Thread 28707970

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>Street Smarts leading edge (outdated) safety video:
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>bak
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Previous thread: >>28705650

scooter

Yamaha

compression is fucked as suspected, and a used engine is pretty much the same as another bike. I suspect the bottom end is also sorta messed up based on how easy it is to clutchless down through the gears.

Don't be like me kids

My dad is mad because I changed the tires of his 80s XT225 that he left in my garage for a year that were severely dry rotted and worn out after he didn't ride it for 6 years because he wants everything to be original and now he wants me to find the original tires somehow and put them back on or he'll take the bike back and just leave it sitting like he already did for years.

>>28707990
One of life's hardest lessons is that people you love will make bad decisions, and sometimes you have to just let them suffer the consequences when they won't listen.

>>28707988
New rings? It shouldn't be that big of a job.
Take the head off and leave a bit of diesel in the chamber to see if you have leaky valves, if you do then lap them with paste.
Worst case you'll need to overbore the cylinders for new pistons.

Also english difficult, how does bottom end have anything to do with the tranny.

>>28707990
Like it or not, it's his bike and if he wants to keep dry-rotted tires on, then it was entirely up to him. Sure it's dangerous, but it's his bike, and you should have asked him about it

The great news is that 80s 225s tires are still made, new. Especially if it's one of the ones made from 1986 to the 90s. You can get them and dress them up to be original. Or you can buy them used and pretend that they were the ones he always had. Or you can come clean and just tell him that the other ones had dry rotted and here's the OEM from the service manual.

>>28708008
I'll just offload the bike if he tries to take it back I don't care about this deadbeat piece of shit I did him a favor he was never going to use because he doesn't even ride the bike just look at it, or well he DID because its been in my hands for a year with him not caring or seeing it until now.

>2027
>All major industrial production in Europe is a standstill due to protests after Brussels and London both pass an immediate ban on breathing out CO2 by 2028.
>Harley Davidson remains nonoperational after it's new CEO was quoted as saying that the Nightster was the future of the company, leading to a disgruntled boomer entering their corporate headquarters with an explosive vest and killing the entire C-Suite.
>Japan's unemployment rate remains at 98% after Sony's twin release of nympho neko-chan/yandere ikamen sex androids >The motorcycle world is in shambles as only two manufacturing giants remain: CFMoto and Royal Enfield
What model do you pick on your way out of this consumer hellscape. Best answer gets the last known new production KLR, ensuring at least one desirable motorcycle will exist until the sun engulfs our planet.

If I'm going to ride an early 2000s bike with colorful sport fairings will other non-motorcycle people laught at me? Like I need to go to my office but I don't want to look like a clown.

>>28708018
why are you caring about what other people think? especially if they have such bad taste they think a bike like what you described looks bad.
Have fun anon! go ride your colorful bike that makes you happy, fuck the normies! be weird!

>>28708018
If you care what people think of you you shouldn’t ride

>>28708018
Nobody fucking cares. They're too busy on their phone.

>>28708018
being on a bike automagically makes you cooler than everybody who doesn't ride.

Driumph

>>28708017
Unironically move to Africa and get to ride uncucked Hondas until I die in a territory dispute by the local warlords.

where is duke anon?

Hypermotard 698 mono weights 151kg and delivers 77hp.
Why the hell can't others make a light, fun and powerful bike?

>>28708036
driple

Hear me out: flaps that auto deploy when you break heavily while going over x speed

>>28707988
It's easy to clutch less shift because Suzuki transmissions were smooooth
Also--- Did you get a compression test? Suzuki specs a very close gap for the valve lash, which goes to zero on the exhaust when nobody looks after it, then you get bad compressions.
Check the valve clearance and set to Kawasaki Z1 specs (not kidding, the Suzuki head is a Kawasaki copy and Kawasaki got the clue and opened their specs, Suzuki wanted the head to stay quiet, I guess) The larger gap in the exhaust pretty much halts ex valve seat erosion. Because of reasons.
T. own a two valve Suzuki myself.

>>28708079
That's your head and upper body when you sit up out of the windshield bubble, and your knee when you stick it out on the inside getting ready for the curve.

>>28707988
>>28708086
Also does it not make good power?

>>28708017
I don't doubt that CFMoto will share the end times with the cockroaches, but Bajaj and RE will be duking it out until the end.

>>28708079
you mean the bike cfmoto chads announced this week?

>>28708018
Yah nobikes don't know the difference between one sport bike and another, and to their mind fast bikes are colorful anyway.
I suggest you lean into it with a vintage leather jacket in the early-y2k style like pic related.

>>28708099
>first ever with active aero

>>28708014
Meh, I wouldn't be spiteful over it. Overall, it's just a bike, you can buy a new one of those. I don't know your relationship with him so you and him may have a sour relationship.

>>28708017
I unironically like CFMoto.
I don't think I'll buy one, but they make cool bikes.

>>28708018
No, motorcycle people LOVE big, bright, and colorful bikes. We do not like the deluge of black and brown bikes, we're forced to ride them because everyone else decided they were going to make brown and black plastic bikes.

The most beautiful modern bike I've seen in a long time is the KLR650 in Pearl White. I say 'modern' loosely because it's still just a KLR. But the accents, the color, the brightness, it's all things missing from modern bikes. Tomorrow I'm going to go look at a sea-blue Tenny and maybe even take it home.

>>28708111
>motorcycle people
I had a brainlet moment, you meant how it looks to normalfags and honestly fuck em

>>28708099
idk how people are able to enjoy china bikes
bikes are all about feeling, how they make you feel. and honestly Id feel like shit on a chinaman bike

>>28708106
Wrenchlet Chang sucking retard pushing slop to get other riders killed from the chinks inferior build qualilty.

Fuck you, from the deepest part of my heart to your stupid stupid stupid brain.

Japanese riding culture centers a lot more around touring vs american riding culture
Even with BMW ADVdaddies having a firm hold on where the market is headed
I wonder why

>>28708141
What bike is that?

>>28708117
embrace chinesium

>>28708137
lol chill bro

>>28708141
incredibly cringe

>>28708148
Fuck you to tell me to chill, If I could have every neurode in my body to be set to hate the mindless retards and shills that push Chinese dogshit then it wouldn't be a tenth of the hatred I feel for "people" like you.

Fuck you. Fuck your cheap Chinese crap. Fuck you getting people killed when their stupid clone of a bike rattles itself apart and sends them off the guardrail.

I'd sell you rope myself if I knew you'd kick the stool. The Chinese will never be capable of good manufacturing because they do not respect the autonomy of the workers that assemble and build their shit. Sending money to the enemy is for line crossing faggots

>>28708106
CFMoto is a fraudulent company that outright scammed their customers.
I say this as this thread's og CFMoto shill.

