Recent content by Crash Cash

I just want to give props to the service manager at Orlando Yamaha/Kawasaki for going the extra (twenty) miles and tracking down those unobtainium fork tools (YM-01447 damper rod holder & YM-01508 bushing installer AKA the "slide metal installer") Yamaha blew off the parts guy twice, so Chris...

Hahahaha! Real nice. Well, I guess there's nothing to add to that. Stands by itself, it does.

While the reply was kinda out of line, the same sort of "testing" put my Camaro into a concrete barrier when the ABS/power brakes failed. I'd be worried myself about a "go fly it" sort of test, if I wasn't trusting my brakes. I wouldn't want to end up flat on my face if my front wheel locked up.

My '07 does this, but mostly when I'm coming off the freeway as I am *releasing* the brakes from fairly hard to fairly gentle. I feel the same servo-buzz in the front lever that you feel when testing the ABS, or when it's firing for real. I don't seem to feel any change in my braking speed over...

Take it apart, of course! See what's inside and how it works. Yep, you can get a new ABS block from Ron Ayers for about $1,200 clams, no hoses or proportioning valves though. It's the most expensive single part on the bike, as far as I can tell. This one's a bit cheaper at only $40 from a...

I'm tearing one of them apart, and there's ICs on the controller circuit board stamped "ADVICS" so I Binged it and found: https://www.advics.co.jp/eng/product/com/breake_system.html That ABS modulator would be our guy, it's identical to the one I'm holding in my hand. The 2008 and earlier is a...

Meh. I hate cats because in my experience, they're psychotic little assholes that make Hitler look like Gandi. I also hate owners that let their animals roam free to get killed. That's animal abuse in my opinion. For example, one of my neighbors had a large terrier thing that he used to let...

Just for the halibut I had to go to Ron Ayers' to see what that little mechanical marvel costs: $480... painful but not as bad as the ABS unit: $1,100 (oi! me arse!)

Don't get that POS. I got one, and ended up having to jack up the FJR and bang it off with a rubber mallet. The front tire "sank" really deep into it. I have a plain jane Michelin PR2, so I can't see why it happened. It seems to work ok on my SV-650 but it's REALLY hard to get the bike into it...

I trashed that POS and got a "Go Cruise" which is a much simpler clip type device that rests against the brake lever. That's about the only throttle lock that's worked for me in 10 years, including things like the Throttle Rocker.

I'm sure just about everyone here will sympathize: https://www.ocala.com/article/20120716/ARTICLES/120719791?p=all&tc=pgall This is the town I grew up in.

Being in Orlando (lightning capital of the world) I've seen enough damage it scares me too. I've had lightning hit the attic of the house 3 buildings away from mine. A friend had a strike so near his 1100 Sabre that one of the dual electronic ignition boxes fried. Once I rode over to Staples to...

No, unfortunately, I didn't do the bus, I wasn't thinking straight, I guess. I notice the USAF museum has a lot more stuff than they show in their website pics. It was pretty much "if it's been dropped or shot from a USAF plane... it's there" and it was amazing how much they packed in the...

Not only that but every single motel is full for the weekend and a couple days before, and I had to stay in a different place every day. I decided to skip the show after getting quite lost. I did get to see the USAF Armaments Museum and the National Naval Aviation Museum, which means I finally...

I'm replacing my rear tire, and I just rediscovered that this is the one I patched. This is the only tire I've ever patched, so it was a bit of an experiment. You have to sand the hell out of the inside and get rid of all the honeycomb texture or the patch'll leak. I didn't know that, so I had...