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Damn, dude! Good to hear you are ok, chalk up another win for wearing your lid.

Have fun with the new bike hunting too!!!

Edit: You can thank god, but I would be writing love letters to HJC instead of JC myself... they actually DID something to save you...

Holy hell that's an ugly bike... I kinda want one of the newer Ninja 636's, but that 89 beast is pug-fugly!! (although it does look like a 20 yr old Tom Cruise should be riding it out of a bad movie....)

I have had some bad experiences with them. They are rude and over priced. Also, they assume you know nothing and try to feed you bullshit as if they do....

I was looking for ignition parts for an old Suzuki and they were far more trouble than my time was worth. They repeatedly tried to tell me that they needed to test my coils and wanted to charge me for the service.... I am an EET (electrical engineering tech) and had a few million bucks worth of equipment at my disposal and the coils were already tested better than they could imagine, but they continued to insist that I let them use their new little machine (which they didn't even understand how it worked or what it was actually testing....) and pay them for the privilege. The best part was when I told them the results of MY testing and they glazed over as if I had begun speaking an alien tongue. Their reply was that, "well, you can't really tell if the coil is bad from all of that, we have to test it on our special machine." I asked them what their machine was "testing" for, and all they knew was "coils." Nothing about impedance, inductance, etc... just coils, and only our machine knows how...

When I called them on the phone, they sounded incompetent, but insisted they they had my coils and that they were only 20 bucks. (They even made me wait while they checked to be sure they had two on hand) When I arrived they had a different story... they didn't actually HAVE my coils, but they would see if they could match mine up with something else, and they wanted another 20 bucks to test my coils first. Come to find out, they don't know anything about displacing electrons other than it makes the pretty lights come on, and they didn't have ANY ignition parts for my bike. (but for 20 bucks they will test your bad coils, and then tell you all they have are the aftermarket replacements which they sell at another 20 dollar mark up... ) Needless to say I paid them not one red cent and gave them the old "you're number one in my book" hand gesture as I left.

Did I mention that they are really over priced??

I have had several similar experiences with this junkyard, and thus I do not go back.

I believe he is referring to the many similar images from Somalia during our military escapades there....

Funny shit, always love seeing trained soldiers go up against newbs who learned to shoot from American rap videos. Funny that they still consider the "Blackhawk down" episode a victory against America because they dropped a Blackhawk and killed what, three GIs? In the process they got more than 1000 of themselves killed... Too many victories like that and they won't have anyone left to starve to death in their backwater, war torn, tribal lead, piece of crap country.

Nice one. Love the matching bikes!! LOL Mine likes to passenger, but she won't ride herself until I buy the bike she wants.... Grrrrr Chicks and money...

Sunday was a nice day for it too... Tried to get her on the bike with the incentive of riding to the zoo... She pulled a fast one on me at the last min and made me take the cage because she wanted "to wear her cute hippie skirt..." Grrrr again.... Zoo was lame and weather was great!!

That is the sickest fucking bike I have ever seen or imagined... Who do I have to fuck or kill to have it?

I'm willing to do both to the same person... in any order... want the damn bike... Also, my GF wants to marry whomever did the metal work... bastard.

edit: On closer inspection... we have a few questions before committing sodomy, murder, or both. WTF kind of engine is that, an I4?? And the transmission... why no chain to the rear sprocket!?!? It has to be a working bike if I am to suspend what little morality I have to get it...

bugger... Still sitting on the porch drinking coffee in half a stupor... I am going to ride today regardless, probably North into Knox, but not decided yet. Anyone who wants to take a fairly easy ride out of town to catch icecream or lunch and then ride back a different route and doesn't have strict schedule this afternoon hit me up. (I typically ride aggressively, but too many cops this weekend and the GF doesn't like the bike we are taking....)

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Fuck yeah, that's wicked! I'm not the painter, really, I'm the mechanic and fabricator. I will work steel for frames, suspension, steering, etc and I rebuild and repair, but the only painting I do is utilitarian. (like this frame... LOL) All my shit is flat black or OD green when I get done.

