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LodeRunner posted:Today's story is BIKER BERATES OLD WOMAN. Found this on my bike today which was in the center of a clearly designated parking spot. This seems like a remarkably similar story: https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles/comments/t4q8sr/found_on_bike_you_think_you_should_take_a_whole/
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Probably because that's my reddit account
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Mar 2, 2022 20:46
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boy, this just keeps getting more and more shameful
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Is the shame having a reddit account?
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LodeRunner posted:Is the shame having a reddit account? The shame is admitting you have a reddit account.
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GriszledMelkaba posted:Were you in a barbershop quartet? I wondered what the hell this was about
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You really need to get a GoPro! Or a knockoff with longer battery life, I record everything and just swap batteries, by the time it runs low it's a good reminder to stop and take a break anyway.
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Phy posted:I wondered what the hell this was about Might as well go all-in. 
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SA is basically reddit, you get probed for anything these days (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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It was just weird as hell to see the exact same story in r/motorcycles and then in here like I had a stroke. Like that time someone posted how they sold a cbr250 in CA and then the new owner posted a "I just crashed my new bike" thread on Reddit.
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it's easy (and frequently deserved) to poo poo on reddit, /r/motorcycles is no exception. lots of terminal squidbrain cases over there I'm not holding my nose in the air saying CA's poo poo don't stink or anything, but /r/motorcycles gets a looooooot of fuckin' stupid posts that CA doesn't by virtue of SA dot com's lower visibility/traffic alone.
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Oh, I know. I've been here for almost 20 years and on there for 11.
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Razzled posted:SA is basically reddit, you get probed for anything these days Ahahaha
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Razzled posted:SA is basically reddit, you get probed for anything these days 
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Man, I know it's the smart money buy, but dropping $240 on a Yuasa for my Ninja is so face-scrunchingly hard. Amazon has a "YTZ10S" for $149 but the photo and part number don't match so I'm not going to play that game. I could get it a few bucks cheaper online somewhere but after tax and ship it probably doesn't matter much. Just went to the shop and walked home with one. Now I found that my knockoff Canadian Tire battery tender is dead so I dunno I guess we maybe know why the original battery died...
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That's a ridiculous amount of money for a battery, even for a Yuasa one
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$CDN so that's part of it, but I think stuff is just expensive now THANKS OBAMA
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Yeah it was the same for my YTZ7S - actually a bit more but the prices seem to have come down a bit. I got a non-Yuasa one, hopefully won't regret it when I fire the bike up again (or not)
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knox_harrington posted:Yeah it was the same for my YTZ7S - actually a bit more but the prices seem to have come down a bit. I got a non-Yuasa one, hopefully won't regret it when I fire the bike up again (or not) I've got a knock-off YTZ7S and it's done as well as the real one I have. From my experience battery quality can be a roll of the dice regardless of brand, but I also live with winter cycles and that plays havoc with them. Sometimes they just don't make it even if you bring them inside and rotate on a charger. I'll risk a cheap battery on anything that doesn't require much juice to turn over or any bike that can be easily bump-started, but bigger bikes packed with more stuff should get a good battery with as many amp hours and cca's as you can fit in, especially if you live somewhere with wide temperature cycles.
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I really contemplated just getting something else, but I'll be honest; Even if it works fine for everyone, almost everything that I've cheaped out on in the past five years has been a situation where in -- maybe five months max -- I was regretting not just taking the "buy once cry once" route, and I end up having to spend a bunch MORE money to get what I *REALLY* wanted anyway. I just decided to learn from the pattern at this point. Not to say that the cheap battery will be BAD if you bought it, I just didn't want to tempt fate. Now if I'm here in July and I'm all "gently caress, the Yusua is dead WTF" then I guess the universe is just trying to tell me it doesn't want me to have money. And man, I totally forgot how heavy a battery can be. It's almost as if it's full of lead and liquid  . The guy at the counter brought out this tiny box, I paid for it and picked it up and it took me a second to process because I remember saying "whoah this is surprisingly heavy" out loud like a weirdo with no internal monologue. Just completely aside, I mean. Not that I'm saying "oh I should have gone for a lithium" or whatever.