>>28708151
cope

why do 45+yo males love adv bikes?
did the midlife crisis moment of buying a sports car got replaced by adv bikes?

>>28708151
>getting people killed when their stupid clone of a bike rattles itself apart and sends them off the guardrail
has this actually happened or are you just saying?

>>28708153
>Chinese company
>Does morally reprehensible anti consumer actions
>Traps you into a bait and switch subscription service
>subscription service for a fucking motorcycle
>pot metal frames
>temu suspension
>brake pads made of wood
>carbon fiber made of recycled water bottle plastic
>lies about preformance numbers
>lies about what they're going to do and not do

Somehow this is suprising to people who live in the free world?

The Chinese are selling Americans sabotaged goods to get them killed or maimed, Chang is spineless so they're laughing as they stick their finger in all yall buttholes

>>28708146
nta but it looks like a V-Strom 650.

>>28708156
Because they perform well and are comfy for long rides.

>>28708151
You got to get off the internet. Unironically, go for a ride. You're going to die at 35 if you get this overweought over other people's purchasing decisions.

>>28708160
I'm not arguing against the bikes themselves, I just find it bizarre that it's all they ride. I never saw someone over 45 in anything else over 125cc. Here in Europe atleast

>>28708158
Yes right off the top my head there was 1 in Oregon around May and other rider dying at an event in August.

Why are you even remotely surprised? Are you that fucking gullible to believe the Chinese makes anything but high volume low value throwaway junk?

>>28708155
Yeah bro I'm fucking copeing I guess I'll just cry on my 3 Japanese sport bikes. Hang yourself.

>>28708153
You talking about them copying KTM/BWM's DLC bullshit?

>>28708161
I'd rather die telling the truth to prevent other riders dying by retards pushing lies than sit idle and watch the young throw their lives away because they don't know any better. How about you stop holding water for chang faggot.

>>28708164
no I just don't know anything about china bikes. like I said here >>28708117 if I go to a dealer, or see a china bike irl it's like landscape to me, I don't even bother to get to know them

>>28708156
Dontou even know what a mid life crisis is? No one is jumping on an adv to recapture their fleeting youth. It's fucking dentists with disposable income buying a motorcycle, and picking the one that hurts their back the least.

Some 45 year old hoping on an inline 4 in order to boom and zoom way past the limits of his slowing reflexes? Now that's a mid life crisis.

>>28708166
Gunga din over here complaining about the white man carrying water.

>>28708167
>Don't know anything about chink junk
Oh sweet summer child, you don't need to be an advanced tech to know there is nothing well made by the Chinese. You should be careful, being a mindless fool and expecting to get by is a recipe for disaster then again maybe that's just natrual selection and the CFmoto bikes are the great filter for low IQ riders to get sent to their graves

>>28708174
How can you type when your eyes are so narrow Chang?

>>28708176
It's cool, bro. You guys will figure out water cooled engines at some point. I was sure you were going to land one when that 750 Himalayan got announced, but maybe next round.

Chink bikes would be fine if their prices were reflecting quality of the internals. Has 2x shorter service interval = price has to be 2x cheaper. I will never spend 7000 euro for a chinesium grade 450 adv if I can buy a Japanese adv for 9000 euro. Make them them for 5000 and I will, easy as that.

>>28708156
You can do a lot of stuff with them that appeals to an older demographic
Not complicated
Seen it play out with two of my friends in the past year
Long rides to remote places and very very light off-roading

>>28708180
>Has 2x shorter service interval
Shoom reading this and thinking about his crf450 right now.

>>28708164
which one of them has active aero?


lol

>>28708180
Plus you loose much more buying chinese bikes because they have basically zero reselling value. New bikes from 2024 with mint odometer go for peanuts and nobody wants them used. If it was a japanese naked from 2024 the guy would be selling it for 7 grand easily.

>>28708178
>>28708189
>>28708180
Don't forget your factories only have Nets on just so you can't get out of the sweatshop the easy way. If you're anything but Chinese, then I only pray your accident comes soon just so you can stop talking out of your ass lying about the qualilty of those dogshit bikes. Cfmoto is for the people who wear fuzzy covers.

>>28708194
>No resale value
>No parts supply chain
>Scummy nonexistent warranty (if you survive to claim it assuming you even got one)
>No return policy
>Chang will never issue a recall unless arm is twisted by uncle Sam
>not built to last
Oh bbbbbbut guys there's redeeming qualities!! Trust!!

did you know it's actually a crime to do wheelies?
did you know you're BREAKING the LAW?

China has been, with the exception of that weird "Being invaded and then commie" bit between 1937 and 1976, the dominant economic force on planet earth. The return of China to the top tier of international trade and manufacturing is only a return to the natural order of things. No sense getting bent about it. It's not zero-sum. China's return to power diminishes no other nation. Unless that nation chooses to be diminished, like what we (the US) are doing now. Sucks to be us atm.
>>28708164
angry Anon is angry. Remember friend, they didn't bust down the door. We held it open for them!

>>28708180
I have a Lifan with 20k miles and I havent done anything other than oil changes and a valve adjustment when I first got it because they come with way too tight valves that cause the bike to die at idle out of the box. Other than that I have a Honda XR150L clone for 1700 dollars. I guess it's better than the CFMOTO type bikes because the engines are simple and the chinks been cloning them for decades

>>28708202
It's also illegal to ride without having both hands on the handlebars

>>28708205
Final adjustment and QC is a failure point for both Chinese and Indian bikes because in both countries that function is performed by the dealer, who absorbs the cost and passes the savings on to the customer. The factories think this gives them a competitive edge.

>>28708204
>The LEAST obvious ccp glowie post be like
没有中国人,只有和猴子交配的韩国人

>>28708205
I think lifan and zhongsheng (or whatever is the second one's name) are decent since the only thing they do is manufacture 100% copies of japanese engines for farming and small industrial application basically for decades. Like all of those gas generators build upon them or the cheap machinery for eastern european farmers where nobody buys Deere.

>>28708194
The question is not "is CFMoto is better than Yamaha". It isn't. The question is whether it's better than Royal Enfield. Nobody gives much of a shit about the either brand outside their 450s. Until the KLE drops, those are the only games in town for the 450cc twin, and judging by the ground clearance and suspension, I wouldn't hold your breath on that one.

And before someone asks, no, the cb500x is not in the same class, and Honda and Kawasaki both fucking knows it.

/adventure/

>>28708216
No, I'm an Amerifat who's annoyed that the tariffs are destroying our manufacturing base, and our immigration crackdowns are destroying our once-superior technological base. It truly sucks to be us.
I am the last tech person in my department at work who's job has not been off-shored. Every other developer and DevOps position is now in India, Canada, or the UK. And the Canadian guys are in our time zone as well. The only reason I'm still here is I'm also the cloud architect and the third-party company they tried to replace me with kinda failed hard.
Sucks to be an American now. It's going to be a LONG road back once this is done.
Anyway, Motorcycles.

