Marcarl

Thanks to Run-n-bare for sharing this with us: British news paper salutes Canada . . . this is a good read. It is funny how it took someone in England to put it into words... Sunday Telegraph Article the UK wires: Salute to a brave and modest nation - Kevin Myers, 'The Sunday Telegraph' LONDON : Until the deaths of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan , probably almost no one outside their home country had been aware that Canadian troops are deployed in the region. And as always, Canada will bury its dead, just as the rest of the world, as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly everything Canada ever does.. It seems that Canada 's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance. A fire breaks out, she risks life and limb to rescue her fellow dance-goers, and suffers serious injuries. But when the hall is repaired and the dancing resumes, there is Canada, the wallflower still, while those she once helped Glamorously cavort across the floor, blithely neglecting her yet again. That is the price Canada pays for sharing the North American continent with the United States , and for being a selfless friend of Britain in two global conflicts. For much of the 20th century, Canada was torn in two different directions: It seemed to be a part of the old world, yet had an address in the new one, and that divided identity ensured that it never fully got the gratitude it deserved. Yet it's purely voluntary contribution to the cause of freedom in two world wars was perhaps the greatest of any democracy.Almost 10% of Canada 's entire population of seven million people served in the armed forces during the First World War, and nearly 60,000 died. The great Allied victories of 1918 were spearheaded by Canadian troops, perhaps the most capable soldiers in the entire British order of battle. Canada was repaid for its enormous sacrifice by downright neglect, it's unique contribution to victory being absorbed into the popular Memory as somehow or other the work of the 'British.' The Second World War provided a re-run. The Canadian navy began the war with a half dozen vessels, and ended up policing nearly half of the Atlantic against U-boat attack. More than 120 Canadian warships participated in the Normandy landings, during which 15,000 Canadian soldiers went ashore on D-Day alone. Canada finished the war with the third-largest navy and the fourth largest air force in the world. The world thanked Canada with the same sublime indifference as it had the previous time. Canadian participation in the war was acknowledged in film only if it was necessary to give an American actor a part in a campaign in which the United States had clearly not participated - a touching scrupulousness which, of course, Hollywood has since abandoned, as it has any notion of a separate Canadian identity. So it is a general rule that actors and filmmakers arriving in Hollywood keep their nationality - unless, that is, they are Canadian. Thus Mary Pickford, Walter Huston, Donald Sutherland, Michael J. Fox, William Shatner, Norman Jewison, David Cronenberg, Alex Trebek, Art Linkletter and Dan Aykroyd have in the popular perception become American, and Christopher Plummer, British. It is as if, in the very act of becoming famous, a Canadian ceases to be Canadian, unless she is Margaret Atwood, who is as unshakably Canadian as a moose, or Celine Dion, for whom Canada has proved quite unable to find any takers. Moreover, Canada is every bit as querulously alert to the achievements of its sons and daughters as the rest of the world is completely unaware of them. The Canadians proudly say of themselves - and are unheard by anyone else - that 1% of the world's population has provided 10% of the world's peacekeeping forces. Canadian soldiers in the past half century have been the greatest peacekeepers on Earth - in 39 missions on UN mandates, and six on non-UN peacekeeping duties, from Vietnam to East Timor, from Sinai to Bosnia. Yet the only foreign engagement that has entered the popular non-Canadian imagination was the sorry affair in Somalia , in which out-of-control paratroopers murdered two Somali infiltrators. Their regiment was then disbanded in disgrace - a uniquely Canadian act of self-abasement for which, naturally, the Canadians received no international credit. So who today in the United States knows about the stoic and selfless friendship its northern neighbour has given it in Afghanistan ? Rather like Cyrano de Bergerac , Canada repeatedly does honourable things for honourable motives, but instead of being thanked for it, it remains something of a figure of fun. It is the Canadian way, for which Canadians should be proud, yet such honour comes at a high cost. This past year more grieving Canadian families knew that cost all too tragically well. Lest we forget.

Most times when on a ride and we stop for coffee, I walk left and everbody else walks right,,, just couldn't understand it???????

Sounds to me like you're right into it Bummer, keep up the interesting work.

As the saying goes: Absence makes the heart grow founder,, so I guess that means we love our scoots more, love our riding time more, love our riding partners more, and maybe because of the cold just generally love more. Now no need to go into all the intimate details of that statement, but you may just get the point. I hear that practice makes purrfect and I'm not perfect yet, but am practicing.

Don't go rushing around and buy the first one you like. Make some offers and let them die if necessary, there's lots to choose from and more on the way, and the prices aren't going to be going up soon. Our family is in the moving stage right now, 4 to 5 of us looking to move, phone lines get hot at times.

