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Opened up my bike for the first time.
11/01/10 at 21:39:43

I finally opened up my bike today and "cleaned" out the air filter. All I did was spray some of that compressed air in a can over the filter, and then tapped all the loosened dust out. The filter was pretty clean in the first place, but I did it more of as a way to get familiar with my bike.

It took a week of finding the right time, and buying all my tools, before I could finally do this. I feel a lot more confident about doing maintenance on my '06 S-40 though, now that I've done something once.

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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28790 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Opened up my bike for the first time. Reply #1 - 11/01/10 at 22:15:40 next up oil change.
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Opened up my bike for the first time. Reply #2 - 11/02/10 at 00:44:43 Awww Maaan! Opened up my bike for the first time & Whats this? No Maximum MPH figures??? Yer kiddin, right?
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Re: Opened up my bike for the first time.
Reply #3 - 11/02/10 at 05:55:33

HAHAHAHA Thats the first thing I thought too..

An oill change is pretty simple too with the right tools, just dont ask what oil to use! I still have scars from that thread! lol Lips Sealed

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justin_o_guy2 wrote on 11/02/10 at 00:44:43:

Awww Maaan!

Opened up my bike for the first time & Whats this?

No
Maximum MPH figures???

Yer kiddin, right?

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Howitzer Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 141 Boston, MA Gender:	Re: Opened up my bike for the first time. Reply #4 - 11/02/10 at 07:28:58 What's maximum MPH figures??? Is there something in the bike that lets you see it?
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Arnold Serious Thumper Offline The dude abides... Posts: 896 Westchester, NY Gender:	Re: Opened up my bike for the first time. Reply #5 - 11/02/10 at 07:58:28 Meaning you opened the throttle up...
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Phelonius Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1897	Re: Opened up my bike for the first time. Reply #6 - 11/02/10 at 09:56:03 Next time put in a big bore kit and port and polish the head. Phelonius
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Howitzer Full Member Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 141 Boston, MA Gender:	Re: Opened up my bike for the first time. Reply #7 - 11/02/10 at 22:03:32 Arnold wrote on 11/02/10 at 07:58:28: Meaning you opened the throttle up... I mean, is there some kind of recorder in the bike that tells you the maximum speed it's gone?
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Opened up my bike for the first time. Reply #8 - 11/03/10 at 02:56:34 Not on the bike, no, but a cop can help with that.
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Arnold Serious Thumper Offline The dude abides... Posts: 896 Westchester, NY Gender:	Re: Opened up my bike for the first time. Reply #9 - 11/03/10 at 04:55:30 Ahhh, a black box for a bike. They dont make that, yet...
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Reply #10 - 11/03/10 at 08:15:21

Don't bet heavily they don't make "black boxes" for bikes. All it requires is flash memory in the ABS and/or engine management computers, for those bikes with fuel injection. Honda already has an air bag on one of their Gold Wings, and air bag triggering is one of the events the "black box" is designed to store. Add an impact sensor and/or a bank angle sensor to "freeze" the data, and you have it. Many bikes already have the bank angle sensor, used to shut down the engine if the bike falls over.

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Eschew obfuscation.

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Arnold Serious Thumper Offline The dude abides... Posts: 896 Westchester, NY Gender:	Re: Opened up my bike for the first time. Reply #11 - 11/03/10 at 08:25:23 And that is why I bought a simple Savage, in an attempt to keep electronics out.
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Charon Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1811 Harvard, NE Gender:	Re: Opened up my bike for the first time. Reply #12 - 11/03/10 at 08:42:34 Yet even the Simple Savage has electronic ignition and an electronic voltage regulator.
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Reply #13 - 11/03/10 at 19:13:45

I have an app on my Blackberry called GPS tracker. It records average speed, maximum speed, traveled distance, time traveled and even tracks the route traveled on a map. It also does current speed, but I didn't wanna check current speed on a phone while riding. So one time I tested it on the superslab, started recording before I left and cracked it open for just a little while and reached an indicated almost 90mph before I let off. She was still going. When I came home and checked the data, it showed that I reached a maximum of 88mph. Next time I go, I start the recording and see what she can do and let her fly. Seems the speedo is dead on.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Opened up my bike for the first time. Reply #14 - 11/03/10 at 21:52:38 mite as well film yerself vandalizin someones car....
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