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  1. My fan doesn't come on until 219 f. For a long time, I thought it was broken. Sitting in the garage idling, the temp will soar.

    The water pump doesn't move much water until the revs are over 4,000. When the temp goes up, just take it to 4K, and the temp will go back down.

  2. I didn't think you Hardly-Ableson guys wore gear? :icon_stickpoke:

    Sure, don't you know the Harley crowd wears a $500 jacket and an ashtray on their heads, while

    the sportbike crowd wears a $500 ricky racer helmet and a t-shirt and shorts.

    You know I'm right.

    :icon_thumbsup: :icon_thumbsup: to New Enough. I've never been disappointed.

  3. I have heard of CD's bending Heli's but never saw any. Since the Heli's have a bend upward, I wonder how they would do as an attachment point for soft hooks.

    Too far in? Maybe some of those soft covers for the straps.

    Adding length to the bars (throttlemiesters) will dramatically increase the leverage at the weld.

    I'm curious, what bent? The handlebar part or the curved part?

  4. I got a buddy that is looking for a cruiser. He wants to spend around 5K. The only cruiser I ever had was a Vmax. Other than that it's been XX's and ZX11's for the most part. Anyone have any certain bikes they like?

    For 5 large? Used Honda Shadow 1100?

  5. Food, though, is a problem. This isn't going to involve some diet for awhile and then I go back to "normal". I have to change "normal". And I don't want to.

    I like food. No, I love food. I eat recreationally. I love pasta and bread and rice and pastry and candy and ice cream and cereal. I love steak and hamburgers and hotdogs and chicken wings and chicken breasts and turkey and roast beef and pastrami. I love cheese. I adore chocolate. I even love vegetables and fruits.

    It's worse than that.

    When you start a diet, your body says, "A famine is here, I need to slow down metabolism and conserve fat." So it's even harder. Then when you reach your goal and eat normal food, you gain weight like a bear before hibernation.

    Choices. How bad do you want it?

    Right now I'm back to Nutrisystem. Since I travel a lot it's easy to take the packaged meals with me. And they are really good. The problem is, I've been down this road before and it worked then failed. I don't know what the answer is. Fat people are cursed.

    Wait till skinny people give you advice. "I lost ten pounds by just using Nutrisweet instead of sugar in my coffee." Great, if that worked for me I'd be skinny too.

    Exercise is a big help.

  6. What has stopped anybody from doing this??

    Well, they don't work for one thing.

    ETA: The house I'm in has a small one and it produces about 7 or 8 kw/ on a good day.

    Bun

    Is that 7-8 k/w of 110v. ac? Or does it use some sort of an inverter. Or does it simply offset use from the meter? That may be the way to go, since the wind is fickle.

    I know they "work" technically, but are not practical. They need to find a way to store the power for when the wind dies down. I have seen the ones on boats in the Virgin Islands where the wind is blowing 15-20 all the time, and they are used to charge batteries. I haven't heard of running refrigeration and certainly not A/C.

    Every time I fly over the giant wind farms in the west, most if not all are standing still. You would think they would be humming.

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