Not very safe indeed. Too bad you ride a 2nd gen, if you was riding a 1st gen, you could hunt them down and give them a piece of your mind, don't know if that would leave anything for the next round, but in my case it wouldn't matter, they'd get it anyways. I thought about the suggestion of riding somewhat haphazardly, back and forth between tracks but that would be even more dangerous.

This can be aweful frustrating, just go it one day at a time, and depend on the guidance from above, then you'll never go wrong. Bad things still happen, that's life, but help will be given to those who ask. Ask and it shall be given, seek and you shall find, knock and the door will be opened.

Tell him in easy terms that you were not hapy with the situation and leave it be,,,,until next time,,,,,watch him close and if he pulls it again,,, walk up to him, look him in the eye, and point blank tell him that you won't ride with him again, unless he is in front of you!!

Generally there is enough slack to pull things together, if you do that don't make things snug, if that happens you'll need to extend the length somewhat.

Glad to hear you made it through all right, now you are more experinced, but maybe not the experience we are looking for. I think pressure has a lot to do with thread \ tire life. Too soft and you heat things up too much and wear the edges, too hard and you burn out the center for early failure. My recommendation is to start with what is recommended by the tire manufacturer according to load and then adjust as you watch the wear of the threads. The nice thing about running gravel (even just a parking lot) is that you can look at your tire to see how much of the width of the thread you are using and judge things from there.

When you get to that point in the life of your scoot, just clean it all up and solder them together. Make sure you provide plenty of insulation and you should be good to go. That connector is often the problem for stator failure and may even be your only problem at this point. You can try these guys to see if they have something for you, although they don't list one. http://www.rmstator.com/en/index.php?page=4/Motorcycles/Yamaha

You'd be amazed at how much a cup of coffee and a donut each can add up. Cut the extras and put away as much as you can.

Keep the spirit young'un, you'll make it one day at a time. Good to read your comments. Keep us updated. Carl

I didn't even think that would cross somebody's mind.

Ya that 'should' work. Marcarl's is normally the Saturday after the Victoria Day weekend so that makes it the 23rd this year. Now we'll have something to do if the forecast is bad for either weekend. Guess I won't be going to one or the other,,, now I have to choose,,, man that's going to be hard.

It's worth the price of the tools to take the wheels off yourself. Jack and a couple of sockets. Makes it also better because you don't have to wait 3 weeks before they have time to do the change for you. Time taken for taking the wheels off and on is about 1.5 hours max.

So far as I have noticed, anytime someone wants to discuss something other than MC it's done in the watering hole. That's nice because I get to read the thread and then leave it if I want. I might learn something and then again I might learn to stay away and not learn any more. If that were 'hidden' I would not see these threads and so would not see more of what else our family is made of. To offer up disagreements in a thread is OK by me, as long as it stays civil, but, if and when it gets nasty, I'd just as soon we stick to the rules and turf it out. As said before, a family has issues and disagreements, and different ways of looking at things, and that's OK, but let's remember why we joined this group in the first place: it's who we are and the rules we abide by. If we make a change, that's OK, but it needs to be for the better of all concerned.

Three white wires, under the left side panel, about half ways down. Take it apart and decide if it's an issue,,, don't just look at them,,, take the connector apart.

Had that problem this spring,,, drove me nuts,,,that's why I am what I am. Did everything you could think of, lub the linkage, checked the cables, worked on the cruise and then gave up, because I had sync'd the carbs and that just wouldn't be it,,,wellllllllll,,,it was. Got right back to square one on the carbs. Set #2 so that it closed,,,completely. Then did the rest of the carbs in order,,,,,,,,,,,,guess what,,,,,,,,,runs beautifully,, no more problems. Need more info on that, just ask.

GeeWiz, can you all talk about something else than work? I'm going to another thread.

And if you ever want them back,,, no problem,, use the same protocol to do that. Will that make you happy??????? We're here to make you content.

And here all along I thought you was smarter than me.

Try getting helmet holders to replace the screws, that way you can hang your helmet there as well. CruiserCustomizing.com maybe be able to help,, or BigBikeParts may have what you need.

Don't worry too much dear boy, the actual number of the beast is 666, no more no less, as can be found on everything you buy today. Found but not seen.

Good point. Our tanks are small as compared to a cage tank, which we are all used to. So it becomes important to fill up at the same place, same pump, same exact parking position, same air in the shocks, so that the scoot has the same lean, side to side and froward to backward, as the time before. A small amount of fuel difference will make a big change in mileage calculations.