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Originally Posted By chase45: I was scooting around last night Boy I got closest ive been to bitting it Wasn't even doing anything dumb either Simple left turn. Going slow. Nothing crazy in the slightest. Hit a patch of sand I didn't see. It turned sideways so fast Kicked myself and the bike back up. Foot is a little sore but I'll take it compared to the alternative lol An insurance claim is a lot cheaper and more painless than a fucked up foot an ankle you end up paying for over the rest of your life. Not saying you did anything wrong, but be careful. |
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Originally Posted By TheOtherDave: Yeh… never use car oil in a bike-they have additional lubricants that will cause the clutch to slip and then you are replacing the clutch plates to fix it. Again, you don't know what you are talking about. Some car oils might make a motorcycle wet clutch slip, but it is far from all of them. If that happens, usually it can be remedied by changing out the oil for the correct oil. Replacement of clutch parts is often not necessary. And yes, I have firsthand experience with this. The reason to use a motorcycle-specific oil in a motorcycle is that the additive package contains additional anti-shear additives that are useful because on many motorcycles, the transmission gears and the crankshaft share a common sump and those gears beat the crap out of motor oil. |
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Originally Posted By Emoto: You don't know what you're talking about. OK, friend. |
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Originally Posted By SamuelHyde: I have the older style Klim Marrakesh completely mesh jacket with CE level 2 D3O armor for summer riding and puts my other mesh panel hot weather jacket to shame. Highly recommend. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/335979/1000046190_jpg-3804405.JPG Yea I am looking at getting one of those. I have had bad enough road rash offroad to not want to ride with a jacket. My only CE rated one is too hot for summer work, and my old Fox 360 enduro jacket probably isn't up to the task of meeting pavement. *Edit* Decided to buy one last night. Nobody who had an acceptable color in my size would ship to California because of some PFAS in clothing law. Gonna see if Cycle gear can get it in store. |
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Worked the first scratch in tonight Im about half way home walking it Can't get it to start. Went down on the battery side. Don't see anything wrong but there's zero power Attached File Attached File |
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I couldn't figure it out. I had to ditch it at a gas station and walk home Ill go back after it once the traffic dies down. Its not too far away Got my knee beat up pretty good. Ground some of my fingers down a bit. Road rash in my arm. Helmet saved my head from some damage Bout to take a shower and try and get all the debris out of the wounds Guess I had it coming with how I've been taking some turns lately |
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Originally Posted By 1371eng: Get it started? Make sure the red switch on right side of handlebar is set to run...Its easy to accidently switch it to off(especially after a spill) Years ago I was on a ride with my brothers. We were stopped at an intersection and my bike cut off. I started to panic a bit because it was just dead and we were pretty far from home. It took me a minute before I realized I had accidentally hit that switch. 
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Originally Posted By Dynamo: Years ago I was on a ride with my brothers. We were stopped at an intersection and my bike cut off. I started to panic a bit because it was just dead and we were pretty far from home. It took me a minute before I realized I had accidentally hit that switch. Yep...I did the same,almost killed the battery trying to start the bike...Finally noticed the switch position |
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Originally Posted By 1371eng: Get it started? Make sure the red switch on right side of handlebar is set to run...Its easy to accidently switch it to off(especially after a spill) This is now a tomorrow problem lol But no there is zero power. Nothing lights up. The antifreeze reservoir got busted so im wondering if that got on something and poped a fuse maybe I tried cycling the key a bunch. Flipping the red kill switch on and off. Notta. I checked the electrical connectors that I could Its at a gas station down the street. I went to go grab a few groceries real quick. I get home some hours later to my entire family sick on top of the I told you so So I've been dealing with that a bit. The things insured and its a nice part of town so I guess we'll see lol My knee has gotten quite sore. Feel like tomorrow im going to feel like I got in a motorcycle wreck |
