What did you do to your bike today?

[TimTheAzn]

On 10/7/2023 at 7:50 PM, Pauly said:

Nope. New LEDs didn't get the chance to overheat. My bike hates them. Drive to parts store and bought a pair of Sylvania incandescent H7s. Problem solved. 

 

Sometimes too much tech sucks lol.

[Tpoppa]

No matter how fast you are, there's always...

 

[Pauly]

....a badass BMW hogging the road. 😆 

[Gpaw]

Replaced the chain and sprockets,mounted the bmw auxiliary lights and found a mount to mount my garmin zumo xt to the bmw mount

[Pauly]

Replaced the OEM disc horn with one for a 328i. Plug and play and so much louder. 

[TimTheAzn]

On 10/12/2023 at 3:04 PM, Tpoppa said:

No matter how fast you are, there's always...

 

That guy is a pedo that promotes stupid riding. Just FYI.

[Tonik]

This guy is faster than me too.

 

https://fb.watch/nHHbudW0tR/?mibextid=Nif5oz

 

 

 

[Tpoppa]

4 hours ago, TimTheAzn said:

That guy is a pedo that promotes stupid riding. Just FYI.

Honestly, his skills seem on point.  His lines are smooth, not cutting across lanes, and seems to be able to handle that pace just fine.

...and it's the Dragon.  Everyone is speeding...or at least trying to.

Edited October 16, 2023 by Tpoppa

[Tpoppa]

4 hours ago, Tonik said:

This guy is faster than me too.

 

https://fb.watch/nHHbudW0tR/?mibextid=Nif5oz

 

 

 

Only watched, part...but the guy that crashed at 1:20 has very limited skills.

His lines are really bad, and had no business trying to ride that kind of pace. 

[TimTheAzn]

17 minutes ago, Tpoppa said:

Honestly, his skills seem on point.  His lines are smooth, not cutting across lanes, and seems to be able to handle that pace just fine.

...and it's the Dragon.  Everyone is speeding...or at least trying to.

I don't support people that touch kids, ride like an idiot on the street, endanger people's lives, and don't properly respect the motorcycling community. Even people he's ridden with he's crashed. Giving him views supports this.

Oh yea, and he touches kids. Look em up, Sgt 1st Class Eugene McMahel. Court documents can be found online too with some searching. 

[Casper]

I replaced my Zumo with a Carpuride Apple CarPlay unit. Digging it so far. 
 

It’s this: https://a.co/d/0QDax3N

[Tpoppa]

4 hours ago, TimTheAzn said:

I don't support people that touch kids

If you say that's true, then is must be.  All I know of the guy what is in this video and 1 other I saw.

"ride like an idiot on the street, endanger people's lives, and don't properly respect the motorcycling community. "

Are you talking about this guy, or in general?  Because that seems to be the common refrain from track only riders, insisting it's the safest place to ride.  But, I saw more crashes in 1 trackday (about 150 miles of riding), than I ever saw in an entire decade of sport riding on twisty backroads (about 150,000 miles of riding). 

Edited October 16, 2023 by Tpoppa

[Pauly]

1 hour ago, Casper said:

I replaced my Zumo with a Carpuride Apple CarPlay unit. Digging it so far. 
 

It’s this: https://a.co/d/0QDax3N

Is that wireless? Your link doesn't take me to it. 

[Casper]

2 minutes ago, Pauly said:

Is that wireless? Your link doesn't take me to it. 

It is wireless. Links works for me. Here’s the non-shortened link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CF1T7DDC

[Tpoppa]

12 minutes ago, Casper said:

It is wireless. Links works for me. Here’s the non-shortened link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CF1T7DDC

How's the build quality?

What app would you use import a gpx route?

[Casper]

31 minutes ago, Tpoppa said:

How's the build quality?

What app would you use import a gpx route?

I haven’t used a gpx file in a looong time. I usually just map out on Google then download offline maps. I also have the TomTom app for when I don’t have signal or offline maps. 
 

I mostly wanted Waze. 
 

And the Bluetooth connection between the Zumo, my phone, and my Sena has been a constant pain in my ass. This just works. 

[TimTheAzn]

20 hours ago, Tpoppa said:

If you say that's true, then is must be.  All I know of the guy what is in this video and 1 other I saw.