>>28708205
>I guess it's better than the CFMOTO type bikes
I have an in at a smaller CN moto manufacter. He can't speak to the business side of things, but on the technical side, he has told me the engineers at his company (he does not hold the company in high regard) think CFMoto is currently the place you want to work for ATV/motorcycle engine manufacturing in China.

>>28707961
>>28707963
retard got caught by the cops, had his bike impounded for 2 weeks, got it out and did this
t. know him irl
https://surreynowleader com/2025/11/05/motorcyclist-given-ticket-after-crash-near-langley-surrey-border/

>>28708156
I'm 41 and I have a DR650 and a tracer 9 gt, put them together i guess you have one adv bike

>>28708226
None of that has anything to do with you pushing objectively shit products that only fuck over the consumer.

Similar to the retards who thought tariffs r gud, you are pushing dogshit that you think is good but is actually bad (cfmoto)

I highly doubt you're an amerifat, let's see your food cabinet. If you are, then may whatever God you believe in have mercy on your stupid soul

>>28708156
>45+yo males love adv bikes
theyre comfortable

>buying a sports car got replaced by adv bikes
50/50 - bikes are getting safer every year, and sports/super cars get more expensive. Bike was always insane value comaprison, when you can get a gixxer for like 1/20 the price of a corvette.
also, bikes are more "rebellious" and "counter culture" compared to midlife crisis cars now, since the culture has shifted

>>28708159
No matter how bad Chyna is overall, Chyna is big enough to have some decent humans and companies. CFMoto is just not among them.
On daily basis I have to deal with more shit from w*stoids than from Chyna.
I would still recommend people to try out kove 800x.
>>28708165
I'm talking about them introducing subscription for a thing that was promised to be free after the purchase.
> KTM/BWM's DLC bullshit
KTM's DLC was enough for me to wish for KTM to die for good, but KTM was at least honest and upfront about their shitty business decision. You knew what you're getting into.
CFMoto made an outright fraudulent move.

BTW, did BMW-Motorrad introduce any DLCs? I'm not a fan of their options pricing model, but I can't recall them pulling any DLC fuckery.

>>28708236
>None of that has anything to do with you pushing objectively shit products that only fuck over the consumer.
Not that guy. Wasn't me. Don't buy the shit. Or do buy it, I don't care.
Just saying you should get used to the ChinaSlop because in a few years that may be all you can get.

>>28708239
>decent humans
No decent humans can be made in an authoritarian state, only the ones that escape from there.
No product that does not respect the autonomy of the workers who create the product will never be good or remotely close to qualilty fuck your kornball 800
>>28708240
>all you can get will be da chyna
Topkek, you fucking Chink shill. Get the fuck out of here you short sighted kowtowing retard.

>>28708239
>kove 800x
Kove's dealer network in the US is attrocious.

>>28708239
>I would still recommend people to try out kove 800x.
>11.543 €
Ok I did, now what?

I love my Kawasaki!

>>28708221
cheeks to spare

>>28708239
>kove
By the way I remember I watched a promo video from some popular youtuber who came to kove's test dirt track to try out bikes and one of the new ones died on him so the kove's employees had to run and get another one in time before the filming crew left.

You can't make this shit up my friend, it was hilarious as fuck.

>>28708248
Everyone on here bitches that Chinese bikes are shit, with shit parts and labor, and priced to reflect that. So what the fuck is a manufacter who wants to break out of that supposed to do?

It's a no win situation. I think people want them to stay cheap and shady.

>>28708232
when are people gonna learn that you don't DRIVE a motorcycle?

>>28707990
dont touch the mans bike what the FUCK are you doing, i know you personally did not remove the tires since youre a wrenchlet you just introduced another n***** into the equation. it is no longer a pure bike, good job. No point in even getting the old tiers its no use the bike has been tainted.

finally I got some new tires
I like them, they make me feel good

>>28708243
> No decent humans can be made in the US
Let's throw more blanket statements about the entire nations, they always make sense.
> No product that does not respect the autonomy of the workers who create the product
Let's see where your 4chan posting device was produced and how much that factory respects the workers' authonomy.

I bet you're a nice chap, but what you've just posted is dumb and cringe.
>>28708245
Their dealer network is atrocious everywhere, ofc "go try it out" applies only if it doesn't take much effort.
>>28708248
Now compare it to tenere, and unless you're a jap-only hardliner you'll see that it's cheaper, lighter, and feels generally nicer than t7. Kove is much less annoying to pick up after a drop, if you're into off-roading it's simply a better bike.

>>28708270
bro why is your bike all fucked up

>>28708258
I think it was about one of their first 450 models.
I wouldn't touch them.
And I'm not going to say anything good about the brand, my recommendation extends only to one specific model.

>>28708248
Beo, I got bad news about where the industry is heading.

>>28708259
Same as japanese did back then - make better machines than on the local market for cheaper.

>>28708266
>drive
>/drʌJv/
>verb
>1.
>operate and control the direction and speed of a motor vehicle.

it is actually correct English to say you "drive" a motorbike

>>28708271
What you call blanket statements is just a simple truth.

I'm glad you think what I post is cringe because I would never want a 白猴子 like you to be with me.

My phone is made in Taiwan, a place that has far more freedom and autonomy than the surveillance Chinese state. Don't pull your back trying to reach next time you open that stupid mouth you fucking 白猴子

>>28708243
>>28708279
Argument aside, you ever read how someone types and you just know they're going to be exhausting to speak with in person?

>>28708279
Lol, an islander butthurt about mainlanders.
I assumed you are a dumb mutt.
Okay, I get where your hatred for Chyna comes from. Keep hating, that's the right thing to do.
For the rest of the world your feelings matter little.

>>28708278
wrong opinion

>>28708272
look how happy she is with the new tires bro

>brb. going for a drive on my motorcycle!
>hey nigga, can i get a ride in your car?
why are americans like this?

No way this chink unironically explains their horrendous pricing by "but look BMWs are expensive".

>>28708290

imagine parking your bike on a pedestrian crossing in the middle of the road to take a picture of it

>>28708298
>made by BMW

>>28708301
Who are you citing retard?

>>28707975
FBPB

>>28708307
You, fellow 'tard. It's made in India by TVS. There's one reason to do that: cut manufacturing costs. And even then they still couldn't undercut their single cylinder 650 dakar model with a 450 twin that puts out the same horsepower.

