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For Harry ...
On Thursday, 29 March 2018 12:04:58 UTC-3, Its Me wrote:
On Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 9:13:33 PM UTC-4, True North wrote: On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:33:09 UTC-3, Its Me wrote: On Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 5:16:21 PM UTC-4, True North wrote: The John flushes his head yet again.... "Grow up, asshole" Does calling others names make y'all feel better about yourself, Johnny? It's not name calling when it's true. Bingo! Under that rule I have never called anyone in this group a name...Jack Off. Ah, then you do agree that you are an asshole that calls names. No..I agree that you are a jackoff who calls names...Got It! |
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#43
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On Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 12:14:51 PM UTC-4, True North wrote:
On Thursday, 29 March 2018 12:04:58 UTC-3, Its Me wrote: On Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 9:13:33 PM UTC-4, True North wrote: On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:33:09 UTC-3, Its Me wrote: On Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 5:16:21 PM UTC-4, True North wrote: The John flushes his head yet again.... "Grow up, asshole" Does calling others names make y'all feel better about yourself, Johnny? It's not name calling when it's true. Bingo! Under that rule I have never called anyone in this group a name...Jack Off. Ah, then you do agree that you are an asshole that calls names. No..I agree that you are a jackoff who calls names...Got It! You are a permanent resident of the short bus, eh. Typical 'nadian. |
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 08:30:41 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 04:23:07 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 12:59:36 AM UTC-5, wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:32:34 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:30:18 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:44:19 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" - show quoted text - Most of those Triumph choppers were better just parked and looking pretty than actually being ridden anyway. To that end the capacitor worked fine as long as you had a fairly easy starting engine. That is really all it was. I did a couple just using a "D" cell sized electrolytic I had in my junk box, only assuring it was 15v rated and polarized right ... Greg, when I got my 500, it had a “battery eliminator” installed. It started about as good as any other Brit bike. Tickle the left carb, choke, cycle it through a couple times, hit the key and bang! It ran. Problem is you couldn’t start it with the lights on. It drew too much current from the coul. Get going and at 30 mph, turn on the lights, and it would immediately die, then surge back to life. Riding through town with stoplights and signs was a nightmare.. I hated it. It’s sat since 1985. I’ll start restoring it soon using updated parts. I’m not worried about the Zener diode. I’ll make my own with a real regulator. Things can be so much better today. Yeah that Zener was a pretty common point of failure and when it went bad you boiled the battery. I suspect that might have been the incentive for some of the capacitor kits. I used to just keep a spare hanging on the wall of the garage when my buddies had Triumphs. I never bit on that one. I do understand the Bonneville 650 was a screamer but I never felt the love. |
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#48
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1:03 PMJohn H - show quoted text - The Bonneville was always a dream of mine. But, I could never afford one. Finally was able to get a Honda 125 at age 30. At age 32, or so, I got my first Guzzi. At about age 47 I got the one I'm riding now. I expect my Guzzis would last much longer if I rode them like Harry drives 'his' Ducati. ,,, I’m sure I wouldn’t hit deer if I did the same as you described... |
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On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:22:06 -0400, John H. wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 10:38:46 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 04:23:07 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 12:59:36 AM UTC-5, wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:32:34 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2018 18:30:18 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:44:19 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Now you got me trying to remember. Here are the motorcycles that I can recall: Honda 305 "Super Hawk" Honda 350 - two .. one in Puerto Rico, one in MA. Kawasaki 450 Harley Davidson Ultra Classic (2000 - white) Harley Davidson Softails - two, one new in 2003, the other an older version with the "evo" engine. Harley Davidson Ultra Classic (2006 - maroon) That's eight of them. Might be another ... oh, yeah there *was*. I bought a custom built Harley that Cape Cod Harley Davidson built especially for Sturgis but cancelled going. Oh, ... one more ... a fully restored 1974 Norton 850 Commando. That's 10. So, how often do you "drive" your Ducati ? Not as many here. I have had a 250 Benelli dirt bike, the one that tried to kill me ;-) 350 RD Yamaha, Didn't keep it long, Maybe the most dangerous bike ever 350 Honda Sent it down the road pretty