[ D a i l y B i k e T h r e a d ] - /dbt/

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>>16279086
first for naked sv650 is dogshit

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Should I change my tire or does it still look good?

Do you guys run them till the tread runs out? Hasn't hit the wear bar yet but it's near it, will probably taking a trip to LA for Xmas so I'm wondering if it still has another 800 miles in it.

>>16279175
Id change it simply because it is not a very good tyre.
But no it is fine otherwise.

>>16279175
it looks like the inside of a golf ball
are those even a name brand tyre

4th for chillymoto. 30F, but comfygear.

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>>16279194
I've heard everyone say the Anakee 3 is a shit tire but why? It came stock with my GS and I haven't had any issues at all with it, both in touring and hitting the twisties in any weather. Of course I haven't really been on other tires so i have nothing to compare it to. I changed my front to a tourance Metzler and will change the rear too when it wears out.
>>16279207
It's Anakee 3

>be wiscfag
>four inches of snow on sunday
>tomorrow the temp will steadily drop to single digits, where it will hold for the foreseeable forecast

Season's really, genuinely over, lads. People still had their bikes out last week. Maybe I'll see a trike or two if it warms up a bit after xmas

Should I get a dual sport even if I don't go off road? I just want something to cut back on gas and daily drive. Don't want any faggot sport bike. Something that you sit straight up on. Dual sports look cool but is it really worth spending $7K at least on a dirt bike with headlights? I feel like the prices are such a joke because muh wheelies and muh consumerism.

>>16279227
look on amazon for a tire iron

set depth to 1/16 higher than the deepest tread and start making it a knobby tire

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>>16279244
>don't even go off road
So on a day off, go find an OHV area, dirt, and/or forest roads.

As a guy with a DR650, get yourself a top case (or right up a milk crate; cheap+decent=just fine), and ride the piss out of it. Yuuge aftermarket if you want to tinker with the thing. Not a fantastic bike out-of-the-box, but reliable, reasonably efficient (Hondas are pure fucking magic if you want supreme economy), and easily fixed if you rekt.

>>16279244
Well for $7K there's really not many other options than a used squid bike or a shitty 250cc cruiser that can't go over 55 mph comfortably.

I don't know much about touring bikes but my Dad owns a CTX700 and it's a very comfortable ride. It's ugly as shit though.

>>16279304
On a day off, I go fishing. Can't take a bike in the ocean.

>>16279321
you go fishing literally every day you are not working?
that sounds fucking boring.

>>16279350
I meant on the weekends. After work during the week I'm cleaning my house or shopping. Adult things you do when you live alone.

>wasting gas speeding through the woods
>or having girls asking to ride on your boat and fuck you 15 miles offshore

>>16279372
¿Porque no los dos? Open yourself up to more kinds of adventure. To me, it's not about just speeding innawoods, but more the seeing new places, exploring, and, honestly, the solitude.

If that's not your thing, then get something like a Thruxton. Decent little machine.

>>16279400
>Thruxton
>Decent machine

>>16279315
For $7k you can get a brand new SV650 or FZ07

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after you learned the basics,how long it took you to go out on the streets by yourself? i assume everyone is nerveous as fuck in the first "actual" ride

>>16279494
I learned the basics when i was a child.

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Is this a good deal? and how much would it cost to fix the engine spun a bearing part?

>>16279494
I met CC81PT soon after he moved to NM. He put me on his little XR 100 and then I was hooked. Six days later, I bought a DR650 and rode in the local off-road areas and dirt back roads developing some basic skills before my MSF class slot finally came up. Got the certification, got my endorsement, then started riding to work and everywhere else. To be honest, the first solo "street" ride was no big deal. I was slightly nervous, but rode not dissimilarly to how I drive (head on a swivel, blinkers, etc.) and was perfectly fine. Of course, I waited until I was 30 to start riding; starting younger places you at a distinct advantage except for insurance premiums.

>>16279244
>Dual sports look cool but is it really worth spending $7K at least on a dirt bike with headlights?

No, do not buy a brand new dual sport. There, I just saved you thousands of dollars. Look at what you can get on the used market..

http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/2013-klr-650-4000.1185933/
http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/xr650r-supermoto-plated-bristol-va.1187513/
http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/1996-suzuki-dr650-2700obo-florida.1186982/
http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/2008-wr250x.1183505/
http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/2007-suzuki-drz400s-supermoto-or-dual-sport-in-ct.1181624/
http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/2011-suzuki-dr650-3889-miles.1189591/

Here's one for $7K that is built to the fucking moon. Why would you ever buy a new bike for the same amount?

http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/2009-rtw-ready-dr650-all-options-like-new-7-000-00.1189496/

Now if you're buying a high tech KTM 1290 Super Adventure, sure, buy new just for the warranty. But these Nippon thumpers are so cheap, simple, reliable, and are found everywhere.

>>16279244
you can sit straight up on a naked bike. look into the yamaha fz bikes.

>>16279506
>I can buy a broken bike for 1/3 of the price of a working one then spend an extra 2 grand *try* to make it work

I donno how much is your time and not-pulled-out hair worth to you?

>>16279175
I would keep using it

>>16279494
1 day

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why so few posts?

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Why the fuck octo hasnt posted new boipucci?

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>>16279712
tfw no fireblade

Can you fucking mongoloids learn how to link in the old fucking thread.

Rode in the cold today. Caught a cold.

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Which bikes would they ride, dudes?

