Scruit

Better put a helmet on your helmet then.

Don't split them up. Keep yourself to yourself, everything else is fine.

RIP. "Anyone who rides without a helmet obviosuly has nothing up there worth protecting."

Looks like someone forgot the fairings.

Off-the-boat Limey 14 years ago this month. Born in England to Scottish parents. Drive and ride Japanese (Subaru and Suzuki) but I have a Bronco too.

In my case the old o-ring was covered in rust so it looked like part of the tank, looked like there was no o-ring. After the tank leaked I went back to the box that the new tank came in and found the lock ring and o-ring. DUH me.

I bought a couple yards of denim from Micheal's and use it to cover the seat bottom when my dogs are in the car. They are smaller than yours (8lbs and 11lbs) but their nails are smaller and sharper too. I also have then in a body-harness and clipped to the seatbelt too. Partly to stop them being ejected or thrown around the car in an accident, and partly to keep them on the denim.

The only thing worse than having to remove and reinstall a gas tank in a car while you have a broken ankle in a cast is.... ...Having to do it twice because your stupid dumb ass forgot the f*ckin' o-ring between the pump housing and the top of the tank. This is in the Gimpmobile (the cheap car I bought to get around while my ankle heals for the next 2-3 months because I can't ride or drive my stickshift) Spent yesterday putting a new alternator in there, charging the A/C and doing the R&R on the tank so I could put the o-ring on. Only figured out I'd forgotten it when I tanked up at a gas station and the last gallon was dumped directly on the floor when the fill level got above the o-ring. Let it sit for a while to finish leaking and evaporate then drove home carefully and siphoned the gas out the tank. Luckily, the second time you do a job like this is always much quicker than the first. The tank was out and back in in about 2.5 hours, including the time to siphon 18 gallons out of it with a hose. So I finally have the car where I need it and it only required 1 week of overlap with the rental car to give it a shake-down and get it running just right. Now for 2-3 months of driving it around until I can drive stick again. My riding season, though, is probably over. MRI confirms my Anterior Talofibular and Calcaneofibular ligamaments were completely torn, 3 other ligaments were partially torn and one was ripped off the bone taking part of the bone with it (an "Avulsion" fracture). I can't even walk more than 20' without the aircast, never mind support a bike that tries to tip over.

When I started riding back in 2004 my first interstate trip was a Patriot Guard ride to Fushing, MI to attend a military funeral. I set off at 6am up 23 from Delaware towards Toledo. After about an hour of riding I was on a section of 23 that was a divided highway, 2 lanes in each direction, going around a curve to the right. I passed a semi and stayed out in the left lane for about 30 seconds. I checked my mirror and was about to move into the right lane well ahead of the semi when I realized that the oncoming headlights were attached to a southbound car in the northbound carriageway. Luckily I was preparing to change lanes already so I knew the lane was clear. At 75mph it seemed to take forever to swerve out of the path of the oncoming car. I made it with a couple carlengths to go, which isn't very far when you are closing at well over 100mph combined speed. That shook me up bad. Considered trashing this whole "biking" thing right there and then. Then I go up to the funeral, met some really nice folks, talked to a ton of bikers, military types, family. Stood in a line of hundreds of bikers with my hand on my heart as they led the brave young man on his final journey, then departed back home. It was a powerful experience, especially for a foreigner to be accepted without a moment's pause into such a patriotic atmosphere, and it convinced me to keep the bike.

If she drive drunk, wrong way on the freeway and killed an innocent motorist then I'd expect her to see at least 7 years in jail. RIP rider.

I used to have a pool and it was a pain to keep clean. But I would never get in the pool if I couldn't see the bottom. Sure, you can't see the bottom of lakes etc, but you don't go in them barefoot. At least I don't. Don't fancy having a broken bottle jammed in my foot.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/30/massachusetts.pool.woman.body/index.html?iref=NS1 People continued to swim in the pool while the body was in there. Water was described as 'cloudy'. Who here would swim in a pool with water so dirty you can't see the bottom? I wouldn't.

Someone call the Orderlies, Old Man SerpentRacer is out of his bed again.

Unless it has a snorkel?

Dear OR, Someone put new batteries in grandpa's heard aid again, didn't they? You know how ornery he gets when he remembers that the world has left him behind. just let him sit in the corner of the room and enjoy the warm mushy feeling of his Depends. Love and hugs (no homo), Scruit.

WTF? Why so pissy?

What is DRS?

If they DID show it on Cops then the only bit worth looking at would be blurred out.

Or you have relatives in another country and facebook is an excellent way of keeping in touch with them without having to call or email them separately...

Depends on the compression. A DVD is 4.7GB for 2 hours of video, but it's not heavily compressed.

Touche.

Up until 3 months ago I worked for a major antivirus software company. You are DEAD wrong. There are exploits that will allow a site to execute code on your computer, and thet first thing the virus usually does is turn off your antivirus on-access scanning. New viruses can emerge into the wild and run rampant within hours. My company updated it's customers every couple of hours (not daily) and I have gotten a virus that even passed heuristics but then was picked in by the next signature file an hour later. Spam attacks can start and end in 5 minutes. Viruses can come through banner ads. You have no idea. Good antivirus software, and avoid IE like the plague. The door may be locked but left the windows open.

Honestly, I think the prosecutor is really milking this situation. So, is that a Class Double-D misdemeanor?

About Verizon's 4G... 10Gb limit? At full speed (I've heard 18-20Meg downloads) you'd burn up your monthly allowance in about 70 minutes. Once you get to your limit you'd be paying $6-7 dollars to download a CD. It would be cheaper to send the CD by USPS. If you left your connection up running at full speed then overage charges would reach $64,000 in one month. I once logged into my remtoe CCTV system from work to view the 16-channel video wall. Forgot about it and went home. 4 days later I got back to work and realized I'd left it running. That's 16 youtube videos running similtaneously and constantly. Even if it only needed 2 meg for that, the overage charges for that silly mistake would have been over $200. Not a cut on Verizon - I've been a customer there for 14 years and never had a problem with them. (except I have observed their tech support has a habit of ignoring difficult trouble tickets) It may just be the nature of the business that they need to charge that much / limit that much. Still, the effect is the same, no 4g for me at the house, and not on the droid either. I can't take the risk that my kid could leave a streaming HD video feed running on his computer and cost me hundreds of dollars. I have a 2Meg wireless link to my ISP. My wireless router reports I average about 35 GB use per month. Verizon would cost me $350/mo, and my current service is $35/mo. No-brainer, really.

Got the new gas tank in the car. My wife has named it "The Gimpmobile". (In honor of its sole purpose, transporting me around while I have a gimpy leg) So, the squeaking alternator has stopped squeaking. Seller said it was a glazed belt and would go away. Well, it went away. Cool. So, back on track. Returning the expensive rental tomorrow and will be commuting in the Gimpmobile. I actually like the car a ton - it's just like the car my friends had when I first visited the US in 1984 and that car was part of what was so different about America. From that point on after going back to the UK I was obsessed with American cars. Getting in this car is truly a blast from the past. I'm actually going to be sad to see it go.