What did you do to your bike today?

[JonKerr]

Went out for a nice 150 mile ride this morning. Funny little story here.

As I'm heading home through some of the more mild back roads only about 10 miles from home, I make a left turn onto Olde Highway 80 and realize I'm right behind 2 Sheriff cars. No biggie. Look in my mirror, see two Sheriff's behind me. I'm thinking "Oh shit did someone call the cops and tell them to look for a black sportbike heading this way" (lets just say I was having a lot of fun in the canyons just 10 minutes away :innocent So I'm cruising along surrounded by 4 cop cars, and then realize that there is a lot of traffic, mainly Harley's on the side of the road coming up to The Renegade (a local bar known for a lot of MC action) and the Sheriff's are slowing down to a stop in front of the bar. There's probably 40 guys standing in the parking lot of the bar, half of them with their phones out, videoing the cops, all in black and red cuts. I couldn't see the back patches or rockers to see what MC it was, but here I am, dead stopped in the middle of the road behind 2 Sheriff's with 2 behind me, in my black and red leathers and bike, with a whole MC yelling at and videoing the cops. We roll away a minute later but two of the Sheriffs hung behind. As we're going down the road, I see two more Sheriffs with two bikes pulled over, one guy in cuffs with his cut off and a shoulder holster visible, :spank: then when a group of 5 bikes with the same cuts on passes us going the other way, the car in front of me did a sudden U-turn to chase them. Something going on that the cops knew about and I'm sure they're out there just running plates etc... to try and catch open warrants.

I wish I could see what MC it was, but this isn't the first time I've seen similar things around here. There was a Mongol funeral ride that I ended up stuck in the middle of on highway 94 that the SWAT team was out for about 8 months or so ago. We have a lot of outlaw MC's around here. Just one of the things, as a motorcycle rider, you should just keep an eye out for. They don't like sportbike riders and if you find yourself stuck behind a group, just hang or let them pull away. Don't go blasting past them.

 

[RooKie]

Had new Shinko 009 raven tires installed (180/55ZR-17 & 120/70ZR-17). Washed it and then finished off by cleaning and lubing the chain. The new tires look amazing and i'll post pics after i get the new reflective wheel stripes on.

 

[buzzbomb]

Went out for a nice 150 mile ride this morning. Funny little story here.

As I'm heading home through some of the more mild back roads only about 10 miles from home, I make a left turn onto Olde Highway 80 and realize I'm right behind 2 Sheriff cars. No biggie. Look in my mirror, see two Sheriff's behind me. I'm thinking "Oh shit did someone call the cops and tell them to look for a black sportbike heading this way" (lets just say I was having a lot of fun in the canyons just 10 minutes away :innocent So I'm cruising along surrounded by 4 cop cars, and then realize that there is a lot of traffic, mainly Harley's on the side of the road coming up to The Renegade (a local bar known for a lot of MC action) and the Sheriff's are slowing down to a stop in front of the bar. There's probably 40 guys standing in the parking lot of the bar, half of them with their phones out, videoing the cops, all in black and red cuts. I couldn't see the back patches or rockers to see what MC it was, but here I am, dead stopped in the middle of the road behind 2 Sheriff's with 2 behind me, in my black and red leathers and bike, with a whole MC yelling at and videoing the cops. We roll away a minute later but two of the Sheriffs hung behind. As we're going down the road, I see two more Sheriffs with two bikes pulled over, one guy in cuffs with his cut off and a shoulder holster visible, :spank: then when a group of 5 bikes with the same cuts on passes us going the other way, the car in front of me did a sudden U-turn to chase them. Something going on that the cops knew about and I'm sure they're out there just running plates etc... to try and catch open warrants.

I wish I could see what MC it was, but this isn't the first time I've seen similar things around here. There was a Mongol funeral ride that I ended up stuck in the middle of on highway 94 that the SWAT team was out for about 8 months or so ago. We have a lot of outlaw MC's around here. Just one of the things, as a motorcycle rider, you should just keep an eye out for. They don't like sportbike riders and if you find yourself stuck behind a group, just hang or let them pull away. Don't go blasting past them.

Wow, that's some serious, pucker the backside stuff, there. I was going to post about getting soaked riding in the rain instead of turning my handlebar mounts like I was planning to. Nah. That's a hard post to follow on the same day.

 

[Mr Citrus]

There was a Mongol funeral ride that I ended up stuck in the middle of on highway 94 that the SWAT team was out for about 8 months or so ago. We have a lot of outlaw MC's around here. Just one of the things, as a motorcycle rider, you should just keep an eye out for. They don't like sportbike riders and if you find yourself stuck behind a group, just hang or let them pull away. Don't go blasting past them.

I saw the Mongols out here just last week! I was pulling into a burger place to grab some lunch, and saw them standing outside.
I turned around and went to a taco joint.

