7 Most ANNOYING Things Only Riders Understand
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I keep all my 10mm sockets in the single sock who’s partner was lost in the drier…. The sock’s proven survival instincts cancel out the tendency of the sockets to become lost.
LOFL. Rambo the sock.
Also a handy dandy self defense sock
Bro, get multiple pairs of the same socks. If you lose one sock then you've got a strangler, but if you lose 2 you're still golden!
Outstanding!
Top Tip!
I'm surprised "trying to thumb the turn signals and hitting the horn" isn't on the list.
HONDA WHY MUST YOU SWITCH THE TWO AROUND.
@@keiros1That's what I immediately thought, before clicking to open and see your reply.
💯 this.
OH the joy of older BMW with signal switch on each side of the bars and only one off switch on one side and horn on the same place on the other. Well they have mostly autocancel function but too long for tight turns in the city:D and loud horn is also plus.
Or Forgetting to turn the signals off, and driving around blinking like the moron I am...
You know what really grinds MY gears?
My shifting
Ba-dum, tiss!
Putting on the gloves before retrieving the ignition key from your pocket is hell annoying. Forgetting to reset the trip metre after you fill up is annoying. Throwing on your dry riding gear inside the house only to walk out of the front door to find that it is lightly raining is really damn annoying. Forgetting to remove your eye glasses before removing your helmet is annoying and painful. Stalling your bike after your battery just barely started it the first time is "I guess I will ride it tomorrow"annoying.
And putting your glasses on the vibrating seat of your warming up bike so you can put on your helmet only for said glasses to vibrate off the seat. But it's all good, 'cause your boot will find said glasses.
@@elevationmoto6208 Or your friend will walk over to help you find your glasses and step on them. Ask me how I know.
Nailed it for me😂😢😂
I don't have glasses but did that same "falling off the vibrating seat" with.. my helmet. Re did the scene with the swearing Merovingian in Matrix Reloaded on the spot.
Battery terminals: just double up the nuts. Use the ones from the old battery.
Bug splatter on helmets:
Windex soaked shop towel, in a zip-lock bag. Keep it in your tankbag.
Great Tips!!!
Simply put a small piece of vacuum tubing behind the nut in the battery terminal nut recess. That will hold the nut in place.
In my younger days I had a very short attention span and got angry quick so I HATED working on my bikes. I always managed to lose tiny parts, get oil everywhere, get stuck doing the simplest stuff, etc. These days I am much better at staying calm, understanding manuals, and taking my time and this actually saves me a ton of time.
All of these. Every one. Right from the start, as soon as you mentioned battery I *knew* it would be from those fucking square nuts that always tip at a slight angle or get pushed down a bit to far or whatever else. I actually have a spare battery because I'm a moron who leaves his keys in his bike and it turned on regularly, so I've had to swap and fix batteries a lot. I'm so, so familiar with that. There's a solution!
Take the battery out of the bike. Unthread the bolt until it's flush with the bottom of the nut. Hold the bolt with the nut pulled tight against the battery terminal, and squirt some hot glue/etc/silicone/rolled up electrical tape/anything underneath the nut. This way it can't move, and is always right easy to thread in to.
Hot glue is my favourite for this, it lasts longest and is easy to remove with a bit of heat should you ever need to.
Never struggle to thread those bolts into the terminal again.
good tip
I’m on my 22nd bike, 30+ years of riding.
I have given in and purchased a Goldwing and accepted my position in life as uncle hi-viz.
I have also spent probably 30 minutes of my life over the past year panicking when my Goldwing wouldn’t start because the Killswitch is a fucking dial like device and if you bump it one way or another the bike doesn’t start. It is the only bike I have ever accidentally hit the Killswitch on because all the others are massive red rocker buttons. I just have never accidentally depressed and not realized it.
But that Goldwing has sent me into a panic multiple times.
I was at a dealer recently that had a couple of mid 2000's Goldwings and I wanted one simply cause they had like 100 toggle switches over every flat space everywhere. It reminded me of a helicopter cockpit.
