Motorcycles BS Thread 2.0

Maybe they'll treat it like others and give it to us the 2nd year. Didn't they do that with the T7 World Rally? I know the Transalp was done that way(although we only get the black color)

 

I actually love retro sport bikes, but this is just ugly. The rear is too stubby and weirdly shaped, the missing lower fairing looks odd and the front looks dumb to me with the headlight being too small.

I would have liked to have seen a dual headlight version like the old FZR600.



The only modern equivalent I think looks amazing is the Velocity Moto kit for the XSR900. That one is retro modern done right IMO.

 

Totally understand the situation then. Remote work definitely helps ease the pain of commute if you can do a few days a week at home!

5 gallon jug at home, fill with known amount of fuel. (some of the 5 gal jugs you can fit almost 6gallons in).

Reset trip meter to start mpg calculation when you fill your bike full at the PUMP. Ride and Refuel the bike out of the 5 gal can till its gone, fill bikes tank full at pump and add the known amount of fuel from the jug from home to that final fill in the bike to calculate from the trip meter. Your mpg calculations will actually be better this way as you wont have the variances of small fills in the tank of the bike.

This is how I operate on my grom when I ride it a lot. 1gallon tank on the bike almost necessitates having the "gas station" at home via a 5 gal jug.

 

agreed but wait and see ya know!

personally not a fan of the dual headlights... but i do agree on the tiny little headlight i dont get that part. the tail thou i like makes it retro modern i guess?

i do like that kit but not for that price haha

 

I wonder if the headlight would have to be re-designed to meet some kind of DOT regulations for the NA market. It does seem awfully small.

 

It looks like the same size as the R7 headlight

 

thats possible who knows

true but it also has the drl lights to get more attention

 

that's my rule of thumb too. Though that was when I only had a truck. Now I'm on my bike I'm more willing to extend that

Confirmed, the commute is the highlight of my work day lol.

One of my roommates does commercial plumbing, and there was a year long stretch where he wasn't able to find any local jobs, so he kept getting sent out around the state. Few months commuting up to Orange or LA county, few months where he had to work in Monterey, so he and a few other coworkers would get a hotel room for the week, and drive up on Sundays/down to San Diego on Fridays.

it really wore on him.

It has its pros and cons

pros: gives you something to look forward to every workday
cons: you do occasionally have to deal with crap weather and idiot drivers.

 

I would have to fill the jug at home with less than what it would take to fill the entire tank, right?


Also, turns out my work has a shuttle that stops 2 miles away from my house. Ill try that out as well, seems like a good option so I don’t spend all morning splitting lanes.

 

This is an important point and something that I've run into. During the winter I wasn't getting my F800GS warm enough on my commute so I had a lot of condensation build up in my oil, shit got foamy, my clutch got shredded because of the water in the oil, overall NOT good. If you have a short commute make sure you're getting out for a longer ride every week or two to boil off that crap in your crankcase. I let my bike idle during my entire lunch today in the garage just to get up to temp for a while before I went back in to work.

You could look at Camel Tanks from Camel ADV. They make them for the more typical ADV bikes, but you're handy, I bet you could adapt one. The BMW F800GS one is almost 2 gallons.

 

That little icon baby ratchet kit is on sale this weekend:



Throw in a few sockets in place of some of the random bits and it makes a phenomenal bike kit.

 

I got one of those and replaced the phillips heads with JIS bits.

Also grabbed one of these

$9 9 PCS Nut Driver Set Quick Change 1/4" Hex Shank Metric 5-13mm Non-Magnetic Repairing Tool Kit Suitable for Impact Drill, Wrenches

9 PCS Nut Driver Set Quick Change 1/4" Hex Shank Metric 5-13mm Non-Magnetic Repairing Tool Kit Suitable for Impact Drill, Wrenches - Amazon.com

 

I was wondering if I already replied to this because that’s exactly what I did lol

 

I know someone(may have been you) posted in here and cost me money

 

I bought my setup back in February so if you bought yours after that then… sorry

I have been using the Icon set so much I want another one to leave under the seat on my Versys…

 

I just got mine last week

 

I'm thinking about this myself. Take out the stuff that's not going to be useful to me and put in stuff that will.

 

Only issue is the case is tiny so you can’t take things out to put in sockets for example.

 

Not a busy day at work apparently for me..

Have another topic: this helmet that popped up in my faceblurb feed from 509 with some pretty wild features:
https://ride509.com/collections/sno...arbon-commander-helmet?variant=40644713906261




Heated visor - nothing new for snowmobile helmets (which 509 also does) but cool for a motorcycle helmet
Funky side vents - these seem cool and surprisingly useful
Cardo unit built in- by itself not new or novel, but if you look at the speakers themselves they're more like over the ear headphones. I'm really curious how that'd affect road noise and overall noise of the helmet
Air fit system in the rear - again, not new, but still cool stuff. My scorpion xt9000 has it and it's pretty gimmicky for everyday around town use but makes a difference in noise at highway speeds
Fidlock - the BEST helmet closure system out there, hands down. Takes some getting used to but its SO fast
Built in chase light - not sure if it can be a brake light, too, but still pretty cool
Carbon fiber shell - it'd have to be with all the weight from everything else, almost

I'm really curious overall weight with batteries in there for the comms, lights, and heated visor. Also curious if you can even swap visors with it being heated and built in. Expensive bugger but it's the most innovation I've seen packed in one helmet in a long time.

EDIT: dug some more, apparently 509 has other helmets with a lot of these features and I'm just an idiot and never saw them before I haven't really looked at them since I bought my R3 lid back in like.. 2018?

Edit 2: it has a 12v input on one side paired with a small battery. Interesting way to do it. Don't like the idea of my helmet being tethered to the bike itself.

Edit 3: Heated visor is the snowmobile version, they have the exact same lid minus the heated visor for "street", too, but nothing should be stopping you from using the snowmobile version on the street. I'd love a heated visor.

 

Naw. Take the truck to the station when you need to fill it up/top it off and fill the jug with fuel (keep track of how many gallons you put in the jug). Your next ride on the moto, fill the bike up completely, reset trip meeter, and ride like normal, topping off out of the 5 gallon jug when necessary at home till its gone. Once the fuel out of the jug is gone ride till you need to fuel up the tank on the bike. Fill tank at a gas station, note how many gallons it took to do so + how many gallons were in 5 gallon jug (or two of em depending on fuel consumption) and there is the number you would divide your trip meter by to get accurate mpg. Reset trip meter before you take off from the gas station to start the process over again.... and before you need fuel again on the moto fill the 5 gal jug and start filling out of there again.


Or if you are ballsy like me, put the 5 gal jug in the milk crate of the bike like i do on the grom. Fill everything at the same time haha.