Washington's 2024 BS Thread
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From: Fraziers Bottom, WV
Happy Hump Day Washington and Bikers everywhere. I miss my 73 Triumph 750 Tiger the most. It would street very nice, and it did good on backroads and trails!
Beautiful day in WV at 77°, 70%rh and dropping, heavy cool breeze and partly cloudy. Yesterday there were no forecasts for rain but we have had a few needed sprinkles and maybe even a rain about 1400est!
Not much has been done by me today except sit around and be useless!
Beautiful day in WV at 77°, 70%rh and dropping, heavy cool breeze and partly cloudy. Yesterday there were no forecasts for rain but we have had a few needed sprinkles and maybe even a rain about 1400est!
Not much has been done by me today except sit around and be useless!
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From: North Central Washington
Good afternoon crew!
If my wife would be into it I would love to have one of the newer 1200 Tiger's. There are quite a few really nice adventure bikes out there these days. We see a lot of them come through town here, we are right on the Washington Back Country Discovery Route.
A couple weeks ago I helped a couple guys that had a bike problem, I seen them under a shade tree with the tank off and parts scattered all over the place. After they got it back together it still wouldn't run good, I invited them up to my place where they had shade and a shop full of tools. It very well could have been a bad spark plug but they cleaned the carburetor three time and then finely replaced the plug on the third go around on the carburetor and it ran fine.
If my wife would be into it I would love to have one of the newer 1200 Tiger's. There are quite a few really nice adventure bikes out there these days. We see a lot of them come through town here, we are right on the Washington Back Country Discovery Route.
A couple weeks ago I helped a couple guys that had a bike problem, I seen them under a shade tree with the tank off and parts scattered all over the place. After they got it back together it still wouldn't run good, I invited them up to my place where they had shade and a shop full of tools. It very well could have been a bad spark plug but they cleaned the carburetor three time and then finely replaced the plug on the third go around on the carburetor and it ran fine.
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Evening Tim and all. Those little carbs can be finicky! I bought a bike from a guy years ago and could not get it to run right and later found out that he had taken the carb apart and lost the needle and instead of getting another, he took a needle from something else and tried to grind it down to fit! Needless to say it didn't work. He was a fun guy to hang out with, so it made for a good story from time to time!
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From: North Central Washington
The first time the guys put the carb back together they had the needle on the wrong side of the keeper, it would barley run, that is when they brought to my house.
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From: Anacortes
Evening folks.
Carbs are the devils work no matter what they are on.I'm not mad about having a fuel injected, liquid cooled v-twin bike...at all.
My wife has a new 2024 Triumph street triple cause she likes to go fast.
Carbs are the devils work no matter what they are on.I'm not mad about having a fuel injected, liquid cooled v-twin bike...at all.
My wife has a new 2024 Triumph street triple cause she likes to go fast.
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From: Fraziers Bottom, WV
ThongTastic Thursday Washington, Tim, Ken, Steve and all the biker crew. After such a beautiful day yesterday, I will be getting some of your heat.
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From: North Central Washington
It's going to be another HOT and dry day in my neck of the woods. The smoke blew in yesterday evening and we had to keep the house shut up for the night. It's not to bad now so we have it opened up for a bit until it starts to get hot again.
Going FAST is my downfall, I love to go fast. I used to race dirt bikes, motocross, cross country, dessert race and loved it. I never raced road bikes, but probably would have been safer. The problem is when you fall at high speeds you get hurt worse. Although one of the worst brakes I have ever had was on a dirt bike and according to my GPS I was only going 13 MPH and never fell off the bike. Long story short I made a jab for the ground and the next thing I know I had a spiral facture of the tibia. The worst wrack I was in was with my 83' Honda Interceptor, the back end busted loose and I went through some big rocks and into a river, my riding buddy had to jump in and save me. It wasn't a good day!
By the way, I never got hurt while racing.
Going FAST is my downfall, I love to go fast. I used to race dirt bikes, motocross, cross country, dessert race and loved it. I never raced road bikes, but probably would have been safer. The problem is when you fall at high speeds you get hurt worse. Although one of the worst brakes I have ever had was on a dirt bike and according to my GPS I was only going 13 MPH and never fell off the bike. Long story short I made a jab for the ground and the next thing I know I had a spiral facture of the tibia. The worst wrack I was in was with my 83' Honda Interceptor, the back end busted loose and I went through some big rocks and into a river, my riding buddy had to jump in and save me. It wasn't a good day!
By the way, I never got hurt while racing.
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From: South of Redmond, WA
Well my sleep schedule has flopped again to sleeping during the day and awake at night when it's cooler.
Today I took a load of random chemicals, fertilizers, solvents, antifreeze, used oil and 20 gallons of old diesel to the county hazardous waste dump. When I got back home I refilled all my diesel cans with more old diesel to take another load to the dump tomorrow.
Then went up to the house to cool down in the a/c!
Today I took a load of random chemicals, fertilizers, solvents, antifreeze, used oil and 20 gallons of old diesel to the county hazardous waste dump. When I got back home I refilled all my diesel cans with more old diesel to take another load to the dump tomorrow.
Then went up to the house to cool down in the a/c!
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My brother broke his collar bone racing his dirtbike at the track the other day.😐
I crashed my dirtbike plenty of times in my youth, never hurt too bad. Crashed my 84 nighthawk maybe going about 20mph, concussion with helmet and roadrash.
Dad crashed his jixxer TWO times doing probably close to 200, both accounts cost him around 9 months in traction.
I crashed my dirtbike plenty of times in my youth, never hurt too bad. Crashed my 84 nighthawk maybe going about 20mph, concussion with helmet and roadrash.
Dad crashed his jixxer TWO times doing probably close to 200, both accounts cost him around 9 months in traction.