Recent content by redoctoberz

I win.

Going to be selling my house and moving into an apartment, so I'm looking for a good bike cover for my '05.. Any personal recommendations?

As a pilot (low time, but still a pilot) I can tell you that landing like that is no different than landing gear up.. you just have to fly it till the plane wont fly anymore, and try and keep the wings away from the water so it doesn't cartwheel.. luckily the river is very, very long and you can...

Any recommendations for adjusting preload on the OE springs without the toolkit tool? Aftermarket tools possibly? I don't feel like spending almost 200$ for an OE toolkit.

When Yamaha comes out with a TSB I will follow it then.

I have no interest in lowering the front of my bike 1" and possibly throwing the C.G. out of a decent range. I'd rather just ride within the bike's means. I just wanted to make sure that it was not an abnormal occurrence or something I should look into.

I will not do this.

Uh.. No.. LOL.

I was passing a car on an onramp this afternoon and hit about 85 to 90 I would say - I made a fairly sharp turn around the car to pass and the steering started to wobble, not really a wobble like I have had when I had misaligned forks on my previous bikes, but a smooth side to side sinusoidal...

Don't ever ride to Texas! there was a nice thread about improperly mounted plate fines!

it would be impossible for it to not have a standard 4 cylinder firing duration if that is how the crank is designed.

got a dyno graph?

bad coil maybe?

they are illegal because it is illegal to have any blue flashing lights on a vehicle - they are reserved for police vehicles.

is that the yellow 94 i've seen for a few months on PHX craigslist?