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I got this bike on trade recently and thought it might be of interest to someone here for a wives bike or entry rider. 2004 CB600F (naked bike). Yellow in color - 8k original miles. All stock (well - after market front signals and a hand chopped mud flap out back) and damn near flawless with recent/new-ish rubber. Clean title etc. Asking $2999 at the shop but if someone from here wanted it I'd make a deal in the $2k ish range. Idk why - its just strikes me as too nice for a local squid to stunt it Edit: Pics to follow and located at my store in Idaho Falls ID6 points
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Sold it to a 70 year old guy in Utah with 25 bikes in a 10 car garage lol6 points
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Thanks for posting here. It's great you stop by with good deals.4 points
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Hey, did you notice that Phillip isn't on here talking about how his Blackbird is broke down? 😁3 points
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That totally makes sense. The machine has a plastic spacer thing, but it rests on the bottom so it's probably not very helpful with such a heavy item. I'll try suspending tomorrow and see if it works better. Thanks, I'm surprised I'm still going at it. Today I briefly thought- the smart way would have been to commit and completely disassemble it, but I'm 99.999347% sure it would have become a pile of parts for eternity. Much of the motivation is being able to ride it and show it between stints of working on it.3 points
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Hey, I owned one of those until I let the neighbor who had just chugged half of a fifth of whiskey take it for a ride. Did not end well but he survived.2 points
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I have some split-loom stuff on it now that's supposed to work, I just had it in the garage so on it went when I repaired the wires. We'll see. I have an old showerhead sprayer hose, much like flexible conduit, that looks ripe for the job if that doesn't work. He ate a whole cube of poison last night, so I'm guessing his aspiring replacement is considering measuring for new curtains. Usually a big bull rat like that keeps others scared away for a while and it takes some time for a successor to get curious enough to risk looking around too closely. I'll have to keep a welcome platter prepared for the next candidate. Good call. 1982 CB650SC. It's a friend's "someday" project that I'll probably end up doing for him at some point when I run out of projects of my own. (giggle)2 points
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Sure you do. Use something long and thinner at one end to prise under the to door and raise it up a wee bit. Put a block under the door, reset your prising bar, and repeat until there is room for your hydraulic floor jack. Now you're in business. Raise the door with the jack, block it up, and lift the door again using whatever you can find...4x4 post, two 2x4's secured together, etc. keep lifting until the door is at least halfway up. As more of the door passes the 90 degree corner, less weight will be direct lift and you should be able to push the door up by hand. You did it! Just you and your friends leverage and hydraulics!2 points
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My wife loved it... and I randomly fill out pages and don't tell her so she is surprised each time I do... $30 below... on the Tik Toc shop it was $9 shipped. https://seasonalpicks.gifts/products/what-i-love-about-you-leather-journal2 points
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Like Super said, if you can get the part, take it to any machine shop or even a decent auto repair shop to press the bearings.2 points
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https://www.facebook.com/share/1XTdUzgrFfyHvNjn/?mibextid=79PoIi checked it out over the weekend. Pretty clean. A couple small marks helibars, longer cables, heater grips, 2bros pipes, zero gravity screen, power commander, vortex sprocket, chain and tires new manual and tool kit still in place2 points
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I took the first freeway ride yesterday, it was short and traffic kept me from getting much above 70, but it rode fine. It wanders mildly on rain groves, but not bad.2 points
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My main battery charger was purchased in the 80s and I've never thought it needed replacing.2 points
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There's still plenty more to do, but she's crossed the hurdle between crusty and patina. Being the nut that I am I wanted to try to make no-sling chain lube. I diluted some moly fortified grease with mineral spirits and soaked the chain. I probably rode it a bit too soon and it did sling, but I'll see how it goes after the spirits fully evaporate. The crusty old chain cleaned up pretty well. Lots of hot bubble bathing in a sonic cleaner, another buzz bath in EvapoRust instead of degreaser, then a final degrease and thorough rinsing. After the final rinse I hit it with compressed air then stuck it in the toaster oven at 350 to make sure it was dry all the way through. I let it cool to handling temp then stuck it in the lube bag for a soaking.2 points
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Home made tire balancer. It's a little fiddly, but it works fairly well, it's super compact, and was 'free'. It took time and stuff that I had lying around, but no money was spent on it. 4 small ball bearings, 10-32 screws and nuts, and some angle iron. It's fairly easy to detect 1/4oz., below that it gets dodgy. Being that 1/4 is as precise as balancing usually gets, and I don't plan to do any 200MPH rides on this sub-100 MPH bike, I decided that it's good enough. Interestingly, the rear had no weights and is only 1/4oz off with the new tire. The front had a 3/4 oz weight about 2" away from where it now needs between 1/2 and 3/4. I had marked the heavy spot of both wheels without the tires, but the shop cleaned off my marks.2 points
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I get that with some vehicles that may not be 'special', but are too nice to not want them to go to a buddy.2 points