See, I do hi viz because my last half decade of work has been CDL, and too many places require hi viz.
Simple tip for the battery terminals I've used on every bike I own that has a battery (all six of 'em):
Take the vent tube that comes with your new battery, or a comparable vinyl hose. Clip a short length off it, maybe 3/4", or however wide your terminal is. Now, take the nuts of the battery, slide them into the terminal, and stuff the bits up tube underneath.
When the bolts are out, the tubing holds the nuts nice and tight to the top of the battery terminal. When you put them in, the bolt squishes them down, ready to pop back up when the bolt comes back out again.
Simple, cheap, easy, and works like a charm.
doing 70 wearing an open faced helmet hit a swallow, bloody nose chipped a tooth, full face since....(i was 12-13 when it happened)
A swallow, I wish the one that I hit was that small.
Try a Woods Robin. big sucker too.
Its 40 yrs later I still have neck pain.
A buddy of mine hit a pheasant, knocked him off his bike.
He road home so not too bad.
Lol. Having a damn wasp get up the sleeve of my riding jacket on a highway at about 110 km/hr. Felt like a hot coal burning my arm every couple inches until I squashed the bastard. Left some marks. Did have a grasshopper hit my face one time while wearing an open face--not in the same league as a sparrow! Condolences.
Unscrewing two tiny screws that hold on a bit of air cleaner trim. One drops and doesn’t hit the floor. It’s somewhere in the frame. I spent 15 minutes blowing the area with compressed air hoping I could force it out, but no luck.
I wrote it off as lost. About a week later I returned from a ride. I pulled in the garage and put the kick stand down. Darned if that little sucker didn’t fall out and land on the floor as I was looking down.
And yea, I’ve had the battery terminals not reaching the nuts in the terminal.
If I forget the kickstand, I take a second to make sure I have the mental capacity to ride that day 😂😂😂
Kickstand? MY Bike rides just fine with it down. Are there bikes it won't run if down?
@@ravenlorans only new ones. (80's bikes were more fun!)
A small piece of rubber fuel or vacuum hose slipped under the battery nut before you put the battery in the box makes it a piece of cake.
I have to remove one of the two mufflers on my '09 Vulcan every time I have to do a chain adjustment. The right side one covers the castle axle nut so you can't get a torque wrench on it to tighten it to spec. *why*
After purchasing my 1st bike I disconnected the kickstand switch because I didn't want to deal with the hassle of it dying everytime I forget to lift the stand. Now I just deal with the inevitable scrape of the kickstand on the 1st left turn.
Hold old is a bike that doesn't die when you try to ride off with the stand down? 😅
@@SmittyAZ 81 Honda CB 750 Custom... It runs just fine with it down.
true heroism!
I get around the battery terminal issue by buying batteries with threaded terminals. Removes the need for the nut entirely. Also, wiping up splashed fuel with paper towel can scratch your paint if there's any dirt on it. Replace your fuel cap, and rinse it away with water if you want prevent scratching your paint.
For me, I work on my bike outside, so one annoying thing is when I have an entire project to get on with, but the weather either sucks, or it starts sucking, and I need to rush to finish it.
I use Blu Tack under the battery nuts. Also, it's not just the 10mm socket for me, it's also the 5 & 6mm hex bits.
Glad to hear the bug splatter issue is not just me. A huge bug, dead center and in the first few miles. Every freaking time!!!
cleaning chain lube off the rear wheel was a pain till I tried $3 lemon furniture polish from the dollar store. Crap just wipes right off and the furniture polish helps resist dust as well. Same furniture polish works as a spray and shine for the bike as well as the helmet and wind screens. For the battery spin the little bolt with a mechanics magnet and it will draw the little nut right up to the bolt and thread on.
The heat shrink one is why when someone asks me if I'm a mechanic, I tell them no. If I were to splice a wire, there's a 50/50 of forgetting that heat shrink. 😅
On the subject of sockets, I have two pieces of 8/32 threaded rod with wing nuts in my tool roll. One holds deep and shallow 8mm and 10mm (KLR) and the holds shallow everything else, all metric and 1/4” drive.
