2talltim

Couple more quick pics. Even the wifey loves rockin the connie.

And this is where the motocycle thing began at first. In 1998 i bought this 1990 GSXR 750 all because my buddy let me take a spin on his 94 Katana 600 at a bbq. When we bought our house in 01 i sold it for financial reasons. Till i bought the TL in 2007

Hopfully you see this tandem more next year.  Think I've got the mrs. amped up a little to try some light touring next year on the Injun. She wants to make the gap trip next year and think she might ride it down(maybe) 

To the old connie that you all know pretty well. I seriously can't explain how much I love this bike. I can honestly say ive never loved a personal posession anymore in my life than i do with this turd. This bike has kept my sanity intact and my passions alive. 

To the very brief but very fun Z1000

Ofcourse made a couple trips down with the old Vstrom(OR Whore).  The wife had her Vstar then. It never made it to the the gap.

Went back down a few times the next year. Once with my wife, once with the bubbys.

Thats her in the back ground on her yellow Honda-Davidson

This is where the touring bug hit me hard. This was 10 years ago packed up and ready to ride to Deals Gap for the first time. Can't believe it wasn't all that long ago and now i have probably 90k miles under my belt and so much more of a rider than i was then.

2 hours ago, Howabusa said:

I don’t have your money! The FJR is fixed, thanks @2talltim.

No problem. Needed to get the Injun out anyhow. My solder job has a 10ft/10 second garantee. 

5 minutes ago, Tonik said:

Ok, this is a real puzzle. We need to solve it. Put a shorter tire on and figure out a way to keep the bike upright. Chock the front perhaps. It would be helpful if you add your amount of weight to the seat if possible.

Lay a 4x8 beside the bike and lift up the edge furthest from the bike until it hits a hard part. Then measure the distance from the edge of the 4x8 to the ground.

Put a taller tire on and repeat. Then post results. TiA.

I will do that. Sometime next year when I change tires again. Have 50 on there right now, and a 55 on the rack i'm going to next. 

You would think a short would pop the fuse. 

1 hour ago, Howabusa said:

On my 2009 FJR one of the brake light bulbs works fine as the taillight, but when I activate the brakes the bulb goes out completely. The other bulb is fine. Is this a short or what? I was changing bulbs and a couple of times it worked, but now it won’t. 

You don't get it figered out stop by this afternoon (im home at 330)well look into it.  Sounds like dirty connectors maybe? Only other thing i can think of (not sure what type of bulbs it takes) but some of them it is possible to put them in backwards. 

14 minutes ago, TimTheAzn said:

Taller tire typically is harder to get to the edge. 50 vs 55 vs 60.

Then my bike defies the laws of physics...

I have several examples on the shelf at home. 

4 minutes ago, what said:

A taller tire should make you drag hard parts before you run out of lean angle, typically. 

All I know is I never have any chicken strips left on the taller 55. And can never get rid of them on the stock 50. Draging hard parts with both. 

8 minutes ago, what said:

The reason for running a taller+wider tire is the profile is generally better at full lean and will give a little more lean angle. Tip-in would also be quicker than with a more flattened out tire. You'd get more contact patch out of a taller tire giving you more grip at lean but that's only because you run out of contact patch sooner on a flatter tire when you exceed the tire edge - Lean angle is a bit more limited on a thinner tire but that's fine as you can compensate by getting off the bike more. 

 

You don't want to exceed the tire edge.  

Yup. I can use every cm of 55 when I run them, a 50 tire it is impossible to run to the edge. Usually have 1/4" chicken nuggets left on them after draggin parts. 

9 hours ago, Steve Butters said:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/14/harley-pulls-plug-on-livewire-production-shortly-after-ev-debut/

😂🤣😂🤣

1 hour ago, Pauly said:

Harley is that 112 year old man in the nursing home that just won't die, no matter how many bodily functions are no longer in service. 

Starting at $30k a pop. Don't see them being their saving grace like they are hoping. 

6 hours ago, jbot said:

 

keep up this uppity attitude, and i'll change it to "motorized recumbent tardcycles for fatties"

I Like It! It rolls off the tongue nicely. Lets call it that. But no pasta bikes permitted. I'm trying to keep the joint classy and shit.

5 hours ago, Tonik said:

I want me banned from their sub forum. But someone once told me the track was so much fun and today has proven that true. So here i am. 

5 hours ago, jbot said:

My first act as god emperor of OR is to restrict Tim's access to the track section and sequester him to a new section I'll call "overweight scooters"

It's an obese moped you prick, why you got to use derogatory terms? Only slow poopoo heads permitted in my new section.

With all that settled.

The track sucks, carry on.

I think we do need a "track bro" mod. @Casper woosh your magic wand. 

Just now, jbot said:

i actually don't care about any of this, or even disagree with tim on the subject, i'm only doing this to remind everyone i should have been picked as mod.  i mean, guys, look at how much more rep i have.  it was an easy choice.  i feel so cucked and will resent tim for the rest of my natural life because of it.

4 minutes ago, Tonik said:

Going to have to give this round to @jbot He has @2talltim back pedaling like crazy now.

If I'm going to be labeled a big meanie poopoo head I at least want to have the pleasure of being one and mean it from the get go. 

31 minutes ago, TimTheAzn said:

You were attempting to troll. If this were a mile munching or touring part of the forum we’d probably listen to you. But it’s not. 

My first post was a quick jab in the ribs. No different than someone coming up and saying "hey shit for brains, nice bike, looks slow". If it was said in a touring thread I'd chuckled gave it back a little and moved on.  Guess maybe taken out of context a little bit, maybe?

I have no disrepect for you track bubbys, never had. I sure it's a damn good time on two wheels. Hell I've even come to the track a few times to watch y'all go roundy round and enjoyed the hell out of it. Ive even told some folks " if your going to ride like that on the street, maybe the track is the place for you"  Again not my thing, long term I think it would bore me(eventually), but still a cool thing. At the same time I never miss the opportunity to be sarcastic sadistic asshole either.  

But yea, always though what Doc wanted out of riding might have be better fulfilled at the track. And that what I was initially saying (sans my other added BS)

5 minutes ago, Tonik said:

QFT

Poopoo head because of 's . See it all comes together. 

13 minutes ago, jbot said:

is this your way of acknowledging that you bring no useful information or even a remotely educated point of view to this forum on this particular topic and should probably refrain from offering your opinion like it has any value or validity?

k then

Honestly i don't even know where this whole thing is coming from. All I said was .

*Sounds like (i think) Doc is a good fit at the track.

*road > track for me

* others agree with me

* everyone rides for different reasons 

Apparently that makes me a poopoo head