Flyinfool
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I still have 8 days left to be riding this year before I am required by law to park the bike. Rode the bike in to work today and will take the long way back home. Forecast for next week looks to be good riding weather also. So there.... I think WI has given up on snow. The total from the last SEVEN snow "storms" so far in this December was a whopping 1.1 inches.
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Mmmmmmm...............Could be..........
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Ignoring the fact that the pass should have never been attempted. The short answer is proper use of the brakes would have avoided the crash all together with no more damage than a bulldozer to pull your shorts back out of where they got sucked up into.
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I have a solid gold engraved membership card.....
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Maybe you can still get the recall and trade it in on a new one.. Or get a full refund of the lowest ever sale price. Its worth a try.
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Having all of the big money going to one person helps the economy just as much as spreading it around. The majority of big winners have it all spent and are bankrupt in 5-10 years. I sure would like to find out if I could handle it or not. In WI the profits from the lottery go to property tax relief, the amount of relief is a line item on the tax bill, every year the relief is more than I spend on tickets so I figure that even though I play occasionally I am still money ahead by the lotto being available.
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Some of the real small welders do just use battery clips for both the ground and stick holder. If it is an AC welder then it does not matter which one is ground and which one holds the stick. I do remember seeing stuff like that when I was shopping for a welder. Can you post a pic of the data plate that shows the power requirements? That will give us a better idea of what you have.
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We don't disagree, we totally agree. If you get off of the rear brake as soon as you feel it start to lock up, then the rear wheel is still going in the right direction and you will not high side. It is only once the back end is no longer pointing in the same direction as the bike is going, that you will high side.
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If you hit to much rear brake and the rear locks you are best off to keep it locked till you are straight, it is when you release the rear and it suddenly grabs while going sideways that you will high side. If you grab to much front brake and the front starts to skid, you should immediately reduce pressure on the front and counter steer to keep the front wheel pointed in the direction you are going, till it starts rolling again. A skidding front will not high side you, but it will cause the front to wash out and take you down just the same. A skidding tire does not have any idea which direction it is supposed to be going or is pointed. That is why you release the front because you have the ability to steer it to point it in the correct direction. Because you can not steer the rear tire is why you can only release it when it happens to be going in the right direction or it will grab and since your lean angle is most likely wrong, it will throw you over the top.
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OHH NOOoooo..... He asked the dreaded question....... So much for just 4 pages.......
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Is there a reasonable limit to how much you can slide the tubes up in the triple tree. With my old springs the top of my windshield just clears the door frame by 1/8 inch. I do not have room to raise my front end and still get the bike into the storage shed where it lives. STOP POSTING LINKS TO MORE STUFF THAT I HAVE TO DO THIS WINTER.:mo money: GEEZ! -
No one else mentioned it yet. 1. Did anyone else see the oncoming bike coming toward both idiots as they started there pass? 2. I do not know for sure about other states but here in WI, it is also illegal to pass 2 vehicles in the same pass. There was not room to have done this either so that means he was intending to pass 2 cars in a no passing zone. The cage should get at least 2 citations, Failure to signal and crossing a yellow line, and the bike at least 3, failure to signal, crossing a yellow line, and passing more than one vehicle at a time. He could have prevented going down by not releasing the rear brake while the rear tire was sliding sideways, as soon as he took his foot off the brake is when the bike high sided. That will happen every time. He was slowed down enough to regain control, but it was his improper braking technique that still made him go down.
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Good to hear, love it when a plan comes together. You could always put restraints on the Warden and then try to kick........ Never mind, you'll still get your butt kicked........
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My shotgun fixed it, but it is now hard to see the monitor :confused24:
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That would be in the extreme northern part.
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Very nice toys. While scale is cool to look at, I do not have near the time and or patience to build stuff like that. My flying style also is not very scale like...... There are a couple of events here in WI every summer with aircraft in that class.
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Wat he said. And the locks are just under the trunk.
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A little bit......... But you have to debone the deer before you can take it across state lines any how........
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my biggest attention getter is a 10Ga shotgun throwing a 2 oz slug. Very accurate at 100yds. Good for deer in real brushy country.
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New problem - oil leak!
Flyinfool replied to alvald83's topic in Venture and Venture Royale Tech Talk ('83 - '93)
It's hard to tell from the pics for sure but that looks more like a valve cover leak. Not a real bad or expensive job to do. Over filled oil will make for oil everywhere. Now that you have the correct oil level, clean it up, don't forget to clean the oil out of the air filter, and keep a close eye on it to see where it starts from. -
So do you think it really was Hummingbird that had it in use for so long? It seems a heck of a coincidence that his trip ends and you get Dottie back....... Just sayin.........
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YES!!!! We are finally supposed to get our first SNOW tonight.
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yup, old and slow.
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KOOL!!! Your in trouble now. Heheheheh!!
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I am not in any super hurry. I will need to make (clean out) a place for it and build whatever will be necessary to get it down the basement steps, SAFELY. I did get a band saw, a 13 x 48 lathe, a horizontal mill, and a vertical mill down there already. I'm runnin out of space. When you are ready to sell please contact me.