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God damn it you fuckin fuck, I was already wanting to pull the trigger on this and you go and add another reason that I need it?!?

And the weakness of being one.

So there I was, arranging groceries into the case, when some guy walking by comments, "Probably sucks not owning a car!" ...? I tell him that I have two cars, but why would I want to be stuck in a car on a day like this? (Great weather we've been having lately, perfect spring.) "Doesn't seem worth it." I'm still arranging groceries to make them fit. But...wtf? I say nothing. "I'd love to have a bike, but my wife won't let me." Sigh. I'm mostly ignoring the fucker now. "But you know how it is." Ok, I've had enough. Time to end this. "No, clearly I don't know, I'm here on a motorcycle, and I also still have my balls."

So no one has found a good $40 substitute for the vyper?

I'll make sure I can tune it for a perfect backrest position. Non-contact in sporty riding, and useful sitting up. Pass one with my friends holding it in place was very promising. I did the same on the Zero for the perfect fit for Moriah, nailed it.

I was thinking about an 18 pack of beers and a couple bottles of bourbon. Heaviest load I carried in a magnetic tank bag on my XX was the result of a great deal on 556 and 7.62x39 at Big 5. Pretty sure I had 400 or 500 rounds in the tank bag.

Gratuitous glamour shot.

SOLD !!!!!!

The power of pussy.

Well, at least you get to be a pirate, and be sure to come up with a great story for people when they ask about it.

She's a redhead so.... Cheryl, the tall hardbody chick from next door.

How were the rides?

TL;DR: He got my permission to share all my info for patients who can't afford Zepbound/Mounjaro/etc. I was in there for 50 minutes, half of it wandered into gray market tirzepatide, which I had put on my intake paperwork of course. He wanted to know more. He's very personally concerned about the people who have been fucked by the price and the reductions in insurance coverage. El Cheeto Loco had promised new prices, but according to him, they never happened (SHOCKER!!!). He said normal mainstream prices for most patients is still "well over" $500/mo. Some really super interesting tidbits: He didn't know what "lyophilized" means. It's interesting how compartmentalized medical knowledge is. (It means vacuum dehydrated inside a vial.) He'd never heard of bacteriostatic water. He thought you'd use sterile water (not good). He didn't know how easily you can bypass CBP, tariffs, whatever to get it despite the billions that Eli Lilly is wasting to try to stop us. Hopefully we can help a bunch of people who otherwise can't afford it. I was shocked at his openness to this, his willingness to say what he didn't know and what I did, and to ask a lot of great questions.

Looks goof for sure. Is the Red release button sitting on the rear grab bar? Hopefully you have enough clearance without wearing both pieces of plastic. Going to be hard to mount, Have do the old raise leg and hop side ways. No way you are going to swing your leg over that unless you have been practicing your Chuck Norris high Karate kick.

Prius Palladium at its best.

Will one of you niggers make up your minds before I eBay it? FUCK

All of these testers ask for the battery's rating, that's only so it can tell you "good battery" or "bad battery" and won't change the displayed numbers. I'm too lazy/impatient to do that and let it test at whatever the default rating is and use the displayed CCA to make my own determination. If the tester is smarter than I think it is, there's a chance that it's determination of good or bad would be different than mine, but if the battery is riding such a fine line I'll generally call it bad and either replace or rejuvenate it rather than trust it to stay in service.