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>>16279764
Fuck I saved the thumbnail

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>>16279764

>>16279768
G
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5 0 0

oh boy

>>16279766
Scooters

>>16279766
>>16279764
cagiva gran canyon and a new goldwing

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5,000 hrs in MS paint

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Post your childhood backyard tracks.

Don't tell me you can't remember the layout perfectly anon.

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>>16279825

Truth

>>16279876
It was an oval, occasionally a figure eight.

>>16279825
Satsuki a best
SV650 a best

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>>16279876
Was in the field down the street from me under the power lines.

>>16279955
>implying MX fags know anything about real trails

>>16279494
I was nervous my first ride, buuuut it was because I'd just had the dual sport conversion and hadn't tabbed it yet. So naturally I was skittish and went faster than the speed limit.

>>16279971

Well find out soon enough. I'm thinking about going when they take over or do their first day.

>>16279372
>speeding through the woods
>wasting gas
haha get a scooter then

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>>16279876

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>>16280011
what were you thinking with these colours anon

>>16280021
color of grass and leaves and dirt

>>16280011
I'm jealous.

>>16280047
It wasn't actually all that big. 10 years of riding the same 1/16 mile on a 150cc 4 stroke dirt bike kind of gets old.

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>>16279517
>Six days later
Kek, I always forget how soon after it was

>>16280055
All I had was a slightly larger than usual suburban backyard. Still, I see your point.

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>>16280055
I wish the internet was more of a thing when I was a kid, if there was a resource like cross training / endurocross channel when I was a kid on a dirtbike I would be a LOT better at riding today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHGvxx1CRe4&t=1s

this vid got me so horny to go ride dirt

>then I remembered I don't own a dirtbike and haven't since I was a teen

>>16279517
how did you meet him?

cruising /trash/ or what?

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>>16280059
>tfw still havent gotten to try my new tire

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>>16279876
Like this kinda

>>16280104
It's a rhino :3

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>dat shrekt knee

>>16279175
Thats got another 5k in it easy.

>>16279227
Its only shit for offroad. Great commuter tyre for dirt driveways

>>16279244
DRZ

>>16279494
I bought a bike th3 next day after my license and have been commuting ever since

>>16279517
Did you get his number from the local publix toilet?

>>16279741
>non drz op's

They are clearly gay and retarded.

>>16280101
I only got to take mine on a short test ride. Hoping to get out Saturday

>>16280167
Did you see the sign on the front of my thread that said dead meme storage?

>>16280176
Instead it screams. Incompetent. Like most klr riders. Why even buy that heap of shit.

>buy klr
>ride for a little
>doohicky breaks
>engine fucked

LMAO

>>16280186
>buy KLR
>have to mod extensively just so it doesnt shit the bed

LMAO

>>16280193
>buy klr

LMAO

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>>16280168
weather is going to be complete ass for a while here, might go east and get the sleds out

>>16279494
Approximately 40 minutes minutes after I rebuilt the engine. still in that nervousness phase because I don't have much confidence in my work despite two months of near flawless operation.

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Best/most high-tech, kitted-out small sportsbike in town?

Not run-of-the-mill starter bike R3 or Ninja 300 shit, stuff like the upcoming CBR250RR (or the old one), the old 250 I4s, shit like that: awesome suspension, top-level instrument cluster, good engine, etc.

>>16279517
ALAMONON!
How much did you pay for the dr?

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>>16280290
build a 450 GP

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>>16279766
C90's

>>16279876
>tfw grew up in the suburbs so no room for backyard track
>tfw noise complaints managed to get all the actual tracks bulldozed

>>16280319
fucking soccermoms

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>>16280319
>Retards move next to a track
>Complain it's too loud and get it shut down
Suburbanites can fuck right off.

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>>16280319
where I lived was semi-suburban (about 7 acres) but we lived next to horse people.

>mfw the horse people complained about the bike
>we just kept riding it and later added a paddy basher

Horse people can fuck off because the smell of horse piss travels and they leave shit all over the fucking road

>>16280336
And then they wonder why they suddenly have a problem with people racing/stunting on the streets/parks. The anti-motorsport bandwagon here in Australia's insane.

>>16280349
It's worldwide.

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>>16280349
>tfw race around on tracks and hoon in the street

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>>16280354
article related
https://oregonfirst.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/history-of-mx-tracks-pitting-neighbors-against-neighbors/

>>16280336

Can you tell me about riding in NM? My brother is moving to Portales soon. Is all the good stuff on the west side of the state?? He's on a DL1000, I've got a DL650. Looking for good gravel/dirt to explore..

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Who /fa/ here?

>>16280366
>All I can say is why would anyone in their right mind want to participate in something like MX that causes so many nasty legal tangles?

Stopped reading there

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>>16280387

>>16279494
Tooled around in a parking lot on friend's bikes a few times, less than 5 minutes each time and poorly.

Did an MSF class.

They failed the entire class on the skills test(except the literal perfect kid who rode dirt from age 5) because reasons. Seriously everyone else failed by a single point or completely.

After I went back 2 weeks later and easily passed the skills test and got my license, I went riding the next day.

Took the bike on the back roads to work early Monday morning and left early that night to avoid traffic.

A few days of that and I was confident enough to take the parkways to work which lead to my first altercation.

