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Jandj_davis
| | Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 11:16 am: | 
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I recently bought and used the Harbor Freight tire changer, and while it is not nearly as nice as the NoMar version, it is plenty nice to do what I need to do. The bar works fine if you use rim protectors, but I will eventually either invest in the NoMar bar or make on of my own. I have been looking around, and drumstick tips would make a good substitute for those plastic tips. If you do get one (or make one) I would recommend bolting it directly to the floor. That will keep it completely stationary, which is a great help when breaking the bead. Also, use a paste-type lube when putting the tire back on. You don't want lube all over your new tire. I made that mistake the first time, and almost paid for it. Any car-parts store should have some, or you can get it from NoMar.
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U4euh
| | Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 12:18 pm: |
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chello! how ease ev-weone do-eeeeng? |
Rubberdown
| | Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 12:33 pm: |
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Hey U4, let's ride this afternoon. Called you yesterday, couldn't get ya so I went riding.....everywhere. If you thought my bike was dirty the other day, you should see it now. I'm at the house. |
Ulywife
| | Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 07:00 pm: |
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My goodness, Rubberdown and U4euh on the same day posting.......maybe I should go and play the lottery! Hope you both are doing good! Missed you in Boone, but ready to plan Suches!
G2 - got your $$ today. You sent too much! Next decals on me!
J&J - thanks for the info. It's hard to know what to buy and what to stay away from. It's nice to be able to make decisions based on someone else's experiences, good and bad. Thanks for the tips!
Kristi |
Oldog
| | Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 07:48 pm: |
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Kristi / Carlos, Webe:
When you come to Wilmington for HF, be aware, hours are kinda early for close
M-S 7:00 pm
Sun 5:00 pm
tire changer is actually at least 2 separate items, the "stand" on sale 39.00$ reg 69.00$
the motor cycle tire attachment 49.00$
you will want to alter it, with plastic or rubber grips, they did not have all of the accessories that are part of it out it seems.
some of the bits are kinda sloppy, in general average for cheapo chinese.
like J&J said you will want to bolt it down, 130$ round numbers about 2 tire changes, you would pay for it in under a year. When do you think that you will make the treck? |
1313
| | Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 08:22 pm: |
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Well, the S2 got new piston pin bushings yesterday. The tool my buddy loaned me pushed the old ones out and pressed the new ones in like butter. The next step was to ream and then hone the new bushings with a fixture also loaned to me by the same buddy (along with the proper ream and hone). The fixture is supposed to clamp down on the base gasket surface using your head bolts and long tube spacers supplied with the fixture. Well, with just the long tube spacers and my head bolts I am still about 3/4" - 7/8" away from putting any clamp load into the fixture to keep it from moving. Yesterday I thought - 'No problem, I'll just have a guy at work (who owns a Duc Monster 900) make a couple of spacers tomorrow and I will be set.". While the spacers were being made I decided to call the buddy of mine who is loaning me the toolage and ask him if he ever used the equipment on an EVO Sporty and see if he knows what's up with what I am experiencing. Immediately after I ask him about the space between my head bolt and the long tube spacer, he asks me "Do you still have the old piston pin bushings?". 
I HATE it when the answer is right in the palm of your hand. I even thought of using a couple of sockets for spacers, but do not know why I didn't think of using the old piston pin bushings. Well, now I have MUCH thicker wall Aluminum spacers to use so now as soon as it warms up a little in the evening (Wednesday, perhaps) the reaming and honing will be done. After the pistons are back on in the new bushings, progress will go nearly as smoothly as the old piston pin bushings came out and the new ones went in.
Soon I will be Buelling again, but NOT SOON ENOUGH!
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1313
| | Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 08:23 pm: |
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Just checked the weather channel...BRRRR...Make that Thursday, perhaps...
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Jlnance
| | Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 08:31 pm: |
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So you're saying your friend reamed you and then honed you with his tool? 
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Bigdaddy
| | Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 08:42 pm: |
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G2 - got your $$ today. You sent too much! Next decals on me!
