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Had feelings once. Then I went to work as a race official, and I got over that. LOL Thanks Don for the reminder of what this place and others like it are all about. If you want to get the agreeable luke warm responses that agree with your opinion, best you dont ask others. I always think I have to read thru reply's, sort it out for what seems correct or sounds rite and do some research.

LOL First pic, and I'm goin "Hey that must be Puc's other bike"

Up and down weather seems to be what I may get. Certainly am going to have to wait until a lot closer to going to worry about weather. The weekend we are looking at would be St Patrick's. So from what I read it will be packed over weekend. I am thinking about Wed nite to Fri nite.

Thanks, yea we have been to Savannah quite a few times. Stayed out in Pooler once or twice. Went to the Air Force museum they have there, that is interesting. I was kind of wondering on weather. I would really like to ride the bike up, but if its like 5 days of rain and 2 of not, I think it will stay home. Riding in rain for 500 miles is not my idea of fun.

Well the wife and I have 3 days paid for with a hotel resort thing we have to take soon. So next time I have enough time off to use it we are looking March 13-20 I think is the dates. I'm trying to see if they can get us rooms in one of the middle Keys Islamorada or what ever is the next one down (CRS kickin in) My other thought was Savannah as I know they can get rooms there. Not exactly downtown more out by Pooler or the I95 area. I'm thinking about riding the bike if the weather will cooperate. Anybody got an idea how the weather is in Savannah that time of year? WE usually go there in Oct

The wife and I came thru BG today around 1:30 or 2. I was thinking about you all but didnt think you guys were still there.

Seems I remember a switch like that on the Britt bikes from like late 60's early 70" maybe.

If I look around I might find the J&M headsets I had before changing out to Sena

OH man I will probably get whacked on this deal but here goes. I have been working as a instructors assistant @ our local college in the auto technology course. I have had 2 batches of "introduction to auto mechanics" students. You can not teach mechanical skills IMOP. If a guy dont have the skills he will struggle. He might learn enough to change his own oil and keep his rig going, but being a tech is a world different now then when I came up thru the ranks. WAY WAY more electrical knowledge and understanding is now required. Even down here in Fla where we ride year around shops are doing more and more work on the side by side things and jet ski. I looked into going to work at a shop not to far from me, fair pay (not what I think a guy with 40 yr mechanical experience shhould get) When I initialy talked to the HR person we talked about hours, and what days etc. Some shops you are expected to work 5.5 days. So not much time for riding or much else. From what I have seen you are right the pay courses are expensive. MMI and the like. A friends son graduated last year from whatever one is in Daytona last year. His "bonus" when he graduated was he had a good start on a set of tools. 4 moths after graduation he had like 2 offers for like 8-9 bucks an hour. Auto wise a dealership is probably where the money is. But I dont think I could work in one. I would say I am a mechanic and fabricator. I have worked on aircraft and race cars too long to be in a dealer. I enjoy making and fabrication to much. But you talk about a hard industry to get into, racing is it my friend.

So did you transfer over the heated grips also.

Some Yankee left the dang door open too long.

Yea pretty easy for sure. Undo the clamps on the hoses to the air boxs. A couple of 10mm head bolts to un-mount from brackets. Then I think its like 6 screws to take the the halves apart.

I have had it happen a couple times on different bikes. I have made the end just slightly egg shaped and then red or green lock tite it back in with same method described, a tap with mallet or block of wood.

Man there looks like enough heavy gauge steel there to aim the headlight to the sky. The weight of the steel would scare me into being over weight. what did ya pull with that thing? A 5th wheel?

Dont forget to pack a pencil with you, so you can rewind them things when they get wound up in the deck.

OK sport glad you found the reason they dont light. BUT do you know why it blew the fuse? A relay is the way to go. While LED will not draw as much power, a relay is just a safe way to wire it up.

If your lucky the holder is still in tact. On my other computer I have pictures of mine. UGLY melted distorted I was surprised it still worked.

Yea they dont know how to make no motor vehicles in Michigan. Geeze I mean heck they would have to train machine tool and die guys, machinists, press operators. Oh wait you guys use to have some of them didnt ya?

The craftsmanship of the bikes was interesting. Some of the design thoughts etc. But the actual bikes? Worthless unless you wanted to make a coffee table or ride the 2 blocks to the local watering hole. A little inside info on those types of shows, gas monkey , those types is they are somewhat subsidized buy the TV show. I also think they over estimated their market/growth. Maybe if they would have started doing some custom baggers instead of just the bar hoppers......... But like a lot of shows I think it just ran its course. I would much rather them have renewed "Whats in the Barn.

Sounds like your military retirement is way better than ours. Still I am fortunate to have served with the guys and gals I did. Was good life. Certainly not anywhere the retirement pay your looking at.

Sooo how ugly is this car? 2016 camaro proto type

I dont recall ever naming one. Seems their names change from day to day depending on how they treat me. LOL

I thought you had found something amiss there at the restaurant. Poor gas will do it. Especially now with the alcohol added, if it has a bit more moisture it dont burn good. I have been sort of cheating on the Vic. I think it calls for hi test, but I have been experimenting with mid grade a bit to see if it makes a difference. Guess I really need to read the owners manual on this thing for stuff like that and getting radio presets done. LOL I put some dates over in the meet and great thread we had.

Good to hear all got back. Capt D: you had asked me a couple reasons I made the switch. You had asked brakes and I said not really. Then the more I thought about it, brakes were a big consideration. I wanted something with ABS. I liked the looks of the Victory, classic, but with some edge to it, sort of swoopy I guess. Reach for my shorter leg span. Fuel injection, no sync carbs anymore. We sort of discussed a meet @ Daytona during bike week. That date is March 4 thru 13th. The weekend of the 12th-13th is open for us, the previous week we have commitment. Another date we might want to pencil in would be Leesburg which is April 22-24

It was good chow. No hot dogs though. Had had Brisket sandwich.