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    Tires: what would you do?

    update if anyone cares, the new contimotion is on and the rear preload adjusted (i didn't have the tool and figured it was worth throwing the shop the cost of the tool to do it one time, since i'm a lardass and changing this setting again is extremely unlikely). The preload adjustment made a...
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    Tires: what would you do?

    local shop (3 mi away) has a contimotion rear, so i'll do that for now, tomorrow. hopefully the 'book time' for the tire swap is 'chain drive japanese bike' based and the shop charges very little to fiddle with the belt, which, like, joke's on them i think.
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    brother from another mother

    A few weeks ago I went to my scooter club's meeting for the first time in like, 6 years. I haven't had a running scooter since 8 years ago but I went to see old friends and maybe kick my ass into gear on fixing up one of my Vespas. Turns out one of the other guys has a Uly with a DIY Hawk...
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    Tires: what would you do?

    well, I guess it was more worn than I thought. So i need a tire STAT. Sucks because I had a great ride today finally feeling comfortable with the bike and some of the roads around here that I know well enough to not be surprised by a mid-corner radius change, crap on the road, etc (I have been...
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    Tires: what would you do?

    My 06 xb9sx 'bitsa' (it's not exactly stock, who knows what POs have done) has a very new ContiMotion tire in front, and a worn-out-to-wear-bars and squared off ContiMotion rear. These are obviously not especially sporty tires and i'm not trying to sport-tour on this thing, tho the ContiMotion...
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    Buell XB9SX Tyre Choice

    Not in the UK, so sorry if this is threadjacking.... But Revzilla has a sale on Michelin Pilot Power 2CTs right now. I only ride in the rain if i get caught in it, so I'm ok with a 'dry' tire. These look like a pretty aggro/road and also track tire, so life won't be good and I'm ok with that...
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    Getting rid of hot glue residue on the inside of a translucid airbox top

    My technique was to sand each successive grit at 90 degrees to the previous, so when i saw the crosshatching disappear, i figured i was good. Turns out there's still visible crosshatching now that it's all done, so i didn't even get that process quite right. Funnily enough, my 62 beetle had sand...
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    Getting rid of hot glue residue on the inside of a translucid airbox top

    No headlight resto kit will save me, because i sanded the whole thing from 320/400/600/800/1000/1500/2000 first to get rid of crazing (that i inflicted), and i have scratches from that step-up process where i rushed the latter bits. It's, IMO, really hard to see sand scratches at 800 grit or...
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    Getting rid of hot glue residue on the inside of a translucid airbox top

    This thought has absolutely crossed my mind. For whatever perverse reason i want to "save" these because they were flat-blacked (and had a homemade buell pegasus sticker cut on top of the paint, i think, because there are razor cuts in that shape that i'll Never sand out). Now that it's not...
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    Getting rid of hot glue residue on the inside of a translucid airbox top

    +1 on they hate solvents. the lacquer thinner i used 'crazed' the plastic (i think that's appropriate use of the word, correct me if not.. lacy white opaque bits that feel silky smooth to the touch, but still do not admit light). On the flyscreen, I just left the lacy bits thinking some sort of...
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    Getting rid of hot glue residue on the inside of a translucid airbox top

    So, i have an 06 xb9sx with cherry bomb airbox and flyscreen, both of which were painted over by previous owner. I got the paint off and sanded and polished it up and it looks sort of murky red now (not perfect, i need to redo it). Along the way i discovered 4 stacks of magnets that PO had hot...
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    Pleeease help me decide!!!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botts%27_dots
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    Faster Idle Clutch Out / Slower Clutch in

    FWIW as a Buell noob and a rookie to any EFI thing ever, the thought that the neutral switch was related would never have crossed my mind. Also, having been yelled at in past forums for cluttering posts with legitimately unrelated issues (i couldn't tell at the time), i especially would not...
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    2008 buell lightening cityx xbsx with jardine gp1 exhaust is backfiring on idle

    I bought a flat-black painted city-x and discovered (when i had the airbox cover off to change plugs because they were fouled by PO... sound familiar?) that a scratched bit of the plastics glowed "cherry bomb" red. I used lacquer thinner to strip the paint, which DID produce some crazing. BUT i...
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    2009 XB12SCG Running rough intermittently

    FWIW i found i needed spark plug wire pliers to get my rear wire off the plug and put it back on (bought some when i got the plugs "just in case" and boy am I glad I did or I'd have been SOL). It is pretty tight in there. Front plug is super easy by contrast.
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    Passenger Pegs/Brackets

    This must be why mine has an upside-down peg from the wrong side on the side of my bike that was dropped by the prev owner!
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    Wiring open an XB12 exhaust

    Found the chart, but only by finding my own thread with difficulty (had to search my own posts! this is just like my IT job where I document something, then have to read my own documentation 6 months later, if only I could find it, lol) Here's a BWB thread with a chart from another forum...
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    Wiring open an XB12 exhaust

    I have an xb9sx with a uly (xb12) muffler on it (who knows why). I had the box off to fix a broken sidestand bolt and discovered the PO had "wired" it open with a plastic zip tie that melted (of course it did). In talking to Kevin at Drummer fab, he recommended leaving it closed, and a pdf of...
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    breater mod question for a rookie

    Just an idea (and one i've seen others on here suggest) is to 'plug' the airbox base holes with a length of hose bent into a U that goes into both base fittings from above or from below. if you loop the U up into the airbox, sure, air comes in from below but is bridged to underneath the other...
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    Random musing about our Buells

    coming in late on this one and i don't mean to detract from the excellent ECM posts, but as a former exclusive 2T rider, i can't get used to engine braking on my xb9! Everyone says "it's not enough" and i'm like "what is this braking thing". i always think "i've held it open as long as I want...
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