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2011 Mazda 3 - transmission control module went tits up last week. Tranco said a replacement module is essentially non-existent. When I offered to source one of course they said they would not warrant it, duh. I figured that. Anyway, I went down a rabbit hole researching it. The car is a solid part of my stable and it is being kept up to service my grandkids, so I want to repair it. I can get the TCM repaired with warranty, so I believe I am going that route. As I was looking, it appears that this is not a difficult task; the module sits on top of the tranny, and the google said that is why it is a known and common issue. It overheats and the solution is to physically distance it from the tranny by zip tying it to the firewall. Anyone here with a common experience? ALSO - D2's 2017 Malibu hybrid transmission went tits up last week. Transmission Harness and solenoid (?). Chevy dealership said parts were unavailable. Again a known issue for this car and the Sonic I believe. She did the smart thing and went and bought a new car but no she (we) are stuck with a dead car with marginal value. I doubt I will fuck with it because well, HV battery stuff and stupidity are not especially miscible. May farm out to Tranco, I don't know. Maybe scrap it.

Yes. Picture this weekend. It is the perfect bracket for the top case only.

I have a bracket that was manufactured and sold by a guy on the board many years back. It is sitting in the barn 100 miles and 5 days away from me being able to capture an image for you. I think it was designed to fit in the passenger grab bars but I never installed it. It is minimalist and I think it is your perfect solution. Saturday or Sunday I can get you an image. If it works it's yours.

Yeah, I can dance to that tune also. I can't believe you are buying your own dog food. Isn't that what women and sales are for?? Susan would get all sorts of butt-hurt if I did any of the shopping. Edited - on the bird I can saddle up like a cowboy with one foot on the foot rest. The Triumph seems a little too dainty for that. But then again, I am 80 pounds lighter...... I will try it tomorrow.

One of the reasons I got this (type of) bike was so I could easily swing my arthritic legs over it and take off. With any top case (I have 2, 1 small 1 large) I will have to thread my leg through the gap. There may be some options, and I am still exploring. I am not certain that even saddlebags will be free of the drama associated with ingress of the saddle area. As I was telling Cal, turns out there is not much ass to this bike after all. I might go out to Vern's and see his and Peggy's setups. They have small top bags fitted to theirs.

Thanks, Joe, but I am looking for something smaller than those. I don't remember giving my oxfords away, but now that it is daylight savings time I have a but more time to root around before I get all excited. I still have a substantial inventory of the Ventura Pac Rac but of course would nee d proprietary hardware. I am miffed that GIVI does not make hardware for the street triple, I have 2 sets of hard cases, but I really do not want to bolt anything on. I am probably better off just carrying a rucksack with me, I just don't know at this point.

A few years ago I posted for sale or give away a set of Oxford panniers or saddle bags. I wish I had kept them. I may have, I just can't find them. Anyway, Side bag options for the Triumph are pretty scarce and I would not mind having a set of small-ish bags to put road kill or trailer hitches in. I am more price-sensitive than fashion conscious.

I got wifey a new phone in December and inherited her 11. 128 gb, it is running 26.2.1 seems to be OK. There are some lines in the screen but overall still usable. I have not been out of town in a while, it may or may not run Concur or OKTA. Seemed to be sort of buggy on my old 11.

Thank you God for shit like magnetism and gravity and friction. Now if you could just make real birds...............

Thread resurrect! My very first motorcycle was a black CB350 so I guess it was an F. I got it in a trade for a mid-tier racing bicycle. The motorcycle had been involved in an argument with a telephone pole and lost. The front rim was bent and the bike wobbled until around 40 MPH. I did not know any better and had my mind on other things. I was a senior in college and rode the hell out of that bike, no problems. No maintenance that I remember. I rode it from Jackson, MS to Plains, GA overnight once, quick weekend trip to see my brother who was employed by Larry Flint as a reporter for a newspaper there (Jimmy was president at the time.) I was chemically enhanced for the "trip" over if you get my drift. Some memories leave indelible creases in the brain, I tell you what. Traded that bike for a brand new Bonneville, my only new bike until last month.

Yes, it took my appetite away completely. No, I did not take anything to help the process. No untoward side effects that I am aware of. I do not plan on updates, maybe I will post when I hit my personal target (10 stones). I was just throwing this out there since Mike asked. I think Dave and Carlos are pretty capable of describing their journeys and mine is not much different.

Since Blackhawk asked: November of last year I decided to lose weight. I was about to turn 70 and objectively my obesity was (had been) affecting my quality of life. I talked to my doctor at my annual physical and we discussed my 10+ year half-assed attempt to shed pounds. I had been at 225 +/- 10 pounds for about 15 years and I had just gotten used to it. BUT Getting old sucks, and getting old while fat is fucking suicide. I was at 234 this time last year. I am at 150 today (well, day after Thanksgiving maybe more) I began Zepbound (terzepitide) early February. Please refer to Dave K's posts and Carlos's posts on that shit so I won't bore you. Started on 2.5 mg and have never titrated up. I committed to the task and just. stopped. eating. A sad side effect is that my predilection to daily alcohol consumption dropped to near zero. Not a beer a month; rum maybe twice a month. Not a planned thing, just don't think about it anymore. I was forced to stop taking my BP meds due to hypotension. Stopped taking omeprazole. I will evaluate my cholesterol meds at next physical. Everything I say about weight loss would just be a rehash of cliches, so I will not go further except to say my dick looks bigger. It probably isn't, but it looks like it. Bonus!

I have taken OTC omeprazole for at least the last 10 years or so, daily. Rational (supported by literature) is that risk of long term use is less than certainty of esophageal cancer and other GI-related issues. Just like many of you, a 14-day treatment is plenty to resolve any exigent issues, but they come back as a result of diet, alcohol or tobacco, or other issues. So go to Sam's and buy that shit cheap. I have taken it for so long I just accepted it, like my BP med. However, after I lost my first 50 pounds I was running into real issues with hypotension. After discussion with my doc, I reduced the dose by 75% (5mg v 20mg). Will probably DC it next month after my annual physical. Then about 2 months ago I wondered about my Prilosec . I stopped taking it (q hs) and have not looked back. I guess it is because for all intents and purposes I don't drink anymore (side effect - sucks, but there it is) and I never, ever go to bed with a full stomach. 2 big deals.

For the last 5 years or so I have gotten 2 gallons of ethanol-free gas, put premix in it, and aliquoted into a couple dozen old quart (0.946L) Trufuel cans. Put a date on it, and voila! I have enough to last me over a year. Pretty economical.