Motorcycles BS Thread 2.0

I know nothing about these trucks. My buddy has a 3500 that is nice, but I myself don’t know shit about the motors.

 

Since the EPA started going after diesel trucks around the mid 2000's their efficiency went down, and complexity went up DRASTICLY. There's not a chance id buy a newer diesel truck unless it was for work and I could write it off completely. For pleasure/personal use a truck without all these components on them is WAY better.... (One of the reasons I love my antiquated 2nd gen tacoma)

You do have to keep in mind I live in a state with SMOG, so if you touch ANYTHING motor/tune/intake/emissions/exhaust (pre catalytic converter / particulate filter) related you fail and cant register. So I am quite biased to older diesel truck as they dont have to abide by those insane rules.

Dont get me wrong, modern Diesel trucks are B E A Utiful and so luxury (as is their $$$$$$). But it isnt for me.

Also... something about working in IT and wanting an EMP blast surviving fully mechanical diesel truck from the early 90s just gives me the fizz. I love technology as it bring in the money... but hate technology in my personal life cus i know how sideways and south it can go literally crippling any and all operations to those ill prepared.

 

Yup. DEF and EGRs killed the million mile diesels, and not just in pickups. Earned a living with my CDL for several years, and guess which trucks were constantly in the shop and guess what systems were always the problem. It's all the same agenda that pushed corn into gas tanks, and studies have shown it's worse for the environment than regular gas. I imagine the same data will come out regarding DEF in the future. Whether or not it'll be reported is a different story.

 

It won't lol.

I'm just glad there are no smog inspections on motorcycles here in CA (surprisingly)... Cus yeah....

 

I went to CA once. I went to LA and San Diego for an animators conference called Siggraph.
That place was crazy! Felt like I was in Disney world or something. I was amazed at how empty the city streets were on a mid day Friday.
Felt like I was on the set of an apocalyptic movie.

 

I was stationed in the Bay area early 90's and remember lane splitting the Oakland Bay bridge back then on a CB350.

 

Even still, it can be hard to get motorcycle exhausts here in California. But lack of smog is one of the reasons I do enjoy motorcycling. I feel so restricted by anything I want to do to my cars here.

I'm not even talking about running a test pipe and going catless, but I can't get an aftermarket intake that doesn't cost tons of money, or a tune, or even ebay catalytic converters that don't cost thousands of dollars for not being CARB certified. It's a bunch of BS here.

 

i have yoshi on my drz and unless you get the carbon one its rather loud lol my bike can be heard blocks away! you could try taking apart the rear can and putting more of the stuffs inside it to make it less loud.

 

put a flatbed on the tundra! and keep it goins!

 

Brapp

 

Fun ride today! My wife and some friends went to the beach so they drove and I decided to ride the long way to get there. Turned out it was raining in the twisty roads but it was still a ton of fun.




Last post about the Versys exhaust (I promise!) but I really loved it today. It feels so much smoother and nicer to be riding long distance. The bike in general is so nice and I'm still loving it after almost 1.5 years of owning it, which is saying something because my average bike ownership has been like <6 months.

Really, the only time I don't love my bike is when I'm trying to keep up with friends on their sport bikes and asking it to do things it doesn't want to do. That's not its fault, though, and I really want a sport bike now to ride with friends and in the mountains. I really love the ZX4RR and am considering looking around at dealerships to see if I can at least see one in person.

 

How was fog in the visor? I'm new and learning about tecniques and products to stop it.

 

No fog in my visor because I have a Pinlock. The RF1400 also flows a lot of air.

 

Never quite understood / liked the "beak" on lots of the adv bikes

 

Went for a real nice ride with some old friends today. I've known these guys since we where teenagers, we all worked in a moped shop in the late 70s. They are brothers, twins but not identical. We had perfect weather, mid 70s, and one rain shower that didn't even show up on radar, go figure, just enough to trash the bike, lol. But we did 268 miles and had a great time.
Lunch stop. Bikes are a Royal Enfield Himalayan, Honda vtx 1800, and my Bonneville T120

The twins.

and a stop in port Austin mi. About halfway on the ride.

My Bonneville .
being that it's October I thought my buddies headlight decore was cool.

I had a really great day riding with some old friends. I'm 63 now so we have known each other for over 40 years. Bikes bring people together.

 

Now thats a spread of types of bikes! What an awesome looking day to ride!

 

Looks like I have to settle for second place in the GLMC Mural event. Final standings posted yesterday.

RE: 2023 Grand Tour
Unless someone sends me photos between now and midnight [their time] here's the standings. I will confirm if these are final in the morning.
PLACE - NAME - RIDER# - SCORE
1 FRICK 207 1254
2 SNYDER 818 1012
3 MORRIS 332 819
4 MILLER 239 643
5 SCHNEEWEIS 88 606
6 BELL 799 538
7 BLAUVELT 803 433
8 COLLINS 439 426
9 CARTER 120 373
10 PORTER 801 245
11 HAY 822 241
12 PURCELL 825 205
13 RUFO 814 203
14 HAMILL 830 168
15 RADEMACHER 618 157
16 CARTER 521 154
17 CAMP 828 146
18 FOSSEN 330 138
19 QUISTORFF 82 137
20 QUISTORFF 630 137
21 ABBOTT 243 119
22 HYDE 839 110
23 JOHANSON 840 99
24 JOHANSON 841 99
25 COVER 816 99
26 RUFO 815 91
27 KERKOW 214 88
28 HAUCK 45 72
29 VAN DER LINDEN 752 50
30 HAGEN 652 48
31 HARVEY 386 42
32 DIETS 821 34
33 GEISER 355 34
34 WILFORD 443 32
35 WISER 337 32
36 JACOBS 810 28
37 DESMARAIS 824 26
38 JACOBS 820 25
39 SCHUELER 587 25
40 PAQUIN 837 24
41 BENEDICT 804 23
42 LINDOM 61 22
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DNF SCHMIDT 827 0
DNF AZRIELI 793 0
DNF BROWN 826 0
DNF HASE 44 0
DNF WINSLOW 835 0
DNF IVEY 812 0
DNF LAMPP 831 0
DNF SHAY 783 0
DNF KOBOL 798 0
DNF FRIEDMAN 836 0
DNF CHAHAL 811 0
DNF MCCLURE 621 0
DNF FARLEY 832 0
DNF MCCALLISTER 819 0
DNF RUDDY 833 0
DNF MARSH 842 0
DNF KINCHEON 823 0
DNF LAZZAROTTO 813 0
DNF MCATEE 778 0
DNF FERNANDES 817 0
DNF JUDGES 834 0
DNF BROZZO 480 0
DNF PERLIK 838 0
DNF KJENDAL 699 0
DNF HARRISON 829 0