Old Car and Bike rambling

I picked up this 2022 Camry hybrid XLE this week. It's the newest lowest mileage car that I've acquired in a long time.  There's not much to do to it with less than 56k miles except install a dashcam and remove the hybrid and XLE badges (whoever said it takes only 5 minutes was lying).  I've already removed the dealer sticker but I had quite the struggle programming the homelink mirror to open my garage door. All of my garage remotes have failed and died after a decade of use so I converted over to MYQ connect to be able to open my garage door, but needing to open the door using a phone app is inconvenient due to the often long lag time waiting for the app to load.  Sure, I can open the garage from 5 miles away (or 15hrs away, but what good would that do for me?) I initially thought I could save money from buying 3 remotes by doing the wifi based opener instead, but it's not a perfect experience. I didn't clear my homelink buttons (due to incorrectly performing ...

Years ago, I posted about using a 1/2" master cylinder and posted a long analysis of leverage ratios and finding a way to get a better feel with braking. Though I was able to have really fine control with light braking I couldn't get a really strong stop with the smaller 1/2" master cylinder piston but I didn't want to go back to the original 14mm piston until I read that a radial master cylinder is supposed to be better according to Google's AI search results: A radial master cylinder can significantly improve braking feel by providing more direct force transfer from the lever to the brake caliper. This results in better modulation and feedback, allowing for more precise control over braking force compared to an axial master cylinder, where the force is redirected by the lever pivot. Radial master cylinders are generally more rigid, which enhances the crispness and consistency of the feel I found this 14x18 radial master on Amazon and figured for under $50, why n...

The desire to put rearsets on my cb750c has been kicking around in my head for many years. I've always felt my short legs didn't feel comfortable with the cruiser style ergonomics of the original foot peg placement but I didn't know how to mount rearsets.  Roughly 3 years ago, I found a set that I liked and ordered them though I still had no idea how to mount them without spending the money for the cognito moto brackets.  I'm sure I'll end up spending some money for one of their fine products but they just seem too spendy for me, so I kept that option as a fallback in case I couldn't figure a way out. The rearsets sat in my garage but nothing came to me. At some point, I even bought some old brackets for a cb750f but didn't have an appropriate bolt to make that work. My swing arm swap bolt modification kinda caused an issue with mounting the part, but I don't remember the details around it now. The easy and lazy solution was always to use the rear passe...