Geeto67

Nice Vette, good score!

have you thought about manual swapping it?

Just to give an update, I was able to get a hold of Mike at the Big Bike Shop. Apparently he is only doing service at the moment and only call after 2:30pm as he isn't around before then. On the plus side he know exactly what was wrong with my magneto and had the parts in stock so I should be riding it this weekend.

Change isn't instant. People's minds can change but they have to be open to change. re-frame your expectations so that rather than expecting people to come around to your point of view, you are able provide them with as much information as to your position as possible. And if they ask the hard questions about your position, and you don't know the answer, be ready to find out. Personally I am always looking for an informed, and well thought out view point on any issue just to make sure I am seeing all sides that I can. for me political discourse is more about how x person got to the conclusion rather than the actual end result. I don't always get that here, but it is nice to know how other's think. Traditional debates, like actual competition debates, are not meant to change either of the advocates minds, they are meant to inform the audience (or judges in competition) as to the nature of the different sides of an issue through advocacy of that position and addressing it's flaws. It's then up to the audience. What happens here isn't really "debate", but more of an informal discussion that degenerates into a verbal street fight. So don't take it personal. Political position shouldn't be a rigid belief that you need to hold tightly to, it should be something that evolves and develops over time as your viewpoint on life changes. It's not an insult to you if people disagree with you, and def not about political subject matter which is often a collections of scraps from 100 different places. It's not weakness to be open minded toward a different political perspective, and it's not a challenge to you, your intelligence, or your moral beliefs when someone disagrees and brings new information to the table. We do all get together, it's called Cars and Coffee and it happens sat morning at lenox. I don't think anybody here really thinks someone else is a dick IRL, if they did this place would be just a pulsing nerve of FOMO and insecurity.

Who himself took pages out of the Hearst and Pulitzer handbook on yellow journalism. Remember those two idiots managed to get the US involved in the spanish American war just through their newspapers. Both were democrats, but you have to remember that the democrats were the leading conservative party at the time (1880s-1890s). The connection between conservative journalism and "fake news" in the US is over 100 years old. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_of_the_Spanish%E2%80%93American_War Yellow or Tabloid Journalism is the reason why they teach critical reading and reasoning in public schools. It also lead to a standardization of a journalism code of ethics as maintained by the Society of Professional Journalists. You know who holds the media accountable? the media. If the New York Times screws up, all the other reputable papers report on it and so on. They are businesses and a failing in the competitor means more market share and readers for those that report on it. It's a self regulating industry which means you can't make "fake news" illegal, but you can call it out when you see it. For those advocates of the free market, this is how a free market really works since government can't intervene on the basis of published subject matter since it is protected by the first amendment. You know who exploits this? tabloids and the internet. Since they are not illegal and can basically print or distribute anything, and since most reputable papers will usually stick to their lane of high level competitors, there isn't much stopping a someone from saying Hillary is running a human trafficking ring out of a pizza place in DC or that the Times is "Fake News" without proof because most Americans aren't going to fact check it themselves or even remember most of their critical reading lessons from 5th grade. For those who are always clamoring on about personal responsibility, this is how it looks without government intervention. Each individual is personally responsible for how informed they choose to be, and unfortunately if you are falling prey to Alex Jones and calling the NYT or WSJ fake news, you just aren't being responsible.

no worries. It's all good. I'd be curious to find out exactly how "left" I am, the majority of old fashioned William Buckley centrist republican politics have sort of drifted left and into the democratic party because this new hybrid of movement conservatism and the john birch society have pulled the Republican Party further right that most foresaw. I'll give you an example: - Personally I believe in the 2nd amendment, and even the extension of that to personal liberty to bear arms outside of a militia, but I also recognize constitutional amendments are not absolute in their power and the government has a right to limit that power under careful scrutiny and the 2nd is not exempt from that. Other politicians that had the same belief were Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. The NRA's position that the 2nd amendment is the only constitutional provision that would be absolute in power is and has always been an extremist viewpoint that misunderstands the nature of the constitution, but since the 1970's it has grown from fringe lunacy to the point where if you don't believe it, you can't be considered a conservative. If this were 1989, or even 1999, my viewpoint would have been considered staunchly conservative, but in the modern era I'm apparently a leftist free loving hippie because I recognize that the 2nd amendment works 100% just like very other amendment and isn't special (something the supreme court, and especially Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, Kennedy and Alito were very clear about in the heller decision).