And if that doesn't depress you enough, Honda and Kawa are both expanding their India manufactering bases this year and next to further reduce costs as well. But I bet we still don't see a cheaper cb500 stateside.

Bike shop yesterday. Lots of progress. Oil leak was fake. Odd drip out of disused 2-stroke tank that is half full and pumps oil in a loop, some caprice of a previous owner. I mix in the tank anyway. New tires are on, new brake lever fitted.

One remaining problem is the geneator might be bust. Fifth week there. I will send my lad there tomorrow as unpaid assistant to the assistant. Hurry them up a bit. Owner was complaining about not being able to get staff. Unskilled but enthusiastic teenage labour must be of use and reminds him of getting on with my bike.

>>28708317
I didn't say it retard, ain't reading your essay

>>28708299
umm ur wrong.. thats a parking lot sweaty

>>28708286
>I use AI for my understanding of the world
ESL, filtered.

>found out US measures mpg differently than UK
>because an imperial gallon is different than a US gallon
What was the point of glazing the British system of measurements over metric if you are just going to change them anyway?

>>28708327
why is your bike held together with zip ties?

Yamaha Tracer 700
or
Suzuki DL 650 V-Strom
?

>>28708328
>i can't embrace modern technology and use the sun's shadows to tell the time
third world negro

>>28708337
simple answer is: 700 > 650

>>28708337
>Yamaha Tracer 700
not LAMS approved
>Suzuki DL 650 V-Strom
LAMS approved

>>28708330
one day science might invent a unified system of measurement and call it something simple like "the metric system".

>>28708338
Cope.

>>28708337
TENERE

>>28708331
the fairing mounts are broken

>>28708357
how?

>>28708226
I want a Norley.
>all that other stuff
Nuke SEA and then nuke the middle east
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vpuN62VdgA

>>28708149
What do you ride anon

I spend my time wishing Ducati had taken one last crack at an air-cooled supersport. I'd like one for the road that I could daily. Sometimes I look online at custom track bike builds where any old fairing has been hooked onto a naked ducat and kind of want to try it myself.
Thinking of a Monster1100evo as the donor bike.

>>28708398
I quite like how these guys have done it. Ducati Panigale fairing mated to a 999 fuel tank and seat

>>28708141
Does JP have the equivalent BLM land? Are there still long streches of dirt roads?

>>28708141
>Japanese riding culture centers a lot more around touring vs american riding culture
Japan didn't have a concept of enduro until very recently, like the last 30-40 years. ADV is still not a thing over there.
The idea of taking a motorcycle off the road is still seen as a crazy idea.

why are maxi scoots so expensive? I don't get it.
honda pic related costs 13.5k€
wtf, why

>>28708422
for me, it's

>>28708434
finally a bike I wouldn't drop

>>28708017
>What model do you pick on your way out of this consumer hellscape.
The nympho neko-chan, obviously

>Brakes are meaking god aweful squeaking sound
>Order new pads and rotors
>Go to work with sqeaky bike because clutch in car is also bad
>Squeaking stops
I could have held off. This is why I don't do stocks.

>>28708156
Big
Comfy
Lie to yourself that you can go anywhere
When you never leave pavement.

It is the "I'm going on that trip to Europe any day now." of boomers who will never leave their couches and will die in their recliners. They're slow, predictable, safe, and offer unlimited possibilities that will never come true. Just like any boomer's post-retirement plans.


That said I'm buying an ADV bike soon, too. It's over for me. I'm almost 35...

>>28708450
You'll need brakes eventually anyways, you just bought them early (likely cheaper now than they would've been in the future)
If you sell the bike, the next owner gets a bonus

>>28708279
>m-muh democracy
china is safer, more productive and they live in a racially homogeneous high trust society. The fact that souless chinks can live like that only proves that their system is superior.

>>28708163
I saw a huge crowd of Harleys today at a funeral. Mixed ages but lots over 45. Must have been over a hundred bikes altogether. I didn't have my phone with me so couldn't photoghaph.

>>28708453
kek

>>28708450
Put them in a box, you'll need them someday.

>>28708453
>They're slow
Coming from a dual sport that makes 35hp, max, I don't think I'd call any of the 700cc mid-size bikes slow, especially the Transalp if you remap it. People that call 80ho slow have whatever you call body dysmorphia but for motorcycle engines.

>>28708237
>50/50 - bikes are getting safer every year, and sports/super cars get more expensive. Bike was always insane value comaprison, when you can get a gixxer for like 1/20 the price of a corvette.
This is an important part of it. Luxurious just 20 years ago used to be ABS. Something that's standard in even small dual-sports, now.

When safety increases, the boomers close in. That's why they're clustering around the ADV market and not the sport bike or the cruiser market. If you're worried about looking poor, buy a Pan America.

>>28708461
You would be right in that any of these engines are monsters in sport bikes, but manufacturers know that and tune them accordingly. They also know that boomers aren't going to be remapping their ECUs, opening their airboxes, or installing slip-on exhausts.

>>28708460
this is why i own a shitload of parts to bikes i sold

>>28708099
>In the future, all bikes are cfmoto, after they won the franchise wars.

>>28708393
that's none of your business

I want to go to a meet but I'm afraid I'll get ticketed.

>>28708278
Nope. You ride a horse, you drive animals if you are whipping them along without actually sitting on top. So you drive a coach.

From that you ride a motorcyle as you sit atop and astride it like a horse. You drive a car because it is like a coach and you sit behind the engine not on and round it.

>>28708330
>What was the point of glazing the British system of measurements over metric if you are just going to change them anyway?
It is not their fault it is ours. We changed the gallon size in the 1820s in some mad standardisarion rush. They are still using the imperial wine gallon where we use a fake bigger gallon and call it imperial. They were not British controlled by then and carried on with real gallons.

It isn't the British system anyway. The empire Imperial refers to is Roman and all Europe used to before Napoleon messed with them.

Riding season is over

>>28708330
>What was the point of glazing the British system of measurements over metric if you are just going to change them anyway?
The United States of America, as a country, is older than the metric system's adoption by any country at all. Then because of international piracy the US didn't get the system.

>>28708351
Nobody actually uses metric really. They may pretend to but things like plasterboard is either 9mm or 12mm and 9mm is 5/16th inch. Board sizes are 900x1200mm. Always divisible by 2/3/6 like imperial. If things were actually in whole meters it would be completely unintruitive and impossible to divide anything unless by 5 which is useless.

Metric is play acting and should be phased out. It is the motorcyle equivilent of EFI instead of carburetters.

How tall are you? Somewhere between one and two meters, right? It is unworkable.

