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2and3cylinders

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  1. Oy vey, another oil thread... Experimentation is the only Way Tire maker and model of course play a big part though. I have a TPMS and the cold hot disparity front/ rear is crazy, and relative not that accurate. You must verify with a decent digital or even a good analog Mechanical giage.
  2. This is the best Honda (Italian) Red ! And yes, #2 is the 15 FJ red, with the 06 Mazda 3S red close behind. Then theirs the 76 Yamaha RD400 red, 81 Kawi GPZ550D1 red, and of course my 61 Matchless G80CS red... But the 21 T9 red will grow on you
  3. Barn doors, intermediate & halfsize Like winter parka, spring / fall jacket & a wind breaker
  4. My Hit-Air vest is made in Nippon. They have equestrian models too. Makes sense to me. Why is this so complicated? It's beaten to death. I thought it was a April Fool's Day joke. Some young Canadian YouTube wonder who rides a bike just OK thinks thinks he's extremely smart despite the fact he never knew the world before the internet let alone computers. They didn't have no stinken puters! They did what JFK said they would. John Glen went up a Atlas missile liquid-fueled 10-foot or so diameter 85-foot long flying beer can with a Centaur solid-propellent 2nd stage tacked on. They were still using them almost monthly as launch vehicles in the 70s when the same guys (who also made B-24s and PBYs 30 years prior at the Lindberg Field plant and were producing the Shuttle payload bay) made sure the original GD Convair Tomahawk cruise missile enable the 3rd gen later made their way to Sandam's party palace. Encoding for punch cards was based on simple 0 / 1 sheets you'd get back in maybe a week. It was faster for us boys to use slide rules, adding machines and 13 columnar pads with 0.5 mm mechanical pencils, then after spending a week in the shop developed hands-on the means and methods, had to make the machines that made the material we then tested using apparatus incorporating .0001" dial indicators along with spring and air powered pressure gauges. For acceleration factors, we fixed actual gimbal mounted gyroscopes to determine force and it's distribution at various grab your ass intensities on a descending graph scale so we could refine the production of the material; basic Industrial Revolution design, industrial, manufacturing engineering. Then we had to design and prototype the machines to finally produce the components, subassemblies and major assemblies with these fun new composites materials. We called them advanced composites. It's called doing it analog. Whether at the design end or user end Anything you can do to increase your odds, including redundancy, is The Way as they said recently. Torture testing in practical ways, like dragging a pair of pants filled with a sand gypsum mix behind a pickup truck in their print advert... For example, we just used calibrated sand bags to load a F106 incrementally while watching the mechanical dial indicators until we heard something crack. Only later were stain gauges epoxied to the substrate and their bi-pole leads individually run back to a "peg-board" that interfaced later back in the lab to eventually digitize stress until failure printed out on graph paper. The 101 & 106 wings were metal bonded together in the 1960s. We recertified their air structures 3 times in the 70s... Not rocket science but we tried to make ourselves appear like we were... My 79 Sirocco was way ahead of its time. Hurst shifter, Bilstein shocks & springs, sway bars big throttle body and tweaked mechanical VW CIS FI. I loved embarrassing 914s and 16s up Mt. Palomar... On the way down my brakes glowed red. Still was faster up on my Matchless G80 cafe. We made ultralights in Dept. 018 and passed the subassemblies over the south 40 fence at the Kearny Mesa plant.
  5. I'm not sure about generation 3, but you may still get the code which has to be cleared by a Yamaha dealer unless you have ann OCB CAN dongle adapter cable and a dongle. 🤠
  6. I'm going to sound as my youngest daughter says like a grumpy old white man Let's call his vid a joke and stop being so esoteric scientific and cynical and move on🤫
  7. Jay as usual I agree with you Back in the day protection was a joke the helmets were made out of compressed Cork and shellacked cotton My first helmet was a full face showy the first they imported into the United States not my helmet but the model Today that helmet would also be a joke but it was Miles ahead of anything else at the time a pun I'm not so sure your analogy about us world war II helmets being totally correct because they weren't worth s*** really as far as stopping a bullet they were good for heating up water to shave in and all the other things they did with them like digging holes but today's standard US helmet is obviously a lot better but still you have to weigh protection versus wearability that included a pun I wear everything I can and I'm constantly evaluating my personal protection and also have upgraded all my armor a couple of times Biggest problem is I can't fit into a lot of my good stuff because I've got to lose just a couple pounds 😭 You're right about bouncing cuz you don't do that well once you get older I'm evaluating getting an electronic vest rather than my ripcord model It's all a matter of money and whether you have health insurance or better life insurance for your family
  8. Does this mean my coal fired boiler in my basement is dated technology? 😁
  9. CAN'T BE TOO CONSPICUOUS! https://www.customled.com/products/2019-2020-yamaha-tracer-900-integrated-led-tail-light
  10. Are the 2 images of the same screen? Maybe it's different perspective but the lower screen looks bigger?
  11. It is a fantasy without a few depictive verifiable photos...
  12. I've only got size elevens or so I've got to look at mine again now that I see yours because Maybe I just had to shorten the bolt thanks
  13. Believe it or not this works great and easy to read for my tired eyes I use this app to monitor phone CPU temperature which can go up behind a big windscreen on a hot day I have a hardwired twin USB A Power Jack on the phone mount. I only use one with a direct USB C into the phone
  14. I have a soft film forming thread sealant on the caliper bleed nipples as well as the master cylinder bleed nipple I don't get leakage there and can hold neg 24 " mercury I'm anal about spilling anything on painted surfaces but very rarely even have a drip Once I'm set up it's a 20 minute operation front and rear with the MityVac this last time I added manual final check and it helped a little I think but it's hard to gauge (pun)
  15. What lever is that I've been looking for one I tried another and it wouldn't work waste of money but it was like 20 bucks I also have the toe peg rubber with the flat side and my ADV foot pegs I like the pegs a lot because they're wider provide more support and don't vibrate
  16. The little 750 can lift the front end because it's simple maybe dumb but because it's dumb you can play with it more Anyone ridden the 750 or even the 700?
  17. Well the other day I flushed out the brake system front and rear using the mity vac. And it felt as firm as usual. Then I did the manual bleed but still under vacuum. IMO either technique requires a very quick suck / pull (but not pulling full stroke so the piston bottoms out in the "crud zone") then closing the port as quickly / sharply as possible without over tightening which will damage the tapered valve seat. The added manual "top off" maybe did firm it up even more. I did not bother at that bleeding at the front mc port. Stroke seems shorter as well. BTW I use an elastic band rather than a zip tie overnight. I think a zip tie is too firm, and a slicone elastic wrist band offers plenty of even pressure. I haven't ridden it yet because I still have a few more maintenance tasks to complete and hope the longer Barnett clutch cable will be here in another week. Tough to ride without a clutch. I'm not sure when I can ride but 🤞 Pics of my means & methods of how I suspend mity vac below caliper bleed port that permits hands-free bleeding. I suck out the mc fluid reservoir and fill it with fresh DOT 4 synthetic before I start.
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