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Ok, 3 quarts then, what is the minimun, Ish? Keep that flask of ale in the backpack!

Hmmm, I thought I recalled something early on stating 3L, yet I cannot find it now. I think I would rattle Ryan's cage and get a test done, as it is critical! I think he has a bike on standby for testing, otherwise judjing from his last post RLracer may have one sitting there. He would tell.

Long story made short, I ran a Win 7 Beta on my little Vostro 200(Vista HP) in the house. Less did I know at the time that when the Beta expired it would leave things all cocked-up and no way to go back to the Vista. Been that way for a while now and I needed to strip all the files off and do a recovery from the D: partition(no friggin restore discs)and start over from a format and factory refresh of C:, yet I cannot get it to run. The F8 boot function does not bring up the PCRestore option that is housed on D drive partician as per the manual. I may have to purchase the factory restore disc, which can be done, but thought I would at least ask for any experience out there, as it is just out of warranty and they will not help. The only other idea I have not explored is to see if the PCRestore function will activate after booting from some odd bootable disc, which the closest thing I may have on hand would be an XP disc if I can find it. Messed with till blind on Sunday, gave up. Oh, it does still function, yet has gone blackscreen on the background and written up all my harddrive space so you cannot load anything, the B#s&a%ds @Microsoft. Been that way for awhile. The little Vostro ran better on the Vista than the Win 7, not sure why, but it was a Beta. I just hate it when they do that cheap crap and do not supply restore discs. This old one in the shed came rite back to life after the drive was replaced a little over a year ago. P4 2.4 Ghz w/512 Meg of ram still runs XP sweet! The new stuff looks nice, I even broke down last year and got a decent HP laptop running the Vista for travels and such, although seldom used it seems. It does work, and has all the stuff, but I am never far away from a PC at work or home, and work relies far too much on them for my liking nowadays. Any insights appreciated, but my patience runs thin, as I will do little more experimentation because new discs should not cost much. Cheers, MC

Here is a good one as a reminder to all! HERE It is absolutely amazing how the grease will totally explode with the effect of water added(steam)! Do not try this, fire or not! If you add the water to any fryer it will go up! Another example:

Yea, just hop down to TX and ride the Novice line like Robert! Cherry Picker!

Qiute a piece of work!

Welcome! So it's a Puch 125 is it?

I may be totally daft in my perception, but in the bikes I had from at least '01 and 'o3 and possibly '05, it always seemed to me the lower shock mount was in rubber and had flex. I never took one apart as was as came from new. The parts book was in itself iffy, as it listed the top mount joint as I recall only. Never really figured all this out to be honest, yey there is still a possibility yours could be normal rubber rather than a ball joint! As I traded bikes , it was never an issue. ????

Never know just who might be scoring that section!

Good you got it out! Now, as we are on te General Forum, I shall post you all up with a little tidbit! To wit, I do doo hope many shall heed! It is not the strength of the bolt that matters in most general situations, but the treatment to prevent siezing by corrosion that makes the big difference. In a situation that you allow a high strength bolt to sieze up due to corrosion, it will only require you a bit more torque to twist the head off! The use and application of some type grease or anti-sieze on things is a penny worth a pound in prevention, yet still, one it well advised to MOVE things on occasion. Loosten and re torque to keep things moving! Coat those axle shafts with lube! Along with the swingarm shaft! Bad things happen when these things have set too long and corrosion sets in! Once it does, you may have (or already have ) some major problems.

On THIS forum, we would have you put the big one on the front!

I had to go back a bit to find this something different! Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana . He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne , Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won. Hi Sue, Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi. Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch...... So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. With in a few seconds my butt started to burn... I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it.. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.... Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut. So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt. Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.' Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day? May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day!!!!! Pass this on to all your friends, just in case they're having a bad day!!!

Long story made short, If you have F---'ed the fan with a stick, then I don't even want to know how "she" goes! Twisted b----ard!

Gizza has taken all my "when the fight started" jokes all in one sitting! I could have had a weks worth there! But I think me shall repeat them Just, to p*** you off! BTW, what did you have for lunch last Tuesday?

Poor Kevo, waiting weeks on end ! Then when you do get it, you really need to spend another week in the shed disassembling everything to lube it up and tune up the carby! Then you will be totally happy and the wifey will be totally p****d! Get some waterproof grease, as you will need it!

I am not sure at all about a 20 inch front. If it will not accept a 21, then the best alternative I can think of would be going back to a 19 inch front like the gasgas cadet. The V-rubber 19 tire is good. What brand tire is on it?

Basically, even if these bearings offer stainless outer shields, I see little relevance in trials use. The bearing material itself is still steel. As far as stainless screws go, they are fine under normal use such and will not corrode. Not recommended for high stress situations. Never any problems when used properly. I use them in many applications such as side covers on the motor, normal holding of other bits. Never a problem as the strength is as good as your basic bolt or screw for the most part. An example might be your axle bolt or nut made of ali! Nowhere near as strong as stainless, but much lighter!

Why is it i can understand him better than you when you are sober?

"Come on Cope.... I know you're dying to say more than that." Yea, you haven't figured out what that bloody stick is for! No, actually, seems possibly a good call on the 21 there matey. To be honest, I did not pay enough attention to know they exhisted when I was on the look for the 24. As these things go, this is the primary reasin I never converted to the 4T. The time and money spent in this type thing could be extreme! All depending upon what you want as a result. The variations like heavy flywheel, smaller bore and such. Everything is a tradeoff. As far as upping a 21 to a 22 or 23, best I figure all it would take is a pass if the drill bit through the bore on the press. Got to strip the whistler out beforehand, but seems it would self center ok. From the factory I do not see anything special here other than the size of the hole drilled in the casting. As in 231's post, the entire deal with float levels on the 4T is a bit miffing to me. I just do not quite understand exactly why they are soo sensitive. Although I also find the Sherco SPS system, which was obviously developed for a reason in conjunction with Kiehin, to be a bit miffing. 231 obviously has a bit of a grip on these things through his experience. I am happy to see such a report, very encouraging. Not sure if BOBTLR wants to get into further experiments? Oh, but back to the Witch Doctor Neo, you must pm me the addy if you want CF swingarm guards. Fit '07 new style arm.

My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said, 'I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 200 in about 3 seconds.' I bought her a scale. And that's how the fight started.......

Did you catch the recent clip post of Pat, Glenn? Yea he is having fun doing that Caby and Bou stuff! Looking good! AND getting in some really good practice this time this year. We need to spend the rest of Craig's retirement money to get Pat over there for the season, only need about 30-40 grand! I figure. Dabster would charge him the rents! Good to see you getting out, Johnny Ringo. Hope that neck heals up, or you may have to stick to trials!

I think I would let it run in a bit easy with the stock carb and all for at least the first 2-3 hours with no screaming it! All depends upon what you want in the carby, as the stockers run good when jetted well.. An OKO 28 is always an option costwise, seem to work well. 26 or 28 versions or both at the cost of a Kiehin.

Here is a great little game for you to try! Ck it Out!