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Holy poo poo communicating with a dealer through their sales email is loving painful, what the hell. I wrote a concise email for a motorcycle they have listed... "confirm if this is what you're interested in blah blah canned robot email probably", email them back... yes and i want to communicate over email. Get a response... "we couldn't reach you on the phone", the proceed to ask me several questions answered in the prior two emails. 
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Ok which one of you was this
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NOT IT, for a change.
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Did the owner have to zip up his pants when he got off that hog to drop it off?
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Slavvy posted:Ok which one of you was this what IS that mess
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Is that hot glue, or (somehow even worse) epoxy?
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Past-me, making future-me’s job messier than it needs to be with 100 years worth of dielectric grease?
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Russian Bear posted:Holy poo poo communicating with a dealer through their sales email is loving painful, what the hell. I wrote a concise email for a motorcycle they have listed... "confirm if this is what you're interested in blah blah canned robot email probably", email them back... yes and i want to communicate over email. Get a response... "we couldn't reach you on the phone", the proceed to ask me several questions answered in the prior two emails. Wait till you try to buy a house. Estate agents are even worse.
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FBS posted:Did the owner have to zip up his pants when he got off that hog to drop it off? It's an fjr1300 that was last ridden five years ago by the owner, who since died of old age, and it is now owned by his son who just wants to sell it. It's immaculate but covered in minor inane old man bullshit. Jim Silly-Balls posted:Is that hot glue, or (somehow even worse) epoxy? It's hot glue yeah. Interestingly, the stuff on the negative terminal was rock hard and had to be chiseled off, while the positive was all rubbery. So it might have been aquarium sealer maybe? That and bathroom sealer seem pretty popular.
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Steakandchips posted:Wait till you try to buy a house. Estate agents are even worse. My realtor was super duper, she was loving ON IT. And right now, in the US, you can't be dicking around as houses are selling day 1 or before even coming onto the market (although cooling down now since rates are going up a little). I was literally refreshing the MLS website daily to see if any new houses appeared and had to go see it same day, then submit an offer and hope you don't get outbid by a cash offer from an investor/bank assholes. 3rd time was the charm finally 
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I too got outbid on 3 houses for twats bidding 50 to 70 THOUSAND above the home report valuation, i.e. 50k to 70k CASH on top of the house price (~£300k houses). I.e. not only are they likely putting down 60k for a deposit or more, they're happy to throw another 70k on top to secure the house. loving mental. My 4th try, this time in the middle of loving nowhere, as the first bidder, finally won the deal.
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Was a lovely sunny day today, so I was out on Bob to the farm vending machine https://www.thorneybank.com/ , and then Tesco. I was on my way back home, turning down the road at the local pub to get home, and on that street a woman had just gotten out of her car. She gave me the dirtiest, Karen-est look ever from 15m away as I was doing 20mph in 2nd. How dare I ride a motorbike, interrupting her serenity. Shame on me. So I took Bob to 5,000rpm and 60mph in 2nd all the way down that street.
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Th’ ‘Orny Bank
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Th’ ‘Orny Bank Looks like a great place to buy supplies for cottaging. What's that? Oh, it's just spending some time in a cabin in the Canadian woods, I am unaware of any other regional definitions.
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Steakandchips posted:So I took Bob to 5,000rpm and 60mph in 2nd all the way down that street. Sounds like rather than die a hero you've lived long enough to see yourself become the villain.
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How come everybody talks about KLR650s and DR650s but nobody talks about XR650Ls?
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Super hard to get but easily the best of the three
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How can they be hard to get if Honda is still selling them? They're up on the website and everything
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Idk man I can't explain American stupidity, they don't sell them here!!
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