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Not the best way to recover your bike... :unsure:

The aftermarket gear indicators I've seen are LED, and I would think even harder to see in bright daylight than the LCD panel's built-in gear indicator.

I like the questions people have of orbiting the L2 point, rather than sitting at the L2 point. Every place I see this mentioned, I see that confusion. Why not park exactly there, and how do you orbit an empty space? That link from WoodyPecker in post 9 is pretty informative, without going...

Yeah, I didn't really know which, but I knew it was the old now-illegal stuff. :cautious:

And more from the house... I mentioned previously that while the walls and ceilings are just studs I was pulling Ethernet through the house, and setting up high power and Ethernet outlets for wall-mounted TVs in the bedrooms. Here's one, and blurry in the background you might can make out the...

And the Blues! Did I mention that we were looking right into the sun? I think I said that... I got a few well-timed solo crossover shots. One up one down Two up two down The #5 sneak pass, VERY fast (about 720mph) and VERY low (about 50 feet!) He's leaving a wake on the water...

As long-time members will recall, I almost always attend the end-of-season air show by the Blue Angels in Pensacola, usually the first or second weekend of November. This year's was a bit different, as with the base still experiencing COVID restrictions (no public access) the show was moved to...

Found out last week that my mother-in-law (ex- actually) is in possibly a worse position than me, even though her house is "fixed" and she's back in it. Her insurance company folded and ceased operation back in August. She claims to have not gotten the letter, and found out about this by...

What the hell? Why did I call that KTM a KWAK?!?!?  Phixst it.

So COVID stuff has relaxed enough that they finally got to do this again, after not having Thunder Beach at all last year, although I think this year's Spring event was held. I didn't go, the weather sucked. As in prior years, if you've seen my posts before, I couldn't care less about any of...

More stuff getting done!!!! This is becoming quite exciting! They found obvious signs of water damage on the wallboard that remained, not to mention insulation compacted where it had been wet, and pulled it all down. The interior of the house is now completely bare lumber, with hot outlets...

OK, that was confusing. You said you bled the fluid, with no change, then said you don't want to remove the swingarm to do a clutch bleed. You don't have to remove the swingarm to do that, and you said you did that. Thus my confusion. I don't know anything about the auto-clutch electronics...

If you have two cars in a two-car garage, the bike will be a tight fit, and then only if one of the cars is short enough to put the bike sideways in front of it. Of course, that means no access to the bike without moving the car, but even if it fit alongside a car, that's probably still the...

IT BEGINS!!!!!! Building permit posted, and lockbox on the door so folks can access as needed. Windows are ordered, and a guy was in the other day measuring for insulation. Only 35 months after the storm... And the contractor wants my trailer! Said he'd put it on his hunting property. He...

OK. The attorney general's office is hauling this contractor in front of a judge is a couple of weeks, and I get to go watch. I don't know anything about what will happen, but it is on a grand larceny criminal charge. Initial hearing so far, nothing about an actual trial, yet. And I have...

Where did you get that engine torque curve? Something on the web, your own dyno runs, what? You had some fun, but you didn't consider aerodynamics, I don't think. None of those acceleration figures would actually be reached, being calculated with no drag. The acceleration curve you show has the...

Electrical pics... shocking... 

Licensed and insured. Submitted claims to the attorney general's office and the state licensing, have not heard anything from the licensing people. Did not know I could go to their liability underwriter, but if a year is the limit on that, it's too late. This dragged on and on because the guy...

Small, tiny progress on the house. The "contractor" I signed last April (I mean LAST April, 2020!) has not done a single thing except to hire that electrician subcontractor last September. That guy stopped work when he had trouble getting paid on other jobs he was working for with that general...

Finding one these days might be tough, but the Suze GS500 twin, late 90s early 2000s. Almost disposable, probably easy to sell when ready to move up, probably for at least as much as they paid for it. Might not be "sporty" enough in styling, but I don't think a better learning-to-ride bike exists.