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Well as long as you keep your promise.

I was gonna come but now I'm out ----I need pleasant dreams when I go to sleep not nightmares

Bongobobny is another one. He would be right into this thread

Really lovi'n this thread you started Patch. Really makes me wish I had the patience to put stuff like this together on a USB stick or Phone so I could play it through my truck motorcycle or portable radio. Its so hard to find these good old tunes on the plain old FM radio anymore. Keep her up buddy.

Can you at least keep your mits off that snow machine. I was just starting to get used to the idea of spring and here you go messing with that darn machine again. BTW sorry about your lay off. I know the feeling sort of. I am not laid off but may as well be since the Dr. ordered me to stay home due to me being at high risk should I catch this covid thing. He claims due to having contracted pneumonia 3 times because of my line of work my lungs may already be compromised not to mention the stent surgery. blood pressure and age. Not sure How the age thing figures into this. heck I am still a young man......

Just finished watching season 1 and am now heading into season 2. Since I am not working right now other that catching up on much overdue renovation work on the house, due to the covid thing. I have lots of time on my hands to catch up on her advantures. The part that gets me is how serene friendly and peaceful all these places are. I thought a lot of these place were worn torn shattered country's but you would not know from her videos.

You do have a point there. One of my biggest beefs have always been the fact that a lot of rules are made by those who think they know what they are dealing with instead of those who actually do know what there dealing with.

Seems odd she would fall off something like that, unless the beer box was removed. I have known passengers to fall asleep on bikes with top boxes and never fall off. But I guess its possible if she were to fall asleep and flop over sideways. But then you would think so many other variables would come into play including maybe loosing control of the bike.

When I was a kid the saying was if you got a $10 brain buy a $10 helmet if you got a $100 brain buy a $100 helmet. Also regarding some of the excuses people make for not wanting to wear a helmet and don't get me wrong, I totally get how nice it would be to ride without one face and hair in the wind and all that. But all I can say is in both off road and on road, I walked away from enough situations, were I was totally thankful that I was wearing a helmet at the time and on two occasions I would probably not be here if I had not been wearing one. Sure there are examples of cases were a person was harmed because of a helmet and may have been better without one but those cases are so extremely rare in comparison.

I agree: I also think it should be illegal to carry a passenger on a crotch rocket which usually have nothing more than what barely even qualifies as a passenger seat.

My full face is about 14 years old and so by rights and if I were to follow the rule of thumb I should have been looking for a new one some years back. But the helmet has not seen a lot of millage as I tend to prefer wearing my 3/4 helmet except in crappy weather, but the reasoning behind the rule of thumb is that the shell though it looks good would have gotten brittle with age and the foam inside starts to deteriorate. I to would prefer a fixed jaw but I find the modular helmet easier to get on when you have to wear glasses. I noteced some of the new helmets actually run a groove along the temple to allow room for the arms on the glasses.

Check out this link it is fairly informative on the Helmet. Personally I did not much care for it when I checked it out at the bike shop last year.

Sounds like maybe a stuck needle seat or float in the carb. Try gently tapping the carb in the area of the seat maybe even remove the fuel inlet line from the carb and see if you can shoot some carb cleaner in while tapping the carb. You can also try a bit of compressed air at low pressure but here you would need to use extreme caution. Also like Puc say's these things will run On 3 barrels. As a matter of fact they will run so well that unless you give it full throttle or your climbing a grade It is often barely noticeable that it's only running on 3 cyl's. If the bike is not firing at all and you have spark remove the air cleaner and check that the sliding tubes are not sticking which often happens when a bike sits for awhile. I have wet them down with some seafoam and then gently moved them back and forth with a screw drive to get them freed up. Also these guys get stubborn if you flood them. Take the plugs out and let her crank some to air out the cylinders. Be sure to blow around the plugs before you remove them. The area around the plug is a real catch basin for all sorts of stuff you do not want dropping into the cylinder. I once found a screw I thought went missing laying there. If she still wont fire dribble a bit of gas in through each carb opening if she fires then, well you will likely need to remove and service the carbs.

