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SF Bay Area | I was looking under my bike yesterday and noticed that both the tips were ground flat on the bottoms. My bike is stock height running 30lbs, ridden solo. Should I blame the sport bikes I used to ride...? Last tire change I did notice my front tire was triangular... going to a point in the middle What this mean? |
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Visionary
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Rancho Cucamonga, CA | Hate to see your tipovers.... or did you remove them because they make too much noise? |
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Cruiser
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Houston, Tx | Hard to imagine you getting to the exhaust tips without first going through the tip-overs. Pics?
Do you have a steep driveway or something that you could be rubbing? Assuming flat spot is on the bottom....if the side, then dunno. |
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New Bohemia, VA | this thread is useless without pictures! |
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SF Bay Area | You can't really see it in this pic but the bottom edges are flattened, I guess they cannot support the bike's weight while dragging around a corner!
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Iron Butt
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| BlueByu - 2012-08-31 8:39 AM
Hard to imagine you getting to the exhaust tips without first going through the tip-overs. Pics?
Do you have a steep driveway or something that you could be rubbing? Assuming flat spot is on the bottom....if the side, then dunno.
I had the same thought. If the suspension is set up correctly for the load, the tipovers should engage the ground before the exhaust does. |
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Tourer
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Grand Cane, LA | You don't happen to be driving off the sidewalk onto the street? I hit mine once doing this going from the sidewalk straight to the street off the curb. Heard it as soon as I did it. Now I make sure I wait till I'm where the curb is shallow. |
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Cruiser
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SF Bay Area | Well, I do not have a driveway issue, both left and right look the same. I do grind the tip over gaurds, and the floorboards, but only rarely. Gee, maybe I should keep spares of all these parts before I wear them out... |
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New Bohemia, VA | Parking |
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Visionary
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| CURBS or leaving drive way to fast. I have some stock ones with no black centers you can have cheap.
There are gatlin tips in the sell section |
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Cruiser
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SF Bay Area | I figured it out. I do a lot of riding on tight, twisty roads with very steep roads. When I whip on of these corners, the road angle is so steep that at the approach coming out of a switchback, the pipes drag. I painted some paint underneath the tips, went for a ride on one of these switchback roads, and found the paint scraped off under both tips. Basically I am whipping these corners too fast causing too much lean, causing the tips to grind.
I knew it wasn't from curbs or parking... I never have parked near curbs, in 40 years of riding.
I guess I need to either slow down, or buy some extra tips...
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New Bohemia, VA | show off... |
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elgin mn | 40 years of riding???
have too copy VARYDER "showoff"
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Cruiser
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, AR United States | Tell the truth, you've been riding wheelies on your Vision! |
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Puddle Jumper
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Moody Alabama | I did the same thing jumping the railroad tracks behind my house. |
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Cruiser
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SF Bay Area | varyder - 2012-08-31 5:18 PM
show off...
Hmmm... well I figure it is not as much bragging than it is about poor judgement on my part. On my '99 Vic I dragged the lower stock stage 1 slip-on, along with the floorboards and floorboard mounts to the point of having to replace them several times. I finally installed a set of Samson Avengers, and dragged the lower "drag pipe" as well.
I heard there is a cure for my problem... less throttle.
Looks like I won't be lowering my Vision anytime soon.
Edited by buddahead 2012-09-05 10:07 PM
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Tourer
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| So ,buddahead, do you give cornering lessons? I have yet to drag anything cornering. I feel so humbled by this. |
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Cruiser
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Land O Lakes, FL | This thread is worthless without video :-D |
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, VA | While I've dragged some boards on my Vision, I quit doing it for several reasons. 1) I wasn't riding the bike right, on too many levels. One, I was pushing the bike down by being on the upperside, instead of shifting my weight to the inside like the racers do. You'll get far more cornering out of the bike without scrapping. 2) There's a lot of uneven payment in my neck of the woods, concrete slabs on the exits are often an inch higher and the board could catch on it. Even though I don't drag my boards any more I actually take the turns faster. 3) Dragging means something is getting messed up, why do I want to do that? |
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