Recent content by eisenfaust

Allow me to preface this long post with a brief apology for it's lack of brevity, and for the personal content it contains. I'm at the beginning stages of planning something that I find personally important, so I will be doing some talking about myself. One of BARF's greatest strengths are the...

Hola folks. Been a while since I've had to ask anything here, but hey. So I got my 2005 SV back on the road this week after a few months in storage (reg expired and was flat broke, so put it on non-op), and now, as always happens with stored bikes, she's mad at me for ignoring her for so long...

Allright, I'm transplanting this one from another forum I frequent. Guy owns an older BMW M3. Nice enough car, I suppose. Has the usual older-BMW-syndrome (read: crap wrong with it and parts made of, as motoproponent would say, billet unobtanium). So apparently his transmission output seal...

Well, looks like they passed the MTA budget. Downtown moto parking is now 70 cents an hour, effective July 1. I'm going to start flyering bikes downtown to notify people, but really what I want to do is organize a protest of some sort. I have two things in mind: 1) Arrive to work early on a...

So, today the SFMTA votes on it's planned budget for the "fiscal emergency". As some of you may recall there was a proposal to raise MC parking meter rates to a whopping $1 per hour. Well, it looks like they're not exactly doing a line-item vote on the various proposals, and today (right now, as...

After an ungodly amount of work, and way too much time... my project bike is done! Mwahahahaha. Appearing at a BARF meet near you soon. :-D Vids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mox-YDHE5nc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUYzyTbxw3Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP7I5c8QLPY And my favorite...

Just wanted to let all you morning commuter types (yes, I know it's a bit late) know that CALTRANS totalyl re-laned the Fremont street ramp overnight. They've reduced it from 3 lanes to 2 lanes with a wide shoulder on the right, and eliminated the bus lane on the downhill section and totally...

So.... I think the final hurdle in getting my SV running is the fuel injectors. I gassed her up today, hooked up all the electronics.... Nothing other than some nice solid cranking. I checked spark; spark is a go. Plenty of compression. That leaves fuel as the bugaboo. I know the fuel rail is...

Just wondering if anyone in the oakland area has a chain riveting tool I could borrow for an hour or so. The packing list on my chain was wrong; thought I bought a clip type, wound up with a rivet type. (spare me the horror stories about clip master links, I've never had any trouble with them!)...

So, I managed to destroy the positive terminal of my project bike's starter somehow. Crap. The motor is salvagable (replace positive terminal with a kit), but I figured I'd check with the local crowd and see if some AFMer had an unwanted starter laying around their garage gathering dust before I...

Ahem. Like the title says. I managed to FUBAR my starter somehow, and was kind of curious if anyone had a cheapy spare laying around. I managed to bork the positive starter terminal. Yay. I can replace it for ~25 - 30 bucks, but I figure I"d check and see if anyone local had an old one from a...

So this is kind of weird. My company recently got GEICO on board as a client, and to thank us for doing a good job for them they offered us a promotional discount on car and/or bike insurance. Thing is, almost no one in my company has even bothered to call and ask for a quote (let alone buy...

So, does anyone have any idea if the first and second gen heads are the same? I know the *cams* are different, but are the base castings the same? I managed to break off a cam journal bolt inside my head and all attempts at extraction have failed. There's still hope that a machine shop could...

So I'm in the midst of fitting an F3 rear wheel to my SV project. Fairly standard stuff, or so I thought.. but upon trying to install the cush drives and sprocket carrier, I ran into a bit of a wierd arrangement. How in the hell do you get the flanges on the sprocket carrier into the cush drive...

Interesting article on SFgate this morning. As some of you guys may have heard, the soup kitchen is pushing through a new city ordinance that would toughen up SF's noise enforcement regulations. It would have the power to regulate noise from construction sites, businesses, nightclubs, noisy...