jporter12

The rodas were still wet around here, so I wasn't riding it very hard. There's also some gravel left, so I wanted to be able to change my line in a corner to be able to miss any that might show up. Not to mention that roads being cold making traction not as good as warm riding.

Today I decided work on putting the timing chan tensioner in the Hon-duh. I'm glad I looked at things a little better before throwing it back together, as I found the source of the tapping that I had been hearing for quite a while. The tip of one of the exhaust valves is mushroomed. It's worn through the hardened surface, and is wearing rapidly at this point. Putting it back together would just be setting up for catastrophic failure in short amount of time. The plan as of now is to get a gasket kit, pull it apart, and send both sets of heads that I have to the machine shop for them to put the best combination of parts that I have together for me. Here's a pic of the culprit, and the good one adjacent to it:

I only got in about 30 or so miles, but it was great to get out on the bike!

Uh, no. SOME of us learned to respect other people's things.

I was already thinking of making some chili, this reminded me. The bad thing is that I can't make it as hot as I like to, since the rest of the family doen't like it that way...

I just looked at a couple cities in my area, and they have such laws. They use language such as only to be used as a warning to other vehicles or pedestrians, etc.... Actually, Johnstown's ord. uses the ORC, then adds this to it.

I would imagine most cities have such laws on the books.

This is all I can find: http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/4513.21

F-dat.... I have all my gear out, I'm riding. Just found out that the Hon-duh is staying parked though, I think I just averted a major crisis there! Story at 11, or after I ride the 250, and go grab the camera at home.

You guys are riding twins! Way to go! DO you swap here and there?

The one with "3/4" of a motor (valve covers are pulled, I didn't know that they were 1/4 of the motor ) is in my bay being worked on, and the one that doesn't start 90% of the time (starts 99% of the time, just takes some finesse to get the starter clutch to grab) is warmed up and been down the driveway (squid style, no helmet, under 20 MPH) ready to go now!

I will be out on one, if not both of mine today. I see some irony here...

Supposed to be registered is different than REQUIRED. It is REQUIRED to have a vehicle registered to operate a vehicle on a public roadway. If a vehicle is not being driven, the is no REQUIREMENT to register it. Vehicle registration is primarily a way to collect taxes for the USE of the vehicle on the roads. If it's not neing USED on the roads, what's the point? It would be quite expensive for me to register the car that I don't drive at this time, because then I would be REQUIRED to carry insurance on it, just to let it sit. If the vehicle is one that you drive on the roads, get the stupid registration renewed on time. You can renew up to a few months EARLY, or even a couple years at a time.

So, about an hour or so of work and you could have it back to where you can ride it. You're getting as bad on the excuses as I was when it was getting cold!

You MUST be OLD!

Most people got confused when you'd call a 3-1/2 inch floppy disk, well, a floppy disk. The shell was hard, they thought that should make it a hard disk. I had to explain that one to people more than twice.....

Back in the day, they had a place, back when companies could get away with almost anything. These days, there are too many labor laws, and about all the unions deal with are above and beyond maintaining safe and fair working conditions, and more about how much money they suck out of the company, and how many benefits. Just my opinion and how I see it, of course.

Thanks for the clarification. I must've been thinking of something else, or just have seen someone do it wrong before.

Funny stuff right there....

Do I pass?

Get caught in a pornado?

I think I liked the drunk posting better...

To get this somewhat bacl OT, MJ does appear to be a GIRL!