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Road_Thing
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 18, 2003 - 05:57 pm: | 
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Court, I hope you hit the "3-wire"...
Yes, you heard right about the Lucas points. In my experience with Triumphs, which predates even your Buell affiliation, most of the Lucas stuff, with the possible exception of the Zener Diode they used for a voltage regulator, was actually pretty good.
(I can hear the masses now, shouting "Heresy!! Kill da bum!!)
Both the ZD and the rectifier could be fatally damaged from being over-torqued on installation. That rarely happened from Meriden, but in service, vibration often loosened the parts, which encouraged home mechanics to re-(over-)tighten them, often with poor results.
The stock Lucas setup really worked OK if you just left it alone. Of course, none of us ever did! Today, solid-state electronics are probably cheaper than replacement Lucas equipment, and are less sensitive to damage. But if your Boyer ignition box happens to crap out on you, you're WALKIN', dude, cause it ain't field-serviceable!
Which brings me back to Road_Things Golden Rule for riding Brit bikes, which I posted earlier on this thread:"Don't ride 'em further than you're willing to walk back from!"
r-t
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Bomber
| | Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 08:52 am: |
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Thing's right about the electrics on the brit bikes . . . . .the ZD's were maintenance-replacement items, but the rest served about as well as anything else out there (bonnie/lightning/atlas/TR^ experience)
restos of hondas used to be dead nuts easy in terms of part availability, but my friends still involved with that end of the business tell me that Honda has realized the cost of stockpiling parts forever, and has greatly reduced that practice . . . . . the private sector has, I'm sure, picked up the ball to some extent . . . . oddly enought, I agree with thing . . . .TR6 with some bonnie sheet metal (or a real bonnie with some Mikes on it) would be aces . . . ..
course, you could always wrangle a deal on a nicely cafe'd SR500 thumper, Court . . . it would never be stolen, cuz you'd be the only person in three counties who could start it!
good luck on the job situation, Courtley . . .. and, you get to define what good luck is! |
Road_Thing
| | Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 09:49 am: |
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>>>Thing's right
Bomber, my respect for your knowledge and experience continues to swell! You are obviously a man of great intelligence and discerning tastes!
r-t  |
Bomber
| | Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 10:14 am: |
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ROFLMAO . . .. .we always like those that agree with us, don't we?
thanks fer the chuckle, brother |
Sarodude
| | Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 11:50 am: |
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Hey Court-
Lemme tell ya that with a name like Saro, I can definitely relate to your story. I can't tell you how many people telemarketers ask for Mrs. Saro Marcarian. Hey, maybe they think it's some twisted deformation of Sara. Maybe they think my parents were hippies - usually when they hear and not read it so it sounds like Sorrow. I dunno.
I've thought about a sex change to maybe better go along with my name. I just don't think I'd make a very good female. Bald spots are getting too big and the Nair bill would get pretty wacko.
I guess I need a new plan.
-Saro |
Mikej
| | Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 12:01 pm: |
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New plan: When telemarketers call and ask for the Mrs, just say "speaking", then hang up.  Or just lay the handset down after saying "I'll go get her" and then proceed to go watch TV or eat or something, check back in two minutes and ask if they're still there and if so say she'll be right down, then go back to your business. Eventually they'll hang up. |
Hootowl
| | Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 12:24 pm: |
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I hand the phone to my 5 year old. |
Road_Thing
| | Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 02:38 pm: |
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Police whistle.
r-t |
Court
| | Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 02:53 pm: |
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>>>Police whistle....OPERATED by the 5 year old. |
Hootowl
| | Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 04:22 pm: |
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Well that's just mean. |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 08:52 pm: |
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I tell siding & window guys I live in a converted atlas missle silo. (I don't, but would be cool.) any money types I use my best baritone & say I have to ask my Mummy. etc. |
Court
| | Posted on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 10:14 am: |
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”Bolter, bolter, bolter”
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Road_Thing
| | Posted on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 10:44 am: |
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Court: Afterburners! Go around again...
r-t |
Bomber
| | Posted on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 10:48 am: |
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no sweat, court . . .we got a chopper in the air to pick ya up |
Court
| | Posted on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 11:19 am: |
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>>> .we got a chopper in the air to pick ya up
Dude....you, in the midst of a really factual analogy, are about to draw the short card....NO ONE hits the deck at anything less that 100% thrust.
