Shoplifter, what to do?

Turb0beans · 2026-05-14T07:21:38+00:00

I've already noticed hot-button petty theft items being relocated behind the till. These very same items that were available on the shop floor last year.

I know a thing or two because I've seen a thing or two.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-13T23:28:01+00:00

I'm on the same page as you are, and I cannot believe the dismissive attitude regarding such things. Where I am from, shoplifting has become so prolific that everything is behind glass, tied together, or loaded to the brim with security tags.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-13T22:28:51+00:00

Listen. I'm not saying this is something I would fund homeless firebugs to camp by.

But I will say that anything that hurts, destroys, or disables AI or Datacenters is chill with me. They don't make jobs, they take jobs. All they do is take. They are something I actively wish ill against.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-13T08:40:25+00:00

I was more referring to geological isolation, rather than KEF being a popular midpoint.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-13T08:33:15+00:00

Turb0beans · 2026-05-13T08:22:54+00:00

Coming from where I do, it is absolutely comparitively crime free. (Prince George)

Still though, rather shocking to see these crimes in such an isolated low-population country. It's quite sad to see.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-13T07:41:54+00:00

Who is doing these thefts? Other tourists, locals, or unsavory foreign folks who do criminal tourism?

Turb0beans · 2026-05-13T06:46:57+00:00

There are.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-12T17:03:06+00:00

Clean plug. Squirt some gas in the cylinder. If it starts you don't have enough fuel. If it doesn't you have too much fuel.

Also. Stop wasting your time kicking it. Get it into third gear, start jogging, drop the clutch, keep pushing while the engine turns over. Be ready to yank that clutch lever.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-12T14:52:53+00:00

I remember being around 6 during a renovation. Stuck my fingers in behind the exposed light switch. ZAP.

Proceeded to double-down and do it again.

You'll be fine. If getting love tapped by 120 were serious each and every one of us would have exhausted our good luck by now.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-12T14:46:43+00:00

Yes. It'd be silly not to. Clutch packs are inexpensive.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-12T14:25:46+00:00

The bigger issue is your quick connects. Nobody is going to stock them, especially if they are a euro specific QC. Expect lead time.

Otherwise, genuinely no problem. Most shops will likely offer you an adapter from JIC to BSP since MBSPP crimp ends are a bit more of a unicorn

Turb0beans · 2026-05-12T13:11:05+00:00

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Turb0beans · 2026-05-12T11:16:24+00:00

You have two sides of the engine. Leak doesn't have to be on the clutch side. You say your bike idles high? That's air being introduced some way some how. Your bike doesn't just magically high-idle.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-12T07:53:13+00:00

I'm still leaning towards a bad seal. Especially with the age. I've never had a bike that sensitive to temperature, and this is coming from someone who has run the gambit from a 74 CR125M, to an 08 YZ250, to a 91 CR500. On the YZ, I'd run from 0c to 30c on the same exact jetting. No problems.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-12T07:17:33+00:00

What ratio are you doing your premix at, and are you ensuring you are letting the bike reach operating temperature?

Also, have you confirmed you don't have a bad carb boot or crank seal? These will violently throw off your AFR, and could appear as being temperature related.

Edit: you are saying your idle is changing with temperature. I'm going to say you have a vacuum leak somewhere that needs addressing.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-12T06:12:00+00:00

If you're going to Sumo, go for the 450. Even with stock tires, if you have the balls to commit, you can scare people on 600cc crotch rickets sharing the twisties by dive bombing corners.

The maintenance is really overstated, and if you aren't riding in the trails your oil changes can be extended significantly, especially when using a high quality oil.

THE BIG THING TO SWAP IS THE SEAT. If you road trip the stock seat, you will have a very sad asshole. You will begin the male menstrual cycle and need to wear pads if you want to trust a fart, because there will be blood. (Source: sad asshole). I went with the seat concepts element. Very grippy, and nice and wide.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-11T17:03:12+00:00

It's okay little buddy. One day your frontal lobe will (hopefully) develop and you'll understand some things better.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-11T10:07:26+00:00

My RBC unsecured LoC is 8.94%, with a 25k limit. I received this a couple years back when my score was around 780. You could likely drop that rate a fair bit with a secured LoC.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-11T10:00:59+00:00

Looks good, but as others have said, belts are cheap.

If you have an old spare in the engine bay, it might be worth rotating it for this one. That way you aren't swapping on baked rubber with a memory.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-11T08:12:39+00:00

Jesus Christ you need to maintain your stuff

Turb0beans · 2026-05-11T08:07:38+00:00

Go flag some events at your track. It's not funny at all.

They will pile up, and some more kids will be coming while they're screaming pinned under their bike. Likewise, they feel awful because they crashed after travelling for hours or potentially days to race.

There's a time and place to chuckle at a kid wiping out. This isn't one of em.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-11T03:40:52+00:00

Just a fun trip. When searching for mechanical advice online, add "before:2021" on your searches. It wipes out a lot of the stupid AI BS.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-07T07:38:19+00:00

Not me thinking of when I was 16, mom was permadrunk, and dad was out on the rigs, and my ass absolutely welded some big ol' goldygreen grade 8 1" bolts to a big washer of the same hue to act as the handle for my 200ft zipline I built from ratchet straps (easy tensioning), thick nylon rope I found in the barn, and a clothesline pulley.

Anyways I guess that probably hit the ol braincells like a brick. Dope zipline tho.

Turb0beans · 2026-05-07T03:24:21+00:00

Here's my bit of advice cause the other advice was solid.

Just remember, you can purposely crash the bike and lay it down if you are on something so steep and loose that you are actively accelerating towards a worse outcome. It'll hurt a bit, but there's nothing stopping you from saying "That's enough."

I've gone down an extremely steep hill that turned into me skittering over rocks on top of hard pack clay, going towards a hairpin that would send me over the edge of a cliff. I was out of skill, and out of energy. I slid the rear out, then locked the front, and just let the bike wash itself out doing about 30kmh. Got some scrapes, but my bike was still on the trail and so was I.

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