"ride like an idiot on the street, endanger people's lives, and don't properly respect the motorcycling community. "

Are you talking about this guy, or in general?  Because that seems to be the common refrain from track only riders, insisting it's the safest place to ride.  But, I saw more crashes in 1 trackday (about 150 miles of riding), than I ever saw in an entire decade of sport riding on twisty backroads (about 150,000 miles of riding). 

My comments have nothing to do with riding on the track. Even though I still say riding on the track is safer overall. It's up to each individual rider to make good decisions. While I dont have the amount of street miles that you or a lot of you have at this point, I've seen enough in both environments to have that opinion. A bunch of you did like 1 or two trackdays and then made the decision not to pursue them for whatever reason. Money, time, going around the same 3 miles or so of the same pavement, or couldn't handle getting your shit pushed in in novice group.

ANYWAYS... all I'm trying to do is inform people that the person that makes these videos is a grade A dbag pedophile and reposting said videos it gets him paid.

Edited October 17, 2023 by TimTheAzn

[Casper]

2 hours ago, TimTheAzn said:

My comments have nothing to do with riding on the track. Even though I still say riding on the track is safer overall. It's up to each individual rider to make good decisions. While I dont have the amount of street miles that you or a lot of you have at this point, I've seen enough in both environments to have that opinion. A bunch of you did like 1 or two trackdays and then made the decision not to pursue them for whatever reason. Money, time, going around the same 3 miles or so of the same pavement, or couldn't handle getting your shit pushed in in novice group.

ANYWAYS... all I'm trying to do is inform people that the person that makes these videos is a grade A dbag pedophile and reposting said videos it gets him paid.

I was curious so had to look it up. 

https://www.diavel-forum.com/threads/max-wrist-got-two-years-in-prison-for-sodomy.87377/

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2017/05/12/army-releases-verdicts-of-march-courts-martial/

[motocat12]

I need less reality drama in my motorcycling.

"max wrist gold = maxxie, and then the original max wrist = wristy. And I'm still a little confused on the max wrist black. According to their account, maxxie had a sugar mama that was disgruntled and made up child porn, abuse, etc accusations against wristy when he was stationed to Italy. He ended up having to plea out to lesser charges to get up to 2 years in prison, rather than the many more he could've ended up with. The angry ex had done the same shit to 2 of her ex hubbies, but wristy being in the Military, the court system seems heavily biased toward the female. Wristy didn't have much a chance it sounds like.

So, maxxie and wristy were good friends before this shit came about. While wristy was doing his time, maxxie took over the successful max wrist business and kept the vids going as max wrist. Maxxie also was wristy's POA and saw all the court dox, etc. Wristy got out a few month early for good behavior. Eventually other jealous youtubers caught wind of this and started telling the story to make wristy look bad and potentially hurt the brand. So wristy and maxxie came out with their recent account of the situation."

[Tpoppa]

On 10/17/2023 at 2:08 PM, TimTheAzn said:

Even though I still say riding on the track is safer overall. It's up to each individual rider to make good decisions. While I dont have the amount of street miles that you or a lot of you have at this point, I've seen enough in both environments to have that opinion. A bunch of you did like 1 or two trackdays and then made the decision not to pursue them for whatever reason. Money, time, going around the same 3 miles or so of the same pavement, or couldn't handle getting your shit pushed in in novice group.

If you include new riders, commuting in rush hour, and Harley riders coming home drunk from bike night, then the track probably is a safer environment.

But, apples to apples...if you consider experienced riders with legitimate skills, on capable motorcycles, riding a fast pace on fun roads...I don't think it's still true.  At least not from what I've seen with my own eyes. 

Track skills and street sport riding skills certainly overlap, but they aren't the same.  And we all ride for different reasons.  Some people love track, and I get that...it scratches the itch.  It didn't for me...for 2 reasons really...

1.  I didn't trust the riders that were on the track with me...getting collected was in the back of my mind.  I would have ditched most of them if they showed up for a street ride.

2.  Mainly...It just wasn't enough seat time.   For the hassle of going to the track, the sessions were too short & it seemed like I barely rode.   Afterward, I went home and rode about 250 hard miles then went to bed.

...endurance racing might work for me, but I'm just not going to go through all the effort to make it happen.   

 

       

[Tpoppa]

On 10/17/2023 at 6:28 PM, motocat12 said:

I need less reality drama in my motorcycling.

