First for americans are great, lovely hard working people that I a glad to spend my time with
Lincoln Howard
I love American culture
Bentley Diaz
>tfw no gf to lean with
Kevin Richardson
plz r8 my Autism, Lads.
Luke Lewis
Fifth for Euros are alright, they make good bikes.
William Hall
EUROPEANS CAN GO FUCK THEMSELVES
Justin Kelly
>Afrikaner >dislikes England
Boer?
>hate Scotland Why?
Caleb Murphy
0/10, no bikes on image
James Young
why is this bike getting posted so often all of a sudden?
Blake Wilson
Reported for offtopic
Anthony Myers
More worryingly >likes Belgium NO ONE likes Belgium.
Easton Garcia
Because Americans are fat and dumb lol
Gabriel Ortiz
My Facebook news feed is ironic today. RIP rider.
David Peterson
Butthurt yurocucks that cant buy a busa as a first bike
Angel Ward
Hello, I'm No One. Fucking love their food and beer. And they're like our retarded brothers, can't hate them.
Josiah Parker
...
Henry Rodriguez
You mean finance and get repoed.
Kayden Reyes
I love you too south africa friend
Justin Powell
>Dumb and fat American starts on a supersport and ends up killing himself
Lol
Nathan Powell
Honestly, I was super autistic before I got a bike. Unfortunately I still am, but at least now I am confident in myself.
Jayden Peterson
Yesterday was a beautiful day for a ride, we had our first group ride of the season. We found some new twisties that go past a state park with waterfalls. My fat ass was able to keep up too. Good shit.
Asher Clark
Cleaning chain and took off front cover for the first time for lols and find a bunch of grease...why? I want to clean this up with some kerosene but is this grease supposed to be here? I think it's flung of old lube maybe? Looks weird though
Wyatt Moore
Its normal
Its the one spot I dont worry about keeping clean on my bike
Henry Stewart
> repost for advice
Cleaned my carbs after getting random flat spots and sometimes unstable idle.
Didn't manage to take the carbs apart, so I just sprayed carb cleaner into the throats of each. Took a loooot of cranking to get up, but now it sounds a fuckton more aggressive and idles stably, but im worried it's sounding that way because I haven't tightened something (even though I made triple sure to leave everything as I found it) or I've lost a cylinder or fucked a spark plug when cranking or something.
Should I be worried about the "improved" sound, even if the idle issue seems solved and it seems to rev cleanly now?
Levi Bailey
Man buys sport bike, loses self control, dies in crash! Many such cases!
Definitely normal, its just where the lube tends to end up as the chain spins and flings it off. Some lubes are better than others for flinging, but then they tend to be stickier and pick up more dirt, so the compromise is up to you
Logan Fisher
Hello what is meaning of squid to motorcyclers?
Kayden Jones
Huh. Well alright, thx user. First bike so I'm glad I didn't fk up yet.
Samuel Perry
I miss oregon
Zachary Ross
You would know if you werent running on a cylinder, trust me.
Just ride it and enjoy. Any damage done by just spraying cleaner in there is already done by now anyways
Gabriel Jones
it's a rough translation of the inuit word yammienoob
Easton Cruz
a person who rides recklessly, usually without any regard for their own or other's safety
James Rogers
It's when the road is as slippery as a squid, when you slip on it but don't crash then you're a 'squid'.
Jose Parker
stupid, quick, unprotected, and imminently dead
Michael Cruz
okay but is it called squid, squid is a 10 legged octopud. what do sea animals have to do with motocycler drivers like us?
Luis Edwards
Reported for reporting.
Hudson Martinez
Bikers look like squids with their guts splattered across the road.