Mucho thanksalotta....by the way, that tanker of fuel that was schedulued to arrive next week....I got bad news |
Bomber
| | Posted on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 11:30 am: |
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wenever leave our people behind, Courtly . . . and we always mop the decks (grin)
had a similar fire here in Chi-land earlier this week . . .it's ALMOST enough to get me to start wearing tin foil on my head, it is |
Court
| | Posted on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 11:54 am: |
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I am learning, watching the local news channel, that I am one of the only 4 people on Staten Island who NOT a public employee or an "MSNBC News Analyst".
Molarnari, the Borough President, is on TV telling me that there is "no reason to be concerned". This is the same guy who, when a local citizen stuffed a Remington 870 in a sanitation workers mouth for plowing snow into his freshly plowed drive, was "just upset".
Ya gotta love these humans......
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Court
| | Posted on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 08:41 pm: |
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Well, Gents, it's been a "learning" week. Sometimes we measure our progress by the acquisition of "data points" of what WON'T work. Let me contribute to that crocus of knowledge.
FACT 1: Deep snow increases the difficulty of navigating by the square of the depth. Blake may want to represent this mathematically.
FACT 1: It is cute and funny to watch a 100# puppy "discover" snow. Tiny baby steps; followed closely by bounding leaps into the middle.
FACT 2: Snow Depth = 26" /// Dog Depth = 22"
FACT 4: Fact 3 obviates photo ops.
FACT 5: Canine snowshoes seem plausible.
FACT 6: A satisfactory design will, in retrospect, likely require more development.
FACT 7: Affixing frozen Eggo waffles to the paws of a puppy with Rubber Cement SHOULD serve as effective "snow-flotation" devices.
FACT 8: (irrefutable) Fact 8 is in error.
Life's quirky; I'm fine.
Court |
Road_Thing
| | Posted on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 09:47 pm: |
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Uh, just what WAS Fact 3, anyway?
r-t |
Ocbueller
| | Posted on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 10:05 pm: |
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Court,
Won't be needing that electric blanket this evening. Had a friend heading to L.I. from Maryland today, I gave her directions right past the site of the tanker explosion. I think it might have taken her a little longer than planned to get there.
SteveH |
Turnagain
| | Posted on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 12:53 pm: |
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and the winner is:
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Blake
| | Posted on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 02:49 pm: |
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I'd still like to see them simply rebuild as it was, maybe ten stories taller. |
Nevco1
| | Posted on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 04:39 pm: |
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Good Point Blake, that was my original thought as well. However, after viewing and reading the rationale surrounding all phases of the building, I now appreciate the design as more of a National Monument than a practical structure to blend in with the surrounds. |
Bomber
| | Posted on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 06:19 pm: |
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My emotions I agree with Blake (who'da thunk, eh Blake? {grin}), but practicality and the fact that someone owns the property, and rightly wishes a return on their investment, mean otherwise, I think |
Court
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 05:43 pm: |
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New York and why I love her . . . .
Great places to write...
3 or 4 wireless connections on the PDA on any given street corner...
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Mikej
| | Posted on Thursday, March 20, 2003 - 10:14 am: |
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"The History of Buell Motorcycle Owner's Groups"
(Just getting ready for my next flight and practicing my distant blurry screen reading as the laptops several seats away are usually much more interesting than the magazine/catalog in the seat pouch.) |
Court
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2003 - 06:59 am: |
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Mike:
Right you are, an assignment that find me constantly off on memory induced tangents.
I write in the Rose Reading Room and my dream is to someday be admitted to one of the "writing" rooms. My singular hope lies in the fact that they augment the Noble Laureates and Stephen Kings with a couple "complete nobody's" on an annual basis, presumably to entertain the talented around them. I hope to qualify under the undeserving idiot clause.
If you are in NYC, I recommend passing the tourist sites and heading straight to one of the world's most incredible intellectual vaults and architecture.
Court
Off on a far MORE interesting assignment today ~! |
Mikej
| | Posted on Friday, March 21, 2003 - 08:21 am: |
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oh, dang, close my eyes and I'm there writing. thank you. |
Court
| | Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2003 - 08:10 pm: |
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Life is TRULY amazing.....I mean UNBELEIVABLE!
No time to tell the story now, I have to be at work at 7am. I just have one thing to say...Phobe Snow...Leon Redbone...Noel Redding...Eric Clapton...Buddy Miles...Ritchie Havens...Stanley Jordon.
This may go down as one of THE great stories.
Court |
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