Motorcycle Maintenance Photos - Page 3

 
I'm speechless, David. Completely aghast! Didn't know whether to laugh or
cry, so I thought I would just moan.
http://www.dtashley.com/photos/2008/pics20081014/pic_0638.jpg

 
OK, we're communicating now.  I'm receiving your message.

In all seriousness, I'm glad to have a "beater" bike.  If I take it out for
a movie or something and it gets stolen or hit by a car (while parked), I
don't care.  In fact, I have no insurance on it except the minimum required
by law.  At best, it is worth about $2K.

As long as it is mechanically safe, I don't care much.

I guess I should wash it carefully.

If you can recommend products for getting the caked off lube off the chrome
wheels ... there really is chrome under there somewhere.

Thanks.

 
Are we looking at the same picture? I guess we are. No, I could care less
about the chrome on the wheels. It's the grease and oil all over the tire.
"Chicken strip" refers to the unworn rubber at the edge of the tire,
indicating somewhat your riding habits. Fair enough; you're still somewhat
of a noob, and I'm not pushing you to lean more. As large as the grease
spills appear, they all look to be on the part of the tire you don't use, on
virgin rubber. That's all.

The sprocket looks close to new, BTW. Not much wear, no hooking, ... It
didn't need to come off, unless you were just curious what was underneath.

 
The impractical bit with the spray on lube is that it's designed to
stick - so it won't vanish for a very long time. Get some brake cleaner
or similar stuff and get it off.
 

Let's go on a bit - the used thread on your tire shows that you're
riding with very limited leaning. You don't need to be scraping pegs all
the time, but man has a 'natural' limit imposed by millions of years of
running - this is at around 17-20 dgrees lean angle and far away from
what your motorcycle does.

I read some place you're a pilot - so you should have some familiarity
with lean angles around 30 or so degrees. Go there on your motorcycle
every now and then, so you can do it in an emergency.

cu
  .\arc

 
Will do, thanks.

Thanks for all the good advice.

Actually, for a private pilot license, they make you do banks up to 45
degrees.  The exercise is called "steep turns", and you have to do a 360
degree circle with a 45-degree bank and within 100 feet of altitude and also
with some airspeed tolerance (can't remember what).

The exercise is interesting for a lot of reasons.  One reason:  you have to
add quite a bit more power to hold airspeed once you start the turn.  The
airplane isn't very efficient doing a sharp turn.  Second reason:  sometimes
you can intersect your own wake turbulence near the end, which terrified me
the first time I did it.

First time I hit my own wake the whole plane shook and I just about peed my
pants and I said to the flight instructor "What just happened?".  He smiled
and explained it.  It is a shocker if you're not expecting it.









Also interesting is the control laws required to hold altitude (the first
video above hints at that).  My experience has been that you need to stomp
on altitude deviations quite quickly ... by the time you're 20 feet off you
should already being applying a mild correction.  It gets harder to correct
if you let it go longer.

Dave.