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Sir Cornelius posted:I probably wouldn't like getting my foot ripped off by that belt drive. This literally will not happen. I dont know where everyone thinks an open primary will rip your feet off, but it just wouldnt happen unless you jammed your foot into it. Half my buddies ride with open primaries and the worst they have ever gotten is a torn pant hem. NinjaCthulhu posted:My dad has an ultra glide now after owning imports all his life. I made the mistake of asking if he was taking his bike somewhere and he replied "I don't ride a bike, I ride a Harley Thats a bad use of a decent engine. You should have beat him to death with a twin cam, much better use. 
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You can always tell a bike that doesnt get ridden by the fact that its got a sprotor. Nothing says good braking performance like chain grease running down onto a hot rotor. Plus we all know that cruiser riders roll rear braking only, so they're doubly screwed.
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NinjaCthulhu posted:My dad has an ultra glide now after owning imports all his life. I made the mistake of asking if he was taking his bike somewhere and he replied "I don't ride a bike, I ride a Harley The legal retort is "so you're going to take it once around the block, wash it and call it a day?" but bludgeoning works as well.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:This literally will not happen. I dont know where everyone thinks an open primary will rip your feet off, but it just wouldnt happen unless you jammed your foot into it.
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-Inu- posted:Which is very possible if your bike is tumbling down the side of the road at you. I'm not a big fan of adding additional ways to get mangled in the event of a crash. Then ride better than mootmoot?
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Open primaries, like open clutches are something for idiots to ogle. Getting all your pants ripped off by your bike is the price you pay for running one.
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The main reason I always found it stupid to run open primaries (popular on turbobricks with all the tweakers) is because if one piece of debris gets in from the road, you are risking a catastrophic mechanical failure. Well, that, and open primaries are considered "cool" to people who like to paint the rims of their Volvo station wagons flat black on turbobricks. 
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Olde Weird Tip posted:.......are we talking about the same thing? I think dear Xovaan is confusing primary drives and timing belts. 
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Oh yeah. Oops. Same difference though.  I just woke up okay! 
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Olde Weird Tip posted:Open primaries, like open clutches are something for idiots to ogle. Getting all your pants ripped off by your bike is the price you pay for running one. The one thing everybody here seems to be missing is that this bike is not for riding. It's for unloading from a trailer at shows and rallies.
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clutchpuck posted:The one thing everybody here seems to be missing is that this bike is not for riding. It's for unloading from a trailer at shows and rallies. Pffft, I hate bikes like that. I buy them to ride, I can't understand people who buy them for any other reason. I chatted with my neighbor the other day, he has one of the big Harley cruisers fully farkled out. He trailers it to events like Sturgis, it see's about 100 miles a year maximum. He used to ride a Kawi but his wife apparently nixed that at some point. In compromise he has a garage queen to show off and take to shows. If I ever get to that point, would you guys end it for me? Now for Content I took the DRZ out a good bit this weekend on some fun local roads. I figured I would share some pics. I may make a thread in a few months, I'll be doing a lot of exploring every weekend and taking pictures. My starting point is Old Creek Rd. off of Highway 1 just between Morro Bay and Cayucos. It's an awesome road with a few back to back switchbacks. It's also where I wrecked my R1, but it's way to much fun to be scared of. This is a reservoir and you can go fishing for landlocked Steelhead in the lake.  This is Santa Rosa Creek, it runs all the way into Cambria. It's a fairly rough road, and dangerously small with two way traffic in places. I'll be releasing a gps track with warning zones at some point. Low sportbikes won't fare well here at all.   I can't remember what the name of this road is. It dead ends into a mining road and I won't go into details but fun stuff and men with shotguns can be found there.    I put about 200 miles on the bike this weekend. Can anyone point me to a decent primer on chain care and maintenance? I blew it on the Honda and I don't want to do that again.
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Ponies ate my Bagel posted:I put about 200 miles on the bike this weekend. Can anyone point me to a decent primer on chain care and maintenance? I blew it on the Honda and I don't want to do that again. 1. Purchase 2-3 chains. 2. Remove the dirty chain from the bike after every ride and immediately replace it with a clean chain. 3. Dip the dirty chain in a vat of kerosene and scrub it clean, then hang up to dry. 4. When dry, dip it in a vat of hot paraffin, remove, and let dry. 5. Hang clean chain up on the wall. 6. Goto 2. Tsubaki sells master link clips in packs of 100. Or you can do what I do, which is oil the chain whenever the gently caress you feel like it with 90W gear oil and a toothbrush. It's really not that important with a good o-ring chain as long as you keep it a bit wet and your o-rings don't crack prematurely. The lubrication that matters is injected behind the o-rings around the pins, and basically there's nothing you can do except keep the o-rings reasonably happy. MotoMind fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Feb 20, 2012 |
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I don't think I could muster the energy to have multiple chains for my motorcycle, especially when they last a relatively long time (20k+) with just basic maintenance like degreasing and lubing every couple hundred miles or so. Give it some extra lovin' in rainy weather. The products I use are $3 natural citric degreaser found at Home Depot (Zep's) and $6 Dry Teflon lube found at Lowe's. The citric degreaser works really well and smells pretty nice, and the teflon lube doesn't fling off and won't attract much dirt. Longevity seems similar to wet lubricants such as gear oil, but you should clean it off before reapplication.
