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Kicker..... probably dating myself with this but in the mid-90's a "Kicker box" (trunk subwoofer with twin 12" speakers) was THE thing to have - at least in NYC. that's all I got.

Frame is fine but at this point it's just a rolling chassis with an engine/trans/shaft drive of unknown condition. I used some of the parts for my buddies yamaha royal star, stole the brakes for my VW/BMW, took the bar controls and some electric bits for my ironhead, and the fenders for a future project. I never got the tank, seat, or the carbs with it so it's not worth saving, esp when a 90's nice one running is like a $2500 bike. frame and engine are just heavy and bulky. It's a 1300cc version of the V-max V-four engine with a wide ratio 5 speed so if someone wanted to use the engine for something silly like a go-kart or to repower a small car they could with the shaft drive. I am sure it would need a going through but 90 ft/lbs torque out of an all aluminum engine isn't much to sneeze at, plus people used to turbo the old v-maxs back in the day- 6 psi boost would easily push it to 135ft/lbs and 115+ hp. damnit....now you've given me idears

HITE Parts exchange - 2235 McKinley ave 43204. http://www.hiteparts.com They do rebuilds onsite but not sure if it will be cheap. I know they are the only place that will rebuild NLA wwerido motorcycle starters, but their bread and butter is cars.

don't approach it from a cost perspective - unless you are willing to rent your printer out to people who want to print but don't have the skill/printer, you'll never "Save" money. Think of it as an investment in a skill set. I thought I was going to get into this to make little toys and stuff to help my hobbies, and it turned into learning prototyping and drafting. I went from printing little tugboats to making stuff I can actually use and I am now looking into how to do lost PLA casting. Honestly I have learned so much more than I thought I would I can't put a cost on it. I have alsonow fallen down the laser and cnc conversion rabbit holes so there is that too. Creality Ender 3 Pro is a fantastic printer. If I had a need for a 3rd printer I would pick one up at the $249 sale price they have now at microcenter. When in doubt buy from microcenter if you can. I got lucky buying from gearbest, but I found out some of the chinese kit printers (like the anet) are made by multiple mfgs with varying quality and it's easy buing from some of the chinese retailers to get a shitty one and have no recourse.

Here is the situation: I took in a stray motorcycle from one of those junk hauler places. It's a 1996 Yamaha Tour deluxe. It has no title but CPD says it doesn't come up stolen in their system. On top of being crashed, it sat with the carbs off for some time so it really is junk. I got what I needed out of it and now it's time to pass it on. It owes me no money, so I am not worried about getting something out of it, but I don't want to pay to have it hauled away. I can trailer it to a scrapper, but I have been told they won't touch vehicles without a title. Any suggestions on how to get rid of it? Anybody know of a scapper who will take it?

So I started from scratch. I have no programming experience and am not an IT person. I have always been facinated by them however and I even visited Makerbot twice when I lived down the street from them in Brooklyn. About 2 years ago I saw an ad on gearbest for the Anet A8 Kit for $139. I knew from reading make magazine that the anet was a cheap DIY printer with a huge following, a lot of upgrades, and a helpful community. I bought it and an upgrade kit on etsy that included all the basic bearing, frame, and belt upgrades and assembled it. I started out printing free things on thingiverse, and dialing in my printer. About 50% of my time playing with it was either upgrading or dialing in the settings. For the purpose of teaching someone how 3d printers work mechanically and what settings make a difference it was the perfect teaching tool. The community for it was very helpful. I spent about a year and a half doing this and the little Anet worked well for my needs. Still about 1/3rd of my prints were failing and it was a lot of setup work to get things to print. For my birthday my wife splurged and bought me a Creality CR-10S at Microcenter for $399 on sale. I wanted the bigger print bed to do motorcycle parts and RC airplanes (yes whole airframes). My print issues dropped to almost nil, in 30 prints I have only had 1 fail and it was because I hadn't calibrated the e-steps before doing a tall print. not content to just print other people's stuff off thingiverse, I signed up for a free tinkercad account and began to make my own stuff. It isn't elegant but I managed to make a few parts for my VW powered motorcycle including a really cool aircleaner with the vw logo. What I have learned is this: - The learning curve is not steep provided you find the right machine. Having a community to back you up is way better than having a slick machine. Even with my tempermental A8, I was still able to make things happen for me and learn a ton. - your 1st year you will spend more time printing useless crap, upgrades, and diagnostic prints than you will printing useful stuff. It's part of the process. 3d printers are enviornmentally sensitive and just figuring out what works for your house/garage/basement is a process. - Don't underestimate the cost of electricity. I ran mine almost daily in march and that big CR10S added $30 to my power bill alone. - set milestones and stick to your goals. I found that being rudderless didn't inspire me to work on the thing, but if I had something to focus on, like printing the perfect benchy, it made it easier to want to troubleshoot and adjust. - go talk to the Alexes (2 of them) at microcenter. I brought them all my earlier prints for both the anet and the CR10 and they helped me work through the issues. They will also give you a hands on walkthrough of any machine, which helped me decide on a 10S (which is also one of the most reliable machines they sell). hope this helps.

