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Recently I bought a bunch of stuff for all three of my bikes. I checked online, then checked the Cycle Gear prices and their prices were either the same or close enough to more than make up the difference of shipping costs. So I went over to the local Cycle Gear with a list and ordered all but...

Saw it in Cycle World: https://www.cycleworld.com/story/motorcycle-racing/qatar-motogp-opener-canceled-due-to-coronavirus/?utm_source=internal The WSBK race the week after appears to be postponed as well.

My wife and I moved to Idaho in June of 2018. We registered our cars and motorcycles here, got driver's licenses, registered to vote here. So I'm trying to figure out why Alameda County is sending us Voter Information Guides and documents that will allow us to vote via absentee ballots...

I just got notified this morning that the Windows 7 that I'm running on my home machine is no longer supported by Microsoft. I refuse to upgrade to Windows 10. :x Anybody else planning to stick with Windows 7? My second, older machine is still running Vista. :twofinger

Out of curiosity, I'm wondering which motorcycles show current fuel consumption. My 2018 KTM 1090 Adventure R was the first bike I had seen that shows it and my 2020 790R also has that feature. It helps me decide how soon I'll need to fill up, even though both bikes also have a miles to empty...

My home computer "only" has 4 GB of RAM (it also has four processors). Apparently that isn't enough for Firefox to visit several web site, like cycleworld.com. It's using 3GB of memory on at least half a dozen processes. Having one tab for gmail and one for BARF has six processes, but uses...

TL;DR: Go back to twitter, you don't belong here! :) I've put headings in so that you can easily skip stuff you don't care about. And I've cut it into sections to make it easier to quote or ask questions about something. I'll be happy to answer questions about areas I've failed to cover here...

I was doing just fine with two bikes, an XR650L and a KTM 1090R. Then last summer my son was selling his XR650L, which was in decent shape, so I bought that one sort of as a spare bike. It will go up for sale in the spring after I fix a couple of more minor issues and have it in near perfect...

I've been receiving Cycle World magazine for a long, long time. I wasn't totally happy when it switched from twelve issues a year to four, two years ago, but half of the articles are written by Kevin Cameron, who is my favorite writer, so why not keep receiving it? So they've been sending me...

From the department of Duh. I had a tire go flat on me while I was waiting for another rider, less than a mile from my home. Pumped it back up with the tire pump that I carry with me, rode it home, got a different bike, then stuck my other set of wheels on that bike, since I had planned to do...

Throwing this out there in case anybody has a better idea than what I've come up with. After replacing the steering head bearings on my 2001 XR650L I put it all back together and the only issue I had was that the horn didn't work. One of the wires had come off, so I plugged it back in but...

I recently replaced the steering head bearings on my 2001 XR650L - at 24,000 miles. The bottom bearing race had little indentations from the bearings so that it took a little extra effort to steer off of center. I'm curious if replacing the bearings is as difficult on other bikes as it was on...

I have a Windows 7 machine and do a lot of stuff with Cygwin. I had a folder containing music that wouldn't let me update a file, so I tried to fix the read only file protection that was showing and managed to do "chmod -r" (with some other stuff) which changed the files so that I can't read...

Back in 2001 when I was taking a few months off from working, I drove the Pacific Coast Highway from the Canadian border to the Mexican border. I went into Canada, but stopped about 100 feet from the Mexican border. I quite enjoyed that trip. Went through all 11 western states and a dozen...

Okay, rhetorical question because I just dropped the wheels off at Cycle Gear to get a new set of Heidenau K60 Scouts installed. These were on the 1997 XR650L that I bought a couple of weeks ago.

I went to the gas station this evening to fill up the XR650L in preparation for a ride tomorrow morning. This is the one that I've owned for ten years, not the one I just bought. As I was pulling into the station I heard this really strange and fairly loud squeak sound. I couldn't tell where...

This morning while riding the big KTM up in the hills I crossed some single track trails. There is no way I would take an adventure bike on these trails, unlike stuff I've seen at Foresthill, Rock Creek (Georgetown), or even Carnegie blue trails. I don't even expect it would be any fun on my...

[Budman requested that I write this after I offered, so here goes. This was after I had questioned someone claiming to have had a lot of left turner close calls.] TL;DR - watch front wheels. They can tell you a lot about what a driver is about to do. I wrecked in October of 2003 (single...

I was gone for a couple of weeks and there seems to be a new BARF behavior that showed up while I was gone. There is a black banner about half an inch high across the top of every BARF page that says "Forums, Features, BARF Sponsors, Incidents, @ The Track, Training, then a little "guy" on the...

I was recently at the local Cycle Gear store getting a new rear tire for my KTM (original lasted 3200 miles) and was looking at their helmets. I'm due for a new dual sport helmet and was trying to find the right one. While trying on helmets I determined the Shoei Hornet fits right, but they're...