Motorcycles BS Thread 2.0

Radiator is still full, hallefuckinglujah. I need to go ride it more to see if it stays that way, but there’s a thunderstorm rolling in and I just started watching today’s F1 race

Tried a seal mate to clean up the leaky seal, lots of crud behind the dust cap so hopefully it’ll help seal it up.

 

I rode for over 50 yrs and taught and I was relieved that my two kids, daughters, had no interest in riding. I would have worried to much. I rarely ever took them on the back of my street bikes because I knew I could not live with myself if something happened to them on a ride.

 

Solution to the newborn issue......

https://www.aerostich.com/products/...5e3syFPxc4Mj4D_Z3R84addIG1ZbBXKistwqE8k5Bemu5

Congrats!

 

Tested out the new Spotwalla app on a longer ride today.

https://spotwalla.com/trip/767b-6cc960c-dad7/view#

Really please with it so far and the only issues so far can be traced completely to user error. Bubbler GPS allowed you to mark locations for things like fuel, food, sleep, and a couple more. The Spotwalla app has a full menu including bonus location for rally use. Both apps allow you to embed photos in your track so others can see what you wish to show them I was trying to use that feature today, but I screwed up in how it operated so the only photo in the track is the last one I took. There should have been 7 others, and I will not screw that up the next time. I'm very impressed with how it follows the roads used as opposed to the Bubbler app which connected the dots in all straight lines. I'll be putting it to the test again next weekend on ride to Johnstown, PA with some friends.

Figured out how to fix the photo issue using the pics off my camera for the GLMC event. Future tracks will be better.

 

Update: paused the race and went out again for half an hour or so. So far oil is looking better than before (assuming I boiled off some of the coolant I was trying to wash out) and the overflow tank is at the same height. Breathing slightly easier now.

Fork leg is still a little weapy, but better than before I think.

 

With my kid, it was end of misses riding with me. Honestly feel same. Don’t want her or kiddo to ride with me.

 

I still ride dirt and really only reason i dont ride the street more is its boring commuting. Also doing morning/evening pickups just made it easier to sell my 690 when i did

 

@cynicalrider how’d you do at the race today?

 

@Calamity_taco which route are you taking for the adventure palooza?

 

All this commuting talk has me going hell yeah I got a pretty good one.
Living in WNC within 2.5 miles I have Twisties and then a after about 7 miles a small community for 2 miles then back road of Twisties again till the river and work is 1.5 miles away. It's a short commute but I can make the ride home even longer.
Y'all be safe and have a good day. Riding all week.

 

Sunset picture

 

we are doing the south route.

 

oh ya how did that go!

 

Let me know how the klx handles the trip. That looks like fun. I am thinking about doing it next year.

 

sounds good! it should handle it just fine ill just have to find all the gas stations lmao my r model drinks fuel like it has a problem!


now i might not respond for a few days after depending on how sore im going to be lmao... this is going to kick my ass so much! ill try and take many pictures and so on through out the time.

 

Boring commute on a bike is even more boring in a car tho

 

Just received my job offer from FedEx. I didn’t waste any time accepting. Filled out the background check. After that it should be drug test.

 

Disagree. My commute is 3 miles.

1 mile of gravel road.
1 stop sign.
1 lazy left turn.
1 90° turn.
No speeds over 55 and most of it 30-35.

I'd way rather drive my sleepy ass to work in my cushy truck than gear up and ride in cold at 05:20.

 

My commute is 30-35 minutes in the morning and more like 40-45 in the evening. The traffic is too intense and people are too aggressive for me to want to ride the KLR to work and back. I take the Prius most days and the Taco one or two days a week usually.

 

THIS.

My commute is 3.3 miles. In the few minutes it takes me to throw on my gear, back the bike outta the garage and turn it around, I coulda been nearly to work. And that doesn't account for the time once I get to work unstrapping my backpack from the bike and carrying it along with my helmet and such inside and repeat after work.

And the commute... busy city streets the entire way. Multiple large intersections that sometimes take 2 or 3 light cycles to get through. And I end up taking a slightly longer route on the bike to avoid a steep hill that always backs up, whether uphill or downhill (after/before work).

So much easier to hop in the car and auto pilot to work.