Bubba

Sheit. At my age, camping is a cheap motel with a lumpy mattress and a black&white TV. Sleeping on the ground in a tent is being homeless...

Buddy rides a Honda PC and uses the ME880s. They are great tires for both wet and dry sport riding, but I doubt you'll get more than 6-8K out of 'em if you use 'em hard. He doesn't.... Let's face it. Any modern sport bike/sport tourer/cruiser that has more than 40-50 HP and weighs in at 400# or more isn't gonna get much over 5-7K miles out of a good road tire, and that even goes for the dual compound tires.

For those OR boys/girls who are in the SW part of the state, there's a New Year's Eve Day ride--better weather than Sunday--going out of the AA Shell in Wilder and heading to Falmouth, prolly via KY10 and KY22. Kickstands up @ 11 AM. Here's the poop: http://www.localriders.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16750

Interior perimeter drains will generally keep water from flowing across your basement slab, but won't help with water entry thru cracks and defects in your foundation walls or with humidity and the related mold issues. And if you've got a block foundation, fugget about it! Only permanent fix is to seal from the outside and regrade your yard to keep the water away from the foundation. Had the same issues at an old house. Even had the exterior deck, same as you. I undid the deck joists from the band board, dragged it away from the house with my 4x4 in one piece. Paid an excavator the $65/hr for him to dig the foundation to the footer, then I sealed the cracks with hydraulic cement, coated the foundation with waterproofer, installed wicking board, installed new footer drains and pea gravel, then had him come in and backfill and slide the deck back into place. Cost was under $2000 for the whole thing...plus a crappy week of being horribly muddy and tired. If you pay a company to do the labor, you'll get a huge bill...but it ain't rocket science. It makes a gawdawful mess of your yard for a few weeks (months at this time of year?) but it'll look fine come spring. Problem with wet basements is that they cost you a lot of money (or pain) to fix, but the money you spend doesn't add a red cent to the resale value of your house. The value is strictly to you in the "liveability" of yer hacienda.

Well, these big boys made it thru gun season. Whether they make it thru "little-old-lady-in-big-Buick" season is anybody's guess. All these pix were taken on 12/21/11 between 6:30 PM and 7:00 PM. Just gotta figger out how to get 'em to come in a little earlier. Also got these pests coming in. Definitely not true coyote; I suspect they gotta be 'yote/dog mix from their size!

http://www.weather.com/weather/tenday/USNC0577 If I hadn't just gotten, I'd join you!

Here ya go! Try this site on for BRP views. Looks pretty clear to me. 'Course, that don't mean it won't snow tomorrow.... http://www.highcountrywebcams.com/cameras.htm

It can be beautiful down there this time of year. Just got back about a week ago from the Franklin, NC, area and rode the Dragon along with a number of the local roads. Heading to GA is a good bet as well. http://www.localriders.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16741 The mornings could be upper 20s/low 30s, but by mid-morning the temps will be into the 40s or better. If you stay out of the higher elevations--i.e., BRP and Cherhola SW--and stick to the valleys, it'll be fine. Traffic volume is way down altho there will be lots of LEOs around doing the holiday enforcement for the next week or so. Watch your speed in GA especially--they have the "super speeder" law that tacks at least an extra $200 onto the normal ticket price for 15+ over. Be sure you do your homework on the weather situation before you blow out'a Dodge, and be prepared for the weather situation to throw a curve at you, and of course gear up appropriately.

Grimsel Pass, Switzerland. I spent a year hitchhiking in and around the Bernese oberland back in the 60s, when being a homeless hippy in Europe wasn't totally frowned upon....oh, and the exchange rate was 4.25 Swiss Francs to the US dollar. http://www.myswitzerland.com/en/grimsel-pass.html

I have a multi-speed table-top drill press and a Craftsman router/router table that I'd be willing to part with cheap. This stuff isn't close to "commercial/industrial" type of tooling, but it'd be fine for a homeowner. Lemme get some pix of the stuff and I'll post up here in a day or so with a friendly price. Only glitch I forsee is that I'm located in Cinti. Lemeno if that's too far a drive to make the deal.

Some decent used ones available on CL. Not sayin' these are GREAT deals, but you can always make a low-ball offer at this time of year. If ya piss 'em off and they say "No!" yer not any further behind.... http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/mcd/2653270805.html http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/mcy/2706246988.html

Aw shoot, that'll buff out.

OK, and just how do these two word groupings juxtaposition in the same sentence? Yer gonna give squids a bad name! Definitely a great day for a ride. Not too many of these left in the season, tho. I was out for about 5 hours yesterday. Met a couple of friends in Rabbit Hash and rode the NKY twisties south and east to Falmouth, followed 22 to Willow, and then back north on 10 to Alexandria. About 200 miles for the day. If yer ever in Cinti and want to hit up the back roads, lemeno. And lastly, this pic shows why you didn't come afoul of Johnny Law. Definitely NOT yer typical outlaw biker gang! Needed someone in a pirate doo-rag and assless black leather chaps to liven up the crowd....altho, to be fair, I wouldn't want to face the fella on the left after getting his daughter back long after curfew.

