“Three-door” and “five-door” are accepted industry terms to describe their respective vehicles and we’d be silly to pretend otherwise. Those phrases are adjectives. However, as people rightly point out, a door (noun) in this context is something primarily for human access to the passenger cabin. So, the most Jalop…

One thing I like about NV is the challenge of breaking the path. You can start the game, head E to Sloan, N past Neil’s Shack, sneak past the mutants, go N past Repconn and get up to Gun Runner’s Arsenal before doing anything else if you want. From there, you can go just about anywhere. For some reason, I get great…

Usually if my car has both rear wheels up for any reason, I go do #2. If I’m just getting an oil change, I’ll usually just do #1.

If you’re buying a motorcycle on the cheap, off of CL, I recommend that you make your bare minimum standard be the ability to drive it home. If anything varies from the specific fact of you yourself being able to drive it from the seller’s location to your home, then it is not worth buying.

That is a very interesting insight. I never thought about it that way, but yeah. You’re kind of locked into OEM parts when they all have such ridiculous shapes. I’ve actually thought that I’d like a cbr1000r if I could swap the headlight for an old-style round one.

Bridgewater, Mass. Also, if you search them on Boston CL, you generally see a few discounted ones being sold by dealers. To be clear, the cheap ones are always the 2013 5-speed models.

2015 Yamaha xjr1300

Oh yeah, the sv650 is cool. I think they made a larger one, too. So, contemporary FI UJMs with circular headlights: cb1100, sv650, naked Bandit, that little suzuki maybe, the cb900f “hornet” and its 599 sibling, ... what else?

yeah, place near me has 2013 cb1100s on the lot marked at about 8k. I bet they’d take about 7k cash. The more I ride, the more weight becomes important to me. So at 410 lbs, this Yamaha is going to tough to beat for an otherwise full-size, all-purpose bike.

Agreed. Closest Japanese standards now might include the Bandit, the cbr1000r, and the cb1100. The cbr looks like ass, angular alien ass, with a dick-nose monkey headlight. The cb1100 is priced for people with yachts. I don’t know if they still make a naked Bandit, but I had the half-faired 1250 one and it was an…

That’s a great looking bike. It can fill the hole left when Honda stopped selling ‘02-’-09 cb900f “hornet” in the states. We need a modern, fuel-injected UJM with a circular headlight that is not priced like the cb1100. This looks like it. I’m sick of headlights that look like monkeys with dick-noses.

Always, no matter what: helmet, gloves with thick teflon palm sliders, leather jacket, blue jeans, boots with no laces.

I own and ride a variety of Japanese motorcycles that were manufactured over a span of 35 years. I buy 10 mm crescent wrenches in bulk.

“Factory extras”—that’s great, that’s a keeper. Now I have a way to explain certain parts I have after do a project.

Seconded. I have a very large number of empty plastic peanut butter jars in my basement. If I take something apart, each discrete set of bolts, gaskets, springs, etc., gets a unique jar with the lid screwed on. Also, screw the lid on even while you remove the third carb bowl screw and then the forth, because if they…

Not stoping to think about the logic of what is going to happen next. If the motorcycle oil pan drain plug points sideways, and the engine is full of oil, and if you put the catch pan directly beneath the drain plug and remove the plug, then the oil—under pressure from all of the oil in the engine—will stream sideways…

Well, you’ve probably created a bailment. Can you have a conversion by a bailee? You were careful to specific “undamaged”, so there’s no scorched tires, etc. What are you to be compensated for? Okay, so the question’s a little naive. Sure, maybe you’ll get nothing from the judge, but if “you catch” the mechanic doing…

2007 Honda vfr800 & a 2007 Honda cb900f aka the 919

Regarding joyriding, “if you catch the mechanic doing this and your car is undamaged...” then the only compensation reasonable due is depreciation for the miles of the joyride, less a reasonable amount of miles that a reasonable mechanic may drive a car after a similar repair to establish that the repair was a…

Most maddening question to s2000 owners, “Is that a Miata?”