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Motorcycle General Topics & Repair. Questions. / Why Doesn't The Powersports Industry Have Something Similar To ASE?
« Last post by smallengineshop on August 08, 2026, 06:26:45 PM »
Why is there no national organization to certify motorcycle mechanics? Automotive Service Excellence, is a non-profit organization that offers certification for automotive, big trucks, buses and even parts departments that service these vehicles. The boating industry has The American Boat & Yacht Council, and the outdoor power equipment industry has the Equipment and Engine Training Council, but nothing for motorcycles. I think the primary reason are the numbers. These organizations, whether their profit or non profit, need people to exist, and the industry with the lowest number of mechanics is the Powersports industry. The only industry that might have fewer repair technicians are bicycles. The bicycle industry also has no national organization for certification.

Here are the approximate number of mechanics in America for each field:

Automotive = 660,000 to 800,000 mechanics
Buses = 300,000 mechanics
Big Trucks = 319,900 mechanics
Outdoor Power Equipment = 36,900 mechanics
Boats = 26,200 mechanics
Motorcycles = 14,900
Bicycles = 14,400

If you were to ask people within ASE why they don't certify motorcycle mechanics, they would provide you with other reasons besides the number of mechanics, but if the number of mechanics changed tomorrow, and there were 800,000 motorcycle mechanics they would have a certification test by tomorrow or the next day. Those other reasons for not certifying motorcycle mechanics would disappear.

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Motorcycles & Sometimes Other Vehicles In Hollywood Movies, TV & media / Daryl Dixon's Third Motorcycle For The Walking Dead And What AI Cannot Say
« Last post by smallengineshop on August 07, 2026, 07:30:44 PM »
The Daryl Dixon character from The Walking Dead, played by Norman Reedus, finds his third motorcycle. It's a BMW F650GS, and it was found in the new Walking Dead series called The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. He finds this motorcycle in season 3, episode 4 after a Spanish village where he was visiting is attacked by raiders.

The BMW F650GS motorcycle used in the show was manufactured from 2000 to 2007. It is a dual sport motorcycle with a single cylinder, 650cc engine with dual exhaust pipes. BMW probably described this motorcycle as an "adventure" model in marketing material.

For the first time, I used AI to research for this post by uploading a photo of the motorcycle and asking if it could ID the bike. AI said it is a Cagiva Canyon 500 or 600, and the photo is from a movie that was released years ago. I than asked AI why the Cagiva Canyon headlight doesn't match the headlight on this motorcycle? AI said it's because the fairing has been replaced with an aftermarket version. I told AI that's impossible, the photo is from The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, so what other motorcycle could this be? AI apologized for it's mistake, then said it's a KTM. AI answered all my questions as if it was 100 percent confident and sure of itself, when in reality it didn't know what it was talking about. Sorta like a politician  ;D . I then realized AI cannot say the sentence: "I don't know." Something to be cautious about when using AI

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Off Topic Posts / American Politicians And Bureaucrats Allow This To Happen
« Last post by smallengineshop on August 07, 2026, 05:55:37 PM »
American politicians and bureaucrats need to be prosecuted for allowing violent predators like this to roam the streets of America. Every single day fresh videos appear online of violent people, mostly black, committing violent crimes against innocent people. They almost always have a long record of past crimes, and a history of courts releasing them back on the street to prey upon citizens. It's a never ending cycle that will never end until people in charge are punished, and the war against traditional, western people ends.




Here's another one:

https://x.com/MagaIntNews13/status/2085714057445712112

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1987 - 2018, 2022 & Later Kawasaki KLR 650 / Does A Doohickey Stop A Cockroach?
« Last post by smallengineshop on July 31, 2026, 08:51:29 PM »
Today, I listened to an experienced motorcycle mechanic call the Kawasaki KLR 650 the "cockroach of motorcycling." The person said this because it's reliable and tough. But I thought to myself, how can a KLR 650 be a "cockroach" and at the same time suffer from a so called possible "fatal flaw" commonly known as the "doohickey problem?" If your not familiar with the "doohickey problem," you can read more about here:

Kawasaki KLR 650 Doohickey or DooHickie Modification

I would also like like to note that another career motorcycle mechanic who worked for a Kawasaki dealership for 20 years said he never saw a Kawasaki KLR 650 come into his shop for anything related to the "doohickey repair," also know as fixing the balancer chain adjustment.

