The rear wheel is coming off my '01 F4i for the first time and I can't figure out how to get that dang little metal lockwasher off. I've screwed up threads before with this type of washer but still don't know how to get them off. Help.

 

lockwasher????
please explain, where and what kind of lock washer it is cuz i'm completely baffled
btw how the hell does a bike go 6 years on stock tires??? DAMN!

 

what lock washer mang? there is no lock washer for the rear or front wheel....

 

I was mistaken. The nut on the rear axle has a little metal 2 pronged washer looking thing, I thought it was some kind of a lock ring because I had a similar looking nut chew up the threads on the countershaft of my last bike from just backing the nut off, but apparently that wasn't what caused it.

 

i believe that thing is your chain adjuster mang....you leave that on.

 

No, not the chain tensioner. I'm not as dumb as I sound, at least in this instance. If you look closely at the axle nut, you'll see what I'm talking about. Its a tiny little thing on the outside of the nut, but recessed from the outermost little ridge of said nut, and it just puts some tension on the axle threads to keep the nut from backing out. No matter how hard I try I can't come up with words to describe it, but it doesn't matter anyway because it doesn't change the removal of the nut process.

And in RE: to how can a bike go six years on stock tires? I thought they were supposed to have a cord-treaded center strip....
No, I got the bike last month with only 3200 miles. I've now nearly doubled that in less than a month. I don't know why or how anyone could buy a new bike and ride it 500 miles a YEAR

 

they can and often do because most people buy sportbikes to pose in the summertime and only ride to starbucks.

if you had a motorcycle psychologist interview the bikes...the prof will tell you that many sportbikes tell him/her that they are unhappy and bored...sort of like how people buy dogs and just leave them at home...

they want to be out...roaming, leaning, cornering, blah blah blah...so if that's the case...most bikes will be on prozac.

 

and you know what that prozac stuff does to your sex drive...

 

So thats what was wrong with my return fuel regulator?

 

I can't say anything I probably put barely that on my RR streetbike in the year and a half i've had it
but i make up for it with my F4i and SV on the track