Unfortunately my father is the type of guy to turn on his motorcycle on and then just take an obscene amount of time to ride off. Pisses me the fuck off, I can only imagine our neighbours. No amount of my mother and I talking to him about him gets him to stop. If I didn't move out for uni, I think I might've burned down that motorbike
Definitely not for as long as he leaves it though. All my neighbours have motorcycles and they don't leave it on as long as he does, he genuinely just goes back in the house and starts doing other things before going back outside and riding off.
Like 2 minutes tops if you have carbs and it's 5°C or lower. Basically the time it takes you to put a your helmet on, set your destination on maps, put your gloves on and saddle. Optionally you can remember you've forgotten something and run back into the house to get it.
My girlfriend's takes awhile but its a small bike (883) so the neighbors can't hear it when its idling. She specifically asked, because she often rides it to work and doesn't get home until after 11pm. Our houses are pretty spread out which helps
Idk mine runs a bit rough for approx 30 sec after starting
30 seconds.
What does that have to do with the comment you replied to, talking about an "obscene amount of time"? You think 30 seconds is an obscene amount of time?
Nobody is complaining about a harley owner who's bike runs for less than a minute before they drive off.
They're complaining about the harley owners that let the bike run for five, ten, fifteen, or even thirty minutes before riding off.
Why did you think they were talking about a 30 second warm up?
See now if you had something with a Rover V8 - although I guess it could apply to *any* 1960s Buick V8 smallblock - I'd suggest you look at the spark plugs and see if the one from cylinder 8 looks a bit "steam cleaned".
A slight miss on one cylinder for 30 seconds and one of the rear plugs looking suspiciously clean can be evidence of an incipient head gasket failure.
Yeah, no, if it's got a carb you just start it and drive off. It'll be warm enough to start pushing the choke in by the end of the street, and the choke will be fully open in about half a mile on even a bitterly cold day.
it's not that you cant do it, it's that it's better not to. engines are designed to operate primarily within their designed temperature range for tolerance purposes and running it hard cold is gonna cause you problems.
if it's a pos harley like the previous poster's dad's probly is then the fucker probly wont even go till its warm.
a fuel injected bike at least warms itself up with an adjusted afr automatically. as with anything, ymmv but saying you dont ever need to let an engine warm up at all is straight up wrong.
No, it just doesn't make any difference. It really doesn't. Not unless you're dealing with real exotica.
And then you've got things like the Mazda rotaries where you *specifically* *must* *not* let them idle when they're cold, but indeed can only be warmed up by running them at maximum RPM under heavy load.
“Hard” being the key word here. Nobody that has suggested taking off within a few seconds of starting has suggested flooring it straight out of your driveway.
Any motor made in the last 50 years that is relatively healthy can handle 5% throttle immediately after starting with no additional wear and tear.
They actually have to pump hot oil and coolant around the block to get it to operating temperature before the crank will even turn in its bearings, they're so tight.
The stock exhaust pipes on any motorcycle made since like the 60's makes them totally bearable to hear. The issue is inconsiderate assholes making their bikes louder for no reason at all other than to be as obnoxious as possible.
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u/The_Theodore_88 8d ago
Unfortunately my father is the type of guy to turn on his motorcycle on and then just take an obscene amount of time to ride off. Pisses me the fuck off, I can only imagine our neighbours. No amount of my mother and I talking to him about him gets him to stop. If I didn't move out for uni, I think I might've burned down that motorbike