For a small channel, the quality is up to standard with the big guys! The cinematic text and little details are put together so well, couldn't believe the video only had 14 views as of writing this comment! Keep it up🔥
For hack#6 an extra spring (or something similar) to pull on the spring for the exhaust while using the closed end of a wrench to pull the extra spring for leverage is what has always worked for me
@@Yoo_yuz You’re jerry rigging two tools when one tool would do the job perfectly fine. Also, you’re introducing another possible point of failure as well as possibility of injury using your method. But if it works for you🤷🏾♂️
@@TheDougSpot I mean yeah this is a hack video and I'm just telling my experience which has worked for years. I'm adding my two cents on other ways to solve a problem instead of critizing others. Also, there's no possibility of injury, its literally pulling on a spring. All you had to do was add "oh a plier works as well". Like did u really have to add "I swear people make things much more difficult than they have to be" as if there is only one way of correctly doing things
@@Yoo_yuz I tried pliers before and they suck azzz because it very slippery and the tighter the spring the mroe it will slip. Lmao other ddude definitely thinks he's better than others his comment made me laugh by saying ur technique can cause injury and possible points of failure... bwahaha wat point of failure its a wrench which has better grip and tougher than a plier pulling on a spring!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Just for context. Im 54, got my first bike at 14 a Suzuki AP 50 from the 70's (before it was a scooter) google it and yes I got caught but not on the AP, it was a Honda SS 50 I bought when I was 15 🤣, Great Advice on this post and funny, loved the lost glove in the dirt, just go find a rock lol. Zip locks for long jobs and spray caps or tubs for quick ones . If you have a modern bike with multi grade oil you don't need to warm up the bike before you ride away but you must keep at low rpm until 60 + degrees temp to allow for proper engine fit (gaps between cams, valves, pistons and walls)👍. Good editing and good advice.
For the Helmet Visor it is mostly also really easy and nice to clean. You do not really need any cleaner, when you are out or so. Cleaners can even damage your visors Shielding and things on it, like on colored Visors. It does wonders, to have a Towel or anything alike with warm water and just lay it over it for 15 minutes or so. Even dry flies and such will be soaked again, and you can easily wipe them away without rubbing scars into the plastic. And a little towel or such a towel you have is also not hard to store on almost any bike. It will even work with hot water soaked toilet paper. And if you lay it on the helmet, to let it soak things you will see, that you will not need to wipe hard or so and you really do not need anything else than water to remove even the most nasty flies.
A hack I use is to put a few strip's of duct tape on the top of the visor, it's like having a sun visor on your helmet and as I live in Australia the sun can get quite intense, hope this helps some people
@lupusdei6354, 👍👌 Yes, I know exactly what You mean & I agree with You, I Live in Nth Qld, & that Sun from about 7 to 8•30 in the morning & from about 4 to 5•30 in the afternoon is a real killer & it doesn't matter where You're going, You always seem to be riding straight into it.
to check chain tension. Just use your boot. You can sit on the bike, shove your foot under, and unless you're a drip, you can tell if it's in tolerance
When it comes to the spring, I’ve learned this from an old motorcycle cop. Use the new spring to remove the old spring and the vice old spring to install the new spring.
Those screw on big foot pads for kickstands are nice. I welded a steel plate to my bikes. I park on dirt, mud and grass a lot more than I would like. I have thought about faceshield cleaner then I forget.
Excellent idea to use a lid from a container, I was stuck always looking for the side stand giveaways at bike shows or gatherings and now I know to steal the mayonnaise lid from my mom and hit the road!
I ussed crushed soda cans to support my sidestand in dirt/gravel, works surprisingly well just looks trashy. Eventually just bought a little piece to keep with me.
