Bummer
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What's fun about Facebook? It appears to be a data mining outfit that won't delete accounts. I don't get it.
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Ok, show of electronic hands. How many others saw that one coming?
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Anybody have a set of Baron 4-2-4s that can take a pic of a baffle? Even a description would be a lot of help. I picked up a set of used 4-2-4s last fall. They look great on the bike, but there's one small problem. No baffles. Yowie zowie, those things are loud! There's no way Irene and I can go touring with straight pipes and hear ourselves think five minutes into the ride, much less at the end of the day. I cut off a set of "standard" baffles so they'd fit and added wire extensions that run up into the pipes. I wrapped those with packing material. Now the sound is satisfactory, nearly stock in fact, but I'm afraid I have too much back pressure. I'm considering taking them out and reworking the packing material for more exhaust flow. A little more sound would be ok too. I'm basically wondering if I'm going in the right direction. Can anyone offer any guidance?
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I dunno, Monsta, looks like a toss up between Smely and spear to me.
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Probably, what'd you have in mind?
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'99 RSV Tire Size Discrepancy
Bummer replied to Bobby G's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
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External fixtures can be annoying but they do work much better than casts. It sounds like you have a deluxe model. Take it as slowly as you need. We're just glad to have you back.
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Welcome back Annie! It's great to see you on here once again.
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Every time I don't spend a couple of hours editing a post to death somebody goes and gets all sensitive and the whole thread disappears. Better safe than sitting here shaking my head and musing about all the different forms of Political Correctness to be stumbled upon.
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Worked like a charm. I linked to the Wikipedia page that blew it up and it opens just like it's supposed to. Thanks! Karma fixed. Our Dogmas are all safe again.
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Headlight Wiring Question
Bummer replied to wes0778's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
Around here Pep Boys sells relays with sockets. The sockets have perhaps twelve inch long wires and plug together so it's possible to make a strip of relays. I googled for it and found these. I think I like the Tessco ones better. The ones from Pep Boys only have four wires, but they can be moved to work as NO or NC. -
First or Second Gen? I'm guessing RSV (Second), but I figured it would be best to ask.
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They still sell parts for a First Gen? I'm surprised. (Not stirring the pot, it's a sad but true sort of moment.) So what part of a tune up do you need help with?
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Actually it's the milk. Every criminal on the face of the planet used milk prior to becoming a criminal, so obviously... Hey, it's the government's official argument. Who am I to argue just because it's a textbook example of "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" straight out of Logic 101. I guess they all slept through that class.
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You probably have a log full of entries about this since I did some experimenting, but I thought I should mention it anyway. On two occasions I've attempted to write a post and gotten the following error, with a difference in the url being quoted. The error occurred when I hit Preview Post. Both were to Wikipedia. If I remove the url string and tags it is happy. If I add a / to the end of the address it is happy but Wikipedia isn't. I can use a string without a / at the end, but not for a Wikipedia page. Wikipedia main works without a slash, as does adding the /wiki. When I add the actual page name it kicks out the error message. Also, the address portion to upload.wikimedia.org was not in my original quoted address. ----------error follows----------- Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /home/dknelson/public_html/forum/includes/ame_bbcode.php(323) : regexp code on line 1 Fatal error: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Failed evaluating code: ame_match("Post hoc ergo propter hoc", "Post hoc ergo propter hoc", 1, "~/wiki/File:[\w\s.,&;\(\)\^%$#@!-]+\\"[\s]class=\\"image\\"[\s]*[\w\s.,&;\(\)\^%$#@!\\"=-]*>
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So how are the guys at the top doing? Where I worked, prior to layoff last July, every time our pay and benefits went down the CEO got a million dollar bonus. First they moved from the Midwest to the South and cut pay. Now they're moving south of the border to cut pay a lot more. I see some serious bonuses in the Big Guy's future. It's good to be the King.
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Headlight Wiring Question
Bummer replied to wes0778's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
Get the kind with a socket so you can more easily unplug it and replace it when needed. Relays do go bad. I have a stack of relays to control horn activated modulation of my passing lamps and have already had to replace one. I'm rebuilding with sockets to make it easier. -
I don't know about magic bullets, but Irene has a neck gaiter that she loves. I have a mask that covers the bottom half of my face, velcros at the back, and has vents for nose and mouth. It came from an outdoors/camping/skiing store. This one looks pretty good, but doesn't have vents so it may fog up glasses or face shield.
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With Freezy's text suggestion, plus...
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Dan, I still have a CD32 left over from my Amiga days. Every few years I put it back together and play some of the old games on it.
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Good luck guys. Like Squid I'm not having any trouble understanding.
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'99 RSV Tire Size Discrepancy
Bummer replied to Bobby G's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
The 15 and 16 are wheel diameter. The 150 part is the tire width. The other number is sidewall height. You don't need the V speed rating. FWIW I have leveling links so I didn't go to the narrower front. I'm under that impression that if you don't have links the narrower tire can help handling, but tends to follow snakes and grooves more. I also prefer Avon Venoms. -
Pocket design? Maybe turn the scissors sideways and add VentureRider.org under them...
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Interesting idea, Brad, but then it wouldn't be the Indiana Quarter. (As if the real quarter featured Mr. Potato Head.)
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I prefer Opera, then Firefox, then Chromium in that order. Opera is standards compliant, which can be a pain in a world full of sites written directly to IE's layout bugs, but that's what Firefox is for. Opera always has the coolest features first. I've had tabbed browsing for years now, and wouldn't know how to browse without it. I also like Opera's "Speed Dial": each new tab comes up with a page of icons of your favorite sites. Kind of like "Bookmarks" but better. Opera's security is also the best. Chromium is trying to set the standard for JavaScript compliance. Nice, but it can't handle mixing 32 bit plugins with a 64 bit system. Opera and Firefox do. If you can, add another hard drive and install Linux to that. As a dual boot system you can pick which OS to use at any boot. With two drives, if (when?) Windows blows up you can unplug the Linux drive so that reinstalling Windows won't eat your Linux install. Or you can dump Windows and go full time Linux. I've never run Windows on my own hardware, and I've been computing since the 8086 was new. I run Fedora on Irene's cube and my tower, and Ubuntu on the laptops. Of course, which distro can be as contentious an issue as oil and tires. There are a lot of choices.