Caged Needle Bearing and Axle Care...

my old zuki gives me the gas fumes evertime i stop or even travel
slowly....i am assuming the cap is vented....if its not supposed to be, it
is...

 

"Larry xlax Lovisone"

SNIP

That's not a fire! Now this, THIS IS ONE HOT
PUMPKIN!

http://www.pkriders.org/keith-s6.htm

That was one I liked, still have some other shots
that I kept but aren't ''quiet" as good imo.

--
Keith Schiffner
RCOS #7
Assistant to the Assistant Undersecretary of the
Ministry of Silly Walks.
"terrorist organization" is a redundancy

 

Oh, I don't think I was being apocalyptic at all. I was just amazed
someone with your background would be so foolish. In fact, it wasn't
so much the fact *YOU* choose to use gasoline, it was the offhand
endorsement of same. Like I said, if you want to play that game, so
be it. If you hold your life so cheap, who am I to say. But, you
have a lot of people who respect what you do and listen to what you
say, many of them are much younger and less experienced. To encourage
blatantly irresponsible behaviour that could put less experienced
riders in unnecessary peril is something I didn't expect from you. I
don't know what your experience is, but I've heard dozens of stories
about how someone was using gasoline as a cleaner and the fumes made
it to the water heater piot light or someone reached for the doorknob
on a dry windy night ....boom!!

Tell me Larry, would you still taxi if you had an unusually strong
smell of navgas in your plane's cockpit? When you flew jets, were JP4
fumes in the cockpit no big deal? Just for the record, it was my job
to pull you and your fellow flyboys out of the cockpit when the shit
hit the fan. We spent long midnight- early morning hours washing down
fuel spills so a stray spark didn't render your squadron a line of
burnt out hulks. You know what 3-point grounding is. I know what JP4
is. I know what gasoline is. I'll gar-on-damn-tee you, gasoline is
more dangerous.

Larry, I don't mean to be a total curmudgeon. As a longtime rider and
one time machinist, I enjoy your posts. I'll even confess to doing
some really stupid things with life extinguishing substances, myself.
I secretly regret not doing the Big George bbq thing when I had access
to liquid oxygen. But, to continue to use a potentially
life/property-deleting substance like gasoline to do something as
mundane as cleaning greasy parts when equally effective nonflammable
solvents are readily available is just plain stupid. You don't see
automotive and motorcycle shops using gasoline. Why do you think that
is? Like my local 20-something auto parts shop droid said when I
called to ask about prices ($40/5gal) for parts cleaner solvent and
explained about how someone was advocating the use of gasoline
...."Geez, what an idiot"! "snuff" said.

nb

 

Uhmmm... under the influence of spirits, I find myself falling back on
old bad habits of being rude to make a point. I've spoken my piece
and by now I'm sure you all know where I come from. I should have left the
"idiot", "stupid", whatever, at home. Apologies all around.

nb

 

Besides, wheat flour is an explosive under the right conditions... ever
hear about mills blowing up?

D'ya want to blow up a building easily? Figure out a way to create a
cloud of wheat flour (putting
some in a tin can with a firecracker underneath is a good starting
point) and then put a spark into it.
You will be amazed at how violently a cloud of flour burns... and in a
confined space it is an explosive.


SO I guess we shoudl all eat rice instead of wheat since it, too is
dangerous

 

Nope...

You don't see

Lawyers...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/
http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/
http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vg&user=netters2

 

But Keith... where's motorcycle content???
NOW THIS IS ONE HOT PUMPKIN AND ONE HOT BIKE...
http://www.fox302.com/userdata/netters2/files/ShopPics/HOTSuperBikePumpkin.JPG

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/
http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/
http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vg&user=netters2

 

Bags... Jr. Pudknocker drives a Belch Fire Cadillac... he's filling a 40 gallon
tank every 240 miles...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/
http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/
http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vg&user=netters2

 

and sawmills.....fine sawdust can explode with violent flames....

 

"Larry xlax Lovisone"

Oh the MC content? OBTW I picked up the pumpkin on
the GL1K. I made sure that my classic motorcycle
was parked WELL AWAY from where the pumpkin was. I
had to keep it well away as the fuel used was a
mix of Coleman "white gas" and 85.5R/M+2. Gets a
bit hot IYKWIM, put 50-150cc in the pumpkin light
step back and start shooting pictures. Didn't help
that we had 10-15mph wind that evening.
--
Keith Schiffner
RCOS #7
Assistant to the Assistant Undersecretary of the
Ministry of Silly Walks.
"terrorist organization" is a redundancy

 

The ones we gots do. They dropped the annoying foreskin pumps long ago
that are hell to use on a motorcycle and have naked ones that have a
series of high power vacuum holes around the outside edge of the
nozzle. Look just like the regular ones.

I will note that BP/Amoco recently switched to those LCD laptop
looking pumps and those simply do not work on any motorcycle for shit.
They keep clicking like it's full. Boycott BP!

