and also a tank top and skater shoes.
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