Motorcycles BS Thread 2.0

@uurx will buy it when he is done with his TW express shenanigans

 

Put a few hundred miles in today. The first service is recommended at 500 so that might be day two for me. Is that oddly early to anyone else? Ha I’m waiting on the oil kit from Indian so I may ride over that rather than Let is just sit.



Speaking of oil... don’t mind the garage. Only renting here for less than a year while the wife finishes school so we can move back to our home haha.

 

sick bike. Mine have all been at 500 miles. The oil is typically pretty nasty after the first change. I know people who are paranoid and change it like 3 times within the first 1k miles.

 

I usually own crappy old Japanese dual sports so oil mileage was alway a, eh, sometime this riding season or whatever ha.

 

I've had similar experiences with a couple of bikes I bought new. I lived 17 miles away from the shop where I bought my Buell but it took me 168 miles to get home the day I picked it up. First service was less than a week from when I bought it. Years before that I bought a Yamaha FJ1100 and needed the 600 mile first service exactly one week after purchase.

 

Nice! Unfortunately I’m about 100 miles from the nearest dealer so I can either do it myself or ride over 200 miles for an oil change ha.

They kept pressing that it’s super important that I bring it in to them for at least the first three services. I asked the guy how oil change number 3 is different from number 4 and he said it’s just really important.

 

i love these things, very rare to find them these days let alone intact complete in decent condition

 

Too bad there’s not a used motorcycle shortage.

 

@uurx TW express @FreshOldTaco SV650 down here.

 

The quad lock I just got has a vibration dampener too. And waht @Sacrifice said, it's damage that happens to the hardware itself. Realistically my best solution is to use a burner phone which I am, but i got the vibration isolator in case I wanted/needed to put my current expensive phone there too.

 

Alright this is super sick. This is the skydio right? The obstacle recognition and avoidance is incredible.

 

First service they usually do other things, too. Nut and bolt check, steering/head bearing torqueing, adjust throttle/brake/clutch cables, and just generally anything weird going on. All things you could easily do yourself, but I get them trying to stress it. #2 and #3 I wouldn't see as nearly as important, but who knows.

 

I will always let the dealer do the first service just to have it on file for warranty purposes. I figure it's a small price to pay so they don't have an "out" because I did it myself.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phXUgWJTW2M

 

The red FJRs really must be the fastest. He was flying and this happened.

 

thats impressive...

i took a bird to the radiator before on my first street legal bike a 2001 600e ninja, ill never forget it the bird was almost in slow motion coming in towards me
when i pulled over all i found was a bunch of weather in between the rad fins, the damn thing might have survived and flown away I have no clue

 

So far in 47 yrs of two wheels on the street I have one bird on the knuckles of each hand, one bird with each foot, and a six point whitetail buck with my right leg…. Everything died on impact but me

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBST3K_3FKg

 

Isn’t this a old video? I remember the tire shine all over the rear tire

 

Rad.