TSCLT 7.0: Hemis, Harleys, Hooters-n-Harridans

[SpeareChucker]

Okay


That clip reminds of the clubs where I was the "doorman..."


(I even threw my kid sister out and took her fake ID.)

 

[Bidin~Time]

He'd get a big head and strut around going, "I'm bad, I'm bad. That's right, I'm bad."

See what you've done?

Mercy me

 

[bellisarius]

See what you've done?

Mercy me

Just trying to be helpful.

OK, store run. BBL

 

[SpeareChucker]

I can't get my head out of the door!



Po, po pit'ful me!

 

[Bidin~Time]

Now you'll have to hire Wat to do a remodel to accommodate that lil issue.

 

[SpeareChucker]

I'm too cheap to hire good help.

 

[Bidin~Time]

It's just as well, he'd turn your home into a mosque for Allah. Then where would you be?

 

[Que]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=efB3aQkZS1g

If two makes a collection, I am now a collector of arguably good quality, mid-century, motel art landscapes. The last one was an urban legend artist that reportedly traveled the country, painting and selling more or less the same painting from a trailer at the roadside.

This one is a known artist with a little better provenance.

I don't really know anything about art but when I see a painting that's obviously an actual oil painting in a decent frame cheap that I happen to like the scene, I figure it's worth picking up if the price of the painting is less than it would cost to have had the painting framed.

I'm a value-oriented art investor.

 

[Endrura]

I like finding local artists. It's a good excuse to wander local art shows and meet some new people. I agree with you about finding some nice pieces at roadside sales and auctions. I have a storage area with pieces I like and I change up the pictures and small accessories when I want to update the look around here.

 

[Luk]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=efB3aQkZS1g

If two makes a collection, I am now a collector of arguably good quality, mid-century, motel art landscapes. The last one was an urban legend artist that reportedly traveled the country, painting and selling more or less the same painting from a trailer at the roadside.

This one is a known artist with a little better provenance.

I don't really know anything about art but when I see a painting that's obviously an actual oil painting in a decent frame cheap that I happen to like the scene, I figure it's worth picking up if the price of the painting is less than it would cost to have had the painting framed.

I'm a value-oriented art investor.

You stay in motels and not hotels.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Home/motel. Reasonable day's production. Another leak. Allah damn it all!!! We'll see how this dawg hunts, but I don't expect anything better than what rhymes with it, so . . . .


Followed a kid with a Sportster on the back of his pick'em-up into the gas station and got the pump next to his. We chatted bikes for a bit. I gave him a plug for softails. He had his softail with him - kinda cute.


I forgot to mention, I saw an old guy drive a '67 Barracuda ragtop through town the other day. Top dropped, small block burbling through too-restrictive tailpipes, but out-and-about nonetheless. Bitchin'!!!


Just about outta June . . . .

 

[bellisarius]

Spent the better part of the day dealing with a plumbing problem of my own. Damn kitchen sink. When the house was remodeled way back when they screwed up the plumbing and it's where you'd have to tear out the cabinets to get to it. chemical warfare works, but it takes time. Oh well.

I'd ask if the plumbing your dealing with was part of the program, but I suppose until the inspector signs off on the final you're stuck with it no matter what.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The plumbing on my job was all outside of the walls. The tubs got new low-flow shower heads - that was it. New low-flow crappers and lavvy faucets, and a new low-flow kitchen sink faucet, sink, and dishwasher. New drains in the cabinets hooked up to the old stuff. We changed out galvie steel where it came through the wall and replaced it with PVC.


We did have the one building that froze hard, and we did 40-some leak repairs in it. That was just old-fashioned bad luck. Where we found broken CI lines if we happened to have a wall open, we fixed it - for a change order. And we replaced te lines under the slab in building A because hey had rotted out and didn't flow. The camera got stuck in one of them.


And we did dig up and replace some sewer outside where the camera showed problems. So, all this under house shit is on them.


What I need an answer on is, what the fuck am I supposed to do to get my work done so's I can get the inspector in and out and signing off . . . .

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Happy Monday, and Happy July. Year is half gone. How did that happen?


And it's getting good at being summer, because it's staying hot now. But it's been tamer than a lot of years up to this point, save for all the fucking rain. Altho' we did get a t-storm last night, it seems.


I'm trying to learn about these new-fangled electronic fuel mapping thingies. Seems the bike has one. Seems mine may be running lean now since I installed the new air intake. Maybe.


Good thing that spark plugs will still tell a body things like that, so I ordered a new pair.

 

[bellisarius]

Morning Wat.

I tank it the scooter is normally aspirated.

 

[oralaccents]

I always smile when harley noobs start chasing the bullshit make it loud accessories.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Oh yeah. Who wants to get into all that whizz-bangery?


Well, some folks, I'm sure.


In some respects, setting up carbs is so much easier, and yet it resembles witchcraft in its own way.


So much changes, and yet so much stays the same . . . .

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[oralaccents]

Once you have to hook up a laptop to make your bike run right, it’s a lost cause for me. A properly set up big twin really shouldnt need anything beyond routine.

My injected one is a straightforward stage one and my carb bike is stock with the exception of a mikuni, both because reliable.

Lots of guys seem to relish the fiddling, i have them to ride.

But to each his own.

 

[Endrura]

Morning all, the mosquitoes are large and in force this morning.
I think I gave a pint walking the pups this morning.
As for your job Wat, queue the Twilight Zone music and accept you will be there forever.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

That was funny. I hope you're wrong, but perhaps I should move all my stuff here in case you're not. Thanks for the pooter tip yesterday, too. I may be onto something.


More research . . . in my fucking spare time.


Meh, fucking hard-n-software . . . .

 

[oralaccents]

Any softail love ends during starter replacement.

 

[bellisarius]

Do they make aftermarket EGT gauges for the beast? One way of dynamically tuning the air-fuel mixture.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Probably. There's a host of crap out there, the trick being sieving through it all to find out what's pertinent.


I do have an idea, so I'll try that out first. And I did look at the remapping info on this tidbit and it was conspicuous in its absence.


I assumed that it was correct and not an oversight by the tech writers, and I saved all the old goodies.


Off to see what mayhem the weasels are up to today.