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I got mine on Saturday and rode with it yesterday after flashing the firmware with 1.1.1. Works well - MUCH better audio quality and volume range than the Cardo Q2 set I had. Darned good price from Riders Discount too.

Ditto! Very nice to meet you and (most of) the motorcycle escort riders. The bicycle riders appreciated our help and I know the command center sure did. I helped with popped tubes and sheared tires, dehydration, spent riders, one guy missing a turn, a few dangerous intersections, lane protection, coordination of a few responses and just clapping at the top of steep hills. Although not as comfy as my Strom, I'm really glad I brought the CRF230L. Quiet, super easy to maneuver, 65-70 mpg economy, room for a half-dozen bottles of water and it was great to stand up to see over hills and make John's borrowed hi-viz vest visible to cars. BTW that vest was a brilliant idea and I wouldn't escort Pelotonia again without wearing hi-viz. At the very least, it tells cars that there's something unusual going on and to pay extra attention. My body is sore this morning from 10 hours in the saddle, but I can't imagine how the bicycle riders feel today, especially the ones making the return trip to downtown Columbus. For some reason the whole event really hit home to me at a moment out in the country side half-way from Pickerington and Mt. Vernon. There was an old guy standing in front of his house and a field of corn, holding a single sign that said "Thank you for saving my wife." I had to vent my helmet for a couple minutes.

Oh for cripes sake, do we have a board full of liquor snobs on here?! Lagavulin for single-malt Scotch, please. And Maple Old Fashioneds for mixed. No liquor snob here...

I'm up! Will be in Pickerington with my coworker Brian by 7.

LOL. I shouldn't find that funny, but you're spot on with your comment.

Thanks! But to be completely transparent, I stole it from

Bump to the top. A number of us met last Thursday to finalize plans. I'm for sure escorting the 75 mile ride from Pataskala to Kenyon College on a CRF230L. I'll bring extra water, tire changing tools and I hope to pick up tubes at the starting tents.

JBot, basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it's produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive duractance. The original machine had a base plate of pre-famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings ran in a direct line with the panametric fan. The line-up consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzul vanes so fitted to the ambaphascient lunar wain shaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented. The main winding was of the normal lotus-odeltoid type placed in panendurmic semi-bulloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremmy pipe to the differential girdle spring on the up-end of the grammeters. Moreover, whenever fluorescent skor motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with the drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal depleneration. The Scout has now reached a high level of development, and it’s being successfully used in the operation of Milford trunnions. It's available soon, wherever Indian products are sold.

Wow, great deal. Someone make an easy sale for Sturg so the CL turds don't butcher this bike.

Love the specs but still far prefer the old Scout's look. The new Scout just looks too... beveled and rounded.

As such I think it's best for your personal safety to just. Stop. There.

Ya, that's messed up. I'll keep my eyes open.

Ditto on requesting a price for one or a pair, as well as any early user reports coming in. Thanks in advance!

Could work. Devil would be in the details of course. And you'd have to deal with folks saying you were making a governmental power grab.

You don't need to be profitable to make $250k. Or $1MM. Or $25MM. Or even make a "product" that fuels our country's growth in science, infrastructure, health, business and culture. And we're going to make US schools perform better by cutting their funding? How's that supposed to work?

