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I have had a pull to the left since I bought my bike. That pull has persisted thru 2 sets of brakes, 3 sets of tires, new front springs and oil checking and measuring everything looking for a tweaked frame. I even tried intentionally sitting off to both sides of the seat, and loading 20 lbs in just one side bag. Nothing could make it go away, and now I have learned to live with it, now if I get on a bike that does not pull it feels weird. But since your pull seems to come and go, that indicates an issue that needs to be found. With the bike on the center stand lift the front wheel off the ground and check the steering head bearings for any resistance or notchyness and for proper tightness.

Oh you troublemakers, Now I have to check the balance of my rims the next time I get tires. Has anyone ever tried balancing the rim before mounting the tire? At this point you would know that any imbalance is in the tire, If a tire is way out of balance then you know that there is something wrong with that tire. Just thinking out loud here, That is always dangerous.

Sounds like some nice finds. But you know the rules. Unfortunately my addiction is not limited to just rifles. I like hand guns just as much. There are a couple on my short list just waiting for me to find one so that I can break the bank. I do not get guns just for presentation, all of mine are regular shooters. If I find I am not using one enough it needs to have a new home. I have a couple in that boat right now. I have a couple of old Swedish Mauser's. One is very highly customized by me with zero help from any gunsmith (I love taking things apart and making them better than they were) it has a custom barrel that I bought a rifled blank and turned my own chamber threads and taper, bolt was reworked for scope clearance, completely different safety system, custom hardwood stock, a real trigger and accurizing work done everywhere I can find, and a weatherproof finish for deer hunting. This one started life as a gun that the owner hunted with in November in a pouring rain, put the wet gun into its case to go home, and when he got home the cased wet gun went up into the rafters in the garage, and stayed there until the next hunting season. The rust was so thick that you could not see any light at all thru the bore. By the time I got it cleaned out the rifling was barley visible as slightly rounded humps. It shot ~22 inch groups at 100 yds. On a good day, if I am doing my part (that does not seem to happen often anymore ) the gun will put 5 shots inside of a dime at 100 yards. There are a lot of deer that are not happy with that gun.

At least it was an easy fix for a change.

Chat has been working great for the most part, (Thanks again for bringing it back to life) a few minor glitches hear and there but nothing insurmountable. One thing that finally hit me today was that the are 2 chat rooms, A Lobby and a Technical Dissussion. I was not sure what a dissussion was. Like I should be talking about spelling........

I was looking for a left cover a long time ago. But I did aquire one way back then. This was several years ago.

I have always wanted to try that method..........

Pinwall is not a user name, it is the name of a company that parts out bikes. http://www.pinwallcycle.com

For all of the Maybe procrastinators. There is a Maybe option on the Calendar. Even a maybe is better than nothing for the planners, you can always change the maybe to a yes or no once your situations firm up.

Very Purdy, That may be a direction I head when/if I ever grow up. Especially in red........ Condor; I thought that @Carbon_One had a hitch on his?

With the engine off, put the bike in gear. Can you move the bike? If you can move the bike in gear then the piston was likely over extended and got stuck there holding the clutch in a disengaged position. I do not know if you could push the piston back from the other side of the bike to free it up. If you can not move the bike, then it is most likely a seized piston in the slave. Maybe pull harder on the clutch lever to brake it loose or try getting it to move from the other side of the engine. But even if you do get it to move, if it got stuck once then it is likely there is/was moisture in the system that has caused corrosion to stick the piston and you may still end up rebuilding or replacing the slave. But from your descriptions, since you are certain that everything is assembled correctly and you do have fluid movement to the slave, the only thing left is the slave.

OK, I'll mess with the old puc to. Diodes also have an interesting property to take into account. They will drop up to 1 volt per diode depending on what type they are. Unlike a resistor where there are formulas to calculate the voltage drop based on voltage and amperage, the diode just drops a fixed amount of voltage, common is 0.6V, it does not matter what the input voltage is, it will drop the same 0.6V. So that bridge rectifier that has 4 diodes in series can drop 2.4V.

Sounds interesting. Even in progress pics are a good thing.

Threatening Frosty. That is a dangerous track to follow. Lets see, time for a little math. Just how much snow would it take so that MI was still busy digging come MD................... and then add in some additional for a safety factor.................. All in the interest of protecting Frosty ya know............. Got the wheels spinning on the old kaleidoscope now............. Ohhhhhh, that is a big number..................................

I never claimed to have a clue either.

In a meeting one time the CEO of the company was explaining that he wears rubber gloves that go up to the elbow when he is working around the battery in his car. It takes less than one amp to kill ya and that car battery has 800 amps.................

Most of the TVs do have a sleep timer. Unfortunately most of them are also buried in the menus and are not a simple one or two button presses like in the good old days.

It could not have a question cuz it did not end with a question mark, therefor it is just a statement. Your last post did end with a question mark so it is getting an answer. Yes I did notice. No I do not have a good answer. But I am good at bad answers...........

How are the pins and splines in the rear wheel. I had a similar vibration that turned out to be dry rusty pins.

Really? It is spring time? I think we need to celebrate. I am just so happy i could dump a foot of snow somewhere............. Now where to aim the nozzles................??????????? Eeni meeny miny moe, North south east or west, Where should all of the snow go? Have to find the place that's best.

I like canned worms. Diodes are rated for current and voltage. When the diode is acting as a check valve to prevent backflow the current is zero (at least close enough to zero for this discussion) until it hits the max voltage rating where the voltage can overpower the diode and make it flow backwards. Still kind of like a check valve has a pressure rating, if you exceed it you can force back flow, so the amp rating does not matter for reverse current. When the diode has the power flowing thru it in the conducting direction is where the amp rating comes into play. The amp rating the maximum amps that can flow thru the diode in the conducting direction before it will overheat and let out the magic blue smoke that makes all things electric function.

There is a good chance that you can reuse the valve cover gaskets. They are rubber and therefore are reusable. The only issue will be how old are they and are they dried out and cracking. If they are still the original gaskets they might be to old to reuse. The black RTV might work for a while but it will not be long before the cracked come thru again.

This has me thinking now. I often put the last load in the dryer and go to bed or even leave the house. I have to rethink that now. Glad no one was hurt. The company I work for makes a cleaner specifically to get smoke odors out. It is used by professional carpet cleaners for after fire cleanup. It does an amazing job and has no odor of its own. The longer you wait the harder it is to get the smell out.

The class stopped because the front pressure was maxed out. IIRC the front pressure is 7-21 lbs and the rear is 7-85 lbs. So the front was maxed out and the rear still had a bit to go. Edit; Dang typed to slow again.................

Well @cowpuc you are right, a diode is like a check valve for electricity, allowing current to flow in one direction only. As Bongo mentioned brake and turn signals are a popular place for diodes. I have them in the lights that I put into the reflector on the trunk of my bike. I have that reflector wired to be turn signals, brake light and running light. Since it uses the same LED bulb for both brake and running, so you would use 2 diodes, one in the line from the brake and one in the line for the running light. If you were to hook both lines to the same bulb without the diodes, the running lights power would back feed into the brake circuit keeping the whole brake light circuit energized at all times. The diodes prevent this. The Diodes are used any time you need to combine 2 or more circuits but you do not want the circuits to back feed into each other. There are other places they come in handy also. Especially if you try to retrofit cheap LED bulbs into the turn signals.