It's all good. I had the envelope addressed & stamped and when I pulled up to the mailbox, 5:00AM or so, and dug out my money clip I found that someone had been using the Dad ATM network to acquire funds 
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Ulywife
| | Posted on Monday, October 23, 2006 - 09:53 pm: |
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Dad ATM
I loved the Dad ATM! Made my $$ go alot further when I was young!
Oldog - It may well be after Christmas before the shop is ready for any equipment! Hoping to do this trip without the children.
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U4euh
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 12:08 pm: |
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I'm outta the house by 6:45am,12:00-1:00 is lunch between jobs,then off to 2nd job and home at 9:30-9:45pm. Thursday is my only day off this week. Call me early,well not to early! We'll ride then.
Hope everyone is doing well. Hey Kristi, if you win anything, do share the news!!!  |
Ulywife
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 12:16 pm: |
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Honey, if I win anything I'll share! If it's ever big, watch out! I could see a C3 Central with a full garage somewhere in the mountains of NC! If you're gonna dream, dream big, right?
Hope Sabrina is doing well. Carlee really enjoyed her weekend with the C3 jr. girls. |
Rubberdown
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 12:28 pm: |
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I'm riding to Charlotte to get the 1st service done early Sat. morning. I'll probably leave about 6:30 a.m.. The dealership is having another open house that day so there should be lots of demo rides on Ducatis, MV's, BMW's, Aprillia's, and Triumphs. I plan on going and coming via Uwharries and Hwy 218 and will probably ride all day. Interested parties inquire within.
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Mfarrell2k3
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 06:11 pm: |
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is anyone coming down for the bike show and all at Carolina Coast HD in Wilmington? Its Nov 4th and there is a Buell Class in the show, also Bubba Blackwell will be doing shows at noon and 4pm.. |
Oldog
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 11:52 pm: |
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I'll be there I might enter O'l Blue if she's clean ... |
Oldog
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 11:53 pm: |
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Hey Mike hook up for a ride? |
1313
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 11:54 pm: |
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A motorcycle is not just a two-wheeled car; the difference between driving a car and climbing onto a motorcycle is the difference between watching TV and actually living your life. We spend all our time sealed in boxes and cars are just rolling boxes that shuffle us from home-box to work-box to store-box and back, the whole time, entombed in stale air, temperature regulated, sound insulated, and smelling of carpets.
On a motorcycle I know I’m alive. When I ride, even the familiar seems strange and glorious. The air has weight and substance as I push through it and its touch is as intimate as water to a swimmer. I feel the cool wells of air that pool under trees and the warm spokes of that fall through them. I can see everything in a sweeping 360 degrees, up, down and around, wider than Pana-Vision and then IMAX and unrestricted by ceiling or dashboard. Sometimes I even hear music. It’s like hearing phantom telephones in the shower or false doorbells when vacuuming; the pattern-loving brain, seeking signals in the noise, raises acoustic ghosts out of the wind’s roar. But on a motorcycle I hear whole songs: rock ‘n roll, dark orchestras, women’s voices, all hidden in the air and released by speed. At 30 miles per hour and up, smells become uncannily vivid. All the individual tree-smells and flower-smells and grass-smells flit by like chemical notes in a great plant symphony. Sometimes the smells evoke memories so strongly that it’s as though the past hangs invisible in the air around me, wanting only the most casual of rumbling time machines to unlock it. A ride on a summer afternoon can border on the rapturous. The sheer volume and variety of stimuli is like a bath for my nervous system, and electrical massage for my brain, a systems check for my soul. It tears smiles out of me: a minute ago I was dour, depressed, apathetic, numb, but now, on two wheels, (or a Trike; for that matter), big, ragged, windy smiles flap against the side of my face, billowing out of me like air from a decompressing plane.
Transportation is only a secondary function. A motorcycle is a joy machine. It’s a machine of wonders, a metal bird, a motorized prosthetic. It’s light and dark and shiny and dirty and warm and cold lapping over each other; it’s a conduit of grace, it’s a catalyst for bonding the gritty and the holy.
