too much yap, not enough " straight to the point " tone the yapping down, increase related facts . shorter videos are king , i play your at 1.75 . " my lazy self " ? not ok.

are the giveaways only for USA?

@@teunjansens1414 yes... unfortunately :l

For the first time in my life, I'm leaving a positive comment on your channel - true buddy! Tenet was a over hyped, but horrible movie indeed! 😂😂

You got this !

That sucks! I'm glad you're ok though!

Glad you're still here to tell us! Here's to a speedy recovery and a nice replacement bike 😁🤙

@@joshk2026 thanks man i really appreciate it! One day i hope to have the funds for a new bike and have the confidence to get back out there 🤞 stay safe and wear your gear

@@cuannell2143 thanks man i really appreciate it not to crazy of injuries but I’ll be in a sling for a minute

Glad your ok mate. Also glad you were wearing the right gear! Guess you saw the rurok episode then!! Hahaha Hope you have a speedy recovering, and can get back out on the road soon.

Haha It's like going through a time machine... "I'll make sure I start first thing in the morning" *10mins later...* "What the, it's afternoon already?"

@@Astrix_Jaeger or when you're doing a brake job and the rear ones are drums "Wtf why is it 11pm suddenly?"

Bought a bike sight unseen one time, oil drain plug fell out during my 3rd or 4th ride. Was my first bike. Scary thing.

All the bolts on the bike, should include that bolt, too… If you don't understand that, you should not work on your bike. Take it to a shop. Oil change do not cost that much.

Did my first oil change on my bike (bought second hand), and the crush washer was so deformed, I couldn’t even get it off the drain bolt. I think the previous owner misinterpreted “crush washer”

@@FappinSteve That was the condition of the carburetor drain-plug on my Savage when I got it out to restore... There were other "issues" from having spent so much time just sitting in an over-heated garage/wood-shop so much since 1995... BUT that was probably the most egregious problem... Just had a competent shop re-bore and thread the bowl and replace the plug and sealing washer... AND the rest of the work was relatively straight forward... give or take some "damaged" but not "irredeemable" threads here and there. OH... I'll be replacing bolts and nuts over time, but only in two general circumstances... 1. It's damaged to a degree I can't feel responsible putting it back on the road like that. (obviously) 2. When I've got some spare time and cash to just get a bag of that class of fastener and start replacing "on principle" for future planning... (which as a tech' in general, I'm prone to do habitually anyway. I've had enough of those lessons.) ...BUT it's been worth shopping "used"... I'm riding a nice 1995 Suzuki Savage 650 that I JUST turned over 5K actual miles with about 800 bucks invested (and the tires and brake pads were almost as expensive as the bike)... ;o)

Don't over torque any bolt. Bolts have a limited amount of strength and when you over torque them, you put them close to what's called the plastic limit and it then doesn't take as much to break them. Remember someone who knows much more than you calculated those torque values in the manual and tested them.

As long as your hands aren't near it, it's fine. Just don't rev the engine, let it idle. That said, I didn't find it saving me any sort of time or effort while spray-lubing the chain, so I'd say it's not worth the risk regardless

Here in Canada, we don't stop until ice and salt is on the road

@@wizzardx666 I think Nebraska is a lil warmer than where I am but climate is very similar. Lots of rain these past two days. Here in Ontario it is more or less the same temps as you said 7-10 degrees Celsius (Somewhere between 43-50 Fahrenheit)

@@wizzardx666 Eh were Canadians cold is nothing new to us. Ice is when we call it quits.

I ride year round in Denver. February is usually the month that I can ride the least.

Here in Germany the most guys stop riding in winter but not this gal!

I do that as well

No, it is not at all. That can make the bolt fall out. Or it can make it leak. Can make the bolt not go all the way in. And make all kinds of problems. A trick to not do that. Is only to take the bolt or nut, with your hand and turn it the wrong way. until it pops down into the threads.

@@Gismo3333 you missed the joke

@@PapaSmurfx93 Being responsible for anyone being seriously injured or killed is not a joke.

@@Gismo3333 Bruh, it's an obvious joke, like you are.

@@tylerrusty1122 - I have noting to do with with people that think its a joke to kill and murder people. Don't you bruh me, you psycho… i am maybe a joke to you… At lest I am not a killer like you, that think murder is a joke.

Years ago I was doing a large Ann Arbor, MI --> Columbus, OH --> Youngstown, OH --> Ann Arbor, MI Loop. On the leg to Youngstown, the bolts attaching the rightside upper fairing subframe to the frame decided to wave good-bye. Fortunately I made it OK to my cousins not far from Youngstown. He had a large cache of bolts and found a few which fit and worked perfectly. I didn't know about Loctite at that point, so I made a point of checking them at least once a year. They never gave me trouble again.

my friend lost a bit of his pinkie doing that. not the brightest person

well guess how much luck I had the chain chew a centimeter right of my right thumb. yes i tightend my chain before, but me being myself i thought the faster the better so i threw her iright into fifth gear and went on. i can say i now stay as far away as possible from moving chains

Can confirm a 50 hp twin is also strong enough to split a thumb in a blink of an eye

Was about to comment this. Use heat on red loctite

Heat often solves the issue and push comes to shove I weld m8 nuts on top of the disk bolts and impact them out. Only had that technique fail once and that was on a 60k plus 25 year old bike that had never had the disks changed. Bought a new wheel in the end!

