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Oakey posted:Sweet lord, that exact same thing has happened to me. I was on a country highway doing 60 though so i didn't want to open my visor at that speed and have the bee blow into my face. I had to find a spot to pull over while the bee laid on my chin bar and twitched. That was quite not-fun. Yeah, like I say, the windshield deflects 99.99% of the bugs, but I did have one bank-shot off the visor, fall down past my face and out the bottom of my helmet again. So, I've started putting the visor only 60% up and not all the way up. The airflow is such that if a bug makes it over the windshield it should deflect off the visor upward instead of downwards, and it's still mostly clear of my vision. I really don't want to get a half-helmet, but the fresh air is sooooooo loving nice. You guys have permission to laugh when I eat a facefull of killer bees. 8ender posted:I posted some questions about this bike in the questions thread. Today my father-in-law picked it up and my god is it massive. He had a Goldwing before but apparently that was was too small and didn't have enough 1970's styling. It's like some kind of bizzaro-Goldwing.
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So I got my bike back from the shop today! Shes toast/fried/done. The shop said I had a hole in my radiator, due to the plastics rubbing on it wrong and ever so slowly rubbing a hole in the radiator. The previous owner had dumped the bike, and apparently bent the front fairing-stay so they didn't sit exactly square, but who would've guessed that could happen. Anyway the hole in the radiator then caused my bike to run really really hot (duh) and cook my rings, so obviously it was running hot the entire time, not just the few minutes indicated. My guess is the rain threw off my temp gauge some way so I didn't notice it, either that, or my bike decided to poo poo the bucket very quickly. What then happened was my right piston decided to go insane inside the case and wreak havoc. The mechanic said he took off the plugs, and the spark plug head was smashed flat due to the piston going crazy. I was quoted on what it would cost to fix for shits and giggles and because my shop knows I've put a good bit of time into the bike, and it obviously wasn't even close to worth it. That said, I'm going to part it out if I can find the need for it. Otherwise I might stay on the prowl for a wrecked 500 with a good engine still. I plan on draining it of fuel and storing it till mid-june and by then if I haven't found a cheap engine with good compression, and a cheap radiator in good condition, the bikes being parted out. Who needs parts from a first gen ex500?  Also, the shop seemed really weirded out, yet relieved, that I was going about this in such a light hearted manner. I'm more relieved that I don't have to make that decision of 'do I spend 400 dollars to fix it AGAIN, or just scrap it finally'. I get to search the market for a few months for parts, try and find some way to get a few extra bucks in the next months so hopefully by fall I can upgrade to a running motorcycle, and buying new things is fun!
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I am curious how your piston came up so high that it slapped the spark plug, or am I reading this wrong. The fairing on the 500 is plastic so it wore out a radiator? I think I am looking at this wrong, but drat that seems like some really poo poo luck. Sorry to hear it is done for.
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I don't know about the plastic, but I do know that if you put too long of a screw in a certain spot on an Aprilia Pegaso, said Pegaso will puke out coolant through a hole rubbed in the radiator, cutting short a planned trip to Dawson. Fortunately, some epoxy putty will get the bike back home, 350 miles worth. Nothing registered as overheating, I only noticed as the boy and I were stopped for road construction and I looked over and saw a puddle forming. As for the spark plug smashed, chances are pretty good that the piston melted or pieces broke off. Those lumps will thrash around inside the cylinder destroying everything in their path, and melted aluminum is extra fun. It tends to condense on the end of the spark plug and can just about braze the plug to the head. I'll have to dig up my own melted pistons, I have several. That might be a fun thread. Gnomad fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Mar 25, 2009 |
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Mar 25, 2009 03:05
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And then, I find this madness on the net. http://www.gasbike.net/ Hmmmm, I have an old bike that I've been to lazy to pedal. And I'm sure that the brakes on that bike are up to the task of stopping the bike at 40 mph. Although I must confess to a certain intruige with the idea.