I got the "piece of vinyl tubing under the battery nut" trick from Ari years ago. But it's also not a problem putting a new battery in my current main ride, a CX500 with the battery on the side :)
About 6 months before I started riding I watched another biker give himself a traumatic brain injury by not doing up the chinstrap on his helmet between that and a fear instilling story my grandmother told me repeatedly (first time age 5) I have not once forgotten to do up my helmet. On the other hand I have lost no fewer than 3 bolts of varying importance because I forgot to check their tightness before setting off.
Solution to Thing 1:
Kick start.
My buddy's 2022 Harley had a dead battery a few months ago, and I reminded him *that* was *exactly* why I don't want a newer, EFI bike.
Then he bought a 2017 too, and its battery went flat after about a week.
Kick start. My XS650 doesn't give a darn how many volts or amps are in the battery, it fires on the first kick every single time above freezing, and the third kick below. Every. Single. Time.
Brilliant!! You forgot one though.
It's winter, you've got a ton of gear on, you start riding and realise you forgot to put your ear plugs in!! That really is annoying. Or while working on your VTR you drop an airbox screw, it's falls into the v off the engine. There's literally no way to retrieve it without removing the airbox, carbs and maybe the expansion bottle for the cooling system.
Regarding battery terminals, tear off a small piece of sponge and stuff it under the nut and it will hold it up to catch the thread and stop it from falling out.
I also carry a tiny bottle of eye drops and several sheets of kitchen roll.
I also keep my bike keys on a brake disc curly lead attached to my wallet so i don't misplace them.
I use those yellow paint brushes that you get in a crayola watercolor set, I just jam it under them pull it out when I have it screwed in
@eamon317 You can leave the sponge in permanently, so you never need to find a brush.
Yeah I'm with this
Just hold the nut in place with a screwdriver.
I’ve always used a magnet to keep the nut just that little bit elevated. This sponge method sounds a lot smarter.
I have found a previously lost 10mm socket while searching for the one I just lost. The key is have like 6 10mm sockets on hand at all time. It's weird that I never loose a 10mm wrench, just the sockets.
4:16 bro, use solder filled heat shrink tubing. Cheap and easy, no water can get in 👍
Those connections are good, but a proper solder connection you can do with a soldering iron and waterproof heat shrink tubing is better. Honestly though, they will both last long enough
This video is gold! Thanks Spite! As an outdoor power equipment technician, there is one thing I was always bad for... neglectfully leaving a specialty dealer-only tool on a machine when sending it out the door back to the customer. FRICK!
As far as that gas spray goes, try thinking of the gas nozzle as a front brake lever, your leaning into a corner and ya need to trail off the brake! Works for me and I've never spilled a drop.
I'm an old guy but a new rider who's wrenched on several cars. The 10mm is universal. Even on cars. Same damn problem! Those nuts in the battery was a new one on me. Put a dab of grease on it, set it down, used the screw driver to line it up, and the grease holds it in place. The other thing that's hit that's different is they use Loctite on everything! Quickly learned if you don't want to bugger up those "phillips" screws trying to remove them then you'd better get a set of JIS screwdrivers. That was a new one on me!
Yes, most of these, haha. My favorite is dropping a screw/bolt/nut on the garage floor, and taking 15 minutes to find it.
Damn it He's right about the battery! I could barely call myself a motorcycle rider because I used to race dirt bikes when I was young and just recently own a 250 scooter. But when I went to swap out that battery, the boat fell through a hole in the battery tray into the front end of the scooter. I had to take apart half of the plastics just the magically find the boat sitting on the ground that I already searched like five times. It must have silently fell while I was disassembling the plastic
I've not lost a bolt on my bike yet, but when I swapped out the coolant reservoir on my miata I totally went through all the stages when I dropped a nut, including acceptance, and to this day "stop by the mazda dealership to get a replacement" is still on my todo list, lol.
