Motorcycles BS Thread 2.0

I wont either..

 

My sidis are pretty damn comfortable right out of the box

 

I'm sure i'm doing something wrong. I did what i read on the internet. Wear them around a couple times before your ride. Did that. Rode one time and instantly hated them because they wouldn't loosen up.

 

I went with a cheap boot. I know.

 

I don't have/see any issue with them.

 

My issue is the type of people that buy those and how they take care of their bikes

 

Anyone use anything other than cycletrader or craigslist to sell a bike? Trying to sell my 09 848.

 

I use Craigslist every time

 

are you trying to shift by moving your ankle or your hip?
any riding boot that let you shift with your ankle wouldn't be very protective imo.
I shift dirt bikes by lifting my whole leg.
This also goes back to why I run the longer shifter you didn't like a while back.

 

I see.

I don't reallu judge people like that anymore.

 

I prefer to move my ankle or if i'm standing, yank my knee/leg up.

 

I have a hard enough time buying a bike used. So if I see spikes and a two Bros. Or something I'm like pass

 

or a slip on?

 

Slip on doesn't bother me. Both my bikes have high end slip ons. I just usually find that the people who go cheap on parts tend to not keep up on maintenance. When I ran the shop there were so many people who didn't know you had to clean and lube your chain

 

But it says " Maintenance free O-ring chain"?!

 

I'm so anal about my chain. I have a box of cleaner and lube haha. I know 2 people who have had theirs snap while riding

 

Yep, I snapped one on my Bandit about 300 miles from home, sucked, did some damage to the case. New bike has no chain!! Shaft drive. I'm officially old.

 

ive snapped a belt on my Harley.. but it was partially my fault, because I trimmed the belt guard, and it snapped. Only locked up the rear at about 20 mph.

 

Take them outside and spray with a garden hose to get them fairly wet. Walk around, and squat, bend, stretch like you're stretching your calf kind of. Take them off and bend the toe with your hands, etc

Mine were incredibly stiff out of the box and I got them pretty well worn in just doing that without even riding.

Matt