[Brian10x]

While inspecting the bike this morning, I'm fairly certain I saw a Schrader valve on the crankcase right next to the conundrum compensator. Should I be concerned?

[JessHerbst]

While inspecting the bike this morning, I'm fairly certain I saw a Schrader valve on the crankcase right next to the conundrum compensator. Should I be concerned?

Yes, call the bomb squad immediately and have them remove the bike, then you must enter witness protection.

[Brian10x]

My fear is that it may be a covert monitoring device to check on my activities. I am a well known right wing gun owning trouble maker around these parts, and they may be out to get me. In fact I'm sure of it.

[AzCal Retred]

Units designed for the air to be a spring generally have large diameter hollow damper shafts

@ #13: ...wenodis...i said as much.

[Racer57]

My 2018 Indian Roadmaster has a rear mono air shock thats pumped with a supplied hand pump. I kept mine at 125lbs.

I've never known of anyone that tried to pump up an sealed nitrogen system without destroying the shock. 

[NVDucati]

My 2018 Indian Roadmaster has a rear mono air shock thats pumped with a supplied hand pump. I kept mine at 125lbs.

I've never known of anyone that tried to pump up an sealed nitrogen system without destroying the shock.

I think those big Indians are fascinating.
Curious, how much of a variance in air pressure does it take for you to notice a change in the ride?

[Brian10x]

Can't call those bikes Indians anymore, its not politically correct. Have to call them indigenous native American  Amerind people motorcycles.

Try fitting that one on a fuel tank.

[JessHerbst]

Can't call those bikes Indians anymore, its not politically correct. Have to call them indigenous native American  Amerind people motorcycles.

Try fitting that one on a fuel tank.

Nothing wrong with the name Indian, until you force it on people who are not from India.
 Will your IT nannies let you look up ‘Straw man’?

[Brian10x]

Try fitting THAT on a fuel tank.

[AzCal Retred]

@ #21: That's "First Peoples Motorcycles". Catchy, eh? Possibly "1st Peoples MC Co." also. Should appeal to the egotistical everywhere.

[lucky phil]

Adding air to the nose strut of an airplane is a routine task. For motorcycles, I recall adding valves to a bike back in the 80s, but I have not seen a bike recently with a valve for the front forks.

Yes pretty much. I've done it many times at the terminal during a turn round and in the hangar of course. It shouldn't be required very often at all but that's not always the way it turns out. Main struts as well. Pilots can feel and hear the nose strut pressure low as opposed to the mains.

Phil

[gizzo]

@ #21: That's "First Peoples Motorcycles". Catchy, eh? Possibly "1st Peoples MC Co." also. Should appeal to the egotistical everywhere.

That's not OK. Are they claiming that they are the first people and that anyone that came before them is not "people"? My local indigenous people might disagree. 60,0000+ years here, vs 15-20k for your johnny come latelys. Africa, a lazy couple of mil. On their behalf, I'm offended! Thanks, got my indignation started early. Now I can go on to have a wokefully productive day.
 

[AzCal Retred]

Canada started this terminology. It accurately describes the "first inhabitants" of the continent, the folks that were already on the ground when Euro fur traders & Vikings showed up. Seems accurate enough. In those days the Urth was assumed to have sprang into being on 18 March 3952 BC (Bede), so obviously these were the first people, mebbe even the "lost tribe"...right?

I'm up to speed on Australian Aboriginal origins. The American Indians (and/or First Peoples) origins are pretty amazing also. In Australia the first Aboriginals dealt with the formidable Dirawong, a 20' Goanna, sort of a land-going crocodile. In North America the first Indians dealt with Polar, Kodiak & Grizzly bears. In South America there were Phorusrhacids, 10' carnivorous hunting parrots. All of this was done armed basically with sharp sticks & fire. Impressive even today.

As far as replacing "Indian" with "First People" for a motorcycle marketing scam, that is called parody or hyperbole. The obvious idea was that potential ego-driven upscale buyers would flock to a machine that declared unambiguously that they were #1.

https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/aborig/fp/fpz1inte.html

https://www.firstlighttravel.com.au/australian-travel-blog/aboriginal-mythology-some-truths-revealed#:~:text=It%20was%20a%20true%20monster,the%20last%20two%20million%20years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae#:~:text=Phorusrhacids%2C%20colloquially%20known%20as%20terror,million%20years%20(Ma)%20ago.

[Hoiho]

Schrader valve to 10' carnivorous hunting parrots..

That there is some impressive thread drift, even by our standards 

[Brian10x]

Schrader valve to 10' carnivorous hunting parrots..

That there is some impressive thread drift, even by our standards 

As the originator of this fine thread, I completely agree!
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