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MOTOBRICK.COM => Welcome To Motobrick.Com => Topic started by: johnny on February 26, 2016, 11:00:44 PM
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greetings...
can you read...
that oughtta be the first question here at the world famous motobrick.com...
did you search should be the second question...
can i post up pictures of myself pissing in the wild should be the third question...
more later...
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Forgive me if this has been discussed somewhere but I've search the forums here and haven't come up with an answer yet. My bike won't start. Does anyone know why?
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I've replaced the footpegs, the handgrips, all the lamp bulbs, the fork seals, and the front axle. I've scrubbed myself and the bike with Seafoam, Techron and WD-40. I've used a Dremel, a slide hammer, and an easyout on all the parts I could reach. I bought a 70-piece o-ring set online—still no start.
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You need one them Harbor Freight roll around tool chests, and a log splitter.
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The previous owner hid it in an abandoned well for eight years to keep his wife from taking it in a divorce settlement. He said it was running good about a year before he stored it.
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Have you tried using the optional key? Some early models with a VIN ending in D-U-H actually require a key inserted @90 degrees and rotated 120 degrees clockwise in order to release electrons to activate combustion. Worth a try....post pictures.
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Have you tried using the optional key? Some early models with a VIN ending in D-U-H actually require a key inserted @90 degrees and rotated 120 degrees clockwise in order to release electrons to activate combustion. Worth a try....post pictures.
Too noisy when you use the key.
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I have always wondered what Laitch is reading in his avatar picture......is that a Clymer on how to start K-bike?
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Thanks for all the comments. It may have something to do with this part.
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I think he's trying to figure out why the bars are on the wrong end.
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I've already swapped the bar—still no start.
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I feel bulled by this thread.
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Klassic K's have a safety feature that disables the bike until the rider is wearing a helmet. Put on your helmet and try again.
I don't think that's happening in this case. It wouldn't start when I was wearing my helmet.
I'm going to get a new helmet anyway. This one sucks. It hangs down way too much in the back and I can only see when I open and look through a little vent in the front, and then I can only see just a little bit and need to keep moving my head from right to left to see everything. It just seems unsafe but the rear vent is really large and the wind on the back of me head keeps me cool.
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Klassic K's have a safety feature that disables the bike until the rider is wearing a helmet. Put on your helmet and try again.
I don't think that's happening in this case. I wouldn't start when I was wearing my helmet.
I'm going to get a new helmet anyway. This one sucks. It hangs down way too much in the back and I can only see when I open and look through a little vent in the front, and then I can only see just a little bit and need to keep moving my head from right to left to see everything. It just seems unsafe but the rear vent is really large and the wind on the back of me head keeps me cool.
Were you wearing your helmet on your head?
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Were you wearing your helmet on your head?
Yes.
This is very distressing. I've even polished the mirrors—no start. I would think there would be somewhere on this site where there would be explanations of why a bike doesn't start.
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You need to use the crank handle, some are clockwise some are counter clockwise, but if you have the Super Deluxe version they are Bidirectional.
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Steady, Laitch, just stick your finger in the exhaust hole, give a tickle, and she'll turn right over. Always did for me.
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Klassic K's have a safety feature that disables the bike until the rider is wearing a helmet. Put on your helmet and try again.
When I asked Drake about what the fairing on my bike was like before I bought it he said it gave great protection when he was in a rainstorm in Montana without a helmet
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Laitch - maybe you should change the air in the tires. If that doesn't work (and it probably will - cuz it always does for my cousin) then check the piston return springs. Search for my posts on these subjects and read them all before you ask any more questions - else you will be banished and not re-admitted till you submit a picture of yourself pissing and promise to spell tiors correcklee.
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Update:
I read somewhere that El Niño or La Niña could be responsible for some of this. A neighbor whose wife's financial consultant's friend is a meteorologist is coming by to tell me what he told him that he then told her and that she passed along to him, and also to take a look at it.
