So many wires... Ride Report

External Since: Apr 17, 2007 Posts: 136

On Feb 19, 9:01 am, scrape <scrapeNOTHA... DeleteThis @nc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:09:57 -0800 (PST), Tiago Rocha

> >Ouch, german shepards can be really jealous.
>
> Interesting way to put it.

was it a female? Female GSDs are very very jealous of her master.
Once, I got very drunk at home. I was sleeping with the door that
grant my bedroom access to the yard. My brother asked me to close it
for the night, but I refused to (he told me this later, I can't
remember a thing from that day). He, then, entered my bedroom to close
the door. My GSD was laying on the floor beside my bed and simply
denied access to my brother. She attacked my brother like he was a
threat. Later, I asked a friend veterinarian what was that and she
said it was just normal german shepherd behavior, that's why it is
called "shepherd"...

> >Hope that does not take you long from riding...
>
> I'm shooting for this coming weekend. At least an easy ride, but
> that's what I'm best at.

good luck!

-- Tiago

External Since: Apr 17, 2007 Posts: 136

On Feb 19, 2:08 pm, Volker Bartheld <dr_vers... DeleteThis @freenet.de> wrote:
> Hi Tiago!
>
> > If you think considering setting the bike on fire fun, yes, I had lots
> > of fun yesterday!
>
> Hell, yeah! Sure I consider that fun. Reminds me of a "garage party" we had
> once. There was one bet going on where, after countless beers, riding buddy
> Stefan promised to put his KTM 620 into an elevator that barely fit four
> persons. He tried hard in all directions (including the volume diagonal!),
> there was a lot of wheelspin involved, the automatic door ding-dinged for
> about 1'000 times, he failed and the landlord arrived. No police, no jail,
> however. Wink

You sure have very cool friends Smile

>
> The top floor of the garage is also very convenient for supermotard
> training. Including a marvelous view over Munich's skyline. Hrhr.
>
> > hey, I have a cousin who lives in Munich, I know that is cold there,
> > but it is hot here, way too hot for a normal - not used to heat -
> > human being.
>
> *LOL* So one man's dream is the other man's nightmare? Wink

Humans are never satisfied.
BTW, when it's cool, it is cheaper and more effective to warm up (I'm
not talking arctic temperatures here), heaters are cheaper and one can
always dress lots of clothes, but there is a limit where you can't
take out clothes. Air conditioning is not so efective and besides, it
drains more electricity than I am willing to pay for.

>
> > <snip road riding>
> > hey, you make me jealous about being able to ride a KTM on the
> > streets. I can't even afford a KTM seat, let alone a 640!
>
> To add to jealousy, I have to say that we took pictures. MANY PICTURES!
> Perhaps I can persuade Lutz to add them to my homepage... BTW, I probably
> will have to buy a new fuel tank. At 190,- new a real bargain, isn't it? I
> think, I'll sleep over it a night or two.

190 euros? ouch, that hurts.

>
> > One of my dreams is riding on snow.
>
> Something like this:www.bartheld.net/snowmx/snowmx.htm?You should take
> into account, that a warm engine melts snow and water can freeze over night
> if the bike has to stay outside. This leads to interesting side effects
> about the useability of levers and perches. Not to mention a stuck float
> bowl needle.

You should see the side effects of riding on very thin clay mixed with
the right amount of sand and water... Wink

>
> > I think I will re-wire my bike... hmmm, no, I will just replace the
> > conectors and solder them all, instead of crimping. Seems that the
> > crimped conector came loose.
>
> They shouldn't if crimped correctly. Normally, kinda "cold weld" of metals
> results when crimping is done with sufficient force (and tool). If you
> solder, make sure that the tin-solder doesn't creep too far up the cable
> which will make it inflexible.

I've got the soldering iron and the skills and I don't have a crimping
tool, or the skill. I could buy a crimping tool and a bag of conectors
and learn or buy only the bag of conectors and do the work... Tough
decision!

>
> > re: cheap airtickets, man, there are plenty of those, every week a
> > plane from Sweden lands here. You'd be very welcome, I'd show you all
> > the trails PLUS, one weekend at Porto de Galinhas, all included, just
> > show up with plenty of surfing shorts and cotton, short sleeve, light
> > t-shirts...
>
> That sounds like an acceptable offer! So I have to talk to my GF for
> absolution (she's a teacher and won't be able to come along outside school
> holidays), concealing facts about Malaria, gigantic spiders, whale-sized
> crocodiles and a (Zombie)wood full of lethal snakes! Wink

Not to speak of
> hot and good looking babes asking me for a ride...

Wait until next year's German winter, after september, so I'm able to
take vacations too and we could ride more. Warn me in advance. I am
serious about this... about tropical diseases: no malaria whatsoever,
very slim chance of yellow fever, slim chance of dengue. Interesting
enough, many europeans who visit here get food poisoning, I guess
that's because people when on vacation forget about food safety and
eat at places that would never eat when at home. Or, maybe, we're used
to some bacterias that are common here and no-existent in europe. We
could visit the zoo, if you have this desire to see crocs and lethal
snakes, but the spiders are there, we could look for them on the wild,
if you want, but I warn: they are quite hard to spot, they fear us men
in noisy machines and flee long before we arrive, as do 100% of any
wild animal. Anyway, this is no excuse. TAP has daily non-stop flights
from Lisbon, it can't be easier than that, can it?

-- Tiago