Oddly enough, I leave the custom paint to my girlfriend. She is ASE cert mechanic, but mostly does body work and paint. (also, she is artistic and I can't draw a stick figure) I will have to show her your bike, she will shit a brick I'm sure. (loves wrapping the pipes and blacking out the chrome)

And this was my first bike also, bought two of them for 400 bucks, neither running or moving. It originally took me two weeks to make one road-worthy. Now I am tearing both down again and rebuilding one from scratch rather than just piecing together enough to get it on the road. I should probably sell her when I am done, but I don't want too... GF wants to do something with the paint on the tank, I intend to just prime it and hand the thing over, hopefully I will like what she does...

I have had good experiences at Vance's every time I went in. Now granted this pre-election so I don't know how busy and hectic it has been in there since. The times I was there the salesmen were competent, explained the pro's and cons, and didn't rush the sale.

The staff is mostly comprised of off-duty and retired LE and old school powder monkeys. You get the occasional tool (some ARE cops... LOL) but even the dumb one is a leap above anyone at a chain store. Also, if you are of the capitalist bent, they are a nice, local, established business that has served the community well for many, many years. (and it is the safest place on Cleveland ave South of 161...)

Remember though, they are closed on Monday... I have gone there for years and STILL forget that sometimes... GRRRRRR.

Nice work, Ryan. Makes me wish I had something worth all the trouble... LOL Maybe I will just give the Yamaha a bath, I will tell her to thank you for it!

I just noticed this bar the other day. (ironically since I am moving from Dublin to the South end.... ) Decent joint then?? I will have to ride up for one of the bike nights, I still get into Dublin a lot.

First, grow a pair of.....

No, really, I peed myself for a few thousand miles, still do every now and again. I imagine everyone else does too, and the ones who don't have lied about it... LOL Just ride in your comfort zone and let it come. Also, following others you trust is helpful since you can let them set the speed while you relax and let the muscle memory take hold. I tend to learn by doing it faster and faster until my tires start slipping, but I am what you generally call "stupid" so I don't really suggest it...

Tracks are nice, but some of us have limited time and/or funds and would rather spend our money on toys and our time going somewhere... (Yes, I want to go to the track, and buy a bike worth taking... fuck you too... )

and I take the corners 5-10 over in a cage.... 4DAIVI said DOUBLE it, then subtract 5 or so...

No... the worst is when you are riding in the very, very, bitter-balls ass cold (like below 20F or so) and your nose starts running like the Niagara Falls.... Not only do you have snot flowing like a river down your face, over your lips, and soaking into your helmet, but as an added bonus you can't do SHIT about it since:

1) You are wearing two pairs of thick gloves and your hands are STILL too numb to work the visor.

2) Even if you get that visor open with your ham-fisted lack of dexterity you can't really wipe your nose with anything besides that frost encrusted hunk of dirty cow hide you are wearing to protect your poor, abused, chapped dickbeaters.

3) If you should actually get far enough to find out #2 all on your own, then you have also learned this one... Opening your face mask with a wet, snotty face, at 60+mph on a crisp 17 deg F day is a little like beating yourself in the face with a frozen salmon. Only with less omega fatty acids.

4) NOW you sneeze.... Enough said.

Add to this a nasty hangover and a few hundred incompetent cagers, and you have my morning commute to work every morning this last winter....

Normally I tell people in this situation that bitchy girlfriends make big holes for you and your friends to dig later when they are dead, bitchy, ex-wives.... RUN!

However, I am pussy whipped and my girlfriend says I can't tell you that now... (j/k, run for your life.)

Really though it probably comes to some other stressing agent, like being in your new cohabitation and recently unemployed. (I can relate on this note.. and on the unnecessarily argumentative GF to be honest....) You can either identify and remove the stressing agent/situation, discuss the issue rationally and openly with your girlfriend (yeah, right, I know....) or leave/give an ultimatum. (You have to be ready to actually bolt if you do that last one, otherwise you will find yourself even more powerless than before....)

