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Damn... thought that was a Harley rider... Same kind of helmet and attitude!

I guess I can't throw stones... I lanesplit, speed like Rossi, pass on double yellows, run red lights, use my signals after I make the lane change, and generally drive like a total *******. We've had a LOT of people in Orlando kill themselves "drivin'n'textin" including 4 UCF students when the...

Has anyone tried advancing the TPS slightly? It helps a buttload on the FI-ed SV-650, I was wondering if anyone's tried it on the FJR. I didn't find anything with a search.

Nope, doesn't make any sense, but on the good side, Congress finally ended the ethanol subsidy! So I hope it'll slowly fade away.

Sure it does. None of these people are really parts warehouses, except for high turnover stuff like helmets & tires. They still just turn around and order stuff from MamaYama the moment your order rolls in. Bike Bandit in particular can't tell it's *** from a hole in the ground, and I've had...

Obviously, the problem is that the back rest is mounted too far back.

Hm, I'll keep my mouth shut, I have a nickname for a reason... anyways, the scariest I saw was a BMW car tailgating the living hell out of a Ford box-van. They came up to an intersection and the van darted left into the turn lane, leaving the BMW to plow into the laneful of cars at about 60mph...

Ben did a nice column for Superbike Planet here Apparently he can write as well as he rides! Edit: And also an Indy GP interview too.

I had an '85 RZ-350 develop a roughness in the side of the 3-4 gear pair, so it would file down the shift fork until you could shave with it. It was because I was in neutral (by mistake) revved the motor, then dropped it into first instead of second. BLAM! Of course on an RZ, you can just flip...

Hm. If you're so close to cars that you have to worry about mirror length... something is wrong... I went with the SW Motech extenders, which makes it even more irritating when you can say "goddamnit Yamaha, would just one more inch kill ya!?"

Wow, I guess I have to go back and get the right stuff now, because the stuff I got looks like blue jello.

Same colors as my '85 RZ-350... *dance* *dance* *dance*

Another thing a dealer won't do is tell you the current clearances on the shims, so if they "don't need it" you don't know if they're in the middle of the range, or if they're 1/10th of a mm from the edge of the spec. Edit: or hell, if the tech said "close 'nuff, I don't feel like pulling cams...

The repair size you need is M10-1.25, this is the thread size of the caliper sliding-pin bolts. You can put anti-seize on the bolt threads. Mine stripped the first time I pulled the bolts, so there wasn't much "preventive" to do. :( Makes me wonder if they got some of the slider grease on the...

Yup, they fit my '07 just fine.

I thought the advantage of the carbtune was that it has no mercury in it?

They work just as well as deer horns or angel bells... i.e. only in the user's mind.

Yup, worst time EVER to be near a bike shop. I don't even bother, because I know there's a line at the parts counter out the door. You ask for a tire then, you're lucky if it's round AND black AND rubber all at the same time.

Man, I had someone pull out on my ABS SV. Half the weight and really sticky Dunlops. I was walking funny the rest of the day.

Hm, for me it's based on experience. When I started out I was "ALL BIKEZ R COOL!" and I didn't care about one over the other, but then the Harley guys always consistently went out of their way to be dicks. There are probably nice guys riding HDs, but I sure haven't met many. Heck, I even gave a...