Motorcycle and Scooter appreciation

Or an educated guess given it's a BMW without a Polite Vest.

lol

Do you still wear yours in this heat?

You can fuck right off.

I've got a vented one

🤣

For when it starts raining again or when you have a moment when you become instantly rather poorly.

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Potentially

First time posting here; here’s my oh-so-basic 2010 GS Adventure.

Bought it almost one year ago, after a couple years on a 1st gen. Ducati Multistrada 1100. After thousands of kms riding a smaller and sportier bike, suffering for the wooden seat and the ridicoulous air protection (and noise), i’ve finally found my happy place.

Right now my long term plan is to keep it basically OEM+, ride year-round and haul everything i want/need without taking the car. I love the feeling of the cable-actuated throttle and i don’t want more electronics than the bare minimum (TCS and ABS).

The bike will clock 80.000 km in a couple weeks, but i’m fairly confident that his boxer engine will be mumbling smoothly up until the end of civilization (and possibly beyond).

The biggest modification i’ve done for now (and probably will do) it’s been a set of 2nd hand Bitubo Shocks. Although the ride quality has been greatly improved, i still need to swap the rear coil, because the bike is too harsh and unbalanced (almost zero static sag, probably the previous owner wanted it to behave better with a passenger and a ton of luggage).

In the coming months i’ll add a couple of farkles and get a decent tune with an Akrapovic slip-on. For now i’m just trying to enjoy it as much as possible before the winter.

Big bike, big miles, big smiles.

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Still think/believe setting static sag is the best start to a well handling bike.

Yes, me too. As it sits now, the only positive perk is the increased height and the consequent ease of putting it on the center stand. Other than that it behaves like a full suspensed mtb with a locked out rear shock.

Interesting you didn't get on with the Ducati Multistrada.

People always rave about them.

It was a very fine bike, but i'm quite tall (195 cm) and i couldn't get a comfy enough position for multiple hours in the saddle. I've been a long time fan of Ducati, but this one was, at the time, the best i could get my hands on. Every possible upgrade, fit wise, was too expensive to justify from the start (think of rear footrests or bar risers, undoable without changing every single brake/clutch/throttle line to a longer one).

I made the mistake to think of it as a sporty touring bike, while in reality it's just a less stretched Monster. A part of me would have loved to keep it as a second bike, but i really can't justify the extra cost.

Here's a (potato quality) photo of me and my partner riding, you can see how high we sit and how the front windshield is almost useless. The GS is a bigger bike overall, both for me and for whoever i'm riding with.

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Has anyone got a ktm 890 adventure r?

looks like there is some room to back off on that bitubo preload, but i can't imagine you wouldn't have noticed that if it were the case.

facepalm. that's the front shock. showing my ignorance, but i was not familiar with this "telelever" design.

I just bought myself a Husky Svartpilen 701. I wanted something a bit more agile than my BMW for pottering about on but it’s actually a lot of fun on longer rides.
The BMW is currently languishing in a workshop with a misfire that has eluded diagnosis for a week. When it comes back I might get rid of it, it might have 100 horsepower more than the Husky but it doesn’t get me anywhere more quickly. It’s only better on motorways and I tend to avoid them where I can.

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Nice! They look like a total gas for UK roads. (Or any twisty road for that matter.)

Said I wasn't buying another motocross bike, I haven't bought one Ive bought one that's in about 1000 piece.

1995 CR125 winter project incoming.

Radness. Needs a build thread.

Might be getting my hands on an old Monster, so that might be a winter build as well.

Nice! I love 125s. Fucking total gas without being terrifying like the 250s.

@chak, a little air-cooled, steam hammer goodness from Ducati always welcome too.

Not ridden drz for a few months. Cuts out and fuel dripping from bottom of carb, perhaps from gasket seal. Ideas? Annoying! Had plans.

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Maybe just buy rebuild kit.

Cc the man @pdlouche

Would this be enough?
https://www.frankmxparts.com/epages/62910900.mobile/en_US/?ObjectPath=/Shops/62910900/Products/0839&Locale=en_US

Not an expert but that looks like the gaskets have gone as it looks wet around that area? A carb clean + rebuild is always a good idea!

Yeah I'm thinking that.

Out of interest. If I'm not riding for a bit, should I turn fuel tap to close and run the engine till it dies, to clear carb of fuel?

my old triumph wanted the fuel tap to close every time I parked up.

Personally I'd drain the carb with the drain plug rather than running the engine to cutting out, but I'm paranoid

What fuel do you have access to? With carbs it's recommended not to use E10 as if left in the tank for long periods can cause issues. You can buy an additive to prevent that if you can only get E10