[Daily Bike Thread - DBT]

>bring bike to dealer for rear tire change
>get told to pick it up in roughly 2 hours
>get call after 10 minutes
>"the mech says your brake pads are worn"
>tell them to leave it, I'm changing those myself
>go to pick up bike
>"BTW the mech had to tighten the chain, it was loose as fuck"
>they didn't charge me for it so whatever
>ride off
>notice bike feels lurchy as shit now
>back to dealer, mech says it's because the chain is worn unevenly
>replacement is 130 + labor
EVERY FUCKING TIME
Though this time I guess it makes sense, chain is 20k klicks old.
Still, 200 fucking euros.

>sportbike
>clip ons
>HANDLE BAR

>>replacement is 130 + labor
Wait, a chain is that much?

What the fuck did I get myself into.

Chain and sprockets.

>AGATT

What is that?

>having a chain

you fucked up.

Get a shaftie.

nah

don't want to get shafted

think about it... if they removed the rear wheel they must have slacked the chain to remove the wheel unless it's a single side swingarm. they inevitably need to 'tighten' the chain to reinstall the wheel.
i wouldnt go back there just based on this fact

did you check the chain wasn't too tight before you went back too?

oh and replacing the chain and sprockets is very easy with common tools, and 130 euro sounds exceptionally high for a chain and sprocket set.

Shaft drive, for if you want to feel that shaft was inserted anally into you when it fails.

>Get a shaftie.
someone post that pic of some BMW hipster wrecking his shaft

>put £100 down to secure bike
>now I don't want it anymore
>non refundable

fugg

I am such a retard.

>now I don't want it anymore
Are you 12

what bike
>inb4 L plate

who /200mph/ here?

We have a local resident user with a fucked shaft.

/barely200kph/ here

200 meters per hour? Yeah, I can manage that.

uh like .0001%?

>FZX750
>13 litre tank
>MT-09
>14 litre tank
>VMax
>15 litre tank
Do Yamaha hate people who want to ride further than 200 kilometres?

100 quid are a small price to pay for the lesson learned. Other are stuck with years of payments for bikes they quickly hate, or total their new bikes and are stuck with years of payments for literal trash.

Anal gaping all the time 2bqh.

>200 mph
I nearly creamed myself at 100, I couldn't imagine going 200. Also my tuck sucks

What's the fastest you've gone with no gear on?

About 10 kph moving the bike in a parking lot.

this is my main fear of getting a bike

About 50km/h in shorts, t-shirt and bare-feet.
With just boots and riding pants I've done 80km/h and then did a hard braking test with my front brake.

Just buy a used one. Way cheaper.

40 mph when I was working on my bike and trying to figure out why it was stalling

I mean with at least the helmet, obviously.

used market sucks around here

for example, i was looking at used NC7x0s and even though some were a few years old and with over 20k km they were only like ~1500 cheaper than a brand new one

Never done that.

If my helmet is on, I at least have my jacket on too.

oh then I've gone at least 60 with helmet and gloves coming back from a mudding adventure

You never ride in the city?

All Gay All The Time.

I live in the city.
But why would I just put on a helmet?

I ride with at least a helmet, jacket, boots, jeans and gloves. Except for when testing or moving the bike in like a parking lot/camping.

Where are you, user?

Because you just want to go to your friend or do the groceries or out with friends or do shopping or eat an ice cream etc.
You wear your fucking boots, jacket and pants to do less than a kilometer with 30° when you go eat ice cream?

It's ATGATT, not ATGAATT

What's the difference?

All The Time vs Almost All The Time :^)

>bike
I just walk or cycle
When going out with friends we cycle or take a bus (with AC)

But I do ATGATT for an ice cream, as I only get that in a place 20km away, as it is the best in the country. Competing with the best Italian gelato.

Maybe for murricans. All the people here squid when they're in town or when commuting (less than 20 kilometers and such). We don't ride on free or highways, we ride on small roads with a max 90kmh limit.
>Competing with the best Italian gelato.
The delusion is strong. What do they use as a stabilizer? Do they use milk powder or fresh milk? What about the quality of the ingredients? I doubt they get their lemons and pistachio from Sicily.
Having said this the majority of Italian ice cream is shit too. Don't trust them when they say "gelato artigianale", handmade ice cream, it's not a badge of quality.

I'm thinking of taking every SEMfag to taste a real gelato at least once in their life.

Forgot to say that if I had a decent bicycle I'd use that in town.

I have no idea about what they use as stabilizer. But they use fresh milk. It's freshly made in the shop.

I've had some Italian Gelato and it didn't taste much better than what I'm used to getting there. And I've had lots of bad ice cream before.

I'm too embarrassed to say, you will all rip me for it and I probably deserve it.

Let's just say its overpriced, underpowered and european brand.

