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Thanks, I now understand your definition. The dictionary's definition would indicates 'intent', which I am pretty sure Paul was not guilty of. disinformation n : misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.) Most of the people on this list are very careful to keep the information accurate and enlightening. Sometimes we post information that might lead one to assume what one should not assume. But that is the fault of the assumer, not the information poster. And it fair of us to ask the poster for clarification and details. I was tempted to scream, "DISINFORMATION" durring the broken Sachs shock thread...But DirtyBill seemed to put the offender in place without too much problem.

I would not turn the igition key on while it is charging from a trickle charger, or any external charger. "Spikes kill" --Buffy the vampire slayer or was that "Spike kills"?

They wrote back to me yesterday.(36days) They did not give me the details that I wanted on pricing. I assume this price is for the map 5 times option. But I would opt for the $450 model as my seat of the pants method will take 20 mappings. This still could be the way to go as it includes excellent diagnostic software. And if someone just wanted to transcribe their PCIII map to the ECU and resell the PCIII this could be an excellent deal. "Dear Sir Yes our software will let you map your MotoGuzzi. The price for the kit is $379 + shipping Regards Giamberto Scaccia Director of Engineering Technoresearch Inc. www.technoresearch.com"

It is only disinformation if Paul is lying or we rush to judgement against the rider, the installer or the manufacturer. It is a motorcycle clutch and not a car clutch, so yah, we are going to have more problems. Our clutches are lighter, we rev the heck out of our bikes, and shit happens. We can hypothesis all we want and until we irresponsibly blame someone, there is no disinformation. But it is good advice not to blame someone or some manufacturer, without solid evidence. This could have been prevented possibly through the use of a ring to evenly distribute the bolt torque. Possibly the torque was off too much between bolts. Maybe they should have used Loctite®. Possibly popping the clutch is a bad thing to do to a guzzi and the rider MAY have abused the clutch. Certainly the product could have been made heavier and reduced the chance of it cracking the way it did. This is a compomise that is engineered into the clutch. It is not bad that they do this unless we see too many failing, which is apparently not the case with this manufacturer. Of course if your clutch is the one that fails, you might say there are too many failures....But you also have to look at it and think what you could have done wrong. Oh sh^t I am late for work

To cut the conspiracy short, his wife was apparently on the phone with him when he pulled the trigger. I can't imagine the suffering his family is going through http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/23/164218

2003 interview Thompson gave on KDNK in the Roaring Fork Valley in Colorado. An excerpt: "Bush is really the evil one here and it is more than just him. We are the Nazis in this game and I don't like it. I am embarrassed and I am pissed off. I mean to say something. I think a lot of people in this country agree with me - a lot than that are saying anything...we'll see what happens to me if I get my head cut off next week -- it is always unknown or bushy-haired strangers who commit suicide right afterwards with no witnesses."

Now I'm also confused Is it Sweet Baby Nemo or Captain Sweet Enzo?? 44273[/snapback] Must be Captain Sweet Baby Enzo-Ray Guzzi, Founder of the Original Ray's Bologna Pizza® Just kiddin'! I believe Sweet Baby Ray got off. Sometimes, all you need is for the cop not to show. He probably did not even need a lawyer.

What!?! You are not a cop! You post third generation America's Finest! Maybe it is just your Superman avatar reminds me of Dudley Doorite.(please excuse my spellin') Sorry Enzo, all my fault. Now I am really confused...Are Sweet Baby Ray and Enzo the same person?

I am also curious as to the details of Andy's and especially VK's mod. VK, If I may dare ask, how much do you weigh, How did your sag turn out, did you have to add a preload spcer, and do you find that you can still get enough rebound damping out of the adjusters? And since you went higher with the oil I would think it might bottom out on the compressed air a little too soon, or even prevent it from using fulll suspension travel. But you said you are happy with it, so maybe it is fine. I ask because my stock shocks feel like they are bottoming out on air. And I was thinking of with a lower oil level. But maybe I am bottoming on the damper rod or whatever the mechanical conclusion of the travel is. Andy, did you simply pre-load the stock springs? Thanks!

You have got my vote! Even if you are not perfect IMHO. But then again I am going to go to Vegas and win at Roulette 10 times in a row and make a hundred million bucks and buy out MGNA! So, then I'll vote for myself! I am glad that is water under the bridge. It sucks that some of us paid $12,000 for what others paid $8000. And some of us bypassed our local dealers to save that much. But like you said, all water under the bridge. I like companies like Saturn and Scion who have fixed, haggle free prices. Almost enough to buy from them...

