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It's a Honda. They liked to show off their technical prowess a bit, look at the CX500. Just be prepared to say "what were they thinking?" a lot when you work on the bike. The parts support is greater for the CB350. But the RS500 has "cult" status, so there's a pretty decent community around the bike. If you do get a CB350, I know we've got tons of parts for the bike at work.

I'm interested in the stem, clip-ons and cooler. Just sent you a message.

You can measure your ride height, and then order shocks to fit. Just make sure to specify how they mount to your bike (eye to eye, eye to clevis). The springs take care of the rest. CB350s are hipster cool right now, so the price on them has gone up. But there are plenty of small CC vintage two cylinders. An XS400 or KZ440 would be a good choice. Plus they're easier to work on than the CB350.

You should! The bikes look even better in person, and the ride/drive up is a good time!

Explain to me again why you don't do this full time?

I talked with my boss about this. If all you're going to do is drag the bike, and no cornering is involved: You can buy insert extensions for your swingarm. You pull your rear wheel off, and the adjusters, the extensions slide into the swing arm, bolt down, and then you reinstall your rear wheel further down. BUT: that setup can only handle straight line forces. No cornering, or it will fail. If you want a full blown, custom made, extended swing arm: http://www.mcintoshswingarms.com/Swingarms.htm That's the guy to go to, he's in New Lebanon Ohio. I've seen his work, you can't tell it's extended until you look at the length.

It looks like HB2 was line item vetoed by Strickland in 09. But I could see anything directly relating to seatbelts in the veto report. According to Lawriter it isn't a primary offense. But line D says "notwithstanding any provision of the law to the contrary" which might mean that in Dayton it could be a primary offense. It does look like 4513.263 is only good until June 29th of this year, afterwards: who knows?

"Every driver and front seat passenger must wear a seat belt." Here. It looks like Ohio revised the code to make seat belts a primary offense (here). Everybody talks about 'free country' like it's a defense for stupid. Tell your idiot friend to wear a seat belt. "Free country" nothing. If he dies in a wreck everyone's insurance and premiums go up. Where's the freedom in that? I pay enough as it is because of other stupid people and their stupid decisions, I don't need to cover for one more. Your freedoms extend only so far as they can without infringing on another's freedoms.

As far as vibrations go: Older Yamahas have an internal vibration dampener/bar weight. I've seen sets going for $10 on eBay. It should help with the vibrations and still let your run bar-end mirrors. It's just a weighted tube with some o-rings on it. But it works great.

Most of the parts are interchangeable.

Nothing beats rock climbing. Motorcycles come close, but not quite

We've actually got a CB200 in our yard right now. PM me with a list of what you need, I'll see what we've got.

Gear left adrift, must be a gift.

I agree with everyone else. Sounds like the carbs are out of sync. Especially since the RPMs hang and then drop down slowly after you rev the engine. It might be getting to much air. I just sold a KZ440 that does/did the same thing. An extra piece of filter foam sorted it all out.

The GSXR1100 swingarm might be longer than the 750. That's probably why others have recommended it to you. So, there won't be extensions for it. But it's not going to give you much more length than your swing arm. To really extend your swingarm: talk to a machine shop. They should be able to cut and extend your swing arm as far as you want. And if you butter them up a little bit, they might cut you a deal. Especially if you're a repeat customer.

There's a scientist in Israel who recently developed a high-powered battery based around silicone. Here. Long lasting, easily recycled, apparently cheap to produce, and light weight. I give it two months before it's suppressed, and quietly disappears.

I would like any would be thieves to know that I now have a new security system in place on all my belongings. It involves some bushes. And a 2x4.

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That's probably faster than my bike, and no worries about the speeds. I can shoot three frames a second. Hopefully I'll be able to sight a scooter in at least one of those three. Hopefully

I don't have a scooter, but would you mind if I came along and photographed some of the ride?

Those are retail prices, if we had a connection to one of the factories in China, we could get those batteries on the cheap. I agree with the hybrid, but its cost will still need to be around the $3000 to $4000 range.

When GM phased out the EV-1, they cited lack of sales. On the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car" (pretty even handed, and well done) the president of GM said "you can't charge more for a car that will do less." The price point on all electric vehicles is too high in the US, and everyone involved seems to have admitted this fact at some point. The marxist/conspiracy theorist in me thinks something is amiss. $3000 for a basic, around town electric bike is a good price. $6000 to $8000 for a car would work as well. Seriously though, does anyone want to help build one with me?

You should! A few hundred for a motorcycle, a few hundred more for parts and such, some time in the garage, and a unique bike no one else will have ever seen. The lighting was a little less than desirable. Next year, we'll work on it.

A friend of mine has developed a few electric race bikes, and he's said the technology is basically archaic right now. It's a double edged sword: To better develop, there needs to be more sales. For more sales, the bikes need to be better developed. But I'd use one for around town, especially if the price was in the sub $3000 range for a new bike.

No more than you have evidence it's 288. That's not the point though, if we really wanted to settle this, we'd need to poll a sizable portion of the US. Give them the problem without an answer, let them solve it and see where we end up. You're Facebook poll is a bit more conclusive, account for margins of error and such, but is such a small sample it doesn't matter. The poll here is just too close to really have a clear answer. Odds are if we do get a large enough sample, we'll still have an inconclusive answer, you'll still say it's 288 and I'll still say it's 2. I'm not saying that you might not be correct, I'm just saying by and large in situations like this there's a "best" answer that's often dictated by society and it is arbitrary. 288 is a valid and correct answer, but it isn't the best. We could send the formula to the ACT and SAT boards and see what answer they give us. Those tests influence curriculum and teachers everywhere, so their "right" answer would be an authority.