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I guess I been here too long as I'm feeling a sense of "Déjà vu " Anyhoo ... when I was around 8, my cousin who had a big old Harley (I think it was about a 1952 model) that had the big ole springs at the back of the seat...took me for a ride. He hit a bump real hard and I went sailing straight up in the air .... I've been hooked on motorcycles ever since. When I was 12 my buddies and I would sneak out at night and go joyriding on their dad's and other guys mopeds. I didn't think much about bikes after that until I was around 20 and a buddie had a BSA Lightening which he let me "try out" ... well, I just had to become a biker but I never got a bike until 3 years later when I bought my 1969 Yamaha 125 twin street bike brand new. Aside from the odd 2 or 3 year "break" between bikes, I been riding ever since.
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ahhhhh... at first I thought you were "playing into" a bit of a "game" and gettin me to post something that was "across the PG line" .... to catch me in my own thread.... yanno... all in fun of course. I guess we all have a "baseline" that we use for determining PG (above or below) and that line can well be different from one person to the next. I am not going to single out anyone's posts that I felt were either borderline or crossed the line. That would only start a "pi$$ing match" I did feel; however, that somebody needed to bring the topic to the forefront other than a moderator just as a gentle "reminder" and to show that at least one person was "noticing" ... and I'm thinking others might have been also.
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At first I didn't believe you (coz it's in my nature) so I went and studied the parts diagram..... Thanks for correcting me (and whoever else states the same) ... as I now see what you're talking about. The question I now have is... why is there an "oil seal" on the shaft itself that is forward of the splines? Was this designed this way on the MKII so that a) any grease would not fly out and b) so that if the inner seal did wear out, the outer seal would cover it's a$$..?
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YES! You will only have to lube the U-joint splines coz the pumpkin end is lubed by the oil in the pumpkin. When you put it all back together, follow the instructions somewhere in this site... meaning, insert the axle without the tire/wheel and then slowly tighten the acorn nuts on the pumpkin/driveshaft.
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Dang... and I was just about to put my 2 cents in... oh wait... I already did ...
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And thus you have a Venture engine ... and they can do the same with the current vMax engine ... downscale it and put it into a touring bike.
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I made a big mistake years ago when I had my now ex-wife attend a computer class I was teaching. As an instructor, I had often been complimented on my patience by my students. Well, I dunno what happened to my patience that day but the operative word in here is "ex-wife" ... :rotf: :rotf:
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heh ... I smell a setup here....
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After the ribbing I got before your post, I was afraid to come back and see what was new...but alas... at least somebody took the serious side. of course, I'm not totally serious neither...
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Maybe a little "technical" for some but with the following info, you can create a boot CD that includes various "utility" apps, including a disk cloning tool .... http://www.runtime.org/peb.htm The Bart PE is the one you want. There are other free utilities on the net for creating a boot CD. Here's a free utility for Imaging/cloning ... http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
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My wife has trouble riding a bicycle ... she ain't interested in driving a motorcycle. I'm glad about that coz after seeing her crash 3 times during the 2 times we been out riding bicycle ... I'd be constantly freaked about her crashing on a motorcycle. gotta walk before ya run.... gotta master a bicycle before a motorcycle I figgure!
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That would suggest you haven't been doing much for the past 24 years ... (the Post HO strikes again)
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:rotf: :rotf: Thanks guyz ... ya'll crack me up! signed... Post HO
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I've been noticing lately that posts seem to be bordering or crossing the line of "PG rated" .... what happened? Did we drop that rule?? Or am I just getting overly pikky in my old age and imagining this?
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I just bought a Seagate 1TB external drive...didn't come with Acronis. I will say though, that I use Acronis True Image software at work for all my backups, for creating images of workstations and servers, and for the odd time I have to clone a hard drive. It works great!
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white goop ... could be oil getting into your water jacket
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SO! What are the AGES of the DRIVERS of VR.Org?
SilvrT replied to Zfrebird4's topic in Watering Hole
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It ain't me but I'm gettin close... Total Posts: 3,756 Posts Per Day: 3.59 Join Date: 12-28-2006
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"quit" .... "buried the mold" ... whatevah ... same outcome :sign20: and that is ... once ya reach perfection, no need to continue... :rasberry:
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Story in our local newspaper today... -------------------------------------------------------- As the baby boomers continue to age, the 55 to 64 age group will increase by 30.3% or 9.5 million persons, more than any other group. The 35 to 44 age group will decrease by 5.5%, reflecting a slowed birth rate following the baby boom generation, while the youth population, aged 16 to 24, will decline 1.1% over the 2006-2016 period. -------------------------------------------------------- Statistics point to more and more "touring bike riders". One would think that such companies as Yamaha would be in tune with that and design/develop bikes for the "now" market. I believe we will see a completely redesigned touring bike from Yamaha. It may not go by the name of "Venture" but it will be a touring bike in competition with Honda, BMW, Kawasaki, Victory, and Harley and don't be surprised if Suzuki joins the race.
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heh... and in my case, I was born and then they quit making the mold... :rotf:
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Not necessarilly (but probably). I have 2 drives on my home PC. One I use as my main drive running Vista. The other I use to play with different OS's. The main one is SATA and the other is IDE. I erased the partition on the IDE drive, disconnected the SATA drive and did a WinXP install. As I've done this a zillion times, I never paid a lot of attention to the text on the screen while it was setting up the drive and formatting it.... only later on I noticed that it set it up as H: drive. There was no C: drive connected per se` ... just the IDE hard drive. I think the process might have recognized my card reader's "virtual" drives first and then picked the next available drive...that being the H: drive. Had I noticed this, I would have done the drive letter assignment before the setup continued. Oh well... H: drive... C: drive... it's all "relevant". I've had this happen before, a long time ago. I was able to successfully replace all instances of the wrong drive letter (in this case H in the registry with C: and re-define the active drive's letter to C: and reboot ... and everything worked and my drive was C: again. I would not recommend this to a novice tho. BTW, those "recovery" partitions that Dell puts on are not recognized as drive letters within Windows.
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SO! What are the AGES of the DRIVERS of VR.Org?
SilvrT replied to Zfrebird4's topic in Watering Hole
There's gonna be 13 more?????? WOW !! that makes 25 in total when the other 13 arrive! -
I used a soldering gun with a flat-tipped end. I had some major cracks in the bags and trunk on my '87 ... welded them up and filled any gaps with ABS 2-part epoxy. Sanded that smooth... a bit of primer/filler, a bit of spot putty where needed and it was fine.
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Antivirus System Pro popup
SilvrT replied to MiCarl's topic in Computer help and tips for using this site.
For those who don't know, the "hosts" file is located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc If you go to Start | Run and type in "drivers" (without the quotes) and hit Enter, it takes you there and you just have to open the "etc" folder. You open the hosts file with notepad. If you are running any spyware such as Spybot S&D, you will see a lot of entries in there.