RE missing sockets, I bought a full set of magnetic socket organizers and put them in my tool chest. I don't walk away from a project until all the sockets are back in there and it's easy to see. Before that yeah I lost a LOT of sockets.
Oddly enough though while bicycling - passing a lot of subdivisions where contractors lived - I found a lot of tools by the side of the road and a disproportionate number of them were 10mm sockets.
when i was practicing when I first started riding i had the kickstand issue... ive also done it in parking lots. it's extra embarrassing when people are around to see it lol.
ive definitely dropped the battery terminal bolts and captive nuts.
i once found a screw i dropped in the bike 200 miles later..
oh yeah. if you wash your visor, it's pretty much guaranteed you're going to get a bug within the first few minutes of your next ride.
you get the post-filup drip too? lol 😊
I have an FZ25 Yamaha, made in India. L&R turn signals have one common LED idiot light on the dash that you do not see in sunlight. So you can ride for miles with a flasher on. Two 12v piezo buzzers from the electronics did the trick. One wired to each front flasher, and hidden a cover on the headlight is loud enough for you to hear with a full face helmet on !
......by the way. This 2021 FZ25 does not have any inhibitor switch on the kickstand. Nada !!!!
Trinidad & Tobago.
West Indies.
I put a convenient bit of cotton cord under the battery nuts. Not that i didn't sit there and stew for a while the first time i changed one
😂😂😂😂😂 yep!!! I feel that frustration and pain!! You’re not alone!!
#1 - put a bit of folded cardstock under the nut. This will hold it up against the terminal so the screw has no trouble engaging the threads. Also, as the cardstock is soft, it will compress and not keep the screw from tightening properly.
Vintage lens running commentary...
Battery: vintage makes it simple.
Seat: vintage makes it simple.
Soldering: ouch! Fun to blame the previous owner
Lost fastener: ive been lucky
Busted fastner: welcome to vintage.
10mm socket: my tools are 5S organized. Non issue (smug)
Kickstand: nah, it's you, sir
Helmet: nope, I'm always last to roll off. D ring, baby!
Gas spray: chemist, maybe I should tend bar.... Neat freak.
Bugs: bingo!
Thanks, Spite!
Love this video! I’ve experienced all 7 (plus several more)…very frustrating.
That damn kickstand gets me at least twice a week.
I'm super paranoid about splashing gasoline though, so that STILL hasn't happened to me yet. Mainly because I hate huffing gas all day so... Super careful.
Oh what gets me almost every ride though is about to kick it into 1st and after fighting with the heated gloves, getting the cameras synced, and getting the helmet fastened - realizing I forgot to put my damn ear plugs in... I'm old and have had a lot of explosions and gunfire close to the head so I can't afford to NOT wear plugs😂
Yep, had most of them happen in my life.
Another to add to the list. Filling up with petrol, trying to start the bike and it's dead, takes a few seconds to realise the kill switch has been accidentally hit.
Regarding forgetting heat shrink wrap there's a product called "Solder seal wire connector" It includes a solder, wrap, water proof connector in 1 convenient product and you only need a heat gun to install. Works great and much easier!
And great list, I especially hate those battery terminal connectors and how the rectangle part can fall out easily when you unscrew the bolt. Why don't they just change the design so it will hold the rectangle part? To get around this after I disconnect all connections I then install the bolt again so nothing will fall out when i remove the battery.
How about going to the gas station in Canada on a long trip and after filling up, the bike won't crank. It's cold, it's raining, and now your bike won't start. Nope, kill switch was fine. Somehow, I had managed to leave it in gear... But what a relief when I popped it in neutral and it fired up!
I have an Electraglide and have changed the battery, I must add that in order to install the terminals there is a 3/4 round "D" shaped spacer that goes on the outside between the terminal and the terminal block on the battery. If you substitute ANYTHING for that, the terminal will vibrate loose on a long ride. On my Harley it will make the engine cut out, make the ammeter act crazy, and damage the voltage regulator if you dont fix it fast enough. On a Sturgis run from south Texas, on the way back i was 200 miles from home and this very issue occurred. I have gear in my back seat, and on all of my saddle bags. Hell getting the seat off. Its happened more than once i am ashamed to say.
