Recent content by Taco

Yeah she pretty much watched me do it and nah, she didn't help at all.... I was even more angry at that point so I probably wouldn't have let her anyways haha. I've never laid a hand on her but she's seen me do some damage to a wall and can usually tell when to stay away. I just got up and...

So I had my first good spill yesterday... Got in a fight with my girlfriend and took off on grass. Battlax's don't do so well at 30+mph on bumpy grass needless to say haha. Bike is relatively undamaged, the plastic cover on my flush mount turn signal is busted but the light still works, it's...

Man that's pretty far! I have only been riding for one season and so far the farthest I've gone was to Bloomington and back, about a day's ride. I would love to go somewhere with some better roads than here though. The only good road around Carmi is the blacktop between Brownsville and Herald...

Just looking to see if there are any fellow riders in the area. I am from Carmi, Illinois (about 40~ miles west of Evansville, IN) and I would like to arrange a ride or something if anybody else is around!

Thanks for the replies and help guys! I'll try and move over to another forum for older bikes but I think a carb cleaning is pretty much necessary anyway so we'll probably go ahead and do that. The exhaust on it is stock, I think. I really can't tell haha it looks and sounds stock-ish, but I'll...

My friend recently purchased a 1994 Yamaha XJ 600. She has just started riding and it is her first bike. She had me ride it around town today and I noticed that it was a little down on power and struggled through the higher RPM's. Though the redline is around 10,000, the best time to shift seems...

Thanks for the help and responses guys! I'll try and get the suspension set over my spring break this week. I'll look into finding some new bars but I hadn't even thought of getting a different seat. I don't really have a problem with the suspension when I'm riding solo, but the roads around...

Hello all, I've had my fz6r for about eight months now and I absolutely love it. I plan on keeping this bike for at least a season or two more until I get some more experience, then give it to my girlfriend to learn on. The only issue I have is that I am a pretty big guy. I haven't legitimately...

Hello everyone! I am a fairly new rider (1 season in) from southern Illinois. I started out riding on a 1985 Honda Shadow until I came across a 2009 yellow FZ6R for a very reasonable price, and now here I am! I've always used forums to help me with maintenance (customtacos.com is excellent for...