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You computer geeks might appreciate this. It's a semi-long story on Twitter that I found out about from comp.risks 32.51. Quote from near the end: https://twitter.com/mfpiccolo/status/1360685864100237318

Somebody pointed out on the ThumperTalk XR forum that the XR650L will likely hit the 30 year mark unchanged. Other than a few carburetor tweaks and a few years with "bold new graphics", nothing has changed on that bike since 1993. When I'm ordering parts at the Honda dealer or Cycle Gear they...

I've had a minor fuel drip out of the carburetor float bowl on my XR650L. I'm not sure if it's the float needle not seating perfectly or the rubber gasket on the float bowl being 20 years old and no longer flexible enough to seal properly. I finally attacked the problem this morning and...

For some reason, as part of my new year celebration I've been binge watching RNickeyMouse YouTube videos. In the last two days I've probably watched all of the good crashes as well as a lot of the regular riding along Mulholland Highway in the section that they call The Snake. I looked up the...

I was just looking over this article in Cycle World magazine. They've seriously changed the Ducati Monster. Should they still be calling it the Monster? The Ducati Monster was the bike that got me back into motorcycles after taking nine years off. This is what I always thought of as a proper...

Okay, Budman wants more posts, here goes. :laughing I've watched a few movies where motorcycles are chasing cars and it seems to me that it would be totally easy for the car to take out a bike and continue on their way while the rider is picking their ride back up. In the Italian Job, the BMW...

I'm looking to get a more serious dirt bike, probably a WR250F, which weighs around 250 pounds. I'm also seriously considering getting a 2021 Ford Bronco, which is what I would haul it with. I don't really want to own a trailer and have to figure out where to park the thing when I'm not using...

The last ride I went on was dusty enough that I felt the need to disassemble my helmet a bit to clean the dust out of all of the cracks and crevices. I think it might have faded a little bit in the two years that I've had it. It was all a uniform color when I first got it. I have another...

I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of good single-track riding since my smallest bike is a 350 pound XR650L. I'm expecting, sometime in the next year, to have a way to haul a bike to the hills, at which point I could get a more serious dirt bike. And living in Idaho, I could license it for...

I was going to append this photo to the original ad, but it's closed. Peek here first: https://bayarearidersforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=545407 Doesn't show the hole in the thumb opposite the hole in the index finger. I used those gloves just yesterday on a long ride. Now I have some...

I had a new set of AX41 tires installed on my KTM yesterday, filled it up with gas and was ready to go up into the hills and find out if they're as good as the reviews say they are. I even went to the YMCA early today for my workout so that I could get up in the hills and back before it got too...

I've noticed recently that I'll post something while replying to a thread and control does not go to the updated thread with my reply at the end. It still looks like it's waiting to post, but if I open another window and go check my reply is there like it's supposed to be. I think if I try to...

I'm still trying to figure out if it's worth dropping the air pressure in my tires off road on adventure and dual sport bikes. My usual practice was to drop the air pressure to the 20-25 psi range when I get to the dirt then air back up to the mid-30's when I get back to pavement. But the last...

One thing I miss now that I'm out of California is how many good twisty roads are nearby. I mentioned in the "Photos of your bike on location" thread that there is only one road within 15 miles of where I live that counts as a good twisty road. Looking at it more closely, there are three, but...

Okay, it's too late this time around, but I need hints for next time. My XR650L has been a little strange at closed throttle deceleration and at idle, so I decided to go through the carburetor and check everything. It's probably been ten years since I opened it up although I might have done...

Three tickets since January of 2000, two of them in national parks. Dozens of warnings since then. I still seem to get stopped too often - about once a year. I think my license plates and grey hair have helped set the proper tone to get the LEO thinking about a warning instead of a ticket...

A few days ago Firefox stopped automatically logging me in to sites like BARF. This is the case for all sites that used to automatically log me in when I visit them including gmail. I haven't changed any settings at all and I've looked through the options and settings pages without seeing...

I've been trying to figure out the best tires for my bikes for a long time. Most online reviews either don't compare many or are rather biased. It seems that Chaparrall Motorsports has finally put together a video that has some genuinely useful information...

I finally got around to applying some shoe polish to my Sidi riding boot. This is the first time. I know that I still had my ST2 when I bought them and I sold that in 2010, so apparently I polish my boots about once every ten years. The heel of one of them was coming loose, so I used some...

I recently gave in and let Firefox update itself. Now when I try to visit a BARF page I get: I'm using Chrome to post this message. No, I don't want to switch to Chrome as my main browser. :x