Recent content by MichaelInVenice

Bike Might be interested, But honestly you're well overpriced for the mileage on the bike. Realize you put money into some mods but other than the brake lines, not much I care about. (Actually will take me time and effort to remove things like the plasti-dip.) If you're willing to discuss, I'm...

I'd meet up for the LA Show. By then I should have a new old bike to show off. Something like this, actual state of restoration depending on how much time I have between now and then:

I'm guessing there will be a faired version. Yamaha is pretty clear on the fact that in the US anyway, faired bikes tend to sell better. But the rest of the world seems to lean the other way. Narrow and naked seems to do well for maneuvering in tighter spaces like much of Europe and Asia...

I suspect it's this one: Motorcycle Swingarm Rear Stand I have the alumnium one and I found the pads on fleabay. Big problem though. With the pads installed, and with a 17" wheel, the stupid thing won't lift the rear tire off the ground! They hang down just below the attachment point, and...

I've never seen a 20-40 motorcycle oil. Honda specifies 10-30 in some of their bikes, they sell Honda branded regular and synthetic oils at that rating. One or two other companies also sell 10-30 but you usually have to special-order it. Even my local Honda dealer uses 10-40 here. In...

Those are pretty small compared to a lot of mountains not far from here.

That road is subject to regular freeze/melt cycles in the winter and with the warmer winters, those cycles have been getting worse. If it isn't sealed every few years, it'll quickly crumble to dust. Budgets mean that the emphasis is on the quality of the seal, not the quality of the resulting...

Yup. The guy provoked, knowing full well that somebody would take the bait and get him attention he doesn't deserve. And sure as night follows day, a whole bunch of people took his bait. Calling it a "Muslim March" is an affront to most Muslims who want nothing to do with the guy. He's a...

Here's what Snopes said today: snopes.com: 2 Millions Bikers to DC As I said, "ride through" events are almost never granted anywhere. Too disruptive and require too much manpower. Seems they wanted the route blocked from 9-4, and for all their talk, only thought they'd get 2000 bikes...

There are about 9m bikes registered in the US. Some of them of course are owned by people with more than one. The number of active riders in the US is somewhere between 6-7 million. Really think 1 in 3 or 4 has time to ride to DC for this? Neither do I. Nobody thinks 2 million will show up...

About as many as there will be overheated "marchers". Which is to say... zero. This is a great example of a guy with no following trying to pull a publicity stunt and a bunch of idiots on the other side giving him exactly the publicity he wants. He didn't apply to close streets because he knew...

I don't know of a major city in the country that issues permits for "drive through" events. Parades have a starting point and an ending point, and you need to be able to explain how everybody is going to arrive and depart without screwing up traffic for miles around, how people who need to get...

They should be fine. The solid ones are made of a soft metal that will crush slightly to fill in any unevenness where the bolt meets the oil pan, which is the point.

I use a 3/16" plastic coated cable ($6.99 at a bike store) which I loop through the faceplate (NOT the D-ring) and then in to my Xena disk lock/alarm. If anybody tries to move it, it'll set of the alarm. If you don't use any kind of disk lock when parked outside, you could probably use a similar...

Suspect there will be no meaningful changes for 2014, and that we'll get a whole new bike -- possibly a whole new lineup for the FZ range -- for 2015. The triple and a rumored 600ish twin would be game changers. Suspect that ABS is going to start creeping in to the range. Honda and Kawasaki...