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Laitch - don't listen to any of these folks ... they are just messin' with your head in an attempt to make others laugh whilst the last of the snow melts. I'm 99% sure that your non-starting problem is due to the belly pan magnet ... lie on the ground directly underneath the bike and look upwards - you should see a big N (for northern hemisphere) or S (for somewhere else) ... possibly nothing at all (unlikely, as it would mean your bike would only ever run near the equator).
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Just returned from an AARP cruise around Lake Okeechobee on 50-passenger, four-prop airboat. Talked with a lot of fine folks, couldn't hear any of them but I now believe the starting problem may in fact have something to do with the wheel bearings—not sure whether front or rear.
Borrowing a GoPro tomorrow for a rotation count; using a meat thermometer to check heat range.
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Crap. Can't find my goddam bike again.
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I'm pretty sure it's your flux capacitor...
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Try reversing your deer whistles
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Try reversing your deer whistles
Those got broken and fell off after I hit a deer while trying to avoid a gator last year. I'll need to get some more.
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now it wont start... i think its the abs brain or the bulb monitoring unit.... any other idears...
Have you tried using a 3' length of braided garden hose and some fishnet stockings? Didn't work on a 75 but yours is an 1100.
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As Cruz said to Trump," just calm down", Laitch. Clearly your problem is you haven't greased the spokes. Take a generous amount of KY jelly and liberally stroke each spoke. That should get you off and running.
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That's probably an inspiring testimonial to legions of youthful Brick owners, Ace. Thanks for sharing what works for you. You're redefining the meaning of "get a grip."
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y'all some funny mfers.. :-D Seems like everybody has the springtime itch to get riding!
Warm enough in Wisconsin that i rode the T-Dub to work... Also helped that the transmission in my Ranger died last Sunday.
Time to put the battery back in my K75 I say, but I'm worried I should examine my clutch and do a spline lube. 25K miles, did drive shaft last year, clutch splines never been lubed AFAIK. Also wanna check my clutch plate out too since I cant quite adjust the cable tension right... Wish like heck I had a garage to work in!
Still in the research phase though. (https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTXdEeyfAoBjzjn2fl3RxZW7rn2oBXNVh71qfbGhkqvb0HLkxA6WQ)
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Laitch - maybe your problem is that the oil is not getting up high enough in the engine. Try putting a gallon of water in the crankcase so the oil will float up higher.
If that doesn't work, consult this handy diagnostic flowchart:
(http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m492/timscudder/1992%20K75s/Engineering%20Flowchart.jpg) (http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/timscudder/media/1992%20K75s/Engineering%20Flowchart.jpg.html)
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Use lard, an inch ain't nothin'. Bet the installer (you?) doesn't know how to fit the tire with the brake caliper in the way.
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ordered a set of tiors for my lt... the installor says the rear tior donts fit... should i see whats already on there or should i insist he spoon it on anyway... its only an inch off... he should be able to stretch it on with wd40...
IMHO you need as much rubber as you can get on the back of that brick you throttle-whackin' mofo
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greetings...
rodger all that...
wanna make sure my tior lactation arrow is right for my wheels lactation... donts need them rolling backwards in the twistys... even gotts a special room for that here at the bmw dealer... butts they wont let me watch...
(http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff192/owrstrich/i%20can%20read_zpsghz3usag.jpg)
j o
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Got me laughing out loud on my conference call... good thing I had mute on.
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Crap, guys, I locked myself out of my bike. Does anyone have a coathanger?
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I suspect that a shoehorn will solve this problem, not a coathanger
tom
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Every problem you encounter can be solved by using the FORCE.
May the FORCE be with you signed Obi Wan Kenobi
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I suspect that a shoehorn will solve this problem, not a coathanger
tom
I tried to get the special K-model shoehorn through a local BMW Dealership, but they said that they'd discontinued that entire tool line. Does anybody know of a good substitute?
I didn't add any stabilizer to my tire air this year, so if I can't get this sorted out I'm going to be stuck with the cost of having my rims professionally flushed out!
