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I bought a couple of driving lights and a couple of P-clamps to put them on my naked bike. What's the 'normal' way of installing them? Bending them to fit around the tubes? The first set I got, which were too small, I could do that easily with but the ones I have now are pretty stiff...

Anyone know of a shop that can fix my head over the weekend? I adjusted my first set of moto valves and torqued one of the valve cover bolts way too much. I stripped the threads where it screws into the camshaft journal and broke off a 3mm x 7mm bit of the aluminum that was around the threads...

For the sake of silliness, what motorcycle would your favorite philosopher / artist / whatever have ridden? Albert Camus - Cafe Racer Igor Stravinsky - Indian

Will valves out of adjustment cause an inline 4 to 1) occasionally die when getting off the freeway and stopping at a light and/or 2) slowly lose idle speed? (I'm hoping the answer is yes to both of those.) For a guesstimate, how long should a bike sit to cool down enough to check the valves...

After these: - Getting pulled over, being treated as suspicious / dangerous, and ending the encounter without understanding why I was stopped - Having a LEO nearly do a U in front of me on Highway 9 - Having LEOs stop me in a park, stick a hand in my pants, search my apartment and threaten me -...

Any suggestions on how to go about finding out if a particular part will fit my bike? Any web sites? Here's a CL ad that interests me, but I want to know if there's a good chance it'll fit before contacting the seller: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/mcy/882255712.html "White front rim and...

I keep statues on my computers and on my cars' dashboards for luck. It's about time for me to get something for the bike. The ones in the cars have been ducks, Daffy or rubber, for a while now, so I'm thinking I want a small, say 1", rubber duckie to somehow cluster-mount. Suggestions?

After seeing a couple of posts about getting stopped by the LEOs, I started wondering how others carry their papers. Right now my license is in my card-wallet and insurance and registration are in an envelope in the messenger bag I carry, but I'm kinda thinking I want something else that's...

Last night I rode to Alice's on 35 and then back on 84 and Alpine road and noticed a different feeling, but I'm not sure what it is. Am I doing this right? Am I being on the verge of a low-side? Something else? In the past few days I've been trying to lean more and more carefully measure out...

My headlight intensity changes when I ride, but it's opposite of what I'd expect: It's brightest at idle and dimmer at 6K rpm or faster. Seems there's another bright-ish area around 5K. This didn't concern me much at first. So what if it's a little different at different times? It's...

Some photos from recent events. I still have more to prep from karaoke... 2008.09.08 Ducati Night Santana Row 2008.09.12 Movie - Burn after Reading - Tech Night 2008.09.13 Movie - The Women 2008.09.13 Epic Karaoke 6

Sometime in the past 24 hours or so I posted on another's thread and now I can't find it. I don't see it in my list of subscribed threads or posts or using search. If I can't find a post does that mean it was deleted? And if so, how do I find out why it was deleted. (It *is* still possible...

How often does someone do something stupid and endanger you when you're out on your bike? I haven't had too many incidents yet, but it happened twice tonight, so I started wondering. First on 35 about 19:30 a Jetta came careening towards me around a corner with 2 tires squealing, already...

When did we get a million hits for the General section? :teeth

For the photographic evidence: 2008-08-23: Mystery Spot 2008-08-26: Alice's

Dmn this motorcycle thing. Since I got it and started hooking up with BARF folks I haven't driven the car in two weeks and something I left on drained the battery. Seriously though, thanks everyone. I've had a *lot* of fun in the past couple of weeks and have gotten a lot of encouragement and...

I'm a newbie to bikes and BARF, so I'm learning a lot. Through this process I'm reviewing what I did and why after each ride and think it, and other info I gather up, could be useful to other newbie riders. Does anyone think this would be useful and if so, where should I post it? My first...

Just in case the other rider at McClellan and Stelling about 4:00 pm today gets to see this: Sorry I didn't communicate well. I wanted you to go first because I'm a very green rider and I don't have have taking off smoothly in first down yet. -- My questions for anybody: When you wind up...

New rider looking for advice... I'm collecting gear and most of the boots I'm seeing are less versatile than I'd like. A lot of my riding will be taking my camera out to some scenic area, parking the bike and then hiking a mile or two to actually get the shots. I'll normally take about 30...

Just an FYI: I went to the DMV today about 4:00 and found that starting yesterday (Thursday) the DMV is not taking any walk-ins after 3:00 PM. Apparently because of the state being without a budget, they have to ensure that no one works past 5:00 and there is no overtime paid. I don't know...