guitargeek

I really like your method of testing, get er up to ninety and see what happens. Nobody does that anymore, it's a dying art. or maybe it's not the art but the folks who do that who are dying? Glad to hear you got it taken care of.

i get to change my chain and sprockets soon - hopefully mine isn't as adventurous as your experience. glad to hear you got her back working again.

Don't know enough to really appreciate it, but you seem excited, so congtratulations.

I could see the pipe flaring tool working to stake the pin. I've also heard of someone buying a cheap harbor freight c-clamp, removing the pivoting end and grinding the knob into a dull point. At the ZRX forums there's a community chain tool & a dibs thread. Whoever has it just mails it along to the next guy. The Rex forums are reason enough to own the damn bike.

That's awesome! I'll check that link out!

it's progressing just a little slower than my plan to spend some time on the moon. I always have the best intentions. Once when I broke my foot I borrowed a banjo and got a chord book from the library and got fairly coordinated with it in a just a few months. The track school is about a month away, if I find myself in the air approaching the hay bails I'll try to keep my fingers protected.


it's worthwhile for me to note that I'm online an awful lot for someone who complains about a lack of time.

hahaha. naked pictures of me will never happen!

so I'm a suck up am i?

ouch, i hope you feel better

that's the shits. :-/

Thanks.

And your own review, sir?

. . . No I didn't . . .YET! haha
I decided that overhaul must go on hiatus until I'm more financially stable, or once I've upgraded and that will be my pet project. I'm still determined to do it though, especially since I've noticed a huge jump in the number of GS-es in my area. I must one up them all.

Yay, a productive day! Go you buddy, two awesome results for you, and very well deserved I might add ;-).

The attitude you encountered at the Yam dealership was hugely disappointing. I'd thought that type of spivish behaviour was a uniquely British problem dating back to the rationing years of the 1940s when retailers thought they were doing you a favour by selling you something whereas service in the 'States is usually very good and customer focussed. Sad news that you have a few too. But great that the Honda dealer was so much better, and great that your got some well-earned kudos for that awesome machine! The Zed (and I will insist on calling it that, hehe) looks great now. My only comment I still think a single seat unit would be great!

Good deal with the Metz rubber - and good too that it matched the front one well. I guess all the Dunlops are made in Japan now. Dunlop still have UK factories but I think they do all the non-tyre stuff. aviation hydraulics and whatnot

Great news with the job too!

holy shit this is weird and extremely funny. I'll write a full journal on it but don;t have time right now. Up on youtube I've got a little video of the first time I started the motor (complete with huge exhaust leaks from not plugging the smog pump inlets in the heads, but whatever). So I get this message from someone on youtube saying that the video is very cool and how do you start a motor for the first time with no gas in the carb? So I write him back and say "just pour an ounce and a half or so of gas down the primary float bowl vent. either that or just keep cranking till the fuel pump fill the bowl assumeing you've got a manual fuel pump." So I get home today and I've got another message from him. "Hey I was wondering if you could drain your carb and make a video of you cranking the car and pumping the gas pedal until it starts." I'm just about to send a quick note telling him to go piss up a rope, who's got time for that and what the fuck for? but I do a quick click on his videos. THE GUY HAS A FETISH FOR CARS THAT WON'T START AND PEOPLE CRANKING AND PUMPING THE GAS. dude. that's seriously funny. you'll laugh your ass off when I link the videos in my journal, this is going to be stellar.

hm. that Samatha Crain is pretty sweet, and I tend to shy away from acoustic stuff.

and I can't wait until I'm fluent enough to understand all that's being said in that video. she makes me want to go fuck shit up. but, you know, in a good way.

Wow, not knowing can't feel good, but I'm sure it's like you say. Any bad news would have prompted them to call you before now. You might follow up with them, though. I don't think it's out of line to want to know what's happening. Good luck with this.

I checked out those links...that place by RC sounds totally wicked and weird...strange stuff. I have to get some photos. One problem I think I was having was, the morning started off cool and heated up really bad on us then it was raining off and on so the camera was fouled a bit. I do use digi for my pics and I learned that same trick...problem was some of the pics just didn't take at all whether flash or no flash, 1mb or 3...etc. I played around, and it just wasn't working.

I can't ride my moto right now...I don't have insurance on it and my permit expired and I got nailed at an excessive speed which is why I let the insurance run out...it won't go against my car license and they can't raise my rate now and I dropped everything...i got nailed for 'failure to obey a traffic sign" and the penalty was high fines for what I did but low points...i was traveling FAST!

So i took a different ride...


Nice view and nice day!

Hey, thanks for the links!

That's some peice of work you've been doing - quite transformative effect! The rearsets - pretty innovative solution you came up with there! And y'gotta love clip-ons a a nekkid bike... looking good, and good to hear the beneficial effects on handling and stuff. Loved those arial pics of your neighbourhood....and the routemap... i must have a go at doing that too. I reckon a single-seat conversion would suit your bike really well... for a real cafe racer effect... or something , hehe.

Thanks also for that great movie footage -yes, that's a favourite scene! " I don't wanna be your buddy Rick, I just want breakfast" is something i find myself re-enacting versions of some frequency....

Yay for kitties!

Any news since the last post on those blood tests? Fingers crossed..

Anyway... just back from an 8 mile run on an uncommonly warm September day... so shower time i think-
catch y'l8r buddy!

so what did the doc say? hope all is well. funny you mention standing in lines making you panicky. when i get stuck in a long line i get irrationally impatient even if i am not in a hurry, start sweating, and am firmly convinced everybody is staring at me like i have no right to be there. which is why i go to the grocery store late at night. probably why i never go clothes shopping either. i do feel totally fine at Petco, but i guess i figure people are looking at my dog and not me.......