I have close to 50,000 miles on my 17 year old 2009 Kawasaki KLR 650, and I have not done one modification to the engine, and my balancer chain is still working. Considering everything I have experienced with the KLR 650 in the last 17 years, I'm officially calling the"doohickey problem" dead to me, and proclaiming my Kawasaki KLR 650 the biggest cockroach on the planet. Thank you very much. ;D 
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Off Topic Posts / I Thought This X Post Was Fake
« Last post by smallengineshop on July 31, 2026, 05:54:11 PM »
As the Spanish people are furious about Spain's government allowing an immigration invasion of young men from Africa, Israel's Minister of National Security praises Spain's president for allowing open borders, and hopes Spain will consider taking Gaza residents. It's an interesting and revealing double standard from Israel who protects its borders with razor sharp wired fences and armed soldiers to keep immigrants out. Israel obviously understands the importance of secure borders, but encourages "human diversity" and open borders in the West as Israel remains a Jewish ethno state.

The immigrant invasion of western nations will destroy the homelands of tradition western people within a few generations. Israel knows it, and the powerful people behind it know it. They never had virtuous intentions. Their calls for compassion and tolerance have always been to provide them cover, as well as their lying accusations of racism or antisemitism if you oppose it.




I thought this X post was fake, but it is real.







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Off Topic Posts / Why Is Soros Family So Determined To Destroy Western Civilization
« Last post by smallengineshop on July 30, 2026, 06:22:53 PM »





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Off Topic Posts / Trump Got Played
« Last post by smallengineshop on July 30, 2026, 05:15:21 PM »
Donald Trumps security team admits they can't agree on what the Iran war is for. Isn't that a stunning thing to say? America is in another war in the Middle East based on a lie just like the Iraq war, and of all the people to bring us here it's the guy who promised "no new wars" to his supporters, but along comes Benjamin Netanyahu and his cronies with pockets full of cash and bag's full of lies, and everything gets flipped upside down. We now face a possible world war and economic catastrophe, and for what? All because our political class find it impossible to do the right thing.  It makes you wonder, is Israel really America's greatest ally? It's not a hard question to answer.


Trump EXPLODED at his own national security team over Iran... and his advisers still can't agree on what the war is even for.
-Trump reportedly erupted during a meeting last week with top national security officials, yelling expletives out of frustration over his military options and his inability to close a deal, though Leavitt denies he lost his temper
-The deeper problem is that nobody agrees on the goal: preventing an Iranian bomb, reopening Hormuz, or wiping out the missile and drone program, and without that answer the endgame planning has gone nowhere
-One U.S. official's blunt summary: "We have had a series of tactical victories, but are facing a strategic defeat without clear policy guidance or a decision about where this is going"
-A Trump ally who has spoken with him recently: "The president is exasperated. I don't think he believed it was going to be this difficult... There was not a real strategy for how long or what they should do to get to the endpoint"
-The camps are drawn: Hegseth pushes hardest for major combat operations, Netanyahu also advocated force, while Vance has argued privately for diplomacy and Caine keeps raising what escalation would actually achieve
-The Israeli read on the relationship, from a senior official briefing reporters: Trump is the "senior" partner and Netanyahu the "junior"
-Expanded options including strikes on Iranian proxies land on Trump's desk this week, with a Cabinet meeting set for Camp David on Friday
Six months in, the war has no agreed purpose, which is why it has no ending.
You cannot plan a way out of a conflict when the people running it are chasing three different finish lines.

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Off Topic Posts / Re: An Israeli Died?
« Last post by smallengineshop on July 27, 2026, 11:14:56 PM »
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Off Topic Posts / Re: How long would this store last in America?
« Last post by smallengineshop on July 27, 2026, 06:05:24 PM »
The primary problem of having any retail store in a high theft community is theft. It doesn't matter if it's subsidized by tax payers or is a big Walmart store. Theft will still be a problem, which is the case with this city run store in Kansas now on life support.

I stand by my original post that a store that relies on the honor system in a community like this won't last longer than a day. I've seen proof of that when someone left groceries on a city side walk asking people to only take what they need. It only took a few minutes for someone to come along and take everything.


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Off Topic Posts / Hard To Believe
« Last post by smallengineshop on July 25, 2026, 05:40:58 PM »
The Somali guy who was behind the whole Shiloh Hendrix thing was part of a group who raped a 16 year old girl for two days. Nothing happened to him. The same judge in the Shiloh Hendrix case , Christa Daily, gave a guy who had child porn on his computer less time in community service than what she gave Shiloh Hendrix for saying the word 'nigger' in public.

It's hard to believe so many judges in America now lack a consistency and fairness in their rulings, and the victims of their lack of impartiality are traditional Americans. I guess this is what happens when your country is no longer a nation, and is a rotting soup of diversity favored by the ruling class.   




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