>riding my cuck-fe XS400 on the parkway
>base Robert Moses built the parkways so trucks and buses physically can't go on them
>as a result they are car and motorcycle only
>get tailgated on the ramp coming off at my exit
>woman pulls along side with her window rolled down and yelling at me
>"you can't take that thing on the parkway, its for cars only!"
>"cars only!"
>"cars only!"
>ride off, she rides my ass in traffic
>hangs out the window screaming about calling the cops
>lane split to get away
>pull into lane in front of what I though was a co-worker's car
>right ahead is a cop
>cunt gets pulled over for being literally hanging out the window on her phone

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>>16280418
it was basically the same thing over and over. Cases of neighbors moving next to a long-standing off roading area and getting it shut down because "motocross" is evil.

When will the war against dirt bikes end?

>>16280433
people get so assblasted over nothing that they go out of their way and break a million laws acting dangerously to try to teach you a lesson.

>>16280433
LMAO
>Americans

>>16280433
This sounds very much like a reddit post, but lol. Who the fuck thinks a freeway doesn't allow motorcycles, and why would they even care if it didn't?

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>>16280433
>managed to fail MSF
>rides a cafe

Yah you sure you didn't deserve it? You sound like a pretty crap rider to me.

>>16280456
Soccer moms and cunts basically, the signs do say cars only (but the road allows motorcycles) so maybe she took it literally?

>>16280457
I was actually shocked to find I failed, and even more shocked to find the rest of the 10 of the remaining 11 also failed.

There were 2 guys who CLEARLY failed, one literally walked the bike everywhere and the other did fine all day but dropped the bike twice during the braking test.

Everyone else did pretty okay, there were a few people who did clearly better than I did (nearly perfect) and got told they failed by a point, and people who did slightly worse than me who also got told they failed by a point.

I think they were fishing for more money since when I went to reschedule the skills test they tried pushing private lessons(and from asking around everyone else).

such is life in jew york

>>16280434

When the greenies have won and motors/wheels (atvs, motos, 4x4, bicycle) are banned on all federal lands.

>>16279086
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Suzuki learn to ride program, and I’ve been involved in numerous sumo sundays, and I have over 300 confirmed dank wheelies. I am trained in hooliganism and I’m the top squid in the entire /dbt/ community. You are nothing to me but just another kawasaki shill. I will beat your KLR with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of drzposters across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call /dbt/. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can outpost you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my shitty laptop. Not only am I extensively trained in google image searches, but I have access to the entire library of the United States DRZ400 pictures and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable thread off the face of /o/, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit DRZs all over your thread and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>>16280527
cringing out of my skin

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Former CBR300R anon reporting.

Still only 9 toenails.

Miss you faggots.

Wear your gear.

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>>16280367
Eastern NM is very...Oklahoma kek. Once you get to middle NM it starts getting mountainous. I haven't ridden out east too much but western NM has some great riding.

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>>16280538
wew that beginner bike sure saved you

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>>16280538
Did you crash in that crazy month? I missed almost all of those posts, they happened so fast.
Not getting a new bike? Did you have insurance?

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Someday I'll be a canwheelie, just need to comit to keeping the throttle open. Still forcing the habbit of rear brake control if I get spooked.

Show me your wheelies /dbt/!

>>16280550
I didn't buy it because it was a beginner bike. I bought it because it was $4000 new.

>but a ZXZRBR14-1 RR is $4100 used on gaylist
Meh.

>>16280560
Had full coverage.

I think about a new bike literally every day. Riding saved my life. Shit gets in the way though, and that's alright. Probably once it gets warmer out.

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>>16280562
dox

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>>16280582
Get one so you can shitpost without being ridiculed, if nothing else

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Well its a little late but heres wr sister's crash. Post fb now.

>>16280620
kek I forgot this webm existed

>>16280549
>Oklahoma kek.
Okiefag here, what highways did you take to go through the state? That pic looks a lot like where I live, near highway 412

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>>16280562
I'm pretty shit at balance point willies too

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Just remembered about the dbt bingo. Anyone still collecting images? I think I can do a lot of these once it starts getting warmer and I get a working camera

>>16280584
Come visit!

I don't want to get up

>>16280692
Then don't. Become neet for the day, call in sick

>>16280688
in SC?

>>16280703
I can't
I get fired if I do that

>>16280643
Let's do this!

Someone remake this for this year.

>>16280726
Socal? Yeye

>>16280737
>remake for this year
It doesn't matter what year it is. Nobody even completed that one. Just go out and start taking pictures. The date thing was just so people wouldn't be using old pictures to fill it in.

Only problem I see with it is the country border and beach on a single person bingo. That's near impossible for a lot of Americans living nowhere near a border or ocean.

>>16280733
You get fired for taking a sick day? Sounds miserable

>>16280762
ARBEIT
IST
ERNST

>>16279494
I went out the day I got my endorsement, which was also the same day I took a quick training course. Almost ran wide on a corner, saved it by doing the lean and add throttle thing. Shit body position the whole time so I leaned more than I should have.

Two weeks later I chopped the throttle at lean with okay body position and crashed.

>>16279494
I purchased my first bike off Craigslist. Never ridden before. Watched videos the day before. Gave him the cash and practised on the street outside his house then rode it on the highway home.

>5 years later and still never dropped a bike

If you drive manual cars it's not hard at all to figure out a hand clutch.

>>16280776
So? Doesn't mean you can't take a day to yourself once in a while.

>>16280789
>5 years later and never dropped a bike
This gives me hope

>>16280798
>american work mentality
if you can't work you're useless
either recover at the weekends or search for a less exhausting job
that's what they tell you and that's also how it is.