Oh Man I remmeber seeing that Mug! Hi Mark

Were Not gonna start gett'n snow in the middle of summer now are we.

mixed vegetable and baked potatoes I will wrap in foil but that's were it ends. Corn I do by leaving it in the husk presoak the whole thing in a bucket of cold water for 20 minutes than throw them on the top rack until the husk just starts to get burn marks makes for the best and juiciest corn on the cob you will ever taste. Just be careful you don't burn your fingers stripping the husk off, the silk gets really hot. When camping I bury them under a hot bed of coals you will hear them steaming when they are about done. Growing up I would steal a slice of raw steak from the kitchen when Mom put it out for dinner or if she prepared a bowl of hamburger to be made into patties I would grab a small hand full roll it into a ball and eat like an apple as I headed out the door to deliver my papers

You sure did a lot of tantalizing writing there but the one thing I did not see was an invite to dinner As far as meat sticking to the grill I have always found this to occur only if you tried to turn the meat too early and this goes specially true for burgers particularly homemade ones Burgers I tend to do on a medium to low heat or the top grill. I find they just come out so much juicer that way. My steak I sear on the highest heat I can get for about a minute and flip once and do the other side. I like my steaks nicely seared on the outside but somewhere between rare and raw on the inside. I have never precooked any meat prior to putting them on the grill. Same goes for sausages lots of people like to par boil them before the grill but I don't I prefer to cook em slow over low heat usually on the rotisserie. To keep the sausages from spinning on the spit I run a shish kabob stick between to adjacent sausages at right angles

So as stated earlier I have started watching Season-1 EP-1. I am now up to EPS 109. and besides really enjoying the scenery She has thoroughly managed to make me jealous. One interesting point is I can't get over how much she looks so much like one of my cousins and the fact that she is from the same town does make you wonder if she could be related. My cousins side of the family which is my fathers side of the family are notorious for being wanderer's. Considering my Family's roots go all the way back to the Vikings its understandable. My Brother Has quit his job and spent 3 years travailing the world and so has my second daughter. She even spent a year in Australia were she worked for a time on tall ships. Learned to scuba dive and got certified to 45 meter's and traveled the outback mountains on horseback. Not really sure how I missed out considering I was the one who always intended to travel and my brother was the one who always claimed he would never leave home.

We have several cast iron Pans. Most were very old and some very rusty pans I salvaged from somewhere at some point or other. The older quality pans usually have a smooth machined surface were some of the newer ones have a pebbly finish. In any case I sanded them down until as smooth as the cast iron would allow then wash them with soap and water dry them then and immediately oil them and slowly warm them up. but not so hot they can't be handled. I then oil them sparingly again and lay them upside down in the BBQ at 450 DEG. after 20 minutes I remove them let them cool some and re-coat with oil then return to the BBQ. I repeat this process about 3 times until I get a good stick free coating on the Pan. After that I clean only by wiping out, then wipe with a paper towel and oil before putting away. You can do the same treatment using your oven but its less smelly if you do it outside in BBQ. To minimize sticking I rarely turn the stove past medium often much less than that Usually once it melts butter it warm enough. For eggs hamburger and ground beef I seldom go much beyond Low To Medium low. It is more than enough heat and goes a long way to prevent sticking.

You can get kits with an assortment of motorcycle specific mounting options. https://www.rammount.com/shop-all/ram-x-grip/phone-mounts?facets I love mine even have one in the truck. Just make sure you order the right size for your phone Or tablet which ever you need. The smallest one is a tad too small the next one up should be about right for most of today's phones.

IMHO its the radio or cassette deck. Its just not playing loud enough As long as you don't misplace your thumb on the scale or finger in the meat slicer:innocent:

Glad to hear she is Ok. As far as giving up half the bed I DO NOT feel sorry for you. I am lucky if I get 1/8th of the bed.

I tried logging on three times last night but all I got was site not available.

Fell upon this link which got me wondering. I was always certain the venture was introduced in 83. So was there an 82 or not ?? https://global.yamaha-motor.com/show...tion/xvz1200d/

Outdoor shops like MEC or SAIL carry them as well.