DT "say anything" thread

[Speed 3 Pilot]

Sale by private owner?

Yup, third owner who is a buddy of the guy I sold it to, he's talking about trading it in on a new bike...it was in for service (TPS) a couple of weeks ago, still looks good...

[sta]

Bad news today, Nicky Hayden passed away.  RIP.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/motorsports/motogp-champion-hayden-dies-after-bicycle-crash/ar-BBBorkz?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

[Speed 3 Pilot]

Bad news today, Nicky Hayden passed away.  RIP.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/motorsports/motogp-champion-hayden-dies-after-bicycle-crash/ar-BBBorkz?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

Yeah, saw that...RIP Nicky, an all around good guy.

[MadDuck]

it might be a tad late but nevertheless HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY!! folks

[Speed 3 Pilot]

it might be a tad late but nevertheless HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY!! folks

ditto...

[sta]

Happy Holidays!

[Speed 3 Pilot]

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays to you and yours!  How's your little man doing?

[Speed 3 Pilot]

Merry Christmas everyone, have a great holiday!...

[MadDuck]

Merry Christmas to you too Gene!! ----- Merry Christmas Ben!!  --------- Merry Christmas Jing !! --------- Merry Christmas to whomever else might be reading this ------------- Wow Gene, up a bit early on Christmas aren't you?  LOL.  If you are like myself then the early rise time is just automatic. 

[Speed 3 Pilot]

Wow Gene, up a bit early on Christmas aren't you?  LOL.  If you are like myself then the early rise time is just automatic. 

You can only spend so much time laying down...

[eltristo]

Happy almost-new-year, you crazy so-and-sos!

[Speed 3 Pilot]

The happiest of New years to all...hoping for a good 2018!...

[MadDuck]

So here's what is going on with me. The biggest change is that we had a small shakeup in the workforce at BME. Brandon left us last fall and with Chris gone to Virginia to cross train into computer science it came down to me to officially have the shop open on Saturdays. Even though we close at 2 on that day it doesn't leave me much time to work on my cars and Gloria's cars. That means car work now gets done on Sundays and there has been a bit of car work needed lately with more still to come. The black car is nearly done and almost ready to sell, that is, if I want to sell it.  The cylinder head needs to come back off the white '87 and get resealed again.  If that works out like it should ( and should have worked out in the first place  ) then I will keep the white car.  If that cylinder head / block has a problem where the oil leak keeps coming back then I may sell that car for a loss and keep the black car.

I swapped out the stock front fork cartridges in the KTM for some Mupo cartridges and the initial ride shows an improvement but there is still a bit of fine tuning to go. Hard when, if I ride, it's just a short ride into town on Sunday to work on a car and then back home again. This last year's riding has been the fewest miles I've put on a bike since 2005 and I'm not all that happy about that. Hopefully the car projects will get all settled and we can return to our regularly scheduled show.

[Speed 3 Pilot]

Hopefully the car projects will get all settled and we can return to our regularly scheduled show.

Would be nice if that happens before I get too old to ride...

Last autocross of the season is April 8, then we have a 3 month break...

[MadDuck]

Car projects on hold for this weekend, March 17-18. Next weekend scheduled to take the cylinder head off the '87 325i. If luck is with me (  ) I will get the head back on the same weekend (    What could possibly cause me to even begin to think that? ).

That said the front fork cartridge replacement on the Superduke has gone very well and the front suspension tuning is almost set. Just have to do the final rebound damping adjustment. If I may so bold as to say this has made a huge transformation to the bike. Equally as effective as the suspension work done to the 848 and maybe even more so. The bike is more settled than it has ever been and in some unexpected ways. The big torque acceleration and engine braking effects on the handling have been tamed and it is much easier to ride faster now. All I was initially trying to do was to control the bobble in turns as the bike tracked over irregularities in the road. Got that handled and more like cherries on top of the frosting on the cake.