Cooper Hughes
Squids like to wrap themselves around things
Idiot motorcyclers like to wrap themselves around things
Ya dig
Hunter Torres
WORST DAY EVER >spend weekend home alone instead of visiting mom like most weekends >sister on vacation out of the country >friends all busy >no gf >bored out of my mind >annoyed by neighbors blasting shit music and singing in bad falsetto all day >decide to go for a ride in the evening >start riding >fucking traffic reee >traffic clears up >starts to rain >stops raining >indicators stop working >start realizing how lonely I am and get feels >back inacity, fucking traffic >decide to treat myself to a burger >stop at burger joint >take off helmet >glasses fall on floor >right glass completely fucked >want to go home >parked bike on sidewalk >hop on, CAREFULLY turn around with masterful clutch and throttle control >some dick broke the pavement in a dark spot >front goes wobbly >drop bike >finally get home after 3 hours >neighbors still making noise
Jacob Rogers
thank you
Benjamin Davis
There are many definitions of squid and no one knows which is the original: shortening Squirrely Kid, the way a crashed bikers guts look hanging out of his torso, I think there's another I can't remember.
Noah Torres
probably a contraction of "squirrely kid", probably started with surfers
Angel Reed
If it makes you feel any better
I laffed
Grayson Hill
indicators are probably an easy fix, loose, dirty or not well protected cable somewhere
Dominic Watson
Now add >laughed at on Pitcairn Camel Grooming Text Service.
Josiah Cook
You probably just urban dictionaryd it like I did
its probably true
Bentley Nguyen
Because it's fucking sexy. Big bore UJM's are based af. >OG Bandit >GSX 1400 >XJR1300 >CB1300 Comfy, look like a motorbike, not a fucking powerranger beyblade 8yo's wet dream, get yo bitch on the back, absolutely walk anything this side of a 911 turbo without even downshifting (even with said bitch on the back), still handle fine, aside from being a little underdamped. >thunderace >cbr1000F >blackbird >busa >zx1100 These work too, better on the highway because fairing, but you lose a lot of style points. underage b& fuck off.
Ryan Diaz
That's the only good thing, they fixed themselves after the drop.
Did you just have an aneurysm?
???
That's why I posted it. I feel pretty much like I did after I botched my first riding exam 2 years ago when I was new.
Jayden Murphy
Oh also the indicator problem is most likely the switch. I cleaned it a while ago but I didn't have copper paste so just sprayed WD-40 on and prayed it would be good enough. It's annoying to get to though; to open up the switch housing I have to remove the choke cable, which means I need to remove the tank as well.
Jacob Campbell
>look like a motorbike, not a fucking powerranger beyblade 8yo's wet dream Still too much like one for my taste.
Hudson Johnson
looks pretty bland tbqh
Nolan Green
Also, do not get kero anywhere near your chain, dumbass. Any solvent will remain buried in the links and continue to decompose whatever actual lubricant you use on the chain, accelerating wear. Unfortunately motorcycle drive chains are dirty, gotta learn to deal with it. You clean your chain correctly by brushing/wiping off excess debris, and adding more lube.
Leo Cox
kerosene is what you're supposed to use, dingus
Luis Ward
I'm not even meme when I say all the new bikes I've seen look like a bunch of knives welded together.
Why can`t we go back to what an RGV 250 or GpZ 900 looked like.
Isaac Ward
>fairing What is a Super Bol D'or
Robert Torres
This is how rapists lives are before they go to jail for rape, kids. You shouldn't feel bad about locking them away, really it's the kindest thing for them. They get to see their friends every day, it doesn't matter that they can't get girls to like them because in their new life there are no girls, and the state does their laundry and gives them tendies.
Ayden Cox
Because old looking things look old and people buy new things to be new.
Ian Ward
I'm a big fan of visible tubular steel frames, for sure.
Evan Bailey
That looks like shit. Giraffe neck.
Carter Parker
Yeah, my Bandit's an S, but bikini fairings really don't count. >bt yeah that tricolore 1300S makes my dick ROCK hard
Hudson Murphy
>next available mod1 test date: 5/5/17 >next available mod2 test date: 14/7/17 JUST
Ayden James
>he thinks thats a bunch of grease
i must have gotten half a pound of that shit out of my sprocket cover when i took it off.
James Allen
>supermotos are not intended for highway riding. i dont do that because its a waste of time on a high maintenance bike >stop gripping the bars so tight >you can raise the triple clamps on the forks a little to make the steering less twitchy >a chink steering damper should work for that purpose just fine
posted in wrong thread before i realized there was a new one
Aaron Butler
I've been spamming it (I'm the primary poster of the bike) for a while and everyone seems to be agreeing with my now
Jeremiah Moore
And I'm telling you that's wrong, dingus. You're getting your advice from the 70's. A modern O-ring chain already has its links lubed, what you spray on it serves to grease the contact faces between the sprockets and the chain. Using any thin penetrant at all can contaminate the o-ring seals and lubrication, and it's not coming out once it's in there. Pic related, read the very first paragraph.
