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  1. heard gm is already thinking of pulling the plug on these. they couldn't even get police to buy them https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/07/22/report-gm-may-kill-chevy-volt-sonic-and-four-other-cars/501798001/
  2. looks like it's had a lot of probing
  3. except if you buy a motorcycle or car it is based where you live right? and registration on your vehicles goes by the value of the vehicle. in the long run you end up paying more if you have a few cars/bikes etc than paying income taxes. my mom lived in TN for about 10 years. this kind of thing makes ohio and tn come out even on that. everything else is about the same if you can deal with that accent lol. btw, stay away from getting in with locals. they're usually all backstabbers.
  4. I think theyre bigger in the offroad world. Funny how some brands that are huge in offroad struggle to get anywhere in the onroad world. FMF is like the akrapovic of the dirtbike exhaust but they didnt sell many onroad exhausts.
  5. I wanted to try that master link but stg didnt have one in stock at the time. maybe next time. I hate fussing with a chain tool
  6. hope you go with at least a 525. that chain in a 520 might be too weak to make it more than a few thousand miles. if you need a chain tool buy a motion pro PBR. cut the rivet heads off at least. I've seen guys break chains without doing it but you do risk breaking the pins.
  7. Damn. Woolich only takes 2 mins to erase and write to the ecu. you could check with Brocks performance in dayton. They do dyno tuning and have a good rep.
  8. would help if you didn't use a toaster to take pictures
  9. the FZ6 was a good reliable bike. and surprisingly not too bad on a track with some suspension tuning. this is ped a member here at mid-ohio on his 2006 FZ6.
  10. My stock chain was DID and it was shot before 5k miles. I installed a RK Max x chain and it literally lasted 50 miles. Too weak for the R1. I went with another EK MVXZ after having good luck with them in the past. And now they make one of the stongest lightest chain on the market. The 3D chain. Too expensive for my blood. I tried to return the rk chain under warranty but they will not respond to me. So no more RK products for me
  11. Mine wouldnt stop chirping with new batteries.
  12. Mine are first alert and they too are all fucked up. I threw them away. Fuck it
  13. im sure roadracing world and wsbk would take the time to confirm things before they post them.
  14. didn't see this posted anywhere on the forum. read the link in the story. (italian news site) you'll need google translate etc to read it. but it's not sounding too good for him. he has serious brain damage they're saying. prayers to nicky and his family. http://www.roadracingworld.com/news/world-superbike-nicky-hayden-hospitalized-after-being-hit-by-a-car-while-riding-his-bicycle-in-san-marino/
  15. so if you guys haven't heard all motorcycles sold in europe has to meet a pretty strict set of emissions standards coming. some are applied to bikes starting in 2017. the new GSXR has them, and a few others. so far Yamaha has had to remove it's awesome onboard diagnostics on the R1 that I know of. the 17 owners are upset that if you remove anything emissions related the check engine light comes on and you can't turn it off. (like installing smog block off plates) and you have to have the dealer read the code. no more users turning things off or reading their own codes and troubleshooting issues from the service manual. bikes will start off being ODB1 compliant then move to being ODBII compliant . that's right, it's the same system in use in cars/trucks etc. so no more codes that tell you exactly what the problem is on a yamaha for example. nope, thanks to some dick politicians in europe we have to deal with bikes that have very vague codes that never pinpoint an issue just like a car has. say goodbye to aftermarket exhaust too I guess... http://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2016/january/mcn-plus---emissions-impossible-what-euro-4-really-means/
  16. I appreciate the helpful advice kenny but no one but me is touching this bike ever again. I dont care if its the head guy at graves yamaha racing.
  17. serpentracer

    my new ride

    2015 R1
  18. serpentracer

    Hindle slip on

    From the album: my new ride

  19. I ended up finding an oil leak this winter while installing a new exhaust. it's an oil pipe from the oil cooler going into the block. cheap fix part is less than $2 (o-ring) however the headers will need to come off and so will the oil cooler which is a radiator on it's own below the coolant radiator. to say I'm annoyed at cycle specialties in fairfield is an understatement. now I know it's been a year and all but I barely got to ride last summer due to working so much overtime. I think I only put about 800 miles on it. it still doesn't have 5k on it total. this is totally the fault of the recall and sloppy work to get it done faster.
  20. I'm not an IT person but from what I know it's another layer of protection to log into sites. instead of just using your id and password which is easily stolen these days it would send you a text on your phone with a confirmation code you would enter into the site. some sites use pictures that you choose. this will guarantee that you are using the authentic website too. my credit union does this. google for example sends you a text with a code. I use lastpass password manger and it sends me a code on my phone through their authentication app. my old job at a repo company did this to log into the server that the banks and repo companies use to access all of the data for a vehicle they're looking for. btw, you'd be really creeped out by all the data a bank knows about you when they want that car back. for example they know your relatives and anyone that lives in the same house as you, job hours names phone numbers addresses ss numbers etc.
  21. Well the only correct way is to start over. Our concrete sub had do do a similar thing before because one of his guys didnt square the one side. When i installed the sunroom the homeowner wasnt liking the reveal. So he dug out the yard about 6" put some gravel down and a few pcs of rebar and filled it with concrete. Same thing i said to do basically. The slab my room sat on he poured has footers all the way around it. Say its wrong all you guys want. He is good at it. He can pour any size slab dead nuts level with a super smooth finish. He does work for many of the sunroom and remodel companies in cincinnati
  22. Who cares its a shed. A cheap flimsy alum shed. Not an addition on his kitchen.
  23. serpentracer

    F U UPS

    bud I hate to break it to ya but FedEx is far worse than ups and usps. I buy a lot of stuff online and fedex is by far the worst offender of stupidity. if they estimate a package to be delivered on X date it will sit at the hub 10 miles from my house until that date rolls around. instead of delivering it they hold it.
  24. you don't need rebar and all that garbage. pour a new 4" - 6" (whatever you need) part like a footer. (deeper than the pad) a real footer for a load bearing structure would be 36" deep. but it's a shed. 12" is more than enough. the pad is probably only 3-4" thick anyway.
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