ScubaCinci

Thanks. I tried a few Suomy's on at the IP last weekend and they didn't fit me well either for the same reason as the Nexx. Not sure what model though. I had an Arai in the past and tried a few on at the IP but I don't care for how close the chin section is to my mouth on those. I can literally touch my lips to it with little effort. For some reason, I've never liked Bell helmets even though I've never owned them. I guess since they produce a lot of cheapie helmets (I used to see them at Kmart, etc), I always had the perception that they were cheaply made. My very first helmet ever was a shoei dirt bike helmet. I saved for months for that thing when I was a kid and absolutely loved it. As such, I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Shoei and this will be my first Shoei street. I ordered a hi-vis color combo. Doesn't quite match the orange/white bike but hopefully I'll be a bit more visible.

I've read that; however, the Qwest is basically the same helmet as the RF-1100 but with the vents altered for optimized airflow with a more upright seating position (according to Shoei) which I have on my Z1000. It's for sport touring/touring whereas the RF-1100 is more sport posture oriented. Can't be worse than my EXO...I can't really feel any airflow in that thing but on the plus side, it's pretty quiet.

Except that 2 weeks after the warranty ended the displayport connection went tits up. WTF? Otherwise it's a great monitor. I do a lot of photoediting in photoshop/lightroom and it helps a lot to have ample screen real estate.

It's a Dell U3011...not bad for gaming As for fps, you're right that anything 60+ is preferred but once you get under 40fps, things get juddery (is that a word?)/choppy and relatively unplayable. Obviously, this is an average. For most, anything above 40fps, the eye/brain is sufficiently fooled into the fluid motion illusion and is definitely playable. It varies person to person just like on DLP tv's some see a rainbow effect and others don't.

Not that wikipedia is the authority but... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaplaning I'm guessing the bike in the news story was a supersport based on the speed. Just a guess

None whatsoever. Performance of each epends on the application. Some games are optimized for one brand or the other and will obviously run better for the brand it is optimized for. However, anything over 40fps is essentially a waste since it has no discernible impact to the user so if the AMD card runs a game at 70fps and the NVIDIA at 80fps, who the frack cares? Performance is also heavily resolution dependent. Lower res employs more CPU assistance and higher res uses the GPU more. I'm rocking a 30" 2560 x 1600 screen running a GTX590 and it gives it a workout even though it's a dual GPU card.

Hence one of the tickets

I ordered one...arrived yesterday. I don't like the fit. It presses against my forehead too much. I did a close inspection and the finish wasn't so great either. I could already see a few spots where the color was chipped or worn and it's brand new. It's going back. I think I'll just grab a Shoei Qwest to replace my aging Scorpion EXO400, I know that fits my head shape just fine. I just hope it has better airflow than the EXO.

Unless you are very well suited up for the rain, it always seems to find a patch of bare skin, usually the neck. I'm thinking that as bright as said rider appears to be, odds are he wasn't properly attired.

^^^apparently our brains are on the same wavelength today. Better you than Exarch

I've never been shot with a real bullet nor hit a raindrop at anywhere over 90mph so I wouldn't know but I sure don't want to experience either one. I would think at some point, depending on the severity of the rain and conditions of the road, hydroplaning would become a high probability. In a car, it can be pretty scary but on a bike...

Those raindrops would feel like a barrage of paintballs haha

Kingston drive sold!

His heart's in the right place

Most of the rest of the conscious world disagrees with you. Almost universally, every tech professional believes an SSD is the single biggest bang for your buck upgrade you can do for your PC. With the price of hard drives skyrocketing due to flooding in the far east and the price of NAND flash dropping, this has never been more true.

OCZ highly recommends it for stability reasons. Here is the changelog. Looks like it fixes a bug with sleep.

YHPM...I noticed my PM's were on lockdown but fixed now.

Assuming you are running SATA III, the Kingston and Vertex 3 are probably the fastest, followed by the Octane and Intel.

Can do

I went ahead and just did a 'for sale' thread here: http://ohioriders.net/showthread.php?p=850888#post850888 Been wanting to put them up for sale for a while but I hate (the process of) selling stuff and have been procrastinating.

For anyone interested I have the following drives and can let go at this time. Note (unless otherwise stated) that these were used for some benchmarking and a few weeks of normal use to evaluate performance. They have been opened thus voiding the warranty. As such, they are priced accordingly. All are secure erased an in factory fresh condition (in terms of NAND performance) and come with all packaging etc. I can ship or we can meet up for the sale. -----------SOLD--SOLD--SOLD--SOLD--SOLD--SOLD--SOLD----------- 512GB OCZ Octane - SOLD 256GB OCZ Vertex 4 - SOLD 120GB Kingston V+ 200 (latest firmware 501) drive and bundle - SOLD 250GB Intel 510 Series (latest firmware PWG2) with bundle - SOLD ---this one has not been opened (I received 2 of them) so still carries warranty. 480GB Vertex 3 (latest firmware 2.22) - $450 ---this one has also not been opened (was just a comparo drive) so still carries warranty. SOLD

Windows 7 has a very nice built-in backup functionality

Yeah, we might have been doing those things too Ahhh..to be young and stupid again. I think I was 22 at the time. We have no clue where he saw us but all I know is my buddy said we were doing ~110 and he looked in his mirror and the cop was so damn close to his bike, he couldn't see his bumper. He may have been chasing us for a bit. I had no clue he had been pulled over...at some point I checked my mirror and he was just gone. We backtracked (fearing the worst) and way up the road I could see him on the side of the road with the cruiser sitting behind him, flashing lights and all. We quickly ducked down a side street and waited to see what happened. After the cop left we flagged our buddy down and that's when he gave us the news I never did go out and ride crazy like that again though.

That's what I told the guy who got nailed. However, we were doing 120+ on some roads so jail time was justified. Plus, it was the Saturday on Memorial day weekend (five or so years ago) which meant he would have been in the slammer for the 3 day weekend before he could see a judge. The fine was $80 each, so not a big hardship by any means.

Unless you plan on doing manual overclocking and/or doing very CPU intensive stuff (i.e. video editing, folding,etc) the i5 is the WTG. Also, the stock heatsink is just fine if you aren't doing what I described in the first sentence. As far as mobo's go, there are few stinkers anymore and most of those are just fine, just don't overclock very well. Stick with ASUS, Gigabyte or MSI and you can't go wrong. Just make sure they support the features you need/want (i.e. USB 3.0, SATA III, etc).