Nice tipps. Can it be that you are riding in Switzerland quite often, or at least use quite some footage of your rides there? Because in several of you videos I've now discovered familiar pictures (and the highway vignettes on your windscreen are also quite familiar ;-) )
Here's a few tips that I'd like to pass on that I use, I've been riding for just over 47 years so I've picked up quite a lot of tricks & tips over that time & I always like to share what I've learnt with other People, after all I'm not going to be around forever so why keep it all to Myself if it can help somebody else? & after all that time I still learn new things Myself every now & then & when I do I like to pass it on, I mainly ride Cruisers now, I find them a lot more comfortable now at almost 74 years of age, but I still like & appeciate all types & brands of Bikes, I'm currently riding a 2015 Harley Davidson 103 cubic inch/1700cc Heritage Softail, My 3rd Harley, & I've owned a few Japanese Cruisers & Road bikes over the years as well, all of My Cruisers have had pretty good sidestands with decent bases on them, & a good angle as well but for some reason the Road bikes always seemed to have short, straight thin based stands on them, I Iive in Nth Qld in Australia, & it gets quite hot here in summer, I've seen sealed roads melt in the heat & Motorcycles go over with the sidestands speared into the roadway so one trick that I use for these types of Bikes is to crush an empty softdrink can flat under the heel of My boot & carry it either in one of My saddlebags or one of My pants or jacket pockets & when I need it for parking on dirt or soft grass or soft roadways I can just slip it under the sidestand & give it a broarder base, it also comes in handy when washing Your Bike on the lawn at home as well, let's say that Your bike has gone over on its left side & it is in Neutral before You lift it up, either by using the sitting on the side of the seat technique or the lefthand hand handlebar lift technique, You need to lock the front wheel first to stop Your Bike from slipping away from You as You lift, You can easily lock it on by using one of Your gloves, just slip the index finger of yourrighthand glove over the brake lever, & apply the brake as You slip the open wrist part of the glove over the handgrip & secure it with velcro straps or the zips of the glove, the Bike can now be lifted safely without rolling, or moving away from You, & You can lock it this way whether You've got help or You are on Your own, if Your Bike falls to the right, You can put it in gear first & apply the front brake with Your hand & lift, using either lifting technique, the one thing that Harleys don't have as standard is a helmet lock, so I also carry a padlock in My saddlebags, My front axel comes out just little bit longer passed the edge of the side of the front fork on the righthand side & it has a couple of convenient holes in it near the end of it that I can use with a padlock, so when I get off the bike I lock My Helmet on there, I've also locked it straight onto the front brake disc on any of My Bikes that have had the disc on the righthand side as well,, this gives You a good wheel lock as well while it's there, You could also lock it onto Your spokes, the Bikes not going anywhere, & it saves You from carrying Your Helmet around with You all the time, they can become quite heavy after a while, if You have a Pillion Passenger, either get a lock with a longer shackle or a second lock that You can feed through the first one & lock both Helmets on the same wheel, a couple of downsides though, you need Helmets with the D-rings or O- rings on the straps to lock them onto the Bike, can't be done with those quick release Helmets with the quick release clips on them, unless they have a ring somewhere on the strap as well, & also in wet weather You'd have to carry your Helmet with You otherwise You'd come back to Your Bike & find You've got a Helmet full of water, using the footpegs & footboards as side steps makes it easier to get onto the Bike as well, especially for shorter Riders & Pillion Passengers too & mounting from the Righthand side makes it really easy for the Rider to mount the Bike as well, put both hands on each handlebar grip apply the front brake & You just have to make sure that Your weight is going over the middle of the Bike or better still over Your gauges or left hand mirror so that You don't pull the Bike back over on top of You as You step onto the footpeg or footboard on the righthand side of the Bike, then step over the seat & sit down, & last but not least, is a little trick to get the Bike upright from the parked position once You've gotten on it, I saw this in a video once & it really does work, especially for big heavy Bikes, according to My owners manual My Heritage Softail weighs 336Kgs, dry weight, trouble is I only weight 50 Kgs at the moment, so sometimes it's quite a challange to get it upright, & just like everybody else, I used to drag the bike up, straighten the handlebars, raise the kickstand, check for Neutral & then start the Bike, this video showed the same techniques but done in a slightly different sequence with a couple of extra things thrown in, first plant both feet firmly on the ground on each side of the Bike, don't worry too much if Your right foot cant quite reach the ground at this stage, that could be to do with the seat height, it will contact the ground as You continue to bring the Bike upright, apply the front Brake & hold it on so as to stop the Bike slipping away from You as You lift, then, with the Bike still resting on its sidestand turn the handlebars to halfway between straight & full lock, You can go to full lock once You've mastered it, next put Your lefthand on the lower left side of the tank near where the seat joins it, on a Harley You can actually hold it under the lower left side back of the fuel tank itself, then using the power & strength of Your upper left leg push sideways to the right with Your left leg & bring the Bike upright, this really works & it feels like You've hardly even moved & You don't even feel the weight of the Bike at all, straighten the handlebars, raise the side stand, check that You're in Neutral, either with the green Neutral indicator light or by checking the gear lever with Your foot, start the Bike, click it into first gear & move off, these techniques in the video were demondtrated by a small Female, about the same weigbt as Me on a Harley Streetglide which is probably about 48 to 50 Kgs heavier than My Bike & She handled it with ease, I hope these tips help a lot of People to make things a bit easier for them. (Postscript):- I just thought of another tip, do You use antifog spray on Your visor & sunglasses? as I said earlier, I live in a fairly hot climate, & evaporation can be a big problem, here, a few years ago a Female Friend told Me that She keeps Her Perfume bottles in the fridge in one of those little compartments on the fridge door to stop it from evaporating in the heat, so I started doing the same with My After shaves as well, I bought some antifog spray, & it was quite expensive, about $25•00 Australian for a very small bottle, about the size of the one in the video that He used to clean His visor with & then put in His pocket,, You dont use much each time, only about 4 or 5 pumps each time on each side of the visor, You just smeer it on, wait a few minutes & then polish it off, the inside stops the visor from fogging up & the outdide makes rain water run off the outside of the visor very quickly, each use lasts about a month before You have to do it again, to stop it from evaporating too quickly, I keep it in the fridge door too.
