Ktm 85 Xc
Ktm Duke
Ktm 450 CC
Ktm 525 Sx
KTM 250 SX-F
Nice Ktm motorcycle
KTM 125 SX 2008
KTM 105 XC 2008
Ktm e/xc 125, 250 and 300
Royal Enfield Recalls 2009 Bullet Motorcycles for Rear Wheel Lockup
Royal Enfield is recalling certain 2009 Bullet Electra E-5 EFI, Bullet G5 Classic EFI, G5 Deluxe EFI, and G5 Military EFI motorcycles.
These motorcycles can experience third gear galling on the clutch shaft due to lack of lubrication. This condition can allow the gear to seize to the shaft, causing rear wheel lock up.
196 units are affected.
Check out my Motorcycle Recalls feature for more details.
Motorcycle Pictures of the Week - Pauline and Zoo-mon
Here are my Pictures of the Week as displayed on the Motorcycle Views Website. These are taken from the Moto Pic Gallery. See Pauline on her 2009 Harley-Davidson Softail Deluxe. Also see Zoo-mon on his 2009 Phat Tire Hardtail Custom. For details, see Motorcycle Pictures of the Week.
If you'd like to see your bike as Picture of the Week, submit a picture of you and your bike along with a description of the bike.
Triumph motorcycles
Triumph speed triple
Classic Triumph motorcycle
Triumph Thruxton 2007
Triumph St 2007
Motorcycle clothing
Motorcycle jacket and gloves
leather motorcycle Jacket
Motorcycle protective Jacket
Wheels in motion
I'm taking the FZ to the dealer to get the repair estimate written up for insurance. I'd heard several times that any overt damage to the bike's frame automatically results in the bike being totaled. I'm not sure if this is fact or urban myth, but there is visible and overt damage to the frame of the FZ. This may result in one of two possibilties:
1) Insurance totals the bike and I get a check, or
2) Insurance buys a new frame along with the other parts and the bike ends up with either a recon title or a replaced-VIN title.
If they don't total it and replace the frame, the street value on the bike goes completely in the toilet, regardless. It's a "totaled" bike by all accounts after that and won't be worth squat on the street.
This is my worry... anyone know for sure the rules regarding totaling-out a bike with frame damage?
Motorcycle helmets
Six Six One Pro Bravo Full Face helmet
Dirt Bike Helmet
Suomy Extreme Biaggi Motorcycle Helmet
Modern black helmet.
Kawasaki motorcycles
Great pink Kawasaki motorcycle
Kawasaki Kx 125
Kawasaki Zx RR
Kawasaki Z 750
Kawasaki 250 ninja
Kawasaki Ninja ZX 14 2009
Ducati motorcycles
2009 Ducati Monster 696
Ducati 748 Senna Edition
Elegant girls and a Ducati 999
Ducati 848
Ducati moto GP
Ducati monster dark
Ducati 1 100 CC
Packing & shipping
I have to get better about guesstimating shipping costs or actually pre-box and weigh things before posting the auctions. A couple of the items in this latest round of auctions cost way more to ship than I had expected, largely due to the unusual shipping containers I had to use. Ah well... live and learn[1]. I still made money at the end of the whole project, but on a couple of the auction items I basically broke even.
[1] - Live and learn - seems to be a trend for me lately. (sigh)
Follow up on the part-out
As mentioned in an earlier post, my son Eddie was helping to part out a Triumph Daytona 955i that I'd bought. My intention was to part the bike out all along, but in verifying its running condition, I kinda fell in love with how the machine delivered power. I waffled on tearing the bike down for several months while I quietly thought about putting it back on the road as a full-blown street bike.
Eventually I came to my senses (that is, I needed the money) and proceeded with the part-out. Eddie did a huge majority of the tear down. The only thing I had to do myself was pull the engine and swingarm off the frame, and to break up some of the small-parts systems.
I gave Eddie a nice chunk of change - $100 - for his day in the garage and he was ecstatic. I've spent the last couple of weeks catalogging, eBaying and packing/shipping the various parts, including palleting and taking the engine to Forward Air for shipment to California. The buyer sent me an email a week or two ago thanking me again for the "great running engine!". He blew his up and is now back on the road.
I've explained my stance on parting out bikes in the past. I think I've got the process down and I think I have the basis for a decent little side business if I can continue to find good-enough deals on older and used bikes. If I can enlist my son and/or daughter to help with some of the work, I can offload some of the tedium and they can make some money. More win/win all around.
Anyway, Eddie's $100 went towards some things he's been pining away for and has been saving up for, so he saw some real and honest benefits to working hard for his rewards. If I can keep this up, he'll understand the real world a little earlier than some kids might.
And I won't have to break my knuckles on every bike I part out. :-)
Scooters
Electric scooters, great green energy alternative
Yamaha scooter
125 CC Scooter
Futuristic 3 wheel scooter
Frustration...
Due to some personal matters going on in life, I've largely been ignoring a situation brewing for the last couple of weeks. Specifically, I had lent my FZ6 to a friend whose bike was damaged during a track day when the control rider cut him off and he went down in what, by all accounts, was a rather spectacular fashion.
Well, this friend crashed my FZ6 - a low-side on the street. Police were called, papers were filed, etc. The bike needs, as indicated in the photo, lots of work to many sections of the bike. 
My friend is now complaining that he can't afford to fix the bike for me - I'm guesstimating about a $1000 repair bill for parts and for me to do the work. He's also claiming that for reasons unknown to me, he "can't" turn it in to his insurance. I'm sure this is just his way of staving off any insurance increases.
I'm beginning to get angry, and I'm already frustrated about it. I'm glad he's ok and in the end, it's just a bike and it can be repaired. Shit happens in life. It's how we handle things that matter. I am very, very unhappy about how this is being handled. I had honestly hoped that by now I'd get my FZ back completely repaired, or at least a pile of new parts and an offer to help.
Neither. This marks the last time I lend out anything so important, so expensive or so... whatever. I'm pissed.
Harley Davidson motorcycles
Harley Davidson bikes wallpaper
Harley Davidson 2008 Sportster 883 - XL 883
Great Harley Davidson softail bike
Classic Harley Davidson motorcycle
Harley Davidson custom motorcycle
Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail
Motorcycle Pictures of the Week - Paul
Here are my Pictures of the Week as displayed on the Motorcycle Views Website. These are taken from the Moto Pic Gallery. See Paul with his 1982 Honda Gold Wing Aspencade. For details, see Motorcycle Pictures of the Week.
If you'd like to see your bike as Picture of the Week, submit a picture of you and your bike along with a description of the bike.
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