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Messages - T.W. Day

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General Banter / Lake Superior Loop Experience
« on: January 05, 2012, 11:38:05 AM »
I'm working on a generic article about the Lake Superior Loop by motorcycle. If any of you have a favorite attraction, section of the loop, city to hang out in, or anything that you wouldn't mind being quoted about, I'd love the input.

Thomas Day (twday60@...)
Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Magazine
http://www.motorbyte.com/mmm/
http://geezerwithagrudge.blogspot.com/

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General Banter / Re: MSR fuel bottle
« on: May 06, 2011, 08:35:46 AM »
I carry a couple on my V-Strom and used both in the way to Inuvik and in a couple of places in North Dakota and Montana. Add the MSR Whisperlite Internationale stove that can use practically anything for fuel and you're set for camping or running low on gas.

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General Banter / Yarusso's 2Wheel Wednesday ended
« on: May 05, 2011, 09:13:52 PM »
Anyone have an inside line on why this event has been terminated?

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General Banter / Re: The How, Why, Where, and What I Ride Survey
« on: January 16, 2011, 04:15:34 PM »
Due to problems with Survey Monkey, I had to move this survey to Google Docs (thanks Chris).

You'll find it here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFdTRjVMYnFTcW1OU21PTC1BRmRNM2c6MQ

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General Banter / Re: The How, Why, Where, and What I Ride Survey
« on: January 16, 2011, 02:09:40 PM »
 :P "What did the people that emailed you about sport touring say?"

"Apparently you don't care about sport touring." And so on.


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General Banter / Re: The How, Why, Where, and What I Ride Survey
« on: January 15, 2011, 11:12:35 AM »
I don't see temperature as an issue in SoCal. It's never colder than 40F, so all year is riding season. The only time I didn't commute on my motorcycle between 1983 and 1992 was when I was commuting on my bicycle. In Minnesota, there are folks who can make the same argument, but I"m not them.

Websters says,

Touring
1: participation in a tour
2: cross-country skiing

Not particularly helpful. I really like "just going somewhere" for pavement traveling. All I get out of the "sport touring" designation is either a sportbike with bags (Ducati) or a regular touring bike with sport plastic and a more aggressive riding position (ST100). We have this labeling crap in music too. It's for the marketing people and the suckers who care about marketing.

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General Banter / Re: The How, Why, Where, and What I Ride Survey
« on: January 14, 2011, 07:26:31 PM »
I ended up writing question 10 because I was fuzzy on my own answers and because I thought it was funny. Yep, I said "yes" on the lying and even wrote myself a lame excuse. Now that you bring up the MSF gearless riding, I realize that I lied twice, at least. At least I brought the armored jacket to the BRC (since I ride there), so I had one on the premises. ;-)

Dual sport and adventure touring blend for me, so I stopped differentiating after the 250-750cc size. I call my Kawasaki KL250 an "adventure touring" bike at least as much as I refer to it as a DS. I suspect most of us might call the DR650 a DS and a KLR650 might often get tagged as "adventure touring." Some of the entries used 10 to complain about the categories and that is giving me all kinds of inspiration for the article. The lack of a "sport touring" category flamed on at least three folks. I am completely clueless on how sport touring is different from touring. For me, adventure touring has to include at least a few thousand miles of dirt. Most GS BMW's would not meet that standard.

As for the California "season," I discovered Aerostich in 1983 when I moved to SoCal from Nebraska. Spring 1983 was very wet and slightly cooler than normal, so I went looking for wet weather riding gear. At Beach Yamaha and a pretty good sized bike gear shop, I asked about rain gear and was asked, "Why would you ride in this weather?" I found Aerostich in a bike magazine and bought my first Roadcrafter (I don't think it was called that, then). I can still fit into that suit, but Andy says I look like an over-stuffed sausage when he sees me in it.

Thomas Day
Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Magazine
http://www.motorbyte.com/mmm/
http://geezerwithagrudge.blogspot.com/
thomas@motorbyte.com

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General Banter / Re: The How, Why, Where, and What I Ride Survey
« on: January 13, 2011, 03:25:01 PM »
I'm with you on the ice. There is a huge difference between "likelihood" and "possibility" and I decided on the second as an indication of fear/caution. So far, out of 118 entries 70% have said that the "possibility of ice" is enough to keep them off of the bike. That's true for me, unless I am somewhere and need to be somewhere else and the bike is the only way back. Getting in and out of Alaska in June means riding on some icy roads, but I can't say I enjoyed it.

Even with all the places I posted, it's turning out to be a non-representative poll. 94% of the respondents "always" ride with a full-face helmet and 38% own adventure touring bikes. I think I only managed to attract the real 1%'ers.

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General Banter / Re: The How, Why, Where, and What I Ride Survey
« on: January 12, 2011, 07:34:16 PM »
Thanks, Tony. Good to hear from you.

Tom

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General Banter / The How, Why, Where, and What I Ride Survey
« on: January 12, 2011, 05:22:16 PM »
I'm playing with an idea for an early spring Geezer with A Grudge column. I need data; soft, hard, or totally bogus. The survey is at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7JK2TJP. I'd appreciate as many entries as possible.

thanks,
Tom

Thomas Day
Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Magazine
http://www.motorbyte.com/mmm/
http://geezerwithagrudge.blogspot.com/
thomas@motorbyte.com

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General Banter / Re: Chain link crimping tool
« on: July 09, 2010, 07:31:41 PM »
Ray took care of it for me. Thanks Ray!

Thanks to all of you who generously offered your help. This Monday, I'll be reminded of this great group as my grandson and I head for the Rockies.

 ::)

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General Banter / Chain link crimping tool
« on: July 09, 2010, 09:51:53 AM »
Anyone have a master link crimp tool that I could borrow for about 5 minutes? Being a geezerly sort, I have usually been satisfied with old fashioned master links. However, my new chain has a crimp-style master link and my new crimping tool seems to want to destroy the link.  >:(

I'm about 75% of the way to installing my spare master link. My grandson and I are going on a long trip together, leaving Monday, and I'd like to get this sorted out.

Thomas Day
Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Magazine
http://www.motorbyte.com/mmm/
http://geezerwithagrudge.blogspot.com/
thomas@motorbyte.com

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General Banter / Re: Tony Kellen
« on: June 02, 2010, 08:41:41 AM »
 :o Tony,

I'm really sorry to hear about your bout with cancer and hospitals. Glad to hear you are doing well. Hope to see you out on the road soon. Take good care of yourself.

Tom

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Bike Help / Re: Oil Seal Tactics
« on: March 22, 2010, 10:58:40 AM »
Thanks, Lloyd.

I am all but positive it's an outer seal leak. I'll verify that when I get to work on it, before yanking the new-old seal out. I'll try the threebond next time. Apparently, the 2000 Kawi Super Sherpa has a problem with this seal that other editions of the bike haven't exhibited. I'm lucky mine decided to spit out the seal in the driveway, not in the middle of nowhere in North Dakota. I've been told that synthetic oil often is all it takes to make the seal pop. Supposedly, it's a seal problem, not a case design issue, since Kawi changed seal vendors for later versions.

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General Banter / Re: Still just a bit nippy. So I'll clean the garage
« on: March 21, 2010, 09:37:41 PM »
A friend and I did a couple hundred miles north and east of the Cities this afternoon. The Kanetsu vest did a pretty good job for the first couple of hours, then my arms and legs began to freeze up. 40 felt a whole lot warmer working in the backyard than it did on the bike.

Thomas Day
http://geezerwithagrudge.blogspot.com/
thomas@motorbyte.com

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