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Phy posted:Working on getting it back out of storage. It runs, I could ride it home tonight if I had my gear with me, but I want to do the valve shims and a carb balance first. I run mine until it looks like a japanese woodcut of a wave. If you run it past that you get built-in traction control.
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shacked up with Brenda posted:I run mine until it looks like a japanese woodcut of a wave. If you run it past that you get built-in traction control. See the one I posted last page for what's too much wear
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Apr 18, 2024 13:26
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Last weekend I took off the carrier for the top box I haven’t actually used since probably September. The bike looks infinitely better. I should probably just sell it for a few bucks but it also doesn’t take up a ton of room. I am no anti-top box but I am definitely anti-top box on my Bonneville. I tend to lean practicality over aesthetics but … I just can’t. It’s too ugly and when I took my long road trip last year, it created this wall with my other luggage so that instead of leaning on my duffel being comfortable, it was shoved into my back.
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Apr 18, 2024 13:38
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DRZ just passed inspection without any issues whatsoever and is officially street legal until May of 2026. Hooray!
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Apr 18, 2024 14:11
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Do you guys have to do regular inspections? Or is that just registration?
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Apr 18, 2024 14:19
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no it's a periodic thing for any motor vehicle over 50cc. Always safety, sometimes emissions, sometimes OBD codes depending on vehicle. How often also depends, my car is old enough that it needs to come in every 13 months but motorcycles are every 24, unless brand new when it's twice that for the first inspection (which is what my SV "passed" last week) - it's every 24 henceforth. Once they get old enough motorcycles are exempt.
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Apr 18, 2024 14:23
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That's interesting. Here I can do one safety and then I'm in some kind of weird ship of theseus situation where I don't really have to think about it again. I'm sure legally there's some language about how much you can change on a motorcycle before it needs to be re-assessed but I can't say I've had to ever think about it before.
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Apr 18, 2024 14:28
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In the US, inspection requirements can differ even in the same state. The Portland Metro area requires inspections (mostly for exhaust I think?) but the county I live in just south of there doesn't.
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Apr 18, 2024 14:30
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I'm my county there are no inspections for anything. The roads are a mad max wasteland where you can register and drive any falling apart heap so long as it isn't so visibly dangerous that you get pulled over for it
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Apr 18, 2024 18:19
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Yeah inspections are annoying and cost time and money but I view them as a net good. They force me to look over my car at least once a year even though I don't really want to because I don't like cars or working on them very much. I'm fairly mechanically literate and at least somewhat sensitive to things being wrong with vehicles compared to most people I know, but I've still failed for stuff going bad I didn't know about but needed to know about, like ball joints, tie rod ends, asymmetric braking and once a rear seat belt that was completely chewed through by a mouse tunnelling for sound deadening foam.
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There were talks of getting bi yearly inspections for motorcycles in Norway, but they actually looked at the statistics. None of the road deaths involving motorcycles was caused by the technical state of the motorcycle. So the initiative was scrapped. We have so few road deaths that all are investigated properly.
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Apr 18, 2024 23:36
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I may be misinformed but I think bikes in Sweden used to be every year but they lengthened the interval, for the similar reasons. The average bike leads a very different life from the average car. Very few miles ridden, no road salt corrosion, rarely ridden at night when lights are important for real, fewer things that can go wrong and more obvious when they do. Less incentive to use a vehicle that's obviously broken too since most bikes are toys more than transportation. One of the things I had to learn (and carry out in part under scrutiny) before getting licenced to drive or ride was how to do a safety inspection of the vehicle. If done by the book it would check pretty much the same boxes as they do at the vehicle inspection when looking at a motorcycle. But ain't nobody got time for that. Still a good thing to know how to do If riding something for the first time(/in a long time) guess. I sure checked the bearings, shocks and brakes to the best of my abilities before test riding or buying that DRZ, for example. Which I'm gonna ride today for the first time for real even though it's bitterly cold because I'm a child at heart and motorcycles are super fun.
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Apr 19, 2024 05:19
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Pulled the valve cover off and recorded clearances, tomorrow is time to have fun with spreadsheets
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Phy posted:Pulled the valve cover off and recorded clearances, tomorrow is time to have fun with spreadsheets what kind of bike and what did you find? generally I find that the exhaust side will have tightened up a bit and the intake side is usually in spec.
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After degreasing the engine to find the source of the leak, it looks like it was two oil pan bolts where the aftermarket belly pan plastic was installed. Tightened them up and haven't seen a new drop of oil since.
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yummycheese posted:what kind of bike and what did you find? ZRX1100. Exhausts loose on the left, in spec in the middle, tight on the right. Intakes loose on both outsides, in spec in the middle again. I did the valves myself last time, back in 2019.
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Phy posted:ZRX1100 
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