05GT Guru

Looks fun... so nimble. Honda has been making some great bikes for many years. But what else are you supposed to do with all those engineers when the world tells your entire country that you are no longer allowed to make airplanes because of that one time in 1939-1945 you got a little silly? Make great motorcycles... THAT'S WHAT!

I'll still ride in the 50s when it's right after winter. My body at that time of year thinks it's t-shirt weather anyway. But 50s at the end of a summer is much colder. I did used to ride in upper 30s/40s when I was a bit younger. The day I sold my 600rr I had to ride it to guys house which was an hour away, mostly freeway and it was 34 degrees out. That was cold. There is a young guy who works at the local hobbytown usa who DDs his DRZ400 all year.... all freaking year he goes to work on that bike. I have seen it there on snowy days. Luckily he only lives a few miles away.

Almost took the Vulcan S to work last Thursday because it hit 60 degrees... glad I didn't as it was 39 by 5pm and we have had snow and freezing rain all weekend.... YAY spring!

Starting the remodel of my 1st floor bathroom this weekend. Then the kitchen in about a month. Every time I get some cash together the wife guilt trips me into going on a vacation or re-modeling the house "because it's better for the family". Last summer was the remodel of the entire exterior. Next time I get some cash together and she starts to talk about vacations or house updates imma cold clock her and run over to the nearest Yamaha dealer.

Nice, I rode a friends FZ-07 a few times. Fun bikes.

That was another reason.... the hp gain. Everyone with the two bros full exhaust etc and a tuner said they gained 2-4hp but lost almost 10ftlbs of trq after the tune. What kind of a BS trade off is that? The bike doesn't need to be faster, 500lbs and 65hp is plenty for my 60 year old dad who never travels on his bike more than 20 miles from his residence. Just needed to sound the part of a blacked out cruiser. It's an inline 2 cylinder. So it sounds more sporting than a Harley or other v-twin. Sounds like a FZ07 with exhaust.

I decided that my dad's vulcan sounded too much like a scooter so I drilled a few holes in the exhaust under the heat shield so you can't see them. Sounds so much better. Hope he agrees lol I know it's a janky way to get a better sound but I feel it's the best option without dropping 1500 on exhaust and a tuner. The only exhaust that is sold as a slip on for this bike looks like a chrome fart can. My dad would surely punch me in the face if I put a chrome fart can on his blacked out cruiser. Other option is to put a 1000 dollar+ full exhaust on it but then you need a tuner or it runs lean and throws a code... so another 300-500. And everyone who has a full exhaust on this bike says it too loud. So I drilled some holes and bought some high heat paint and sprayed them to prevent rust. And I think it sounds damn good. A little raspy at idle on a cold start but once the idle calms down or you're moving under load it sounds mean.

Finally bought another dirt bike. XR50R... hope I can handle the powaaaa. Actually, it was surprisingly peppy. Coming down the previous owners alley running out 1st, popped it into 2nd... front end came right up... mainly due to the fact that my butt was sitting on the rear fender and there is no clutch so it just pops into 2nd gear. Super clean... all orig, original owner. It's a surprise for my kids this summer. It's currently hidden in the garage.

Nothing is as safe as the 30-30 I learned to hunt with. Half cock=worst safety ever.

Stop leasing. Just messing with you. My gun club was closed.... because a group of libtards... "the friends of the parks" convinced the Milwaukee county exec to refuse to renew our lease because the club was deemed a danger to park goers. A gun club that had existed in Milwaukee county for 97 years and had 0 incidents in 97 years of operation was deemed too dangerous. Now I have to drive 50 minutes or so to another trap/sporting clays club.

Yea but are you really going through hundreds of shotgun rounds when you're shooting slugs? Maybe you are and that's what you like to shoot when you go shooting but I only shoot slugs one weekend before gun deer and then during gun deer when I go on drives. And I'm shooting maybe 10 rounds between practice and hunting. So I'll just buy a couple of boxes of slugs. If I'm going to shoot shotguns for fun it will most likely be bird shot at clay disks. Either trap, skeet or sporting clays.

That's 300 rounds in tournament out of a 12 gauge shotgun. Granted they're 2 3/4 rounds but still 300 rounds out of a 12 gauge takes far more out of me than 300 9mm/.40cal/.223 etc.

