Recent content by RaWarrior

Update- bike has been sold.

Not really. The black "muffler" is just a shell, part of the tail. The actual mufflers are inside there with a decent air gap, as well as a fan on a thermostat that forces cool air around the muffler and the shell if you're in traffic for a while. The black part stays cool to the touch. It's a...

So, if you haven't heard of this bike, that's not too surprising. It was never sold in the US, this one was imported from Canada. It was sold in Canada, a handful of European countries, and Japan only for it's relatively brief production run. This one is VIN #00077 for the year, and from what I...

https://austin.craigslist.org/mcy/7546240677.html Owner is certainly proud of it, but not like an essentially new-old-stock Vmax pops up for sale very often. This is only like 15 min from me, so if anyone's seriously interested I could go check it out on your behalf.

As an add to this, I've noticed that Home Depot actually sells Rotella T4 and T6 for the exact same price as wal-mart $13 for the regular T4, $23 for the T6 syn. The sell filters but only the garbage lowest tier Fram "extra guard" (the ones with the cardboard cores that fall apart and don't...

Not sure what you mean by Jacksonville, but if anyone is passing through the Austin area you've got a couch to crash on, or I can show you around town a bit.

Yeah, ditched NY a couple years ago. I don't remotely miss a single thing about it. No state income tax. Reasonable speed limits (the highest speed limit in the country is on the toll road just outside of Austin, 85mph- most others are 80). Cops don't hassle you about nothing. There's no...

I drop in time to time. Noticed the forum got a revamp from the last time I saw it. I moved from upstate NY down to Austin, pursuit of better riding weather was definitely a factor. Vmax is gone, had a couple Z1000's, a Ninja 1000, a VFR, a Scout, and am currently on a '98 Valkyrie cruising...

I was tempted by a R3 and test drove a used one at a local dealership that sells mainly pre-owned (and is also quite liberal with allowing test drives). At the time I had an Indian Scout, with a 1130cc v-twin. With what I'd done to it, it should be putting right about 100hp to the wheel, maybe...

After I sent my Vmax down the road, I was on a variety of sport nakeds and sport-tourings. Despite being considerably more relaxed than a supersport, none I'd really call "comfortable", at least not for multi-day touring. Buzzy inline fours, leaned-forward ergo's, and limited storage. Good for a...

Was going through my closet the other day doing my annual purge to Goodwill and found this, forgot I had it. Haven't worn it in years, it's a men's size L. The signature is DB Graphics, 1990. To my knowledge these aren't available anymore, figured someone here might want it. Free, just cover a...

Figured I'd toss this here and see if any of the smart fellers here have any ideas on what's going on. It's a 2012 Yamaha Zuma 125. Fuel injected single cylinder scooter. Been modified with a 155cc big bore kit, cam, and Bazzaz fuel tuner with wideband O2 self-tune module. After all the mods...

If you like a GS 1200, you'll probably like the Tenere also. They feel pretty similar to me, just parallel twin vs opposed twin. I'd give the nod to the GS for smoothness, the Tenere gets pretty chuggy if you ask it to accelerate from too low rpm. Both are big, tall ADV bikes, both are...

You said you got ebay clutch discs? Were they actual Barnett or OEM Yamaha ones? I've had horrible luck with the el cheapo ebay clutch stacks. Usually a problem with the stack height being too short, so they never grab properly and rapidly start slipping/burn out. Have you flushed and...