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I'm out. Father-in-law is in the hospital. Have fun and bring everybody back.

Another old guy thinking about meeting up in McConnelsville. Not sure I believe B-mac can behave, though...

Sorry about your friend, how is he recovering? I've had a few friends finish a fun day early with an ambulance trip. One was right in front of me (I rode between him and his bike while I was trying to stop) and another was lost down an embankment for about an hour before we found him too injured to climb out. Anytime we ride, we run the risk of not finishing safely. More people means more chances of that happening. Less experienced riders want to ride with somebody faster so they can learn and improve, but sometimes they push too hard or freeze up. It's a difficult choice to decide to be the rabbit - you could be helping a friend grow in the sport or you could be leading him to a trip to the ER. Ultimately, every rider's responsibility to get home that night is his own, not yours. Riding solo and riding with a friend or group both have their pros & cons, but you can't feel responsible for what other riders do. At least, you were there to help him and make sure he got transported to a hospital - had he been solo... I'm retired now, so let me know if you need a helper to go recover his bike.

Isn't that why we call it "riding weather"?

Everything goes under the bungee net or it stays behind - that includes the wife. Since I took off the pillion footpegs, nobody wants to be a pillion anymore.

For an air filter?!?!?! Naked bikes FTW!

Doesn't happen to me anymore. 😎

Besides the ones you send him?

I'm home now too. 100 mi of twisty Hocking Hills with almost no traffic and perfect weather. 50 mi or so each way to get there put me right at a pussy 200. Coffee and a Little Debbie at my gas stop in Nelsonville. Should have gotten a pic for the ride to eat thread...

Wish I could but I have Sunday booked. Anybody wanna do a shorter (100mi or so) around Hocking area on Monday?

Wouldn't feel like OR if somebody didn't! Also can't believe I've posted the word "bung" 3 times without Beavis commenting. Are we maturing?

Since nobody said the clamp on bung was crap, I ordered one from GlowShift (free shipping saved me $7 so I got it on ebay). It mounted up just as I hoped and I just finished wiring the sensor in and went for a test ride. While shopping on ebay, I fell peril to an impulse buy... I found master cylinder socks to fit my RCS19 M/Cs. So much for saving $7 on shipping, but I do think they look badass!

I bought a set of these when this thread was active and promptly forgot about them (I put them with stuff I was accumulating for a winter project that I still haven't started 😅 ). Yesterday, I wanted to splice some cables for an old O2 sensor and dug these out to use. My wife has a crafting heat gun that has a smaller tip and it worked perfectly! I spliced a 5 wire and a 6 wire cable and the splices were thin enough I could get a heat shrink over the whole thing.

Replaced the right side oil temp gauge with an O2 gauge and removed the oil sender and put a plug in its place. I did some repair work to the O2 sensor cable so it's ready to go when I get a bung in my exhaust pipe. Has anybody ever used a clamp on bung for an O2 sensor? If I have to weld one in, it'll probably be this winter before I take it down that far.

Is that a six-pack cooler on the front?

Rode 200 miles in your neck of the woods today, B-Mac. I looked at the weather forecast and we're supposed to have 2 days of rain followed by highs in the 50s. Today was my last chance for a while.

I saw a thread on another forum where a guy was rebuilding a bike engine and there were Craftsman Phillips screwdrivers in the background of the photos. I had Amazon send him a Vessel #2 before he had a chance to strip the heads of his screws. My Vessel cross head driver will fit a screw so well that it can hang horizontally from the tip.

Oh yeah, those are nice. They could climb up my list and I'll surely remember carnagetools.com.

Last spring I was working in Holland, MI and I saw one of my techs using this. I asked where he bought it, and before the day was over, I had driven 25 MI to the Grand Rapids Home Depot and bought one. It's perfect for the spring clamp on the fuel line behind my petcock when removing the fuel tank.

I am jonesin' for the set. The 10mm is probably just the gateway... 😅

I am! When I see the perfect tool for some job, I just obsess over it until I finally buy it. I had to have Vessel crosshead screwdrivers, Knipex Cobra Pliers, Wera Kraftform insulated electricians screwdrivers (including 2 sizes of PZ/S drivers for those electrical screws that have a combo cross and slotted head), and I just bought a soldering station that can run off my cordless tool batteries. When I have an occasion to use these, I just marvel at how perfectly they do the job, even in my hands! Yesterday I saw a 1000V insulated 10mm box end wrench from Germany. I have to admit, I would completely geek out to work on bike or car battery terminals with this. https://www.kctool.com/stahlwille-12161-vde-single-ended-ring-spanner-10-mm/ Does anybody else have some special tools that they just had to buy?

The bolt head's surface seems good, no leak there. Leak seems to be coming from the cylinder head side, either between the head and the crush washer or the crush washer and the oiler bar. The 2 holes in the head are supposed to be flat, but more important, they have to be parallel - so I'm very reluctant to do anything to alter it. What I'd like to find is a sealing washer that's a bit softer than Cu and Al so it can comply to mate the surfaces. If read that heating Cu until it's red, then cooling slowly will soften it some. In the meantime, the bandage is working to let me ride. I put on a new one and rode to see my parents in Nerk today, the new rag has a good 100 miles of absorbency left in it. I always thought my old bike would become a ratfighter before I finished it - the oily rag fits the look.