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That car dependence was engineered by massive marketing campaigns from the automakers btw, they’re the reason “jaywalking” even exists and is considered a crime. Streets used to be for people and they intentionally worked to change that mindset for their benefit.

19.11.2024 14:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve never seen them banned and our licensing is… well you can just get one and then buy a 200hp machine if you want, there is no tiered system like the UK and Europe have. I think it’s a culture thing, the US was already car dependent by the time motorcycles became popular (shortly after WWII).

19.11.2024 14:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh that’s understandable, I should have checked where you were from. Here in the US the auto lobby is practically almighty, has been for decades. I don’t know why motorcycles never caught on as regular transport here. If you must move only one person, they’re much more efficient than a car.

19.11.2024 14:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The joke I’ve seen on forums from former dealership owners is that “the best way to make a million dollars in powersports is to start with two million”. My point being that they really do not hold a ton of power like the auto lobby does.

19.11.2024 07:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

According to my local mechanic who has worked for dealers, most inventory is financed by… I think it was Wells Fargo. The big OEMs (Honda, Kawasaki, etc) do their own financing though (Kawi works with a division of Truist for example). None are great for the dealer.

19.11.2024 07:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Motorcycles aren’t with cars. Either as transportation or financially. Financially they’re Powersports, which also includes side-by-sides, UTVs, ATVs, snowmobiles, jetskis, etc. An industry (on the dealer/user side) already under the thumb of various banks.

19.11.2024 07:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

They don’t have the time, or they have a new project/had a kid/etc and will no longer have the time, or they need the money for something else. Those are the reasons given for used low-mile motorcycles I see, and the ones for my dad’s KLR (800 miles) and mine (2700 miles) when we got them.

19.11.2024 00:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I got one side cover off and some snapped piece immediately fell out. I’m sure I’ll find more once I pull the motor and split the cases.

16.11.2024 19:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can confirm 😬. I got a 1991 XT350 that “just needed a base gasket”. One timing chain guide snapped, no timing chain retainer, RTV everywhere, no base gasket at all (just RTV??), crank discolored, bore screwed, piston shot, oil plug was full of RTV and aluminum shavings, etc.

16.11.2024 19:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Side-on shot of a Kawasaki KLR650 motorcycle.

Here’s mine, a 2022 KLR650 Adventure:

13.11.2024 22:01 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh I see now, I can filter searches down to feeds and find ‘em that way, should have realized that 🤦

12.11.2024 23:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

There’s a motorcycle feed? (Legit question, if there is how do I add it, new to bluesky)

12.11.2024 23:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It’s PC only from my reading 🙁. I don’t know if there’s a comparable tool for mobile.

12.11.2024 17:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Front-on shot of a Kawasaki KLR650 motorcycle, showing how the 2 auxilary lights on either side are amber instead of white LED now.

Close-up of the amber tint application on one of the KLR650 Adventure package auxiliary lights.

Side-on shot of a Kawasaki KLR650.

Lamin-X amber tint put on the aux lights, mostly for further contrast so folks can gauge my distance/speed better. Wasn’t a perfect application on my part, but it looks good enough. Also put my cheapo handguard mitten-things back on, keeps the wind off my hands/gloves, keeps em dryer in rain too.

12.11.2024 14:08 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

SkyFollowerBridge. Browser extension that’ll run through your following list on the other place and find any matching usernames here (or exact matches if they put their link to here in their bio). Found ~2/3s of the folks I was following.

12.11.2024 10:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Understandable. When I was a kid I crashed a KDX50 off a jump badly, buncha forward rolls, rushed to the hospital for X-Rays, all that. Thankfully 6 year olds are more rubber than bone so nothing snapped, but I refused to ride the 2-wheeler for years after that.

08.11.2024 18:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh man 😧. I hope they weren’t hard to replace. I’ve been lucky that all my low-sides have been on gravel or creek crossings at 10-25mph, so the bike just falls and maybe slides a bit on a flat surface at most.

08.11.2024 18:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

A Kawasaki KDX220 dirt bike parked on a dirt track in the woods of middle TN, side with the expansion chamber visible facing the viewer.

The only actual injury I’ve had was tweaking my ankle badly in a high-side on the KDX I used to freshen up before getting a street legal bike. Lost grip, regained it at just the wrong moment, bike basically suplexed me into the ground. It’s a good ole machine though:

08.11.2024 17:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Kawasaki KLR adventure bike with its lights on, on its side facing the rider on wet concrete/gravel, after low-siding on slick algae.

It did not! I’ve slipped on that same crossing before, going faster so the bike slid ~25 feet and ended up pointing the opposite way I was going. In a low-side you kinda just fall on the ground and the bike slides away. Worst I’ve had was a sore ankle when I low-sided on gravel as a new rider.

08.11.2024 17:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A Kawasaki KLR adventure motorcycle laying on its side on a wet concrete creek crossing, having just slipped and low-sided from a patch of slick algae

eepy motorcycle

08.11.2024 16:25 — 👍 25    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0