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  1. Kestrel

    '98 VFR800 Forks - Slider / Fork Leg Stuck Together

    BARF, Been hammering the living shit out of this thing in the shop for the last 2 hours or so. I'm pretty well fed up. Pulled the forks off to replace the fork seals, clean up the sliders, and refinish the fork legs. First fork came apart no problem - even the bottom bolt. Whole thing is...
  2. Kestrel

    Living Aboard (A Sailboat)

    Hey BARF, I'm thinking about doing something different for a while... Now, I do realize that most of you will probably shoot this idea down as some sort of far fetched dream, but on that note, you skeptics are probably always the ones who had big goals but deemed them as impossible from the...
  3. Kestrel

    FS: Tourmaster Winter Elite Gloves (Size M)

    FS: Tourmaster Winter Elite Gloves (Size M) **SOLD** I've got a pair of Tourmaster Winter Elite gloves in size medium for sale... I've worn these things about five times, and they're just the slightest bit too small for my hands to be comfortable. Waterproof, long sealing cuffs, and also have a...
  4. Kestrel

    Best choice for an all-arounder?

    BARF, I recently sold my 2000 SV a bit earlier this summer, and replaced it with an old XR250L. Commuting on this thing rocks (or rather, rocked in the past tense.. it is apart now for a top end rebuild..), but it definitely does suffer at speed. What would have been an hour trip to get to...
  5. Kestrel

    She cannot climax under any circumstances

    A hell of a way to start a thread, I know... So I've been dating this girl for about a year now... After a couple of months, things took a turn toward the sexual direction and we've been... doing.. things... since then. Problem is, she cannot seem to achieve orgasm under any circumstances...
  6. Kestrel

    Fullerton Police Beat Homeless Man to Death

    This seems to have been skipped by the media... :thumbdown Didn't see it posted here, either, and it deserves to be brought to your attention. 1ljYNgLnpxM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/27/police-beat-homeless-full_n_911419.html
  7. Kestrel

    XR250L Engine Rebuild

    So... I dove right in and tore the XR into pieces this evening... Smoking had intensified and the bike was beginning to have some running issues. I figured that while I had the next month free, I might as well get busy and tear the thing apart. Here's my piston. Looks totally usable, right...
  8. Kestrel

    Polarization of American Politics...

    Was it always this bad? As a disclaimer and to set the stage here, I'm in my upper twenties at this point and have lived through a couple of administrations. Clinton seemed to have conservatives upset. Bush had democrats screaming... But I can't quite recall things being as bad as they are...
  9. Kestrel

    Roadside Death - XR250L.. Electrical?

    Good morning, BARF. Yesterday was a bit of an adventure - plenty of awesome mixed in with a bit of fail. Colin Edwards got a podium. Dallas beat the Heat... but unfortunately my XR left me stranded. I had been cruising back along some typical 55mph country roads when the bike began to pull...
  10. Kestrel

    Pants for SuMo/Dual Sport

    Ladies 'n Gents, I recently picked up a small dual sport to use as a commuter and general bop-around-town bike and am trying to figure out what sort of pants to use for this thing. My general riding attire with my old SV was a two piece set of leathers that I still wear fairly religiously...
  11. Kestrel

    94 XR250L - Slight burning of oil

    BARF, I recently picked up an XR250L a couple weeks ago and after a botched trailer miscommunication, I ended up having to ride it home three hours as opposed to towing it like I had wanted to D; It was a little wheezy and almost 'missing' higher in the rev range, which I suspected was due to...
  12. Kestrel

    So long, old friend.

    Tonight will be the first night that has passed in many years that a motorcycle will not be in my garage. Earlier this morning, I bid the SV farewell as its new owner rolled out of my driveway and headed down the street. It's an odd sensation, never having let anybody else take my SV for a...
  13. Kestrel

    Fox News says, 'So Long, Glenn Beck.'

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110406/ap_en_tv/us_tv_fox_beck Thank god for small favors.
  14. Kestrel

    SBK-X Superbike World Championship for PS3/360/PC

    Anybody played this thing yet? I'm snagging myself a PS3 for XMas (Netflix, GT5 & the sake of actually having a blu-ray player) and noticed this game linked off of a website. Reviews peg it as a pretty decent sim. I miss the days of Tourist Trophy and wouldn't mind another decent moto game...
  15. Kestrel

    Superhawk not so super after all?

    I rode a Superhawk earlier today for about a hundred miles or so. And I've got to confess... It did nothing for me. It wheelied very well, and I did enjoy that part. But it wasn't at all what I thought it would be. As soon as I climbed back aboard my trusty SV, god was back in his heaven...
  16. Kestrel

    Movie.. "Habitat - What motorcycling means to us"

    Video/movie created by a mentor & old riding friend of mine. Set aside a little under an hour for this. I think you guys like this. It is absolutely epic. Well worth the entire thing for so, so many reasons that hardly need explaining. Please enjoy. http://churchofgo.blip.tv/
  17. Kestrel

    Touge in Japan in 1988 - Video

    What a flashback. I figured you guys would get some enjoyment out of these. Bonus points if you can hear the V4s Aside from the two strokes, there are a hell of a lot of 'em :twofinger Part 1 MJap8whgZtY Part 2 Gq3VwEbL2d4
  18. Kestrel

    Riding Positions

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  19. Kestrel

    0-140mph on a BMW S1000RR

    And I'm back with another video. Here's the bike that many of you have been waiting for. I'd say it is pretty quick. The guy has to short shift to keep the damned front wheel down. I approve. :thumbup http://vimeo.com/8862734
  20. Kestrel

    Roadracing an RG500

    Hot. AZr-PncUjnk ..via SVrider.com
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