It would be fun to go to some court cases and see who gets off and how. I remember being in court in Oregon and being able to predict who gets off by their stereo typical appearances. The pot smokin' head banger types who put on the polyester suit and tied their hair back did not have a chance. While the middle class white women, possibly the head banger's mother, got the fines reduced and everything. Having a lawyer may have helped, but it was hard to say. I was there for driving with an out of state license. I visited a friend who was going to UofO and we decided to rent half a house for one semester. I bought a bike and registered it in Oregon, but did not give up my NY license because I did not plan on staying in Oregon. I could not easily register the bike in NY from Oregon, especially since I gave up my NY residence...Mom moved...So, I got stuck with a ticket, after being pulled over for 60 in a 55. Good grief! don't they have anything better to do! So, I looked up the law, photocopied it, showed it to the Eugene judge who refused to read it. And argued that it cleared me. I got threatened with contempt (Brian is not suprised...) So, I just paid the fine, got back on my Oregon registered bike and road away with my New York license. A few weeks later I got pulled over again for appearing to be going to fast. (I was practicing agressive stopping at a stop sign) I then got another ticket for no license and this time the Salem judge let me off. The bike was registered in Oregon for 4 months.

PS I just love how the News media says that Chirac and Bush have nothing in common! what a bunch of BS

Judging by your bike, you are alot better at organizing than I am. But I shalll follow.... They can't kill all of us, right?

I would agree, that when I am braking the law a cop should be viewed as a potential enemy. Every morning 90% of the traffic is going over the speed limit and about once a month, the cops sit their with their speed guns. I feel like every day is a game of Russian Roulette. The best I can do is be in the 20% of slowest drivers, and so far the strategy has paid off. As for the statement, "they Will indeed lie." You are again generallizing. I suspect Martin and Brian and the other fine LEOs on this forum, don't lie and frame people. If anything Sweet Baby Ray's lawyer is probably a liar, possibly a briber, and Sweet Baby Ray is probably just ast dishonest for not copping to the charges, assuming he did 122 in a 60. Bribery is a serious offense. I suppose that is why you won't tell us how Ray got off.

I needed to look it up... Written By Warren Zevon & David Lindell c. 1976 Zevon Music/BMI Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray Through sixty-six and seven they fought the Congo war With their fingers on their triggers, knee-deep in gore For days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees They killed to earn their living and to help out the Congolese Roland the Thompson gunner... His comrades fought beside him - Van Owen and the rest But of all the Thompson gunners, Roland was the best So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's head Roland the headless Thompson gunner Norway's bravest son Time, time, time For another peaceful war But time stands still for Roland 'Til he evens up the score They can still see his headless body stalking through the night In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in He found him in Mombassa in a barroom drinking gin Roland aimed his Thompson gun - he didn't say a word But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg Roland the headless Thompson gunner... The eternal Thompson gunner still wandering through the night Now it's ten years later but he still keeps up the fight In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun and bought it

Heres one for Sandra Dee

I trust he will get his final wish. "On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.""

I guess there is more than one messiah: http://www.mindspring.com/~wjennings/loudon.html

Funky is right, I like the BMW F650 Aprillia built more than the latest funkadelicacies. vs

Trudeau is not a totalitarian commie and Thompson was not a right wing libertarian. They are/were both critics of the totalitarian right wing. I suspect the recent Bush victory and appointments of the most extreme bastards, Gonzalez and Negroponte, did little to brighten Thompson's reality. It is sad when the greatest of fighters quits. But if I walked through his shoes, I would have been dead 20 years ago. One last toast to the Gonzo King, Jesus Hated Bald Pussy By Hunter S. Thompson From "Kingdom Of Fear " 2003 Let's face it, the yo-yo president of the U.S.A. knows nothing. He is a dunce. He does what he is told to do, says what he is told to say, poses the way he is told to pose. He is a fool. No. Nonsense. The president cannot be a Fool. Not at this moment in time, when the last living vestiges of the American Dream are on the line. This is not the time to have a bogus rich kid in charge of the White House. Which is, after all, our house. That is our headquarters, it is where the heart of America lives. So if the president lies and acts giddy about other people's lives, if he wantonly and stupidly endorses mass murder by definition, a loud and meaningless animal with no functional intelligence and no balls. To say this goofy child president is looking more and more like Richard Nixon in the summer of 1974 would be a flagrant insult to Nixon. Whoops! Did I say that? Is it even vaguely possible that some New Age Republican whore-beast of a false president could actually make Richard Nixon look like a Liberal? The capacity of these vicious assholes we elected to be in charge of our lives for four years to commit terminal damage to our lives and our souls and our loved ones is far beyond Nixon's. Shit! Nixon was the creator of many of the once-proud historical landmarks that these dumb bastards are savagely destroying now: the Clean Air Act of 1970; Campaign Finance Reform; the endangered species act; a Real-Politik dialogue with China; and on and on. The prevailing quality of life in America-by any accepted methods of measuring-was inarguably freer and more politically open under Nixon than it is today in this evil year of our Lord 2002. The Boss was a certified monster who deserved to be impeached and banished. He was a truthless creature of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, a foul human monument to corruption and depravity on a scale that dwarfs any other public official in American history. But Nixon was at least smart enough to understand why so many honorable patriotic U.S. citizens despised him. He was a Liar. The truth was not in him. Nixon believed, as he said many times, that if the president of the United States does it, it can't be illegal. But Nixon never understood the much higher and meaner truth of Bob Dylan's warning that "To live outside the law you must be honest." The difference between an outlaw and a war criminal is the difference between a pedophile and a Pederast: The pedophile is a person who thinks about sexual behavior with children, and the Pederast does these things. He lays hands on innocent children, he penetrates them and changes their lives forever. Being the object of a pedophile's warped affections is a Routine feature of growing up in America, and being a victim of a Pederast's crazed "love" is part of dying. Innocence is no longer an option. Once penetrated, the child becomes a Queer in his own mind, and that is not much different than murder. Richard Nixon crossed the line when he began murdering foreigners in the name of "family values"- and George Bush crossed it when he sneaked into office and began killing brown skinned children in the name of Jesus and the American people. When Muhammad Ali declined to be drafted and forced to kill "gooks" in Vietnam he said, "I ain't got nothin' against them Viet Cong. No Cong ever called me Nigger." I agreed with him, according to my own personal ethics and values. He was right. If we all had a dash of Muhammad Ali's eloquent courage, this country and the world would be a better place today because of it. Okay. That's it for now. Read it and weep....See you tomorrow, folks. You haven't heard the last of me. I am the one who speaks for the spitit of freedom and decency in you. Shit. Somebody has to do it. We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world-a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us... No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Well, shit on that dumbness. George W. Bush does not speak for me or my son or my mother or my friends or the people I respect in this world. We didn't vote for these cheap, greedy little killers who speak for America today- and we will not vote for them again in 2002. Or 2004. Or ever. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill "gooks". They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are racists and hate mongers among us-they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. @#!#$# them.