Apparently I am the "liberal" standard here? who knew. I have often said I am an independent and follow the issue s rather than the party because I have very little use for the political blustering. I don't call my self a libertarian either since that would defeat the point on being an independent who focuses on issues, but there are many things which I would fall on the libertarian side of the fence - That is libertarian as a political concept, not libertarian as a political party, as there are some things the libertarian party goes against libertarianism. Kind of felt like I needed to clear the air because my name was being brought up a lot. I have voted both for parties in the past but since the W administration I just feel like the Republican party has left the majority of American people behind with abandoning ecological conservation, veterans affairs, and eminent domain, and progressive national defense strategy. At least under William Buckley there was some embrace of intellectual ideology, rally behind first amendment issue, and accountability, but now it is shifting toward that Alex Jones/ Jon Birch Mentality hard. I will say that I find it hysterical the number of people here who are conservative, and I mean traditional republican conservative, and think they are libertarian: - If you distrust the government, hate communism, are open and receptive to conspiracy theories involving the government, and your solution to "big government" is to just repeal existing laws - you aren't libertarian, you are an old fashioned John Birch conservative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society - If you think Abortion shouldn't be legal, oppose LBGT recognition, think the church should control marriage instead of the state, believe in charter schools, and think the US is in some form of the culture war then you aren't libertarian but rather traditional christian conservative. - if you think liberals are just whiny, globalist, safe space loving, alternative lifestyle, effeminate, gender fluid dingbats, then congratulations you are just stupid and don't really care about issues and have bought into the masculinity propaganda that the republican party sells to morons who "hate identity politics" when in reality all they know is identity politics.

Congrats on getting it back to running. Looks great!

About what mileage are you seeing timing chains fail?

Any Issues with the '14 and up ones? or is it too early to tell? I think my mother has a '14 that was CPO in 2016. she bought it with under 20K miles on it and it probably has maybe 40-50 k on it now. She's been making noise about trading it in but I told her to keep it - if she's driving a time bomb maybe I should give her a call and tell her to dump it.

2012 xdrive28i is the 2.0 I4 turbo. It's a nice engine. My mother has one she bought CPO and she loves it, had no major issues so far. It makes 240hp so it boogies. All I can tell you is buy the lowest mile one you can find. At 100k miles BMW's usually need a metric ton of service and then they are good for another 100k (or explode). I've owned 6 of them now and each generation has needed more service than the last at 100k.

Nothing in life is a "solid bet" on it's own, have to look at the total picture. Nobody is hanging anything on just the track inspection, but rather the sum total of all the things that are required to get out on track on top of all the things required to register the motorcycle as street legal, and all the waiver paperwork in between, plus the multiple insurance coverage. There is a lot there, and if you look at it a lot more than if I just took my bike out on the track. Does the standard insurance cover it? nope it will require a supplemental policy. Does the riders-share app even allow it as part of the rental agreement? probably not, but that wasn't the question and we veered into hypothetical land a little bit. We went into hypothetical land with some of the discussion, but in reference to the rider-share app, according to what's out there on the web they pay the owner for what is owed and initiate collections against the renter if the renter can't pay.

I don't know that we will ever have conclusive information on that because gun violence research funding continues to be stifled. There are some independent organizations conducting their own studies out there: https://injury.research.chop.edu/violence-prevention-initiative/types-violence-involving-youth/gun-violence/gun-violence-facts-and#.XJPxxtpKi70 where "assualt weapons" are shown to be in the minority in violent crime in general, but in the majority of mass shootings. If you want to make an impact on mass shootings, Assault rifles seem like a good place to start, but it would require a subject matter expert organization to work with legislators and most of those take the NRA position of "not going to help write any gun control law, no way, no how". I could add a "Shall not be infringed" and a couple "'Merica!"s on the end there if it isn't sufficient.