I live in a windy city. And rarely loiter behind anything for long.

Larry lives in smog prone CA. And regularly uses acetone and
apparently gasoline as a parts solvent. In comparison to Larry I
expose myself to nil vapors since I prefer to ride vs. hang around in
the workshop all day soaking $30 bearings that can be obtained for $8
at a wholesaler by giving them the # stamped on the outside case. You
see Larry places absolutely no value whatsoever on his time, whilst a
day spent fooling around away from real work in my case is pretty
spendy indeed. And when I do have a day off I'll go for a ride or
visit China as I recently did.

Larry also likes to pretend he's somehow more of a "real motorcyclist"
than the rest of us cause he wrenches all day. Hey LAr, I'm good for
12k miles on any given year. Sometimes more. Yourself? What was your
mileage for '04?

I guess LArry is so hardcore that when he needs a new set of leathers
he actually raises the cattle from calves, slaughters and tans the
leather and has Mary custom fit him on her Singer. Me, being a poser
will just go online and click on what I like and have it delivered
2-day.

 

And Chevron, for now making you type in your zip code on the pump using
a touchscreen LCD that doesn't work if you're wearing gloves... grr...

 

No gas for you.

Its sold to the gas stations as "a security measure to prevent gasoline
theft", when of course its really a security measure to prevent credit
card fraud.

 

And who do you think pays for the charges rung up on a stolen credit card?

I've encountered the zip code requirement at a number of stations, not
just Chevron, and quite a few in the San Diego area are charging less
(generally about 5¢/gal) for cash purchases. Until they come up with
automated change dispensers, cash buyers tie up the pumps longer, so it
must be worthwhile for the stations to do that.

Rich, Urban Biker

 

Its sold to the gas stations as "a security measure to prevent

My understanding is that liability for "card-present" transactions
(imprint or swipe) belongs to the credit card institution. Merchants
are only liable when its a "card-not-present" transaction.

Given that they are throughput oriented and not liable in the case of a
stolen card, I don't see any benefit here for the gas station, unless
they've perhaps negotiated a better rate with the CC company.

 

Make that "highly flammable" gasoline and a belt live 50 cal blanks you know Ma
Deuce... not to mention a couple of belts of live NATO blanks...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/
http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/
http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vg&user=netters2

 

California natives refuse to breathe air we can't see...

You failed to mention that 1 of my intense miles equals 5 of your poser miles...

Jr. Pudknocker is a motorcycle poser because there's nothing left in his life to
trendify... he sits nightly in the Broken Hearts Club with friends... telling
ridiculous micro penis inflating stories about how Valentino used to be the slow
one in the group and now look at him... Jr.Pudknocker is so desperate to seen as
a real rider that he'll go out with us truly believing to keep up... In doing so
he becomes a confusing and erratic piece of furniture on the corner line...

Larry L
94 RC45 #2
Have a wheelie NICE day...
Lean & Mean it in every corner of your life...
If it wasn't for us the fast lane would rust...
V4'S are music to the seat of my pants...
1952 De Havilland Chipmunk...
Yank and bank your brains loose...
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/-xlax-/
http://home.comcast.net/~netters2/
http://www.fox302.com/index.pl?s=vg&user=netters2

 

Fair enough. I refuse to eat food I can't see.

But posing is what it's all about Larry. Whether you're comparing
odometers, chicken strips or the amount of billet and custom
doodaderry on one's motorcycle.

You lack imagination. There will be nothing left to trendify when my
cremated remains are pressed into knee pucks and handed out amongst my
most trusted of co-riders to wear out into nubs. That will be it, my
last trendy trinket. And then all sportriders will want themselves
immortalised in this fashion, after I was the protoype...

I only went out with you once. I remember a man with an RC45 and
virgin kneesliders riding too fast on public roads. I remember a lot
of concerned fellow riders telling him about the wonders of trackdays.

I also remember being the third of fourth person in the group upon
arrival. I'm not interested in a podium finish when I'm on the
streets. Didn't attract too much attention to myself that day and
everything was kept in one piece for the barbeque at day's end.

 

Volatility? Flash point? Gum residue? Additives? Probable inclusion of hygroscopic
ethanol in pump gas? Are you sure you know what you're talking about?

 

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8^) My favorite safety demo is the fire chief
who'd get half way through a PallMall and then
drop it in the open bucket of gas that was beside
him the whole time. Fire? What fire? It puts the
damn cigarette out. They would then (from a safe
distance 10M) open the door to fire room that was
full of fuel vapor and flip a light
switch...educational doesn't describe it.
FWOOOOSH! is the closest I can approximate the
sound.
Volatility isn't the question Michael. The real
question is does the person using the product know
how to handle it safely?
--
Keith Schiffner
RCOS #7
Assistant to the Assistant Undersecretary of the
Ministry of Silly Walks.
"terrorist organization" is a redundancy