Motorcycles BS Thread 2.0

Turns out you change out the air filter ever 24,000 miles. Yet the spark plug needs to be changed at 8,000 miles...

 

That doesn't seem right. Spark plugs are usually good for anywhere between 50-100k miles.

 

Yeah, seems low to me as well. I'll check it during my next oil change and see.

 

Speed is the whole reason I no longer own a sport bike. When I did, I enjoyed the ability to twist my wrist and have that instant torque and power propel me down the road into the twisties. I have hit my 4th decade now and feel that my cruiser is more in tune with how I like to ride. Especially since I broke my bake 9 years ago in a wreak. I did ride my buddy's bike back to his house that he bought about two months ago as he didn't have his license yet. Since then I have found myself looking at a couple of naked bikes that really have got my attention. The Z900 caught my eye last weekend when I went in to look at a side by side. I almost drove out with it!

 

loaded and ready for the snirt run up on tug hill ny. Over3k people expected to be riding atv's, sxs's, and dirt bikes

 

You don't have to use bold for the entire post

 

He uses bold for everything he posts

 

PENIS

 

Wooo finally decent priced insurance for the S1000R, Now I can commit to some mods for it

 

My Suzuki manual says to change my plugs every 12k miles. Like wut.

 

This happened yesterday

 

Dipped the fucker from this ugly betty





To this


Blaze orange dip is the biggest pain in the ass. It clogs every 30 seconds and fucking sucks. I'm going to have to clean up the lines but for now she is a 10 footer.

Anyways, bright as fuck! Tried to replicate the new orange polaris slingshots. Might just sand and do orange paint next.

 

first real ride of the season with the new bike today

 

Fine wire electrode (platinum/iridium) plugs in automobiles often survive 50k to 100k miles, however very few automobiles run at 4500 to 6000 rpm at 80 mph. At 6000 rpm each plug in my 600 cc twin Silver Wing fires 50 times per second; OTH at 2300 rpm each plug in my V6 Taco is firing just 20 times per second.

Then there is that bike engines are typically tuned for much higher performance, 100+ HP/liter is not at all uncommon, my "piddly" Silver Wing 600 cranks out 54 HP, that's 90 HP/liter--at that performance level the 4.0L engine in my truck would deliver 360 HP.

The bottom line is that plugs in bikes work harder than plugs in car and trucks, and therefore wear out sooner. FWIW I run Autolite XP iridium plugs in the S'Wing and expect to do so for 35k to 40k. The Honda "recommended" plug is a conventional nickel-chrome "fat-wire" electrode (so-called "copper"), spec'd to be changed at 8k intervals...

 

It seems most of there people here ride faster bikes.

Here is some thing from the slow lane.

I traded these in this weekend


The tiger was no slouch and I'm going to miss that bike the most. My Harley was fun, loud And beautiful. But I was making bad decisions in my riding style on the tiger, at times I fell riding above my limit.

Any way... traded them both in on this 2015 road glide. It had 350 miles on it. New bike for a used price.

 

You can see the imprint of my body from where I landed

 

I just like to be different

Actually it helps me visually find my posts and anyone that commented on one of mine.

Love your bike. Especially that color scheme. It reminds me of my old 400. I almost bought the one they had at our local dealership when it arrived.

Nice bikes. Why did you trade in the 03? I hope they gave you a good price.

 

Life throws you some curves now and then, I had a stroke in May of 2014 that messed up my left side; they told me my riding days were over. But I just found a ride that did not demand as much from my my left side:

 

There ya go! Hope you're doing well and I'm damn glad you're still getting out there!