Just saying, when I was doing .223 and .40cal I was literally cutting the cost in half compared to purchasing... at the cost of my time sure but the savings was so much greater than when I looked into shotgun. I shot trap at the club every week and most weekends too. 200 rounds or so a week. 300 in a day if it was a tournament weekend.

My uncles reloaded bird shot when they were members of the board of a local trap club. A guy at the club had the setup to make his own number 7 1/2 bird shot so everyone at the club could get lead shot pretty cheap. I never really understood reloading shotgun though. Even when they were getting the shot cheap I want to say it still cost them 4 dollars or so a box(25 rounds). I can go to farm n fleet and buy 100 rounds for 22 dollars or a little over 5 dollars a box. All that time and effort to save a dollar per trap round.

Necked rounds are always more difficult... not to mention the higher pressures in rifle ammo distorts the shells more... mainly in the neck. I reloaded .223 for a while. I just don't have the time to make enough rounds to keep up with how fast those guns can shoot them off. I haven't used my multi stage press in a minute. Been sticking to the single stage for mainly .300 win mag. I find it much more enjoyable to take my time with the single stage on a gun that I only shoot 20-30 times per range visit.

A SBR per federal law is anything under 16 inches and they are illegal to buy without a stamp. I wrote that wrong, you can own a SBR upper, but you can't have it on a lower wit ha stock without the stamp. If your lower has no stock and is considered a pistol then you can have less than 16 inches without the stamp.

Removing constitutional rights because some government agency placed them on a watch list is always a tricky debate. The supreme court has ruled numerous times that enacting ones right is never cause for suspicion. Such as telling an officer they cannot search your car or home without a warrant. Such as owning a firearm or 50 firearms.

Or just someone who like to buy guns. I know a few people with dozens of firearms who to my knowledge haven't shot any place up in the decades that they have owned firearms. They didn't buy them all within a years time either. More like 30 years. But still, there are thousand of US citizens with 50+ firearms. It's part of the reason we only account for 5% of the worlds population but 40-50% of the worlds privately owned firearms.

It was more like 50 guns but yea. So what should they do when they notice someone buying 50 guns in a year? Tell them they can't buy any more?

Isn't that why people want ARs in general?

Getting paid to work slow... sounds like a union job.

On a federal level I could see that but at the state level where both firearm ownership and pot use are legal... how can they go after people who have firearms and smoke? I can see them going after people who use firearms while smoking but just because you have access to 2 legal things is no grounds for punishment. I mean you could just as easily drink and shoot guns... which IMO is far worse... even though I drink and shoot guns.

Jesus KRB... just because you rode head first into a Rolls Royce or whatever it was doesn't mean the rest of us want to confront our own mortality on this first business day of the new year. Save that crap for the 3rd or 4th business day of the year when I remember how much I hate business.

Correct. Dirt bikes can be had for cheap. And for a new rider that's the route you should go. Riding on dirt is nothing like the street. Other than the controls of the bike you're almost starting fresh. And with the ability to push bikes off road due to less rules/laws as well as the unpredictability of surfaces off road you will lay it down. Another thing to consider is the type of bike. MX bikes like CRF, CR, YZs YZF, RMZ etc are high performance machines. Meaning motors are high strung and require work often. Keep this in mind when buying a used dirt bike, either buy a bike with a good maintenance record.. even if the owner did the rebuilds themselves it's good to know how many hours are on the motor. Or buying a bike from someone who just rode around their property and never raced it and therefore has low hours or very stress free hours. Someone who races MX will rebuild their top end(piston and rings) every 20-40 hours depending. Someone who just putts around trails or their property can see motors last hundreds of hours. While enduro/dual sport bikes are lower comp... less rpm and will often last for thousands of miles or hundreds of hours. Like most things motorcycle related. Nothing can beat the Japanese bikes in terms of reliability and cost in dirt bikes. Cost to buy and cost to own. I think for most people switching from street to dirt the hardest part is standing up on the pegs. Most street riding your butt is on that seat unless you're stretching or going over bumps or water etc. Depending on the type of off road riding you're doing when you're at speed you should be standing unless in tighter turns. I would say when I am going at it and not being lazy I'm standing 70-80% of the time during hard riding on groomed trails. Guys who track ride only let their butts touch the seat in tighter turns. Otherwise they are standing 90+% of the time.

Probably a good idea. Haven't seen that thread in a while. Granted it's not riding season for much of the country.