 

[buzzbomb]

So, I got soaked today. About 30 minutes through a thunderstorm. I saw the weather reports. The sky looked like doomsday. I wanted to reverse my handlebar mounts today. Whatever. It wasn't raining when I looked out. I got soaked like only a motorcycle rider can get soaked. Wet to the bone. Couldn't see a frickin' thing. Bike dragging in the standing water. Cold enough I put my tongue between my teeth to keep them from chattering. Pretty good ride, overall.

Oh? Yep, I did mention that JonKerr's post was hard one to follow. Did it anyways. Whatever. Cheers!

 

[alaskanflyboy]

Worked on the bike today. From 1:20pm to 7:40pm. Still have a bit to do before I'm done with my 8k service stuff. Took me forever to get down to the spark plugs. I need to now just adjust the throttle cables, idle, sync throttle bodies, lube joints and cables, and then put her back together. On a related note for those that have done spark plugs; what did you use for the spring clams on the hoses to remove the air box and baffle? I managed it with needle nose pliers, but there's gotta be something easier.

 

[JonKerr]

I saw the Mongols out here just last week! I was pulling into a burger place to grab some lunch, and saw them standing outside.
I turned around and went to a taco joint.

From what I hear, they have a club house just off Highway 94 for the San Diego Charter. I've seen them out there before. In fact I had a couple of them come up and start talking to me at one of the stops a lot of riders make on 94. They were fine, asked me about my bike, how I liked it, etc... Nice enough to a fellow rider when I wasn't doing something that would insult them. But not a group I'd go out of my way to try and talk to. I've seen them and members of 4 or 5 other MC's that you can find on any list of outlaw clubs if you google it. The number of "1%" or "Outlaw" MC's in town is one of the big reasons I've never wanted to be part of any MC. I've been approached by 3 different local clubs trying to get me to "patch in." All just normal sportbike clubs, nothing outlaw about them. But the stigma is there and I don't want any part of it. Plus a lot of them are more into rolling up to an event 10 or 20 deep in formation in their cuts and a t-shirt to look like their bad asses than actually riding.

 

[buzzbomb]

From what I hear, they have a club house just off Highway 94 for the San Diego Charter. I've seen them out there before. In fact I had a couple of them come up and start talking to me at one of the stops a lot of riders make on 94. They were fine, asked me about my bike, how I liked it, etc... Nice enough to a fellow rider when I wasn't doing something that would insult them. But not a group I'd go out of my way to try and talk to. I've seen them and members of 4 or 5 other MC's that you can find on any list of outlaw clubs if you google it. The number of "1%" or "Outlaw" MC's in town is one of the big reasons I've never wanted to be part of any MC. I've been approached by 3 different local clubs trying to get me to "patch in." All just normal sportbike clubs, nothing outlaw about them. But the stigma is there and I don't want any part of it. Plus a lot of them are more into rolling up to an event 10 or 20 deep in formation in their cuts and a t-shirt to look like their bad asses than actually riding.

I have not, thankfully, been approached by anyone wishing me to join their "club." Things work differently in my neck of the woods. There are some places it's just not safe to go, if you're on anything but a Harley and wearing anything but jeans, and know somebody. There are however, as far as I know, no competing clubs that aren't racially based.

So.... While I was hanging out in front of Barnes And Nobles, drinking my Latte and enjoying a cigarette while watching the sky go black - a teenage girl, amongst her teeny-bopper friends told me my jacket looked cool! I'm 43 years old. She didn't ask me to join her "club" but damn, screw the biker crowd. I'm just fine (and apparently look good) being who I am and doing what I do. Big time Whooooot! :wav:

 

[fltdriver]

So.... While I was hanging out in front of Barnes And Nobles, drinking my Latte and enjoying a cigarette

Um, not to be judging based on your "neck of the woods" (I'm from Iowa with no room to talk) but this just doesn't sound like something you would here coming out of the mouth of any southerner.

I put close to 250 miles on yesterday riding with a coworker with a FZ1 and his buddy that has a mid 80"s Harley. We spent the whole day passing the HD then smoking a cig on the side of the rode waiting for him to catch up. As we were on the last 20 miles of the ride we had a city cop pull out in front of us and my coworker almost layed his FZ1 down, the cop apologized and said he didn't even see us coming.

 

[iSpoolin]

Rode to work today!

 

[Andy]

Performed 600 mile service tonight with Yamaha sport II oil change kit. $82.42 Next time I will only have to buy 2 quarts and filter, kit came with 4 quarts.

 

[buzzbomb]

Performed 600 mile service tonight with Yamaha sport II oil change kit. $82.42 Next time I will only have to buy 2 quarts and filter, kit came with 4 quarts.

What did your oil look like when you changed it? The PO of my bike said she had the recommended services done, and I chose to believe her. But she had no records. They were "in storage" with the owner's manual. All of which she said she'd mail, none of which have I seen.

When I bought the bike, the oil was pretty clear, like it had been recently changed. When I checked it today, (just over one month and 1600 miles later) it is significantly darker. Once again, like it was new oil when I bought it. And that's good. But I understand the "original" oil in this bike is not normal oil and I've no idea what it should look like.

