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So Brad when sleeping in the tub do you prefer hard water or soft water:big-grin-emoticon:
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thank your lucky stars is about all I say, speacially when your daughter is with you.
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better put that one man tent down too ------Just in case Naugh-T don't respect your privacy:rotfl:
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Forget the hitch--thats a lazy mans ground and very unreliable. The bare pin on your trailer connector coming from the bike is ground , clamp a good test light to it and then tuoch either the pos on your battery or another known reliable hot wire, if the light glows bright your ground connection is good. Now staying connected to the ground pin test all your other pins for tail brake and signal with the same test light. If everything works you know the hook up on the bike is good. Now you trailer is fiberglass so chance,s are nothing is grounded to the frame, each light will have a ground wire going directly to it from a splice, which will have one wire coming from the plug. Now this plug being the opposite of the one on the bike will have one covered pin and the rest bare. the covered pin is the ground pin on the trailer side. some times the wire coming from this pin instead of going directly to the lights will simply just be attached to the frame.( A spot that often looses connection with age) and the ground wires from the lights will be connected to nearest piece of metal frame. another source of trouble. Otherwise it will just run to a splice and from the splice go directly to all the lights. The splie depending on how it was done can often be a source of trouble. One last thing if your trailer only has red lights on the back and your bike has amber rear turn signals then you need a conversion module wired into the bike. If your bike already has the conversion box it may have decided to take a vacation perminent like.
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Ontario has had that law now for awhile as well. Its not well known but get an officer on a bad day and you will be educated
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Tooo Late you already put the idea in his head
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you mean to say you get paid to stand around rubbing your stocking feet on a carpet just so you can zap people with your finger tip-----COOOLLL :thumbsup2:
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Technically according to Ontario law,on any vehicale, road lights (passing lights) are to only go on with high beams, and fog lights are only to go on with low beams. However it seems this law is sometimes overlooked in the case of motorcycles. For those who don't know the difference road lights are basically flood lights while fog lights have a narrow horizontal beam.
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That is a nice looking ride Charlie. Good thing you are getting older though, that way you won't miss that 1st gen power quite as much as us younger fella's would :big-grin-emoticon::big-grin-emoticon:
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Saddly because I spent so much time looking through my garage for stuff I should have had at hand and did not because either I misplaced it or my son (who now knows how to use tools, mostly Dads) made off with it, It totally slipped my mind to take pic's while we worked. We installed his road lights as well as a trailer hookup which required a conversion box due to the fact that the bike has amber turn signals independent of the brake lights, while the trailer only has red tail and brake/signal lights. On the second gen there is a connector under the seat by the battery. This is were we tapped into for the lighting mounting the box on the plastic behind the battery. From there we just ran the trailer cord out to the hitch, hidding it behind the chrome trim piece. For the passing lights we simply wired directly back to the battery and mounted a weather proof switch in the tank trim piece. Dogman will have to take and post some pic's I quess
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Your welcome Dave. I enjoyed helping out.
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Ok so wether the toilet paper comes over the front of the roll or down the back of the roll, will this determine which side of the square your finger must come through.
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Okay that was a long tail. Obviously a few minor distractions. What I wanna know is did you have FUNN
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Comfort Inn \Maintainance Day \ Oberlin\ June 19
saddlebum replied to Marcarl's topic in Watering Hole
How about a survey to see who camps at Don's and who is staying at a motel:thumbsup2: -
What !!! were???
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Mmm avon say's cosmetic huh! Maybe we should be talking to dunlop and other manufactures instead of Avon . Let them know that they need to get with it and start displaying the new cosmetic hair line cracks. I am sure it would do wonders for there sales. Whites walls are out, Hairline cracks are in. :rotfl:
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Hey Condor, on your list you put me down as having 1000 miles on my tires, instead of 100 miles. You probably thought it was a misprint but it wasn't. One hundred miles and only a few months is all there was on those tires when I noticed hairline cracks all over the side walls.
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And besides the mass majority of dogs are great with kids and often make good baby sitters too. As for the kids I think they should all grow up with dogs its good for their character.
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How do I get brake pistons out of caliper?
saddlebum replied to jonsmyth's topic in General Tech Talk
or brake clean. thats the way i do it also and because grease does not compress like air the risk of a flying missle is reduced -
That is real nice Dave. Looking forward to see the live version.
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I installed 2 venoms on my bike in NOV 2008. In MAR 2009 after reading on the site here abouit the cracking I went out to check mine and found they were cracking. At this point the bike had been parked for the winter and only had less than 100 miles (ONE HUNDRED MILES)on them, the tibs were still on the tread. The DOT yr stamp was 05/08 9The dealer replaced them without hesitation and was even willing to sustitute dunlop EII's in there place at my request.
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I installed 2 venoms on my bike in NOV 2008. In MAR 2009 after reading on the site here abouit the cracking I went out to check mine and found they were cracking. At this point the bike had been parked for the winter and only had less than 100 miles on them, the tibs were still on the tread. The DOT yr stamp was 05/08. The dealer replaced them without hesitation and was even willing to sustitute dunlop EII's in there place at my request.
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Yeh but did you really want Charlie to know you were checking up on him. You said most people which means sometimes you do hide your number
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35 years as a professional Licenced Ontario: Auto Mechanic, Truck and Coach Mechanic, Heavy Equipment Mechanic, Propane Installers Certicate 3rd generation growing up in the construction industry working with my Dad building custom homes and doing renovations and tinker with just about anything else I can get my hands on. Now if we all could turn all that tallent into making money the way dentist's lawyers and doctor's do.
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pictures of my painted 86 venture from russ
saddlebum replied to Grandpagak's topic in Watering Hole
I'm impressed