Cool! So you if you use spade connectors, you won't have to cut into any of the existing wiring, so NO Soldering required! Then the hardest thing is getting your crimping done right. Buying a good crimper might help. Great tip on connecting to the starter lead! I saw my mechanic charging up a bike through that lead rather than removing the seat to get to the battery...I felt kind of stupid for not having thought of it.

It should be pretty simple, just follow the diagram. Soldering can be a bitch. An easier alternative may be these posilock connectors http://www.webbikeworld.com/Reviewed-motor...ucts/posi-lock/ Yes, you will need to run a hot wire to the battery and a dedicated ground line to the frame or engine. There is a headlight relay, but it is not dedicated only to the headlight. The factory does not do it, because it would be considered over engineered. And technically your bulb will burn hotter and not last as long after the modification. A worthwhile tradeoff, but still a tradeoff.

Oh Shit! Now everyone on the list is pissed at me!!! Are you working on Presidents Day? You guys are dedicated. Me too. Undercut is a bad word. You are simply doing a better job, more people will have respect for you and do business with you as a result. My dealer, whom I adore, charged me for the oil cooler brackets when they broke on my new bike...but he helped me install them in the parking lot free of charge. Ideally. It should have been under warranty....You would probably do better. If you offer a better deal, it undercuts the competition. Not the best word choice but the same effect. Please don't stop doing a better job or I'll have most of the Guzzisti in Texas pissed off with me. They probably already hate me for saying you should raise your labor rate. I hope the cycle never ends, and we appreciate your website. I simply heard a rumor a couple years ago that other dealers thought that you should not be post Do It Yourself information, as it was potentially robbing them of labor profit. Not exactly undercutting, but in the same vain, doing a better job, creating a web presence where I would go to you for a Stucchi Crossover before my local dealer. I have been waiting two weeks for a Brembo microswitch. I'll bet you or MGcycle would have had it at my door by now. No, they charged me $30+ for $16.25 unit shown on that page that I had to go to home depot to get a hose adapter for. I should have been patient and ordered the 03 California petcock. But it will work. Just more points of potential failure... One of the problems we customers have is determining what parts will offend the dealer if we ask to install them. Al gives gives a good example, the Mike Rich parts. It seems silly for me to ask my dealer if he should order them or if I should order them. But maybe we should ask first. My dealer will probably pay 10% less and then we both win. So you have a point... But I still think it would not hurt you much to open your doors to people with parts strapped to their bikes that they got off of eBay or wherever. If Tx took his clothes off in the shop, you might get some of Cycle Garden's customers. But with genders or preferences reversed

Just pulling out the internal metal shade helped mine a little. It did not put more light on the road, but more light up ahead. Some, have upgraded bulbs. I would avoid the blue tinted "xeon" bulbs. Re-wiring so that the headlights have two extra dedicated relays, one for high beam and one for low beam, and heavier wiring(12 gauge???) will give the bulb more juice and Ummmph! EDIT, Yah, like what DVH said.

It is more aerodynamic! And I suspect it has a motorized High Beam, so that may actually be brighter on high beam. Otherwise the reflector area may be reduced, so some lumens may be lost, but automobiles with the HID projector beams seam to perform well with, even with reduced reflection area. If it is low beam only, forget about it. Too much money for half a solution. However: They also have an H4/HID conversion with low beam only for $250. Couple a good pair of driving lights to use for high beam and it could be a good setup.