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Originally Posted By Dynamo: It took me a minute before I realized I had accidentally hit that switch. The bike started wobbling a little and I sat up and looked over my right shoulder to see if something was amiss. My buddy on an Open Superbike was on my right side with his left hand on my tail section. I chicken winged and swerved a bit to shake him. He just wound on a little more throttle and as he passed me he reached over and kill-switched me. It was like I dropped anchor right across the Start-Finish. I got him back a few weeks later. We were on 2222 in Austin and we came to a stop. I reached over and grabbed his key and tossed it over the guardrail. "Payback's a bitch!" |
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Originally Posted By bobbitybobbity: I'd have jumped all over that had I found it soon enough. I searched 20 pages... Originally Posted By bobbitybobbity: Originally Posted By CapedCrusader: I hate to sound like a broken record, but if you are shopping around for bikes then you really ought to check out advrider.com. They have some incredible deals there on all kinds of bikes. And don't just look at the first page. The site is so active that you should be reviewing at least the first 20 pages or so. ETA: Just looked and today a 2014 Royal Enfield 500 Classic was listed for FREE that looks like new: https://i.ibb.co/LK47R5y/RE.jpg https://i.ibb.co/mdJ0VQd/RE1.jpg Yes, accessories too. If I want to buy something, I check there first. |
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Originally Posted By TheOtherDave: Motorcycle engines are rarely under much load. The manufacturers know they get revved for the sake of being revved and plan accordingly. Originally Posted By TheOtherDave: Originally Posted By Emoto: Good way to damage your engine. Never run your engine up to redline without it being under load. Motorcycle engines are rarely under much load. The manufacturers know they get revved for the sake of being revved and plan accordingly. Yeah, just don’t rev it to redline and hold it that way until your exhaust melts like some Brazilian or brain damaged gixxer rider and it’ll be fine. Bike engines are made to routinely see their redline and you’re not going to blow it up doing a rev bomb every once in a while. Actually, shifting close to the redline is a decent practice depending on the bike. |
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Originally Posted By PhuzzyGnu: Airflow management through vents is better than screen door mesh ventilation on long rides. Tooling around town or for an hour or two max, mesh is where it's at. Idk man, from June-September here in FL I’m wearing my Icon Mesh AF jacket. If it’s going to be a “spicy” ride I wear an RST leather/mesh jacket with level II inserts. Anything else, vents or not, is oppressively hot. |
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Originally Posted By chase45: I personally didn't break anything but boy getting the asphalt debris out of my wound is a form of torture https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2713_jpg-3807653.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2714_jpg-3807654.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2715_jpg-3807655.JPG Ouch. Roadrash sucks. I learned that lesson when I went down in a t-shirt and jeans 20 years ago. After I had been putting off getting more gear. Backpack saved me from it being way worse. Helmet had a small scuff. The hands were awful. Were you wearing gloves? I saw the earlier traffic stop post and was going to tell you to stop riding and get some gear, then saw I was too late. You found the need for good gloves, pants, and jacket. Good solid boots arent a bad idea if youre dabbing a foot in gravel/dirt to right the bike, I do the same. I forgot I was just wearing my work boots one time and it felt a bit sketchy. Armor has saved me a sore elbow on a gravel road before. Did some off road riding yesterday. I felt a bit silly putting on a chest protector and elbow/knee pads. I went down at low speed 4-5 times. The elbow, knees, and boots all took hits. Hit the ground pretty hard with my elbows a couple times, one in big rocks. The only thing I felt from any of it was something hitting my shin. Have fun, but please take some steps to be safer. |