>>16280490
>muh mountain bikes and horses are so much better!
>one year later
>everything rutted up from mountain bikes, horses have destroyed the rest, piles of horseshit everywhere, vegetation decimated by the useless herbivorous fucks that coud go extinct at no cost to the world where it hasn't been chopped by pissy cyclists
>trail is unusable for foot traffic
>trail is also boring for foot traffic because pissy horse/bicycle liberals have widened, flattened, and defoliated it before adding a gravel coating

>>16280789
post strips

>>16280808
>American
But isn't it EU countries that get an insane amount of vacation time per year, and leave work earlier per day on average than the us?
I don't personally take days off, but I don't have much choice. Nonetheless, no reason to bash on someone who gets a few days off per year for taking a sick day.

>>16280824
lol that's the first time I hear someone saying that we get a massive amount of vacation

I wish we could go home early

>>16280835
Your average is six weeks per year, ours is 12 days.

>American in a union shop
>five weeks of vacation a year
>"I was hired one day before that guy and he's got nothing to do. Later guys, my shift ends two hours early. Get over here and do my job newbie"
>person hired literally one day sooner: "what the fuck"
>boss: "okay see ya tomorrow"

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>>16280848
Is this supposed to mean anything?

>>16280848
get the fuck out

>>16280808
>tfw every country knows people from the US works more than anyone else

kys you greek nigger

>>16280883
actually every country says Americans are fat and lazy people that don't work at all

>>16280894
Well that's not true, but I see the fat stereotype. To be fair, though, I think that's a global occurrence in first world countries that arises from technological advancements on the consumer front. The US has just experienced more of those in recent history than any other country. Doesn't change the facts though, we are pretty fat collectively :)

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>>16280883
Actually grecians work harder than the USA

I trust this matter is now settled and we can go back to bike s

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>>16280912
>the country that bankrupted its self by abusing social welfare programs works harder than americans

>>16280920
>being so underage you don't remember the GFC

Hell you were probably a toddler in 2008

>>16280933
Except everyone else is doing fine after that. Not the greeks though.

hmm

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>>16280912
That doesn't account for unemployment, of which Greece is well over 20% if I'm not mistaken.

Anyways, bikes. If someone can convince me of a 650cc+ standard with good mile-crunching capabilities, but still fun to ride, I'd be most gracious. I'm still torn between going the grandpa route and getting a sports tourer or being hip and getting something not pigfat

>>16280944
why don't you learn to ride the bike you already bought and have put next to zero miles on.

Are you sure you even like riding?

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good morning dbt
-1ºC but I'm quite tempted to take the bike to work because bus sucks ass
car battery is kill

>>16280948
Do you really think I'll be upgrading soon? I can dream about the future, can't I?

>>16280954
saw a bike with a passenger go down in front of me this morning, 0ºC

Aside from obvious things like the engine, brake pads/rotors, and chains/sprockets, what can wear out from mileage on a sportbike?

>>16280960
the tires hurr
the grippy things on the handlebar that I don't know the English term for, but basically everything you touch can wear out

>>16280960
Cables, obviously. Those little rubber chain guides/rollers. Every bearing. Fork oil and accompanying seals. Every moving joint in the rear suspension (nobody lubes them if they need to, or replaces them if they're meant to be). The whole fucking rear shock. The seat. Every fastener will slowly rattle loose. Electrical connections can and do degrade. Charging system bits die.

>>16280822
I'm the anon who is getting the new gsxr750 tomorrow

>>16280960
Everything. Absolutely everything. Don't buy an old high mileage bike unless you like wrenching

>>16280960
everything because removing the fairings on most bikes for routine shit takes an hour so nobody bothers

>eight bolts
>sixteent fragile clips and hooks
>bending
>wiggling
>oh fuck you scratched it

>>16280988
>>16280983

Even if it has new chain/sprockets, rebuilt forks/shock, repacked bearings when the engine was swapped, and looks otherwise in mint shape?

>>16281030
Then they never, ever did a full caliper service, ever.

Reading the sticky, you talk about starting on smaller bikes because bigger bikes are hard to control for beginners. But you make it seem like that's more of an issue with people who want sport bikes.

What if I just want a cruiser or cafe racer kind of bike? Can I start on a bigger bike and be okay?

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Went to Salvation Mountain last weekend. Had a good time, ran into a group from the Los Angeles area at the Bomb Bay Beach Ruins. Also some alt chick flashed her tits at the base of the monument. Shit was cash.

>>16281040
Yes because they are too slow to be dangerous anyway. An 1800cc Harley makes half the HP of a 600cc supersport mentioned in the sticky.

>>16281039
It has newer Nissin front calipers from a CBR, actually, with SS lines front and rear.

Bike in question is a 1st Gen SV650 at a good price with anywhere from 40-60k miles, and a 8k mile engine. All the work was supposedly done last spring. Bike is at a ridiculously good price.

Has Racetech Emulators/Fork Springs and a Penske double adjustable shock, Dunlop Q3s, Vortex rear sets and sliders, Rejetted Carb + Slip On, and Renthal Bar + Chain.

>>16281040
That image is full of complete bullshit. It's just meant to keep idiots out of trouble. If you're starting out on a street bike it doesn't really matter. You will definitely be able to modulate your inputs and survive, but it doesn't matter if you're on a ninja 250 or a GSXR600. The procedure for crashing like an idiot is the same. The 250 is just recommended because it's harder to get it up to speeds where crashing becomes significantly easier for people who can't ride.

