ReconRat

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sheeet, don't knock Kaitlyn (kay9109) at 58th, in only 10 hours of posting...

I lived on 8th by the firehouse. I know exactly what you mean. Also lived right on High Street for a while, but it's way too noisy there. Was fun though. Glad to be gone from all that.

She's busy today... mostly floating little paper boats on the kitchen floor...

Something similar was posted last year. Guess it's the new trend.

you fool, tsk... moving on.... what's up with the bike? I can burn service manuals to a CD. Both bikes. It's 3:30am, I'm going back to sleep...

It does sound weird. I haven't heard of that being done. Do you want the address to write them and ask? They don't have email addresses. If you want, I'll call and ask them tomorrow. What is Motorcycle Ohio's address and phone number? Ohio Department of Public Safety Motorcycle Ohio 1970 West Broad Street 4th Floor P.O. Box 182081 Columbus, Ohio 43218-2081 Toll Free: 1-800-83-RIDER Phone: 614-466-4041 Fax: 614-728-8330 Bureau of Motor Vehicles General Information (614) 752-7500 Registration/License Plates (614) 752-7800

http://bmv.ohio.gov/driver_license/dl_faq.htm Q21: I have completed the Motorcycle Safety course in another state, what are my requirements to obtain a motorcycle endorsement in Ohio. A21: You will be required to contact Motorcycle Ohio at 1-800-837-4337 to see if the requirements of that state meet Ohio’s guidelines.

If you have the height clearance, sure, it looks like it. It needs 11/16" more room above. Don't let it short out on anything, at the positive terminal, is all. Internetz says people switch to that one if they have the room for it.

Don't stop now Kaitlyn, only two more posts for an even 100... That's an event right there...

I'm a little hacker... I found some of Kaitlyn's old poetry She might rather forget it, but she sings it from the heart.

bump for info nothing on the news maybe something at 11pm

Me too, but I use really big letters, so I can actually see it... oh, and I do have gps, and it talks to me over FM, and actually works well.

It's tank slapper video time! Ok, I looked through a batch of videos, and most were little wobbles. Most were just headshake or momentary instability. Here are two real tank slappers that resulted in crashes and injuries: This is a tank slapper coming out of a turn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1srcQMa_0&feature=related This is a tank slapper coming down from a wheelie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD6jruSIELA Reading motorcycle stability. The tank slapper and/or a wobble is induced from a difference between the motion of the motorcycle based on the center of gravity of the motorcycle and the rider (inertia/momentum), and the procession (shake) of the front wheel as a gyroscope. Most problems are induced by a change in the motorcycle and rider's center of gravity while the front wheel is in the air or lightly loaded. That causes the gyroscopic front wheel to turn away from your line. Resulting in a violent shaking when it returns to the pavement. It means the bike is going one direction, and the wheel is going another direction. They then fight about it. Shaking both the front wheel and the motorcycle/rider. Yes, a quick shift in rider position should get rid of the problem. By restoring the matching center of gravity, for what it's worth. Not likely to happen. That comes from a ton of experience. No, unloading (accelerating) the front wheel again will not change the front wheel's gyroscopic procession. Yes, unloading (accelerating) the front wheel again will stop minor headshake/tankslap (mostly your arms force the procession away at that time). Yes, gripping the handlebars can dampen the procession out with the arm muscles. But procession is a large force, and it won't be easy. Note that getting the feet off the pegs does not seem to help at all. It appears to make the problem worse. Moving the body around can help or hurt the center of gravity. The legs appear to flop at the rate of procession, making it worse. With that much shaking, looks better to hold still. Moving forward or aft would be the exception, in line with the center of gravity. And doing that, should change the bike's center of gravity a bit, and correspondingly, the procession of the front wheel, for better or worse. tech stuff: headshake, wobble, and tankslap are very linked to the amount of trail. Changing ride height, suspension height, tire size or profile, rake, or fork offset, can all make the trail better or worse. Sorry for the blah blah blah, I'm just a geek...

