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Found this in a box of rocks. Looks like wood 'cept it's petrified......

They call it 'bouncing one off the wall' around here, and it's been going on since auctions began. It doesn't take long to figure out what they're doing if you've been around auctions as long as I have. I've even stood up and stopped the bidding and asked who the high bidder was at a live auction or two. The problem arises with absentee bids, and online proxy bids. They say your high bid will be treated as a proxy and only enough will be bid up to your high. When it gets suspicious is when you get two or three items at your highest absentee bid. Had it happen on 5 out of 6 items once. I had a serious talk with the auctioneer afterwards. Hasn't happened since. Bought one of my trailers with a phone in proxy. The bidding went right up to my max and stopped. I found out that the trailer belonged to someone from the auction company. That's bidding against insider knowledge... It's a great trailer and I'm not unhappy with what I paid for it, but I sure would have liked to have gotten it for less.... :-)

That speed test website will check several different websites by pinging them before it starts the upload/download test. Pinging is sorta like sonar on a sub. It tosses a piece of data at the site and waits to see how long it takes to bounce back. Mine will range from .10ms to .18ms depending on the site. Also in my foggy brain I'm thinkin'.... If you can get on the site using a link out of your email reader, you may have a hyperactive tracker watching your moves, or it's broken and slowing up the works??? Run the House Call... Way back in another lifetime I got hit with a virus that wouldn't let me link to any of my desk top icon links. I couldn't go anywhere. By accident I opened up a history section and then double clicked on the last file location address and back doored the SOB. I then found House Call. They scanned the HD's and found 2 viruses. One active and one Trojan due to go off in the future. Back in those days they sent me detailed instructions on how to get rid of them. I worked and I was a happy camper. Now they just kill them without any help from the user. At the end of the 30 days free trial I went ahead and became a paying customer. Ran PC-cillan for many years....

It's an auction.... It's doubtful, but if no one wants it, it could go for very cheap... unless it has a reserve.... Then it may not get a bid if the reserve is too high.....

Thanks... That shows you how challenged I really am....

Thanks for the feedback Puc. You da man.... I did find that earlier Soft tail CVO's had a springer front fork and this one doesn't. I wonder if it's a parts custom?? I couldn't find anything that looked exactly like it, and pics are all I have to go on cuzz' I'm Harley challenged....

I guess it's correct, but snug is about 10ftlbs, and I just snug'm.......

There's a couple of things I use to check things out. Speed check will let you know how healthy your connection is, and House Call will clean out any crap in your system. House Call isn't one of those scams that tell you they found a ka-jillion virus's and want you to buy there program to remove them. House call will get rid of the garbage.. no charge. http://www.speedtest.net/ http://housecall.trendmicro.com/uk/

All that's been available so far are the two pics. Last year they had a big advertising campaign, but this year it's just the pics so far. Also last year they had a bunch of cars consigned, this year very few... Hey, the less awareness the smaller audience... Hope they get on the stick and start putting together a catalog... The auction is scheduled for this coming Friday!! Well I did a little poking around and came up with more info. Here's a link to the auction. http://musclecarmadnessauction.com/ I don't know why they don't promote it better on their home page?? One of my biggest complaints about the place. Enjoy the spread of vehicles. It's interesting... :-)

Thanks Bill. That helps. All I could come up with is... it's a non-bagger??? :-)

Heck if I know, I'm not a Harley guy. Thought someone here could ID it... They all look the same to me..... Ya think?? Was hoping a Harley Guru here could enlighten me....

I think it's homeland security watching you......

This will be coming up for auction next Friday. Is it worth anything???

I think it all depends on the cost of dirt in the area. This new one in Rocklin Ca is in the middle of big buck city.... The price tag on it musta been huge.... on the camp ground...

Cabalas are nice, but you ain't seen nothing until you visit one of the BP super stores....

So Bass Pro opened up a new store in Rocklin Ca. It been under construction for the better part of a year. It opened about 2 weeks ago, and my son and I decided to go check it out. I've seen pics of other stores, but was amazed when I saw it in real time. It was like a sporting goods Disney Land. I expected to see Mickey and Minney to pop out from behind a counter anytime. Bass boats everywhere. A three level pond with cascading water falls. No fish, but I bet that's coming. We just went to look, but ended up dropping a 'C' note before we could escape. Me? A hat and a bag of cinnamon gummy bears. The boy? A pair of new waders and some bait. BTW we went on a Wednesday morning and the parking lot was slammed. Going back with the camera.... soon.. :-)

Out here in Ca. that would go over like a lead balloon. All that unburned fuel coming out the exhaust would get reported to the CARB board in a nanosecond. Nice engineering project, but he might have rebuilt the motor before stuffing it in the bike. Black exhaust smoke means low compression. Not good on a diesel...

Yep, they make different spring set ups. When converting a MII 1stGen from a disc to a coil spring the pressure plate was purple. I've never messed with one for the 2ndGen, but it may very well be blue... Or.... they got a deal on blue anodizing.. :-) Which brings up another thought. Would an early '83-'85 clutch basket assembly interchange with a newer Mark two disc type clutch basket. If it did, it would be a heck of a lot cheaper picking up a complete MI clutch basket off eBay and swap 'm out. OK they would need tweeking. New springs, discs, etc, but it would be solid....

I don't speak metric when it comes to e-clips, but maybe they are here.... http://www.mcmaster.com/#e-clips/=yynvaj

On the set I have the wire is mangled. I don't know what was in there originally, but I bet one of those small keepers used to retain the rods in the calipers would work very well. What does your wire look like??

Ditto on that.....

Yes... Just looked at a spare set of '83 carbs from the stash and there's a small c clip that fits the ends. I'd take the rod down to your ACE Hardware and find a couple that fit. Looks to be about 1/8".... I gotta add that on this set it looks like someone had drilled a small hole in the right side end and ran a keeper wire thru it. The groove is there, but McGuivered.... It's really hard to get a good look at the ends....

I think I have a Sears, but don't know for sure. One thing I do know is the thing's a monster and gets heavier every year. My suggestion is to shop around for an aluminum. That high priced one at HB is an aluminum. That's why it's higher priced.

How about something like this... 1200cc's and 575#. http://www.yamahamotorsports.com/sport/models/super-tenere

On my '99RSV, the dealer installed a po/po button next to the 12vdc plug on the fairing. I wished that they had used a toggle. I find it a PITA trying to figure out if the running lights are on or off while moving. Someday I may install one....