Isn't this the same thing they were telling employees of Enron, Lehman Bros, and GM?

Just talked to my financial advisor. He said if I didn't sell, I didn't lose. Hmmmm, I wonder if he knows what he's talking about.... Of course, the contrarian view is that you should buy when there's "blood in the street" so it must be time to pony up another half mil for some more GE! Just like Harry's Carpet: I might lose money on EVERY transaction, but my plan is to make it up in VOLUME.

You're trying to do things on two different sides of town--Indiana is west, Loveland is NE of the city--so yer makin' it hard on yerself. Didn't sound like any of the storage options were gonna be real convenient, either. I'm on the SW side of city, just a couple of miles from the IN border and 5 min off the I-275/I-74 interchange. If yer still looking, you can leave it at my place for the weekend. Only glitch is that I'm gonna be using my box trailer to move a friend Sat morning and won't be around. Send me a PM if you want to set something up. Ciao--Bubba

ABSOLUTELY NOT! Ohio has no implied warranty for private party sales. All person-to-person transactions are as-is with no legal recourse. And given that you disclosed the throw-out bearing issue, you're golden. Tell him to go shit in his hat!

Ummm, yeah....interesting video. What yer lookin' at there is a MAJOR FAIL on the part of the CBR rider in terms of launch technique and riding ability. No way a 430# 160 HP sport bike gets beaten by a 700# raked-out, ape-hangered H-D, whether the motor has been reworked or not. I'm not sayin' this in way to disparage Harley, since I've owned several of them down thru the years and admit they have a valid place in the two-wheel culture. Just an example of how experience can trump physics on occasion....

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As you suggested, my first guess would be a worn clutch. Given the symptoms, it could be as simple as new plates/discs, but depending on how much abuse it's seen, even a new basket and springs. One thing you might check--and I only say this because SOME bikes are designed this way and I haven't a clue if your Blackbird is one of them--is the clutch actuating rod, which on many bikes runs thru the case on the sprocket side behind the chain cover. If this gets all goo'd up from the chain flinging spooge and grit, it can get sticky and not operate smoothly. As I stated, not a clue if yer bike has this design...but you might check the service manual before you spring for new parts.

Ninjadoc: Don't feel bad. You done OK. And I'm pretty sure that the neggers who are bashing the bad bidding behaviour are bashing Josh1234's post. Totally different issue than you bidding and then having a change of heart.

In Sept, I bought an '09 Strom w/10k mi in a private sale from a guy in IN for $5300. Has lots of farkles (Sargeant seat + stock seat, Madstad bracket, SW-Motech bash plate and crash bars, luggage rack, new BS Battlewing rear tire) and reasonably clean. Prolly about average price--not great deal, but OK. Yer prolly a little high, but I have no idea if you are obligated to buy after winning the bid. On a bright note, the Wee is a wonderful bike! Tons of fun to ride, engine has plenty of juice (altho a little agricultural sounding), prolly hang with many sport bikes in the twisties, and adaptable for either around-town errands or week-long touring trips. Not REALLY an off-road monster because its a heavy l'il beast and has pretty limited ground clearance. If you do end up with it, just ride the wheels off it. You're gonna love it once you try it! Edit: Didn't see that it was the 1000 Strom. Prolly right on the money with your bid. Pretty low miles for an '08! You won't likely turn it for a profit if that's what you wanted to do, but as I said, they're great bikes and built like tanks. Ride the wheels off it.

Pretty sure there are such things as tubeless spoke rims, mostly on newer high-end DS bikes like Beemers. Meant for applications where a modern tubeless radial is mated to a lightweight spoke wheel. Doubt if your bike is one of them, however. Prolly a tube, and prolly means you need a new one. One good thing is that if it already had nail hole in it, you didn't screw it up much more than it already was.... And just an FYI, you can't stop a leak in a spoked rim by tightening the spokes. As a matter fact, if you selectively tighten spokes on one part of the rim, you can throw the rim/wheel out of true with respect to both lateral and longitudinal run-out. Worst case, you put too much tension on a particular set of spokes and have them snap during operation, causing a catastrophic wheel failure. Haven't seen it happen on a MC, but have experienced it personally on a MTB. Can you say "Chinese endo"?

This big guy--12 pt, I believe--was here all last season and is back again this year. Seen him a half dozen times already. I was happy to see that no one bagged him with their Buick or F250. 'Course, it helps that he has his pick of 12-14 mature does that are here all year round. Pix taken from my kitchen window--maybe 100 feet from the house. West side of Cinti in Ham Cty. http://s875.photobucket.com/albums/ab313/icantdrive55/?albumview=slideshow

Makes me ashamed of being a biker, but this is a classic example of what happens with mob mentality....although, the 'mental' part is sorely lacking. A situation like that calls for helicopters with large nets, preferably at about 120 MPH. Or maybe automatic weapons fire? Sorry, I'm sure there are some here and there that would revel in that kind of thing, but it would seriously suck to be associated with that crew!