Here's the real beginner course:
1: Get a shitty dirtbike
2: Ride it on dirt all summer
2.5: Maybe ride in on the street, very carefully
3: Get any fucking bike you want
4: Now you have two bikes
5: Fuck yes

Here's the one for people who don't want to git gud:
1: Get literally any bike
2: Respect the machine
3: You'd rather hold up traffic than die
4: Leaning is for suicidal madmen who endanger themselves and others
5: Hey man, track days have been gettign expensive. I'll give you $20 for those squared off tires.

Here's what you shouldn't do:
1: Get any sportbike from 125 to 1000cc
2: Lean over a bit and feel like you know how to ride
3: Push it and hope the amazing sportbike handling saves your ass
4: Crash

>>16281041
did u kill strips?

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>>16281040
>Cruiser or cuckfe racer

Kys hipster beta nu-male bbc loving sissy trap cuckboi

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>>16281059
I have no desire at all to get a sport bike, nor do I want to go 100 miles an hour weaving in and out or traffic or any of that. Definitely not gonna do some retarded leaning shit.
I just have always loved motorcycles and am now in a position to finally afford and own one, so I'm ready to take the plunge.
I love cruisers, and cafe racer bikes. One of my favorites is the Triumph Bonneville.

It's just that everyone says start small, but not too small because you'll out grow it really soon and want something bigger. I want to get a bike I'll enjoy for a while and still be able to enjoy it.

>>16281072
go cuck a tyrone nu-shack you boisissy hipster trap bbc pucci-male

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>>16281075
>>16281076

Fuck off back to redit you fagget sissy trap beta nu-male cuckboi

>>16281075
>do some retarded leaning shit.
A look into the mind of a retarded hipster who knows nothing about motorcycles.

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>>16281060
I did slaloms for about 15-20 miles until I had to pass through Glamis . Probably not though.

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>>16281041
How's the bike been since you got it going again? Notice any other small issues from the crash, besides the wheel? Also, how much did the new rim end up costing you? Stay safe mate, try not to crash again

>>16281072
Unintelligible

>>16281075
Start on a smaller standard, then get whatever you want after a year or two. The whole learning on dirt thing isn't possible for a lot of people, even if it's the safest route.
Ignore the shitposts, get whatever bike makes you happy, even if it's objectively terrible

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>>16281075
Post boipucci

>>16281093
R3 trap anon?

>>16281093
Niggernon

>>16281093
Hello my african american friend.

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Why is this allowed? This is racist as fuck.
They should be forced to change their name and logo since THEY'RE NOT FUCKING "INDIANS"! They're Native Americans. This isn't fucking India!

Holy shit, how have they not been run out of town and shut down yet?

>>16281092
If you want to heat tires just hold a low gear, accelerate at WOT, then brake hard and repeat for like 1-2 minutes. Then you can go full hektik without too many worries.

It's how I manage to do okay leans in 30F degree weather.

>>16281075
I can't tell if you're trolling or youre actually a fucking hipster that wants a bike just for the image.

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>>16281103
Why did you go to the autistic length of writing out this stupid bait that nobody would take seriously and has never been expressed anyway?

Honest question

>>16281107
If you don't look good, what's the point of living?

>>16281103
Im pretty sure there made by pajeet or SEA. Like 40% of bikes these days.

>>16281075
You either learn to lean and learn to love the lean or you don't ride on pavement. Period.

Cars are capable of faster cornering speeds and will ride your ass and run you over at what their drivers perceive as a comfortably brisk pace around corners because you're afraid of leaning over 30 degrees, or you'll try to make a turn at speed and crash because you don't have experience leaning and force the bike into a lowside with bad body position and shitty inputs.

You will never lean like a MotoGP rider because of the limits of your bike's chassis, suspension, and tires. You probably won't lean like a canyon carver because you need to reach unreasonable speeds to make those lean angles necessary without shitty backwards body position and choppy late apexes that you shouldn't be doing anyways. It's not retarded leaning shit, it's daily life unless you're that guy on a full bagger plugging up the 60mph two-lane highway by taking turns at 45mph (and crying when cars illegally pass).

Part of riding on public roads is functioning as a cog in a system. In order to participate without much trouble, you must match the "laid back" cornering speeds of most cars and start leaning. Gears that do not engage and rotate smoothly damage everything they interact with, leading to eventual catastrophic failure. This applies to roadgoing vehicles that do not closely match the speed of surrounding traffic.

NO LEANS NO LIFE

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>>16281107
>just for the image
>wanting a cruiser automatically makes you a hipster who just wants something for "the image"
>calling me a hipster
>being this wrong

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>>16281096
>>16281098
>>16281102
I'll post my black asshole one day, then you'll all be happy. But for now, hello :)

>>16281117
Jesus kill yourself

>>16281124
t. cantlean

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>>16281114

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>>16281124

>>16281122
Prove that youre not hipster beta nu-male cuckboi or go back to /fa/

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Oh, I also got pulled over by highway patrol today because I ripped a shit first gear wheelie on the on ramp of I-8 West.

>>16281093
Bike's been solid, I've been religiously checking the bolts on the axle and brake caliper since I got it installed. Wheel was $187, and getting everything swapped over was about $110 from a mom and pop shop, which was half what the local dealership wanted.

No promises about not crashing again, although the next time might be from leaning too much on stock tires.

>>16281106
I live in the south west so heating up the tires only takes a few minutes of slaloms on the street.

>>16281124
R3 Trap anon?

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>>16281131
come back

it misses you

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>>16281126
Not a false accusation

>>16281128
It gets you's, so I will continue.

>>16281131
How's the squid life? Lol, look around before you goof off. Good to hear youre checking your shit though, god knows these things aren't far from falling apart :)

>>16281134
>>16281096

>>16281131
Also, I just noticed you put the mirrors back on. Why?

