Recent content by Fried Chicken

That's what I use, but none of the online reviews/comparisons seem to corroborate this experience. Still I see people swear by it. I might grab some once my kroil runs out or is close to running out. It's almost 50% cheaper than Kroil

Maybe I'll start a gofundme

I didn't find this article particularly helpful; it reads like they're trying to oversimplify everything, but don't know how. "A complex grease is made by taking a simple grease and adding a complexing agent" I found an amusingly unhelpful statement What?? As I said, this was only my gut...

Try $2k for mercedes adaptive lights, plus they need to be coded to the vehicle ^ ^ Utterly retarded. I thought the glass had to do with accidents causing a mess.... Glass is so infinitely superior to this plastic garbage we have now. Glass goes forever. Sealed headlights don't get dirty...

Use Energizer, not Duracell There's no "need" for a digital torque wrench, only convenience. Digital torque wrenches, like so many things digital, are not better/more accurate than their mechanical/analog counterparts. Waste of time. You can do those entirely by feel/eye: snug by a right...

Not by a long shot. My assumption is this forum is the place to go into the really nitty gritty, and I expect to go there, once I get a chance to breathe from the work that's consuming me right now.

I haven't abandoned this thread, I just haven't had time to sit and do look over the reading material and write down my new questions

I'm talking about one of these: https://www.hazet.de/en/products/torque-tools/torque-tester/product/ean-4000896029266 You set this on top of your bolt, hold it with the magnet, and it lets you set the angle of the bolt exactly. Used on stretch bolts and whatnot. Here's the thing... unlike...

I'm not sure what the top tier logo is supposed to be.... to me it always looked like an owl

BMW K1200S, AKA the best motorcycle ever :D

There aren't any! Well here's the thing, sometimes I'll only top off like 3 gallons or so, and bikes, unlike cars, aren't required by law to handle all flavors of gas (no VVT). I put midgrade in once, and immediately got knocking. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they screwed up their...

This was exactly my thinking as well

Texas; not a big city, but growing (like every town in Texas)

They do, right? Like I said, my suspicion is the tank they use is too big for the area (they have an impressively large gas station), but nobody here tanks premium gas. I know this, b/c I will sometimes do the "fuel pump walk" where I check each pump and do the mental arithmetic to figure out...

Drained the tank and refilled, bike is back to normal like nothing happened