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Originally Posted By dangerranger61007: Ouch. Roadrash sucks. I learned that lesson when I went down in a t-shirt and jeans 20 years ago. After I had been putting off getting more gear. Backpack saved me from it being way worse. Helmet had a small scuff. The hands were awful. Were you wearing gloves? I saw the earlier traffic stop post and was going to tell you to stop riding and get some gear, then saw I was too late. You found the need for good gloves, pants, and jacket. Good solid boots arent a bad idea if youre dabbing a foot in gravel/dirt to right the bike, I do the same. I forgot I was just wearing my work boots one time and it felt a bit sketchy. Armor has saved me a sore elbow on a gravel road before. Did some off road riding yesterday. I felt a bit silly putting on a chest protector and elbow/knee pads. I went down at low speed 4-5 times. The elbow, knees, and boots all took hits. Hit the ground pretty hard with my elbows a couple times, one in big rocks. The only thing I felt from any of it was something hitting my shin. Have fun, but please take some steps to be safer. Yeah i always wear gloves and a helmet. It just ate through the gloves pretty quick. Sure it would be way worse had I not had them Ill definitely have to get some gear. Lessons learned I got the bike home this am. There's still no power. I checked a fuse or two and didn't see anything popped. But there's more that are harder to get to My knee is the worst. Its pretty sore and beat up. My arm took some road rash too thats much more apparent this morning. Ground 2 fingers down a bit. Could be much worse. I know a guy who's about my age and got a similar bike the same time. He's qued up for shoulder surgery over dropping his. So I'll count my blessings Overall I feel I had it coming a bit. I was getting overconfident in the corners |
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Originally Posted By chase45: I personally didn't break anything but boy getting the asphalt debris out of my wound is a form of torture https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2713_jpg-3807653.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2714_jpg-3807654.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2715_jpg-3807655.JPG Learning the hard way about riding gear and what not to wear to your next crash can be painful  …
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Originally Posted By chase45: This is now a tomorrow problem lol But no there is zero power. Nothing lights up. The antifreeze reservoir got busted so im wondering if that got on something and poped a fuse maybe I tried cycling the key a bunch. Flipping the red kill switch on and off. Notta. I checked the electrical connectors that I could Its at a gas station down the street. I went to go grab a few groceries real quick. I get home some hours later to my entire family sick on top of the I told you so So I've been dealing with that a bit. The things insured and its a nice part of town so I guess we'll see lol My knee has gotten quite sore. Feel like tomorrow im going to feel like I got in a motorcycle wreck For the little bit of damage that took, I wouldn’t make a claim if I were you…. They will likely drop you. |
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Originally Posted By chase45: Yeah i always wear gloves and a helmet. It just ate through the gloves pretty quick. Sure it would be way worse had I not had them Ill definitely have to get some gear. Lessons learned I got the bike home this am. There's still no power. I checked a fuse or two and didn't see anything popped. But there's more that are harder to get to My knee is the worst. Its pretty sore and beat up. My arm took some road rash too thats much more apparent this morning. Ground 2 fingers down a bit. Could be much worse. I know a guy who's about my age and got a similar bike the same time. He's qued up for shoulder surgery over dropping his. So I'll count my blessings Overall I feel I had it coming a bit. I was getting overconfident in the corners Originally Posted By chase45: Yeah i always wear gloves and a helmet. It just ate through the gloves pretty quick. Sure it would be way worse had I not had them Ill definitely have to get some gear. Lessons learned I got the bike home this am. There's still no power. I checked a fuse or two and didn't see anything popped. But there's more that are harder to get to My knee is the worst. Its pretty sore and beat up. My arm took some road rash too thats much more apparent this morning. Ground 2 fingers down a bit. Could be much worse. I know a guy who's about my age and got a similar bike the same time. He's qued up for shoulder surgery over dropping his. So I'll count my blessings Overall I feel I had it coming a bit. I was getting overconfident in the corners Oh, the joys of scrubbing sand and debris out of road rash so it doesn't get infected.  