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>>16281137
I can't baby, I gotta move on to bigger wrecks.

>>16281139
It smells of soy sauce and soaked white trash panties.

>>16281144
Because California Highway Patrol will butt fuck anyone from out of state without working turn signals and mirrors.

>>16281156
Lol@california
Here you can pass inspection with one shitty mirror and no signals, let alone not get pulled over for it. Honestly, I see people all the time on their riced out gixxers with no mirrors, no exhaust, etc, and I would have to assume they don't get pulled for it because they're all still doing it

>>16281169
No-chase policy/impoverished PD doesn't have the time to pursue charges.

It's the same here. Can you cut your rear fender off? No. OEM fenders have to stay by law. Do the cops care if you didn't do something heinous with your plate in full view and then pull over for some reason? No. Did you do something heinous with your plate in full view and pull over? You're fucked, and you'll have to have an actual mechanic put the OEM fender on.

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>>16279086
I want to get an XR400 for riding around my parents farm and going camping.
How hard is it to carry bags and shit without a sub frame?
I don't know much about carry bags for bikes.

>>16281193
Building a steel rod rack over it with the pegs and "subframe" (it has one) as mounting points, maybe with some extra reinforcement, is your only option

Or skip the fabrication and buy a DRZ

>>16281182
What state is that? In my state, it's legal to have no turn signals, and legal to have removed your stock mirrors, as long as you have some form of rear view mirror.
As i said, the rest isn't legal, but you'll get away with it. Theres also no decibel regulation in my state.
IE OEM fenders don't have to stay by law here

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>>16281207
Sorry, not the best with my terminology. I was referring to the rack on the back of the bike, like in the picture.

I don't want a meme bike.

>>16281211
WA.

A street legal bike needs two fenders, two mirrors, four signals, reflectors, some form of eye protection for the rider, a DOT or better helmet, and a quiet pipe.

However, all motorcycles are exempt from emissions testing. Period. I don't think there's a single sportbike around that still has a cat.

>>16281230
Lol that sucks. I'll link you to the NC motorcycle regulations so you can see how lax they are, its great.
http://motorcyclelawgroup.com/motorcycle-statutes/north-carolina/

>Be me
>Like 11-12
>Throw rocks at cars for a hill
>Throw rock at car really hard
>Impacts on the front windshield
>See car loose control and crash
>Panic and run to my house
>See new later with my parents
>Baby and mother crash and burn

And thats how i killed 2 people one of them a baby. And thats only the first time.

>>16281220
You can technically tie anything to anywhere on a motorcycle but it's not a great idea

>>16281244
Sorry wrong thread

>>16281244
Sure, wranton

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>Buy "adventure bike"
>ride down a dry dirt road
>stand up the whole time

why do people do this

>>16281295
Because they have more money than you.

I just want people to be proud of things I make, I want the people close to me to be interested in what interests me, not in a "like what I like" way, but in a simple "hey good job"

I took some cool pictures today and everyone I go to to show my work no one cares, no one even says anything. And they all I take pride in my photography.

It's not even the attention I want, I just want to be told I did a good thing, someone to show interest in what makes me happy, I just don't understand why that's such a hard thing to come by. Someone shows me something or whatever, "Dude nice job, looks great" "Hope you really enjoy your new thing" etc etc. Some basic kindness goes so far. Fuck.

;~;

>>16281299
I'm sorry for this post, I didn't even stop to think that this is attention seeking.

Ignore and move on because I don't know how to delete posts.

>>16281299
Your waifu is a slut anon

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>>16281193
This is what I'm look for. Does anyone have any experience adding things like this? How much weight could it hold?
On the site it's says 20lb max, and that the rack can hold more, but I'm not sure how much the bike can handle without snapping something.

http://www.nomadic-racks.com/index.php?option=com_rokecwid&Itemid=62#!/~/product/category=976080&id=4123561

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>>16281299
Post bike pics

>>16281263
Im not german cuck.

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>>16281299
Wut

>>16281317
Does this faggot even own a motorcycle

>>16281299
Come join us I. Motor madness on /p/

>>16281299
Kys cuckboi

>>16281319
Can confirm he does. I saw snapchats.

>>16281321
You killed her.

>>16281299
Nobody likes you justin. Now pls fuck off.

>>16281322
I stabbed ur with my dick last night, fagget!

>>16281325
Post boipucci

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>>16281299
U want attention? Take pic of boipucci.and post em.

>>16281322
I didn't see a bike, therefore there is nothing. His bike is a spook.

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>>16281327
U post boipucci and i post my pee pee

>>16281336
You killed her.

Daily reminder that non-A2 motorcycles are banned from Super Euromeet. You don't NEED more than 50hp

>>16281343
>yfw wr and the italians are the only ones with 50hp bikes

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>>16279086
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fioOO9vLrcU

Stay safe bonglanders.

>>16281328
No, post your dick inside muffler

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>>16281307

How much are you needing to carry? You generally don't want to load those little top racks up too much. Bikes with steel subframes can generally handle a fair amount, people overload them all the time. (pic related)

Look into pannier racks, they will get you more weight. Or just get a military duffel and strap that bitch on, letting the rack and seat take the weight.

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>>16281319
no I just inhabit /dbt/ and no other threads for no apparent reason.

>>16281343
You don't "need" a motorcycle or any motorized personal transport. You don't "need" a whole building just for yourself. You don't "need" fresh food. You don't "need" anything to drink but water. You don't "need" access to this deplorable website filled with hate speech and improper thoughts.

