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    Hi Nate, The washers are basically a lock washer setup. Keeps things from working loose. When I did mine the washers were pretty well crushed and broken. Always replace them anyway. I'd make sure to install them when you put it back together. Have you checked with the guys over at Johnson Cycle yet on rather or not they have them in stock. If not....maybe our one and only skydoc_17 can help ya out. Probably run into you sooner or later. I'm always passing through Fremont when I'm out roaming around. Mike
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    I have to stop reading the news. It's not good for my blood pressure. I realize this may be like throwing a gernade into a vat of gasoline so it may not last long but I had so say something. And this happened in the city that is home to Offut Air Force Base. "BELLEVUE, Neb. -- An Omaha suburb has paid a member of a Kansas church that protests at soldiers' funerals $17,000. In exchange, Shirley Phelps-Roper has dropped her lawsuit against Bellevue. The settlement with Westboro Baptist Church, which says troop deaths are punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality, was signed last week. The church said it shows that responding to public anger by taking action against it costs taxpayers. City attorney Michael Polk didn't respond to a message seeking comment. Phelps-Roper was arrested during a 2007 protest in Bellevue after she and her son allegedly mutilated the U.S. flag. The settlement was signed the same day a federal judge, with agreement from Attorney General Jon Bruning, permanently stopped the flag-mutilation law from being enforced. They said it's unconstitutional." (this latest ruling was that these people can NEVER be arrested in Nebraska for defacing the American Flag.) And that's all I'm gonna say about that. I'm going to go grind my teeth some more. Mike
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    Now this incident brought up a question I had for my sign language instructor. If a person that signs loses part of a finger.....would that cause a lisp? I had to ask. Never got an answer. They were laughing too hard. Was just wondering ya know.
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    If ya can't find the dual's.......
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    The provider I was with all this time was Cricket. Ok.....not a great provider but I liked the fact that they had fixed rates that allowed unlimited everything. For a cell phone for a young teenage girl....perfect! I had friends that had war stories that would curl your hair about the bills their young kids ran up on overage charges. For $45.00 a month she could yak and text to her hearts content. I got mine on the same deal as I'm deaf as a stone and can not use a regular phone. Thus....I entered the world of text messaging. I finally had a good communication link with my daughter at all times. Three months ago I bought her a new phone with all the bells and whistles. About $300.00. She loved it. Been working great. So anyway...I came home yesterday and her phone was acting up. She could not receive incoming calls or text messages. She could send and call out but nothing was coming in. I called and sent text to it and it showed that her message box was full and all the calls were going directly to voice mail. Box was emply and all resoures were wide open and showing available. So off the store. They checked the phone and found it be acting oddly and it got worse the more they played with it. They say that isn't right. Well Duh! So just replace the danged thing! Well... they say they can't do that. It's still in warrenty so what's the problem? In their opinion......the phone was damaged. What was damaged? The paint on the body, under the protective cover that THEY installed the day I bought it was scratched.....by the protective cover! It was worn where the cover rubbed. Now according to them the phone must be in "Like New" condition to be covered under warrenty. So the answer was to replace the phone. That is out of my pocket! Another $300.00 for a new phone to replace a less than 90 day old phone that had rub marks on the paint UNDER the protective cover. Now I may be out of line on this but I called BS! The phone was not receiving inbound signals because the paint was worn? Get real! What a BS way to not warrenty a new phone. So I'm done with them. I've had Sprint years back when I was traveling every month coast to coast. Great coverage....lousy customer support. Not likely I'll got back to them. The folks around here cuss AT&T pretty regular. Not real excited about them. Been reading the fine print and plan details on the Verison stuff all night and the details are a little fuzzy on the text "data" charges as far as how many text massages would be included in the rate. I only use text because on my hearing. She thrives on it with the friends. If they are limiting the data too much that could be an issue. It's really about all either one of use. So I'm still shopping. And still a bit miffed at what happend today. My daughter is still alive but semi comatose. She went out with some girlfriends as she needed to be "with somebody who understands". Well at least she talking to them instead of tip tapping away at a keypad. Who knows....she might get used to it. I mean dang....actually talking to people! Who woulda thunk? LOL!