BTDT. Still have some scars.Good riding gear is worth the expense and slight inconvenience. Lots of good mesh jackets out there. I prefer a light color in hot weather. For most riding, I wear Aerostich Darien pants - they fit over top of your regular pants or shorts. If it is brutally hot, I have a set of Cortech mesh overpants. The good mesh gear has armor and abrasion resistant areas over the elbows and knees to prevent exactly what you got. For gloves, I like Olympia a lot. Reasonably priced and good performance in crash tests. My regular is their 410, but they have some leather perforated ones for hot weather. Consider riding boots. They have armor over the ankle bones that have just a thin layer of skin over them. ATGATT = all the gear all the time Originally Posted By HammerHammer: Originally Posted By TheOtherDave: Originally Posted By Emoto: Good way to damage your engine. Never run your engine up to redline without it being under load. Motorcycle engines are rarely under much load. The manufacturers know they get revved for the sake of being revved and plan accordingly. Yeah, just don’t rev it to redline and hold it that way until your exhaust melts like some Brazilian or brain damaged gixxer rider and it’ll be fine. Bike engines are made to routinely see their redline and you’re not going to blow it up doing a rev bomb every once in a while. Actually, shifting close to the redline is a decent practice depending on the bike. The engines are designed to operate under load, which means "when being ridden". The forces involved when you rev high and release on a bike that is stationary are very different and much more stressful on many parts. Please do some research on this and be kind to your engine. |
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Originally Posted By HammerHammer: Yeah, just don’t rev it to redline and hold it that way until your exhaust melts like some Brazilian or brain damaged gixxer rider and it’ll be fine. Bike engines are made to routinely see their redline and you’re not going to blow it up doing a rev bomb every once in a while. Actually, shifting close to the redline is a decent practice depending on the bike. lol, I can see you don’t know what you’re talking about either… 
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Originally Posted By dangerranger61007: Ouch. Roadrash sucks. I learned that lesson when I went down in a t-shirt and jeans 20 years ago. After I had been putting off getting more gear. Backpack saved me from it being way worse. Helmet had a small scuff. The hands were awful. Were you wearing gloves? I saw the earlier traffic stop post and was going to tell you to stop riding and get some gear, then saw I was too late. You found the need for good gloves, pants, and jacket. Good solid boots arent a bad idea if youre dabbing a foot in gravel/dirt to right the bike, I do the same. I forgot I was just wearing my work boots one time and it felt a bit sketchy. Armor has saved me a sore elbow on a gravel road before. Did some off road riding yesterday. I felt a bit silly putting on a chest protector and elbow/knee pads. I went down at low speed 4-5 times. The elbow, knees, and boots all took hits. Hit the ground pretty hard with my elbows a couple times, one in big rocks. The only thing I felt from any of it was something hitting my shin. Have fun, but please take some steps to be safer. I once took a slide wearing a pair of Levis 501s, I quickly learned they don't last long sliding on pavement. The big spot of road rash on my hip was the worst to deal with. There's good affordable gear with armor that would have prevented most of your injuries and for the love of God get some some good riding boots with solid ankle protection. |
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Looking at about 400ish in plastics damages The rear rim got some road rash. I might try one of those vinyl colored stickers that does half the rim to cover it up lol Im limping around today. I've cleaned the wounds best I could. Whenever I rest for a bit that knee gets real tight right now Im going to have to dive deeper into the electrical issue. Nothing looks apparent honestly. I dont think the battery really got yanked on just the rear quarter panel and antifreeze reservoir |
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Originally Posted By chase45: Yeah i always wear gloves and a helmet. It just ate through the gloves pretty quick. Sure it would be way worse had I not had them Ill definitely have to get some gear. Lessons learned I got the bike home this am. There's still no power. I checked a fuse or two and didn't see anything popped. But there's more that are harder to get to My knee is the worst. Its pretty sore and beat up. My arm took some road rash too thats much more apparent this morning. Ground 2 fingers down a bit. Could be much worse. I know a guy who's about my age and got a similar bike the same time. He's qued up for shoulder surgery over dropping his. So I'll count my blessings Overall I feel I had it coming a bit. I was getting overconfident in the corners If I may, what gloves and about how fast were you going? For science. |
