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Re: pucks or crash bars?
« Reply #45 on: May 06, 2019, 05:56:37 PM »

Quote from: racerrad8 on May 06, 2019, 02:21:01 PM
Quote from: mtc on May 05, 2019, 10:47:40 PM
...question, does it have to match the pipe, cause, mine is not perfectly aligned, it guess it don't matter much until a crash


That is the manufacturing tolerance on both the motorcycle and then engine bars. Not all of them line up exactly.



BTW, were is the wiper seal for your fork?
Quote from: mtc on May 05, 2019, 10:47:40 PM


Randy - RPM



it is moved up, i "sealmate" it since it was weeping, but when i stuck the slim jim in...... a bunch of fluid came out, it rides much much better, since i am so light with the .85 race tech springs

it was on the side stand when i did it, idk if the center stand would have been better to even out the load, nevertheless it is a screw up on my part

so as of now the left fork is short oil, i am thinking instead of the recommended 140mm amount i can go 145 on both, but i really am tired of messing with it for now....


so short answer is , the wiper is not in the shot, but in back where it suppose to be and i think the seal mate did the trick thank goodness!, but short on oil in the left fork dash2
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« Reply #45 on: May 06, 2019, 05:56:37 PM »

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Re: pucks or crash bars?
« Reply #46 on: August 01, 2019, 05:56:06 PM »

With the Renntec engine guards in place, do they change the angle at which the fallen bike is resting?

Mine has been over (x) times, and the bar ends are into the ground and the mirror rashed up. Apart from the damage, getting it started to come up from horizontal like that, is a bit of effort.

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Re: pucks or crash bars?
« Reply #47 on: August 02, 2019, 08:51:48 AM »

Quote from: Charlie-brm on August 01, 2019, 05:56:06 PM

...... Apart from the damage, getting it started to come up from horizontal like that, is a bit of effort.


A bit of trivia, that's why the cops like boxer BMW's, they often jump off them and intentionally let the bike drop, the weight's low and they don't go all the way over. I dropped one a while back, amazingly easy to pick up.
You're right, FJ's are a buggar to stand up if on their side, particularly as we get older. I can't pick mine straight up any more, makes me a lot more cautious about parking and off roading when somewhere remote and alone.

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Re: pucks or crash bars?
« Reply #48 on: August 02, 2019, 08:48:49 PM »

My GL1500 Goldwing is easier to pick up than my FJ.
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Re: pucks or crash bars?
« Reply #49 on: August 02, 2019, 11:38:25 PM »

I'm not small I'm 205 lbs and my son is 6'-5" 230 lbs .The first time I took my FJ off the center stand while I was standing beside it the bike lurched sideways and I almost dropped it .The next day I let my son ride it while I rode my cb 750.When we went to leave the first place we stopped I looked over and saw my son with a horrified look and the bike laying at his feet.Neither of us will take the bike off the center stand unless we are sitting on it.
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Re: pucks or crash bars?
« Reply #50 on: August 02, 2019, 11:50:11 PM »

Quote from: T Legg on August 02, 2019, 11:38:25 PM
Neither of us will take the bike off the center stand unless we are sitting on it.



I am on the opposite size spectrum. 5'7" tall with a 30" inseam. I always sit on the bike when I take it off of the center stand.



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« Reply #51 on: August 03, 2019, 09:15:55 AM »

Quote from: aviationfred on August 02, 2019, 11:50:11 PM

I am on the opposite size spectrum. 5'7" tall with a 30" inseam. I always sit on the bike when I take it off of the center stand.



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Sitting on the bike is the ONLY comfortable way to take the bike off the centerstand I think. For the exact reason Travis mentioned. I wouldnt want the weight shifting the other way. 6 ft 4 225 here
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Re: pucks or crash bars?
« Reply #52 on: August 03, 2019, 09:20:58 AM »

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Quote from: aviationfred on August 02, 2019, 11:50:11 PM

I am on the opposite size spectrum. 5'7" tall with a 30" inseam. I always sit on the bike when I take it off of the center stand.



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Sitting on the bike is the ONLY comfortable way to take the bike off the centerstand I think. For the exact reason Travis mentioned. I wouldnt want the weight shifting the other way. 6 ft 4 225 here

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Re: pucks or crash bars?
« Reply #53 on: August 03, 2019, 12:19:58 PM »

I hate climbing on while it's on the stand. I just stand off to the side and control it with the front brake.
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Re: pucks or crash bars?
« Reply #54 on: August 03, 2019, 03:09:48 PM »

I’ve dropped mine twice, once pushing it off the centre stand at a servo where the concrete was off camber and it fell right side into a garden, took three people to lift it up out of there, brake pedal left a mark on the clutch cover but luckily no other damage. Second time I put the side stand down while getting off, again at a servo, but it wasn’t down properly and could feel it going down and tried to stop it but it was at the point of no return, managed to pick it up again with a lot of effort on my own with no damage. I’ve since then fitted Rentech engine bars but haven’t had the misfortune of dropping it again, so can’t say if it would be easier to pick up from there, I don’t plan to find out either.
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« Reply #55 on: August 03, 2019, 06:15:53 PM »

Did drop my 86. Really steep short(about 6') incline out of a gas station. Had to stop because of traffic. Proceeded to do the splits from the ball bearings/ fine gravel. It rolled back and turned. Now my left leg the one that did the splits is a foot and a half Bellow the wheels. I put it down as lightly as I could. Just bent the clutch lever. Got off the bike and lifted it right up. Still about a foot and a half below the wheels. Amazing what adrenaline can do.
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Re: pucks or crash bars?
« Reply #56 on: August 03, 2019, 09:39:14 PM »

never tried getting any bike off the center stand not sitting on it, it just seems like the natural thing to do, and i never jump off a bike first to do the kick stand, always kick stand first then jump off, 5' 7" 31.5 inseam 129lbs.
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