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One of the benefits of living in NY is occasionally observing freaks like yourself, Martina :goofy: It is always an eye-opener to look at yourself through the eyes of others and to realise that your behavior, however innocent it may be, can be viewed as freakish by the "normal" people. On a similar note, many years ago, when I had just emigrated to the US, I was walking with my friend through the Village. Public displays of "out of the closet" relationships was a novelty to me then and I just mentioned that fact to my friend in passing. In reply, my friend drew my attention to the way other people, namely tourist M/F couples were looking at the two of us...

:lol: Good one!

How much did you pay for those? Looks like I could use them as well. Tried to google them, but all I see is Thurn website which is in German and then there is shipping... If anyone knows a distributor in the US or Canada, pls. let me know. Thanks! EDIT: Or better yet, maybe Ken or BLS care to reproduce the brackets using "LAZORS" :thumbsup: perhaps?

A good thing to know indeed as I am working with bunch of folks from the UK :thumbsup:

The pictures are in my gallery, but I can't seem to make my gallery post tool to work... never could actually. Some help will be appreciated.

I tried the WD40, but still had to drill them out. I must say that it was not a big deal at all. Took me a minute to do the drilling. It was all gravy from then on :thumbsup: Picks are coming tomorrow. It's too dark now.

I received Radar's sliders in the mail today. Canada Post is... well... let's just say lacking. Don't want to bash things Canadian. Customer experience begins with packaging of the parcel. To be honest, I have never seen anything packaged so ...looking for the right word... "exquisite" comes to mind, so I'll stick with it. The sliders themselves are made with the kind of worksmanship that people usually associate with jewelry. I don't want to go overboard and compare them to jewelry, but honestly, that was the first thing that came to mind when I looked at them. The install went super smooth with the excepsion of one thing. The inside diameter of the aluminum guides is just a tad small. This causes the drill bit stick inside. I had to remove them and drill them out to size. Otherwise, everything is just as described in Ken's how-to. Thanks Darren for an amazing product!

You only average about 3 posts per day - No biggy :rolleyes: That nerd shirt that you have on is another story entirely :goofy:

That is some amazing display of visual memory! I could never do that, although I believe (used to before I've read this, anyway) that I always have a pretty good feel for where I am. About your ex-boyfriend... WHAT DID YOU DO??? :goofy:

Very cool! Great job! I can especially appreciate the effort, since I stripped my rear wheel after reading slammer's how-to. The taping has got to be the toughest and the most time consuming part of the deal. Looks like you came out on top. Enjoy. :thumbsup:

First of all, coodos to Radar for coming up with such a great product! Radar, you're da man! :thumbsup: Ken, you too for posting such a nice write-up :thumbsup: Regarding gluing the coolant bottle - Has anyone tried a hot glue gun? It seems to me that this would be the perfect colution. It uses polyethylene-based glue sticks. I have one at home and use it on many different applications. Once cooled, the glue does not harden too much - it is still as flexible as regular plastic. This means that it will not crack and chip away with time. It also sticks and holds like a mofo - no way it will ever come off, especially in this case, weher there is no real temperature or pressure applied. Normally, the coolant never reaches this high any way. It is cheap too. I picked one up at the local hardware store for about $20. Now, about the sliders themselves. I have not seen the price for the kit yet. Radar, if you have not come up with it yet, I, and others I'm sure, are patiently awaiting... I am very much interested in buying one, so please, please, please ... The spring's a comin and it will be time to put the bikes together soon...

:+1: You did the right thing for all the reasons above. No need to feel guilty. Regarding New Yorkers, they are a fine bunch. THey may not have enough time to stop and chat with strangers, like people do in small towns, but if you are in trouble, you can always count on them to help you out. I have too many stories in support of this, but not enough time to tell them... I am a New Yorker after all :goofy:

Just want to add my 2c to this rather leangthy post. I checked my 30 AMP fuse wire and had to replace it as well. Just like all the rest, my wire, just the short 2in portion that leads from the fuse holder to the conector, was brittle and discolored from temperature. Unlike others that replaced the entire red wire all the way from the battery + terminal, I only replaced the fuse holder and the connector by cutting them off and splicing in a new fuse holder with a 12GA wire. In my opinion, the red/white wire that comes from the battery as well as the one that leads past the connector is not the problem and does not need to be replaced. The problem is the smaller guage 2in wire between the fuse holder and the connector. After making this change, I noticed an improvement in the way the bike starts. Apparently, the smaller guage wire had acted as a resistor and reduced the current available to starter. My starter would sometmes stumble during startup before. Each stumble was accompanied by a momentery loss of power, which would reset the clock and the trip meters. After the fix, this no longer happens, so I guess the fix worked fine. While I was "there", I also used dielectric grease on ALL terminals and connections that I could get to with ferrings off. Now, the electric system should be bulletproof :goofy: