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110. Before I forget. Sounds OK on the center stand. You know, I ride so much with my Sena on, it may be nothing. I had chain issues on my trip to Manic 5 and it cost me a day. Maybe I am just being paranoid. The few times I ride aural naturale open my eyes to all sorts of ghosts.

Neither sprocket is new. The rear wheel was from another bird. Maybe my original, not sure. The drive sprocket was stolen off my original. May have 30,000 miles or so on it. I will find out more in about 2-3 beers. I would appreciate that. Just turned 108K yesterday. New sprocket gave me 39 MPG. Damned thing makes the bike feel like it has a 7th gear. I have missed it greatly.

Try JB Weld muffler tape or something like it. I remember using on something like that.

I changed out my drive sprocket and the whole rear wheel, including driven sprocket last week and now have a noisy chain. I am going to readjust wheel today to try to get rid of it. Both sprockets look fine. Mike, any idea of when you put the last chain on? Anyway, I am going to by a spare this week to install or bring with me. DID 530VX3. What I have forgotten is how many links. If I had to guess I would say 107. I just don’t want to have to shorten it while on the roas. 18T front, and I assume 45T rear.

There’s a guy here in Knoxville that does that sort of stuff, I recall. He is a racetrack gypsy-type guy that is well respected. I used him to rebuild my forks years ago. I know (about) where he lives. Vern may know more. Reach out to him, I will look for some more info on him. I have a spare shock for the rebuild if you decide to do it. I could take yours as a core. If it ever happens, of course.

I will install LED’s the day my HID’s have any issues/failures. After 70+K miles it can’t be that far off. Until then, there is a reason for mine to exist, at least.

That is a real issue. LED’s would probably solve it, I don’t know. But I have HID’s on both mine and it absolutely, positively, fixed that. That would be the one mod that increases safety more than anything else.

OK, this is what I have. If you are not proud, I have a set of SW Moto racks (for side bags and top case) and a set of Givi hard cases. This is a frankenmix from 2 different bikes. I have thousands of miles on the racks, the cases came with my latest bird. I already had Givis, so don’t need the cases. They have maybe 60 K on them (How about it, Zero, do you know?) I can take pictures next week sometime, but they have been in the barn for maybe 2 years and are dusty. You could ride up here, we could install, and you could fide home with them. I will even include a night in Gatlinburg at your expense. I don’t know what they are worth, but will sell them for less than that. I will be honest, though. The racks are rock solid but in my opinion they look like shit on the bike with no cases. And I call them SW Moto, they may be something else. I bought them from Cameoto in Deetroit a long time ago.

I am heading out in 2 weeks for a good 5K mile tour on a 99 with 107K on in. Have another one in the barn with 78 K. No valve adjustments ever. Do not fear the high mileage bird if it is in reasonably good shape.

HEY! I just pulled a rear wheel out of my barn that has a 2009 tire on it, so it can happen. Guess I need to get a new one, but tread looks good. BTW, hope he does still have it. Bet the price has dropped again.

Nope. They are all disposable, and in their penultimate state. Well, more probably antepenultimate. Those on the floor are the penultimate.

This may turn into an oil thread. The masks, excepting N95’s, according to many in the field, are designed to protect OTHERS, not the wearer. I have been wearing masks as part of my PPE for decades, and have skin in the game. If he wants protection for him, true N95’s, worn with great discipline is what he needs. Fashion be damned. I wear masks to maintain the sterility of the products I make, not protect me from the products. We have a handful of respirators available to protect us from the rare volatilization of certain radioactive products in an emergency. They, like N95’s, are designed to protect the user. If he is wearing for common sense/organizational fiat, best bet is to buy a box or two of disposable paper masks with elastic bands and keep a handful of them in different places. They can be reused with diminishing effectiveness until the Skoal stains become unbearable. Can almost guarantee you a man of your son’s size will be constantly chaffed by the inflexible ear straps on most of the cloth fashion masks.

Man, you don’t want my bike. I have put 10,000 more miles on it, and finally took the front plastics off to fix a headlight. Not only did I not fix the headlight, I had a handful, of fasteners left over when I finished. Goddamn I hate taking that shit off. Well, putting it back on, really. Taking them off is easy.

How did you lower your bike? I am interested.

Holy fuck. I was thinking about you 2 days ago. Man, I miss you.

You mean like beer and smokes? Cool!

Yeah, but he sounds like our kind of guy.

Get him to post up and let us watch his progress so we can live vicariously through him.

https://www.denniskirk.com/stop-and-go/pocket-tire-plugger-for-tubeless-tires-1000.p282206.prd/282206.sku

Remember that nail you picked up on the twisted sisters? What happened there? I forget..... Anyway, N. Dread, there is a plug tool set, John01XX may sell them, I forget what they are called, but they are fucking amazing. I rode something like 1500 miles on one out west once. I keep one on my bike and one in my MINI.

Will you be commuting on the bike? Patch and ride. Serious miles touring or aggressive stuff! Replace. You will be thinking about that patch every 10 seconds if you are hundreds of miles from home or are raising hell in curves. I have ridden about as much as anybody on a plugged rear tire, and it was on my mind constantly. I have ridden down a blow out on a rear tire, but am pretty sure I would not have been so lucky with a front blowout. But then again, I saw a guy burst front and rear simultaneously and did not drop the bike. Of course it was a BMW.

You should rethink your position. I have a ‘99 with 84k and bought Zero’s with what? 97-98K on it? Promptly put new tires on it, have ridden maybe 8,000 miles with 0 (zero) shit done to it. That is AFTER all the dumb shit he did to it. (Sorry, Mike. Prove me wrong) I am about the most worthless mechanic on this board and can’t fix shit the first time around. The bird is bullet-proof.

You are a dick, you know that, right?