ReconRat

You might be asked to obtain a dealer's license. I saw it happen to a friend's father. It was six vehicles if I remember right. That was over the limit of five. Argue in your case to not do that. They will only be wrong in asking you to get one. They turned around and took his license away after that, for not actually selling vehicles. duh. Ohio DMV Licensing Requirements edit: This only counts if they were all in your name.

3400 Ohio-Rider members happened sometime yesterday. It's not really clear who was the 3400th entry, several were waiting. But this one showed initially as number 3400! Location:buffalo,nyBike:92 honda cbr 600

Depending on the temperatures the part will see in use, it will be either Ceramic Thermal Barrier Coated or Powder Coated. The exhaust headers would have to be Ceramic Thermal Barrier Coated. The exhaust tip could be regular Powder Coated. Parts in between would be coated based on usage temperatures. Standard powder coatings cure at 275F and higher. Approaching or exceeding that temperature on a regular powder coated part wouldn't be good.

decisions... should I wear my steel pot or my Kevlar?

DD214 good enough? edit: yes...

It's been an epic evening... Historic South Park episode, and first time seeing Secret Girlfriend. I'm all happy now. edit: oh cheet, JRM and I both used the word epic. Odds of that? And I forgot to mention watching HD stock tomorrow. I R curious also. edit edit: I said historic first...

That's pretty much what I was going to say. If you haven't been in trouble yet, what the Hell are you worried about? If you have, well then, you probably know your limits. That makes you one up on the "haven't been in trouble yet" crowd.

so sad, that's some seriously messed up parking. I'd hate to find my car messed with like that...

Typical Breaking Stress (large light 60 sec. load) = 24,000 psi Typical Impact Velocity Causing Fracture (1/4" light 5 gm missile, impact normal to surface = 60 ft/sec Kinetic energy = 1/2 x mass x velocity x velocity (K.E.=1/2 x m x v 2). Kinetic energy = 0.8361 joules sooo, you could gently park an Abrams tank on it, briefly, but don't swing at it with a ball peen hammer... edit: to be specific, .8361 joules is a bit over one foot pound. so very little force is required by a dense/hard (like metal, rock or even sand) object to actually cause a chip or crack. The edges of tempered glass are the areas most likely to damage. Once damaged, the entire piece of tempered glass becomes prone to more damage. so solar film top and maybe bottom, and some sort of edge protection, and it's ... well, it's completely covered by something... This is also assuming I did my math correctly... it's late and I can be stoopid late at night.

Sure, it did wonders for Atlantic City... Turned it into a wonderful... oh wait, is there still an Atlantic City? Dunno... I keep getting this image of even more people homeless, and begging for money. Gambling isn't for everyone.

Shoot.... some Kevlar wallpaper and a half dozen pitbulls on crack and you're good to go...

Kerosene or mineral spirits are what is recommended for cleaning chains. Check your o-rings by eyeball, to see if any are missing or obviously damaged. You can see them down in between the links and rollers. I've been using the DuPont dry teflon wax spray for over a year now. It might not last any longer than others, but it holds up pretty good in the wet conditions. It doesn't fling off where I can see it, and it is pretty smooth and quiet when I use it. Note: the main damage to rubber items like o-rings, comes from ozone, like dry rotting the tires. Also from chemicals that make the o-ring rubber either swell, crack, or melt to goo. There's a lot of chemicals that will do that. The life expectancy of rubber parts is ~six years.

geez... I'm gonna get out of line at somebody's lunch. Just because I can...

Yeah, lowering. Might be ok. This wouldn't be my first bike, street, dirt or in between. I've been riding 40+ years, lots of bikes and lots of places.

hahaha, all that and more MORE.... you'all just kids, heheh

Nice shiny new gas stations, because the old stations can have tanks messed up with water and crap. A lesson I learned the hard way.

Talking about tire blow outs in another thread. Those front and rear stands let you easily inspect your tires before you ride. Something we're supposed to do every time we go out and ride. Yeah, most of us don't inspect our tires that often. So those stands are valuable. They can make life easy. Besides, I get really tired of moving the bike one foot, lube the chain, repeat. I do have a center stand, I don't put it on the bike unless doing something like remove the tire.

You would live in fear if you've ever had a front tire blow out at any speed. I don't recommend it, that's scary as Hell. I remember patching and plugging lots of tires when I was a poor student, or otherwise. Although most of those were tube tires. Way easier. Although I did a lot of tubeless car tires. I still carry a patch kit on the road. I'm going to have to look up and learn how to do that. I've never tried fixing a tubeless motorcycle tire. I'm guessing a sideways hole isn't too easy to fix up.

Correct. Although it's evenly split between collision with another vehicle, and running off the road in a curve. The two categories account for almost all motorcycle fatalities.

Service Manual for 2006/2007 GSXR 750

OEM filters are made by a filter company, and the OEM has it's name on it. In some cases the OEM will have requirements for that part, but it's not much different than other OEMs or the industry standards in general. To be more exact, the filters have standards in the first place, and the OEMs design everything else to use that part. Are some better than others? Yes. But better in one way may be worse in another. Mistakes can be made, when trying to improve what already exists. Eventually good ideas are adopted by all. So the answer is, use at least reasonably good oil and and a reasonably good oil filter. Change oil and filter at intervals per your owner's manual or service manual.

I sat on the black X-Country at Iron Pony on Sunday, to see how it fit me. I'm not a fan of tip toe straddle a bike. I could almost get both feet flat on the ground. I'm 5'9". There's lots of suspension travel, and it's bouncy, so I could bounce a bit and both feet were down flat. I miss the old style street scramblers. Almost everything for dual sport use now is either very heavy, or very tall. Tall is out. Heavy is questionable. Hard to figure out what to do. I wouldn't mind having one myself.

You must have been there before or after me. I was there between 2:30 and 3:30 buying a new rear tire. I didn't see your bikes.

This time of year I carry a balaclava with me at all times when riding. It beats freezing pieces off my body. And I've seriously tried that before. It doesn't seem quite cold enough for wearing one yet, but I would have used it this morning. That doesn't explain why I didn't use it, when I had it with me.