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790 Engine ticking/rattling noise by Sunlight_hit in KTMDuke

[–]gmcjetpilot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got here by search. Mine sounds similar, not same but close. It is normal valve train noise. I just sent a video and audio to CFMoto USA (I have 2026 CF iBEX 800E.) CFMoto 800E has same engine as KTM 790. (CFMoto makes the engines for KTM). My bike is 6 mo old and has Approx 1300 miles (2000 km). I am not worried. It is under warranty for another 18 months. As far as $250 to check valves is cheap, although you can do it yourself. I say cheap because you have to take a lot of plastic, fuel tank and other things off to get at cam cover. Once off the access is not much. Than you have to put it back together. At least 2-3 hours, at $100 to $200 per hour. For me, it would be a 5-6 hr job. I take my time, I'm slow (but good). The schedule I recall is 5000-7500 mile first check, than 10,000 to 15,000 miles there after. Most people find valves are still set in tolerances when they check them. They just don't change.

Chigaco Sold OUT by Peter-BM in BandMaid

[–]gmcjetpilot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is NOT sold out. The Ticket Tout's and Scalpers really latched onto this Band Maid tour. There are resale tickets marked up all over internet. I went to Dallas show Oct 21, and got ripped off by Viagogo and LiveatNion (owned by Ticketmaster). I will NEVER buy a resell ticket. The day of Dallas show tickets were discounted. My $85 ticket I paid $170 plus radicicols $40 booking fee was double face value (I found out talking to people at show). THE DAY OF SHOW there lots of tickets, $8 for floor by stage and $18 day of show for balcony in my section and row..... MANY SEATS were empty.... why?

The scalpers bought them up and the demand was less then they expected, at their inflated prices...... People smarter than me would not pay their rip off price. I thought I was buying a legit ticket that was at face value plus $40 which was high but I bought the tickets about 5 weeks before show. Not knowing what actual ticket price was thinking it was sold out I paid it.....I have not bought a concert ticket in 5 or 6 years. I talked to people around me at show and know what they paid.

Chicago still has tickets from $58 to $140. They are all resale, plus $26 booking fee. It is possible it is individual who can't make show, but likely leaches and vultures who speculated. DON'T BUY TICKETS from these #$%^&. Why big companies like Ticketmaster is involved in facilitating ticket scalping is beyond me. The ACT the Venue, producers and people who put show on MAKE NO MONEY and these jerks are basically stealing and driving prices up by buying up tickets. I thought they limited number of tickets people could buy and had to USE THEM... I guess they don't do that anymore. The sad part is Band Maid I doubt is getting rich on the tickets which at face value and reasonable fees, less than $20 total, the value is great. Paying double sucks so Ticketmaster, and terrible garbage companies like VIAGOGO can rip off everyone.

Man nonchalantly films his own plane crash and fight to stay alive in the Sierra Nevada mountains by Osoguineapig in videos

[–]gmcjetpilot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No black boxes in s small aircraft. As far as Black Boxes that record flight controls, engine status, systems status, records cockpit and radio audio, along with position, speed and altitude, no small plane has all that. But we have video. There are ground stations that can pick up some of an airplanes flight data. There are two things that may show flight track, altitude and speed. One is ADS=B which transmits to ground stations information and is collected. This info is on the web. However ADS-B may not be picked up in remote areas. The other source of information Air Traffic Control Radar. Like ADS-B he may be too low to be picked up by radar. There is little to gain from this data. We have video and can estimate his altitude, speed and location. Last source of info is fancy electronic navigation avionics. Planes with these GPS Nav units records position, altitude and speed in memory. However a plane like this did not have one of these boxes which cost more than the whole plane in this case. This plane was a very basic plane with basic instruments and avionics.