>>28708163
Usanon here, i have never seen anything under 500cc on a road with the exception of some kids on electric dirtbikes once, your continent SUCKS and has never walked on the moon

>>28708518
Let me ask you something burger anon, what size engine does your bike have

>>28708460
>I'll need that part any day now

I bought one of my bikes from a Mexican. He was cool. Another one from a black guy. He was cool too. He even filled up the tank for me after purchase. No lies or hidden problems from them either.
They are definitely the exception and not the rule, however.

I really like the way this BMW looks but I can't afford one. I know there are cheap used BMW nine t racer bikes in the USA and Europe, but these same used bikes would cost like 15, 000 usd in my country.
What are some cheaper but reliable cafe racer alternatives with a similar look?

>>28708330
The imperial gallon was standardized after the US gallon was.

>>28708558
Many people would argue that the US is an Imperial State.

>>28708551
Bike is what you make it.

finally put a new can and windshield on the fazer. can was too deep to mount high and hit the ignition but it will just cover the ugly gages and not look like a crackhead owns it anymore

>>28708551
just buy any bike you like and add these aftermarket headlight fairings.

>>28708227
>cool looking racing bikes are for le posers because they're fast and look cool

>I choose nakeds although for the city streets a scooter would be better
>I choose an adv although I never go anywhere
>I choose a cruiser although a $1000 Civic would be better
>REEE I'M NOT A POSER IT'S NOT ME, THEY'RE POSERS

Fuck off retard.

>>28708551
just buy any naked bike and add these aftermarket fairings.

So did the brownoid Canuck 390 get his posting privileges back?
Threads are starting to reach limit a lot faster again.

>>28705752 I get asked that a lot, I find the sheepskin gives you something to grip, but only if its the long shag. I ride in jeans with chaps on top 100% of the time though, so mileage may vary. I find the stock vinyl crap honestly more slippery then sheep, by far. Also damn my bike made the last sticky, HYB

>>28708504
grim

>>28708539
i'll know it when i need it..

>>28708543
>i gave money to people and they were cool about it

help me choose my dudes, after much research it comes down to these 2
SC = 630 €
LV = 481 €

>>28708504
'Berta?

>>28708607
'Berta

>>28708253
Do you love me?
Are you playin those love games with me?
IM OLE GREEEEEG

>>28708602
But can you find it? I mean, you have to. You've seen it a million times.

Look at her go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_FHmYQ4t2Y

>>28708594
I've realized the chamelion tranny is actually his buddy on the Honda CBR

>>28707970 (OP)
Kill yourself you desperate faggot, all your threads are trash you soulless insect.

>>28708338
>has never read the bible
>is completely aloof when daniel and john the apostle mention a beast which is and is not and yet is
>muh technology going to be the crux of an economic singularity and thus mark of the beast
Let me know when you grow up and are born again with the Blood of Jesus Christ

Imagine
>actually outsourcing critical thinking to aisloppa
Shiggydiggyfamalabam

>>28708616
yeah its right over-

shit
maybe over there- fuck, i just saw it the other day

>>28708607
>>28708609
Berta oblast
But i am not an enjoyer

>>28708613
>Long hair
>selfies
Faggot

>>28708605
The LV is hideous in my opinion, so I'd go with the SC. I've heard some SCP exhausts sound like ass though but it's different for every bike and model.

There are too many Canadians in my daily bike thread

>>28708654
What are you going to do about it

>>28708657
I could go riding all four seasons

>>28707988
What is the oldest bike of /dbt/?

I'm trying to figure out what brand is more reliable.

>>28708652
Say selfie enjoyer again and ill send troon on a shoom after you

>>28708667
Shoomer would you marry R3?

>>28708577
>implying
Shut the fuck up.
>just copy the old 2t models and shit them out in 4t!
Genius, you must work in marketing.

>>28708652
>calls shoomer a fag because of his looks
>not because he's on dbt discord
Tell us how new you are friend

>>28708678
Hes already got a girlfren and im not gay or bisexual im superstraight

>>28708694
>new
Man shut the fuck up you desperate tranny faggot

https://youtu.be/BGFOitA-25o?t=2493
>got a malfunctioning bike
>refuses to look inside the cylinders
>keeps cranking it
>calls himself a mechanic
>has a YT channels where he refers to himself as the breaded mechanic

After watching 2vintage I realized the bread mechinc was just a fraud all along

>>28708696
R3 is a girl you silly. Answer the question

>>28708698
Oh it's the schizo. Hey dumbass, (>>28708634) that's the rc 390 anon's friend, not the duke 390 retard.
Fucking newfag

I don't give a fuck, kill yourself you lonely numale freak. 247/365

>>28708694
I used that discord for like 2 weeks and idk how to remove myself or ddiscord
I dont even use discord, i had to download it to see how gay it was
Also you can look at last login date for validation, im no discord troonoid

And all i can recall about that gay shithoke was: fake autism from neurotypical normoids, @everyone SHIDDING experience, and a clusterfuck of i cant keep the adhd organized- inherent in discord because thats how the shitty app is designed
Telegram better

>>28708702
R3 is a man, a boy twink to be precise

>>28708710
Man shut the hell up, you were trying to push transcord and Instagram when you first logged in here, wrenchlet.

>bully hours
I hope R6 anon doesn't see this

>>28708714
Threads were comfier when tzr twink was around

>>28708689
>just copy the old 2t models and increase the displacement to make them even more powerful as 4t
Your own government is cucking you with those dumb restirctions meanwhile some motorcycle manufacturers do what they can.
Stop nagging bitch or you can start a civil war and revolution over a 2t you dumb faggot. (You won't, kys)

>>28708017
A bit of a fantastical scenario because ironically there are so many weirdo chink and jeet brands that it would be a total chaos for 10 years. The US gets drip-feed of them, you guys don't even know.

Like I bet you thought RE is for hipsters and old men, let me introduce you to Jawa, an ex-czechoslovak brand currently mostly made in India. Look up Jawa Perak(330?). You want hipster bobber, you get hipster bobber - ultimate edition. Analogue reverse sweep speedo included(as in, 0 is on the right).

Ok that's not hipster enough. You've been eyeing Urals but 20k for an old BMW copy is fucking steep. Chink company shineray has you covered - they sell it under like 5 names and brands, iirc. SWM Urban 525 in most of Europe, Mash Sidecar in France and Groza in Russia and Kazakhstan. Half the price of Ural and the usual problem of you having to torque all the bolts in a chink bike out of the box kind of go away because Ural isn't for wrenchlets either. If that's not weird enough then Coco(chink) makes a honda supercub clone with w sidecar, yes it comes in pink, but can't get it outside of China(I think).

Ok, you see, that's cool, but you're big anime fan and ducati diavel can't be bought new and old ones are too expensive. I believe Keeway or QJ has some sub-brand that makes a 700cc v4 bike made to sort or look like that. I think it's even V4. One of them has that the other has mid-displacement V4 crusiers with more normal styling.

