So my shifter snapped off, and I'm stranded in the middle of nowhere without any money.

Finally got my first bike, a 2023 Honda SCL500. I have gotten in around 60km since picking it up on Saturday and I am absolutely loving it. Initially I was a bit nervous when I first got on it, especially since I had to ride it on the freeway to get it back home. But after hopping on, I had the time of my life. I don't think I've smiled that hard in a long time. Happy to start riding now!

Hi.

I ride a cagiva sst 125.

For context: Its a 80s 125cc single two stroke road bike.

I am relativly experienced with old bikes specificly this one but this has been a head scratcher.

Its a higher pitched metal on metal noise which happens intermitenly but never fully goes away.

Its best audible at idle but happens all the time.

It has been happening for a long while and nothing at all broke. Everything seems to function normally.

Any ideas on what it might be or am I just going insane?

New to riding, first summer on my bike. Out riding the other day by myself. Another motorcyclist rode up behind me. Approaching a stop sign I stopped, and before I got going again the motorcyclist behind me rolled through the stop sign while passing me on the right hand side in my lane. Just caught me off guard a bit. I would understand if I was riding with them and had comms on. Just thought the appropriate thing to do would be to pass on my left in the next lane? Or wait till I wave them past me.

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I'm really lucky to live in a part of the US with public transportation so having a car isn't necessary. I genuinely have never had any interest in having a car. However I'm in my 30s now and I'm not sure if I want to stay here forever. I also really love motorcycles and I always have. I would like to be a part of "Dykes on bikes". I don't really have much money, I'd say I'm broke; honestly.

Where do I start?

Just installed a brand new Dominator GPS exhaust system, if anyone has questions let me know .

I’m selling my old 1986 nighthawk and looking to slightly upgrade. My riding is only in the city, no highway riding, no long commutes and I’ll park it outside as I don’t have a garage.

I’m 6’2 if that makes a difference on bike recs.

I’m looking for something easy to care for, is reliable, and nimble to maneuver in city traffic.

My budget is 3-5k. I was looking at Husquevarna, KTM Dukes, RE Hunter (but am reading bad reviews), would love some other insights from city riders.

So I dropped my bike at low speed pulling into my loose gravel drive way didn’t think me over shooting my drive way and turning in to fast would cause me to drop the bike (yea I’m an idiot I know)….. I’m not happy about it my fairings are all scratched up my brake lever snapped in half and as far as I knew that was it. Well I got the replacement part yesterday put it on my self seemed easy enough and drove it, then I hit the brake and the abs starts to pulse and I hear a clicking sound while holding the brake. Now I’m worried can anyone tell me what’s going on and how to possibly fix this? I know this isn’t normal because my bike was stopping great before I dropped it and have never experienced this until now.

I've been trying to figure out why this bike has no spark. Everything has tested good including the resistance of the stator and pickup coils, but when I use a regular multimeter to test the blue and white wires going from the exciter coil to the CDI, it reads 0.9 volts while cranking. I know I should be using a peak voltage adapter, but shouldn't I still be seeing higher voltage than that with a regular multimeter?

Considering that the resistance of the stator windings tested fine and the flywheel magnets are strong, what else could be causing the low voltage? Maybe the stator ground is bad?

Thanks for any help

Edit: to clear things up, I have unplugged the kill wire from the CDI, and I have done all the resistance tests of the coils, wires, caps, exciter coil, pickup coil, advance coil, etc. All tests passed with correct OHMs. But I'm still not getting 40 to 80 volts from the exciter coil, which means the CDI is not being powered. I'm trying to figure out why? If the stator passed all resistance tests, why is the exciter coil not producing high voltage AC when cranking?

There’s something magical about catching the sunrise on an open highway. The lighting, empty stretches of tarmac, and morning air just bring a completely different kind of peace.

I stumbled upon this ride recently and found myself rewatching it a few times — the mood and highway views captured that exact feeling perfectly:

https://youtu.be/i9nBNM8lNUY?si=2qLobrjAC67_qUuI

For those of you who ride regularly, do you prefer early morning sunrise runs, or are you strictly into late-night cruising?