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  1. ahoutzer
    I'm on my second SilverStar. The first one lasted 37,000 miles. This one has 12,000 miles on it so far.
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    35 months, 49,500. I need a good long trip to rack some up.
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    Ummm... because the Goldwing has six (in earlier years, four) cylinders sticking straight out the sides, down low. You can't get to that foot position with the Goldwing's engine. If you're going to put your feet in front of you on a 'Wing, then you have to put them high (knees all curled up) or spread 'em wide.
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    MP3 Player

    ahoutzer replied to Bubber's topic in Watering Hole

    Yes, I'm telling you they were wrong. No big surprise there. When you ask a clerk in a store about the features of some electronic gadget, you will often get wrong answers. In fact, it applies to motorcycles as well. Go to a Yammy dealer and ask some questions about the Royal Star Venture's audio system, and see what level of accuracy you get. There are some knowledgeable people and some who will be certain to do the research to get correct information before they answer you, but many will just give a quick response without regard to accuracy.
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    MP3 Player

    ahoutzer replied to Bubber's topic in Watering Hole

    I can confirm that! I have an iPod Classic -- one of the bigger kind with a hard disk in it. It makes me laugh when I am riding to work and, part of the way there, the iPod stops. Then I think, "It's too cold for the iPod to keep running, but I am still out here!" This has happened about ten miles into my ride to work, when it temps have been below the teens (like 12*F). It makes me feel like I should be getting myself inside if my electronic devices have frozen!
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    MP3 Player

    ahoutzer replied to Bubber's topic in Watering Hole

    Nonsense, Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. You want to put an MP3 song onto an iPod or rip a song from a CD onto an iPod -- so do it. iPods are not limited to the iTunes store. The iTunes software -- a free download -- provides a convenient way to manage a music library, to transfer music to iPods and to burn music files to CDs (among other things that the software does). The music files can come from anywhere, in a variety of formats. The iTunes Store sells music files that are encoded in formats that can only be used in iPods, and that have limitations on how they can be copied, in accordance with the demands of the music companies that own the licensing rights to the music. iPods are not limited to music from the iTunes store. The free iTunes software is the easiest way to load iPods with music, podcasts, etc. that have been obtained from anywhere.
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    No, but I do applaud your decision to put the rotors back on. I wouldn't go anywhere without mine.
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    So, yeah, I'm wondering what the big deal is. It's warm today -- 40*F here now -- and nobody bought me a car, so I'll be heading out in 40*F in the rain.
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    I just ride every day.
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    I wanted to make some wise crack about y'all northerners having it so cole that you're contemplating running kerosene heaters on your bikes...
  11. ahoutzer
    Speed limit.
  12. ahoutzer
    My MacBook Pro goes to work and other places in my trunk every day. I don't shut it down -- just close the cover and let it sleep. I've been doing this daily for over eight years with two PowerBooks and a MacBook Pro. For connectivity anywhere, to get eMail and web sites, I also have an iPhone. It will connect either over Wifi or just plain cell signal -- high speed or low speed, whatever is available.
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    That's why I asked the question: were you speeding? If you see the flashing lights and look down and see that you were doing 53 or 58 in a 45 zone, then you know you were breaking the law -- pay the consequences and resolve to do right. Don't try to get away with a wrong that you know you were doing, by raising doubt about whether the officer's equipment is accurate enough to prove it, or by raising against the officer an accusation of bias. If you looked down and saw 45 but the officer says you were doing more, then one of you has faulty equipment and you should fight the ticket as well as determine whose equipment it wrong, so it can be fixed.
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    thom440, you left out one fact: were you speeding? If you were speeding, didn't you decide to break the law? If you broke the law, shouldn't there be some consequence? No one on this thread so far has addressed this. Is everyone here above the law? Are we all supposed to slide by the law as long as we don't do it often? "Yes, Judge, but this was the first murder/rape/robbery/theft that I have been caught at in 27 years, so you should let me off." Should we slide by as long as we only slightly break the law? "Judge, the person I killed wasn't very important", "Judge, it was just a dumpy little convenience store that I robbed -- it was asking for it.", "Judge, the helmet was left on the bike unlocked and unguarded, so I took it -- that's not so bad, right?" IF you broke the law, then pay the consequences and don't break it any more. IF you did not break the law, then fight the ticket. In these two cases, you will be doing the right thing. What else is there?
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    I use a 3/4 helmet with a wool scarf wrapped around the back of my head, over my ears and crossed over my face, covering my nose. There is no face shield on my 3/4 helmet, and I don't need one - at least not down to 12*F (coldest I've ever ridden in). Every time I exhale, the scarf catches the warm moist air and spreads it over my face, and the air exits upward over my eyes. Prevents chapped lips, keeps eyes warm and moist, keeps nose warm, cures the roomatiz, etc. Only thing is that it probably wouldn't work well with a headset mic, but I rarely use one.
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    Wow. I would have to walk about eight miles round trip to get my son from school on Thursdays, when my wife is at work and has the van. The bus would be an alternative, but it takes the bus over an hour to get to our house over its circuitous route -- what a waste.
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    We live in South Carolina, just south of the North Carolina border. We usually get one snow and one ice storm per year, each lasting only one day. Thirty miles north of us (and 3,000 feet higher in elevation) in Highlands, NC they have much more snow and small ponds ice over there. I don't know anything about salt. We use sand here on those two bad days.
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    Monday through Friday, I get on the bike at 5:40AM and ride to church (I'm a lay pastor). At 7:00 AM I ride to work. At 1PM, ride home for lunch. At 2PM, ride back to work. At 5PM ride home. After supper, ride to a church meeting or choir or do a visit. Ride home when done. This is on the calmest of days. Often I ride to several sites at work each day. Saturday schedules are less consistent. Sunday has as many rides, but to different locations than MTWRF. Exactly how many times per day should I be lying on the floor checking my tire pressure?
  19. ahoutzer
    Remember the B.C. comic strips where the Spook was shown hanging on the wall in the dungeon? This rider looks just like that. So, that's comfortable? That's cool?
  20. ahoutzer
    .......you won't let your passenger in the car until you are settled and balanced in the driver seat .......you try to fold up the passenger floor boards before backing up, so they won't get in the way of your legs .......you arrive at your destination, but your brain won't let you 'dismount' the car yet because it knows that you haven't put the side stand down
  21. ahoutzer
    I put a rag over it and grip it with a set of vise-grips.
  22. ahoutzer
    About 14K so far, with two months to go. I don't put her away. If I did, how would I get to work, church, anywhere?
  23. ahoutzer
    There are four seasons here: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. What that has to do with riding, I don't know. I have to go to work year around, so how would I get there if not by riding? It's too far to walk.
  24. ahoutzer
    I'm in there with DragonRider and SaltyDawg: ride to work every day. Lowest temp was 12*F, several times last year. Like DragonRider, it snows here once per year and is soon gone. On those days, no one goes to work because we have no snow plows and no one knows how to drive in even one inch of snow. We also usually get a one-day ice storm -- no one goes out. My only electric gear are gloves. Just bundle up. My ride to work is only about a dozen miles, so it's barely enough time to feel the cold, most days.
  25. ahoutzer
    I noticed the difference. There was more vibration in the grips without the weights. Also, there was no place to rest my right hand when using cruise control. In order to fit the weights on with the Iso Grips, I used a Dremel tool to increase the size of the hole in the end of the grips. This was a while ago, but it seems to me that I may have also cut off part of the throttle grip sleeve.
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