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Court
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 09:51 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

No Riding Today. . .
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Buelliedan
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 10:11 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I have a Buell air compressor!!
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Bluzm2
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 10:37 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Cout,
Looks like a regular plain old Minnesota snow storm.
They don't even bother with the snow plows until it gets to 3 or 4".

Glad it's you folks and not us! We've had a pretty mild winter so far. The heavy stuff keeps sliding south of us.

Happy digging! :)

Brad
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Hoser
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 10:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

You call THAT snowed in???!! .... HA!
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Court
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 10:56 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

No, I do not. I'm from, remember, Kansas and recall working on a day when the ambient was -24oF and the wind chill was -67oF.

New Yorkers are funny people.

So far today, I've been cautioned that it would be extraordinarily foolish to venture out. The news came from idiots who ventured out to tell me that. I can see anything from my window they can see from the Jersey Turnpike.

I live in an affluent land of SUVs. Folks have waited and waited for the chance to make perfect Asses of themselves, they are seizing the opportunity to excel today and are being rescued live on the extended morning news coverage.

Aaron loves data and abhors misconstrued data. Dig this, the Wx geek with the ruler and the yardstick plunges the ruler into the snow and declares, "there's only 8" here", then turns and plunges the yardstick, declaring "but some areas have up to 24". Uh, excuse me Biff; the drift you just plunged that yardstick into was created by the massive plow that passed while you were swinging the yap door.

There's an art to knowing how to relax, to do nothing. Those who were involved in Buell (to quote a knowledgeable source "a million years ago" ) may recall the piece I wrote in 1995, entitled "Thoughts on Thinking" and how most of us, raised in the Hyper-Double-Type-AA generation are at really doing "nothing".

My preliminary observations today are that Katie Couric looks better in a white parka than Matt does with ear flaps. Al Roker, the weatherman, is to be commended for demonstrating the intellectual wherewithal to stay inside to do his forecast.

Whiz kids statement from a gal who HAS to be a blonde bimbo under the blue cap "it's looking kinda snowy". I'd say she has a keen grasp of the obvious!

Court
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Jim_Witt
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 12:13 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Thanks for posting the picture of the snow Court. I was wondering what that white stuff looked like!

-JW:>;)
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Eeeeek
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 01:30 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

More WSMC racing news:

First, I saw the weirdest thing out there: an S1 with a Blast engine. Wild.

There were a couple of Firebolts out there. One pulled a third in middleweight twins (1st -748, 2nd SV650), a couple of Blasts and a few S1's. San Diego Harley has a rather big presence out there, as does Bartel's.

Next, my second race went great! I dialed in my suspension better and dropped a few seconds a lap. I ended up 12th out of 31 people, so I'm on the right track. Best of all, I'm having a great time out there (and I lapped someone, too).

If you've ever thought about racing: DO IT!!! DO IT NOW!!!

lil' SV

Vik
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Bomber
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 02:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

EEEEeeeekkkkkk . . . . .. . very cool beans, sir . . . .good for you!

I'm sitting in the garage and making vroom vroom noises at this point . .. not snow, but the salt in the apexes is really slippery
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Jim_Witt
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 03:03 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Vic,

Great to see and hear you're having a blast (oops, great time). Wish I had the balls to do the same.

S'later,
-JW:>;)
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Turnagain
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 05:22 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Hey now Vik!, how you gonna manage to pick up a classic Buell if you're spendin' all your disposable income on go-fast stuff?
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Sandmanx1
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 07:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Hey Court. How do you play Buell? Im almost afraid to ask but i would hate myself if i missed out on a good game.
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Pammy
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 08:14 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Well, I gotta get my long sleeve shirt out tomorrow...cold front coming through. Gonna be below 70 all day tomorrow. BRRRR, Oh the inhumanity!
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Court
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 08:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Vik:

Congratulations....you look like a pro!

Court
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Buelliedan
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 08:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

How do you play Buell? My take is that its a game in which you have to acquire the most Buells possible. The one with the most wins. Right now Aaron is winning. Then Josh and I are in second with 4 and Dave is close behind with 3. But I ampresently working on a 5th. I'm catching you Aaron!! :)
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Firemanjim
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 10:27 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Damn,don't Vik look impressive!!I am gonna hafta stay oughta his way on the next Brag tour we do instead of dicing all day,cuz he's a perfeshunal now.Way to go ,dude!!!!Gonna keep my racing on that long,straight salt stuff.
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Blake
Posted on Monday, February 17, 2003 - 10:40 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Way to go Vik! A two second lap time improvement is huge. How many laps are your races?
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Orngm2
Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 12:58 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

does anybody know what vin numbers were effected by the old primary chain tensioner for the m2?
i have a 2000 m2 and do not want to pull the whole primary cover off if i do not have to.
thanx for the info.
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Reepicheep
Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 09:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Orngm2... If you call customer service, they can probably tell you. My 2000 m2 was built 10/4/99, number 4mzks11j6y3300812, and it DID need the updated tensioner (the old one had already split the backplate, but fortunately all parts were still captive).

