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As you can start to see from the above posts, it's going to likely be worth it for your friend to get the carb problem sorted out and get the bike running. Rebels have been around essentially unchanged forever (my first bike was a 1985 rebel 250) so there are plenty of parts avail, and more than likely the carbs just need taken apart, cleaned, and put back together. A full gasket kit (carb rebuild kit) shouldn't run you more than 20-30 dollars if I remember correctly, and if that doesn't fix it as stated before you could probably find a carb on ebay or c-list for not much money at all. Getting the bike running well will easily be worth ~$700 on the sale price, so for me that'd be a no-brainer. I think the values of ~$1300 for not fixed vs. $2000 for fixed are definitely reasonable sale prices.

I would definitely go man, as has been stated before you know if the roles were reversed she'd be right there with you, you will never regret being there holding her as she passes. I had to make the same decision as you a few years ago with the golden retriever I grew up with, and I layed right down next to her and held her and pet her as she passed. I still remember that day and get teary eyed sometimes, it's hard when someone we love passes and a dog is no different than any other family member. I think you'll truly realize you made the right decision after the fact, but what better way to pass (in what surely has to be a confusing/terrifying situation for the dog) than next to and surrounded by the owner(s) that have loved you for so long. Sorry to hear of the unfortunate situation, and I wish you and your dog the best. They really are the best friends you can ask for...

What an awesome difference one letter can make

without knowing the specific details of your system, and admitting i'm hardly an expert: essentially you just need to 1.get the hose attached to the vacuum, 2.get everything in the water and try to get as much air out of the hose as possible. If you feed the hose into the water, forcing it underwater as you go, it should fill with water and get all the air out. 3. connect the hose to one of the inlet points of the pump system (usually the skimmers or the bottom/side drain) This can be accomplished by any number of various fittings, we'd have to know the specifics of your system for this. 4. If you still don't have enough vacuum to clean things, you may need to shut off more of the inlets to force all the input to the pump to go through your vacuum. Once again, which ones to shut would be specific on your system. 5. You will need to shut off the pump or disconnect your system every now and then to clean out whatever filtering system you are using for the vacuum, usually they come with some form of in-line coarse basket or leaf filter. When you go to turn it on, make sure that everything is still connected and once again try to get as much water in the lines as possible. If this basic layout still doesn't make sense to you, then you may have a problem that is beyond remote walkthrough with no knowledge of your system. Hope this helped!

Yeah, kinda pissed i didn't get to mow down any undead...hopefully the mayans had a zombie clause in their prediction so we can at least have fun next year. If so, at least the OR squad will have time to put together a better plan!

Second one has too much "empty" space that doesn't really add to the picture. Agreed with all above, cropping the second one could help bring it up to the awesomeness of picture one.

Welcome to OR! Holy Bike Collection Batman!

Extremely tasteful and well done, nice bike man!

http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/outreach/tracts/may21/ "By God’s grace and tremendous mercy, He is giving us advanced warning as to what He is about to do. On Judgment Day, May 21st, 2011, this 5-month period of horrible torment will begin for all the inhabitants of the earth. It will be on May 21st that God will raise up all the dead that have ever died from their graves. Earthquakes will ravage the whole world as the earth will no longer conceal its dead (Isaiah 26:21). " So since apparently the zombie apocalypse is coming this Saturday, what are the plans? I've already called dibs on my friend's combine harvester to drive around shredding zombie flesh, where's a good meet up point?

Daaaaaaaamn! Nice work man!

I used my time machine and found this shot of 1000rrrider leading Ringo through a big sweeper on friday. Here's hoping you get him with the banana. Or spike strips, whatever.

+1000000, all that lead and energy has to go SOMEWHERE, and I certainly wouldn't risk it going into myself like he did!

Certainly depends on your bullet and velocity, but here's a video with a pistol round: "bulletproof" glass around 1:50 mark

Welcome to OR! Lots of good info here.

Might seem obvious, but do you use a solid benchrest during your load development? I normally shoot off front and rear bags and have been considering a rest, but just need to really decide what level of accuracy I am comfortable with. Thanks for this helpful post.

I have a friend who lowsided with a set of no-cut sliders and the brackets for them just broke and ended up ruining his fairings anyway. I think the normal kind are the way to go, and I'm sure someone on here will have the right tool(hole saw?) to get the holes cut and give you a nice clean look.

so much win. +rep

Psh, blue powerbands? Everyone knows you have to go red for top performance! http://www.planetash.net/gos/powerbands.html

Apparently we're the only ones who like to nerd out about this:D , but I can certainly agree that it doesn't really matter once you're riding because you're having so much damn fun!

The video above helps explain the inertia component of the fall but leaves out the gyroscopic effects that also are in play with making the bike tip. Good video though, certainly less boring than the full explanation.

This explanation doesn't really work for me. How by turning your handlebars are you pushing the bike out from underneath you? In order to push the front tire out from underneath you as in the demonstration with the stick, you would need a force pushing the fork directly left or right, which is not the kind of force provided by turning the handlebars. If this were true I would think instead of handlebars we would just need a sort of joystick front fork which only moved left and right. The bearings in the steering head prevent any side to side lever motion like that, and allow only rotation along the axis of the bearing. The only explanation that works for me requires an understanding of angular momentum and torques, and your right hand. If no one else beats me to it I can take some pictures later tonight and try to explain it. Also perhaps there is already a good set of diagrams (or even video!) available online, but I don't have the time right now to look for them.