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I'm just playing Devil's advocate because I understand and appreciate both sides of the discussion. Only Dviant Image will know the results of this change for better or worse.

Exactly, so to bring in greater than $240 he has to roughly double his number of customers, because on average they will be spending less money.

Now imagine yourself as the consumer of his photography. You will go, you will talk to him, he will tell you about his $60 CD offer but also about the new "see before you buy" offers. NOBODY will be pre-paying for CDs, or very few people. This introduces a number of problems for him - the fact that people will spend less by picking out what they want, the fact that potential customers could now spend nothing after seeing his pictures of them (possibly compared to what their buddies got on their 7.2mp Sony), the fact that people put things off and forget when there is time between immediate desire and purchase, etc. Like I said, in my little economic world, he has probably dropped his revenues with his new pricing structure.

His business model rests (rested?) on the fact that you can't simply look at your favorite picture (or 5 pictures) and buy those for half the price of his full CD of pictures that he offers. You paid $60, got a bunch of pictures, maybe only 5 worth paying for. Now you pay half price for that. Unless he doubles his customers, his original business model was probably superior. For him, not the consumer, of course. I think this was Todd's underlying point. Let the dude do what works for him.

that seems like a bad move to me I would imagine that most (median) of his customers will now spend $30 or less, rather than the $60 minimum before. Unless he is able to DOUBLE the amount of customers that he gets to purchase pictures from him, he's probably going to bring in less money. Anyone disagree with that?

Any time the different manufacturers have to follow hugely different rules it's pretty lame, in all of racing. Unfortunately it's pretty common. Watch F1 !

I guess I'm out anyways. Just got home from working on my bike, came up 3 valve shims short of one particular size so I'm going to have to try and track them down tomorrow. Have fun, be safe.

just to get there that's an hour for me I wonder if anyone else will be heading out there from Kent/Ravenna or just NE in general

where is "the strip" ? Canton I suppose?

BMW in Dublin? Some girl I have talked to on twitter (of all things) just started working there recently. First name Kate, tall blonde.

the Ninja 250 is a great bike I still have yet to determine which I have more fun on, the 250 that I had or the ZRX I replaced it with no joke, there's something very appealing about a little toy that you can just rape and pillage without getting into trouble and mess around on

that looks like a nice FZR, what year? that's a 600 i4 right?

Eh there's no reason to pay anyone to do it, sounds like you have it under control. If you aren't sure about it I'm sure someone here could swing by and give you a 2nd opinion.

that stinks, cause it appears to be a very easy job on the ZRX comparatively .... I removed the gas tank and a fan shroud and just had to pull some other stuff out the way.... valve cover came right out the left side.... then it's all gravy good deal on the shims though, I probably could have found someone to do so as well but I didn't think anyone would take my shims because they didn't have the sizes on them anywhere and most didn't seem to quite conform to the normal sizes they sell them as

For the ZRX you do not have the remove the cams, the rocker arms slide out of the way (they are spring loaded) check that before your pull the cams out

the bend of the gauge? the ones we used were completely flat ..... on my bike you want to get them between the shim and the rocker a little drag is accurate, a lot of drag or sloppy loose is inaccurate, at least that's how I understand it

yeah I bought both of my Scorpion helmets from SportBikeTrackGear.com and they were great to deal with plus awesome prices amazing deals on ex-400 and ex-700 helmets that had discontinued graphics

ya in increments of .001 (when I had .0025 listed it was because .003 wouldn't fit but .002 seemed a little loose, lol)

Alright, thanks for the help. I should have it back together sometime next week

No idea. I just bought it at the end of last summer and didn't get much info, the guy hadn't had it long. All of the intake valves had the same shim, which led me to believe maybe they had never been done? No clue really. Most of them weren't TOO bad, but some were quite tight at .002 and .0025 .... I was trying to get as loose as I could without going over, which is why I was going with .0065 rather than .0085 (which is over by .001)

well .0075 is the high end of spec, so I didn't know if .0085 would be too much because that's a full thousandths out of spec .... the .008 was said to be acceptable because it was only .0005 out what do ya think?

.0085 on the intake side is a thousandth out of spec (too high) so I figured it was best to avoid going that far out on purpose

feeler gauges to measure the gaps and a dial slide caliper to measure the shims

thanks, we'll see if she runs any better next week