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Originally Posted By chase45: Looking at about 400ish in plastics damages The rear rim got some road rash. I might try one of those vinyl colored stickers that does half the rim to cover it up lol Im limping around today. I've cleaned the wounds best I could. Whenever I rest for a bit that knee gets real tight right now Im going to have to dive deeper into the electrical issue. Nothing looks apparent honestly. I dont think the battery really got yanked on just the rear quarter panel and antifreeze reservoir Does the battery actually have 12v? Maybe it shorted internally. |
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Originally Posted By TheOtherDave: For the little bit of damage that took, I wouldn't make a claim if I were you . They will likely drop you. As to the post crash issue my guess would be the tip switch is stuck. When Suzuki first started implementing that feature we found they would stick sometimes once actuated. Locate the switch and give it a few gentle taps or a gentle shake to allow it to go back to the un crashed position. |
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Originally Posted By lorazepam: Does the battery actually have 12v? Maybe it shorted internally. Originally Posted By lorazepam: Originally Posted By chase45: Looking at about 400ish in plastics damages The rear rim got some road rash. I might try one of those vinyl colored stickers that does half the rim to cover it up lol Im limping around today. I've cleaned the wounds best I could. Whenever I rest for a bit that knee gets real tight right now Im going to have to dive deeper into the electrical issue. Nothing looks apparent honestly. I dont think the battery really got yanked on just the rear quarter panel and antifreeze reservoir Does the battery actually have 12v? Maybe it shorted internally. Good idea to check battery first. Wires might got crushed, cut, shorted or disconnected somewhere near the impact area. |
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Originally Posted By dangerranger61007: If I may, what gloves and about how fast were you going? For science. Maybe 20. 30 tops. I was in the turn. Leaning. Cleared it. Then I dont know. I leaned it decently. Maybe I didn't pick the speed up fast enough from keeping from falling over due to the lean angle. I could have hit some silt or something too. Everything was fine until it wasn't lol. Just remember seeing sparks flying and not being able to believe I put it down as I was sliding They look decent really. The ring finger is the worst from that. Def ground into a bit lol. Looks like someone took a dremel with a grinding wheel to it I was wearing pants and a tshirt. Gloves and the helmet. There is some lights scrapes on the left side of the helmet. My head never hurt. You'll never catch me without the helmet. Also more gear. Im going to do some reflecting on the whole thing as I dive deeper into it. Attached File Attached File |
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Originally Posted By:chase45 But no there is zero power. Nothing lights up. Not necessarily related to your crash but I bypass the kickstand and clutch safeties on my bikes, I ride on gravel and trails a lot and a rock or spill can damage those and leave you with a bike that won't start. They are easy to bypass and I grew up in a time when such things didn't exist on bikes so I've never grown to rely on them anyway. |
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Originally Posted By chase45: Maybe 20. 30 tops. I was in the turn. Leaning. Cleared it. Then I dont know. I leaned it decently. Maybe I didn't pick the speed up fast enough from keeping from falling over due to the lean angle. I could have hit some silt or something too. Everything was fine until it wasn't lol. Just remember seeing sparks flying and not being able to believe I put it down as I was sliding They look decent really. The ring finger is the worst from that. Def ground into a bit lol. Looks like someone took a dremel with a grinding wheel to it I was wearing pants and a tshirt. Gloves and the helmet. There is some lights scrapes on the left side of the helmet. My head never hurt. You'll never catch me without the helmet. Also more gear. Im going to do some reflecting on the whole thing as I dive deeper into it. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2725_jpg-3807856.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2727_jpg-3807857.JPG |