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Wow....I go off-line for a while and look what I missed!! You guys have gone wild!! My brick does start so I will beg off this conversation. I do, however, find it helps if you push the little button after you turn the key and make sure the kill switch is vertical. Just put 20 some odd miles on Heinzy on a beautiful but rather chilly day here in Southern Ontario. None of us (me and my 2 bikes) have been off the road more than 10 days this year....braggin' a little.
The other thing I missed (and this'll make you guys crazy!!) is the purchase of a running 1985 K100RS just east of Toronto...with recent rubber and a new battery, 62,000 miles on the clock (and it looked to be in very good nick-from the photos)....for $1300 Canadian loonies!!! Yikes. I warned his wife that he had under-priced this baby but, lo and behold, some sharpy was coming by that night to snap it up. So keep your eyes peeled....there are deals to be had out there. Did any of the Toronto boys snag that bike??(he asked somewhat jealously).
I read....BUT NOT WELL :musicboohoo:
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I am absolutely certain that your problem is that your chrome-plated muffler belts are rusty.
Take it to the bank.
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would that be the East or West bank? Directions cornfuse me
tom :usa2:
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West Bank if an afficinado of Israel's right to exist as a sovereign country and otherwise East Bank..Hope that clarifies it.
Another possible reason which might not hold air, is that the tires may be underinflated.
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Another possible reason which might not hold air, is that the tires may be underinflated.
That's a tiresome line of reasoning, bob. I'm think now that the upholstery holds the key to all this.
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No Laitch to my understanding the key must be in the ignition.
Regards Martin.
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Maybe the seat is just a bum approach then, Martin.
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I'm sure you'll get to the bottom of the problem, but you need to settle and not be so anal.
Regards Martin
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While you guys are playing , could you direct me to the specs for k1100 bikes? I saw it, clicked, and it took me somewheres else. Or I closed the window of opportunity. Im thinking of repairing my rear brake line properly, and may want to remove abs at the same time.
opinions and ideas appreciated. I will be riding this bike on country roads fairly often, because thats the type we have around here. I have read that iI might lose brakes going down bumpy roads, due to ABS.
tom
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found it!
tom
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I saw it, clicked, and it took me somewheres else.
Where'd it take you, tom? There's a slim chance others may want to go there, too, for variety.
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I am going thru the stickys info now. in the "can you read" section.
Checking around tonite to see which parts I would need to do it. (the switch to standard hydrobrakes)
My ABS on my 87 944 Porsche did save me from a dump truck one day (turned left in front of me at the last second), first time I ever used them, but I do take the shortcut around Thousand Hills State Park around the dam, to get to a friends house 8 miles south. Otherwise, its 15 miles thru town on the blacktop.
I am a fairly conservative rider...being hit 3 times in my 20s, and older bones has slowed me down. i justr don't fly like I used to. I always wear an orange/reflective vest or coat.
tom
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France is nice this time of year—parts of it anyway—but it's got some wicked electrical testers there that can blow up a bike.
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theres always gonna be touble when a nitrogen group and benzene rings intermingle.
tom
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I found a candid shot taken by drone of a new Motobricker getting Workshop postings at the world famous MOTOBRICK.COM. He's on a Dakar Yellow Brick.
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Be careful about casting aspirins at Dakar Yeller Brickers.
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I have a dream that one day a rider will be judged by the content of his iconic 22 liter topcase rather than the color of his fairings.
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Lord I love this site. I'm just laughing now at this thread. Thanks Johnny for going mad. Please post the Moefoe video of it happening right here. LOL
2014 CB1100 DLX
2013 CB1100 Std
1990 BMW K75 RT
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I have a dream that one day a rider will be judged by the content of his iconic 22 liter topcase rather than the color of his fairings.
Iconic box is designed for assless chaps, fingerless gloves, dew rag and good Russian Vodka.
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Laitch you're messin' with the Brotherhood of Da Yeller Brick...............keep this up and we'll come up to that cozy Vermont cabin and shoot Yeller Piss all over you! Right,Gryphon?