I'm very sorry to hear that, seriosuly my heart goes out to you. And I get it, both my brother and his wife are out of work with 3 kids and because they were both 1099 employees they don't qualify for unemployment in NY. We gave them a good chunk of the house money we saved to get them through the next couple of months. I work in the financial industry and I've not slept well since february - trying to keep up with all the laws and orders to protect customers to make sure they are in place as soon as possible, plus expanding the debt releif and foreberance programs and I still worry it's not enough to help them. I would very much like the economy to open up if for no other reason that I would like to sleep again - I don't want to worry about how bad people are going to be affected by this. And yet, all the financial experts and the medical experts projections show that if we open too early and we are not careful it could get far worse than we have had it already. More people would die and the economy won't recover. This isn't just them throwing darts against the wall, there is historical precident for this going all the way back to the spanish flu. The only thing I can say is - apply for whatever assistance you can get. Manage your health risk ask best you can and take the disease very seriously because it is. Make the tradeoffs you can afford to make. I am pretty sure you can get of disability if you return to work later so its not permanenet.

Being alive and able to earn that cash and not dead or on your back sick is essential to ALL.

When the shelter in place order came out The wife and I instituted a plan and a set of protocols: - we moved grocery shopping to a 2 week schedule. 1 person goes out, we do as much curbside pickup as we can choosing not to go into the store unless it is necessary. - mask and gloves for any outside contact. masks are homemade out of vacuum HEPA filters since we couldn't get N95s. Latex gloves when we go in the store get put in the trash can on the way out and not brought into the car. The wife is mildly immunocompromised due to medication she takes so we have to take these precautions. - All of our cars have antibacterial wipes. When we have to use our cards they get wiped down with an antibacterial wipe before they go back in the wallet. I've only used an ATM once under lock down and I wiped it down before touching anything and put on a latex glove (that got thrown out after using the ATM). - we count out contact with strangers. Kid is down to 0 contact with strangers. The closest she comes is her and the neighbor kid sit on our respective lawns (easily over 100ft apart) and play by yelling across to each other, or when we take an exercise walk and she knows to be on the other side of the street. Wife is down to 0-1 per week, she has one perscription we can't get delivered and she has to pick up in person. I am down to 2-3 people a week because I am the designated person that goes to the store. - for food we have our own set of protocols: at curbside if the attendant doesn't have a mask they can't get within 6 feet of the car. We decided to do pickup rather than have food delivered because we didn't want the entrance way to our house to become a portal for strangers to stand and touch things. I watched a food delivery person hock a big loogie into the neighbor's bushes and wipe his mouth on his sleve before delivering food at the beginning of this and decided I'd rather avoid that all together. Also my neighbor is undergoing kemo right now and in bad shape and I don't want to put strangers near his door since our driveways are siamese. I have listed this out in case anyone wants to adopt some of these measure in their own plan. I told you the Lowes story for a couple of reasons. We use our grill for at least 1/3 of our cooking, even in winter, so to go without it was a significant adjustment to our lifestyle. It may not be essential but it isn't a leasure item either. Still we waited till the next shopping cycle and I went. I also needed a few other items because we have a toilet that was running and the seal around the shower had begun to leak and ruin the ceiling, but the main misson was the grill. I was pissed that I violated my own protocols to get it. I thought it would be an easy curbside pickup, but lowes bungled that and I had to go in the store. They also had me waiting a significant amount of time in the store. I should have walked away when it was apparent they couldn't do it easy and curbside. I should have walked a way when the stock guy hung me out to dry for 30 minutes while he got one out of stock, I should have walked away when their credit card machine went down (one of the reasons I foudn out later I couldn't pay online - it was company wide) and I had to leave to go to an ATM (across the parking lot). I am pissed because I got target fixated when things started to incrementally go downhill. I am also kind of pissed at lowes for their poor management of things. Most of their employees didn't have masks. While they were managing the door and restricting the number of people in the store they didn't lock down the garden center and people were sneaking in that way. I was not thrilled to see how the other customers were interacting in the store. I watched customers push past other customers more than once. Although it is a big store more than once another customer came close to me and I had to move. waiting 30 minutes for some stock guy to get something out of stock meant I was constantly walking around the store instead of being parked somewhere out of the way. The lesson I learned from this is that what the state is doing is the correct course of action. Not everyone is prepared for this or has a plan, but at least they are doing something to help and it has shown to have a measurable effect. Regarding Tim and his bullshit - I am not on his case because of his management of his own exposure risk. He could run through walmart naked licking all the door knobs on the way in and out for all I care. People are adults and they can manage their own risk. This virus is agressive and if you don't take it seriously you run a high risk of contracting it, it's almost karmic (but still extremely sad) to read in the paper about the "this is a hoax" zealouts contract it and either get really sick or die from it. What I don't like is that he keeps making this argument that there is an acceptable loss of life attached to this pandemic and since we are below that we as a society should take an unnecessary risk and potentially expose more people when all of the scientific, medical, and political communities disagree fundamentally. It boils down to trading human life for money, and honestly if it was just a shitty opinion that he kept to himself fine, but he's sharing some really ugly rhetoric across all the social media platforms he is on. He is free to speak his opinion, just as I am free to call him an amoral scumbag for valuing money over human life. Yes the economy is in bad straights, yes everyone wants to see it open up. But opening it prematurly will lead to a much greater and unnecessary loss of life, and justifying that loss of life as "natural selection", "just part of the risk we take every day", "acceptable risk to preserve the american way of life", or "the old and vulnerable should scrafice themeselves for their kids future" is a very dangerous brand of bullshit, and being part of the social media churn that keeps this bullshit afloat is garbage.

