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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1440 on: January 15, 2019, 03:06:36 PM »
87 KX500 & 1st Start in 15 Years WOT WTF!
Here's what they call a URL: https://youtu.be/A1V06vkmH7g
Had a bit of fun today editing a short video of the first time I started my 87 KX500. Well, it made a change from writing, which is what I usually spend most of my time doing these days. I'm blinking useless with computers. When I left school we weren't even allowed to use calculators on our final maths exams. It was all slide-rules before that - which I could never get the hang of. And to think they built, amongst other things, the atomic bomb with it.
Well, that goes to show my age. I must be one of the oldest blokes to ever start riding a KX500 (when I get parts for it), unless anybody knows different that is?
It took me all half a day to make the necessary changes to the video. Before that it was a minute and a half long. You can see by the video that I dropped the phone and concentrated on stopping the beast. I should upload the one I took afterwards where it's difficult to see the KX because it's obscured by all the smoke in the kitchen.
It took me a month to work out and design the front cover of the book I've nearly finished editing; I hope I Hell's name I'm not asked to make any changes. I'm probably the only bloke who's never played a video game either, though I did have a go at Space Invaders in the 70s. Never even touched an X-box before, prefer to stick to 2 strokes!
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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1441 on: January 16, 2019, 09:05:51 AM »
some cool death rides...

https://youtu.be/VK7uSVyBATg
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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1442 on: January 17, 2019, 08:58:06 AM »
Part 2 of video: KX500 First Start in Fifteen Years (Second Attempt). https://youtu.be/qlOpb5LG1mY
First time I tried to start the KX500 (an all original 87 apart from 88 cylinder) back in December 2018, the motor ran amok and went from tickover to WOT in an instant. All explained here: https://youtu.be/A1V06vkmH7g
The second time she started up and ran OK, and you can see her running in my kitchen. I recorded on my mobile so the video isn't too stable, add to that the KX's half-litre of two-stroke vibration, and you can see why she really rocks. Check out the footpeg and gear lever to see what I mean: https://youtu.be/5rlYZ1pt5lI
To everyone on KXRiders.com - this is so frustrating. I was having so much fun getting the KX prepared to run after all these years, and now that she does I'm stymied by the fact I'm in Mexico. But I'm hanging on to her, and one day you'll see this monster back on the road and trails, even if I'm too blinking old for any serious stuff!
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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1443 on: January 17, 2019, 09:47:07 AM »
KX500 First Start in Fifteen Years (Second Attempt) Part 1. https://youtu.be/5rlYZ1pt5lI
The first time I tried to start the KX500 (an all original 87 apart from 88 cylinder) back in December 2018, the motor ran amok and went from tickover to WOT in an instant. All explained here: https://youtu.be/A1V06vkmH7g
The second time she started up and ran OK, and you can see her running in my kitchen. I recorded on my mobile so the video isn't too stable, add to that the KX's half-litre of two-stroke vibration, and you can see why she really rocks. Check out the footpeg and gear lever to see what I mean.
Everyone on KXRiders.com - Got my videos muddled up and posted the wrong one on YouTube. Still, it can stay there now and I've edited them both (as well as the posts on here) so there's a part 1 and a part 2.
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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1444 on: January 17, 2019, 01:17:22 PM »
Expect guys like you have seen this video, but not all of you: MOTORCYCLE GRAVEYARD https://youtu.be/kl5T2h-6sJI
I was in Spain last year and went to see my old employer (motorcycle shop on the Costa Blanca) from 20 years back. I asked him for my bike I'd left there and this is what he told me (yeah, I know, he bloody well sold the thing). Anyway, the EU laws now state that all bikes left on open land have to be drained of all fluids separately - petrol, oil, brake fluid etc., and then have it sent away for recycling. All the bikes have to be broken up into aluminium, steel, plastic etc., and then have it sent away for recycling. The authorities use drones to fly over plots of land to see what's stored on them too, and the COST of storing lots old bikes/cars on land is also designed to be prohibitively expensive (he did shock me with some figures but I can't remember them). In other words, you'll no longer come across this scenario much longer in Europe. Britain should be leaving via Brexit - but that's politics so I'm not commenting.
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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1445 on: January 17, 2019, 01:40:16 PM »
2 strokes rippin...

https://youtu.be/TYFc9SbnkhI
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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1446 on: January 21, 2019, 01:40:54 AM »
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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1447 on: January 23, 2019, 05:53:07 AM »
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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1448 on: January 23, 2019, 04:03:58 PM »
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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1449 on: January 29, 2019, 09:17:15 AM »
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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1450 on: February 01, 2019, 01:42:27 AM »
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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1451 on: February 01, 2019, 12:16:08 PM »
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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1452 on: February 03, 2019, 01:16:02 AM »
Brand New KX500 still in the crate!
https://youtu.be/Np2mwA5O-5g
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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1453 on: February 04, 2019, 04:39:24 AM »
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Re: Lost on YouTube
« Reply #1454 on: February 04, 2019, 09:55:31 PM »
Just interested to know, because a lot of you fellers were motocross riders in the past, are you in any of the videos from this era?
You are probably too humble to say: "Here's me when I won the 500 GP back in '87" etc., but from my perspective it'd be good to put faces to names.

This video is NOT bike related at all. Sorry I couldn't NOT post it 'coz it's just so d**n funny. Actually it's 04:30 in the morning, there's no food in the house, or booze, or a woman, and I'm just pretty naffed off in general. Until I saw this. Seriously I was in stitches. I had tears of laughter streaming down my face. Just had to share it with you guys:

https://youtu.be/_mQdOO35dwE

Please leave a comment if you, like me, found it hilarious.
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