While you have them on the phone, check with them to make sure you did not get one of the defective... oh heck, which was it... maybe the countershaft nut? The mainshaft nut? I can't remember, but there was a 1 month window of those that had bad nuts that could back off. It was discussed in the knowledge vault. If somebody does not pop in here and remind us I will hunt it up.

Anybody remember what I am talking about? One of the big nuts (sprocket, mainshaft, countershaft... I cant remember). There was a very small batch of defectives from a supplier, that they narrowed down to 1 month that they could have been installed.
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Reepicheep
Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 11:59 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Some help you all are ;) I found it myself.

I think this was originally posted by "Hoser".


Quote:


All:
A service bulletin has been released about engine sprocket nuts backing off ( finally !?!? ) , apparently ? a number of engines were assembled with an incorrect nut , causing torque reading that may allow the nut to loosen !. Affected models are late 2000 and early 2001 twins and singles. The bulletin is B-043.




I called the factory about this on my bike, and they indicated that it was a very small number of bikes produced during a very short period of time. They were able to tell me if mine was one of them or not (it wasn't). You are probably fine.

Bill
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Eeeeek
Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 12:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Blake:

The races are six laps long, 2.7 miles per lap.

On Saturday I started with 1:42's and 1:41's. The suspension changes got me down to 1:39's and then on Sunday, with winds gusting at 30 MPH, I dropped into the 1:38's.

In 550 Superbike and Middleweight twins the race winners were in the 1:32's, so I still have a ways to go; but, I'm feeling great!

Vik
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Blake
Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 02:05 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

WOW! That is a FAST track! Average speed right at 100 mph! DANG!!! And on an SV! Only 6 seconds off the winning pace!! Way to go! That is damn impressive.
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Dan
Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 05:20 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Anybody any experience with the new Pirelli Diablo?
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Rocketman
Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 05:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Dale I hope this isn't to late for ya. My cell is 07711 900016. Hope you can call. Stay safe, oh yeah and bring the daughter too!

Mildenhall is near Norwich on the east side of England.

Rocket
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Eeeeek
Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 05:47 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Blake:

Fastest track west of the Mississippi. The motorcycle record is in the 1:21 range. This weekend with the wind, the Formula guys were only pulling 1:23's.

Most of the track is fast. I'm in 5th gear in turns 1 and 2, drop to 4th for 3 and 3rd for 4, kicking back up to 4th for 5 and 5th right past 6. Somewhere around 7 I hit 6th and try to keep it pinned through 8. Downshift to 5th for 9 and then pin it down the straight.

Turn 4 is actually 3 turns. Uphill for the first part, 4a, 4b just past the crest of the hill and then 4c heading down hill. Pain in the a$$ of a corner.

3 and 5 are also a little tricky (I scraped my shifter in three...with 2 Bros. rearsets). I also broke loose the rear tire there. A lot of people run off the course on 5. The rest of the turns aren't so bad, except 6, where you completely unload your suspension while leaned over as you crest Monroe ridge.

The streets of Willow is a much more technical course and I think I would like it better; but, The sheet speed of the big track is a rush. You really have to get past the "oh $hit" factor in your head.

I can't wait to her about your first race. It's such a great feeling!

Vik
WSMC #555, AFM #554
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Ray_Maines
Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 06:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Way to go Vik!

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When I was at the IMS in Seattle last December I was impressed by a guy that was polishing the bottom of soda pop cans with what he said was the best metal polish ever made. He had a bunch of pop cans with VERY shinny bottoms and seemed to do it without much effort.

I just spent less than two minutes with two dabs of Simichrome paste and a paper towel and now I have a pop can with a shinny bottom too. I was so pleased with the result that I left the unopened pop can out for my wife to admire and fixed myself a dry Vodka Martini. That would be your basic win-win situation I believe. If I have two more Martini’s I might end up with a shinny bottom myself.
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S3dave
Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 07:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Most excellent Vik!!
Thrilled to see that you are following your dream (or one of). An enthusiast you must be!! Please keep us posted.
Today I am home in Kelowna for a break, went for a little blast on the S3, around the lake a ways. Temperature is about 45-50 deg. F. Tommorrow I fly back up north for a few weeks, its -20-30 there right now. Believe it or not, BWB and Sacborg help me to keep my sanity up there.
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Loki
Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 07:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Dan,

The Diablo ought to very comperable to the Metz M1 Sportek. RRW had a good article on the Diablos in the current issue.

Loki
(snowed under in Dover)
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Road_Thing
Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 07:53 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Ray: Martinis are like women's breasts:

One's not enough, but three are too many!

r-t
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Iamike
Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 09:01 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Hey Court,
I grew up in Kansas but since I could see Missouri from my back yard this story doesn't count for me.
A friend that lived in Salina said that they used to drive to Missouri to see where the snow landed.
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Arbalest
Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 06:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Did you get a picture of Blast/s1 hybrid?
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