They're called inductive testers, they do it through the magic of electricity/electronicals that nobody will ever fully understand. My basic understanding is that it sends a pulse(s) of electricity through the battery, using the battery as the power source, and can measure what happens with that pulse to tell you what the condition of the battery is. Maybe it also puts a resistive load on it. The tester we bought shows cranking amps, amp hours, and internal resistance. My other testers didn't show resistance so I've never thought much about it. It's possible that the internal resistance is the indicator, or a major factor, of cranking amp capability. From the few times I've paid attention to that it appears that batteries with higher CCA also had lower resistance. I can tell you that if you put the clips on stainless steel studs or nuts of a marine battery it will give a false low reading, pretty sure steel terminals will also do this. Lead posts or terminals work fine. Brass and copper will probably work fine, but I haven't tested it enough to know for sure that they're reliable. None of those things, or anything else I've done, have ever given me a false high reading. If you're testing in a vehicle and it shows "system noise", or something like that, it's probably because something's on or something in the vehicle's system is fucking with the tester. If the battery is out of the vehicle and you get that it's because there's something wrong with the battery. I don't know if this tester will detect/show that, my previous ones did. On some questionable batteries this tester has asked if the temp is above or below 0, and it has also asked if the test is being done before or after charging. I have had this type of tester, different brands, lie on two vehicles. Both were Ford 7.3 diesels, but totally different 7.3s (IDI vs Powerstroke) with different charging systems so the blue oval and displacement were the only similarities. In both cases I was 99% sure that the batteries were fucked, but my tester showed good. I took them to Oreilly and their hand held tester also said they were good. When they put them on their charger/analyzer it showed that they were fucked. I think that tester also uses induction, but I know that it puts a load on and that's where the truth came out.

Probably a way to pull power from the battery thru a type of resistor or chip to simulate high load and simulate cranking. Do it a couple times and see if it gets hot in your hand.

I would find a good AGM which should be better for high vibration reliability if using offroad. I would never go into the woods with out a nice Jump pack as well, in case a key gets left on.

Yup. In the car or out.

You need to pump those rookie numbers up! We have 8 on the homestead and three, maybe 4 should be for sale this year. 😂

I have 4 cars. They sit too much. I try to run them periodically. That helps but, sometimes they need help. Especially in the winter when they sit the most. I got this NORCO 70 from Jeff 2000A in a small package. It will start a diesel. It kicks ass. If I plan to go far, I always have it charged and in whatever vehicle of choice may be. Kicks ass ! https://no.co/gb70?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22793626292&gbraid=0AAAAADfqH566rXtOYjlWbCXwbFhOV5XyK&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIga6K_tbDkwMVGAytBh0nNALUEAQYASABEgJSwPD_BwE

Good point, I should have said I use them exclusively in marine and refrigerated cooler use.

One of the beauties of LFP batteries, and a problem, is that they have very little resistance. If the battery is low it'll absorb/demand everything an alternator can give it, essentially acting a short circuit and potentially smoke the alternator. This is rarely a problem with a car because you rarely run the battery down, but it's a potential problem. The alternator death is more common with boats and RVs because the batteries are often run down with house loads. They're generally safe with bikes because most bikes don't use an alternator, their charging systems generally don't care about a heavy load. That may be different with modern bikes, I'm more familiar with charging systems that use a shunt as the regulator. There's a few caveats of LFP to get maximum longevity, but most charging systems will keep them happy for a long time. An LFP that's treated right should last 10 years, and I think it's reasonable to get 15+. Another problem with LFP is cold weather performance and I've seen the cold looking white stuff that falls around Tim's house.

That type of charger is never to be left un-monitored. They have a target voltage, let's say it's 14.5v on the 10 amp setting which would be about right. It might put out 10 amps when the battery is really low, then as it gets closer to the target voltage the amperage tapers off. Eventually it reaches the target 14.5v and stays there indefinitely cooking the battery. Being 10 years old it was probably not long for this world anyway so no biggie. IIRC Super Start is the Oreily house brand and I've had good results with them. I get a pretty good discount on their batteries so I'll send you my account details. It's a COD account so you can't make me buy your battery. And feel free to use it for any other stuff, just try to not do a lot of speculative orders/returns as that lowers the account value.

Well the Optimologist determined that I have Wet Macular Degeneration in my left eye, which is irregular bllod vessiles that can lead to leaking of fluid and blood into the macula which can lead to serious vision loss. The wavy lines that I'm seeing may be reduced by regular shotts into the eye to prevent future vessile developement and fluid leaking in the eye. Depending on the severity and effectiveness of the shots, you can lengthen the time between shots. They gave me a shot in the left eye and I need to go back in 4 weeks, hopefully the shot will stop the leaking an the fluid will diminish and be reabsorved so my vision improves. The shot was not painful at all as they put in nubming drops then a numbing shot and then the medicne shot. Currently vertical lines looked bowed and things left of the ceterline appear blurry and more like a blob at times. was weird when they injected the medicine and you could see black outlnes of bubles and fluid floating around in the eye. Fingers crossed that the shot will be effective and most my vision we return to normal in the left eye. My right eye supposedly has Dry Denerenation which is slower and more common as we age and less worrsome. They also suggested some daily Areds2 eye viatamin and supplement to help slow the effects of deneration.