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That Vermonter, he;s on thin ice, Ace.
Tempted to take a run up to where that New England hillbilly is hiding out.
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Come on up! The frost is out of the road and it's just been graded. As a bonus, we'll be having a demonstration of patterns made by genuine Kerala peppercorns mixed with Morton's finest halite after they pass through an 850's improved cylinder. We'll start the demo upon your arrival. Casual dress. Moist towelettes and styptic pencils available on site.
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Nah, Laitch, we'll drop by after the woods finish burning ............
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Nah, Laitch, we'll drop by after the woods finish burning ............
That'll ruin the carrot cake, but that's your loss, Ace.
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what joint?
tom
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Ya know JO, it's gotta be a generational thing...............easier to just ask rather than take time to actually look stuff up. Need a new response for lazy folks.........."DYOR".........(Do You Own Research). Ain't it enough to have a subject-generated reference file available for free?
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At 59 I can read and follow instructions fairly well, I'm scared to death to appear stupid. Best to stay low and study up.
I the meantime my 87 K75C in 632 Rott kicks ass.
Hoping to find a nice smoked Slipstream Deflector and I'll cash in this Non-op for a Current and give Geico a call.
Just another bike in the stable and the newest I've ever had. Very impressive.
Thanks Brickheads for the XLNT Library, bless your hearts!
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Ya know JO, it's gotta be a generational thing..............
You might be onto something.Ive been swapping Italian electrons for German ones for years and my brick alternator hasn't noticed yet.
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The starter just came back from powdercoating and still it's a no-start. Somebody said I should look in the Workshop but I don't understand what that means. Is that like Walmart or Tesco? Has anybody ever had starting problems like this? By the way, I think the manual is wrong and based on my experience with MTD lawnmowers, I have decided that straight 30wt is the oil to go with. You should try it, too.
Thanks in advance. Really love the site.
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Laitch, that pretty much sums it up. Momma always said, " Stupid is as stupid does".
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The starter just came back from powdercoating and still it's a no-start. I have decided that straight 30wt is the oil to go with. You should try it, too.
Thanks in advance. Really love the site.
I have,just make sure you let all the drips drop off after dipping and clean off the commentator with a lint free cloth before you let electrons at it.
Have you topped up your spark plugs yet?A light grind will get you a couple thousand miles or more out of them.
Yeh,must admit,I've been learning a lot from this site.I hope my technical contributions are equally appreciated.
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What makes Motobrick work is people participating and contributing. Coming on and asking a question that's already been answered multiple times is not contributing. People should be making an effort to find out what's already been said about their question, learn about it for themselves, then add something new to what's already been said.
If you make an effort to find your answer and come up empty, then show your mates some evidence that you made an effort.
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What makes Motobrick work is people participating and contributing. Coming on and asking a question that's already been answered multiple times is not contributing. People should be making an effort to find out what's already been said about their question, learn about it for themselves, then add something new to what's already been said.
If you make an effort to find your answer and come up empty, then show your mates some evidence that you made an effort.
Thanks, kind of sums it up. If experienced people do not reply, perhaps that is an answer in and of itself :bmwsmile. It does no good to rant or get exasperated if you value this site/community. Sometimes, we all need a little encouragement, insight, or a different perspective. Maybe the "use the search button" icon ought to be available on this post reply screen :yes
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oft I wonder how I diagnosed a clogged fuel filter and flaky speedometer many years before the interwebby thing. Oh yeah, I took stuff apart and looked at it. Is there a youtube video on how to search motobrick?
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oft I wonder how I diagnosed a clogged fuel filter and flaky speedometer many years before the interwebby thing. Oh yeah, I took stuff apart and looked at it. Is there a youtube video on how to search motobrick?
Now there is a good idea :hehehe. The reality is that we are not all great mechanics or wizards w/computers despite what we tell ourselves :eek:. When you come across the, "my sir, you have an uncanny knack for detecting the obvious". You can post the link to a search video OR the icon...