There you go insinuating that people should die so the economy can open up. disgusting. What does it matter that they were "very old people"? do you think they don't diserve to live? Earlier this month the numbers in NYC were 40% of confirmed cases in the 18-44 age range. That's more young people than old. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/young-people-coronavirus-new-york-city-percentage-patients-covid-19-symptoms-dying-hospitalizations/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-01/coronavirus-in-young-people-ny-patients-skew-younger-some-die Accuracy issues with the anti-body testing notwithstanding, it seems that this is just an across the board increase in the number that seem to have been infected. It doesn't speak to any information about the age groups. Assuming that antibody testing would skew old is not just baseless, it's something that you, Tim, personally do to fit your narrative of "they were old they were going to die anyway" that somehow doesn't keep you up at night. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html?type=styln-live-updates&label=new%20york%20&index=1&action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage#link-6bcc6a71 But please don't spare us the theatrics of you denying that you don't think people should die from this easily presentable thing while advocating that people should die so you can get a haircut.

since we are talking about FBM, has anyone else had problems seeing ads? Some ads just won't load details at all - I get 1 pic and a blank below it.

Remember it and do what exactly? What are you expecting to happen if I remember it in the next election cycle?

5 speed and a supercharger - awesome. I had no idea 4 runners were still manual into the 2000s, I thought they stopped in the late 90's.

used a part of it to help out a few local businesses we knew were struggling, not much but something is something. Rest went into the emergency fund. That said....the bike flipper in me is waiting till next week to see if any really desperate forsale ads come up. Yeah I know it sucks to be a vulture, but if I can help someone who is in bad straights get some green in their hand while I get a bike I know will put green in my hand later on, everybody wins.

In my opinion the whole thing turns on this statement in the restrictions: All non essential businesses must cease operations within the state except for minimin basic operations. Ohio has basically said to businesses "you figure out what your minimum basic operations are as long as they meet the restrictions of social distancing and employee safety". At home bsuinesses and single employee businesses can stay open whether they are essential or not as long as they don't present a congregation risk and meet other safety guidelines. So it's not that alcohol is "essential", it's that the brick and mortar liqour stores have said "our minimum basic operation is selling this one product", and as long as our few (or one) employees wear masks, gloves, and do curbside pickup and restrict the number of people in the store....we cool. Now, the conspiracy theorist that lives inside me takes over and I think the state isn't pushing back too hard or enforcing on the restriction is because alcohol in the home keeps people inside and docile. Really they are probably too busy with other things and a limited staff, but still...opium of the people....

no. That's not accurate or true in the slightest. IF you are a business owner and you make public statements anywhere about your buisness and your business plans into the public record (i.e. the press), ALL that is admissable evidence. Period. Full stop. It is completely valid and reasonable for a person to rely on those public statements and all those statements are admissable. The company might try to defend itself by saying it wasn't on the website or printed materials but in cases where the CEO is in print saying "we are going to do X" it is almost never a successful defense. In this Case you have the President of Summit Motorsports park in many local public news papers saying he doesn't think this is a big deal and he's going to open his venue in the face of the restrictions. That's all it takes, Summit Motorsports park is now on the hook for those statements. This is one of the may reason large companies have dedicated press and public relations departments and why they restrict and vet any and all interviews given by their employees. When their employees appear in the press for unlreated business or as an expert in a field there is ALWAYS a large disclaimer that says the views of the person do not represent the company and are the person's personal opinions. Even that diclaimer can be waived just by the person talking about company business or action.

