This weekend

The best layed plans and all that.

This weekend, bad weather was to pass us to the south. I have plans to
swap the OEM silencers on my FJR1300 for a set of D&D cans
(http://www.fjrowners.ws/discus/messages/2/7351.jpg). As part of that
project I was going to do a "before" and "after" audio recording that
included both a static and a ride-by recording of the two different
setups. I even have a dyno tune session scheduled for Monday or
Tuesday! (woo hoo).

Knowing is was going to be cool this weekend, I even stocked up on
kerosene for the big-btu heater I have in the garage. I also have
several selections planned for smoking during the project. A bundles
churchill that is one of hundreds I got from Richard S about 2 years ago
(that never seem to run out), a R&J maduro robusto that I got at this
year's Dallas PDTC, and a AF Hemingway Signature. (Ya gots to keep these
projects fun!)

Everything is all ready to go.

This morning I awoke to: http://www.fjrowners.ws/discus/messages/2/7440.jpg

 

D&D sucks! Wait 'till it gets rusty after a coupla seasons.

Oh no wait... they don't have rust in Texas. Guess that's why they
rust up here!

I prefer LPG. Yeah, more spendy way to heat but the kero leaves a
stink and there's ultrafine particulates to contend with.

Between that and the stogies you ain't doing yourself any favors!

I went from smoking stogies like mad to wanting to wretch at the
stench of them. Go figure.

 

For those who are currious about all things MOTO, I have a new report on
line about a recent modification. You can find it under the Mods
section of the web link in my sig block or you can go straight to it at:

http://www.bikes-n-spikes.org/mods/cans/cans.html

 

D&D sucks! Wait 'till it gets rusty after a coupla seasons.

You musta bought the cheap ones. I got the stainless steel version.

 

Better that than we we get down south. all of your snow storms never
make it down here, but if they do..it turns into weekend-cheating
rain. See if it did snow, we would get out of work/school but that
almost never happens. Just nothing but good-for-nothing rain

 

It all turned out fine since I was able to wrap up my planned project
for the weekend.

http://www.bikes-n-spikes.org/cans/cans.html

 

Never bought D&D!

Big whoop. It's the cheesy chrome plated rivet ring that rusts. The
internals do as well. Stainless don't mean diddly. The cheaper grades
do not handle road salt and exhaust acids at all... not that you
Texans would know about the practice of salting anything other than
beef jerky!

 

And that's what makes you the expert? Okay. Got it.

Road salts? You mean that stuff they use where people only ride 6 months
or less per year?
--

Mark Johnson, Fort Worth, Texas; IBA #?; CM #1; DoD #2021
2003 FJR1300 "E²"

http://www.bikes-n-spikes.org

 

http://www.bikes-n-spikes.org/mods/cans/cans.html

I thought so too.

--

Mark Johnson, Fort Worth, Texas; IBA #?; CM #1; DoD #2021
2003 FJR1300 "E²"

http://www.bikes-n-spikes.org

 

No, what makes me the expert is riding for over a decade and being
surrounded by squiddies during most of that time who like D&D cause
it's the loudest pipe on planet earth.

Unless they've recently changed their manufacturing the endcaps start
to rust where the weld is and so does the rivet band. I've seen more
than my share thanks.

Glad to oblige!

Huh? I went riding on Sat. Realisitically speaking you can ride almost
all of December and Jan/Feb have a few spotty days here and there. If
you're a diehard you can ride during those times too since we didn't
have snow for more than a few days and it melts fairly quickly but my
personal cutoff is when it dips below freezing. Ain't a problem cause
I focus on skiing instead though this year that's out thanks to my
stupid knee[1].

Feb is already starting to warm up and in another week or so you can
count on riding weather on a regular basis. So you see, at worst we
get TEN full months of riding. Only the sunny day poseurs keep the
Hardleys in cold storage most of the time. Like one of my ex
coworkers, doesn't drag out his V-rod until "April showers wash away
all of the salt".

Personally I prefer four seasons to one. I almost relocated to LA and
one of the more depressing prospects (aside from being enclosed around
incessant plastic stupidity) was that it'd be sunny and warm during
X-mas. BLECH!

There's nothing like the crisp autumn air and the leaves turning
color, or the way you feel coming in from the cold after a good ride.
Or the just perfect springtime weather right before NYC becomes a
sweltering concrete jungle with 100% humidity and frogstangling
showers every other hour.

Texas and all sunny-day climes are a lot like moving to the Bahamas.
Oh sure, it's a wonderful place and the beaches are awesome but why
would you want to live there? No challenges, no adversity. Gimmie the
action of NYC. People who think at 5 million mph and don't breathe
with their mouths open. Who wouldn't bat an eye at a $100 tip because
they're used to paying $350/month for a parking space and more than
ten times that for rent! Who don't lower expectations to meet reality,
they raise reality to meet their expectations.

You sir would be a hysterical bitch out of water the moment you hit
your first slush puddle. Or the moment the waiter opens up your first
accidental bottle of $1,500 wine. Us northerners take it all in
stride, and look good doing it! If it wasn't so tasteless I'm sure
we'd be having fashion shows in the rubble of the World Trade Center
just for spite.

When you add it up, two months of missed riding is a small price to
pay. Besides, they sell snowmobiles. I'm sure you must've seen them on
PBS no? They got PBS down there?





[1] Which was not injured skiing or motorcycling BTW...

 

BTDT. Not interested. If I want bad weather I can ride there for it.
It's only a day trip to your neck of the woods.

I get it. A Newy Orker. Never mind. You can crawl back under your rock.
You're dismissed.

I guess no one clued him in about me, did they?

Outside of seldom drinking, I don't make mistakes like that. A waiter
who made a mistake like that would take it out of his own pay, not my
bill. I assure you.

Good luck affording your own clue. It appears you're the only one with
myopic visions of the world outside of their own 500 mile radius.

 

You're proud of the fact that you let people rip you off like that? Ha!

 

Crikey! What do whores go for?

--
Tony D
1971 R75/5 boxer
1991 1200 Sporty
2004 R1150 Rockster
SENS (less) LFS#38 PHS
BS#149 FYYFMFFY

 

That's exactly what I thought too. Everyone I've ever known who wore
their Newy Orkerishness like a badge of honor in that manner [1] also
used their confiscatory taxes, overpriced cost of living, and shakedowns
by the hired help (bribes in the guise of tips) as poseur points [2].

[1] Real New Yokers can be very nice, polite folks and understand that
having a fool-money relationship is nothing to brag about.

[2] Not unlike Chicagoans I've known who were proud of the fact their
parents had to put them to bed in the cast iron bathtub on weekends to
minimize the risk of injury from stray gunfire. [3]

[3] Again, unlike Chicagoans who realize that would be nothing to brag
about in an attempt to claim "best city" status.

 

Just about anything if you pay them enough.

 

Nah, just proud of the fact that my little bell gets a jiggle when I'm
out on the water.