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#1
03-31-2004, 01:07 PM
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Hello everybody!!!
well this is my first time posting in this street bike forum. i just bought mu first bike for $300 bucks from a friend. the bike is a 1981 yamaha seca 750cc. my first time riding was on tursday. this past sunday i was riding and the back tire poped. lucky me i was going slow. now i have to replace the tire. is it really hard to take off the rear tire? now i was wondering what is a good newer bike to start off with???
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#2
03-31-2004, 04:09 PM
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Re: Hello everybody!!!
Keep the Seca!!!
 Only b/c I have a 1994 Seca II. You're best off to go to a shop and get them to replace the tire for you. You can save yourself a few bucks usually by taking the wheel off the bike first and then just having them mount the tire on the wheel instead of them taking everything off themselves. A friend of mine also has a 1981 Seca, but his is the turbocharged version.As for a good newer bike, if you wanted to look, find some early 90's 250cc-600cc bikes.
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#3
04-01-2004, 12:20 PM
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thanks for the reply. yeah iam going to keep the bike for practice. till then i will fix up the bike and sell it. i prolly will just take the bike to the shop, after what i did yesterday iam. i have no other choice.
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#4
04-03-2004, 03:13 PM
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does anybody know what kind of motor oil i put in this cycle. it has 37 thousands miles on it. right now im having some problems with it. when i start it, then when i change to 1st gear the bike turns off. i think i do everything right. i hold the clutch and step on to 1st gear, than it turns off as soon as it goes into 1st gear. i dont know what it is?
help please!!!! oh yeah and what model is the bike? thanks
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#5
04-03-2004, 08:06 PM
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Re: Hello everybody!!!
On most Japanese bikes, there is a safety device that prevents you from riding off when the kick stand is down. There is usualy a switch near the kick stand pivot that the kickstand will hit when it goes up. I dont know exactly what is wrong, but I would check the safety switch.
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#6
04-04-2004, 09:21 PM
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Re: Hello everybody!!!
Yeah while a lot of bikes have the kickstand kill switch I dont think yours does. Have you checked your idle speed? That can play a role. Other than those I cant really think of much but dont worry it shouldnt be anything major.
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#7
04-05-2004, 11:53 AM
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damit i think it was the kick stand. i tried to put it in gear with the kick stand down. hopefuly my bike doesnt have it. i already took the bike a shop to fix the flat in the back, and i told them what was going on with the bike and yeah they told me it was the safety swtich went out.
now im mad there prolly gonna charge for the swtich to replace  oh yeah and what oil should i put in this bike? thanks
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#8
04-05-2004, 12:15 PM
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Re: Hello everybody!!!
You could go to a bike shop and get Yamilube, which is Yammi's own motorcycle oil. Another option is to get Amsoil's 4-stroke motorcycle oil. Either way, make sure you get a new filter (kinda a "duh" but some people forget). The interval on the yamilube will be less because IIRC it's dino oil, where as Amsoil is a true synthetic.
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#10
04-06-2004, 10:31 PM
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Re: Hello everybody!!!
Yamalube is a silly waste of money. Anyone who buys yamalube is just getting sucked in by what the manual says. For the same price you can get one of the best oils around IMO. Mobil 1 15w50 (red cap). Its the same price as the yamalube and its full synth. I have noticed smoother shifting which is a GOOD thing if you have a yamaha. No clutch problems. I love it and use it on everything I own. Amsoil is good but not worth the money. MADE FOR MOTORCYCLE oil is a joke. Save your doe and get the Mobil 1. Everyone I know uses it and NEVER had any problems. Simple as that.
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#12
04-09-2004, 01:37 PM
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Re: Re: Hello everybody!!!
If Amsoil is such a waste, why are they allowed to advertise as being the best on the ballbearing wear test? If it was false, wouldn't someone call them on it? Mobil1 is a true synthetic, yes, but Amsoil still tested better.
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#13
04-11-2004, 01:14 AM
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Re: Hello everybody!!!
Well any oil company can have comparisons and claim to have the best but I only go by personal opinions. And in my opinion Amsoil is a waste of money. And I did not say the oil is crap, I think its decent but not worth the extra doe. Mobil 1 1550 is the best bang for the buck IMO. Buy what you want but I will say that yamalube is no better than a cheap walmart brand oil.
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#14
04-11-2004, 03:46 AM
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Re: Hello everybody!!!
My r1 gets Valvoline VR1 Racing synthetic 20w-50
My vulcan gets Valvoline Synpower 10w-30 I am pretty consistent at doing oil changes about every 1500-1750 miles, I keep logs of mileage and dates, it really helps. I do have a concern though, there are reports of people who use full synthetic on their R1 and start getting clutch slippage, however I am just gonna go out on a limb and presume that they suck at riding or neglect their bike (don't need to bring up yamahas shitty slush box of a clutch basket).
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......or if your a loser who drives a Civic with a type R sticker, racing stripes, blasting really bad rap music through your suburban area with your pretentious "I’m 21 but I’m still in high school girlfriend" while driving with your hand up on the top of the steering wheel exposing your underdeveloped pasty white vitamin deficient arm and wearing your backwards BS upside down visor hat while feeling the tacky as a "Florida vacation" single diamond earring in your ear, If you are this person...with any luck the sun in its precise celestial positioning as you putter on by...will reflect its scorching rays into your earring, bouncing intensely in your rearview, and finally making contact with your eyes through the thin cheap lense of $5 gas station Oakley rip off glasses.. then burning your retnal cones into smoldering melting gobs of ocular material as you are blinded by the purest form of energy in our known universe, and as you scream no one can help or hear you because they don’t know what’s going on since the weed whacker sound of your shitty tiny little muffler which makes the Civic sound like a 747 rages on underneath making everyone turn at disgust and comment to thier husbands or wives how much of a dickweed you are by attaching that automotive abnormality to your stock economical daily driver engineered by Japanese Automotive specialists to fit the needs for entry level business workers in their early 30's, however your pathetic looking $11,000 car which you want to look like a friggin spaceship with redundant ground effects is now out of control since you are blinded, and as your car plunges off the side of a cliff while you scream in the purest form of terror while knowing you have lived a horrid excuse for a life, by doing the bare minimum in every facet of existence, while getting fired from one pathetic job to another, the majority of your time spent slacking smoking dope, getting kicked out of school, polishing your "game" on sweet innocent underage girls you eventually 'de flower' through exhaustive yet succesful attempts to get the date rapist drugs you have stashed in the glove compartment, into your poor victims drinks while offering them to take the "Pepsi Challenge" while making your mother hate you, and your poor father who wishes he had a daughter instead of your pathetic ass, since a girl would be more of a man than you ever were, like the occasion when you were hit in the arm by a wild pitch in little league, then you cried like a fat kid who dropped his ice cream cone, I'm already envisioning you impacting the rocks below, in a spectacular fireball ignited from the residue hairspray from your girlfriend plastered in the fabric passenger seat, blinded by your earring, deafened by the loud "Bling Blingin", and I will smile and roll around on the ground in orgasmic delight while you are consumed by flames whose intense heat and fury will liquefy your bone marrow that I will use to make jelly beans out of and eat them happily at your funeral as midgets dressed like Alex 6005321 from "A Clockwork Orange" dance around your coffin to loud industrial style techno music and strobe lights, and I will sleep soundly at night knowing another successful conquest of Darwinism has been attained.
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#15
04-11-2004, 10:29 PM
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Re: Re: Hello everybody!!!
I've heard of that, but only on certain types of bikes, etc. I can't recall specifically at the moment... too much math research.
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