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Maybe the "use the search button" icon ought to be available on this post reply screen :yes
If I'm reading you correctly here, jack, you'll find the "use the search button" graphic if you click the [more] above the top left corner of the reply box.
But none of this really answers my question—if there was one—concerning the failure of powdercoating the starter to start my bike, which, incidentally, is making a strange noise, too, when I hinge back the seat—kind of like a combination of a singing whale and a Vita-Mix processing a wad of shop towel.
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But none of this really answers my question—if there was one—concerning the failure of powdercoating the starter to start my bike, which, incidentally, is making a strange noise, too, when I hinge back the seat—kind of like a combination of a singing whale and a Vita-Mix processing a wad of shop towel.
You didn't powdercoat the sprag clutch,did you?(the seat hinge is a red herring)
I suspect there is a special section on how to sort that,on this site,somewhere,if you keep looking....keep looking.search "red herring" first,to eliminate that.
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I suspect there is a special section on how to sort that,on this site,somewhere,if you keep looking....keep looking.search "red herring" first,to eliminate that.
It'd be a lot easier if you'd just imitate the sounds of red herrings and sperm whales, Dude. When I went looking all I found were crabs so I didn't want to get too close. Kerosene affects my sinuses.
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Laitch, if you would just learn how to use the SEARCH BUTTON you would know the cause of that sound......it's a Korgasm :neener:
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But none of this really answers my question—if there was one—concerning the failure of powdercoating the starter to start my bike, which, incidentally, is making a strange noise, too, when I hinge back the seat—kind of like a combination of a singing whale and a Vita-Mix processing a wad of shop towel.
You didn't powdercoat the sprag clutch,did you?(the seat hinge is a red herring)
I suspect there is a special section on how to sort that,on this site,somewhere,if you keep looking....keep looking.search "red herring" first,to eliminate that.
Damn..you learn something everyday. Thanks Laitch :hehehe I just thought that meant more bumps. Now in regards to your specific diffugulty :xeno and :useless
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Kerosene affects my sinuses.
Your parrafinalia won't help.I would post some pictures of mine but,that's just asking for trouble.
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greetings...
this thread is like my k1100lt se streetfighter racer...
1 peculiar
2 strange
3 hopped-up
4 tricked-out
5 suspicious
6 unusual
7 eccentric
8 unconventional
9 whack
10 queered-out
more later...
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this thread is like my k1100lt se streetfighter racer...
Is that your queered-out bike that blew its supercharger? No pejorative intended, of course. :yes
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Well, the alternative view is that maybe a lot of people come to this forum because they have little or no experience at all, are complete novices and don't know what to to search for, or haven't determined yet whether this site is something they want to be part of at all.
So when they test the water by asking for some guidance from the get-go, and then they get lambasted over the spit because 1) their googling skills don't meet some people's arbitrary standards 2) they don't know the Library by heart 3) they aren't K-Bike aficionados and aren't sure they want to be -- they might just say, "what do I need with a bunch of wannabe hard-ass, old-school, crotchety geezers who get a stiffie for beating people up -- f**k this, I'll go get me a new Versys and spend time riding rather than wrenching -- that's why I have a good job, i.e. to pay people to be mechanics."
I've found some people's attitude towards new posters here to be unnecessarily harsh and off-putting. I see no need to be disparaging towards people who come here asking questions. I see no advantage to scolding people for not searching 'adequately' to find the answer. I see no advantage to the community of using ROTF emojis to eviscerate noobs for asking questions, even if the answer could be found by searching the database. And IMO, if you can't provide information to people without slapping them on the wrists for asking, then maybe it's best not to jump all over every inquiry immediately and let some people give some advice that's not so admonitory.
When I first came here I didn't know jackshit and I'm sure I asked some dumbass questions. But I don't remember being treated with the kind of dismissiveness that reigns here these days. If I had, maybe I'd not still be here. It's not like we are flooded with people asking questions. Inquiries come in maybe 2 or 3 a day. I think some of us have become so accustomed to the volume of information on this site that we just kind of take it for granted. Well, it is a HUGE amount of information and is totally intimidating for new members. So telling them to search better and snapping at them is likely top do more harm than good.
