My Bike Gets REALLY hot (Solved) New Tail Lightss!!!!!!

[Skeets]

No flambé needed.

Hadn't noticed (or even looked to see if you put that in your profile - I don't, though I'll admit to having graduated college before you were born) your age, but whether 8 or 80, it's till a good thing to know. So go learn from your mechanic, and we'll hope you have a decent one - one reason a LOT of folk end up learning to work on their own bikes is that GOOD mechanics are few and far between, and good motorcycle mechanics are fewer and farther between, and you have less margin of error on a bike than a car for dumb stuff like "wheel fell off".

I can do most of the mechanical work on my truck. I usually pay someone else to at this point. The constant fight with crap that should come apart and doesn't, the filth, the rust, it's all tiresome, and I have a pretty good (but not cheap) mechanic.

I have a bike that's been off the road for a LONG time because I don't have a motorcycle mechanic I can trust, and I don't have a lot of time for working on it.

As for the jerk neighbor, either ignore the foolishness, or sit down and talk with the guy, and then ignore the foolishness if it keeps up after that.

He gives me the "Motorcycles shouldn't be parked in car parking spots" but my brother has a Ninja 250 that parks right next to me. Yeah I agree with you. I NEVER trust my mechanic. Even if he tells me that the spark plugs are bad I'm going to tell him thanks for the help, I'll figure it out after that. Tommorow I will get them off for you..I remember seeing some on WIKI that were really good.

I am assuming when I put my new K&N High performance air filter I will need to put washers under the needle?

[souljeroflight]

Skeets i think what dod is saying about pulling the spark plugs is that when you post a picture he will look at it and tell you himself  if the bike is lean/ rich caked in oil etc.  not just tell you they are bad and to get new ones. easy cheap solution.  I have had my bike for a month and have had the whole thing aprt in my garage without ever knowing jack about motorcycles. Read a lot on this site and you will get bookoo knowledge of your bike wigch is very very inportante.  These guys are great and my wife and I both are amzed at the things i've done so far.  all by reading and listening to good advice here at gstwin.com  I say pull the plugs yourself

[Skeets]

You know what, tommorow right after school I will pull them myself.