All the issues you can imagine with build quality etc. aside, Chink/Jeet bike world is at least crazy, I guess they know most of them can't sell a lifestyle like harley or build things to be high performance enough like the Euros, or as reliable as the Japanese so they are trying to gnaw the niches the big established brands aren't covering.

>>28708729
>>just copy the old 2t models and increase the displacement to make them even more powerful as 4t
That's what the GSX-R is and was.
>but mommy (mr ceo)! I want it less powerful as a 2cyl
As I said, genius.

>>28708609
>>28708651
Gotta escape white snow
Gotta escape the brown immigrants

>>28708736
The GSX-R600 had 80hp 30 years ago, now it has 125hp.

An RGV250 had 62hp and 156kg

I don't see how a 650cc 4t, with 70hp and 180kg isn't close enough to the Gixxer from the old days

>>28708710
>I-I don't use discord I only downloaded it as a joke!
Shore, bud. Shore.

>>28708743
>I don't see how a 650cc 4t, with 70hp and 180kg isn't close enough to the Gixxer from the old days
You really think riding a v2 is the same as a 35 year old i4? Genius.

>>28708557
Hmhh
>>28708564
Nice
>>28708578
Thank you. I'll consider that

>>28707993
A top end rebuild makes sense, but I'm on the fence because if the engine is like the rest of this bike there's at least three other things wrong with it.

Your English is fine. I'm extrapolating a bit because on a motorcycle, the transmission and the engine are one unit. I should have said transmission.

>>28708086
I'm comparing this one to my 77 750 that I rode in 2023 and 2024. This one I can clutchless downshift with the throttle completely closed and no clutching. I guess there's a chance the clutch is getting worn out...

As for the valves, I did those as soon as I got the bike and of course they were out but they're all back in, and choosing between shims I went with the looser of the two.

And this thing tends to be a bitch to start most of the time so yeah. You're starting to make me think I need to do a valve job. Compression is 128 to 184 PSI per the manual, with a rebuild at 100. I've got 121 to 140. And yeah, it makes dogshit power. Feels like it makes less than the 750 I had and both bikes had the exact same mods, except for filter brand. It won't even pull to the top of 4th.

Cool to see another 8, er, 4 valve in here. Never expected to.

>>28708661
No idea, I'm not in here that often. I'm probably in the running with my '78. But if Suzuki is so reliable how did mine spit the tachometer cable out today?

>>28708518
>completely unintruitive and impossible to divide anything unless by 5 which is useless

So what navigation you use on a motorcycle? I'd like to have a phone on, but it has to be there under direct sun, rain and cold all the time. Do you buy those aliexpress rugged phones or what?

>>28708756
Yeah in reality an sv650 has more torque than a 35yo inline 4 Gixxer so it's more fun

>>28708764
>But if Suzuki is so reliable how did mine spit the tachometer cable out today?
Bikes from the 70s are not on the road anymore. Your Zuki does fine

>Build project
>Everything seems good to go
>Still afraid to take it out for real testing and have all my work down the drain
I don't know how model plane guys do it

>>28708817
>>Build project
What is it? 40 years old CB? Many such cases, restored but not ridden

>>28708518
>How tall are you? Somewhere between one and two meters, right? It is unworkable.

178cm
and its 19cm long

>>28708764
>the transmission and the engine are one unit
Don't harleys have belt drive transmissions that are separate?
Then there's moto guzzi with old school separate transmissions like in a car.
Pre-unit construction bikes in general had separate transmissions.
>>28708661
There was an anon with a Harley from the 30s. I've an Ural from the 50s or so, a KMZ specifically with an M72 engine from 1943 or so, a war era motor anyway.

>>28708518
I've been saying this for a long time but metric is inferior to imperial simply due to more divisible numbers, very ancient humans used base 12 for a reason and that's because 2, 3, 4, and 6 are more divisible than 2 and 5

>>28708823
You have a coowl bike anon, although it needs some detailing

>>28708828
>simply due to more divisible numbers
How is foot divisive by more numbers than a meter?

What gear do i need for the rain? is picrel a good idea?

>>28708834
1 foot = 12 inches, 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12
A meter is based on base 10 and 10 is only divisible by 2, 5, and 10

>>28708836
Ponchos work the extra space inside the poncho will waste body heat and in rain, you want to conserve as much body heat as possible, therefore, the smallest shell you can fit its ideal. The best is an all weather shell with a goretex or similar membrane for both breathability and water resistance while preserving heat. This is actually a very difficult topic depending on weather and conditions, you'll actually find really good advice in the hiking the backpacking areas of knowledge if you subtract about 15-20f from the ambient temps

>>28708798
I plan my route with a map at home, then write out a little sketch of the highway path, a list of exits, how many miles between each, and any noteable landmarks. I do my best to memorize it, but I reference it every time I stop for a break.

>>28708837
>1 foot = 12 inches, 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12
>A meter is based on base 10 and 10 is only divisible by 2, 5, and 10
No, without rest the meter also divides by 4, 20, 50, and 100. Which is more than a foot.

>>28708818
My 2 stroke scoot. I'm starting to think 2 strokes are not for beginners.

>>28708841
20, 50, and 100 are just 10x of 2, 5, and 10 therefore it's the same as 2, 5, and 10 in simplified terms. Now you mention 4 for 4x25 to make 100 for base 10 but 4 also works with 4x3 for base 12 so on that respect we can ignore 4 as they are equal. 12 still stands as having 3 as a unique divisible which can't cleanly divide in base 10 without ugly repeating digits

>>28708838
>This is actually a very difficult topic depending on weather and conditions
In my region rain often also comes with strong winds so a poncho may be too lose, and i will need to protect myself from siderain too probably
I can expect temps in winter to be around 5-10 C most days, with some days potentially going down to -2 C

Best 450 dirt bikes out there ?

>>28708848
Now if we dig into 4x25 deeper, really it is just 2x2x5x5, therefore it's really just a product of 2, 5, and 10 again. Anytime you try dividing by 3 in a base 10 system, you end up with ugly digits

>>28708848
Fucking kek, the guy just divided 12 inches by 12 to get 1 inch and counted that but does not want to divide 100 cm by 100 to get 1 cm because it ruins his beliefs.

>>28708848
>20, 50, and 100 are just 10x of 2, 5
You just figured why metric system is superior by yourself, congrats.

>>28708851
ყz450

>>28708854
It's not the same, metric is designed so that scientific notation can be utilized, it's not the same with imperial because of the word unit into unit conversations (12in becomes 1ft and 3ft becomes 1y). I'm metric this is not a problem because it is designed to work on magnitudes of 10s, imperial doesn't work that way so unit tables are more important

>>28708856
It's great for scientific calculation purposes but for industrial applications it falls flat on its face because here's an example, let's say you have a single meter bar stock that most be divided into 3 parts, in metric you will have a .333~ number with a .0...01 waste on industrial stock while of you used imperial, you can cleanly manufacture without wasted stock. One is better for scientific purposes and the other for industrial... but I'm the real world, what is more important, theory or practice?