I'd also like to remind you that any search here will turn up a number of different threads where people engage in all kinds of banter, and that reading through all these banter-saturated threads to get to the hard-core technical information can take a LOT of time. I'd also like to remind you that not all the technical information on this site is included in the Lieberry which hasn't been structurally updated to include all the new information in all the banter-saturatd threads for several years. So if someone shows up here and asks for a leg-up in cutting through all the old stuff to get to the most relevant, most up-to-date info, I think that's a reasonable request that deserves a courteous response.
In my opinion, we should be welcoming and supportive to new people who come here and should be willing to do a bit of hand-holding at the start of a new relationship. In my opinion we aren't here just as a source of information, but as a community of people who want to keep the classic K bikes on the road, and we should be willing to act more like ambassadors than disciplinarian schoolmasters.
BTW this isn't the first time this has come up. Every time it does, people get nice for a while then after a while it's back to smacking-hand-of-the-student-with-the-stick.
My humble $0.02.
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Well said, Chaos!
There is one thread here with a new poster who I found to be pretty annoying. I just stopped posting on it or reading anything by him. Maybe he is getting better. He's still here and maybe figuring out how to work with us to get a problem solved.
I rather enjoy the mental challenge of troubleshooting a bike I can't see, and don't have a problem answering the same question over and over. Probably comes from my days servicing industrial control systems over the phone. I just can't understand why some here choose to mock the newbie's lack of knowledge. If you find a poster annoying or his questions obnoxious just ignore that thread and read or post on another. Life is too short to do otherwise.
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+1 Hobo and +1 Gryph, your encouragement after my initial smackdown :hehehe is why I am still here :deal:
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I had trouble starting my K75 and someone suggested it was a mixture problem so I sent off to Germany for some air. After sucking the air out of my tyres with a vacuum pump, I reinflated them with the German air using a funnel. I've still got half a box left, which should last me years. The difference is amazing - starts first time, every time.
Be careful of cheap Chinese air though, nowhere near as good.
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You're lucky you live in Wales which is still EU. Here, a box of German air costs a fortune. We can get Pennsylvania Dutch air cheap but the gene pool is so watery it barely works.
Where are you going to get your German air after Brexit?
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I'll get some black bags from the pound shop, go to Germany, open the bags and steal some. perhaps I should stock up before we leave the United States of Europe.
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Try adding Eucalyptus oil to your air it works well in OZ, and it is beneficial to people following especially if they have a cold. The only negative with it is you have to push off all the Koalas before you can ride.
Regards Martin.
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I'll get some black bags from the pound shop, go to Germany, open the bags and steal some. perhaps I should stock up before we leave the United States of Europe.
Definitely -- afterwards they will tax you if you cross the border holding your breath.
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So that's why the Polizei breathalyse drivers leaving their borders ; not to check for drunkishness but to confiscate their air. I hadn't thought of that.
I just had a thought; next time I order ersatzteile (spare parts) for a Winterhalter dishwasher, I'll keep the bubble wrap and squash it out when I need some.
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You're going to be bummed out when your bike won't run because the bubble wrap was made in China!
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I've replaced the footpegs, the handgrips, all the lamp bulbs, the fork seals, and the front axle. I've scrubbed myself and the bike with Seafoam, Techron and WD-40. I've used a Dremel, a slide hammer, and an easyout on all the parts I could reach. I bought a 70-piece o-ring set online—still no start.
Switch your handgrips. They are on the wrong side.
:hehehe
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They're not on the wrong side, it's you Americans that have them on the wrong side. :hehehe
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Soichiro, have you tried Irish blended air? Stay away from the single element brands, bad for your injector piston.
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Nah, wouldn't want to try anything that might make the engine run backwards... Or sideways.
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Well said Motohobo
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