I am just talking about Ohio. That picture is from Vermont (if it is even real - let's assume it is). You want "Small government" and states rights and this is what that looks like - every state choosing for themselves their level of restriction. Who is the "They"? The Vermont Government? This isn't a federal governemnt call, this is 100% state all the way baby, so "they" ain't showing you anything because you don't live in a state that's doing that. What do you care that the vermont state government is flexing it's dick muscles on it's residents - you want the states to operate this way: states deciding what is best for it's own residents without big bad scary federal government coordination....I mean intervention. Randy, since you were the only one to answer my earlier question as to whether this pandemic has changed the way you think of federal government and "states rights", I am going to ask you this: If the federal government decided they were going to take charge and rollout the ohio method of handling the pandemic to all the states that have taken the other approach of restricting essential items as a way of curbing state government overreach - Do you think this (and only this) is a situation where the federal government might have a bigger role to play than handing out $1200 tax refunds and doing little else?

eh...maybe. If your business sells essential items, like all the big box retailers do, then you are allowed to stay open and sell non-essential items as well. It would be too onerous to ask the businesses to sell only essential items. You have to draw the line somewhere, and they chose to draw it at what was the least burdensome to the retailers. The goal is to cutdown on people interacting with other people so it's easiest for everyone to look at the business at the service level and not closer. Essential is not determined at the employee level, but at the general public at large level. for reference here is the definition of essential (pages 5-8, heading 12): https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/static/publicorders/Directors-Stay-At-Home-Order-Amended-04-02-20.pdf

you can't waive illegal behavior. If the venue is defying a state of emergency state requirement (which is enforcable by law) then it is acting illegaly and must take the responsibility for its actions. Yes you can make the case that the individual was aware of the state restrictions and chose to attend, but once that attendee becomes a plaintiff, they are going to say that the venue made them believe they were safe by saying the restrictions were unnecessary and defying them. It doesn't really work like that. Once the individual leaves the venue, and knows or has reason to know that they are infected, it is on them to act accordingly, so they assume the liability if they don't and infect someone else. It doesn't go back to the venue. Considering Kroger is considered essential and is not acting illegaly, any infection that occurs on their premesis they are not liable for. Practically speaking in an individual case I am not sure how you would prove it in court (or even identify the person who transmited it to you). There is one way I can see subsequent non-attendees having standing to sue Norwalk - and that is if opening the track caused such a mass infection that it caused the state's overall numbers to go up. IF they hold an event and 5 people get sick and die, yeah it will be a tragedy, but it doesn't create standing for other's infected by those 5 to sue the venue. But if they hold an event and 30% of the attendees get infected, and those attendees cause ohio's overall numbers to rise in any statistically significant way, then not only may those subsequently infected seek to sue (possibly under a class acton) but the state may seek criminal action against the track as well. The whole point of this intellectual exercise is to look at the actions of business owners defying the state and really say: "Is this worth it?". Even if the state isn't enforcing violations of the state orders, I don't understand why any venue owner would take this risk at all.

I will add to this that one of the reasons the state has imposed these restrictions due to the lack of testing, so you can't expect an individual to "know" they have it, but you can expect the state restrictions to have have taken it into account. If a person knew they were infected and went anyway, yes they would have liability as well. It doesn't let the venue off the hook if they defy state restrictions - they would still be on the hook for contributory negligence for defying state restrictions and their burden would be less, but it wouldn't be zero. You would still have to prove that the infected individual knew, and in an enviornemnt without testing where many carriers are asymptomatic, that's a hard to thing to do. Also, compensation speaking the venue is a better target because it's a business with assets and insurance policies that far exceed what any individual would have, so it is better suited to pay the damages.

