Absolutely Beautiful Riding weather here yesterday and today. Daughter called yesterday morning & said she wanted to put a roof over her deck & would dad & I help....other daughter & son in law were trying to put up a garage door opener & couldn't figure out how.......I got to look at the bikes every time I had to go into the garage to get a tool to take to one or the other's house. Both projects are now done. Chance of rain tomorrow and Tuesday.....
Washed it, put tire dressing on the new bags, and went for a 15 mile run this afternoon. Shame it rained all morning, would have had a group ride for about a hundred miles..
Took the bar end mirrors off and tried to get the factory bar weights to fit in the Superbike bars with the bar end mirrors.
I finally found something sort of wrong on the new CB1100. With the Superbike bars/bar end mirrors mounted there is a barely perceptible high speed buzz in the bars that numbs the hands after 90 min or so of riding.
I put the stock mirrors and weights back and went out for two hours and no problem.
The bar end mirrors just won't fit with the stock bar weights installed. I think I may look for a different set of mirrors.
I ran outta gas and had to walk a mile, buy a gas can and gas, then walk back to the bike. No fuel gauge and I'd forgotten that I needed to go straight to the nearby ethanol-free gas station before I did anything else.
Then, I had no way of getting the gas can back, so I left it on the curb in front of some guy's yard, rushed home to get a bungee, then went back to get the can.
Then, I rode about half an hour to my brother's pad, and nobody was home, so I rode back through neighborhoods I'd never seen before and found some pretty neat little areas.
Road the Street Glide to and from work. What a nice ride. When I was younger I said that I would rather get a convertible before buying one of those old guy bikes. I guess I got old. I've been missing a lot of great rides.
Welp... had I bothered to check, I would have discovered that the slip-on Cobra mufflers I got for my Max do not use gaskets like the stock exhaust does, so since the clamp came in today, I was able to get the new (to me) exhaust mounted. Sounds decent enough. Looks AWESOME! Lost maybe 20hp.
Gonna have to get a new set of headers that will help bring that lost power back
Welp... had I bothered to check, I would have discovered that the slip-on Cobra mufflers I got for my Max do not use gaskets like the stock exhaust does, so since the clamp came in today, I was able to get the new (to me) exhaust mounted. Sounds decent enough. Looks AWESOME! Lost maybe 20hp.
Gonna have to get a new set of headers that will help bring that lost power back
Two or three days in December I was able to get out riding, and winter didn't seem so bad. But its been about 6 weeks since I last rode, and locally the roads are not suitable for two wheel riding. Spring looks awfully far away. With three of my five grown kids living within an hour of us, along...
I’ve recently acquired a bike after a year and a half of searching. I don’t care for super sports or any newer bikes like those, I prefer classics or cruiser bikes. The bike I bought was a 1973 Cb500 with a 550 build in it. It runs fine but I was wondering if it would be too dangerous or hard to...
So I finally got some time to put together video highlights of my trip from PEI (Atlantic Canada Coast) to West Coast USA (and many points in between).
All told, I rode about 23,000 KM (~14,300 miles) in 40 days. Yes, I took the scenic route!
I camped (tent and/or hammock) probably 35 of the...
Hi. So I have 2004 Yamaha R6. I have never encountered or heard this but my bike suddenly does not want to go. Engine is on and everything sounds normal. I put on the first gear, the speedometer and odometer work as it moves forward but the bike stays in place. I tried all the say up to sixth...
I have an 82 Cb900f that i got running after it sat for 15 years. Got it running and everything works no major leaks but it burns oil on start up and under throttle. I’ve been told that it could be a number of things from timing being off to rebuild the entire engine. One issue on my motor is...
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