I went crazy looking for a damned screw that fell off inside my bike a few times. Bloody things are so annoying.
6:24 had me rolling I don't know why this caught me off guard so hard
First time i borrowed my little brother bike on the way back i stalled the engine tried to restart with a bunch of cars behind me, battery death... Luckily i was close to the place we store it called my brother we try to push start it and it doesn't work so i just pushed it back was about a mile and a good workout. ones we got a new battery in it the bike ran fine.
CONTROVERSIAL STATEMENT:
Do twisting and braiding instead of solder and crimp splices.
Fun fact! 2 dissimilar metals in the presence of an electrolyte (humidity alone can be an electrolytic source) creates a process known as galvanic reaction.
Anyone ever noticed green corrosion after some time has passed located at the location of a soldered or crimp spliced joint?
Galvanic reaction.
(If splicing a zinc & a copper wire crimp or solder away. You're fuct anyway and soldering/crimp splicing is a better joint.)
For the battery screws I use fork terminals on some of the accessory wires. I can start the battery screw, then slip in the forks, then finish tightening the battery screw.
Threw a new battery on my Dyna yesterday and as someone who’s changed internals on engines, it was far too frustrating. Truly your description was like a play by play of my struggles.
My Magna is fun, I have to jump and throw my knee down to get both retention clips to click in. as the main and passenger seat are held down as one unit despite coming apart as seperate pieces
I've put a colour on my 10mm socket. Plus I'm Aussie so we predominantly use metric 😀 But yeah, I can relate to most of these things. I often find it's like solving one of those patience puzzles where you have to jiggle some ball bearings and objects around until everything eventually falls into place
I bought a buddy of mine a socket kit for Christmas. I also bought him 3 extra 10mm sockets. He asked why. I told him you will find out.
I saw him a few weeks later he told me he had already lost 2.
The battery: Combine all the extra accessories into 1 or 2 eyelet terminals. Also, go buy different lenght battery terminal screws / bolts and extra nuts. Use some tape to stop the nuts from falling out. Some batteries lie down and can be a real B.
Not working on it, but in a similar vein: I fumbled my key and it fell down the forks and went into the left body panel. Had to take the whole panel off to retrieve it!
Forgetting to take your sunglasses off before you put your helmet on. On bikes with 1 front disk, the first and sometimes only fork seal to start leaking is on the disk side thus schmoozing your front brake.
Changing the battery on my DRZ is always a piece of cake. Never had a single issue with it… if anything falls out, it’s on the floor 😊
That first bug is always so juicy too. Big ol' splat
Once I was fitting a modul to make my break light flicker and all was going well (it was on a new bike) after the install witch incluced clipping wires and stuff I plugged everything in to place then the time came to test it and ... nothing happened when I pulled my break lever, the amount of instant panic and regret one can feel in a split sec Oo ! Oh no was my thought untill I remember my bikes lights only comes on AFTER I had the bike running .. turned on the bike and the modul and lights worked as intended :D yay! from pure gut wrenching panic to entirely happy :D
I have only had my bike around 8 months and have did all of these. I have a magnetizer tool that I use on all of them that I can. The telescoping magnet should come with motorcycles and forgetting the kickstand is way to common for me.
I've never had an issue with seats. Even my xvs1100 with a home made bracket this add a passenger seat to a Corbin solo seat. But, my current bike bolts on from underneath. So I let the backrest hold it in place.
I've given up on the whole bug spat in the center of your vision at the beginning of a ride. That's when I realized, that there actually is a God, and he hates me.
Valve stem.... washed my bike and was shining up my back wheel. Barely touched my rubber stem and it broke off. So off to the shop to get a new one put on. Why didn't anybody ever mention to change these buggers. So new wheels new stems.
I always cut 2 small pieces of vinyl tubing from the clear drain lines that come with the new battery
Battery nuts, I put a little something under the nuts. I thread the battery on the table and pull the nut to the top. Push paper, tape or anything in there to hold the nuts up. If I have over night, I put RTV.