>>16281359
I love you being here, please don't leave.

>>16281351
>satin black paintjob
Wew. Easy $1200 just on paint damage. RIP

>>16281364
I'm here all the time just I just usually post normally.

>>16281357
I just want do do a bit of camping, but not really sure how much the stuff would weigh.
Swag, water, food, maybe fuel and other repair tools.

>>16281350
>everyone else is riding a 125cc

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>>16281295

I brought this up the other day. BMW riders do it the most, from what I've seen. I've seen them do it in campground loop circles, 5 mph smooth dirt road. Someone has to be teaching them this, or they've seen it somewhere as the required move on unpaved roads. Watch any video of real off road racers and they never stand straight up like a board, they crouch forward and have elbows bent. Or they sit down to conserve energy.

DAKAR
https://youtu.be/AOS_P4SL4Ds

Pic not related, but people wonder why pirates are the laughing stock of motorcycle riders.

>>16281368

One of those dinky racks would be fine to get started with. Combo that with a tank bag and backpack and you'd probably be good for minimal camping. Can add fender bag, tank panniers or real panniers as needed.

>>16281386
It's comfy
I do it all the time to avoid destroying my butt on shitty roads
But i have a naked with high pegs, so it's quite different

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yo guys, I'm looking to buy myself a kind of starter toolkit for christmas for around 100€, any recommendations for manufacturers and actual tools that should be in there?

>>16281413
Check what your bike needs, but generally
6-8-10mm Allen keys
10mm socket
Jis/philips
And that's it
On my bike specifically i'd also need a t50 for motor mounts

>>16281420
I'm currently not looking to get one for my current bike (BMW), because I'll set it come spring anyways, but I'm looking to buy a naked japanese bike then, are there any big differences in bolt and nut sizes?

>>16281423
*sell

>>16279227
Haaaaaah, à fellow gs rider !!
Year?
Also, switch to Conti trail attack, been there for about 10k km, still not seing the thread.

>>16281423
Japs and euro tools should not have any appreciable difference

>>16279506
Found the squid

Dude did you even read the bike sticky on /o/?

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>>16281423
BMW uses torx bolts, japs and italian uses plain old standards.
Also pic of Conti trail attack.

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>>16281451
alright, thanks

do you think pic related + a set of wrenches + a set of hex keys and maybe a set of screw drivers is enough for now?

>>16281472
That'll be more than enough.
Buy only premium tools with lifetime warranty (Facom for exemple), dont risk breaking tools and messing up your whole engine/expensive bolts and whatnot.
If you cant afford them, just split costs with à bike buddy.

>>16281372
>tfw one of the powerful now
we wuz

>>16281497
it has 10 years of warranty, and it's not like i'll be using it daily anyways. But the sharing with a buddy thing is a good idea

>>16281519
>tt600
>powerful

>>16281534
well more than the rest of the bunch if the rest is 125cc

>>16281525
A "real" (as in won't break at the first tight bolt) torque wrench is expensive, never mess with tools that'll assure your safety on the road.

>>16281545
I already have a pretty good torque wrench at my parents' house

>>16281075
Henri, is that you?

>>16281552
God bless dad's toolshed, right?

>>16281561
It's actually mine, but I keep it at my parents' house because they have a garage there. very handy for tyre changes

>>16280550
Thats the dumbest thing you have ever typed

>>16280620
I have other webm of wranon sister but if I post it will give away my identity.

>>16280959
Thats a bit cold to have you dick out in.

>>16280965
Handlebar grips....
>yuros

>>16281075
I've been riding with shit bikes (for this borad standards) for a couple of years now. I can tell you this:
Started with an used 2 stroke 125cc; eventually, it fell apart. I put 80.000 km in it.
Move to a 0km 4 stroke Yamaha 125 in 2008. Got it up to 150.000 km and sold it.
I bought a KLR 650 and sold it because it is a guaranteed 'death by lead' here.
Finally I bought a Honda 250, a Tornado.

They never felt like 'small' or 'boring' to me.
I ride in the city 9 hours a day, making bad decisions every second, and I loved every single km I put in those bikes.
Just buy the one you like, if you go in tje Interstate a lot, buy a 250 or greater. If not, every bike is suited for you.

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Anyone else /longstroke/?

>>16281117
I hope this is not a pasta, this is really well written. You're actually right. I've never rode in America, but from what I see, since lane spliting is illegal on most states, and since you guys have a huge cellphone on wheels problem, you just need to be able to outmaneuver anyone on the road. If you can't lean you won't be able to safely ride on the streets.

No lean no life.

>>16281697
Of muh dick

>>16281295
Their windshields are above eye level so they have to stand up and look above them when they get dirty.

>>16281117
>This applies to roadgoing vehicles that do not closely match the speed of surrounding traffic.

This

Fully laden semis are perfectly fine at 90mph.

>>16281413
Just get a nice 170+ piece socket set from stanley or another reputable company.

>>16281363
Improper thoughts? It just a place where you can speak your mind. Its like how the polls said hillary will win due to asking people about it in a public forum where they are identified. But in the privacy of the polling booth it is much different.

>>16281359
Same. But mainly to post drz gs500 harley etc

guys i had very little brake pressure so i zip tied the lever in for two weeks straight and i just took off the zip tie and the lever is a fucking rock. there is literally zero travel on the lever, it just engages the brakes instantly.