Instead of buying bottles of visor cleaner, get a spray bottle and buy isopropyl alcohol by the litre or more. Mix isopropyl, water and a small amount of dish soap and you have excellent visor cleaner on the cheap. Neat alcohol spray is great for cleaning anything including headlights, visors, degreasing and disinfecting and cleaning the inside of a helmet. Super cheap too
You don't like to clean your bike ...WOW I find it kinda Zen ( for my bike not others ) Wash your hands What are ya a Dweab (JK) but gloves take away the feel that you need to wrench on a piece of equipment Visor.... dollar store lemon pledge fills the scratches and cleans nicely (also leaves a lemony smell) pledge is good on windshields too
For a small channel, the quality is up to standard with the big guys! The cinematic text and little details are put together so well, couldn't believe the video only had 14 views as of writing this comment! Keep it up🔥
Thank you for the support!
For hack#6 an extra spring (or something similar) to pull on the spring for the exhaust while using the closed end of a wrench to pull the extra spring for leverage is what has always worked for me
I just used pliers 😒
I swear people make things much more difficult than they have to be
@@TheDougSpot I don't understand what's complicated with the method I used, I already had the wrench and extra spring out so no need to use pliers.
@@Yoo_yuz
You’re jerry rigging two tools when one tool would do the job perfectly fine.
Also, you’re introducing another possible point of failure as well as possibility of injury using your method.
But if it works for you🤷🏾♂️
@@TheDougSpot I mean yeah this is a hack video and I'm just telling my experience which has worked for years. I'm adding my two cents on other ways to solve a problem instead of critizing others. Also, there's no possibility of injury, its literally pulling on a spring.
All you had to do was add "oh a plier works as well". Like did u really have to add "I swear people make things much more difficult than they have to be" as if there is only one way of correctly doing things
@@Yoo_yuz I tried pliers before and they suck azzz because it very slippery and the tighter the spring the mroe it will slip. Lmao other ddude definitely thinks he's better than others his comment made me laugh by saying ur technique can cause injury and possible points of failure... bwahaha wat point of failure its a wrench which has better grip and tougher than a plier pulling on a spring!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Just for context. Im 54, got my first bike at 14 a Suzuki AP 50 from the 70's (before it was a scooter) google it and yes I got caught but not on the AP, it was a Honda SS 50 I bought when I was 15 🤣, Great Advice on this post and funny, loved the lost glove in the dirt, just go find a rock lol. Zip locks for long jobs and spray caps or tubs for quick ones . If you have a modern bike with multi grade oil you don't need to warm up the bike before you ride away but you must keep at low rpm until 60 + degrees temp to allow for proper engine fit (gaps between cams, valves, pistons and walls)👍. Good editing and good advice.
For the Helmet Visor it is mostly also really easy and nice to clean. You do not really need any cleaner, when you are out or so. Cleaners can even damage your visors Shielding and things on it, like on colored Visors. It does wonders, to have a Towel or anything alike with warm water and just lay it over it for 15 minutes or so. Even dry flies and such will be soaked again, and you can easily wipe them away without rubbing scars into the plastic. And a little towel or such a towel you have is also not hard to store on almost any bike. It will even work with hot water soaked toilet paper. And if you lay it on the helmet, to let it soak things you will see, that you will not need to wipe hard or so and you really do not need anything else than water to remove even the most nasty flies.
A hack I use is to put a few strip's of duct tape on the top of the visor, it's like having a sun visor on your helmet and as I live in Australia the sun can get quite intense, hope this helps some people
@lupusdei6354, 👍👌 Yes, I know exactly what You mean & I agree with You, I Live in Nth Qld, & that Sun from about 7 to 8•30 in the morning & from about 4 to 5•30 in the afternoon is a real killer & it doesn't matter where You're going, You always seem to be riding straight into it.