I was buiyng 10mm and 13mm both sockets and spanners, like I was hardware store, now I have 10/13mm sockets and spanners distributed evenly about 3 pcs/10sq. ft.
I've bought a quad lock usb charger for my phone, but I haven't dared trying to connect it up yet, not helped by the design of my kawasaki where i have to remove the air filter box as well as the tank to get to the battery terminals. Hopefully I'll get through the operation without short circuiting myself or dropping any bolts into the void
4:37 You know what's worse than loosing a bolt or screw?
Finding one!
Motorcycle tires aren't cheap.
Bug splatters happen all day. I stopped at a rest srea late in the day an I had been having trouble seeing for all the bugs. The guy in a car next to me had a bottle of windex and a roll if paper towels. He was nice enough to spray and wipe my faceshield.
1) Use the right tools. Put the screwdriver away and use a hex driver. Pay attention to what you are doing. Profit.
2) It is what it is, practice makes things easier.
3) Crimping is better where there might be vibration. If you have to solder, build a routine so you don't forget steps.
4) Keep spare hardware. If you have the service manual for your bike they often have a hardware list. Just put a box together with several of every size. Replace what you use ahead of time. Some bolts shouldn't be reused, keep plenty of those on hand. Problem solved.
5) Keep your tools organized and you don't lose them. If the spot is empty you haven't put it away yet it's time to double check.
6) Disable kickstand kill switches. They are evil and unnecessary if you have real skills.
7) Put your gear on in the same order every time and you tend to forget steps less often. Don't let yourself get lazy about it and short cut.
8) Filling your tank isn't that complicated. Lift, let it drip, put a paper towel from he windshield washing station under the nozzle, put it away. If they are out of towels, that's why you keep a rag on the bike.
Life gets easier when you use your head for something other than a hat rack.
At least in your state, you don't have evap cushions that need to be pressed to dispense the gas from the pump. Push that spring back with one hand, while also balancing the nozzle over the tank and pulling the trigger with 2 fingers to avoid the early cutoff. Hope you do it right or the lever will go limp and smack your fingers. A lot of extra work just to get that extra 5 miles before I have to fill up again.
I'd add forgetting to tuck your shoelaces in... I made it through a long ride, got to my front door and had the slowest and dumbest fall of my life
My pet peeve is related to number 3 (heat shrink)... It is those stupid bullet connectors that are only used on motorcycles nowadays and accessories for motorcycles that do not at the very least include the connectors if needed
I replaced the indicators on my bike that I've had for about 12 years now - someone pinned out they thought they were illegal here. Previous owner had installed them. The connections were just taped with electrical tape. When I pulled the tape off, the two rear ones were just two male bullet connectors placed side by side then taped up. Very surprised they lasted that long, the number of times I've had the fairings off, messed with the regulator rectifier right next to them etc.
They way I find my 10mm is I say out loud; "Where is my 11mm or 1\2 or etc". Then suddenly the 10mm appears just like that... Half of the time.
Modern bikes that don’t have any basic features, like a disc brakes, a tachometer, or a fuel gauge. I’m getting tired of measuring my fuel with a ruler!
Don't use electrical tape. Use Nitto No. 11 rubber tape. It is self-amalgamating, which means that it sticks to itself and forms a solid rubber sleeve around the connection. Has to be cut off, won't unroll.
The 10mm "missing sock syndrome" issue is so real and prevalent that they are sold in 5-packs and 10-packs.... buy the 10-pack, you'll lose at least 5 of them. 😜
Went into a hardware store to get a 10mm, looked at the place there supposed to be.
all gone!
I went and got a salesman, he looked at the spot and said "I just got done stocking them".
They disappear in the store.
I keep them on the card they come on from the store then they cant run away.
@spitescorner If you really want to top the tank get yourself a McCuff tank protector. Its $23 on the zon but your paint will thank you for it!
8:45 Preach brother.