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Originally Posted By chase45: Maybe 20. 30 tops. I was in the turn. Leaning. Cleared it. Then I dont know. I leaned it decently. Maybe I didn't pick the speed up fast enough from keeping from falling over due to the lean angle. I could have hit some silt or something too. Everything was fine until it wasn't lol. Just remember seeing sparks flying and not being able to believe I put it down as I was sliding They look decent really. The ring finger is the worst from that. Def ground into a bit lol. Looks like someone took a dremel with a grinding wheel to it I was wearing pants and a tshirt. Gloves and the helmet. There is some lights scrapes on the left side of the helmet. My head never hurt. You'll never catch me without the helmet. Also more gear. Im going to do some reflecting on the whole thing as I dive deeper into it. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2725_jpg-3807856.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2727_jpg-3807857.JPG I would check both the tire pressures. Low tire pressure will cause you to go down for seemingly no reason. Probably not the cause of your accident but you never know. |
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Originally Posted By chase45: Maybe 20. 30 tops. I was in the turn. Leaning. Cleared it. Then I dont know. I leaned it decently. Maybe I didn't pick the speed up fast enough from keeping from falling over due to the lean angle. I could have hit some silt or something too. Everything was fine until it wasn't lol. Just remember seeing sparks flying and not being able to believe I put it down as I was sliding They look decent really. The ring finger is the worst from that. Def ground into a bit lol. Looks like someone took a dremel with a grinding wheel to it I was wearing pants and a tshirt. Gloves and the helmet. There is some lights scrapes on the left side of the helmet. My head never hurt. You'll never catch me without the helmet. Also more gear. Im going to do some reflecting on the whole thing as I dive deeper into it. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2725_jpg-3807856.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2727_jpg-3807857.JPG Yeah, IF you're going to ride like that, at least dress for it. Get some street motorcycle gloves. I have Cortech Revo ST, of the <$100 gloves I tried on with good protection, they were the most comfortable. The velcro strap could just be better. Your hands are worth it. I feel naked riding with anything less than jacket, pants, boots, and gloves. For off road dual sport I throw the dirt bike gloves in my bag and switch when going from street to dirt. My hands got tore up pretty bad before and I dont want that again. |
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Originally Posted By Seabee_Mech: The safeties; neutral, kickstand, clutch and I believe tip over switch will cause a no crank situation but not a no power at all situation. Check the battery for voltage and the connections, then see if you're getting power to and out of the key switch. Find a wring diagram for your bike it'll help a bunch in tracing the power flow. Not necessarily related to your crash but I bypass the kickstand and clutch safeties on my bikes, I ride on gravel and trails a lot and a rock or spill can damage those and leave you with a bike that won't start. They are easy to bypass and I grew up in a time when such things didn't exist on bikes so I've never grown to rely on them anyway. I've had both the kickstand and neutral switches mess with me mostly my own fault. My first trip ever I was in canada and lost the kickstand spring so we had to wire the kickstand up. Every time I stopped someone had to come undo it so I could get off the bike. What a pain in the ass. |
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Originally Posted By TheOtherDave: Motorcycle engines are rarely under much load. The manufacturers know they get revved for the sake of being revved and plan accordingly. That's why they have it in the owner's manual NOT to rev them, while NOT under load. 2024 CBR100RR owners manual. Page 110. Link " Extended fast idling and revving the engine can damage the engine and the exhaust system." R1 manual. Link Page 5-3. "Do not rev the engine while shifting down, and avoid high engine speeds with no load on the engine." |
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Originally Posted By TheOtherDave: lol, I can see you don’t know what you’re talking about either… Originally Posted By TheOtherDave: Originally Posted By HammerHammer: Yeah, just don’t rev it to redline and hold it that way until your exhaust melts like some Brazilian or brain damaged gixxer rider and it’ll be fine. Bike engines are made to routinely see their redline and you’re not going to blow it up doing a rev bomb every once in a while. Actually, shifting close to the redline is a decent practice depending on the bike. lol, I can see you don’t know what you’re talking about either… I actually towed my FTR to the dealer today because I, in fact, melted a hole through the rear header link pipe.   They approved it as a warranty repair issue.