Cars lie to us and tell us we’re safe, powerful, and in control. The air-conditioning fans murmur empty assurances and whisper, “Sleep, sleep.” Motorcycles tell us a more useful truth: we are small and exposed, and probably moving too fast for our own good, but that’s no reason not to enjoy every minute of the ride.
Author Unknown
Except for the fact that it was as cold as fudge today, it about sums it up don't it?!?!
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Zxzer04
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 12:13 am: |
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Hey, just as a warning...saw a grey Dodge Charger doing a U-Turn on I-40 this evening. passed us and then a old Caprice came flying up behind him, of course he pulled over to let the Caprice by in the fast lane and then the charge slid in behind him and these flashing blue lights came on...And wow their was a State trooper in there. Dodge has rejoined the police force.... |
Rubberdown
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 07:12 am: |
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Thanks 1313. That about sums it up.
" Motorcycles tell us a more useful truth: we are small and exposed, and probably moving too fast for our own good, but that’s no reason not to enjoy every minute of the ride."
p.s. I like your interior decorating. |
Jlnance
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 07:49 am: |
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The other day I found a quote on advrider I loved:
quote:If it has 2 wheels or boobs it's gonna give you problems.
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Ulywife
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 08:06 am: |
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If it has 2 wheels or boobs it's gonna give you problems.
But you keep coming back for more |
Bigdaddy
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 08:12 am: |
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But you keep coming back for more
We're slow learners that know a good time
G2 |
Flynuly
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 10:51 am: |
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1313
AMEN BROTHER!! I could never have written that...but I have thought it may times all the same.
I love the smell of fresh cut New England hay in the summer time or the ocean breeze on you first spring run to the beach and a thousand other things you just never notice in a cage.
Triple digit heat last week and sweating now this week I'm home and riding every day "life on two wheels is great" and YES I'm freezing my ass off too.
Tim |
U4euh
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 12:17 pm: |
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Gotta work Sat. morning,
Gonna be at BroadStreet bar and grill saturday night in costume! A lady at that!!!! Winner gets $100 bar tab!!
I'm riding Thursday even if it rains,snows, a meteor strikes earth, I hit the lottery, um,.. well okay...if I hit the lottery I am going riding on my new bike.
1313- That puts a lot of my thoughts into words. Thanks!!! Nothing like really enjoying the world around you to bring out life.
Jinance-things getting any better on the bike?
Kristi-I hear Boone is a good location for a garage!!!! |
Jlnance
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 12:34 pm: |
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Jinance-things getting any better on the bike?
The Blast is fixed, and the Uly is good. It needs 2 bolts installed for the luggage mounts, but they have been missing for a year, so it's not a high priority. |
Mfarrell2k3
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 09:09 pm: |
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about the Charger comment above... In the Wilmington area, keep a sharp eye out, Wilmington PD has unmarked Chargers and new Mustangs, also the state troopers in the area have a Tahoe with hidden lights and only the stripe on the side.
Oldog... maybe this weekend, havent looked at the weather yet.. Get in touch with me |
Ulywife
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 25, 2006 - 09:21 pm: |
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A lady at that!!!!
We expect to see pics, especially if you win!
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1313
| | Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 12:22 am: |
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A lady at that!!!!
We expect to see pics, especially if you win!
And DEFINITELY after the $100 bar tab has been consumed...
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Spike
| | Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 09:56 am: |
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Just in case anyone else was looking to get in on the 50cc fun: http://raleigh.craigslist.org/mcy/225755863.html
I haven't seen the bike, but since it comes with riding gear it's likely a kids bike that wasn't too abused. ~$500 for an unmolested XR/CRF is a pretty good buy.
Just in case anyone doesn't know why an adult would want a kid's bike:
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Spike
| | Posted on Thursday, October 26, 2006 - 10:03 am: |
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So, the post editor won't let you change an image on an existing post . . .
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