I think you are honing in on what I have been laying down - yeah it's not for everyone. I'm not saying everyone should rent their motorcycle, but it's nice to have the option to do so if someone wants. Also for every post like this: there should be someone advocating the other side of it. I think it is important to have these types of discussions because it allows us to really frame a new opportunity in the hobby with how we view our hobby and what we hope to get out of it. I also see a lot of flawed logic and how people think about some of these things - take someone else crashing the bike for instance. People thing they are safer being selective about who they rent to because they know the person and that buddy won't sue them. But, really the liability exposure is much greater because there is no agreement as to such in place like there would be in a rental. And maybe your buddy won't sue you if he or she survives the crash with minor injuries but that doesn't mean his or her family won't if he doesn't. And there is the question of whose insurance pays? yours or his? and did you verify his license was still valid when you lent him your bike? All the rental does is put a structure to the otherwise normal act of lending our bikes to other people, it limits liability and makes clear the agreement, and in exchange you make your bike more open to people you don't personally know as well as whomever you have lent it to in the past. Which brings me to my next point: Are you here for the community? I have had the great fortune of having people lend me some fantastic bikes. And because of it I have made purchase decisions, broadened my viewpoint on certain aspects, and in come to like it more and more. The motorcycling community is great in part because some of us like to share. That's not a knock on those that don't want to, but it is part of our growth that dealers will let us ride demo bikes, and our friends will sometimes lend us their bikes to try and we will lend ours to them. This is just another way the good stuff from bike sharing in the community happens. If you don't want to do it - fine, no loss, but let's try to limit spreading the false notion that the people we don't know are automatically going to crash and sue us, and let's be a little more reflective about the risks we take with our own bikes and whether they are safe for others to ride.

The second amendment will only prevent any outright ban on firearms (all firearms, not bans on specific types), it doesn't limit gun control beyond that. That was the importance of the supreme court decision in Heller - it recognized the 2nd amendment possession being lawful outside participation in a militia and therefore protects from an outright ban on arms, but it also established that the 2nd amendment is not unlimited and government has a right to create gun control laws as long as those laws are not an outright ban. I have long ago stopped listening to anybody at the NRA as any form of intelligent expert on how gun laws work in this country. The NRA's position is not one based in reality, it's a pornographic fantasy of how they would like it to be and what their overall goal is, but it's not grounded in reality or takes into account how the laws and the constitution in this country actually work. Case in point - the Heller case: the NRA plaintiff shopped for someone with standing, funded the whole case in hopes that it would accomplish their goal of making the 2nd amendment be recognized as absolute, and it backfired in their face because in giving them part of what they wanted it said gun control is not unlawful under then 2nd amendment. the 2nd amendment will not protect you from "stupid knee jerk reactions" like this - it's just not how it works. What does protect you is the that in america, at this particular time, most people won't buy into something that looks extreme in comparison to the existing laws. What protects you are the moderate voters. As to the "assault weapons ban" - well there was some effect on mass shootings, however we don't really know because that occurred during the era when gun violence research was actively suppressed by the NRA. Plus it is pretty universally understood that the language of that law wasn't well written and didn't really target (pun intended) what needed to be addressed to make a difference. It doesn't mean that every gun control law is ineffective. The National Firearms Act of 1934, the Federal Firearm act of 1938, the Gun Control act of 1968, the firearm owners protection act of 1986, and The Brady Handgun Violence protection act all had much greater impact and are considered successful at improving the gun violence situation in the time they were enacted. You can't just point to one failed legislation and say "see it doesn't work in all cases", esp when there is a history of well crafted bills actually working - unless you are a member of the NRA, in which case you might as well talk about how guns are a gift from the unicorns and we shouldn't insult them with our man made restrictions.

I have to say, rental agency and insurance cover both these things clearly, and you'd pay for them as part of your rental. Also smoked clutches, any internal parts you lunch as part of a missed shift, etc... Personally, I'd love it if someone took my rental bike for a track day and air-ed it out. think about it - the track is going to require you to have way more safety gear than the state does to ride on the street so I have less to worry about you being hurt, there aren't going to be any stupid, inattentive, cages so less risk overall, They are going to tech the bike in and make you sign a ton of waivers, and the rental agreement would hold you personally liable for any damage you do to the thing. So what do I have to worry about? that you are going to bounce it off the rev limiter? If you use up my tires you are just going to buy me new tires anyway (see rental agreement) so, hey I get new tires out of the deal. It's a bike, it should be ridden in anger at least one point in it's life and what better place to do it than a track. so really I guess all I have to worry about is all the fun you are having on my bike that I am missing out on, but I get paid for it so...seems fair. yeah, so maybe I don't rent you my rare as hens teeth ducati, my widomaker 1971 h1, or something that would be hard to repair or replace, but if I had a stock, new-ish, common, and easy to find parts for xsr900, sv650, or even cbr600 - why not? it's what the bike was made for.