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I will also add... do not try to clean the chain with the bike in gear and spinning... this leads to stupidity like this guy. http://www.600rr.net/vb/showthread.php?p=1186619 Horrible amputed finger picture in that thread at the top, you have been warned or even worse.. THIS GUY!! http://www.gixxer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=242261 Seriously those threads will ruin you and make you scared of chains... if you are stupid enough to try to clean your chin witht he bike running.
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Z3n posted:And Brembo brakes on the modern ones. Reminder to self: buy used front brake packages from Harley forums.
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Errant Gin Monks posted:I will also add... do not try to clean the chain with the bike in gear and spinning... this leads to stupidity like this guy. Thanks for the warning, I'd never do that because it seems like common sense. I just pick the back wheel up and spin it freely in Neutral.
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FuzzyWuzzyBear posted:I don't think I could muster the energy to have multiple chains for my motorcycle, especially when they last a relatively long time (20k+) with just basic maintenance like degreasing and lubing every couple hundred miles or so. I was joking, it's what people did before o-ring chains. So many guys burned down the wife's kitchen working with hot paraffin.
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Xovaan posted:The main reason I always found it stupid to run open primaries (popular on turbobricks with all the tweakers) is because if one piece of debris gets in from the road, you are risking a catastrophic mechanical failure. Accidentally valid point. This all applies to other side of the bike as well, where it has become oh-so-fashionable to remove the upper and lower belt drive guards, thereby giving the magic flying stones a clear path to your pulley. WHEN they make it in there, you will be in a world of scheiss. The belt alone is $200, the pulley probably in the same neighborhood, and then you're out lodging and towing when "Ken" from the call center in Kuala Lumpur informs you that your HOG roadside assistance only covers meteorites.
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Marv Hushman posted:WHEN they make it in there, you will be in a world of scheiss. I wouldn't really say when, but if. I'm sure there's gonna be a difference between the primary and a timing belt (since I know next to nothing about Harley belts), but as anecdotal evidence the current owner of my old shitheap of a car is still running sans the covers going on six years and 70k miles without any hiccups. (Volvo 360 with B200F.) Or you could do it like this I suppose. 
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Nidhg00670000 posted:I wouldn't really say when, but if. I'm sure there's gonna be a difference between the primary and a timing belt (since I know next to nothing about Harley belts), but as anecdotal evidence the current owner of my old shitheap of a car is still running sans the covers going on six years and 70k miles without any hiccups. Is a motor surrounded by sheet metal on five sides a valid comparison? Sorry, I might have missed something. I'm talking about the final drive belt, not the primary or timing belts. Same function as a chain.
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Troy Bayliss riding the Panigale. Takes those switchbacks so fast... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvvpjFpveYc&feature=player_embedded
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Good friend of mine raced and won his first expert races at little Tally this past weekend. This is what happens when you let an ex-stunt rider do a victory lap:
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Gnaghi posted:Troy Bayliss riding the Panigale. Takes those switchbacks so fast... Haven't seen bikes at Abu Dhabi before, pretty cool. The audio is also wrong for a few of the segments looking at Bayliss, I can't believe they let that slide because I'm far from the only person that'll pick up on that.
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slidebite posted:trailer_park.jpg That's not trailer park, that's hipsterville The bikes and the shop itself might be neat but everything else in that shoot is terrible up to and including that bb-shooting monstrosity
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Olde Weird Tip posted:Carb Porn 
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slidebite posted:Not gonna lie, had to do a double-take at the mouth of the wolf print. Her suit is hirsute.
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Hibajubwa posted:They should have gotten Nicky Hayden to ride this thing. Loving the hate parade in the comments for this thing. It's a motorcycle, a consumer one for that matter, it doesn't have any provenance, it's just a thing, there are quite a few of them and I'm sure there are many of those that are being preserved in collections at 0 miles on the odo til the end of eternity.
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Gnaghi posted:Troy Bayliss riding the Panigale. Takes those switchbacks so fast... I still dont know how its physically possibly to lay those things over drat near on their sides and not have it slide away... amazing to watch.
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Hibajubwa posted:They should have gotten Nicky Hayden to ride this thing. Yep. I still don't like hand built bikes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkJm1QqUFiY I have no idea how to race motocross but I'll prbly try it anyway. This looks fun.
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VTNewb posted:I have no idea how to race motocross but I'll prbly try it anyway. This looks fun. "Pin it to win it" "When in doubt throttle out" secrets to winning
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