ADV rider hack , clean bike = ride in rain. That said very good hacks I really enjoyed! Cheers from Minnesota USA.
to check chain tension. Just use your boot. You can sit on the bike, shove your foot under, and unless you're a drip, you can tell if it's in tolerance
When it comes to the spring, I’ve learned this from an old motorcycle cop. Use the new spring to remove the old spring and the vice old spring to install the new spring.
Or just use pliers instead of making things difficult 🤦🏾♂️
This video is amazing it reminded me of chaos causes but this video is just satisfying to watch
The video and editing quality is insanely good! Keep it up
Those screw on big foot pads for kickstands are nice. I welded a steel plate to my bikes. I park on dirt, mud and grass a lot more than I would like. I have thought about faceshield cleaner then I forget.
Excellent idea to use a lid from a container, I was stuck always looking for the side stand giveaways at bike shows or gatherings and now I know to steal the mayonnaise lid from my mom and hit the road!
I ussed crushed soda cans to support my sidestand in dirt/gravel, works surprisingly well just looks trashy. Eventually just bought a little piece to keep with me.
Hack 6 a cable tie works well,make a loop,pull it on,cut it,and pull it out
Your editing and pacing is punching well above the average youtube weightclass, especially considering it's just a hacks list
Nice tipps. Can it be that you are riding in Switzerland quite often, or at least use quite some footage of your rides there? Because in several of you videos I've now discovered familiar pictures (and the highway vignettes on your windscreen are also quite familiar ;-) )
Totally enjoyed this video and the sense of humour. Some of these hacks I know others were fun to discover.
Here's a few tips that I'd like to pass on that I use, I've been riding for just over 47 years so I've picked up quite a lot of tricks & tips over that time & I always like to share what I've learnt with other People, after all I'm not going to be around forever so why keep it all to Myself if it can help somebody else? & after all that time I still learn new things Myself every now & then & when I do I like to pass it on, I mainly ride Cruisers now, I find them a lot more comfortable now at almost 74 years of age, but I still like & appeciate all types & brands of Bikes, I'm currently riding a 2015 Harley Davidson 103 cubic inch/1700cc Heritage Softail, My 3rd Harley, & I've owned a few Japanese Cruisers & Road bikes over the years as well, all of My Cruisers have had pretty good sidestands with decent bases on them, & a good angle as well but for some reason the Road bikes always seemed to have short, straight thin based stands on them, I Iive in Nth Qld in Australia, & it gets quite hot here in summer, I've seen sealed roads melt in the heat & Motorcycles go over with the sidestands speared into the roadway so one trick that I use for these types of Bikes is to crush an empty softdrink can flat under the heel of My boot & carry it either in one of My saddlebags or one of My pants or jacket pockets & when I need it for parking on dirt or soft grass or soft roadways I can just slip it under the sidestand & give it a broarder base, it also comes in handy when washing Your Bike on the lawn at home as well, let's say that Your bike has gone over on its left side & it is in Neutral before You lift it up, either by using the sitting on the side of the seat technique or the lefthand hand handlebar lift technique, You need to lock the front wheel first to stop Your Bike from slipping away from You as You lift, You can easily lock it on by using one of Your gloves, just slip the index finger of yourrighthand glove over the brake lever, & apply the brake as You slip the open wrist part of the glove over the handgrip & secure it with velcro straps or the zips of the glove, the Bike can now be lifted safely without rolling, or moving away from You, & You can lock it this way whether You've got help or You are on Your own, if Your Bike falls to the right, You can put it in gear first & apply the front brake with Your hand & lift, using either lifting technique, the one thing that Harleys don't have as standard is a helmet lock, so I also carry a padlock in My saddlebags, My front axel comes out just little bit longer passed the edge of the side of the front fork on the righthand side & it has a couple of convenient holes in it near the end of it that I can use with a padlock, so when I get off the bike I lock My Helmet on there, I've also locked it straight onto the front brake disc on any of My Bikes that have had the disc on the righthand side as well,, this gives You a good wheel lock as well while it's there, You could also lock it onto Your spokes, the Bikes not going anywhere, & it saves You from carrying Your Helmet around with You all the time, they can become quite heavy after a while, if You have a Pillion Passenger, either get a lock with a longer shackle or a second lock that You can feed through the first one & lock both Helmets on the same wheel, a couple of downsides though, you need Helmets with the D-rings or O- rings on the straps to lock them onto the Bike, can't be done with those quick release Helmets with the quick release clips