When you changed your oil, what did it look like? Dark? Light? Shiny little bits? Just curious.

 

[alaskanflyboy]

Finally finished the 8k service on my bike today. Inhaled a few too many fumes though and had to take a breather. So from Saturday: nearly every fairing but the forward one removed; oil, oil filter, and spark plugs changed; air filter checked. From today: idle adjusted, throttle bodies synced, idle re-adjusted, clutch and throttle free play checked, cables lubed, pivot points greased, brake pads checked, brake fluid checked, coolant checked, bike put back together with no missing or "left-over" bolts :thumbup:, bike cleaned, chain lubed. All in all, it was a fun experience getting the bike a full look over.

Performed 600 mile service tonight with Yamaha sport II oil change kit. $82.42 Next time I will only have to buy 2 quarts and filter, kit came with 4 quarts.

That seems steep. I paid $21 for a gallon of Yamalube and $15 for a K&N oil filter.

 

[buzzbomb]

Today I washed my baby to get the pollen and rain dirt off her. Then I went on a pretty awesome, three hour ride, checking out side roads I haven't been on, and looking for twisties (Alas, no luck on the good twisties).

This experience was actually two days ago. I was going through a 45mph intersection and my attention was diverted to the left by a lot of flashing lights and a lead vehicle in front of a semi truck with a train car on on the bed.

When I looked forward again, there was a very old lady, with wild, staring eyes, making a left turn through the intersection that I was passing through.

She was too slow. She didn't actually have time to make the turn. I had to quick-flick the bike to the left to avoid the back side of her vehicle and thread-the-needle between my flick and the concrete island in the intersection.

I learned the FZ6R does not "flick" very well at all. I managed to avoid a hurtfull accident, but was forcefully reminded about keeping my eyes on the road.

 

[iSpoolin]

I got alot of posting to catch up on!

Almost died Day before yesterday on my way home from work. When I left work I turned left, followed the road to the first stop light. Honda CRV full of teenagers pulls up behind me, I see them looking at me, pointing, oohh ahhhing at my bike and all that usual jazz you get from kids that age. We go through two more stop lights and they are still behind me. I hear yelling all the sudden, Look in my mirror don't see anything. Then I hear a beep, look in my mirror again and realize it's the teens yelling at me. So I get off my bike (this lights on a 5 minute timer at rush hour, yes it sucks) and go back to the car, ask the driver what he wanted, He says they want me to do a wheelie, Of course I'm not dumb enough to do that in the middle of traffic at rush hour LOL, so I just said sorry bud not today and went back to my bike and waited the light out. I make my left turn, they follow suit, I'm behind two other cars, then it's the kids behind me still coming down a hill in a 45 MPH zone, theres a turn off at the bottom of the hill, the car in front signals they are going to turn so they signal. I slow and so does the car in front of me, but the kids don't see it, I hear screaching tires and use my escape route to the left of the car in front of me and evade the situation. I look back and see the kids stopped about 3 inches from the car that was in front of me's bumper!

 

[fltdriver]

Got off work and grabbed some McD's before the 20+ mile ride home. After eating I'm standing outside smoking a cig when some old lady gets out of an SUV and says "You know those things will kill you, don't you?"

I looked at the bike, then my cig, then the coffee I was drinking. "Which one?"

She stopped dead in her tracks, starts laughing soo hard I thought she was gonna die and says "I'm not sure" as she continues on into the restaurant.

 

[06330i]

Gave it a bath and a spray wax! Going riding now

 

[SpawnXX]

Got off work and grabbed some McD's before the 20+ mile ride home. After eating I'm standing outside smoking a cig when some old lady gets out of an SUV and says "You know those things will kill you, don't you?"

I looked at the bike, then my cig, then the coffee I was drinking. "Which one?"

She stopped dead in her tracks, starts laughing soo hard I thought she was gonna die and says "I'm not sure" as she continues on into the restaurant.

LMAO, niiiice!

 

[Captcha]

This is where I say hopefully buying it!!!!

I found a 09 yellow in my area with 1300 miles for 5199$. Going up there after work and making a cash offer of 4700$ as long as it seems worth it. It's at a Yamaha dealership so I'm gonna ask to see service records and the like.

If bought it will be brought home and sit for about two weeks while I put my special touch on the fairings and order some parts. I will make a build thread with before an afters. Excited!

Hopefully all goes well tonight!

 

[buzzbomb]

Got off work and grabbed some McD's before the 20+ mile ride home. After eating I'm standing outside smoking a cig when some old lady gets out of an SUV and says "You know those things will kill you, don't you?"

I looked at the bike, then my cig, then the coffee I was drinking. "Which one?"

She stopped dead in her tracks, starts laughing soo hard I thought she was gonna die and says "I'm not sure" as she continues on into the restaurant.

Ha ha ha! That just became a "classic" in by book! :rof: