ReconRat

oops, no... she's taking orders for the black. The others are on the OR shop on the website. I did not mean to confuse the process. Dang...

+me, no clue what to bring. I'll take a guess sometime this week.

The OR web shop has white listed for $16.49 Also ash gray, natural beige, light blue, and yellow. http://ohio-riders.net/shop.php and polo in white: No clue how long it would take to get one.

Car and motorcycle dealers fix stuff like this all the time. It's part of doing business. Thank you Middletown Cycle for taking the initiative.

You are right. I answered at work before leaving. I didn't think that through completely. Those dips in the HP curve have to go away, if possible. Curious, what type of exhaust and can does it have?

Air density. Cold air has more molecules in it per units of fuel metered. And vice versa. So the ratio in cold air is more air per fuel, which is lean. And warm air is less air per fuel, which is rich. The carburetor won't vary the flow velocity and volume to compensate.

This is actually turning into a great thread. I've bought so many helmets in so many sizes. Sad is they didn't cost very much back-in-the-day. If you buy a helmet like that now, everyone thinks you're suicidal. It's the same helmet or better, but there are so many more advanced helmets to choose from. And yes, most of those helmets were bought for chick-on-the-back. Some I got back, some I didn't. Some I didn't want back. Most were nice and at least offered the helmets back. Shall we start a helmet rental? Borrow a helmet and see how it goes? If we all cleaned out our hall closets, we'd probably have lots of helmets to spare. and yeah, if I had a daughter, you'd be out of luck.

Two heats generally is to structure the starting grid order. Plus eliminate contestants if too many had shown up to race. I've seen three heats when there are too many. Is that what you mean?

Technically, the limit on a basic single core 32 bit machine seems to be 8 applications.... Just something I've noticed. I do it all the time. If any one or two get too busy, it will slow down. Past eight, I just fire up a second computer, or a third... Yeah, I permanently kill dozens of services and apps that don't need to be running all the time in the background. That helps a lot.

ummm, seen this on trucks, nothing stoopid like hoses pulling fluids into the intake box? Or into the carbs? Or even a engine vent that goes to the intake side? I remember fixing a van that was pumping all of it's oil into the intake manifold.

Well, that shot that idea then... time to think of something else. although the point was, does it have pressure on the crankcase at higher rpms?

If that much pressure built up, it would leak past everything. Rings, seals, gaskets. And that would account for the very large sudden usage of oil. It's very weird having so much oil go away so fast. I think it would take high pressure in the wrong places to get it going away so quickly.

Combustion pressure leaking from cylinders at high rpm, into the crankcase or oil galleries/head. Pressure accumulates like a pump, and pushes oil into the combustion chambers at high rpms. I wonder if it were to ride around with the oil fill cap off or loosened up, it might not smoke. It might whistle like a tea kettle though.

Deleted photos can be recovered. Dunno about phones, but cameras and memory cards, yes. Try not to take more pics till you try a recovery.

Deleted photos can be recovered. Dunno about phones, but cameras and memory cards, yes. Try not to take more pics till you try a recovery.

I like 664 for the trip back North to town. I can relax and ride.

BTW, reality is... this was probably an Iranian test of an Iranian missile, using Iranian technology and Iranian personnel. And North Korea was happy to participate.

Even France cannot launch from home. Launching from France would be toward the East, in general, flying over... lots of other countries. They maintain a very successful launch facility base in French Guiana in South America. International flight regulations require launches to be announced, flight path declared, debris fall zones identified, etc etc. North Korea barely abides by this, if at all. United Nations accords of all types are ignored as well. North Korea is a paranoid renegade separatist nation, shrouded in secrecy. Isolated by choice, as well as international opinion, they are going it alone. And part of their national mandate is to point that out to everyone else, by any means possible.

For the record: There are multiple types of Rotella oil. Multigrade 10W-30 and 15W-40 Synthetic 5W-40 API CJ -4 Technology Synthetic 5W-40 Synthetic-Blend http://www.shell.com/home/Framework?siteId=rotella-en&FC2=/rotella-en/html/iwgen/leftnavs/zzz_lhn2_0_0.html&FC3=/rotella-en/html/iwgen/products/dir_products08.html Shell Rotella T multigrade is a basic mineral based truck and car oil. It meets the API CI-4 PLUS rating for diesel engines. Shell Rotella T Synthetic API CJ-4 Technology is a "full synthetic" truck and car oil. It meets the API CJ-4 and the SM ratings. Shell Rotella T Synthetic is a "full synthetic" truck and car oil. It meets the API CI-4 PLUS and the SH ratings. Shell Rotella SB Synthetic-Blend is a synthetic blend truck and car oil. It has no ratings on the Shell Rotella website. It meets "the warranty and service requirements of virtually all four-stroke cycle diesel and many gasoline engine manufacturers". So it looks like two types could be ok (the two full synthetics), and the other types are not. Of the two types that are ok, the rumor is... that they meet the JASO MA requirement, but are not advertised that way, or marked for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Rotella_TThe concept is, that Rotella for trucks does not need the car type additives, and doesn't use them. That might put it in the JASO-MA group. The ratings above SG do not require disclosure of what additives are used, making all ratings above SG hard to figure out what it is. Which is one reason why JASO ratings were created. The winner is Shell Rotella T Synthetic 5W-40 (API CJ-4 Technology optional)

Lots of people having trouble with this, since the FireFox update late last year. Apparently Firefox 3 doesn't use cookies.txt anymore to store the cookies. Some one recommended to delete cookies.sqlite instead. It might not be found. It might show the old cookies.txt instead. Still researching... It isn't working perfect for me either. But so far it hasn't been much trouble. For fun, I'm going to add ohio-riders.net as an allow exception under tools - options - privacy - exceptions button. And then clear the ohio rider cookies under the show cookies button. Maybe it will restore functions. ..... <break for messing around> back, well, it didn't hurt anything. No changes that I can see. On my computers, I stay logged into Ohio-Riders.net all the time. Until I actually click on logout. It is still working that way. edit: And I did click the "remember this password" when I logged in the first time going back after changes.

Yes, signed agreements can be void under certain circumstances. In the sale and purchase of goods, no agreements are necessary by laws that go back to the time of handshakes. Courts recognize the concept of honorable transaction. Any deviation from acceptable and traditional practices, is not seen as good business procedures. I vote for calling state attorney general, to see if they will take the case. For instance, if it were a race bike previously, that would have been deceptive regardless of an "as is" agreement, and they would probably have them buy it back.

Best 20 of the pics I took: http://s388.photobucket.com/albums/oo323/ReconRat_album/DynoDay09/

Riding with a passenger is completely different. Your goal becomes protection of the passenger. Or it should anyway. The bike handles different, and there is two people steering it. It takes practice, from both rider and passenger. Everything about it changes. It's like learning all over again.

geez, find an OEM seat and start taking it to bike shows. BTW, those little crash bars aren't stock. I don't remember them being an option.