@essextee The plus side of an electric scooter: tucking it in the dining room of an apartment isn't out of the question.

@jminer It still looked pretty good, but had a bunch of mechanical mods. I stopped reading at "O2 sensor delete"

@spacekraken said in Of sunsets and bicycles:

@rallywrench AWESOME

High stoke levels, unbelievable night!

@opposaurus-wrx said in The 48-cylinder motorcycle, and my project car ponderings.:

@awesomeaustinv sadly it's just a digital representation of a figment of my imagination

WHAT!???!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@annoying_salman Thanks! I was out with some friends today I haven't seen in almost 2 years due to COVID, so that was lovely! 🙂

@long_voyager94 Gotcha. We didn't make it that far. We were camping in Lone Rock. Closest we got was just west of the Dells.

@amgtech I managed to get it, just couldn't remember what specific combo worked next time I hopped on after taking pictures. After looking at the manual, it seems it's probably just a kind of shitty button that's hard to press with gloves.

@barnie You're welcome. I try to do it as often as possible. The dealership is family owned, run by a father and daughter. They are incredibly nice, and incredibly competent. I want them to stay in business for a long time. For anyone in the Chicago area, Rich's Yamaha (who also sell Genuine scooters) in Lockport is a great place to do business with. There is actually a dealership closer to me, and I have nothing bad to say about it, but I really like the people at Rich's.

@facw She holds onto the handlebars and you hold onto her. What's the problem? That would isolate your hands from the vibrations of the handlebars fairly well.

this one too, NC35:

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/mcy/d/san-francisco-honda-rvf-400/7324730172.html

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@wrong-wheel-drive I get it, yesterday was similar for me. I thought I was in for around 4k, which would still be big for me, but our route was sort of open ended, I'd never done it, and my buddy undersold it (as usual, haha).

My son had one and the rubber mounted windshield kept getting loose, if this one has the same mounting keep eyes peeled. he ended up replacing mounting with solid bolts and spacers, and getting a larger aftermarket one

@thejwt I’d love to take it off your hands but the shipping would pretty much match the purchase price. Plus I live in a crappy location for motorcycles - weather and scenery is nice but traffic is miserable everywhere. Looking for a convertible instead.

@hillrat This

@hillrat said in Misadventures in Motorcycle Wrenching:

@vondon302 Again, the high-quality content that I come here for.

So much this. The crap I've learned here from music to bicycles makes me sound smarter than I am.

VTX1300c or VTX1800c. 1.3 liter or 1.8 liter water-cooled V-twin, respectively. Later ones are fuel injected and fantastic values if you want a classically-styled cruiser without the Harley stigma, lack of power, and maintenance woes.

@beefchips They are really good looking bikes. This one has a tiny weep from the head, but it’s not a substantial amount. Aesthetics are on the list to fix as she needs it, but I’m bad a finish work so it’ll be mechanics first.

I did almost fry it a couple years ago with what turned out to be a bad seal around the sprocket. I replaced the oil pan gasket, shifter seal, oil sensor seal and a bunch of others before I found the right one.

It only really leaked when riding so it was hard to nail down and got lucky during an errand and noticed a couple drips under it after sitting for 10 minutes while in the store. Checked oil and it was below the dipstick, luckily I was at a farm store so I ran back in and she drunk 2 quarts of oil! Headed straight back home and started troubleshooting.

@rallywrench
Biz plan melts my brain
Meh, just give me the money
I’ll do stuff with it

@classicdatsundebate said in Lovely evening ride:

California has the sweetest smelling scrub

Around here it's orange trees. They're blossoming right now and they smell amazing!

I had planned on a ride earlier today but got distracted with other things. About 730 my wife reminded me so I hopped on the bike for a quick run and it was quite pleasant.

@italia said in Wheels removed and off to the tire shop!:

@jminer hear me out on this one.
https://www.timbersled.com/en-us/

Oh yessssss. No real snow here in PDX but that doesn’t stop me from wanting one

@dipodomysdeserti said in Things that make you go awww.:

Of course we kept making him do it

You gotta force her to keep making eggplant parm until she pays off the cost of raising her! Little bro should've had to keep crawling under the press for a for more decades too!

@pip-bip This cinematic masterpiece:

(the produce stands were brought in as props)

@highlander That is quite a transformation from the 'before' picture and the color is excellent.

@spacekraken 2.5 hrs to go, I’m not counting...2557A5A7-0EFB-482E-83CA-BA0BFE38D63B.jpeg

@forsweden

14.5kW/19.5bhp should be enough to do 60mph fine.

I've rode a beat up 125cc gas job at the school with about a 1/3 of that power to 50mph.

Anecdote from above: Anyone that says it's more fun to ride a slow bike fast is talking out of their ass, because I was wristing it and that was the complete opposite of fun.