Greg covered the mechanics of how someone might prove it so I will just add some process color. Whether you contracted it at the venue is what is considered a "triable issue of fact" - meaning it is one of the the things that a plaintiff will have to prove and a defendant will have to defend against at trial. As long as the question as to whether it was possible to contract it at the venue exists (and it would if the venue was ignoring state requirements) it would not keep the trial from going forward. So would a person be able to sue and go to trial? yes. Would they be able to win that suit? Maybe, it seems likely as per greg's explination. If Norwark opens, holds an event, there is a covid outbreak, and someone(s) dies from this, I think it is highly likely that their loved ones would sue. It would be a wrongful death case and which not only carries pretty high recovery amounts, but due to ignoring state recomendations would qualify for punitive damages (monetary awards meant to punish the person responsible because of bad fath or extreme negligence).

So here is a fun legal theory that has never been and could not be tested until now... If you are not an essential business and you defy state orders to close or remain closed, and there is a covid outbreak at your venue, can you be civilly sued for the damage? The short answer is leaning toward yes you can. Why? as a venue owner you have a responsibility to provide a reasonably safe enviornment for your patrons. If the state has told you that having a large group of people at your venue is not deemed safe, then you have been put on notice that opening for business is not creating a safe enviornment and you have waived any protections you may have under the law and assume liability for exactly the type of harm you have been warned about. I say it's a theory, because we haven't had an opportunity to test it in the courts, and if people were smart they wouldn't even temp fate considering the millions at stake from a judgment not in their favor. the closest analogy we have is when hotels get sued for legionaires disease (which is common) which relies on negligence on the part of the hotel - in this case defying a health based state order would def qualify as negligence. now before all the bullshit armchair lawyers chime in and say "well people should take responsibility for themselves and not attend" well not so fast. look at what Bill Bader is saying: " I'm looking at outbreaks being down. I'm looking at the amount of fatalities being down and yet [Mainstream Media's] not taking their foot off the gas, which leads me to believe that there's something else at play. What's really driving the shutdown of America? What's the machine behind the curtain that's driving this?" If he is suggesting that the spread of the disease is not an issue, or that the state order is in place because of reasons not related to health, there are people that could reasonable rely on these statements that he is saying hosting an event there is safe. Any subsequent outbreak would turn on those statements. These are the things that would absolutley be litigated over in any trial. Personally I am torn over this decision. I have booked tickets and hotels for hotrod power tour the first week of june and Norwalk is the first stop. If it is open and safe, then I am elated to go as dad and I will be taking the 57 vette he and I restored in the 90's and he just restored again this year. However, I don't believe it is safe yet, and I doubt it will be safe and I could see this being a shit show that I am not willing to put mine or 75 year old dad's life at risk for. Also there is a third dimension and that is he is helping Hot Rod steal my money. It's cost me $1200 to book hotel and platnum package this year, and power tour tickets are not refundable unless they cancel the event. By him staying open, he and hot rod can claim that the event is not cancelled, even if it is unsafe for people to attend. Hot rod doesn't cancel, doesn't have to refund any tickets, and Norwalk doesn't have to give back the booking fee for the venue for a cancelled event. If this is really what is in play, then it's the lowest form of scam perpertrated on car guys. Ask for a donation I'll give it, hold a fundraiser to support local tracks and i'll buy what you are selling, but try to steal mine and thousands of other car people's money in this way? that's daring people to sue you. anyway. there is something fun (ok maybe not fun but interesting) to think about.

I also apologized to him, he and I talked it out, and everything is fine now. He even bought girl scout cookies from my kid last year. But apparently that's worthless to you. Fuck anybody doing the right thing - it's only about the immediate dig you can take at a person when it suits you, amirite? so you want to talk about quality of life?

You don't get it, I'm not interested in continuing this discussion with you. Not only do I find your "opinion" ignorant and ill concieved, but I think you are being reckless in a way that is harmfull to others. But hey, there is an easy way to resolve this. Just go out and live your life like we aren't under shelter in place/social distance order, and see how you fare. If you really believe it was unnecessary prove it by living by example. Go ahead and forego your gloves and masks, hang out with as many people as you want, and make sure you shake a lot of hands. prove us all wrong.

Suicide treatment and prevention saw an 800% increase in some areas at the start of this pandemic https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/covid-19-is-likely-to-lead-to-an-increase-in-suicides/ https://fox17.com/news/local/feeling-the-pressures-of-the-pandemic-suicide-hotlines-see-800-percent-spike-in-calls https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coronavirus-usa-cost/ so I am not sure what spike you are looking for that hasn't already happened. Will there be an increase? signs point to yes, but it seems like we are already in the throws of the increase and have been. How much worse it will get remains to be seen. The other things not getting talked about (at least in the right way) is the increase in domestic violence. Most discussions has been on the temporary firearm restrictions to try and comnbat it and not the 24% increase in cases that has already been reported in some areas.