Good luck, man... bargaining with the Devil is better than reasoning with a female...

Springfield XDs are nice... Get something that fits your hand and your intended use rather than for the looks or features though. I would heasitate to recommend a specific firearm without knowing how large of a person you are and what you want it's primary function to be.

Vances is the best place to shop, great selection, good prices and the staff is generally competant. Lots of good deals on used firearms and LE trades.

I have a Glock 23 .40cal for sale. Less than 500 rounds through it (owned Glocks for years, but this one specifically was purchased just for concealed carry and didn't see much range time) It already has trigger work (polished sear) 6 magazines (4 high cap), range bag, Fobus adjustable paddle holster, aftermarket adjustable sights and it is the new frame, so slides and rails for lights.

I will let it all go for 550 bucks since I don't shoot it, I bought a smaller weapon for CCW now, and I want something new to play with. PM me if interested. (just fair warning, I do NOT deal well with punks and wanna be thugs... If someone other than a responsible adult asks to purchase my firearm, they may get a less friendly look down my barrel.... If you pick up my pistol and hold it sideways like a gangsta, I will beat you to death with the nearest solid object. Really.)

Depends, I ride for fun and transportation, but if I don't go anywhere fun I put a lot less miles on it just going to work...

Been averaging around 1k per month. Put around 3K on my Zuki in a few months last year, including about 1K this winter. Bought the Yamaha in March, already put 3K on it and I have NOT been riding to work due to unemployment this year... LOL

I'm gonna go with 10+K per year, hopefully that will go up to 20+ by next year. A nice ride out to the West coast should help that along....

Saawheeeet!! Squiddly cops in Obetz huh!?! I will keep an eye out for him!

I am off of Groveport, between Alum and Williams. I ride Groveport/Williams all the time heading either to 23 to shop or up to 104 to head out to 315/71N and up to the North end. Very soon you might catch me at the little stop and rob dairy mart next to Obetz hardware buying some afternoon "bike workin'" beers.

Several bikes went zooming past yesterday as I was working on the frame. Some of them wave at me, presumably because I had 2 motorcycles next to me and I was busy grinding away on the stripped down frame of another. Kinda figured at least one of them would be one of ours, but so far I seem to be finding a totally different group of south-enders. There is a sport biker and a cruiser dude that seem to ride everywhere and go by several times a day, I keep hoping they will drop by for a min or I will catch them when I am close enough to the road to flag them down. Feed them a few beers and point them toward OR.com right quick....

Yammer ran fine, stripping an entire frame with wire brushes sucks balls.... Should have it painted today unless I get distracted or drunk or drunkenly distracted.

Damnit, if it isn't the cagers, it's the pigs trying to harsh my ride... Finally get some agreeable weather and it turns into a mix of hillbilly derby car and Mad Max out there!! LOL

I DID see a lot of accidents yesterday, and many this week including two fatalities, one on a motorcycle in Dublin. Cops running traffic have been pretty thick as well particularly on the freeway system. Didn't notice any on the back roads up home last week though.

Got the cruiser up and moving... I only feel a little stupid....

So the backfire blew the carb right out of the intake on the cylinder head. I had noticed it look like it was pushed back, but got no response when I gave it the old hillbilly poke and a shake while it was running. I had no starter fluid when it broke down, so that was the best I could do at the time. (being parked on the side of a tar and chip road near Deliverance country)

I just got a wild hair up my ass and decided to give another shot at it before performing major surgery and took the starter fluid to the suspect carb while idling... instant results from a short spray and I then I spend the next 20 minutes wrestling the carb back into the rubber intake... (two flat head screw drivers and a few smart thumps with the palm of your hand at the right moment is the key here....) I am somewhat impressed that it blew out like that, it fits pretty snug and there isn't much wiggle room for the carb to even pull loose...