>>16281849
congratulations, you fucked your fluid circulation permanentl

you can already order a new reservoir, brake lines and caliper

>>16281851
>fucked your fluid circulation

What does that even mean. My master cylinder was $330 there is no way it is broken

>>16281849
Sounds safe

>>16281878
well, considering you ziptied your brake lever onto your handlebars for two weeks, it makes sense that you wouldn't even know that it will fuck your bike up.

>>16281926
>brakes literally meant to be pressurized
>but holding them under pressure will ruin them
???

>>16281878
>Americans

>>16281929
But not for 2 weeks straight you mongoloid

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https://youtu.be/Gv-Fv9lOF00?t=165

fuck me running, be easier to just learn real motocross what is this?

>>16281976
lol that looks like shit

>>16281976
countersteering in a game
it would feel so wrong without being able to feel it out

>>16281980
if you've ever played "GP bikes" then it does, it's fucking impossible.

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>>16280538
>get off dbt for less than a month
>all those newfags crashing

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fuck, why do I have to be so indecisive regarding future motorcycles??

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>>16281849
All the air that was in your brake lines has now been dissolved into the brake fluid. Probably a good idea to bleed that fluid, the air will come out of it eventually. Especially if it's warm where you are or you're using the bike on track / canyons.

>>16281851
>Brake fluid
>Circulation
>MFW

>>16282069
Because you have too much time and too little money.

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Got my Mod 2 test tomorrow, any advice? I am most scared about failing on observations. Still not entirely sure what I have to do and when.

Not had any lessons just riding on my CBT and only getting the A1 license.

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>>16282093
I actually have enough money and enough time, but no proper bike license to get the bike(s) I desire

>>16282096
is that like emergency braking, swerving and going at an incredible slow pace?

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>>16282102
Even worse. You're nobike.

>tfw wasted something like £300 on gear because made newbie mistakes and didn't really know what I wanted

I got a spare coat, 2 spare trousers, 2 spare helmets and a pair of boots that make me fumble with the gear lever pretty hard. Oh and they also clash really badly with the colour of my kit (white boots on black gear).

>>16282106
No thats mod 1, mod 2 is on the road.

>>16282110
I'm hasbike, but I'm underpowered and old hasbike

I don't know what's worse though

>>16282114
well, if you can't properly ride on the road at that point, you shouldn't get your license, really

>>16282096
Definitely focus on observations, road positioning, and following distance. Two second rule etc.

Also make sure you wrap up warm, being cold wrecks your concentration. Try not to focus on the guy following you, ride for yourself. (You'll probably hear that phrase at some point tomorrow)

I've done two Mod 1's and three Mod 2's, failed the A2 Mod 2 first time because I crossed a zebra crossing while someone was waiting. Two years later I flew through both the tests no problem.

>>16282122
idk, sometimes you'll be caught out for really silly things.

>>16282147
I mean, I get what you're saying, over the past 2 years, I might have picked up some questionable techniques (in the eyes of the law/instructor) when I'll do my A test next year, but if you constantly question your skill, you'll be even more nervous and might eat shit more easily. Just keep in mind all the rules of the road, and keep one eye on the speedo.

>>16282111
2 spare helmets? Did you plan on crashing so often that you needed that many on hand?

>>16282160
first helmet was too large, can't return it as its been used.

Bought a cheap one off amazon, but had very painful pressure points. Again, can't return it.

So I got one that fits me.

>>16282169
>can't return it as its been used.
>Again, can't return it.
Wat

>>16282175
most stores won't take used helmets back because they can't be sure if it has been dropped or not, and checking for each helmet (I think they do it with x-ray) is far too expensive

>>16282169

bet you saved a lot of money buying online huh

>>16282183
Won't make that retarded mistake again, I can assure you.

I do wish there wasn't such a premium on gear though. Even crap gear costs a fortune.

>>16282180
ur such a cuck jesus

>>16282192
why? it's the truth

>>16282191
ur retarded, retards make retarded mistakes, it's in your nature.

>>16282180
That's fucked up, here you have the right to return it no questions asked within two weeks of receiving it..

Why is the world so shit and why does it only get worse

The wannabe tough guys on their ridiculously loud motorcycles are once again besieging the normally peaceful roads of NH.

Every year in April, the mouth breathing cunts take to the streets on their louder than fuck ass-jewelry for the sole purpose of being noticed.

We get it, you want to be seen and to have your existence recognized. Why else would you parade around in your gaudy leather and helmet-less head, with two unmuffled exhaust pipes spilling untold decibles into the peaceful Sunday air?

Please, please blip your throttle again while sitting at the traffic light. Yes, blip it once more! Again! You are a sexy beast sitting on all that chrome, your fat gut hanging over your belt and touching the gas tank and your blubbery jowls barely hidden behind your ridiculous face hair. If I were a woman, then surely my panties would be flooded, oh yes, blip that throttle again! I bet sex with you would be like riding a magnificent and powerful bean bag.

Perhaps someday this ridiculous trend of noise will cease.

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>>16282213
TRUE BIKER LIFE
YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND

>>16282213
Kek'd

>>16282213
do you say the same thing to people with an R1 and a full akrapovic system?

>>16282213
NH
North-Holland?

>>16282242
this egoistical american probably expects everyone to know that NH is the abbreviation for New Hampshire

>>16282248
It's a tiny tiny state, you must be really egoistical to think people would know its existence and abbreviation.

How much do motorcycle instructors earn in the UK?

I would like to be one.

>>16282263
200 pounds a month

>>16282263
theyre doing it voluntary

>>16282263
40 reichsmark per certified british chap

>>16282263
Post bike>>16282268

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