"max wrist gold = maxxie, and then the original max wrist = wristy. And I'm still a little confused on the max wrist black. According to their account, maxxie had a sugar mama that was disgruntled and made up child porn, abuse, etc accusations against wristy when he was stationed to Italy. He ended up having to plea out to lesser charges to get up to 2 years in prison, rather than the many more he could've ended up with. The angry ex had done the same shit to 2 of her ex hubbies, but wristy being in the Military, the court system seems heavily biased toward the female. Wristy didn't have much a chance it sounds like.

So, maxxie and wristy were good friends before this shit came about. While wristy was doing his time, maxxie took over the successful max wrist business and kept the vids going as max wrist. Maxxie also was wristy's POA and saw all the court dox, etc. Wristy got out a few month early for good behavior. Eventually other jealous youtubers caught wind of this and started telling the story to make wristy look bad and potentially hurt the brand. So wristy and maxxie came out with their recent account of the situation."

ok, not sure what to think about that.

I just saw a video of a guy hustling on the Dragon.

My #1 rule of riding is simple "Ride within YOUR limits."

The thing that stood out to me in the video, was that he was in control at that speed...staying in his lane, good lines, smooth transitions, good body position, basically he was riding within his limits.

Maybe he crashed 100 times and edited it out, but in that video he looked smooth.

Speaking of speed, maybe his speedo is in km, maybe he changed gearing or some other mod to make the speedo read higher for the video.  Who knows.  

I've never seen the point of hard acceleration on the Dragon, but it that video the guy was riding smooth.

YMMV

 

 

[TimTheAzn]

2 hours ago, Tpoppa said:

ok, not sure what to think about that.

I just saw a video of a guy hustling on the Dragon.

My #1 rule of riding is simple "Ride within YOUR limits."

The thing that stood out to me in the video, was that he was in control at that speed...staying in his lane, good lines, smooth transitions, good body position, basically he was riding within his limits.

Maybe he crashed 100 times and edited it out, but in that video he looked smooth.

Speaking of speed, maybe his speedo is in km, maybe he changed gearing or some other mod to make the speedo read higher for the video.  Who knows.  

I've never seen the point of hard acceleration on the Dragon, but it that video the guy was riding smooth.

YMMV

 

 

That guy has almost wadded more bikes on the street than youve owned lol. Exaggerating a little but he's wadded a ton of bikes on the street doing dumb shit. He gets a lot of views from his incidents. 

 

3 hours ago, Tpoppa said:

But, apples to apples...if you consider experienced riders with legitimate skills, on capable motorcycles, riding a fast pace on fun roads...I don't think it's still true.  At least not from what I've seen with my own eyes. 

Track skills and street sport riding skills certainly overlap, but they aren't the same.  And we all ride for different reasons.  Some people love track, and I get that...it scratches the itch.  It didn't for me...for 2 reasons really...

1.  I didn't trust the riders that were on the track with me...getting collected was in the back of my mind.  I would have ditched most of them if they showed up for a street ride.

2.  Mainly...It just wasn't enough seat time.   For the hassle of going to the track, the sessions were too short & it seemed like I barely rode.   Afterward, I went home and rode about 250 hard miles then went to bed.

...endurance racing might work for me, but I'm just not going to go through all the effort to make it happen.   

 

       

There was a reason I rode with you guys on the street. The way you choose the people you rode around mitigated some risk. I agree street and track skills overlap a little but they are two different skill sets. I guarantee I lost a lot of "street pace". I also get the I don't trust the others in novice group. It's something you'd have to get past but I'm confident you and the others I rode with would figure out an intermediate pace by lunch and you'd be out of that novice group. "Good" seat time is based on an individual's opinion. So is "hard" riding. 

The point of my post wasn't to get into track vs. street. Anyone that supports that brand, is trash. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it. I don't care if he was let out on good behavior motocat. Sounds like you're defending him.

[Tonik]

Motocat was just quoting the f'd up drama on another forum. I found the thread, it is a hilarious mash up of incoherent writing.

[Pauly]

I trust Novice way more than I trust Intermediate. 😆 

[Tpoppa]

35 minutes ago, Pauly said:

I trust Novice way more than I trust Intermediate. 😆 

I didn't even ask to go to intermediate.

I just made sure I was the lead bike in novice.  That way I had the track to myself and could ride my pace until I caught the pack.  

Edited October 20, 2023 by Tpoppa