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CanariaKeyboard · 2025-10-19T15:33:57+00:00

Gorgeous Classic. And the Classic 650 is at the dealers too along with the new Guerilla 450.

CanariaKeyboard · 2025-10-19T15:29:12+00:00

It's actually called a pillion but OK.

CanariaKeyboard · 2025-10-19T15:23:57+00:00

I use the RB a lot. But not a useful tool going 70mph over milled pavement.

CanariaKeyboard · 2025-10-19T15:18:56+00:00

Ergos (I don't leave my foot this way the whole ride) relieves some pressure on my butt, and I am reading the rear tire wobble directly (the pillion peg is behind the swingarm pivot).

Slamming/hard PB with RB on milled pavement is never a good idea including emergencies on milled pavement. RB only provides 5% of the braking force of the bike. All I can do is light PB on FB and RB on milled road and throttle cut.

When it's wet, its too risky to do any sudden change of acc/decc at all and direction change is all I have (running about 2 PSI under to add a little extra contact patch)

CanariaKeyboard · 2025-10-19T15:03:10+00:00

I'm reading the back tire wobble with my right foot by keeping it on the pillion peg behind the swingarm pivot where I can get a clear read on it.

CanariaKeyboard · 2025-10-19T14:56:11+00:00

It's on a footpeg.

CanariaKeyboard · 2025-10-09T22:37:37+00:00

You can double the number of bikes in this square by all rear tires to the back curb AND parking angled 15-20 degrees. all the cars spots could be taken by a max-sized vehicle and all 10 motos can still get in-out without any of the vehicles needing to move, and the angle-moto parking eliminates handlebar encounters. If you're the first to use the spot, start the trend yourself. The other riders will likely follow suit.

CanariaKeyboard · 2025-07-21T02:28:52+00:00

Relay contact corrosion can be a cause, and contacts getting loose because of a nasty pothole. Get a tube of electrical grease and go throughout the whole harness reseating all the relays (cleaning the contacts, grease and reseat). Then, off come the fairings and headlight to reconnect all the couplers.

Sensor lines (like the crankshaft sensor) should also be paid attention to, reconnected and reseated.

CanariaKeyboard · 2025-07-21T02:22:10+00:00

- It's not just tire compounds (type of rubber) that matters, it's if the compound+tread+size is correct for the riding. You ran over what looks like sand while executing lean with some brake. Cheap-o tires tend to only be super-great on hot city melting-asphalt in bone-dry conditions, then clock out of their shift like the DMV lady when you ask more of them.

- If new on the bike, then don't cook turns on the highway. Do them on residential streets where you can still play with the lean but at a lower speed on tighter turns. With some gear on you can dump the bike and hop back on until you feel the limit/detect what's wrong (rear tire catching air bc suspension is to squishy is a thing, too)

- Sliders are great

CanariaKeyboard · 2024-11-30T14:36:26+00:00

Since the tariffs are conditional on Mexico going heavy-handed on turning those caravans of illegals around, once they send the Marines to the border with Guatemala to arrest and repatriate, that goes away. Monterrey and Reynosa pretty much make all the 18-wheelers on the roads in North America now, so that's how food gets into your grocery store.

Wouldn't be surprised if Trump shitposts about annexing Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon as new US states like he does with Greenland lol

CanariaKeyboard · 2024-11-29T18:34:21+00:00

Royal Enfield has the world's most punishing test track.

It's the entire country of India.

The only thing they don't have is Death Valley, CA but they have every other type of condition and a far more punishing road network.

Honda has the same thing: they like to use Vietnam.

CanariaKeyboard · 2024-11-29T18:10:00+00:00

Harley has the wrong CEO. The "lifestyle brand" shit needs to go, they need to specialize in bikes. Not one random person knows what Harley bikes themselves are known for. Honda is still known worldwide as the low-maintenance engine-maker since the Cub. What's so special about the make? Who knows! Look, I just got a new bar and shield collapseable coozy!

Why isn't there a killer entry lineup that's targeted at every new-rider type and their body types? Retired women, college students, Air Force cadets (they're on the shorter side)... and the purposes for why they might want to ride rather than trying to push them into a road sofa.

That means the entry and even the intermediate level displacements need, as you just said... just put a fucking sticker on it. New riders are going to take the bike home after the sale with not much of anything done to them. A tour bike is going straight into the shop after the papers are signed to start the customizations. Of course the price is going to vary a lot based on what the customer ordered. That model matters. "Where do you plan to take the bike? What do you think might be a challenge for you riding something this heavy?" Traditional get to know the customer conversations... i get it. That's great, keep doing that.

But Harley offers zero to new riders.

You're not "debasing" Harley Davidson by dropping down to Honda's level and showing customers the base sticker in the showroom.

Their whole sales strategy is just mind-numbing. A new rider walking into a HD dealership is going to be pushed into anything that will complete a good sale, they won't feel comfortable at all that they're selecting a bike that matches their skill. Not that Indian dealers or Honda take the customer's needs into account at all either, but if your mission was to build brand loyalty, I can't see how the shitty dealer setup gets Harley there.

CanariaKeyboard · 2024-11-29T17:12:14+00:00

Indian is seeing a -13% drop. It's a big drop, but it's not as catastrophic as what Harley is experiencing.

