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    iowa

    West of Fostoria, East of May city, and north of Everly.
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    Who here is 90 years old?

    At age 50 I decided to turn 180 degrees and see how close to 0 I can get. 35 and looking foreward to those rebellious teen years!
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    What you southern folks are missing....

    Back then there was an expected failure rate for kids. We would climb into shopping carts in the grocery store parking lots and get towed around on the constantly shaking wheels behind pick-ups. Some of us survived to reproduce.
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    Adhesive Advice Needed

    Well, looks like you've got things in hand Downeaster. Sounds like for mph the calculation would be distance for tire circumference per full rotation. Time between beats is the parts of an hour. Probably need lots of spaces on one side of the decimal point for this one.
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    Adhesive Advice Needed

    I'm still trying to decide just how accurate all this is going to be? With the magnet on the constantly moving target, the wheel bouncing up and down, and the receiver/transmitter on a fixed point on the body or frame, those two points are always in a different spot in the rotation. compared to...
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    Will electric vehicles doom your neighborhood auto mechanic?

    The technology is all but there already to completely eliminate service techs. Most new equipment has self diagnostic capabilities and with a standardized parts inventory, any robot can plug in a new module. Be as easy as upgrades on the computer. Down time between 3 and 4 am. self driving unit...
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    state slangs

    I used to work with a guy that was just full of quaint sayings, Darker than the inside of your hat. That fella' is about as sharp as tapioca. Fucked up like a soup sandwich. That's about as fine as frog hair. Perforated bovine! What the hell have you been eat'n, road apple stew? Harder than...
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    Who's in Central US?

    West of Fostoria, east of Melvin, south of Lake Park and north of Everly.
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    Miesha: Build thread.

    I've got those very same mirrors on my bike and they have not moved since I installed last spring. Hard tail, solid mounted drag bars. Prices all over the map on ebay.
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    Forum t shirts

    I could use a new one also.
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    Victory Motorcycles shutting down production

    The Victory plant is just down the street from the plant I work at. I think that in the end, after investing in all the "from scratch" engineering and tooling. trying to break into the Harley market was just too big a task. Victory was only a small part of Polaris. They are very good at selling...
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    For Sale - Mikuni BS38 carbs

    Are these still for sale? How much to ship to 51338?
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    -38 deg at my house this am...

    Yeah, there are a group at work that were all twitterpated about heading out onto the lake this weekend and augering holes to go fishing. 28 below and a 20 mph breeze! Sharp as potato salad.
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    Why are there 883 Sportsters?

    We have a couple of women at work that ride 883's and a few wan-a-be bad boys with genuine Harley chaps and dew-rag and coffee mug and full sized Harleys. The women are bikers. The guys will keep planning that trip to Sturges and whose trailer they will take as they eat their watercress and...
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    What are your thoughts or ideas for XS650Fest & ChopOff 2017?

    The idea of a yearly gathering of anything xs650 sounds great to me. I have told myself I was going the last couple of years and let it slide because of our daughter needing to be given away by some "father of the bride" rule that seems to trump everything else except maybe the same daughter...
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    GO BIG RED!

    For those of you out there in the rest of the world, In the fall, crossing the river from Iowa into Omaha on a Saturday is like one of those disaster movies where the entire population is all traveling on one side of the freeway! The radio broadcasts the pre, pre, pre game shows,or rebroadcast...
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    Cool history

    Just the sculptures, posters and other artwork are worth the admission! The place is motorcycle overload at it's very best.
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    What have you done to your XS today?

    Thanks, Two Many.
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    What have you done to your XS today?

    Stopped at the gas station on the way home from work and when I kicked it over I backfired one of the carbs loose. I have replaced almost every bolt on this bike with allen heads since I built it, but not the stripped out phillips screw clamps holding the carbs. Anyone happen to know, off hand...
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    Chop them up.

    The way I see it, we all should be free to create whatever we want with our rides. People have always chased a certain look, or memory, or feeling for any number of personal items. Some can follow that idea and end up with a fine example of their dream. Some go through life making soup...
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