You know what really "grinds my gears"?

My current "pet peave" is people sitting at green lights for ages after they have changed because they are too busy texting to notice the lights have changed. By the time they get going the lights change and you end up sitting through a whole cycle, which now in Utah, where they've decided no one can drive safely, can now be a very long time as the lights got through every possible permutation ensuring that there's no opportunity for cars to hit each other because someone might not be able to see a car coming the other way.

When people join the forum simply to ask how to chop-up an otherwise perfectly good (stock) bike to make it a bobber and flip it (sell it)

That's prolly the top of the list for "things that grind my gears"

+1
Steve

750Kruzer wrote: chop-up an otherwise perfectly good (stock) bike to make it a bobber

Whats wrong with bobber's I got an 87 ZG1000 bobber.

rstnick wrote: I believe if you stop at a light that has these magnetic sensors in the ground, you need to stop your bike on the outline of the box, or if there is a middle line, that's good too.
There's a wire running in the box they cut into the road.
Put your bikes right over that wire, and the circuit will sense your bike, using magnetism,
The magnetic field will change when the metal of your bike is over the wire.

This is what I've read, but hasn't worked well in real life.
Wait a few moments, checking it's clear, and go.

The coil in the pavement detects the magnetic core that is the vehicle moving above it. Rstnick is also correct, it's better to get over to the side of the loop to affect the bigger portion of the wire. Another trick I use before I take a chance and jump the light is to kick the bike up into neutral, lower the side stand and touch it to the pavement right at the loop. This has always worked for me.
Now for what "Grinds my Gears".
I live in the black ice capitol of North America. During the winter season about half of the vehicles on the road have studded tires. These arsewholes, who would do better to learn how to drive, eat away the pavement so badly that all of our roads have well worn stud grooves in them. Nearer to intersections they are truly grooves but out on the regular highways the pavement has two swales worn into it that are thirty inches wide and up to three inches deep. Even in the summer time these swales are the pits because every "Outside, Inside, Outside" line a biker rides involves crossing from low to high and back to low, TWICE. The problem is so bad that the pavement at every intersection has to be replaced every two years and, you guessed it, the sensor loops have to be redone as well. It's not unusual to see bits of the wire sticking out of the pavement where the studs have done their worst. Because we don't have enough political gumption to address the damage that the studs do the Department of Transportation has gone to optically triggered signals as a more economical alternative to hysteresis loops.
I loath studded tires and the fools who rely on them.
There. I feel better!
Bill

750Kruzer wrote: When people join the forum simply to ask how to chop-up an otherwise perfectly good (stock) bike to make it a bobber and flip it (sell it)

That's prolly the top of the list for "things that grind my gears"

I agree on the whole practice that's so common currently of bobbing, chopping cafe racing and building a Brat bike, whatever they are, that seems to be the current trend. Where the big KZ's are concerned you really can't improve on the "beauty" the factory created and I certainly understand the idea even less of removing rear suspension etc. to make the things more archaic and less functional and destroy the handling they had. I do admire the builds, if you start with a pretty ratty bike, with upside down forks, different swing arms, brakes and suspension that improve the bike in line with what it was designed to be.

It drives me even more mad on the classic Triumphs, I'm sorry but IMO there is no way to improve on the styling of the original bike here, so your chopper etc. is worthless, other than for its original parts, it isn't worth lots more than an original bike like you have it advertised for.