Gixxus Christ!

Many stickers for moar powar!

A few of the ventures I've seen have 2nd gear blown out. Typical Yamaha. I'm interested to see this i4 touring bike tho. The goldwing crowd is a hard nut to crack, those guys exemplify brand loyalty.

I've seen a lot of Yamaha ventures on CL for fucking peanuts. Like $800. Too bad they're ugly as fuck. Look even worse stripped down.

Rode into work this morning and parked my dirty sticker covered Jap bike next to all the clean shiny Harleys.

+1 for hoblick but according to his FB page lately he's so busy with his day job and building some turbo mustang that approaches the sound barrier that he's had to stop ceracoating and turn work away. Unsure if he's still working on bikes like he was a few years ago.

I am undefeated in chicken.

I don't hover over this shit show in anticipation. Not about being buttmad. I listed some info that I felt was useful and some nit-picker came in shitposting. Felt personal, so I invited him to air his grievance privately.

@YSR_Racer_99, I'm surprised you even had to ask. @Isaac's Papa is our resident pasta rocket technician. He is dealer trained from what I understand and he even turns his nose up at Japanese bikes. He's in Northeast Ohio, a denizen of some white trash Hamlet called Ravenna. Solid practicioner of Ducati maintenance, you'll fine none better at any price, and his ass looks amazing in his fancy little spandex bicycle shorts.

Wait, am I the buttmad one?

Old bimmers had em too. I'm not a fan.

So you're suggesting that op who is looking for his very first bike, is going to go through the trouble of searching out of state for a bike he didn't even know existed and pay a grand to have it shipped here. If you have to exaggerate to the point of absurdity, your argument probably isn't valid. If you have some axe to grind with me, which you seem to, take it up with me in my inbox.

This is Ohio riders. Not los Angeles riders.

Post me some Craigslist adds of them for sale.

See there where I said 'the smallest displacement i4 you're going to find'?

750 twins are either dinosaurs or triumphs. 750 singles are unicorns. 675 is the smallest triple I'm aware of, and you're not ready for one.. unless you're talking 70's, Kawasaki made a 350cc 2 stroke triple. My cousin actually has one for sale. Smallest displacement i4 you're gonna find is the Honda 550 or 500 or wtf ever it is, and it's relatively new and spendy, unless you're talking 70's, Honda made a 350 i4 street bike. Buy some old half fast shit. It's your first bike, don't over think it. Get something you can afford that is comfortable and not overpowered, learn how to ride it well and reevaluate in a year or two.

It's not so much displacement as engine configuration and intended use. A 650 is generally a v or parallel twin, great torque down low with decent hp up top. 600ccInline 4 motors, especially supersport or race replicas, are tuned to deliver 70% of their power above 7k rpm. When the power comes on it can be very abrupt and hard to control. There are some milder i4 600 motors tho, like the fz6, rf600, katana, cbr600f series etc that are still more than enough power for the street but are more manageable.

I have a Sena 10 in my helmet. It connects to my phone via Bluetooth and I can get turn by turn directions from my GPS. Sena products aren't cheap, but they work incredibly well.

I've been in several bike accidents. Been hit by cars and other bikes, laid one down into a ditch doing about 60, had an old woman obliviously run a stop sign and then stop in the intersection causing me to panic brake and dump it. When you hit the ground, your instinct is to sprawl and catch yourself with your hands open. The one time I got any lasting injury was having the front end fold up on me while braking to a stop on blacktop covered in tiny gravel. Was a few blocks from my house. No gloves or jacket. I was doing maybe 10 mph when I went down. Skinned the fuck out of the palms of my hands and my forearms. Took weeks to heal. Worry about the parts of your body that will naturally hit the ground. I can maybe see knuckle guards if you're just rag-dolling down the freeway at 70 mph, but if that happens you're gonna break your wrist or elbow and probably other shit too, and the body tends to slide vs tumble, especially in leather. Leather slides nicely along pavement where other materials grip and cause you to brake-dance.

Don't spend less than $150 on a new helmet. Anything below that, while technically meeting dot standards, is not going to protect your head as well and will also be heavy and loud. Actually a $150 helmet will be heavy and loud too, but not as bad as a $65 helmet. Things to look for in a jacket: for textile the higher denier nylon the better-ish. In a long slide, textile just melts. It also tears kinda easy. Leather is your best bet for protection but gets hot. Some have a mix of leather, perforated leather and textile mesh to help with airflow, I have an agv sport like that. Anyway, for leather plan on dropping a few hundred, a little less for textile and the hybrid jackets are kinda all over the place. Gloves: need leather palm and fingers at bare minimum. Fancy plastic knuckle farkles look cool, but nobody slides on their knuckles. Plan on dropping $50-60 at the minimum for a good pair, shop till you find some that fit you just a bit tight, they'll stretch. Cheap gloves have shitty seams that pinch nerves and make fingers go numb. Pants: I have Kevlar jeans, I also have leathers, and I have a set of armored textiles for when it gets really hot. Plan on dumping a few hundred for leathers, a $100-150 for Kevlar jeans and about $100 for a decent set of textiles. Boots:. Need to be designed for motorcycle riding. Enforced toes, moulded ankles, high tops and very secure straps/buckles/wtf ever that keeps them from abandoning your feet in your hour of need. Spend as little or as much as you want. You generally get what you pay for.

Let's see how long he lives inside. Even the AB won't take in child rapists. Unless he spends his life in PC or SHU he will be beaten to death within the first year.

If you must get a sport bike, get an older one. There are plenty of fz6r's, zx6's, cbr600f2's and gsxr600's from the early to mid 90's on Craigslist. They're pretty fast but under 100 hp. You can find them usually around 2k for one that's not ragged out and for the most part they're easy to work on and parts are fairly cheap and available. Or get any katana 600. They're all over the place and are a reasonably sporty starter bike. Motors are basically bullet proof, parts are dirt cheap.

Yeah, this job will definitely have a lot of responsibility coming along with it. Median salary for a manufacturing supervisor in my area is like $53k. If they expect me to work 50+ hours a week for that I'd actually be taking a pay cut. I do want the position, it's with a growing company and I really love what they do, but I gotta look after my own interests. Commute would be shorter tho.

They have a foreman for all the nuts and bolts of the operation. I'd be his boss. I'd be setting production schedule, continuous improvement, seeking alternative manufacturing methods, adjusting hourly employee staffing, hiring and firing, dealing with customers and setting policy for the hourly guys, supervising day to day operations but not directly supervising the guys on the floor. I'd report directly to the CEO.

Lol, any advice for a non-swimmer about to go off the high dive into the deep end?

Yeah, I shopped around for an anodized black 1/4 to AN6 90° and they're all a month away in China. I have a street elbow on my old cooler I can try tomorrow, at least that will let me see if the rest of my fittings and hose connections leak.