Casper I know, that sounds like a fat salary but remember what every CEO makes - 5x or more for a similarly-sized company. Is their job THAT much more valuable to society than educating the people who will be making decisions for us when we're too feeble to carry their asses? Heck, these days you can readily make $250k a level or two down in a company with more than 1000 employees. Personally, you couldn't pay me $250k to balance the needs of student education, life safety, constant personnel challenges, labor unions, ignorant parents, fuel costs, facility planning, community relations and a shit-ton of liability to mitigate. I bet none of us here could do that job, so why should we be any less critical of 6-digit corporate salaries than of public ones? Can't we as a society come to the realization that teaching (and running a school district) is fucking hard work and deserves commensurate pay? Not every teacher is as stupid, cranky and unfair as the proverbial Mrs. Crabtree who was older than dirt, so it's not appropriate to punish other teachers for that time we were embarrassed in front of the class for writing a bad essay. And of course not everyone in a district makes that kind of money - my kid's history teacher makes $54k/yr and he's been at it for 10 years. By contrast, I know a college intern in I.T. who was offered a job last week for $45k right out of school and will likely hit $60-70k in 5 years. I think more often than not, people get to SEE public salaries, and feel jealous and justify an extra case of beer (or finance a $25k motorcycle) instead of giving their neighbors a competitive salary with $10/mo more taxes. Plus, it's easier to bark "no" from the bleachers, complain about stupid kids and how society is becoming self-indulgent (I wonder if that irony will be lost) than it is to invest time and money to improve things. You know that Tonik and I have had some lively exchanges about it and he has great points especially about Cleveland's district, but the perspective I'm critical of is worlds less informed. But I get it, I have neighbors who truly are struggling to keep up with tax increases with their fixed retirement incomes. In fact, one neighbor I'm close to is never more than a month away from missed utility bills because she failed to save a dime for her retirement and now lives on social security and a small PERS benefit. Our school has fundraisers, and they're helpful, but like your comparison, you gotta sell a LOT of magazines, cookie dough, car washes and brownies (not the Colorado type unfortunately) to make even a small dent in a program's costs, plus those fundraisers are already depended upon.

Well, since home-schooling didn't turn out to be off topic, I'll indulge a moment about school funding. ;-) Nobody here had better complain about high pay-to-play costs and academic fees while simultaneously voting along teapublican lines in opposition of school levies. The economic reality is that someone has to pay to educate our kids, so when levies are shot down, direct costs go up. It's basic physics, man. We saw it swing dramatically in Westerville several years ago when a badly needed levy failed and as a result, pay-to-play fees almost doubled overnight. Only more affluent families were able to involve their kids in sports, which was a real shame because some of the most in-need kids were ones not getting strong parental guidance at home, and there they were - disenfranchised and left with extra time on their hands. As a high-school nerd, I never fully appreciated the impact that great coaches and sports programs can have on a young person, but I've seen it first-hand as a grown-up.

We're trying not to encourage him! LOL

He said socially awkward, not academically challenged ;-) Anywho - let's avoid the home schooling flame bait, shall we? Or spawn it off into another thread because to me, it's well-worn misconceptions on both sides.

Personal bike service hierarchy: 1. Me, unless I can't 2. Hoblick, unless he can't 3. Cry a little, drink a little, and reconsider #1 4. Call the shop

Isn't that a bit orthogonal of a point? How many home-schooled kids have electronics that far exceed what schools could possibly provide? My home-schooled neighbor's kids have darned near everything they could ever hope for. Alternatively, I know several home-schooling families with barely two pennies to rub together. Unless your argument isn't about $20 gift cards, but instead about... Hate them or love them, Apple tablets and Windows PCs are what most businesses use. Knowing how to use them for specific purposes (not just keeping your kids quiet in the car) is a competitive advantage. $20 seems like small change to spend for that learning advantage to me. If you'd prefer it be an Andoid device instead, as the school if the software they chose is also available on what you decide to buy for your kids. If they do, your rebellion shouldn't cost more than, say, $200-600.

Two flaws with your statement: 1) "They" footing the bill means the taxpayer foots the bill, which means you foot the bill whether you have kids or not. 2) Androids and their software are free?

This one? http://columbus.craigslist.org/mcy/4595206172.html

Ditto, though "financially sophisticated" buyers might do it if the rates are super low, there are no financing fees, taking the loan doesn't diminish bargaining leverage, there isn't a parallel cash-off offer (i.e. 0.9% financing OR $500 off), and there isn't a high opportunity cost of paying cash (like if you can GUARANTEE a higher rate of return elsewhere with the cash). But that's a LOT of ANDs and very few people have the discipline to be honest with themselves about that chain. Most people will start that analysis and convince themselves they can afford more bike than they can. In casually looking for a larger scoot for my GF, we ran across an add from an older woman, a widow who wants the payoff amount for a late-model Vespa GTX300. Beautiful bike, but no way worth that amount. I feel bad for her. But not enough to pay off the note.

I switched from Progressive last month to Rider. Saved $150/yr on 2 bikes. Glad to hear they handled your claim fairly!