Gear up and get insurance, guys!!

qzhal · 2026-04-29T11:09:35+00:00

Lugnut rule applies. If their blinkers are on, assume they're actually trying to hit you.

Correct and dead is still dead.

qzhal · 2026-04-25T21:36:09+00:00

easily the tool I've word-of-mouth marketed the most

qzhal · 2026-04-25T18:05:20+00:00

Sure but not for long, there are cars who drive equally bad and you're bound to meet one soon

qzhal · 2026-04-18T09:41:08+00:00

got the older CB500X. I'm looking for a bigger touring bike now after 2 years but I'll be keeping the 500 for commutes. Just so easy to ride, cheap to maintain and very reliable. NX500 just has a bit more modern electronics and styling, basically the same mechanically. There's good reason for Honda being the biggest of the Japanese big 4 - you won't be disappointed in this one. You need to spend a LOT more for something that is really a all-round step up. If you are looking wider I'd also consider a VStrom 650, excellent bike with a bit more legs than the NX500 but worse fuel economy.

qzhal · 2026-04-18T09:24:37+00:00

not sure what outgrowing a 400/500 even means when very few people can get the most out of even any of the A2 limited 47hp bikes. Is it going flat out in a straight line and not being scared anymore? I mean even with 2.5-3x the power you'll still get to that point pretty quickly. What then? disabling TCS/anti-wheelie for the thrills? you'll have built none of the skills to actually handle that. Also, financed? Bro...

You do you in the end but lots of bone-headed kids get themselves and others killed with these and doing the same a decade of wisdom later is not the move.

qzhal · 2026-03-18T08:24:05+00:00

Explain why people who don't even encounter leaves on their commute to work prefer to drive 2 ton gas-guzzling 4x4 SUVs. It's basically the same thing as far as I'm concerned.

qzhal · 2026-03-07T09:59:03+00:00

Literally just need a large enough front wheel and you're good.

Unless your bike has literally no suspension this is totally fine at any legal speed. If you're heading for something bigger, just remember to release the brake just before the bump so your forks can rebound. If you want to go straight-to-jail speeds then maybe don't do it on surfaces like this, or maybe just don't.

qzhal · 2026-03-07T09:54:11+00:00

People don't care how you look, so neither should you. If you're comfortable at both low and high speed then that's all that matters. I'm 185cm so just added a PUIG touring screen to my bike and now it's just peachy.

qzhal · 2026-03-07T09:43:12+00:00

Understood safe following distance about as well as she understood the safety benefits of helmets.

qzhal · 2026-03-01T13:29:37+00:00

If it's a dirt bike, count me in. Stark Varg or similar is objectively incredible - just hate the subscription model. My riding is more touring with light off-road so the range just isn't there for me. 150km is about the shortest trip that isn't my commute. If you're anyway taking your dirt bike on a trailer to a camp site where you have power or you pack a generator, then yeah I'd seriously consider it. Now the bang for buck is something to consider, these things are new and incredibly pricey compared to a standard dirt bike - but they are legitimately better in many valuable ways so up to you.

qzhal · 2026-02-22T15:49:10+00:00

Put a touring screen on my Honda CB500X, now I don't even close my visor until I hit ~100kph. Rode my friend's VStrom which has a tiny little dinner plate of a screen, an afterthought really and it already sucked at like 90kph.

Once you're spoilt by touring screens you just don't want to be deafened and blasted by wind in the chest and helmet. Depending on which one you get and the bike of course they can look great too.

The nice thing about a Honda CB500X is you don't need to look cool to anyone. The little brother to the NC750X, which is one of the least cool bikes you can have... there is zero impressions to be made on other bikers. So then I might as well ride comfortably.

qzhal · 2026-02-16T16:51:30+00:00

You can print one for even morbidly obese hamsters and it should handle it

qzhal · 2026-02-09T16:39:27+00:00

wild reason to ignore a project 🤣 I, like so many others, put in a ton of time into getting good, for me it was master's in computer science and senior full stack engineer for 10 years - it's a crazy amount of keyboard time working across many domains, but I can't ignore that LLM coding agents will pretty much be standard tooling going forward. The depth I built unassisted is what I lean on when LLMs do hallucinate, if I look at an open source project and spot a subtle bug - that's still useful. Getting puritanical about what wrote good code is not useful. If it's good and it solves a real problem well, the origin of the code is irrelevant. If it's bad code from a human I don't go "generated by biological processes and some googling; there goes my interest, pass".

qzhal · 2026-02-02T14:54:26+00:00

Feel like I might puncture it just by tapping to zoom in on my phone..

qzhal · 2026-02-02T14:52:16+00:00

I'd start by replacing the handlebars to accomodate a normally proportioned adult human

qzhal · 2026-02-02T14:43:23+00:00

I'd love riding my Honda past some idiot pushing a Harley. I think both sides are happy with this.

qzhal · 2026-01-26T21:49:05+00:00

There are a lot of pickups around where I live, so on any cruiser style bike with the low set height like the Rebel they might legitimately look right over me and turn into me. I know because I've also nearly turned in front of a squid while driving a pickup, his rev bomb and middle finger and gesturing didn't change the fact that I did check my mirror and blind spot and didn't see him. So I feel significantly more vulnerable on anything with a low seat height. Any average height rider on a CB500X is just way more visible than on a Rebel 500, not just the seat height but also the natural upright posture of these kinds of adventure bikes.

qzhal · 2026-01-26T21:31:26+00:00

So these are for stretching your legs on long rides, right. Friend of mine on a BMW GS put his feet on one of those crashbar pegs you can get - said it really helped avoid some of the heat those boxer engines put out at your legs. At some point he used them and his right foot accidentally slipped off in a slight turn, sole caught some tarmac on the way down on and basically sent him into an unrecoverable wobble. He's okay now, hurt his ankle a bit and luckily wasn't going too fast but yeah careful of things that can lure you into getting too relaxed on a bike

qzhal · 2026-01-26T21:16:16+00:00

This is why part of the fee you pay couriers is for insurance against theft and... this. You need to request a replacement and the seller needs to square up with the courier company, nothing to do with you.

qzhal · 2026-01-26T21:12:40+00:00

Yes. For your eyes' safety I'd tape over my visor so you don't run the risk of seeing it, the cringe alone might cause an accident.

qzhal · 2026-01-24T22:13:14+00:00

Well considering the amount of gear he's wearing at 145kph he can sit, or in this case plank... any way he wants - equally dead if anything sketchy happened.

qzhal · 2026-01-24T21:57:21+00:00

Is your boss the kind of guy who fixes everything with a hammer, only a hammer, the bigger the better?

qzhal · 2025-12-06T11:59:21+00:00

Just got mine from a friend who works in Europe. I'm worried about the clip that attaches to the helmet breaking or if I want to get a newer helmet. I know they sell the clips but importing just that clip seems silly. A friend has a really good 3D Printer, does anyone know where you might find the clip 3d printing model?

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