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Originally Posted By HammerHammer: I actually towed my FTR to the dealer today because I, in fact, melted a hole through the rear header link pipe. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/367057/IMG_4461-3808268.jpg They approved it as a warranty repair issue. How did you do that? |
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Originally Posted By chase45: Maybe 20. 30 tops. I was in the turn. Leaning. Cleared it. Then I dont know. I leaned it decently. Maybe I didn't pick the speed up fast enough from keeping from falling over due to the lean angle. I could have hit some silt or something too. Everything was fine until it wasn't lol. Just remember seeing sparks flying and not being able to believe I put it down as I was sliding They look decent really. The ring finger is the worst from that. Def ground into a bit lol. Looks like someone took a dremel with a grinding wheel to it I was wearing pants and a tshirt. Gloves and the helmet. There is some lights scrapes on the left side of the helmet. My head never hurt. You'll never catch me without the helmet. Also more gear. Im going to do some reflecting on the whole thing as I dive deeper into it. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2725_jpg-3807856.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2727_jpg-3807857.JPG Ahh. You bought some ‘bro’ gloves. There is a reason racers wear leathers everything. |
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I loved riding. Does something for me that I can't explain. However here in Florida I was basically combatting vehicles daily. Was practically hit, cut off, or ran off weekly. it had gotten to the point where I had to be so damned hyper vigilant while riding that I couldn't enjoy it. |
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Originally Posted By CapedCrusader: How did you do that? Originally Posted By CapedCrusader: Originally Posted By HammerHammer: I actually towed my FTR to the dealer today because I, in fact, melted a hole through the rear header link pipe. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/367057/IMG_4461-3808268.jpg They approved it as a warranty repair issue. How did you do that? It’s a race bike and I ride it accordingly. I didn’t buy it with the idea that I might sell it one day, I’m going to thrash it until things break, fix em, do it again, and eventually when it’s just dead I’ll save it for spare parts and buy another one from an old guy who rode his to the bar twice a month (they’re discontinued, there’s no more new ones). They also identified that my steering stem bearing has a bit of a catch (probably from all the power wheelies and the occasional clutch-up), so they’re gonna replace it and the whole triple tree too while they’re at it. Indian gets all the credit on this - when they say “you have a two year warranty”, they really mean it. Go out there and ride the damn thing. |
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In Maggie Valley, NC for a few days with friends. Awesome roads around here. ATGATT I even wear an air vest. Some of us like to ride in a very, um, “spirited,“ manner, but it doesn’t matter if you crash at 30 going up to the grocery store. Wear the gear! Attached File |
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Originally Posted By TheOtherDave: Ahh. You bought some ‘bro’ gloves. There is a reason racers wear leathers everything. Originally Posted By TheOtherDave: Originally Posted By chase45: Maybe 20. 30 tops. I was in the turn. Leaning. Cleared it. Then I dont know. I leaned it decently. Maybe I didn't pick the speed up fast enough from keeping from falling over due to the lean angle. I could have hit some silt or something too. Everything was fine until it wasn't lol. Just remember seeing sparks flying and not being able to believe I put it down as I was sliding They look decent really. The ring finger is the worst from that. Def ground into a bit lol. Looks like someone took a dremel with a grinding wheel to it I was wearing pants and a tshirt. Gloves and the helmet. There is some lights scrapes on the left side of the helmet. My head never hurt. You'll never catch me without the helmet. Also more gear. Im going to do some reflecting on the whole thing as I dive deeper into it. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2725_jpg-3807856.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/161977/2727_jpg-3807857.JPG Ahh. You bought some ‘bro’ gloves. There is a reason racers wear leathers everything. I buy the “bro” gloves at every big ride I go to, just as souvenirs. Guess which of these I trust my hands to on a regular basis…  I ate shit doing a hard scrape in January this year, broke my foot when the bike pancaked on top of it, but the rest of me was good because I was wearing top notch gear. The palm sliders on my gloves took a ton of damage and practically wore off, but they soaked it all up and my hands didn’t. All my gear had armor inserts and despite doing several backwards summersaults on pavement at 45mph, I was barely even sore other than the crushed foot - I think I had a medium grade bruise on one thigh and that was it. Also, good leather will take A FUCKING TON of friction before it wears through, you could conceivably crash in the same leather jacket 4-5 times before you have to replace it. Even if a textile garment earns a good CE rating (which is still acceptable for street riding), it’s completely toast after even a minor slide. Anytime it’s cool enough to do it, I wear all leather gear with armor inserts. |