Done em all but the last fuel splash was a real cracker, somehow managed to get a good amount all the way over to the handlebar where my helmet was hanging so I could enjoy that delightful smell for the next 400km 😵💫
Dropped the nut trying to replace a battery last week. It rolled away and I spent a good 15 mins trying to find it. When I finally did I'd lost the bolt. Took another ten mins to find that. When I found that the ring terminal snapped off and I had to crimp on a new one. Best part of an hour to fix one wire to the battery! Annoying? oh yes! ....
I was adjusting the valves on my then girlfriend's Ninja 500. I was reinstalling the coolant tubes when I mistakenly said aloud, the worst case scenario is to drop one of these screws in the sparkplug hole. .21 seconds later... yep, right in the cylinder.
Love the Portillos shirt. Just had some for lunch 😂
Holy shit, I just went through this Friday & Saturday. I put my bike up for sale (2014 ZX6R ABS) and got more interest than I expected. I put in a new battery, have tons of accessories so I spent 6 hours making sure they all worked. I was up till 3am Saturday morning just to give up. I spent 3 hours trying to get my front brake reservoir to clear my double bubble Windscreen with my 2" Riser clip-ons. So I finally get it all back together, 2 hours past the time he was supposed to be there and he never showed up. I was kinda relieved, because I was done for the day. I've done this dozens of times. The bike is in immaculant condition. I swapped in the factory rearsets and took off my Driven Racing rearsets. Well when I did this, I switched to a Rear Left-Hand Thumb Brake (car accident in Dallas years ago; I can't use my right foot all that well anymore) and I can't find the odd sized banjo bolt to my ABS pump. I had used a normal length banjo bolts with my steel braided lines. The factory one uses a longer banjo bolt because the OEM line has a riser on it to clear the other lines on the ABS pump. Then I couldn't find the right length shift rod. Still haven't figured out how to clear the brake fluid reservoir yet. How the bolt hole is angled & these risers & Puig Double Bubble W/S, makes it very difficult. Lost a couple 10mm sockets too
5:29 The torque wrench nightmare😮 changed oil set wrench checked setting. Tighten sump bolt. No click surely it's tight enough trusted wrench. Went lose. next time oil change, sump plug had stripped thread. NEVER AGAIN will I trust a $ 50 torque wrench. My elbow and wrist from now on.
I never start a motorcycle when sitting on it. I start it on the side stand then put the helmet on then gloves use my thumbs to check the tyre pressure and jump on and lift the kickstand and give it 2 heal bumps to make sure it’s up. OCD maybe but it’s just like a seatbelt in a car I can’t even move one without putting it on
Man great video!! 😂😂😂 I can relate!!!!
My bike has a small bolt that shall forever live in the gap between the crankcase and the starter because it managed to fall in there but refuses to come back out the way it went in.
Bug in middle of helmet gets me. Happens on group rides more then solo rides.
I had the tab from my helicoil break off and go into my sump. After three days of trying to fish it out, I was preparing to break the engine all the way down. I took one last shot with a 4mm magnet I got in the mail. When I got it out, you would think I kicked a game winning field goal.
My 10mm are sitting right were they belong. It’s only during a job that I can’t find them. Also I have an extra 8 and 10 wired to my bike.
All my riding life had Japanese bikes and one Harley. Now in my sixties I got severely nostalgic for the looks of my first bike a Honda CB-350 and purchased a Triumph Street Twin. How embarrassing to be at the gas station fighting the stupid gas cap. Why the British had to be different from everyone else?
Been riding 35 years and couldn't stop laughing...
Feel you buddy. By the way, it‘s a really good idea to always keep the helmet on with the visor down filling the tank to the brim.
One false move and the gas could spill directly into your eyes! Happened to me once when I had the visor open 😂
Somewhere in a parallel universe is a black hole with a million of 10mm and a million plectrons.
Spite off topic question but what size riding suit do you wear? I’m very close in size to you at 6’4 and 230ish pounds with a 34” inseam and the size charts have me totally lost.
Bro, I became physically anxious watching most of this video. 100% spot on, 😅