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    I hope there was LOT of money involved in the bet he won. I mean a LOT of money!
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    You done ok. I got one of those 3:00 am wake up calls a few years ago to come over to the in-laws house and find the Dad-In-Laws thumb. Nuttin like an 85 year old insomniac with power tools. Geesh. Looks like all the pieces are there so you should be in good shape. Might sting for a while though. Heal well and heal fast. Mike
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    Ok...I'm trying to avoid a rant here but after 7 years with the same provider they ticked me off for the last time. I shut off my account for both my own and my daughters cell phones. So I'll avoid the reasons why at this point and go directly to my search for a new provider. I haven't looked at other providers for the last seven years so I've been kind of out of the loop on whats what. Stopped at a couple of others to check out the plans and been Googling the daylights out of my 'puter since I got home. I'm leaning towards Verizon at this point. So.....any comments good or bad on them? Their sales staff were attentive to my needs and offered up a pretty decent package, or so it seems until I finish reading all the fine print. Along that line anyone using them and the VZ Navigator app? I'm fine without a cell for a few days ..or longer...but I'm doing CPR on my 18 year old daughter every ten minutes. I don't know if she's going to make it through the night. I cut that girls cord 18 years ago and she survived this long.....but this time I may have killed her. Any comments would help save a life.......probably mine! Mike
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    The "2x4" thing is just an example of setting up to go over road obstacles. They lay a 2x4 several feet long across your path of travel and you are to goose the bike just enough to take the pressure off the front wheel, kind of lift over it, so you don't push it in front of the tire, then keep enough throttle to pull over it with the rear tire. This is done in 1st gear at about 10 mph. My first pass was a bit agressive and shot the 2x4 back about 20 ft at the bike behind me. At least it stayed on the ground and no damage done. A little gentler on the throttle on the next pass worked fine. The guy behind me got brownie points for an excellent evasive action. LOL! The part I found to be challenging was riding the entire course with my left hand in my lap, steering in both directions with only the right hand on the bars. Kind of brings out the old "push to turn" mentality. ERC's are an excellent way to brush up on the skills you need for these bigger bikes for sure. Planning to do another on next year. Mike
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    Congrats on getting the rack on. It is a bit nerve wracking making holes in the cover. I had some sort of home made rack on mine about the size of a six pack when I bought it and finally found a NOS rack to install. Two of the original holes would not work so I ended up with six holes in mine. I just filled the old holes with bolts,chrome acorns and bib washers to seal them off. I made a couple of aluminum support braces for the inside of the trunk to give it a little bit stronger base to attach to. Had to add a little bit of curve to them to get them to lay flat against the surface. I wanted to beef mine up a bit becauce I carry a pretty good sized trunk bag when I wander off. I used some rubber bib washers to add a little more sealing around the holes as I had to ream out two of the original holes to get the bolts to line up. Threw on some chrome washers to top them off. When I did the interior of the trunk I covered the braces with the same material to make them.....not so obvious. So far it has held up pretty well. No sign of stress crack and it's solid. Hope you were pretty careful with that loctite. That stuff is hard on ABS. But again congrats on getting it mounted. Mike
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    I got nuttin but a home page when I hit the link so I don't know what you were looking at. I got to throw in my 2 cents again on the DEKA AGM. I've had mine for going on two years now and it still is going as strong as the the day I got it. It shows 12.8 or 12.9 every time I hit the key no matter the weather or how long it sat. I admit, I've got all the goodies in line to go along with it, the upgrade stator, better cables, new R/R and converted all the running lights to LED's to reduce the load on the system. But any battery will perform better with all the components working properly. I got mine from Josh over at Bohannons but Earl is handing the same thing. Better CCA's than the Oddesy. Fits the bike like stock to. Just watch the sellers. I've seen a lot of dealers claiming batteries to be AGM that in fact, were not. Gel and AGM are most certainly much different. Mike
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    Ok....I'm not going to jump in the deep end here but I want to say this. If the modulator would work on the 1st gen....I'd have one. They do get ones attention. But in the meantime I'm pretty happy with what I got. Since doing Dingys H9 Hella head light mod, the two seperate head lights, I got things working in my favor. When coming into a situation where I might be NOT the most obvious vehicle coming into an intersection I simply thumb the hi-lo button up and down quickly a few times and yes, other drivers do take notice. It has saved me some possible agravation a few times this year. I think it's not so much the hi-low change as the wig-wag back and forth that catches their eye. It's not on all the time and I can use it when I need it. Whatever works. But the whole point is that I got noticed before they made a move that might cause me grief. That is all I'm concerned with.
