serpentracer

looks like it's had a lot of probing 

On 8/16/2017 at 9:51 PM, dustinsn3485 said:

Nah, I don't think so. I pay $600 a year for my bike and the same for my Jeep. The house is $1200 a year.

Property taxes are only $1800. No income tax. Sales tax is a 9.025, but I'm only 30 min from KY so if I want a big purchase I go there.

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. 

Light bulb at worlds fair.

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.

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

17 hours ago, motocat12 said:

Going with 

EK SRX2 made in japan

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.

On 6/29/2017 at 5:11 PM, OSUYZFR1 said:

Fuel tuning with flashtune is a pain in the ass as you have to reflash the ecu after each change which takes like 10-15 minutes. I still use a power commander for all my fuel mapping. Flashtune is used for everything else. What kind of bike do you have?

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.

would help if you didn't use a toaster to take pictures

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.

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

Mine wouldnt stop chirping with new batteries.  

Mine are first alert and they too are all fucked up.  I threw them away.  Fuck it

im sure roadracing world and wsbk would take the time to confirm things before they post them.

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/

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/

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. 

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.  

2 hours ago, MidgetTodd said:

I just want to know what it is and why I would use it. 

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.  

On 5/13/2016 at 2:38 PM, jbot said:

seems bad enough they fucked it up the first time, might as well do slightly better than half assing the correction

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

16 hours ago, Tonik said:

That is retarded advice. Different depths beside each other will rise and fall at different rates as the seasons change.

Who cares its a shed.  A cheap flimsy alum shed.  Not an addition on his kitchen.  

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.

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.

21 hours ago, Isaac's Papa said:

As a professional wrench, your "nitpicking" is more than valid. That's shoddy work and the reason folks don't like paying for service. I appreciate your situation, having needed warranty service, but I'd shove that motorcycle up someone's ass. A Yamaha dealer should never let a Yamaha leave their shop in that condition. Yammies are their speciality. 

It also means he didnt care if it was leaking.  Theres no way anyone would look at those drips off the bolts and feel confident its good to go.

Keeping the update going.  Everything that appeared to be leaks have turned out to be residual oil from teardown/assembly.  

10 hours ago, whaler said:

This a false statement...

90% do not say ship same day if ordered by a certain time and then ship two days later.

How the hell would you know my shopping habits?

its ok of you want to accept false claims or subpar work and just accept it, I am not made that way.

How do i know?

By your rant.  Anyone thats bought enough is well aware this is how it works.  

I cant begin to remember how often this happens to me. Every single time i get a "item has shipped" email if i pull up the tracking info it almost never has for another day and sometimes 2 days later.  I got over it way back in 2004.

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