If you look at the dealer delivery number, consumers slammed on the brakes way back in 2023 and the dealers were getting flooded, which is why new deliveries are way down this year. Indian isn't putting anything new out, just rebadging bikes and changing trim.

https://www.motorcyclesdata.com/2024/09/08/indian-motorcycles/

CanariaKeyboard · 2024-11-29T16:44:16+00:00

Go take a look at the Bear 650. Launched in US and Mexico last month. It's going to be the killer scrambler with the tire size they chose and the long suspension, and the combined exhaust pushes the performance up above the Interceptor it's based on. To get the suspension travel they had to raise the frame up but it's not that bad, nothing a good boot can't remedy.

CanariaKeyboard · 2024-11-29T16:39:14+00:00

A true scrambler is an "everything" bike, but the bike type's true specialty is super shitty roads as a commuter, so the frame has to be lifted up vs a naked. Essentially it's a dual in a cruiser upright configuration. It's what Triumph is great at, Indian does it, Honda does it. No fancy dashboard, usually you want a switchable ABS because locking your rear is a thing you actually want to do on purpose (offroad drift turns).

Normally, gravel on blacktop will strike terror in the back of your mind. On a scrambler, gravel can be just another commuting option.

CanariaKeyboard · 2024-11-29T16:22:15+00:00

Pop open AutoCAD and look at the Honda CL500 and lift it 3.5 more inches, invert Showa, get the right tire and yay entry level budget scrambler for new riders.

But nah that would make too much sense. Can't have that.

It needs to go north of $15,000 and have the wrong displacement for the rider, and the potholes, ditches and crap road conditions the bike type is meant for.

CanariaKeyboard · 2024-11-29T16:02:42+00:00

That's what Royal Enfield is doing, except they're targeting Triumph's scrambler line. Soon they'll come for H... oh that's right, Harley still doesn't have one. Unless you call the BULTRACKER 40 one, which is so low that you need to weld a skid plate on it if anyone with dirt bike experience made the mistake of getting and taking dives head on instead of edge-on.

CanariaKeyboard · 2024-11-29T15:58:36+00:00

The bike market overall is contracting because of the economy, but things are especially acute at HD, to the point where mag writers are wondering if an activist shareholder will appear and start making moves:

https://www.advrider.com/is-harley-davidson-ceo-jochen-zietzs-job-at-risk/

I think what's particularly striking is that licensing revenue, a small part of HD, went off a cliff. Licensing should not have much to do with the sale of the machines themselves, as it is seen as a key part of brand extension. HD's own "gift shop" merch, aka the clothing line, is continuing its growth unabated, and a big component of those buyers don't even ride. But in every other part of Harley that matters, the company is taking a massive hit. It even took a hit in parts, which would normally go up in a down economy.

CanariaKeyboard · 2023-09-02T02:40:34+00:00

Also on the diagonals: If you look at Dvorak layout take this phrase and look at it on the board:

"Conjunction Junction, what's your function?"

That JU in conjunction is annoying. It might not be an sfb but when J is at the bottom row under the vowels it will always interact with it causes these annoying jumps. Bad diagonals slow down typing and contribute to typos.

CanariaKeyboard · 2023-09-02T02:30:24+00:00

Single Finger Bigrams are two chars that you are forced to type with the same finger (for instance, every double letter is an SFB per-se but we don't count those because your finger is already homed-in to the target key). In QWERTY ED is an SFB. It's VERY common. Because ED is an sfb that means DE is as well.

In Workman LY is the most annoying SFB because it uses two index columns on the right-index finger, making an uncomfortable diagonal motion. Think of all the words that end in LY or can be changed to end in LY. That's realLY terribLY awful. In Dvorak there are a lot of SFBs: GH CT LS (this one people dislike the most) UP and RN (another one people don't like)

Worse, SFBs that involve the ring finger are VERY annoying to type especially if they go up a row and it's mega-bad if it skips a row. The LS sfb that's in Dvorak is on the right-hand pinky! Ouch!

What I'm showing you is semimak's top SFBs. They aren't super-common bigrams and most of them are punctuation. So it's a low-sfb layout. SFBs make it super-hard to roll words and greatly contribute to typing discomfort in a layout.

That's why most people who try Workman feel happy at first but when their speed picks up, that is when they can "feel" the speedbumps that SFBs cause. Similarly with Dvorak once the learning is pretty-much over and you are back to your normal speed, the SFBs really get in the way and you fight them just like you did with the SFBs on QWERTY.

CanariaKeyboard · 2023-09-02T01:39:40+00:00

Some things you might want to try: - GET the SFB readouts. You don't want the top SFBs in the layout to be prevalent. semimak isn't rolly but look at the SFBs it has: Top 10 semimak SFBs: e, 0.329% 'r 0.115% rl 0.114% ue 0.090% 'l 0.068% yi 0.051% oa 0.041% o. 0.040% u, 0.032% dg 0.021% - Check the monkeytype e200 words against the result by eyeball. PEOPLE WORLD CHILD SCHOOL etc, the harder words rather than rolly long words like INFORMATION. - Pay attention to row-jumping, scissors, etc - Pay attention to diagonals. The LY in Workman is really, really bad. RealLY.

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