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I have a pair, but they clash with my KTM jersey. I find them useful for shoveling snow, but they're best worn with the chaps. Maybe your supplier has a matching jersey? Ask to see their Judas Priest collection.2 points
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I think it was about 7 degrees that day. No heat/insulation in garage. New tires and old were inside over the baseboard heat. Decided to cart the stuff inside to do it. NEVER could have done it with cold tires.2 points
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Doesn't Joe have a new fancy garage to do all things motorcycle related? No heat in there yet? Or maybe wanted the rubber warmer for ease of installation? Likes to cook while swapping rubber?2 points
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That's always the question, I'm freezing, do I slow down to get less wind chill or bite the bullet and speed up to get there quicker?1 point
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A nice occasional treat that's not shitty is a real bagel made in NYC, outlying areas of NYC or possibly north-eastern areas of NJ. Everything else is a shitty bagel or in this case a "bagel shaped bread product". I'm all for people seeking "healthy" ingredients but stop appropriating the original delicious product and pretending it's made better.1 point
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I didn't think you had that many miles on it. Did the manual recommend it at your mileage? A couple of years ago I pulled the shaft out of my 1994 (that I bought new) to grease the driveshaft. After pulling it did it need it, NO. Total waste of effort. Made me LOL! A new word.1 point
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I have four Battery Tenders ranging from over 30 years old to a year old that get used from Nov to April. Never had a problem with any of them. Zero, years ago I remember you saying that you didn't use them because you didn't like using "vampire" electronics or something like that. Have things changed?1 point
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LOL, right? My jets are 150 and 17.5 with the idle screw 3.5 out. One guy fighting starting issues has 140 and 30 at 1 turn out, as delivered. WTF bike is that for? XRs only did ship mine with the pump adjusted to the absolute minimum level, but it ran. They say the bike is perky enough to not need the "common" setting of 1/8" clearance to the pump rod. They shipped it with like half an inch or whatever is maximum. About half the throttle stroke with no pump. Maybe I should go back and try it their way. This is a clear win for advanced FI or electric bikes. It would be nice to push a button on the bars and have a different acceleration curve. I've gotten pretty spoiled by that. Dunno, it's the high side versus low side I think about. Remember my post about CR500 airlines? Oh yeah, it's amazing that so far this bike is less friendly than the CR500. I agree with your overview of the changes with throttle. Towards the end of my ride time I was trying throttle hits with mild roosting, and the bike seems to prefer it over having actual traction. And you think you're lugging it, and the fucker just spins the tire no matter what. Below idle in second gear? Max torque, here you go, good luck.1 point
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The beads were super easy to break, they damn near broke on their own. Probably because they're tube type wheels so they don't 'need' the bead retaining bump that most tubeless wheels have. Zipties were a fail. The recess in these wheels barely accommodates one bead, both together is an absolute no go so I cut the ties off and went traditional. Holy fuck that was a battle. Even when there was only about a foot of tire bead under the wheel I still had to use tools to keep prying to get it the rest of the way off, insane. I got the front tire off and pondered how much worse the rear would probably be, at that point I said fuck it and took them to a shop, but the guy was out. After waiting for over 1/2 hour I went back home and figured I'd just work on de-rusting the rear wheel. It would be easiest to work on it mounted to the forks, but it would't fit with the tire on so I decided to have a go at removing it, way worse than the front. I was finally able to get one spoonful of bead pried over the wheel, no way to get another in. I held it and used a die grinder to cut through the tire bead, then it was only a 'normal' battle of stretching it over the wheel. The rear rim was super rusty, some of the chrome is gone, but it cleaned up reasonably well. I didn't take photos of the wheel, but here's the rear brake lever. I had already done the ends when I thought to take the before photo. If I decide to make it better I'll dab some chrome paint on the bare spots to hide them better, but it's vastly improved. It took about 5 minutes, most of the work was done with a fine wire wheel on the bench grinder. I wish I'd tried wire wheels sooner, it does a great job and does't scratch up the chrome as long as it's fine wire. I used two different ones on the rear rim being driven by a cordless drill and die grinder. I had a small one that was able to fit between the spokes fairly well. I took a quick stab at mounting the front tire, fuck that, they're both going to a shop with a machine.1 point
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I have one of those. Would be a lot handier with an aluminum tank. They work better on car tires than bike tires. I never got the concept behind the zip ties. But I've had enough trouble getting beads to seat that I have multiple strategies.1 point
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I've told you that on many occasions. When tire people at the track see me coming with R1 rear rim in one hand, and Dunlop slick in other hand they start to cry. Worst possible combination ever. The tire is incredibly stiff. And they have nice machine. Fun starts immediately. First -" this fucking guy again", and then very colorful combination of very nice vocabulary related to removing old tire and installing new one. Tire change goes for 20 bucks. They told me they would pay me 20 bucks if I never show up with that fucking rim again. 😂1 point
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Somehow, by the end of this thread, this will all be resolved if everyone buys an EV. 🤣1 point