quickly too when I found the FX 72 Superglide (my favorite) 72 XLCH (fast but not as good a ride as a Superglide) 74 XLH (last Harley in Md) 71 FLH (the one I had down here) My squirreliest bike was as a teen I got hold of a Moped Frame with a Triumph Cub motor. And broken kick starter. Had to bump start. Got away from me one bump start in front of the house. In front of MOM. Not the best thing to do. I stepped off and let the bike crash without me. I still have the California motorcycle DL endorsement. But at 75 years old today, I think is not a good thing to ride. The Yamaha 350s were crash magnets because they were so "cammy" and had such a high center of gravity. You crank it up and the front wheel is flying. I have seen plenty of newbees stand them up and let them go when they landed on their ass. My problem was I got to liking it and I was riding a unicycle much more than a sane person should do. Our most dangerous bike to ride (owned by the partnership) was a post war Harley "45" chopper with the suicide clutch, hand janmmer and a derby hub (no front brake). It had a kicked out springer and hard tail. This was a thing of beauty sitting next to the curb. You just couldn't ride it. Think about it, you roll up to a light, You either have a foot on the clutch or the brake. With both you fall over. It was a little dance with kicking it out of gear in time to step on the brake. Good luck getting started up a hill. We parted it out and made more than we could get for the bike. And the extended forks with no bracing, so the wheel could flop left or right at a stop light. The springer tended to "caster" that wheel fairly well to hold it straight and with 4 struts they were fairly stiff but the 1/4 - 3/8" of rake they put into the yoke makes them hard to steer. Some of the extended tubes would get pretty wobbly tho. We had a couple of Triumph choppers that were best parked and looked at too. A popular thing on the 650 Triumphs was removing the battery and moving some stuff around to lower the seat. They used a capacitor to tickle the alternator into life. Fortunately the Triumph chopper thing did not last long but I bet a lot of vintage Triumphs fell to the cutting torch when they were a thing. Those battery eliminators are horrible. With trusted aftermarket products i'll be putting a battery back in my Triumph.and have something that'll work with reliability. Most of those Triumph choppers were better just parked and looking pretty than actually being ridden anyway. To that end the capacitor worked fine as long as you had a fairly easy starting engine. That is really all it was. I did a couple just using a "D" cell sized electrolytic I had in my junk box, only assuring it was 15v rated and polarized right While you're discussing choppers, please tell me the advantages to 'monkey bars'. I never understood ape hangers myself. I guess looking cool was preferable to not having blood going to your fingers. I did hear a line about those teardrop gas tanks that only hold a gallon or two and the little seats. "After you ride very far on that hard tail with the pea pod seat, you are going to want to get off anyway" Most of those choppers were for looking at on M street, Not riding. Some of the best motorcycle deals we ever had was uncustomizing motorcycles. Andrew Jackson out in Forestville had a 3 story house packed with Harley parts. He would gladly swap up stock parts for the matching custom part. Then he would sell them to the next guy with a vision and take back his stock parts for a pittance, sometimes free. Rinse repeat. That was the XLH I had. Some guy had "customized" it then he "fixed" in and ended up with something we had to push up on the truck. He was out in Potomac and his parents filled the truck with all the spare parts he had laying around. They were still ****ed about the quart of dirty Harley "105" he had dumped on their pretty "real brick" paver driveway. (then tracked it around) We actually got Andrew to go in his pocket for some of those parts, a rare occurrence indeed. The funniest thing about it was my buddy out in Rockville was telling me about the S&S carb he scored from Andrew. He said Andrew told him it was jetted for a Sportster but when he checked, it had FL jets in it. I asked him if there was a small scratch right above the logo on the air cleaner. His answer explained why that "customized" XL wouldn't run for ****. It was the same carb I swapped even up for the stock Bendix. Once I got the stock carb on it and replaced the top hat bushings the guy lost when he took the transmission apart, that thing ran like a top. I rode it all summer, until someone made me an offer I couldn't refuse. By then it was back to being a bone stock Sportster again. When California passed a law that the handgrips on a motorcycle could not be above your head, only guy I knew who could still ride an ape hanger bike was Skip, who I worked with. 6’6”. |
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For Harry ...
True North wrote:
On Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:33:09 UTC-3, Its Me wrote: On Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 5:16:21 PM UTC-4, True North wrote: The John flushes his head yet again.... "Grow up, asshole" Does calling others names make y'all feel better about yourself, Johnny? It's not name calling when it's true. Bingo! Under that rule I have never called anyone in this group a name...Jack Off. Damn, you are dumb. |
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