on them, unless they have a ring somewhere on the strap as well, & also in wet weather You'd have to carry your Helmet with You otherwise You'd come back to Your Bike & find You've got a Helmet full of water, using the footpegs & footboards as side steps makes it easier to get onto the Bike as well, especially for shorter Riders & Pillion Passengers too & mounting from the Righthand side makes it really easy for the Rider to mount the Bike as well, put both hands on each handlebar grip apply the front brake & You just have to make sure that Your weight is going over the middle of the Bike or better still over Your gauges or left hand mirror so that You don't pull the Bike back over on top of You as You step onto the footpeg or footboard on the righthand side of the Bike, then step over the seat & sit down, & last but not least, is a little trick to get the Bike upright from the parked position once You've gotten on it, I saw this in a video once & it really does work, especially for big heavy Bikes, according to My owners manual My Heritage Softail weighs 336Kgs, dry weight, trouble is I only weight 50 Kgs at the moment, so sometimes it's quite a challange to get it upright, & just like everybody else, I used to drag the bike up, straighten the handlebars, raise the kickstand, check for Neutral & then start the Bike, this video showed the same techniques but done in a slightly different sequence with a couple of extra things thrown in, first plant both feet firmly on the ground on each side of the Bike, don't worry too much if Your right foot cant quite reach the ground at this stage, that could be to do with the seat height, it will contact the ground as You continue to bring the Bike upright, apply the front Brake & hold it on so as to stop the Bike slipping away from You as You lift, then, with the Bike still resting on its sidestand turn the handlebars to halfway between straight & full lock, You can go to full lock once You've mastered it, next put Your lefthand on the lower left side of the tank near where the seat joins it, on a Harley You can actually hold it under the lower left side back of the fuel tank itself, then using the power & strength of Your upper left leg push sideways to the right with Your left leg & bring the Bike upright, this really works & it feels like You've hardly even moved & You don't even feel the weight of the Bike at all, straighten the handlebars, raise the side stand, check that You're in Neutral, either with the green Neutral indicator light or by checking the gear lever with Your foot, start the Bike, click it into first gear & move off, these techniques in the video were demondtrated by a small Female, about the same weigbt as Me on a Harley Streetglide which is probably about 48 to 50 Kgs heavier than My Bike & She handled it with ease, I hope these tips help a lot of People to make things a bit easier for them.
(Postscript):- I just thought of another tip, do You use antifog spray on Your visor & sunglasses? as I said earlier, I live in a fairly hot climate, & evaporation can be a big problem, here, a few years ago a Female Friend told Me that She keeps Her Perfume bottles in the fridge in one of those little compartments on the fridge door to stop it from evaporating in the heat, so I started doing the same with My After shaves as well, I bought some antifog spray, & it was quite expensive, about $25•00 Australian for a very small bottle, about the size of the one in the video that He used to clean His visor with & then put in His pocket,, You dont use much each time, only about 4 or 5 pumps each time on each side of the visor, You just smeer it on, wait a few minutes & then polish it off, the inside stops the visor from fogging up & the outdide makes rain water run off the outside of the visor very quickly, each use lasts about a month before You have to do it again, to stop it from evaporating too quickly, I keep it in the fridge door too.
A squashed Coke can works well as a side stand puck
Instead of buying bottles of visor cleaner, get a spray bottle and buy isopropyl alcohol by the litre or more. Mix isopropyl, water and a small amount of dish soap and you have excellent visor cleaner on the cheap.
Neat alcohol spray is great for cleaning anything including headlights, visors, degreasing and disinfecting and cleaning the inside of a helmet. Super cheap too
I have actually had the wind blow my bike over. I was heartbroken when i walked outside to see that
very good video keep it coming
My German Shepard has this annoying thing where she keep on stealing my bolts and nuts and think that they make great chew toys.
When parking on a soft ground, just find a flat Rock then put it into the soft ground and park your motorcycle
what bike is this you have the gray one.
A crushed aluminum can (soda or beer) works great as a sidestand puck.
You don't like to clean your bike ...WOW
I find it kinda Zen ( for my bike not others )
Wash your hands What are ya a Dweab (JK) but gloves take away the feel that you need to wrench on a piece of equipment
Visor.... dollar store lemon pledge fills the scratches and cleans nicely (also leaves a lemony smell)
pledge is good on windshields too
Beautiful motorcycle. What kind is it?
Dont care if it's clean.
I only worry about maintenance.