You do understand that the 2nd amendment doesn't prevent lawmakers from making similar legislation here in the states, right? We have similar restrictions for automatic firearms in the US already and wen through something similar in 1986 with the Firearm Owners Protection Act, it wouldn't be hard to extend those restrictions to semi-automatic weapons as well. We don't see legislation like that because it would be unpopular, even among moderates who generally support gun control, and therefore no politician would stake their career on a loser of a bill that would tank their re-election. But don't think for a second the 2nd amendment is the thing keeping this at bay, it's just not how it works.

not gonna lie....the GM Lambda platform is one group of vehicles I look forward to not seeing on the road in 5 years. What about finding a 2006-2009 Trailblazer SS? I know some here have bitched about the front suspension on those but having an LS2 v8 and 4L70E kinda takes the worry out of drive-train reliability, no?

Woah...this shocks me a little. Not calling you out on anything clay, just want to clarify something in case someone else is reading it and is similarly scared into making a mistake. 1. Employers, or potential employers, have no right to this information without your permission and you are not under any obligation to answer the question if you see it, even if you have received unemployment or some other form of public assistance. Employers are prohibited by several federal and state laws from discriminating negatively against individuals on the basis of public assistance. 2. The reason employers put that question on forms is because certain programs make the employer eligible for incentives for hiring recipients, so answering the question might actually make you more attractive to the potential employer. My advice? if you know you are in one of those programs that the employer gets an incentive for hiring, then absolutely answer the question - it makes you more attractive to the potential employer if they get paid to hire you. Otherwise you aren't required to so don't provide it. 3. Not answering that question should NEVER be a reason not to apply for benefits you are eligible for, ever. If you don't want to apply for them for another reasons that's your choice, but don't be mislead that employers are entitled to know whether you receive government assistance as a justification for not receiving something you are eligible for and def don't put your family or financial stability on the line for that. 4. Under the SSI's definition, Unemployment is not considered "government assistance", and this is a definition all government agencies and most states share, so even if you want to answer the question (and honestly if you are worried about illegal discrimination, then don't but then do you want to work for a company that would discriminate illegally anyway?) you can answer it no without lying. Sorry for the quick tangent, but I didn't want someone to read this and suddenly get scared about applying for unemployment benefits when they are qualified to do so.

I have to say, he's probably smarter than all of us. Without those tires it's just another white C7, but $40 in tire graphics and the thing is it's own social media promotion just sitting there. I'm not saying he's going to actually get more nudes from this, but I betcha that car is not hard to find on the twitbookgrams. #$40internetminorcelebrity

"Send Nudes"

Your beard is getting really long and shaggy. The LeMans-ter going to be ready for Power Tour?

Is it? I feel like the conversation would be a lot different if it was. Maybe a lot less assumption that everyone except "special" people you personally vetted are just going to wreck your motorcycle and sue you, and a lot more discussion about what makes a good rental motorcycle vs a bad one and what actual precautions can be taken. Also a lot more discussion about the more common risks of rentals that don't result in an accident and liability lawsuit (like theft), since those are a real concerns. The majority of motorcyclists don't get into motorcycles accidents (going by the numbers it's less than 1%), but yet most people assume that lending their bikes to a licensed stranger is going to automatically result in an accidents and then they are going to get sued unless they vet those people beyond the legal requirements of operating a motorcycle. just my .02 cents though, YMMV.

I did the Stereo on my 1987 XJ back in the 90's myself. It's a pretty easy project and might make a good father and son job if you plan it right. IIRC there are 2 open slots in the Cherokee interior fuse block that have switched power and one that has constant (look for the fuse for the "clock"). The factory head unit plug is one of the most common because it was used on every chrysler vehicle at the time. I am pretty sure you can get head unit plug and play pigtails at Walmart if you need to.

Which model Yi? I have a Yi action cam right now and love it.