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    Yep....between the two 1157 bulbs in the brake light and the cooling fan kicking in there is a noticable drop in the voltage. When I get hung up in the city stop and go traffic on a hot day mine will drop down to 13.2 with the fan and brake lights on. Get rolling again and it's back up to 14.3. The electric anti dives will add to that drop for sure. I've got the uprade stator in mine to so it was worse before I changed that out. As said, I'd keep the bike running also. If the battery is getting a low charge and the engine is hot, and the engine temp will climb a bit when you shut it down, the bike will actually have a harder time starting again. Let the fan do it's job on cooling and save the drain on the battery from doing a hot start. Mike
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    Oh Dang! Dave likes burgers? Now I know why he's coming through Omaha. Dave.....your headed for Stellas aren't you. Nobody that likes burgers would miss a landmark burger joint like Stellas. I'm just sayin' ya know.............
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    Thanks for the tip Randy, My can of Plexus is about out and been looking for something to use that works as well. My '84 screen was a mess of swirls when I got it and the Plexus did a nice job of saving the screen. Need to use it pretty regular to keep it right. Mike
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    The thunder ain't what's going to be your problem.......the lightening is what might cause some issues though. Well, I'll try to get some sunshine for you when you come through Omaha. It's been pretty iffy around here for pleasant days. If it's not raining......it's so humid it knocks ya down. I left the house at 4:00 AM the other morning at it was 85 degrees already with humidity at 83. Heat index hit 110 by early afternoon. Ride safe........ Mike
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    I have a set of River Roads that I have used for two years now with no problems. The pants do have suspenders but I just throw on the jacket first and then slip the pants on and then do one arm at a time with the suspenders. Done a few quick suit-ups on the side of the road and it works out ok. The pants have the full ankle to calf zipper for over the boot slip on and stirrups to hold them in place. The crotch has never leaked at all. The jacket is fine except for one issue. The cuffs only have an elastic band in them which is a little loose on my wrist allowing air up the sleeve. I made a pair of cinch straps out of elastic cord with a wooded bead and they work great. No more puffy sleeve. The gear is thin and packs down in a small water proof compresssion bag to about the same size as the half cover I carry. Takes up very little room in the saddlebag.
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    Lets review here....... It does not burn. It forces the fuel left in the tank into the system. Lets see........I'd rather pour gravel into my tank. No......that would be bad. Marbles would be better! And it will be the guy that whines and moans about $3.00 a gallon gas that buys this stuff. Geesh:doh:
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    Got my vote...... Time for that one to go.