Anyway,I am riding the bike to buy a plug-in drill (cordless one lacks stamina) to finish stripping paint/rust from the Suzuki frame in celebration. Ciao!!

its ashame you can't (legally) shoot someone for damaging or stealing your property, they gotta threaten your life first. now if they break into your house...

No, you have to FEEL threatened... as long as you can articulate in court how you, as a rational human being, felt as though you were in imminent mortal danger, what the other person could have done or did do is fairly irrelevant...

If it wasn't for your damn dogs, you probably could've shot you some perps last night. Just be sure to yell really loud, "They're coming right for us!" before you unload your clip.

In the police academy we had to sound off with "stop resisting!!" during all of our hand to hand and non-lethal weapons training... Instructor told us that it goes much better in court when you can be heard on the video shot by neighbors instructing the subject to "stop resisting..."

Edit: Personally I prefer, "drop the gun" or "he's got a gun" or at least yelling "get back, get the fuck back" a few times before the first round... Makes sure the neighbors know you gave plenty of warning first. The fact that you actually knocked them out with a bat 5 minutes ago and are about to execute them as they are tied to a chair is just between you and the chair.... (make sure you untie them from the chair BEFORE the cops arrive, stupid...)

Punk kids... you think you would've given them a warning shot first?

Warning --> knee --> euthanasia

I always considered the knee to BE the warning... Warning shots are anything not directed at center mass.

I use the motion light, followed by full blood German shepherd, followed by scary man coming from the shadows with a loaded pistol progression of force myself. If I have to actually get out of my nice warm bed, someone is gonna get fucking hurt at my house tonight. Remember kids, light comes on and dog barks, then you run like hell... or else...

Nice, bookmarked that one for future reference!! By motorcycle make AND carb make... Very nice.

Thanks for the heads-up, mang! Now, if only the website could motivate me to move in the morning, or just do my work for me.... grrrrr...

Anyone else on here in Obetz?? I see lots of bikes, but I just moved here from Dublin and wondering if any of them are our boys/girls. If you live near me, I'm that new asshole off of Groveport riding the cruiser in black, sometimes with a passenger. I see several cruisers and a few sportbikes that all live right around me and ride past the house regularly, one or more has to be on the forum I figure, and if not I just need to convert them all and bring them to the light!!

Anyone near by should ride over and help me drink a few beers while I get high on paint fumes and solvent in my driveway today... LOL Today I am working on bikes rather than riding them. About to take the laptop out and use it like a giant ipod while I strip and paint a motorcycle frame. Just sucking back a bit more caffiene and shaking off the brain fog before I get motivated.

740-358-2511 My cell for locals or bored people. Stalkers beware, I'm scarier than you... Perverts beware, I'm more sick than you.... LOL

I believe one carb on my cruiser is damaged now from a backfire. While riding this weekend it popped on me and now I can hear a terrible vacuum/pressure leak coming from one carb. Hard to isolate sound exactly, but it does not appear to be external and all the vacuum lines are accounted for and attached. Bike runs like shit, consistent with one carb being half in the bag. (usually when it backfires it will just blow off the vacuum line to the petcock, annoying but easily managed)

It is an 82 Yamaha 920 V-twin with Mikuni carbs if that makes a difference to anyone. My current plan is to tear off both today and if I don't find something fishy on my way to the carbs (like hose damage I missed) then I crack both open and start looking for the big nasty difference that will tell me which part needs replaced...

One other question this brings up... it backfired for a reason. That reason is that it has no baffles in the pipes (not my doing) and stock jets in the carbs. SO, do I re-jet or just rig some baffles??? (can't afford the pipes I want to put on it and stock ones are expensive even from boneyard in addition to looking and sounding like crap.) I can engineer myself a glasspack out of the existing exhaust easily enough, I think. More backpressure than I get now, anyway, and it might even sound less like, um, whatever the fuck kind of sick animal it sounds like now without any baffles...

Just convinces me that Darwin was definitely on to something.

The evolutionary process is painfully slow for my taste.... Especially when we keep spending time, money and energy to help keep the dumbest people alive and save.