All the fucking gelato is "freshly" made in the shop, it doesn't mean anything. It's how it's made and with what ingredients that's important.

>I've had some Italian Gelato and it didn't taste much better than what I'm used to getting there
As I said the vast majority of gelato is garbage.
The point here is that you can find more decent ice cream here than anywhere else.

We have shops here that just buy ice cream.

But in that shop the, award winning, ice cream master makes in from fresh, quality, ingredients. According to a recepy they used for decades, which wins them prices.

You can keep screaming Italian stuff is better, but trust me. The shop I go to is the shit and can complete with the best.

What color is their pistachio? And the mint?

Take a picture of your ice cream the next time you get it, I'm curious.

I'll see if it's calm enough to actually see the ice-cream next time.

Yeah but what about the colors?

Don't nobody want to talk raw v scalded milk?
Best in anything, my ass.

Can't remember those flavours, last time I could see them was like a year ago. They normally don't have very vibrant colours.

Does this place have a site? What is it called and where is it?

>scalded
is that like pasteurizing? I'd prefer raw but besides not knowing where to get it, I don't want to be raided by the FDA

Steak was bad enough but arguing over ice cream is autistic as fuck.

>raw milk is illegal in his country
Better shoot all the cows.

>illegal
Some states its legal, others its not. Also you can't sell raw milk across state lines.
milk.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=005192

>not caring about food

My YBR 125 is having issues

>check engine light is on constantly
>has a bit of trouble starting up, need to hold the power button in for a few seconds
>after a few seconds of idling the revs tick down to 0 and then it stalls
>when I open the throttle sometimes nothing happens at all

Once the bike is moving it seems to be fine but I need to keep the engine revving constantly or it just stalls.

It's a 4 stroke fuel injected bike and there's no way of adjusting the idle on it, I've checked the manual and it says it's all done automatically.

pls someone has to help me with this.

check ur fuel pump, check your air intake

time to get a real bike

Dead battery/alternator
Possibly compression loss

Check sparkplugs and coil, air filter, injector, battery and alternator.

Not everybody likes to carry all bolts on twofold as spare every time they go out on a ride.

Gelato isn't ice cream, dickhead. I'm an American, and I know that much at least.

cuckold

>Italian ice cream isn't ice cream

>Gelato isn't ice cream
>I'm an American
One of these is true and it isn't the statement about ice cream.

>there are 34 US states where you can't buy raw cow milk, can only get raw cow milk from a cow-share or have to drive to a farm to get raw cow milk
>there are only 16 US states where you can buy raw cow milk in a store or get it delivered home
>there are in fact states where you can buy raw goat milk but not raw cow milk

They are really trying to make that bike look like it can turn, aren't they?

But then how are you supposed to make cheese?

its fucked m8, I blame the Big Cow lobby

>eating the devils smegma
nimby, this is a Christian country if you had forgotten.

I thought you guys all pray towards Kentucky for the bacon and cheese god.

I've checked the spark plug and filter.

Wheres the coil?

How do I check if the battery's ok?

Cheese is Wisconsin. Bacon is God knows where, Iowa for production and Nebraska for consumption according to Google. Kentucky is whiskey and horses.

You aren't. You must wait for your factory farm overlords approve of it, and you will LIKE IT!

Multimeter

The other end of the lead coming out of your plugs. Buy a multimeter.

Are you me two weeks ago?

If you want to be comfy, fatter grips and wider, flatter pegs (if you can find them) are the best place to start, then work on the seat. Those superbike bar brackets are 300 fucking freedombucks. But if you can scavenge up a used kit for less somehow, go for it. The amount of bar rise you can get goes up to ape hangers if you reroute everything hoses and cables.

If I were you I'd save up for a five-ten year old naked that already has standard handlebars instead of clipons and set it up with a few touring amenities. That way you get real handlebars instead of raised clipons and a nicer bike.

>raised clipons
why do they fucking exist anyways

So pray to Dubuque.

Kentucky is known more for their chicken.

Non biker here borrowing your thread for a question. What's up with the bikers with ape-hangars reaching down to shift their bike with their hand? I've sen it a couple of times and it strikes me as being weird and inconvenient.

About 100 but that was way back before California had a helmet law.

>Now I look like I'm setting up for a round the world adventure to ride to the corner store.

Look up suicide shifters

> Moto Guzzi

nope

moto guzzi is based.

>shopping around for new bike
>getting part ex quotes
>nobody will take my bike because it is so disgusting to look at now

99% chance it's your fuel filter, the other 1% is your fuel pump.

>tfw you work at a harley dealership within 1 mile of one of the biggest jewish communities outside of Israel.

Test rides are the scariest shit.

They traditionally and legally have different recipes. Specifically in the percentage of milk and cream.