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Badlionsfan
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 04:42 pm: | 
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Lol, you two are making this whole thing so complicated. It's a fantastic read. Please find a way together the whole trip on video, it'd be the best comedic documentary of all time. |
Froggy
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 04:48 pm: |
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Only if you call it "2 Buells, 1 truck" |
Badlionsfan
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 04:59 pm: |
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Haha, nice. |
Rocketsprink
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 05:01 pm: |
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Nah. Only one. Look elsewhere for comic relief...like the mirror. |
Badlionsfan
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 05:05 pm: |
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Dude, lighten up. Your cry baby bs is gettin old |
Rocketsprink
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 05:21 pm: |
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And I was joking about the mirror...........
Hell, I'm all for putting the miles on his truck. But with the goofy a$$ hours he works, time is, believe it or not, at a premium, and we have yet to see it will work. |
Rocketsprink
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 05:25 pm: |
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Oops. Posted that before I read your dildo response. Actually I'm not kidding.
If I remember, you were the biggest crybaby of all when Tramp was riding your a$$ about your diet.
Don't read it if you don't like it. Now go look in the mirror to cheer yourself up. |
Badlionsfan
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 05:29 pm: |
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I retract my last statement then. My bad.
Serious thought, have you guys thought about renting a little box truck? Plenty of room, and it's a few air mattresses away from being a high and dry tent. |
Badlionsfan
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 05:32 pm: |
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Wow, that took a turn for the worse lol. Unlike others, I really don't care what people I've never met or never will think about me. It's all meant to be light hearted fun, and that exactly how I take it.
I will read it cuz I do like it. I think it's funny.
(Message edited by Badlionsfan on September 28, 2010) |
Ratbuell
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 08:00 pm: |
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In the bed of a truck, I have NEVER strapped the rear of a bike down. A trailer, different story (bouncy-bouncy)...but a truck? Never had one move even an inch once the front's compressed properly.
Is the *contact patch* of the rear tire on the tailgate? Or in the bed? Doesn't make a lick of difference if the back half of the wheel hangs out the end...if the contact patch is in the bed, lose the gate. No problem. |
Ratsmc
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 11:03 pm: |
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Holy hell, this topic still hasn't been resolved?
Two bikes - any bikes - in the back of a truck is not that complicated. Hell, I have had to do it in the middle of the night on the side of the freeway.
Don't over-think it. Just throw them in there, strap them down and be done with it. You don't need chocks, you don't need any drilling, you don't need any bolts. |
1125rcya
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 28, 2010 - 11:11 pm: |
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personally I would take off the front fender and then place a wood block between the tire and the bottom of of your forks, and that will keep your bike from blowing a fork seal  |
09_1125r
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 04:46 am: |
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I'm with Ratbuell, never strapped a bike down in the rear of a truck. No need, the ride is plush as your grandma's Cadillac! No movement/bounce on the ass end. Tighten the front just enough, not too tight to collapse the forks too much, just enough to keep shiznit in line. I have a home made front end stand that I welded and used with no "real" side support (can post pics), just the little pressure from the forks against the truck bed front was plenty enough support. |
Bueller4ever
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 05:33 am: |
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Why would you blow a fork seal? Front forks are compressed when you ride. |
Rocketsprink
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 05:56 am: |
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Hope ya don't have to make any quick lane changes or avoid something in the road. A "plush" suspension ain't gonna do shit from stopping the ass end of the bikes from moving. |
Jules
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 07:42 am: |
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Why would you blow a fork seal? Front forks are compressed when you ride
It does happen.. especially if overtightened and left in place for a long period of time (hours), The breakdown service I use are particularly paranoid about it.. |
Jdugger
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 07:49 am: |
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Fork seals often blow when the bikes are strapped too tightly.
Tie the bike down just tight enough to keep it stable. Don't tighten it down past about 25-30% of the fork travel. |
Lastonetherebuys
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 10:38 am: |
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Fork seals often blow when the bikes are strapped too tightly
this is why dirt bike guys often use a strut of somesort in between the front wheel and the tripple tree's |
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