Good question, tank slappers are supposed to be rare. If anyone had many on one bike, I'd say something is wrong with the suspension, setup, design, etc. I've had three in 40 years. I don't remember any more than that. One was slow speed oscillation on a freeway crossover ramp. It used all the pavement and wanted more. I had to fight that one and slow down. I was already going too fast. As best we could figure out, it was the dual calipers mounted on the front of the forks. When put on the rear of the forks, it didn't do that. We reversed the forks and calipers. They were on the front the first model year, and on the back of the fork all the other years. edit: when I say slow oscillation, it was about 60cps, one per second. Just barely able to counter it with force. Another was a flat front tire (blowout). It shook like no tomorrow, and took off across a 4 lane road (five with center turn lane), and back again, and repeated till it slowed down on it's own. Tire design used to cause a steady tank slap on freeways. It was rib tires on freeway rain grooves. We called it the BMW disease. It varied with the speed. The tire designs were changed to avoid that. It could be ignored, but it was weird to flop around like that at a steady freeway speed. It definitely freaked out all the cagers. We all bought new front tires. Little wobbles and shakes over crests of hills and such don't count. They will stop when that gyroscopic action settles back in. I don't think I've ever had a killer tank slapper. I can do without that.

We got those also. That's "parking hour". Right before Late-Rush, and right after Early-Rush.

Pretty common in rush hour. These were that and more... and it was odd to see that right where they were doing it. I hadn't looked yet, there might have been 24 police cars behind them. It might have been a rolling gun battle. I dunno. There wasn't enough data under the conditions, for me to mess with them... I've seen more than my fair share of chases. Watching from behind is way more fun than trying to watch from in front...

you wuss, lol odds of cagers being sober = close to zero area of known speed traps and collisions = max percent of people on cell phones while driving = up to 100% ability to avoid all of the above = priceless

This happened Thursday on the way home from work, and I forgot about it. I thought I'd share. I went to merge on the freeway, a long ramp, and gunned it up to a little more than the speed of the traffic I could see. Ummm, I was doing a buck ten. Oops, the traffic in the slow lane was doing 90 to 100mph. Okayyyy, I don't want to be in front of that, it was time to slow down and slide in behind them fools.

Letting someone ride my bike has never worked out for me. At the least, it won't shift the same when I get it back. At worst, I have to go fetch it back, in whatever condition I find it. People do not realize, that a sport bike is an extreme event, capable of killing the inexperienced in less than two seconds. (Ok, less than one second for some bikes.) Do them a favor, and say "no". For their own safety, just no. Also, don't leave your bike keys lying around where people can find them, heh...

yeah, I looked, I see that. McAfee SiteAdvisor says ok though. I checked the script for the reported links. No malicious links found. Checked the linked sites, they are reported as well, no malicious links found. Looks like some one is messing with Veteran websites. Appears to be clean now, even if the attack is listed as yesterday. Dang, even the map was attacked... molo.tw is bad, actively attacking websites everywhere. rmi.tw is more or less a storage for attacks.

Brakes never did me any good. Mostly made it worse. I just let it roll to a stop or till it stops, as best as can. Can still down shift. I agree with popping the throttle and clutch to unload the front wheel. It's worth a quick try. Some oscillations are so violent, using the hand controls are difficult or impossible. I'm thinking there are a lot of variables. It's going to be whatever works.

there must be something in the water there... there must be something in the water there... there must be something in the water there... ...

nah, abunawaf.com is a popular public forum in Saudi Arabia. Many of the Iranian websites will pick up your e-mail addresses and spam them. But abunawaf is listed as a safe site. cute sheep, btw

YES! The Gahanna Creekside Blues and Jazz Fest is an awesome event. http://www.creeksidebluesandjazz.com/ June 20 Friday 5pm-11pm (music continues to 1am) June 21 Saturday 11am-11pm (music continues to 1am) June 22 Sunday 11am-6pm