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Thank you much for the info. It'll be a while on my end but I have a list of free 2D drawing packages to evaluate and then I'll start using the winning one to create drawings for some pieces parts. This is exciting!

You have me thinking now. You didn't say who you give your business to? Do you supply the plate metal or do they? What if I have several like (100/6) = 16 different parts to do, still $100 minimum? Thanks.

I'm guessing not too many, if one?

Will be gathering parts soon since forward controls is the only way I'll be able to keep my Gen 1.2. What have ya got?

I like Timken myself and if you just go to a bearing jobber to buy them you'll probably save money but someone will have to give you the size info. I don't actually think "All Balls" is a respected name in bearing mfg. Looks like they're putting their label on another product.

Here in the states the kerosene is pretty flammable. I used to have a kerosene heater for the garage.

The timetable may be ambitious but possible. It does take time though, especially in Yellowstone, lots of tour buses, speed restrictions, animals, etc. There are lots of really small cabins near Yellowstone Lake but cost $149 to stay. Good planning could get you into the Old Faithful Lodge. There's one opening for a single room July 18 for $121 for instance right now. Mammoth Hotel has lots more openings for $130. Good luck!

So you mean the 14 that goes from Sheridan, WY to Lovell, WY? Not the 14 that goes to Greybull, WY, right? I think I rode that to possibly meet up with distant relatives in Powell, WY. I think it's crazy to be there and not go over Beartooth Pass on 212 unless you think you'll pass thru again sometime. I would take either the Grand Loop Road (haven't myself but looks fun) or the Chief Joseph Hwy. (296) to get to the Beartooth Hwy. (212). This may cost you as much as a day to do but it'll be worth it. I usually would do all of my journeys after Labor Day and found that National Parks and the like are much more manageable crowd-wise then. The West receives less precipitation in the Fall too, which I think is a plus. The downside is that it can get colder and sometimes even snowy and waterfalls tend to be subdued because of decreased stream flow in the fall. Days are shorter in the Fall too. You might look at riding a loop of 212, 308, 72/120, and 296. How long do you plan to stay in Yellowstone? It can take a long time to get anywhere in those parts.

Thanks for that! I'm glad to see more of this sort of thing out there. There's also this, mostly in the four corners area: Back Country Discovery Routes

It seems like it would be a nice reminiscence to collect video over the summer and edit over the Winter. You can collect a lot of video in a seemingly short time though so consider getting some large SD cards and keeping it turned off when it's not the good stuff. I have a Sharper Image HD camera but I really thought the wrist mounted wireless remote for the GoPro would be handy if I it but that set-up is $400. With the one I have mounted on a helmet I would never know if was on or off for sure so it'll have to go on the bars or somewhere. If I had the GoPro and the remote I would put it on my helmet and hope a bug didn't splatter across the lens. Please post your findings when you find them?

Well thanks, I guess. The article was just the first one that I found with the details about what everyone was complaining about. The cost of living increase was going to be one percent less, ie. instead of 3% it would be 2% or whatever and would only apply to younger retires, and only till they are 62, and hopefully soon those who are disabled will soon be excluded. So if you're getting $14,000 a year as was discussed earlier then 3% would be $420 and 2% would be $280 and the difference would be $140. So we're all upset and gonna throw the bastids out, ready to round us up a posse and head to Washington DC with a nice new rope to string up everybody for this travesty? BFD! Not worth all of the time and trouble to discuss it even. Who hasn't lost $140 in a poker game or spent it on safety chrome or booze? One thing though, I do want to make it clear that if you're disabled from the fun that you've had while in the military then you deserve a pension. NOW, what about a pension at 55 years for the rest of us? What about all of those transmission poles that I galvanized and certified? What about all the roofs I tarred, shingled, and covered in sheet metal? What being a material handler, construction laborer, dock help, driver, etc. What about my time at the railroad "Building America". I really do want an answer because I'm afraid that most of you are going feel like it's alright for y'all, God given right and the sort, but a bridge to far for the rest of us to retire at 55 on a government pension. What do you say, how about we all retire at 55 just like over in Greece?

Reading your supposed horror story actually sounds kind of fun. Was that really the worst of it?

I have an idea of it but most of the worst of it doesn't last for an entire career, unless you want it to. For the rest of us there's plenty of really cruddy jobs and they tend to stay that way for an entire career. Here's a list of the ten most dangerous jobs, police and firefighters don't make the list don't think military was considered in the list. The 10 Deadliest Jobs: 1. Logging workers 2. Fishers and related fishing workers 3. Aircraft pilot and flight engineers 4. Roofers 5. Structural iron and steel workers 6. Refuse and recyclable material collectors 7. Electrical power-line installers and repairers 8. Drivers/sales workers and truck drivers 9. Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers 10. Construction laborers I've done several of these jobs. I was a paddleman at the second largest galvanizing kettle in the world. I used a wooden paddle to scrape the ash off the surface of the molten lead/zinc mix after dipping power distribution towers and irrigation pipe and components. I would then use a variety of techniques to hot finish the products. The chains would sometime break when parts were being raised from the kettle and I would run away from molten metal being splashed in my direction since my job required me to be out there. Sometimes parts weren't completely dry and you'd get a blast of metal as they were lowered. The air quality was as bad as anything except maybe nerve gas. If the gas was turned off for any reason I would have to get into a tunnel and stick a torch into little doors to relight that monster while the flame blasts back out at you. I'd walk out into 10 below weather without a coat and drive the 15 miles home before I started to cool down after shift change clean-up. I've done plenty of crappy, dangerous, difficult, dirty jobs. Why don't I get an early retirement or a double -dip? How about this, EVERYONE gets a government sponsored pension at 55? Let's just make it fair.