That should only happen the first time you apply torque though. Engine heads may be different because you're also dealing with the bolts fighting repeated up-down movement, but working on 120mm mortar systems, they have this clamp that's a mount for the targeting computer. Since it's designed to attach to a cannon tube that wasn't designed with any external mounts in mind and is therefore completely smooth and round, it is held on with pure torque, perpendicular to the direction of the barrel. It's a series of several bolts and nuts that are torqued to 365 ftlbs each, but you only need to measure bolt stretch when installing new bolts, because if they stretch too much you start over with new parts. If you're within spec on a new install, you never need to measure stretch again because you torque them to the exact same level every time you de-install/re-install them, in 100ftlb increments in a certain sequence, until you get to 365 on each of them, then safety wire them all together. As long as they're re-installed properly after removal for maintenance, you can actually re-use the same hardware forever.

Works great, yes. But while you're torching the bolt, you have to scream at it, "YOU THOUGHT I WAS PLAYING???". Or it won't work at all... my experience anyway.

Yes but try to do this before you strip the screw head :(

Did my motorcycle tires the hard way, wrestling them in the dirt , with screwdrivers, tire spoons, and scratching up the rims, for 45 yrs. Finally bought a manual shop tire changer. Bout time! I actually don't dread doing it now.

Second time is easier. Not easy, but easier.

It hurts trust me

There are three or four grades of "Loc-Tite" thread-locker... Blue is "medium" and is the most popular... Red is "hgih" strength... BUT there's also "Low" and "Extreme" or "Super Duty" stuff out there. It's not always ALL "Loc-Tite" (company name)... SO worth being careful the first time or two you go buying the stuff... just to be precise about the product you want. ;o)

I think in terms of setting aside a morning or afternoon. It removes the pressure to hurry, vastly increasing the odds of doing it right.

I have developed a formula that may help. Take the time that you think the job will take and square it. Add to that the time that you don't have to complete the job. Subtract from the sum of those the time it usually takes for your wife/partner to get angry. If the answer is tomorrow, next weekend, by the end of the month or Christmas then your calculations are almost certainly correct.

Dare I ask how many miles till you need to change your chains?

Yea because since you don't clean your chain you must have shit caked, you must because obvi if you don't clean your chain everything else is a mess🤣. Bad assumption but hey what is any normal person gonna teach an all knowing bike mechanic. Clearly the bike could be spotless but since the chains not cleaned theirs no pride taken🤷 but yet that's just another opinion🤦 maybe you should bring it to a "real mechanic" and pay out the ass to have it done 🤣

@@flyinghigh2000 when you see hard signs of wear on a sprocket or when you’re close to running out of axle adjustment space since that’s a sign of stretching.

@@thewitchertales i change the chains every 2 years

@@flyinghigh2000 i change mine every 2 years but they are perfectly cleen just streced out

👍 Loved the early gen ZX7s especially the black and gray one! Actually miss all those late 80s and early 90s sportbikes.... Those gen FZRs, GSXRs, CBRs, Ducs and Ninjas were such great looking bikes. My 93 ZX7 I still regret letting go.....

I just throw a hoodie under the mesh jacket and I’m good to go.

The Busa is a GSXR. So its not really trashing its just talking lol

As a gsxr owner SAME😭😭

@@riolaflare7180 its more of "That poor little gsxr 600, all it wanted to do was race; but now its being abused on the streets by a squid." lol

@@threepercentclay So what your saying is, it has more to do with the rider than the bike?

@@WildBikerBill yeah lol

Maybe enlarge the holes in the bash plate with a drill and bit or a round file?

@@elevationmoto6208 Nah that wouldn't have worked. Enlarging them would've meant the screws wouldn't hold as securely there anymore. Plus, the holes weren't on the plastic part itself, but on a connected metal bracket which is what actually connects and screws to the bike frame. It's all moot now anyway as I did eventually after much struggling get the screws in.

Put them all in just barely and keep all loose before tightening any. If you tighten one first you will never get the rest to thread in. Common issue with lots of things….

I had a similar issue with an aluminium (Aussie, that’s how we say it) bash plate on a recently acquired used BMW F650GS. My fix was to take a hammer and bash the plate about the garage floor to return it to its original shape. I still had to elongate a couple of holes. I had just taken the plate off to properly remove years of baked on dirt and oil. It took way too long. Beats me why anyone would ride a bike like this as if it’s indestructible. Totally trashed rear wheel bearings and headset bearings are further evidence of why some people shouldn’t have nice things.

usually they say to lay it on its side to do that, mine went right on after I did since it was way easier to push on, but since you have a sumo I assume you dont want to scratch it

A chainsaw has the safety physically disconnecting the chain from everything. The bike does not, and depending on engine size and cylinder count, it has a lot of momentum in it. It has a flywheel, remember? Even that little energy stored in the engine momentum is enough. Human tissue and bones are no match for hardened steel of gears and chain.

Not gonna save your hand you just won't have to remember to turn the bike off while you pick up your fingers and leave in a hurry.

@@fuhq5121 actually you would still have to use whatever fingers you have left to turn the key off.

Must not ride it very hard then! 🤣

F.

You CAN buy and replace the hex-bolts with equivalent other bolts... just REMEMBER FOR THE LOVE OF GOD to look up the spec's in your tech-book for the bike... Match or exceed the "class" of bolts according to the "tools and parts" section at the beginning of the book... There are certain applications for which I have a highly temperamental aversion to certain kinds of bolts... the reaction can be SO spontaneous as to force me to violently swing or even hurl large, heavy hammers at things and even people. ;o)