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Mar 25, 2009 03:08
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Trintintin posted:So I got my bike back from the shop today! Lesson learned. "If I don't know what's causing what's wrong, don't try to limp it home" :-) Gnomad posted:Motored bikes
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Aflicted posted:I am curious how your piston came up so high that it slapped the spark plug, or am I reading this wrong. The fairing on the 500 is plastic so it wore out a radiator? I think I am looking at this wrong, but drat that seems like some really poo poo luck. Sorry to hear it is done for. Nope you're reading it correctly, it literally was coming up high enough to slam into the spark plug, I was not kidding when I said it went insane. Yeah the plastic wearing out the radiator seems really unlikely to me as well, I'd assume a bolt or something FROM the fairing wore a hole, but tomorrow I'll check it out and see whatsup/how big the hole is. Nerobro posted:Lesson learned. "If I don't know what's causing what's wrong, don't try to limp it home" :-) Eh not how I see it. Lesson Learned, when your radiator cracks 230 miles from home, and you get one free tow from Triple A for 200 miles, you limp it those extra 40 miles to be safe throwing a piston. Towing from DC to upstate NJ, PLUS replacing a radiator, when it isn't free, would have been around $2500 (lowball). I had roughly $300 to my name at the time the radiator spilled its guts on the ground, so it was the lesser of two evils seeing as the bike wasn't even worth that much money when it was running perfectly. Edit: And I got a free ride home, instead of having to catch a ridiculously expensive cab or make someone drive 3 hours to get me.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCPctYu0txg 3:36 quote:AMA Pro Road Racing rider Jamie Hacking has been suspended indefinitely following this weekend's event at Auto Club Speedway for conduct detrimental to the sport of professional motorcycle racing. The culminating incident occurred in the Auto Club Speedway media center following post-race interviews on Sunday where Hacking used a string of profane language while exiting the press interview area. Prior to this incident, Hacking displayed additional acts of inappropriate behavior in both public and media interviews. http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2009/Mar/090322suspe2.htm
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In case anyone is as noob as I, or is amused by noob idiocy: Left my lights on, drained my battery. So I'm sitting on a dead bike in a parking lot 2mi from home by myself. Called my brother and asked "can you google up 'push start motorcycle'?" He reads the instructions, I think I got it, and I've got a nice long stretch of 75m of gradual slope, and 50m of relatively steep downhill. Perfect. Get on, start riding it down, can't get the barest whimper from the engine. Get all the way to the bottom of the hill. gently caress it, guess I'll have to walk home, drive me car here, and jump start it. I hop off and start to push it to the side to park it, and as I do so get a little rumble in the engine. Hold up... did I just ride down the entire hill with the clutch engaged?. Yep. So I pushed it uphill about 10m, left it in second, released the clutch, and the engine kicked in before it rolled even 10ft. Worked out okay, but drat did I feel retarded.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:In case anyone is as noob as I, or is amused by noob idiocy: Don't feel bad. I spent an hour trying to push start my bike for the first time when the battery died due to an extreme cold front that moved in while I was in work. I was an idiot and forgot the very important put it in SECOND gear (not first) step, so the back tire would lock up every time. The worst part about push starting a motorcycle down a hill, is pushing it back up said hill when you gently caress up. Also....don't forget to turn the killswitch to the on position  . Don't worry I'm a pro at it now though.
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Trintintin posted:Also....don't forget to turn the killswitch to the on position Yeah, I've made like 5 short trips today, and none long enough to fully recharge the batt, so I'm getting good at this. The Nighthawk is pretty light, so I can shove it forward with the clutch in, let go after maybe five feet, and throttle in at that first rumble. Really pretty quick and easy. Of course, my last push-start tonight I forgot to turn the petcock, so had to pull over and check/switch it a couple blocks down... and push-start again.
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Ever wonder why little bikes still have manual petcocks? Well let me tell a story. About four years ago, I was on a trip with the GSR. We had a ~400 lb dude with us. Riding an absolutely cherry GS300. The bike was just a small engine, no tach version of a GS450. Yeah, big deal right? Yes. Big deal. Us big boys, riding bikes with an average displacement matching that of a big gulp were happily cruising around the drifless region of southern Wisconsin. This means there were hills. And when I say cruising.. 80-85mpg was the name of the game as we transited between interesting bits. Here's where the problem came up. A GS300 doesn't start with a lot of power. Being a small motor it doesn't move a lot of air. Going up a hill at 85.. with a 400lb rider... is a challenge. For anything with less than 40hp. Uh.. this bike has way less than 40hp. Going up a hill, I check behind myself, and Planecrazys Schooner, and copierguys GS300 weren't back there anymore. At the next turn they caught up. Turns out that copierguys petcock was shutting off when climbing hills. Believe me, when a 300 becomes a 150 running a compressor along with trying to hual a bike, things get real slow really fast. The problems was his bike wasn't making enough vacuum to keep the petcock open. The solution? And why they caught us? Was to put his petcock in prime. He rode most of the rest of the rally with his bike in prime. If his bike had a manual petcock, this story would have never happened. :-) That said, vacuum petcocks are the bees knees on anything that doesn't need to ride at WOT all the time. Nerobro fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Mar 25, 2009 |
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Nerobro posted:That said, vacuum petcocks are the bees knees on anything that doesn't need to ride at WOT all the time. Or on bikes with no petcock selector, that just gravity feed fuel from the tank. Remove hoses, but no fuel comes out! 
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:In case anyone is as noob as I, or is amused by noob idiocy: Not to nitpick, but I'm pretty sure the clutch is 'engaged' when the lever is all the way out.
