Recent content by KLR Junkie

Carhartt's and Wranglers may be slightly better than fashion jeans, but they're still utterly useless in a slide. A few years ago I wiped out on a bicycle wearing a pair of double layer Carhartt work pants. The ass wore through basically instantly and the double-layered knee/thigh area was...

I bought a Best Rest CyclePump a few years back for a cross-country ride. Never ended up needing it on that trip but I did use it to seat the tires on my Goldwing when I changed them pre-trip. It lives in the trunk of my car now, where it has been used to inflate a few flats. Expensive, but...

That's fine, if you can get a drill where you need it... Very few bolts in an engine bay are accessible with even a compact drill/driver. I changed the oil on my seadoo this weekend and spent a good 5 minutes taking out one bolt from the filter cover plate. I only had enough space to get...

Not quite the right thread, but pretty close so here goes. Does anyone know of a George Foreman style grill that doesn't use coated grill plates? I use my little 2 serving Foreman grill all the time but I only get about 3 years out of the plates before the coating starts to wear off, and they...

yep, they're clearly the cunts in that example...

I burn less oil... Maybe it feels a bit stronger, but that could just be my imagination. I went with the 685 just to stop the oil burning, apparently the 705 or 715 kits offer a more significant bump in power with the tradeoff being having to re-sleeve the cylinder. Of course, I'm running the...

Perfect time for a rebuild. I did mine last year at about 75,000km. New 685cc piston, thermo-bob and Cogent Dynamics suspenders front and rear. Rides better than new, and is 30lbs lighter than a stock Gen 3 even with all my farkles. Total cost for parts/machining was about $2,500. Anyway...

I use mine as my keychain fob. The metal on the bottom curved bit was worn down to maybe 1mm thick. This was when the bike had 7,000km on it. I have no idea if the problem has been addressed in the 20 years since my bike left the factory, but it's a pretty easy thing to check.

According to Google: The WiLL Vi is a quirky, "neo-retro" subcompact car produced by Toyota from 2000 to 2001 for the Japanese domestic market (JDM). Designed for a youth-marketing project, it features a unique "cliff-cut" rear window, 1.3L engine, and shares its platform with the Toyota...

A history of Canada in 10 maps by Adam Shoalts A History of Canada in 10 Maps Very interesting look at the charting of early Canada. His chapter on the journeys of Alexander McKenzie was particularly well done. Not a dry historical text at all.

Have you tried loading books onto your reader using Adobe Digital Editions on your PC? I have an older Kobo reader that doesn't play well with directly downloading from the library so I just browse the library's Overdrive website on the PC, download the book onto my computer using ADE and...

Hello trials riders, I'm looking to swap my dual sport for a trials bike this year. The dual sport is just too heavy and I've always preferred the tight, technical trail riding over the fast open sweepers that my riding buddies get all excited about so I figured why not lean into it and go...

At the daycare just down the street from home the snowbanks mean that the parents can't load the kiddies from the sidewalk so they're all loading from the street side. Of course, they park on both sides of the street because they're too lazy to walk 50ft down the street. So every morning and...

Maybe. Just trying to inject some facts to counter the ridiculous right/left rage.

Sorry, but he current head of the RCMP was appointed by Trudeau, not Carney.