Jeremiah Gomez
how does the good old simple green play into this?
Ian Hughes
A kinked / stuck chain link means replace the whole chain, right?
Ian Morales
>use our branded chain cleaner >the off brand stuff could damage your chain :^) how to get goy'd 101
Wyatt Ward
all cleaners are solvents which are inherently bad for things like rubber seals, albeit, simple green is much less volatile than something like kerosene.
just wipe your chain clean and re-lube it. applying clean grease and rubbing it in is already a cleaning process, not to mention, your chain is flinging actual shit off itself constantly.
tri flow sells spray silicon lube and degreaser if you are really concerned about cleaning. they're both kind of wet and might help to wipe a chain clean
Jaxson Perry
Don`t pick on the poor lad. If want a laugh look no further. >be 21 >still virgin >friend stills me to get cleaned up >takes me to Chinese brothel >girls doesnt speak English >doesn`t matter as I get get hard because I was nervous >tell friend to take me away to get drunk >Dad laughs at me the next day >now 23 still virgin Autism not even once.
Alexander Scott
well he lives in NM so itll be up to him and you to figure out the next handoff
Michael Murphy
>all cleaners are solvents which are inherently bad for things like rubber seals, albeit, simple green is much less volatile than something like kerosene.
20 year old virgin reporting in. At least my bikes never turn me down
Logan Sanchez
it means your chain is probably getting to the end of its lifespan yes.
Stiff links mean the rings are fucked, time to replace.
Jack Carter
What is he going to buy next?
Thomas Peterson
>cleaning or lubing your chain >2017 It's really not worth the time or cost of the supplies to do chain "maintenance." In modern sealed chains, the difference in wear is marginal. I'd rather have my chain last only 75% as long as yours than to spend 15 minutes and $5 in chemicals after every ride.
Easton Thompson
a casket
Mason Sullivan
possibly thinks its time to move up to a literbike
Mason Russell
Striple RS, and he's going to talk about how "mature" he is now and "supersports are for kids" and "nakeds are just as fast" >until he t bones a soccer mom at an intersection
Ethan Miller
a bicycle
Matthew Perry
You're missing the point. It's about not wanting things to get past the O-rings and wash out the sealed bearings contained within. The O-rings will keep the original lube in and debris out, because debris is big, and the sealed lube is thick. Spraying a PENETRATING LUBRICANT like fucking Water Dispersant-40 on it is a bad idea. You think the people who make the damned chains don't know how to maintain them but your fucking hick uncle does? The main point the make is just wipe the abrasive dirt and shit off and spray more chain lube on it. End of story. Yes. Chains are cheap, broken chains kill people.
Bentley Brown
lol
Austin Myers
ok fine, it doesnt hurt the rubber rings, but when he takes the o-ring off in the vid, you see a white residue left behind. thats the grease which a solvent will thin out and eventually remove.
if youre cleaning with a liquid solvent, put a liquid lube back into the chain, then grease over it at the end.
yeah probably. i use bel ray waterproof for most things
in the end, yeah its not really worth it. just do the bare minimum to keep it the outside from rusting too much.
Anthony Barnes
While driving on the highway today my engine revved from 6k to 11k while in overdrive gear, it sounded as if the clutch was being held but it didn't drop in terms of acceleration but did give a weird feeling, what happened?
Isaiah Collins
This, just keep it clean ish.
Adam Harris
maybe the gear wasn't fully engaged
yeah I thought so, I just ordered a new one. Had one snap on the highway once, was lucky it didn't go through my leg or engine block
Colton James
clutch slipped.
might be worn, or you got to much or the wrong kind of oil.
Kayden Fisher
>while in "overdrive gear" >two bikes in photo, completely different, not important to tell you which one is mine >a weird feeling Never breed. Do nothing to fix your bike, with any luck you'll be killed in an accident shortly.