>>28708866
The same way you divide a stock bar into exactly 5 pieces. Or this was a bait post?

>>28708870
How do you not see that 3 doesn't work in base 10? 5 works in base 12 because 60 is a base 12 number

>>28708873
You forgot to mention how you divide the stock bar into 5 pieces.

>>28708876
It depends on the measurements used, the actually size of the stock, and what is required of the piece to be manufactured, none of this goes against my point of trying to divide a single bar stock into 3 pieces using a measuring system that turns out wasted material

>>28708878
You forgot to mention how you divide the stock bar into 5 equal parts my friend. That's your own example, show it.

Metric sucks because I'm an American. Simple as.

>>28708879
How was it my example when you're the one who brought up 5? I was taking of 3 and how they don't fit in 10

>>28708843
Depends on the 2 smoke but because they didn't make hp down low and then suddenly start making stupid power without the weight of power losses of a 4 stroke, 2 smoke can have some absolutely bonkers power up weight ratio figures and crazy non-linear throttle which makes it dangerous to handle. There's s reason one of the first widowmakers was the original h2

>>28708525
50cc. Reflects current low skill level. Feels fast as fuck tbqh. Will buy bigger once everything is totally intuative as it on my pedel bike, where I am one with the machine. Plus I only learned about counter-steering recently and am still braking and chickening out half the time.

A previous owner has tuned it so it seems to have a long tail of unlimited further performance. At high revs it can just do stuff. Nor am I buying anything bigger until I proper understand how this one works and I don't yet.

Imperial system is named units of meaningful sizes that can be divided easily. Practical use of metric system has devolved into named units of sizes that can be divided easily like 900x1200mm. Instead of running a mile they are running 1600 meters. Or 800m for half mile and 400m for quarter mile. Kids wave 30cm rulers around in school. It has failed. It shouldn't even be taught in schools except as some extra thing for those interested, like chess club.

>>28708836
Time to shill
https://www.aerostich.com/collections/standard-r-3/products/mens-r-3-one-piece-suit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp5dLWIKyd8

>>28708855
Snowmobile suit time

>>28708855
this is great, should i sum up windspeeds with the speed i expect to ride my bike at?
>>28708897
I can't spend that kind of money anon, im poor

>>28708711
I do not have an instagram other than one bike photo bwcause i was testing the edit functions
Settle down

Picrel

>>28708900
What's your budget? Something more like >>28708898 ? ~600CAD?

>>28708900
Yup, you need to add ambient windspeed and air temperature as well as expected speed of traveling to really determine the adequate gear needed for a ride but the general rule is, dress about 5-10c (15-20f) colder than you'd expect

the brazilian dream is real folks

>>28708905
Also, we started this conversation regarding rain. You lose 3x more heat wet than dry, keeping yourself dry during rain is important. There's some good and light all weather hiking shells with breathable waterproof membranes you can wear over riding gear for cheap these days, look around the hiking, backpacking, and snowboarding areas of knowledge to find real cold weather advice, it's how i built my all weather kit

>>28708898
>Ken Block funeral suit.

>>28708752
Its as simple as
>last login date
>time active on account
Yeah

>>28708896
>Kids wave 30cm rulers
20cm is the standard because 5 make a metre

>>28708894
I'm aware of that. My scoot will wheelie once the powerband kicks on lol. I just need to stop being a pussy and actually ride it.

>>28708908
>>28708907
>New better bike

Yamaha is better than Honda. Got it

There's a yt channel Itchy Boots, you probably know about it. She always stated adventure bikes are too heavy that's why she stopped riding Himalayan and started riding CRF300. So why did she get Tenere 7 and older Tenere if they both are extremely heavy wet and what's worth they are tall and all that weight is on top? She refuses to answer the question, but I struggle with adv weight and would like to know.

>>28708907
>>28708908
They've separated since the second post I think the tranny even got rid of the sausage.

>>28708926
>I think the tranny even got rid of the sausage.
FUCK, why do troons get psyopped into amputating themselves? i hate this gay world

Can a european go to a supermarket and get back with a motorcycle?

>>28708929
I think it's just a matter who trannies are now and who they were back when their therapies started.

Back then they were mental cases who would attempt suicide every time they reminded themselves they have a dick. A life of a lonely, unfuckable, ugly woman with a rotting hole pretending to be a pussy was preferable to seeing their bulge print or something like that. They were around even as far back as the 1970's, it's just that they were so marginal we're talking about maybe like 3000 across the entire US and with the suicides, HIV and so on there's maybe like 30 left(a lot of them allowed the hole to heal up and just have some flesh sculptures meant to masquerade as clit and labia left, but no hole). All the "trans healthcare" methodology is geared towards them though.
Right now the average tranny you get is an autistic gay bottom who watched too much anime and has seen the older brother that molested him go through twink death, maybe he also wants access to straight(er) men, because gay tops are 20% of all fags. Most likely he'll start from just cross-dressing and makeup, but eventually he will sneak into "the system" to get prescription for hormonal therapy, but he will also be given psychological advice etc. etc. and he will get railroaded into the process devised for people who were much more disturbed than he is. He will also enter the "trans community" where a tons of sunken cost fallacy fuckers reside.

>>28708925
Could be Yamaha paid advertising, but sometimes you just want to try something new.
There are bikes I hate that I've never ridden and would like to try to try to dispel my misconceptions of.
>She always stated adventure bikes are too heavy that's why she stopped riding Himalayan
She was riding a BMW before that wasn't she? The indian poo bike isn't that heavy already, the CRF300 is straight up light.
I think she was wanting something less than a big BMW GS, but more than a 300.

>>28708929
Fear

>>28708935
>woman
You mean man

>>28708931
no, they dont sell motorcycles at supermarkets
t. european

>>28708939
Yeah wanted to say write something like faux-woman or counterfeited woman but I had a brain fart and forgot both these words. You get what I mean.

>>28708941
lmao yeah. I've spent enough time in /jazz/ thread on tv. I was just poking fun

>>28708940
>>28708931
I can't buy one in a supermarket but I can get them with our equivalent of amazon(I'm Polish). No idea if they come from a box because most of them are sold by what appears to be dealerships. I can even see CF Moto, but most are 125cc or some kind of electric dirtbikes.

Does anyone know chinese copies of this thing? I want a 3part bag, that actually lives on one flexible mounting plate and can be taken from the bike as ONE PIECE. But I don't want to spend 500€ for this shit.