I see disability differently of course. If there really is a reason that you can't work after your time in the military then you should get a pension and that applies to people who didn't stay in 20 years as well. Why the hell can't I get a pension at 50? The best deal I ever heard about for people who are in private industry was the railroad's 60/30 deal. When you're 60, if you have 30 years of service, you can retire with a full pension. I don't think anyone who can still work should get a pension before 62 if the taxpayers have to pay for it, period.

People tend to see things colored by their own experiences. My dad did a stint in the Navy just after WWII. My Brother-in-law was in the USAF when he married my sister. My uncle was stabbed in the leg by a Japanese sailor that he was trying to rescue after sinking the Japanese boat. He was a gunner and couldn't hear much of anything for the rest of his life. A few years before he died he finagled a small concession for his profound hearing loss. Nobody made a career of it. I decided it wasn't for me and went to community college after I blew my chances at the university. Overtime is the norm in civilian life and you do what you're told but you don't have to salute and being deployed is usually short term and you eat restaurant food, sleep on motel mattresses. I can see I'm not making any friends here and I'll dig in even deeper because I've got an even bigger problem with police and fire pensions. Those pensions are huge and start getting paid out to people in their early fifties. It's breaking the city where I live causing taxes to soar higher than ever. Why should we pay a fifty-five year old $90,000 a year for nothing in honor of twenty or twenty-five years of service while they keep talking about raising the age for Social Security into the seventies and cutting back on checks? Don't get me wrong I value the service of these people, I just value it a little more realistically than some. I understand if it's you I'm talking about you are going to fight for what you get, that's human nature. Just understand, you are getting it better than most people who won't see doo-doo till they are 62 or older and your somewhat sweet deal may be keeping someone else from seeing any benefits even then since they may die before they're old enough or there may not be any money left.

Most of the people who live through the awful conditions that Joe mentioned don't get a military retirement at all because they get out and get jobs like most of us. If we are really compensating people for being shot at then why don't those people get nice pensions? The rest of it really is just a job during the many years that the US didn't have wars to deploy to. That and it's your choice if you want to stay in as career military. I don't like that illegals get any services and the offspring of illegals should not automatically be citizens either so I'm with you there. Things are tight all over with lot's of talk about cutting benefits for people who worked until they just couldn't anymore and y'all are grousing about cutting benefits for somebody who should be in their prime earning years? That dog don't hunt.

I don't think so, not at the caliper. I think a small nail may have somehow gotten wedged behind your banjo.

Research this stuff people! Don't just read an email someone sent you, look it up for yourself. Here, I did the tuff stuff for you: http://www.defenseone.com/management/2013/12/heres-why-proposed-military-retiree-benefit-cuts-are-no-big-deal/75587/ This effects 20 year people who retire from military at say 40 and only until they reach 62. So as a taxpayer I have to pay this guys pension for 25 years, five years longer than they actually worked, BEFORE they are old enough to collect Social Security? Do away with that altogether! I got no sympathy for people who get a full gubberment (taxpayer) sponsored pension before 62. The rest of us have to keep working till at least 65 for a full pension or for AT LEAST 30 years, what gives?

I'm sorry to hear about your loss, I'm glad that she encouraged others to get checked. I'm sure it was effective with everyone she spoke with. The problem I have is how do you make someone go to the doctor? I care about someone who thinks that she's more afraid of a doctor visit than she is of dying herself? The truth is that what's out of sight is out of mind and until there's trouble she's not having any of it.

I just clicked on the SB ad and found a list of reasons why I should have a fork brace and an illustrative video as well. Very convincing. I'm now thinking that a fork brace may not be a bad thing and I may start shopping around for one or I might just buy one from SB. If I do discover Jack's product the price will likely grab me. I already did know about it but I wanted to show how the SB ad could help to sell Jack's brace, which needs a catchy name like the "Condor Control Clamp" to help compete with "SuperBrace". The thing is for any of the banner ads a member may sell a competing product. Jake Wilson, Cruiser Customizing, etc. have large catalogs and some items likely could also be purchased from a member here too. If I wanted to start selling tank bibs or even a line of leather items is it reasonable for me to ask Don to pull the banner ad for Ace Leather? It's just too much to ask that care be taken to protect the member vendors from perceived competition, BUT, how about a link to member vendors underneath the banner ads? Maybe since they do provide an important aspect of the service that makes this site great, maybe linking to them should be given a top-level presence? Except for the difficult ones, don't link to them.

Cut your losses and hope that FB don't know you no more. Fadebook is evil, none for me, thank you. As long as I can still buy groceries, gas, and MC parts without a Fadebook account, I'm happy.

My Hunter digital thermostat has been confused in the morning a few times lately and just decides to run the fan on it's own. Have you ruled out something like that?

I would have steered you toward a Lithium Ion type battery a month ago but that was before a third Tesla caught fire. Now I wonder......

Should a 1st gen owner care about a 2nd gen transmission? I'm hoping to learn something, not being smart-assed.

It looks like a motorcycle that's had a little too much absinthe. I like the effect but there would have to be more colors than green for me.