I want a column shift standard again. My '57 Chevy was three on the tree, as we used to say.

Shit dude.... get that fixed. Sorry.

All I can say is "FUCK" and good luck. Damn.

The rotary should have far less starting resistance than a piston. As to your water question it's probably creating less heat and that affects the condensate. These are barely educated guesses. Does the motor have a capacitor? If it's bad/undersized, that could be a factor. It's the top failure in our AC systems here. I just keep one around, that common.

This helps protect the coils and compressor from having too much ventilation. You make me kind of want to get this for our older system (we have one per floor). It's VERY hard starting now.

I think that plate would be amazing, especially if the adjacent radioactive sign was affixed to it! 😜

Due to the placement of the screw holes, I'm pretty sure I'll need a plate that has closer holes to go into the seat, then this onto the plate. I'll work on it tomorrow afternoon.

Yeah, that seat stays in place pretty good. I have an expandable tail pack I load up pretty heavy, with tools and shit. Phil @pcinpdx and I rode to Montrose, Co. at go to speeds and the tail-pak did shift/move but the seat didn't. Crossed Nv in 5 hrs. I reset the GPS every fuel stop. Avg speed, 131 on one tank of gas but that tank of gas didn't last very long.

1998, $70 per box, but buy now before they are gone. I sold most of it before Y2k for $300-400.

Thanks also, but I have a perfectly good one. So it's ready to use/mod/whatever. And I had started to make a single seat cowl for it (which is not attached, it was molded over a cover and release agent, just slips off). Oh shit, that molded cover could be the answer and not mod the seat at all. I think I need to sit around with a smoke and a drink and drunkeneer this. Cycle Gear says the Givi plate should arrive on Thursday.

was it something like this

Not sure. I could take guesses, but won't. I'm "sure" that I didn't fuck up, but so was Carlos so there's clearly something elusive about this thing. Some cars are known for PCV valves/systems causing it, others are known for sticky piston rings causing it, some do it just because. If that engine doesn't have known PCV issues, I'd try switching to Valvoline's Restore and Protect to see if it helps. My F-150 was cured of it's oil thirst after a few thousand miles of R&P. My 150 calls for 5-20 and that's what I've been using. Thin oils generally aren't a problem as long as you're not driving hard at high oil temps. I may switch to 5-30 or 10-30 for the summer because I do drive it harder than average....yet it's been fine on 5-20 so maybe I should just let it go. Piston rings and oil viscosity have a relationship. Generally speaking- high tension rings like thick oil and low tension rings like thin. There's a shitload more to it like materials, coatings, hone type, ect. An engine properly designed for use with 0-20 should have low tension rings, but sometimes the oil spec changes without any engine changes because the manufacturer wants to hit CAFE numbers the easy way and that sometimes leads to failures. Some engines will burn less oil by switching to a thicker oil and that has always been logical to me. But thick oil could increase burning if the rings aren't able to effectively scrape it back down.

Nice improvements. Over the top as only Carlos can do. Mods, we need that poke-poke button. We got a bullshit and crackpipe button. Just sayin. 😆

I don’t care how you mount it as long as it doesn’t involve a DRILL.

Upgrading the table is promising for the chair upgrade. Just having larger and better-rolling wheels was a big improvement. Although, it can actually wander now, so it's a compromise. Bumping it moves it a lot. Also I often shoot it across the driveway knowing it will stop pretty quickly. Now...no. Also, recommended work accessory, I use it a LOT.

Chevy 2-stroke ..interesting observation...

Everyone thinks of magnets as attracting, but opposing magnets make a great spring. In this case they may even work without tape.

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

Sounds like a stripper’s stage name.