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Z3n posted:Remove hoses, but no fuel comes out! You wont believe how nice this is. My YDS3 is gravity fed, manual petcock, and the petcock has a siamesed banjo at the bottom that delivers fuel to two separate hoses. Removing the tank is a guaranteed fuel loving everywhere procedure, even with clamps on the fuel lines.
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Trintintin posted:
Goondolences.  But, in the name of science and motoporn. Open that bitch up and check out the insides! You might also be able to ebay engine parts that are ok.
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Ola posted:Goondolences. I'm planning on doing that come summer. I only have a few days left in NJ with the bike until I go back to school, so it wouldn't be worth it now. Also in the name of science I might be picking up a parts motor and radiator when I'm back at school if the price is right, so this summer could be very fun! That said, I've now been bitten with the z1000 bug and want one very badly.
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I just got my bike back from getting my MOT inspection done and noticed the right hand bar end was missing. I went back in and asked if it maybe came off in the shop, but they said nope, and looked around but didn't see anything. The only thing I can think is it vibrated off somewhere? I didn't notice it missing before went there this morning, didn't notice on my ride two or from Winchester last weekend... who knows where or when it happened  . It's not on the ground where I park either. Oh well, can't be that expensive to replace. (famous last words)
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Linedance posted:I just got my bike back from getting my MOT inspection done and noticed the right hand bar end was missing. I went back in and asked if it maybe came off in the shop, but they said nope, and looked around but didn't see anything. The only thing I can think is it vibrated off somewhere? I didn't notice it missing before went there this morning, didn't notice on my ride two or from Winchester last weekend... who knows where or when it happened Cost me $18.50 to get a new one for my DRZ. Buy online though, dealerships will probably rape you. And yes, you will lose a lot of those. I've lost 3 so far in the two and a half years I've been riding.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:In case anyone is as noob as I, or is amused by noob idiocy:
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:In case anyone is as noob as I, or is amused by noob idiocy: I have a similar embarrassing pushstart experience. Back when I was having charging issues with my VFR it died on me in traffic. I pulled over and some kindly biker lasses (one built a bit like a brick shithouse) came to my aid. We tried push-starting it (her pushing, she was that kind of girl) a couple of times and every time I released the clutch, the engine wouldn't turn over. Eventually someone with booster cables turned up and I was good. Found out later that you need it in 2nd gear not 1st, otherwise a mule won't get that thing to push start  ... oops...
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Nobody ever told me to push start in 2nd.  Addendum: Don't try push starting on grass.
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Simkin posted:Nobody ever told me to push start in 2nd. In relation to that, the coil on my XR125 was dodgy, turns out there had been a recall/replace by Honda but I hadn't realised so was riding around having a hell of a time starting the bike when it was cold outside, or even keeping the engine running when it was really cold and/or wet. Letting the bike drop to idle would normally just let it die. One morning, going downhill approaching a mini-roundabout, I dropped down into first as I approached, but hadn't let the clutch out yet. Engine idled for a second then died, so I instinctivly let the clutch out to try and bump start it before I lose too much momentum. Rear wheel immediately locks, so it's clutch in, change up, clutch out and throttle, off we go without even stopping. Bike runs beautifully now she's got the new coil, though I've still got the bad habit of giving my throttle a little bit of gas at stops. It used to be the only way to keep it running (choke was under the tank and made it lumpy at the top end of the throttle. It's a 125 so you're always at the top of the throttle) but now I randomly find myself sat at lights with 2k or 3k of rpm going on.
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Stopped by a bike dealership today with a friend who's just passed his test. He said he wanted to have a sit on a few bikes. Not having been there 5 minutes, he's incessant about how he'd like a Fireblade, how it fits him. A moment later he spots this Daytona 650 and for the next 15 minutes he won't get off the thing. I ask if he's ready to go, me having had my oogle at the CBRs, he looks at me, pulls out his phone and calls his mother, "Hey Mam, can you go check what rates I can get on a £4,000 loan?" He hangs up and says to me, "I'm going to come back here next week and buy this bike." I think he's serious too. I wouldn't be surprised to see him pull up on it next week, and then not pull up at all the week after. He's the guy who asked me what bike I had, only to sneer when I said it was 600, the guy who brags about how he throttled his dad's Hayabusa up and down some Texas back roads when he was in America. He's prone to talking bullshit (duh) but he's the type of person to do something to prove he can, which is worrying me. As an aside, I never realised how light a RR is compared to my YZF. I don't really have to heft my YZF up, but man I didn't expect it to be so light.