DRAGS ON AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY BUT WEATHER LOOKS TO BE KINDA SHIT.
PRAY FOR ME AN MY FAMILY. NOTHING WRONG WITH THEM, THEY JUST MIGHT GET BEAT IF IT RAINS.

holy fuck im going to need to drop like $4000 AUD to get track day gear

>>28708952
Aliexpress is your friend. Look at the reviews with photos so you'll know what you're getting

>>28708953
PRAYERS

>>28708955
Yeha shit's crazy if they spec full one-pieces, boots, gauntlets.
On the plus side, more gear!
>>28708958
THANKS MAN.

Anyone into the Matt Spears youtube channel?
https://www.youtube.com/@MattSpears/videos

>>28708965
Any time a channel does an
>AMAZON BIKE
or
>CHINESE BIKE
I'm out of there.

It's always gayniggertranny shit

>>28708966
Fair. I've enjoyed his shenanigans and 'not a sponsor' video videos, but his adjacent videos have a comfy feel. At least to me, I guess.
It's the only bike channel I follow

Yammy

>>28708966
>gayniggertranny
>a literal pedo imagie

>>28708955
FUCK I'm looking into doing a track day in the UK.
Between tracks not being open on the weekend due to NIMBYs, all of these gear requirements and lack of time due to baby, I will consider myself lucky if I can only do a California Superbike School day so at least I can improve

>>28708982
I've done it once on hire gear and my street triple, was one of the best days of my life. now i have a cbr600rr and mentally prepping myself to sink even more money into the leather suit, airbag vest, full size boots and gloves. NONE of my regular gear is sufficient except for my helmet

what do they put in spanish water

>>28708991
It is a mystery.

>>28708497
>sit atop
you sit atop a coach, retard

anything you are controlling the direction of, is riding
anything you control the direction AND SPEED of is driving

>>28708605
akra will be lighter
delkevic will sound better

stop being poor

>>28708605
SC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr1dVpN1rOs

>>28708994
GRANDE MARC

New bike soon.

>>28708991
Nafri genes.

>>28708661
Its Honda, no questions there.

>>28709023
>there are actually Serow girls like this in Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnyyMR61xtc

RURIKO

>>28708764
121 to 140 is fine. Sounds like it's out of tune.
What do the spark plugs look like?

Disregard the advice about pulling the head. I'd certainly pull and inspect the clutch since not transmitting power is a good reason for being slow.

I bought my '81 GS 750 from an owner who was convinced the top end was fucked for 500 bucks in 1985. I knew better, cleaned the carbs and put 30K more miles on it without issues. They're impressively rugged.

While at it I'd strip and dip the carbs (and inspect the cylinder head side rubber boots which are likely hard and cracking by now) including removing the factory mixture screw plugs and going one number drill bit size larger than the largest drill shank which fits through the low speed jets. We did that to many bikes of the era because EPA jetting is so lean. I'd also ensure zero air leaks from the vacuum petcock hose etc.

Been to gesresources.com yet? It's the best online resource for them.

>>28709031
We need to invade Japan and claim all the nihonas.

>>28709052
We can demand for free nihonas or else!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0-nQ5PuFhE

Am I getting ripped off?

Yesterday I was asking my Honda dealership for a quote on parts + installation for heated grips and a quickshifter on a Hornet 1000.
I know from two other honda dealers that the QS costs exactly 230€, the grip heater is around ~400 (both parts OEM).
He told me they could do it for 860€ all in all. That meant parts, installation and initialization of those parts on the bike.

That's 660€ in materials an another 230€ for however long they need for the process.
Sounds a bit much to me, maybe somebody who had comparable work done to their bikes can chime in?

>>28709060
230 euro/pounds whatever for a few hours of labor on a motorcycle is pretty standard. This is the price you pay for being a wrenchlet.

>>28709060
I installed heated grips on my mates eliminator for a cheeseburger.
The grips cost him 50 bucks from the autoparts store.

>>28708925
Unironically, it's distance. A2 licensing in Bongland (maybe EU wide but I don't know if Brexit changed this) ensures that you either make a bike with less than 35kw (48hp) that must weigh 175kg or more, or you make a 200kg 75kw tourer that cruises at 150km/h halfway up it's rev range for hours at a time. Nothing in between or you lose both the learners market in Europe and the weekend warrior market in North America.

So if you're going to be crossing hours of freeway in a single stretch, would you rather do it at 120km/h at 90% of your redline on a crf300, or 130km/h at 50% on a t7?

>>28709060
just spend a fraction of that money on tools and a toolbox and just do it yourself

>friend is building up a yz125
>"anon! look at how cheap all these parts are!"
>Hes ordered everything from temu
>mfw
>£11 "renthal bars"
>"they are just the same as the real ones anon!"
>cheapest throttle/grips/levers etc

I fear someone is going to die horribly, on the other hand everything is made in china, im just glad im not the one that's going to find out tbqfh

Can this stupidly cheap chink shit be trusted these days?

>FREAKING THREAD-O!!!!!!!!
Ahh yes, it's time for another stale tranny thread baked early because OP is a desperate faggot insect with no shame.

>>28709072
No. I hope your friends knows YZ's maintenance intervals

>>28709069
So you mean because manufacturers focus on "everything must fit everyone" we can't have nice things anymore?

>>28709072
Nope

Failing "cool"chink brake levers for the based dr650 were a thing

>>28709081
I can bake without the gay map
please explain what's wrong

>>28709070
Where do I get a garage or a house with driveway for a fraction of that?

>>28709082
>maintenance intervals
If you mean "never service it ever" then yes he is fully aware

I am apparently an idiot for suggesting giving the bike a service
>Im not putting a NEW spark plug in it anon that one works fine! its been in there years

>>28709086
Kys

>>28709089
Poor little YZ

>>28709096
I'm not the OP, I just used to bake a few times a year ago

>>28707970 (OP)
threado

>>28709100
>>28709100

>>28709084
Come on, man. At the end of the day, you have to turn a profit, and offroading bikes are a small, niche market compared to the commuter market. I'd love to see a rally tower 55hp single at 375lbs, but how many other people would actually buy it?

>>28709072
>on the other hand everything is made in china
except that when a western company is selling chinese-made products, they are held accountable so they need to make sure they are safe/reliable enough

>>28709087
do it on the sidewalk bro

ABS - always be scootin'

>>28708640
>outsourcing critical thinking to aisloppa
>definitions of words is "critical thinking"
do have to have a critical think every time you put on your pants?

>religious jargon
you're talking with a descendant of our lord and saviour jesus christ so lower your tone when you speak to me.

I wish I could afford a dualsport but I'm really really poor

>>28709060
not bad for a stealership