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    Insurance - cost of use. 💸💸💸

    Hold into your nuts Bosco, the premier just announced more "choice" in auto insurance coming up in Ontario.
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    Reinstalling the carbs on my 76 XS650.

    I fought with carbs before until I found the pry bar against the downtube trick. Now they go in easily, albeit with newer, supple carb boots and some silicone lube. Use some thin sheeting to protect the paint. I used to torque the the hell out of everything until I realized I had cut through...
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    WTF pictures

    This was probably the sinkhole under the Corvette museum a few years ago.
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    Interesting Site

    https://motorcycleproject.com LOTS of insight from a long time mechanic and industry insider. Interesting photos: CruisinImage piston rings doubling their end gap in under 500 miles.
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    Exhaust Question -- Cross Over Pipes

    Spiderpatch https://greggdistributors.ca/automotive/Car-Care/Auto-Body-Repair/per90331 Just wrap it like tape. The heat cures it rock hard. I've used it several times to take up clearances and it works well.
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    WTF pictures

    I Grew up there. I have a niece living in Augusta. She met a nice young chap from Boston when she went to school there. Don't know what he makes of Newfoundland. He met me and my brother once. Remarked we swore like sailors. Oh well... We both went out west in 92 to seek our fortune. Worked a...
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    WTF pictures

    Cigarettes will get you everytime.
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    WTF pictures

    This is an island, on a lake, on an island, on a lake, on an island. https://www.google.com/maps/@48.7967564,-57.6578152,184m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
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    Oil Filters

    I no longer clean the sump strainer. Every bike I ever owned had one, and none of them were serviceable, so why start now? I did fix the torn original. Checked the new one a few times. All good, so I leave it alone. If the motor is shedding enough bits to clog it you have far more serious issues.
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    Chicken Lips ! Scored !

    Since I lost both of mine on my 83, I thought of ways I could have kept it from happening, and the best one I thought of was slipping on a properly sized e-clip. Someone should do a scan of these and put them on Printables. My brother did a set of these for me...
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    Chinese cafe racer.

    British engine cases will always be the most lovely. Except the BSA power egg.
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    Chinese cafe racer.

    It looks like a 1400 Intruder motor.
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    Chinese cafe racer.

    All the Asian cafe's fall short when they just bodge in the Mattel, square-finned, straight lines and ridge-cased manure pump motors. Or they go overboard with something like the 1400 Intruder motor that is so over-styled it looks like nothing.
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    First start after rebuild

    Chain guide? Chain tension?
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    You asked for it!

    Nice. Careful with that extra light though. The seat, umm, has a certain rustic charm, but I find myself looking for the hole.
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