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    Omaha is back at the road repairs on I-80 since the CWS is over. They have been cutting the surface on I-80 between 24th St. and 13th St. on the east bound side for a few days now. I got caught in the left lane on Saturday and it was a rough one. The surface cuts were so deep and crooked it just took the bike for a ride I didn't want to be on. I was all over the place even dropping down to 40 mph. Sunday I had to go that way again and stayed in the right lane as it had not been cut yet. I had to go back again today so I stayed in the right lane again. I saw cars hitting their brakes ahead of me and I caught a glance of new blacktop in the left lane ahead so I switched over. Whew......safe. My butt! The new surface ended in short order and dropped me right back into a snakepit of the worst cuts I've ever seen on a road. Had to drop speed and hang on but the cuts were so bad the bike just followed them to the left onto the breakdown lane. I got it pulled up about a foot from the retaining wall. Pucker factor.....about 8. Ok. Cool. I got my business done on the other side of the river and headed home on west bound I-80. That has been clear and good running even with the bridge work. Not today. Just past 13th St. again and had just passed a couple in the right lane on a Victory. They fell in behind me as their lane was slowing down and then....BAM... drop off and the danged cuts in the left lane. The worst part is this is where the road work switches traffic onto the left shoulder for a ways than then back onto the regular surface. The problem there is the drop off between lanes is so sharp there is no safe way to jump the bike back across the lane again. The shoulder has been cut down so deep and so badly and you're stuck in it until you can find a smooth spot on a bridge to make the lane change. You're just stuck on the shoulder. No safe way off. Puker factor west bound........I'm going with a 10 on this one. I kept glancing back in the mirrors at the Victory and he was having a terrible time, looked like he was serving about a foot back and forth and losing speed fast. I finally hit a bridge section and got over to an uncut lane. I worked my way over to the outside lane and watched the traffic slowing down back where I had been. I pulled off at the first exit and waited to see if the Victory was coming up. I sat there for a smoke and the couple never came by. Now I'm worried. I hope they just stopped and waited for a safe chance to get back onto the road. The Avons have always done me proud on the way they walked across the surface grinds and tar snakes. NEVER had a moment of concern with them. But the grooves are so bad in spots that you would think you lost a rear tire. So if you happen to be coming into Omaha on I-80 in the next few days, be prepared. Or detour through on I-680 or I-480 or even better use the new Veterans Bridge into South Omaha. Maybe they will have this death trap fixed soon before somebody goes down. I'm not one to whine about road condtions. It's part of traveling. But this is nuts. Mike
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    The "D" would indicate Denver as the location of minting and the "P" would be Philly. If the coins are high gloss with no dullnes to them they could be "Mint" conditon. If they look like new, clean, shiny and abolutley no wear, scratches or marks on them they could be "Uncirculated" meaning they were never issued for use. Not worth a bunch even in "Mint". Kind of a low cost way to collect coins. I had a uncle that spent most his career in the military overseas. He had a huge collection of coins from Asia, Thialand, China, Japan and about everywhere else. Most of it appearing to date back several centuries. When he passed it was left to me. After having them apprasied it was found that most of them were counterfeit. Actually very good, several hundred year old counterfeits. Value......nada.....zip.....zilch. Uncle was a sucker. But it made for a sweet looking collection. LOL! Turned out the miltary script he had saved was worth more than the entire collection. Most guys threw that stuff out when they left the service. Now it's worth bucks again. Save them for the grand kids.
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    Hi Ya Earl, Yep that's about the same price I'm seeing. Was kind of curious as to them them being that easy to get. Figured I'd be on another chicken lip hunt. I'll give ya a shout of mine guys don't pan out. Thanks. Mike
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    I have been looking at the K 1200 LT but I'm going to hold by breath and take a look at this one. The opitional Adaptive Headlight set up is a cool trick in itself. Just wonder what the option will cost. $$$$ http://www.webbikeworld.com/BMW-motorcycles/bmw-k-1600-gt/
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    Yeah.....had one but it was blue and soaked in SeaFoam. Had to toss it.
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    OK, here's one of the things I'm still looking for to detail out my '84. The two plastic caps that plug the recess in the top of the risers where the handlebars bolt in. I've never seen them on the bikes I've seen and just noticed the caps in the part breakdowns while looking to replace some other parts. Before I begin chasing in cyberspace to make sure they are still available (I found a couple that claim they are) I thought I might ask if anyone had an extra set laying around that needed a good home. Part# 26H-26133-00-00 Between those and my project to replace the tripmeter reset button I'm about there, I think, unless I find out something else is missing. LOL!
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