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Dammit!! Sorry, Brian. So much for your track bike.

This will be the first time I've bought lottery tickets in so long I can't remember. If I win, I will buy my boy Bad a track bike. Promise.

One at 11 and the other on the back of the Mrs. head while I get an over the road mouth hug.

Honda Spray Polish or EagleOne Nanowax.

I think Rick Roush has Amsoil.

I must admit that when I went track bike shopping I was looking for a CBR, since I was coming off a Honda for the last 6 years. After reading about the convoluted construction of the throttle bodies and airbox on the CBRs, I am one happy gixxer owner!

+1 for finding and fixing the problem yourself. -20 for going public with your less than adequate mechanical ability prior to. was there any sort of damage where you pinched those wires anyway? I'd done that a bunch of times myself on the 51 cuz there were so many goddamn wires under that thing!!

Cancer is such an indiscriminate bastard. Thoughts and prayers for her friends and family.

Feliz cumpleanos, my Mezzican brother!

Happy Birthdays all around!

yup. O-H...

Yup yup. I'd be $400 short right now.

ftfy

Like most good folks here, I'd prefer to not inconvenience the disabled should they need to drop a deuce. However, if I am touching cotton and sweating out colonic labor pains, I will shit in the trash can if I have to, let alone the luxury tard turd closet. I don't give a fuck if Stephen freaking Hawking comes motorin' in. Someone can clean him up.

No, B, that hanger came from Gregg. i am gonna put yours on tomorrow. And i am cool to cut the can down. i was gonna orded a new Ti sleeve for it, but may cut enough off this can to remove a couple dents. Hold onto the damper for a bit and I'll make that offer.

I have Vortex but have also heard good things about Woodcraft.

Would you buy a goddamn track bike already, or stop buying street parts for the CBR?!

Congrats on the new steed!

yeah, that's getting changed. that came attached to the bodywork i picked up. i got them from a guy that raced last year. not sure how he did that through that screen. a clear double bubble is on the way.

Well, she is far enough along that a test ride around the neighborhood was in order. Still plenty of tweaking to do, but happy to report that she runs just fine. A big change back to inline 750 from my RC, but that is what track time is for!

Dell, depending on the model, can be a good find. But their consumer line is substandard compared to their business/professional ones. HP & Compaq are virtually the same things, and not worth the boxes they are shipped in. Of all the side jobs I do in laptop repair, HP/Compaq far and away outpace all others I have worked on. Asus are on the rise for sure, but they had some early issues with cooling. I think they are resolved for the most part, however. Acer are marketed by their price point, and like most things you get what you pay for. Toshibas are not bad, and since you have personal experience with them, I will not inundate you with my opinion of them. Let's just say I like them more than HP but not as much as Dell. I'm not a huge fan of buying laptops from a big box store, but to each their own. I do this kind of thing for a living, so I am a little jaded and my perspective is skewed because I deal directly with manufacturers. The big question is what are you doing with said laptop? Just perusing the web and paying bills online? Do you have some uber hot apps that you run that require a mondo processor to run? Coming from a Windows background, I would suggest an i5 processor and as much RAM as you can afford to buy. Not less than 4 GB, as Win7 like 4 to run smoothly. (You can run it on 2 GB, but meh, I wouldn't.) Again, this is just my opinion, and I am sure other quasi-nerds have valuable $.02.

I thought it looked like a subdermal spider nest. Cut it open and see if thousands of little baby spiders run out. That would be a sweet Halloween trick! Srsly, one of my buds in the Marines had one and we smacked it with a rubber mallet. From then forward I consider myself a quasi-professional physician. Good luck mang!

Thoughts and prayers for you and the family, Joe.

That's freaking awesome! Love Primus. So I tickled his chin, and I gave him a pinch, and the bastard tried to bite me!

Sorry to hear about this Joe. Thoughts and prayers for your Dad.