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Well since I work a lot of 12hour shifts and almost zero healthy options to eat from our vending service, i take a lot. I also eat my breakfast at work and usually take a couple powerade zeros.

How long you known me? You haven't figured out by now I'm the function over form type? And how is it ruined? I just improved this bike functionality and the occasions I can ride it 10 fold. Five seconds the box comes off, another 10 min I can have the arms and plate off. All this while not affecting its performance or ridability . And before you say aero and wind drag look at the 6'4" monkey behind the bars.

No ladder needed #tallpeopleproblems Luggage is the no extra virgin olive oil type

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Got my 40L top case today for the Z. Much, much better than the 55L that I took off the Connie to try. Still a tad big looking but the usable space is about perfect. Best part is both bikes and boxes take the same mount so I can use either box on either bike. So I can now carry my lunch to work, run errands and have a place to stow my helmet and gloves when I get there.

If that still applies if my entire route is the BRP?

This is why he even pulled you over. Last ticket my wife got last spring the guy had a trainee. Last ticket I got many moons ago the cop had a trainee. You were the example subject of the training exercise. Thanks for playing along.

We need to get back over there. We had a half day of excellent riding and got washed out.

I think you got off cheap. Last ticket my wife got from a state pooper was $189 for 69 in a 55

Should be blown though by this Saturday but the roads might be a mess for a few more days. Then fairly clean by the next weekend. Might not want to come too far north yet @Danimal they are call for night temps in the 30s this weekend here.

DON'T use it on clear acrylic or polycarbonate unless you no longer want it to be clear anymore. Ask @Danimal how he knows.

We'll see. I'll revisit this another time. Every time I try something and it fails it just pisses me off even more. Maybe one of the rainy days this week.

Yea kind what I'm learning. I can only hope the sun will fade it some. Oh well just another story of the road. All the scuffs and scratches on the connie are stories to be told.

Kinda what I though.

Don't have any but I'd be concerned about the matte finish with that.

Thanks for the idea but did work.

Tried alcohol several times and just tried your dry erase trick didn't do it either. It's definitely the black ink because it was black before I started cleaning.

Magic Eraser didn't work maybe faded it slightly. haven't tried goof off yet I ran out last time Dan was here working on his bike

So I went to Lowe's yesterday to pick up some bolts. You know how you have to write on the little baggie what your buying for the checkout person. Well I was carrying my helmet in my hand and the bag rubbed up against my helmet before the marker ink dried on the bag. After trying many different solvents including Windex, non ammonia in Windex, alcohol, non-chlorinated brake parts cleaner, WD-40 and Simple Green I'm still left with this yellowish residue. Anything y'all can think of that will be safe on a matte finish that may take this off?

Okay in my search to be a cheap ass I think I discovered something else. Givi is now selling consumer direct though a different entity https://tourandride.com/ That web site and https://www.giviusa.com/ mirror each other and the phone numbers ring to the same message. Also the addresses on the R&T and Givi web site are the same. Site says it was registered in 2018 so must be a newish thing.

Didn't know cracking a joke required a reality check...quit fucking up my LOL's

What I gather it doesn't have to be "your" machine the fact that it's on "A" machine in Ohio qualifies. And your shipping and billing address obviously gives away your location.

Taxation without representation. AKA Ohio roads suck

So I had some things in my cart on RM/ATV/MC web site for over a week plans on purchasing it on this payday. One of the items I was to have them price match another retailer so I use the chat option to get the price match. Done this many times before. They approve the price match and send me the invoice. I notice that there is tax on this invoice. I ask about, Why? And the guy tells me a new law or rule went into effect Monday Oct 1st that Ohio now requires them to charge tax on out of state purchases even though they have no brick and mortar sites in state. He didn't have the details just said they had to do it now. So I checked several other online retailers I deal with regularly and sure enough found most of them now charge tax. Did a little google fu and found this BULLSHIT explanation....... Massachusetts & Ohio: ‘Cookie Nexus’ One particularly clever state approach has been the one pioneered by Massachusetts and recently adopted in Ohio, which counts the internet cookies retailers place on customers’ computers as a physical presence in the state. Basically, by claiming the lines of code that live on the customer’s computer as a tiny piece of local real estate, these states have asserted a collection obligation, regardless of where the retailer is physically based. For those of us that regularly buy on line to save a dime this is going to cost use hundreds of dollars a year. Thoughts?