From: dc-cycles-digest-request@XXXXXX (The dc-cycles list administrator) To: dc-cycles@XXXXXX Errors-To: dc-cycles-digest-request@XXXXXX Subject: dc-cycles digest for 01/01/06 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ __ /-----\ __ 'dc-cycles' is an unmoderated email discussion list (__\/ _____ \/__) about motorcycling in the Washington D.C. area. =( \___/ )= \ ___ / An archive of the dc-cycles list is available at: | / _ \ | http://www.dc-cycles.org/ \ || || / \|| ||/ Subscribe/unsubscribe requests should be sent to: \| |/ dc-cycles-digest-request@XXXXXX |_| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Allen Fahey" To: "'Matthew Harrell'" , "'DC Cycles List'" Subject: RE: [dc-cycles] Paint work Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:38:59 -0500 Matthew, I'm an experienced painter and I do side work. If you're interested give me a call 443-324-9283. I'll be up late tonight :) -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Harrell [mailto:lists-sender-4e80d3@XXXXXX] To: DC Cycles List Subject: [dc-cycles] Paint work Can anyone recommend a good, reasonably-priced place in the Northern Virginia area that can repaint a tank and a couple of minor pieces? -- Matthew Harrell Hackers are just a migratory Bit Twiddlers, Inc. lifeform with a tropism for mharrell@XXXXXX computers. _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 01:07:38 -0500 From: Mike Troutman To: DCCycles Subject: [dc-cycles] Happy New Year Happy New Year to all. -- ___________________________________ Mike Troutman mike@XXXXXX http://www.troutman.org/ Home 703.392.1066 Cell 703.565.4801 Fax 703.392.4665 ICQ 239667121 _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 06:43:00 -0800 (PST) From: Jay To: dc-cycles@XXXXXX Subject: [dc-cycles] First Ride of 06 3:57 AM Bethesda..coming off a long -ass, open-bar non-tipping shift as a bartender. Walk the block to my beloved blue and white 05 R1. Get on the bike, the engine purrs. Arlington Boulevard to Little Falls to Massachusetts to Dalecarlia Parkway. Loughboro to Arizona to Canal Road. Why is my steering funny? I can't turn worth a @#%$! I have not been drinking at all. Key Bridge to 110. Flat effing tire. I am starting my first ride of 06 with a flat!!!!! I did not feel like waiting by the side of the road, trying to make it to work where I garage the bike - so I gimped along at under 20 miles an hour for the two remaining miles to home. I was really looking forward to two days of riding. I don't suppose anyone knows where I could get a new tire between now and the 3rd? Cheers. __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) From: "LindaT." To: "Dc-Cycles" Subject: RE: [dc-cycles] First Ride of 06 Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:45:11 -0500 If you didn't destroy the tire, then a tire repair kit might keep you moving for a while. Some folks won't ride on a plugged tire, while others will. FWIW I have ridden many miles on a plugged tire with no ill effects. LindaT. www.CustomTankBags.com Hollywood, FL IBA,BMWBMW,AMA '99 R1100RT Mr Buzzy '95 F3 Purple Haze '00 KLR250 Super Sherpa Tenzing -----Original Message----- From: Jay [mailto:jkcolt@XXXXXX] To: dc-cycles@XXXXXX Subject: [dc-cycles] First Ride of 06 3:57 AM Bethesda..coming off a long -ass, open-bar non-tipping shift as a bartender. Walk the block to my beloved blue and white 05 R1. Get on the bike, the engine purrs. Arlington Boulevard to Little Falls to Massachusetts to Dalecarlia Parkway. Loughboro to Arizona to Canal Road. Why is my steering funny? I can't turn worth a @#%$! I have not been drinking at all. Key Bridge to 110. Flat effing tire. I am starting my first ride of 06 with a flat!!!!! I did not feel like waiting by the side of the road, trying to make it to work where I garage the bike - so I gimped along at under 20 miles an hour for the two remaining miles to home. I was really looking forward to two days of riding. I don't suppose anyone knows where I could get a new tire between now and the 3rd? Cheers. __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Subject: RE: [dc-cycles] First Ride of 06 Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:58:24 -0500 From: "Cedric Bernescut" To: "Dc-Cycles" Hangover and tire-plugging thread, what a combo! Too bad about the tire Julian, hope the rest of the year is better. Cedric Bernescut 2000 CBR600F4 Annandale, VA Subject: RE: [dc-cycles] First Ride of 06 If you didn't destroy the tire, then a tire repair kit might keep you moving for a while. Some folks won't ride on a plugged tire, while others will. FWIW I have ridden many miles on a plugged tire with no ill effects. LindaT. www.CustomTankBags.com Hollywood, FL IBA,BMWBMW,AMA '99 R1100RT Mr Buzzy '95 F3 Purple Haze '00 KLR250 Super Sherpa Tenzing _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 11:18:27 -0500 From: Aki Damme Subject: RE: [dc-cycles] First Ride of 06 To: "Dc-Cycles" Have to agree with Linda. If it's not a sidewall issue, plug it and you should be fine until you can get a replacement tire. Otherwise, I don't *think* the local bike shops will be closed tomorrow (Monday). You might want to call around first thing in the morning and see who's open. Or, if you have some numbers to some local shops in your area, call them now and see if their voicemail mentions being open tomorrow. -aki At 10:45 AM 1/1/2006, LindaT. wrote: >If you didn't destroy the tire, then a tire repair kit might keep you moving >for a while. Some folks won't ride on a plugged tire, while others will. > >FWIW I have ridden many miles on a plugged tire with no ill effects. > >LindaT. >www.CustomTankBags.com >Hollywood, FL >IBA,BMWBMW,AMA >'99 R1100RT Mr Buzzy >'95 F3 Purple Haze >'00 KLR250 Super Sherpa Tenzing > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jay [mailto:jkcolt@XXXXXX] >Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 9:43 AM >To: dc-cycles@XXXXXX >Subject: [dc-cycles] First Ride of 06 > > > >3:57 AM Bethesda..coming off a long -ass, open-bar >non-tipping shift as >a bartender. Walk the block to my beloved blue and >white 05 R1. Get on >the bike, the engine purrs. Arlington Boulevard to >Little Falls to >Massachusetts to Dalecarlia Parkway. Loughboro to >Arizona to Canal Road. > Why is my steering funny? I can't turn worth a @#%$! >I have not been drinking at all. Key Bridge to 110. >Flat effing tire. I >am starting my first ride of 06 with a flat!!!!! I did >not feel like waiting by the side of the road, >trying to make it to work where I garage the bike - so >I gimped along at under 20 miles an hour for the two >remaining miles to home. >I was really looking forward to two days of riding. I >don't suppose anyone knows where I could get a new >tire between now and the 3rd? > >Cheers. > > > > >__________________________________ >Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. >http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 09:50:02 -0800 (PST) From: matthew patton Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] First Ride of 06 To: dc-cycles@XXXXXX I'm going to cheat and write about my last ride of '05. It's about 6pm and after spending an hour trying to figure what the heck is wrong with my dual-sport kit such that the right blinker works but the left one doesn't. worse, the left turn signal switch causes the head and taillights to blink. I think it's a bad circuit board. It's practically new, too. Anyhow I'm blatting down Braddock road on the WR and I get to Springfield Mall and a FFx copper lights me up. "where is your tag?" huh? waddya know, it either fatigued off or somebody broke it off for me. It was there a few days ago! "that'll be a ticket" damn. "your license please" Now I'm stuck. I had changed pants because of th weather before leaving the house and I am wallet less. "I don't think you have a license" he says. But all he writes me is a "failure to have license on person" ticket. I don't have a cage adn it's such a nice day out. Do a risk a ride? (this time with my IL registration and licence in my pocket?) __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 13:43:37 -0500 From: Paul Wilson To: matthew patton Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] First Ride of 06 Cc: dc-cycles@XXXXXX Happened to me once. The tag vibrated right off the VFR when it was about two weeks old. I first noticed it at work, so I rang up the Alex. PD's non-emergency number. (I don't think it had any help separating from the bike, but you never know.) An officer showed up and took my "lost tag" report about an hour later. With an incident # in hand, I went to DC DMV and another hour and $10 later, I had a new moto tag. FWIW, a lot of jurisdictions (DC included) require you to have proof of insurance on your person as well. You can get written up for that too. -=P On 1/1/06, matthew patton wrote: > > "where is your tag?" > huh? waddya know, it either fatigued off or somebody broke it off for > me. It was there a few days ago! > "that'll be a ticket" > damn. > "your license please" > Now I'm stuck. I had changed pants because of th weather before leaving > the house and I am wallet less. > "I don't think you have a license" he says. > But all he writes me is a "failure to have license on person" ticket. .... -- Paul in DC - www.wilsonline.org 95 VFR - 90 KLR _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 14:21:37 -0500 From: skip To: Paul Wilson CC: dc-cycles@XXXXXX Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] First Ride of 06 X-Antivirus: Scanned by Vexira Antivirus 1.1.6 Paul Wilson wrote: > > Happened to me once. The tag vibrated right off the VFR when it was > about two weeks old. I first noticed it at work, so I rang up the > Alex. PD's non-emergency number. (I don't think it had any help > separating from the bike, but you never know.) An officer showed up > and took my "lost tag" report about an hour later. With an incident # > in hand, I went to DC DMV and another hour and $10 later, I had a new > moto tag. > > FWIW, a lot of jurisdictions (DC included) require you to have proof > of insurance on your person as well. You can get written up for that > too. > > -=P one of DC's jack-booted thugs informed that not having proof of registration was justification fr him to impound the vehicle. _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) From: "smthng else" To: Subject: RE: [dc-cycles] First Ride of 06 Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:46:49 -0500 > Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] First Ride of 06 > Anyhow I'm blatting down Braddock road on the WR and I get to > Springfield Mall and a FFx copper lights me up. So that was YOU in the B&N parking lot last night?!? Hehe. I pulled in a few spots down from where you stopped (big blue Chevy Avalanche). He sure did look like he was giving you a fairly hard time. I was gonna stop and chat, but he took longer with you than I did with the cashier. I figured an extra voice in the mix wouldn't have helped you out any, so I took off. While waiting for the light, I saw the LEO turn off his lights and drive down the parking lot. At least you weren't in the back. :) --smthng http://spaces.msn.com/members/smthng/ "A wrong-doer is often a man that has left smthng undone, not always he that has done smthng." -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) From: "smthng else" To: "'Dc-Cycles'" Subject: RE: [dc-cycles] First Ride of 06 Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 17:54:36 -0500 > Subject: RE: [dc-cycles] First Ride of 06 > Too bad about the tire Julian, hope the rest of the year is better. I don't think that was Julian... He should still be up in Canada. --Jonathan "smthng" Kalmes 2005 Yamaha FJR1300 - "Blue Bayou" Springfield, VA http://spaces.msn.com/members/smthng/ If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked smthng.