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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Big surprise! A fellow Harley owner is making the rest of you look like retards: Why would you even want ABS on your Layerdan Lever? This reminds me of the first time I really saw american adverts and there was a Hummer advert where it was driving around underwater and at the bottom of the screen there was "DRAMATISATION". Way to deflect your guilt in not preparing your loved one with basic loving safety gear. I feel sorry for his wife, for a whole multitude of reasons.
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2ndclasscitizen posted:Not gonna lie, I'm loving the poo poo outta the new '72 Sportster: Eh, I'm with Errant Gin Monk. It looks cool until you know it's just a factory option and no creativity went into it. Now, I'm not a fan of theirs but I actually like icons new take on the Sporty'   Why does it have a winch? Because gently caress you.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:I never will understand people that dont work on their own bike. I knew poo poo about gently caress when it came to bikes and my buddy has been teaching me all about them and how to maintain, modify and chop them ever since I got mine. Its more fun and wallet satisfying to take the 10 minutes to change the oil and filter yourself than to get charged 100 bucks to have someone else do it. Agreed. I'll happily spend a couple of hours busting my knuckles swapping tyres with levers and elbow grease than spend the (entirely reasonable) £25 to take it to a tyre place. But I also have some trust issues with the local mechanics; Saw a bike a while back where my ex-dealer hadn't torqued the front caliper bolts properly 
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Don't listen to what anyone else tells you. hosed up nailpolish and greasy hands is sexy. Not tried them but it seems like a reasonable idea, if there's grit in the seal sharp enough to scratch the stanchion then it will already be scratching it with the motion of the fork. A (what I assume is) plastic card is not going to scratch hard chrome. The only real danger seems to be that you could wreck the seal, but then you were going to have to change it anyway. The main problem with the product is that it isn't much of a product, by which I mean, cut one your own out of a white HDPE jug (like the ones that commercial fluids come in).
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Apr 6, 2012 14:09
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Sagebrush posted:I paid $12 for two brand new fork seals and the guy wants $8 for that piece of plastic. I know there's more labor involved in replacement than in whatever you do with that thing, but why not just do it correctly? Its a pain in the arse doing a fork seal. You need a couple of specialist tools for seating the seal and setting the oil level too (although I hacked my own tools when I did it). Look up youtube guides on fork disassembly for an idea.
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Sagebrush posted:I know, I've done it. But I figure you might as well do it properly, since a new fork seal will last tens of thousands of miles anyway and it's critical to the performance of the bike. Like I said, I wouldn't pay money for one, but if a seal gets a small leak I'll definitely grab some thin HDPE or similar and give this a try. The concept is perfectly sound; those hydraulic wiper seals have two sealing surfaces and a groove in between to collect dirt and oil that gets through one or the other. If the only thing holding that wiper seal open is a bit too much grime then hooking it out isn't a patch, it's a fix, and you have nothing but a couple of minutes to lose by trying it, and possibly several hours of time to save. As much as I like wrenching on my bikes, a lot of the time I have better things/people to do/see.
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You're fine, if it got anywhere it might have found its way into a gap between the engine and frame. If it was that easy to get poo poo into an otherwise sealed engine then all my bikes would be full of bees and gravel.
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