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Considering the tiny price gap between low and high end bikes compared to cars, it's not hard to see how those who get into motorcycles without getting into motorcycle culture sneer at anything that isn't the leanest, meanest and quickest. Show him some good ride report threads from advrider.com, like this http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=431849
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Ola posted:Considering the tiny price gap between low and high end bikes compared to cars, it's not hard to see how those who get into motorcycles without getting into motorcycle culture sneer at anything that isn't the leanest, meanest and quickest. ADVrider is like crack to me goddamn. Every single time I see a ride report, I say to myself "I'll read the first 3 pages". About 30 pages and an hour or two later I have to tear myself away from it, because I know if I read anymore it will end with me buying a dual sport and dropping out of school to travel the country with a camera.
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Valfar posted:I tried to push start my car once with the ignition off I tried to push start an automatic.
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Well, at least in theory, you could conceivably get the car to start, it would just require a much more substantial push. Not so, with the ignition off. Anyone buy a Gladius yet? Has it even hit showrooms? Is Z3n responsible for all of those firebombings of shops that displayed new Gladiuses?
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Simkin posted:Anyone buy a Gladius yet? Has it even hit showrooms? Is Z3n responsible for all of those firebombings of shops that displayed new Gladiuses? I haven't seen one, nor ridden one yet. Rest assured, I will assault the owner of the first one that I see for a test ride, as well as inspect the engine mounts and potential for swapping closely. The Nikasil (or whatever they are) bores make me a little sad though, as that means no more busa pistons and such without some work. We'll see how it turns out...from the reviews, it's basically still just an SV with some funny plastics on it. I can live with that.
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Trintintin posted:ADVrider is like crack to me goddamn. Every single time I see a ride report, I say to myself "I'll read the first 3 pages". Read mine, it's only the two first posts  http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=407819
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Ola posted:Read mine, it's only the two first posts quote:God: "What's that in miles?" That makes me laugh every time. Edit: Also, god, your pictures...it's so gorgeous out there. Knowing how much less impressive my pictures of the local scenery are viewed through the apeture of a camera, I can only imagine what it's to actually see it. That panorama is incredible as well. Double Edit: Would there be any chance of a higher rez version of this? I'd love it as a desktop. http://djmarvin.org/biketrip/CIMG0107.jpg Z3n fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Mar 27, 2009 |
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 OLA!Every time you post pictures of you, riding around in some sort of surreal splendour, a part of me starts pulling my mind towards booking some sort of hilariously ill-planned motorcycle adventure to Norway. One of these years, I swear. Maybe I just need to get my dad to finance it, under the auspices of  bonding Comedy option: How difficult is it to immigrate? 
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Simkin posted:
I don't even have a loving streetbike at the moment and I'm considering dragging the plate off the trackbike, swapping bars, and going out anyways... I need to get my streetbike built 
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Happy to oblige with hires: http://djmarvin.org/lysebotn/hires/CIMG0107.JPG I need to learn that white balance poo poo btw. Immigration isn't that hard, it's just loving expensive to live here You can go on a see-all-the-sights, all inclusive rental bike trip for like $5-6K. You'll easily get that for a decent, well kept kidney.
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Z3n posted:I need to get my streetbike built So what's stopping ya?  Edit: How much does part of a slightly travel-worn liver go for these days? I'm under the impression that they can partially regrow. Right? Would it actually be cheaper to buy and insure a bike for a short period of time, and then sell it off before leaving the country? I'm leaving aside all the silly practicalities, like trying to find a bike to buy while living in a different country, or arranging for someone to sell it after you've left - I don't need to hear about any of this pragmatic bullshit.
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Since we are talking awesome ride reports, here is one in the making. Riding the Alaskan ice roads. http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=422290
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I don't how getting registration and insurance on a foreign name works (it does, I just don't know how), but in theory it would work just fine. I'd be happy to act as in-country operative.  Keep in mind costs, the going price for a running 80s UJM is between $3K and $5K, registration and basic insurance would add another $500 or so. But if it's bought in the low season and sold in the high, it probably wouldn't cost you a thing. And once you're in country on a registered bike you can see quite a lot without spending much. Gas is expensive but the bike doesn't use that much, you can tent pretty much anywhere that isn't private property, toll roads are free and ferries are cheap(ish). Supermarket food will keep you fed as rural restaurants are crap. Requires lots of up front monies, but is totally doable.
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Hmm, well, definitely food for thought. Any reason that UJMs are 3-5x as expensive as the usual going price for most bikes of that vintage, stateside? I mean, other than some crazy socialist tax?
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Simkin posted:I mean, other than some crazy socialist tax? No, no other reason than crazy socialist taxes. You only pay road tax on an old bike, but the prices of new bikes obviously set the floor on used ones. Brand new Gladius? $19K thank you very much. There are many ups and downs to Norwegian economic policy, salaries are higher, many expenses are lower etc. But once the soft, comfortable pillow of oil income is gone our prices and salaries will have to adjust to the level of relevant countries with a big KA-THUNK and it will hurt like hell.
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